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Earnings Call Insights: Achieve Life Sciences (ACHV) Q4 2025 Management View Richard A. Stewart, President, CEO & Executive Director, emphasized the company’s transition from a clinical-stage to a commercially focused enterprise following the NDA submission in June 2025, stating, “Our primary objective now is to make cytisinicline available to the 25 million patients who smoke … Read more

As part of its efforts to relaunch a more personalized version of its Siri assistant after it was delayed last year, Apple (AAPL) may unveil a standalone Siri app and an “Ask Siri” button in its upcoming iOS 27, Bloomberg reported. Apple shares rose 0.5% in late afternoon trading. The new Siri, which Apple has … Read more

The most jolt-you-upright-in-your-chair moment in “The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist” is when technology ethicist Tristan Harris reports some very disturbing inside information. “I know people who work on AI risk who don’t expect their children to make it to high school,” says Harris, executive director and co-founder of the Center for … Read more

Google unveiled three Gemini-powered features for Google TV on Tuesday, including AI-powered visual responses, the ability to deep dive into virtually any topic, and narrated overviews of sports games. A particularly noteworthy addition is the introduction of visual responses. For example, requesting the current score for the Warriors game will result in live scorecards, alongside … Read more

You know that moment when your GPS confidently guides you into a dead-end alley? A Serve Robotics delivery bot just had that experience with a CTA bus shelter in Chicago’s West Town, except instead of awkward three-point turns, it shattered glass across Grand Avenue’s sidewalk. The viral footage shows the autonomous courier literally shaking off … Read more

Anthropic has given its AI assistant Claude the ability to take direct control of a user’s desktop, opening applications, clicking through menus, and typing into fields the same way a person would. The new capability, called Claude Cowork, turns the chatbot into an autonomous agent that can see what is on screen, decide what to … Read more

In a sit-down interview with Pacthman.coEditor-in-Chief Alyson Shontell, billionaire venture capitalist Vinod Khosla had a dire message: by 2030, 80% of jobs will be AI-capable, and open to potential displacement. Now, he’s warning that’s what’s going to sway politics from now on. “There will be massive job dislocation” with AI, Khosla said during a panel … Read more

Apple has now officially confirmed that ads are coming to Apple Maps, meaning what was once speculation is now part of the company’s roadmap. Businesses in the United States and Canada will be able to pay to appear in search results and in a new Suggested Places section inside the Maps app. Apple says the … Read more

OpenAI said Tuesday it is releasing a set of prompts that developers can use to make their apps safer for teens. The AI lab said the set of teen safety policies can be used with its open-weight safety model known as gpt-oss-safeguard. Rather than working from scratch to figure out how to make AI safer … Read more

The AI-powered notetaking app Granola, valued at $250 million, has become a popular tool among tech industry founders and VCs. But one developer believes there’s demand for a more private, local-only alternative that’s available for a one-time fee and without a subscription. That’s led to the creation of a new Mac app called Talat. Yorkshire, … Read more