OLMo 3 debuts as the first fully open "thinking" model with step-by-step logic exposed to users
The Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) has launched OLMo 3, a new line of fully open AI models. This release includes the first open 32B "thinking" model, designed to make its reasoning process vi [...]
Microsoft's open-weight AI push is so obviously an Azure play it hurts
Microsoft, along with Meta, Nvidia, and more than 20 other companies, is pushing for open-weight AI models in an open letter. The strategic logic is simple: the more models running on Azure, the less [...]
Visa, Mastercard and 140 firms launch Open USD, a stablecoin built to undercut Circle
Aconsortium of more than 140 financial and technology companies, among them Visa, Mastercard, Stripe and Coinbase, launched a new dollar-pegged stablecoin on Tuesday called Open USD. The venture, run [...]
CES 2026: Shokz' new earbuds effectively reduce noise while keeping your ears open
Shokz may have made its name with bone-conduction headsets, but the company has also built open-style earbuds in recent years. At CES 2026, the company is debuting its most recent model, the OpenFit P [...]
We called them 'the best-sounding open-ear buds yet' — and now the Bose Ultra Open Earbuds are down to a record-low price
The Bose Ultra Open Earbuds drop to a new low price of $199 at Amazon, so here's why now's the time to snap up some of the best open-ear buds you can buy. [...]
How attackers hit 700 organizations through CX platforms your SOC already approved
CX platforms process billions of unstructured interactions a year: Survey forms, review sites, social feeds, call center transcripts, all flowing into AI engines that trigger automated workflows touch [...]
Gong launches ‘Mission Andromeda’ with AI sales coaching, chatbot and open MCP connections to rivals
Gong, the revenue intelligence company that has spent a decade turning recorded sales calls into data, today launched what it calls Mission Andromeda — its most ambitious platform release to date, b [...]