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Cohere on Thursday announced that it had raised an oversubscribed $500 million round, bringing its valuation to $6.8 billion. This is up from the $5.5 billion valuation it landed a little over a year ago when it raised its previous round, also $500 million. Toronto-headquartered Cohere was one of the first breakout LLM model makers, … Read more

Alex Livesey/Getty Images ZDNET’s key takeaways The Premier League is working with Adobe to exploit generative AI. Explorations show customers want to create, not just consume content. Long-term hyper-personalization goals should be approached carefully. The English Premier League football season starts this weekend. With 1.8 billion people watching the competition in 900 million homes across … Read more

SAVE $149.01: As of Aug. 14, get the Apple Watch Ultra 2 for $649.99, down from its usual price of $799, at Amazon. That’s a discount of 19%. There are plenty of Apple Watch models to choose from to fit multiple budgets. But one stands tall above the rest: the Apple Watch Ultra 2. It’s … Read more

Perhaps in response to suggestions that its Search functions have been degraded or been usurped by AI summaries that not everybody wants, Google will now let you select news sources to narrow things down. The company said in a blog post this week that it’s launching Preferred Sources in the US and India over the next few days, along … Read more

Last month, WIRED reported that the investment banking arm of Cantor Fitzgerald, a financial services company led by the sons of US commerce secretary Howard Lutnick, was exploring creating a financial product for clients to bet on whether President Donald Trump’s signature tariffs would be struck down in court. In response to WIRED’s reporting, Democratic … Read more

Google is readying its next set of hardware announcements, and has already confirmed that the Pixel 10 series is launching this month. We even know what two of the phones look like, thanks to official teasers from Google. But beyond the few tidbits Google has shared officially, there’s an awful lot more we think we … Read more

Talk about customer service. On Wednesday, Google CEO Sundar Pichai posted on X about Google Calendar’s new feature to duplicate events — an addition that was specifically requested by Stripe co-founder John Collison last month, also via an X post. On July 5, Collison asked if Google Calendar users could get a Ctrl-click option that … Read more

Adam Breeden/ZDNET As an avid iPad user, I’m all too familiar with the internal struggles that course through me when the battery is about to die. I love using either the iPad 11 or iPad Air to write and work, but I also use it to stream content, play games, and browse the internet after … Read more

SAVE $350: As of Aug. 14, the Jackery Explorer 1000 v2 is on sale for $448 at Amazon. That’s a 44% saving on the list price. Whether you’re charging gear in the wild, keeping essentials running during a blackout, or powering a weekend road trip, the Jackery Explorer 1000 v2 has you covered, and right … Read more

Looking for the most recent Mini Crossword answer? Click here for today’s Mini Crossword hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Wordle, Strands, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. Today’s Mini Crossword isn’t too tough, and it has some fun movie and TV references. Just remember that “poster” can mean a … Read more