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Manus AI, China's virus AI agent platform, launched two subscription plans starting at $39 a month on Monday morning. Still in beta, Manus is an AI-powered agent tool that can be used to complete tasks, from creating web pages for wedding invitations to creating scoring sheets for baseball games. However, our testing showed that the platform was not close to some of the promises of higher marketing. The cheapest Manus plan for the new premium plan is $39 per month and comes with 3,900 credits and the ability to run two tasks simultaneously. Another costly new plan, which costs $199…

According to Mark Gurman of Bloomberg, Apple is developing a new version of its AI coach. Gurman first reported that something like this was in work in 2023, but now he is in development, with potential new features coming up in the spring or summer of 2026, and iOS 19.4 was released. The AI ​​coach's advice is based on data from users' medical devices and reportedly includes food tracking. The coach is currently trained on data from staff doctors, and Apple is about to bring in additional doctors to record health-related videos. According to Garman, the new service is tentatively…

A year ago, Bluesky was open to the public, but was known as one of many X competitors that emerged after Elon Musk acquired the network previously known as Twitter. Today, Bluesky's social network has grown to over 33 million users, but it is based on the technology it is built on (AT protocol (or Atproto for short). The developers behind many of these apps took part in the first meeting dedicated to Atmosphere, an AT protocol, which took place in Seattle last weekend. So they learned what Atproto is about, the challenges that still need to be overcome, and…

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When Intel Capital announced plans to spin out of Semiconductor Giant Intel in January, it was a bit shocked considering the company has been operating as Intel's venture investment division since 1991. In many respects, the decision marks the end of an era of what is considered to be the first ever corporate venture capital firm. The company was founded almost 35 years ago and supports well-known enterprise high-tech companies, including Docusign, Mongodb and Hugging Face. However, for Mark Rostick, Vice President and Senior Managing Director at Intel Capital, the transition represents a new opportunity for VCs, allowing the company…

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Frank Rotman, co-founder of Prolific Fintech Investor and QED Investors, said Friday that he will move into the Partner Honor role by the end of the year to focus on establishing his own startup. However, these startups are not necessarily financial technology companies. In X's post, Rottman, who helped launch QED in 2007, declared that “the first business” is in the music industry “that's planning to get out of the ground.” He writes: “It's easy to get me crazy for all the obvious reasons, but it's worth booking my judgment until I evolved in my head and learned more about…

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On Thursday, Amnesty International published a new report detailing the hacking attempts against two Serbian journalists allegedly carried out at NSO group Spyware Pegasus. Two journalists working for the Serbia-based Balkan Investigation Reporting Network (BIRN) received suspicious text messages containing links, according to the nonprofit. In one case, Amnesty said that researchers can click on the secure environment link to confirm that they have previously linked to a domain they identified as belonging to the NSO group's infrastructure. “Amnesty International has been tracking the NSO group's Pegasus spyware and the methods used to target activists and journalists,” Don Chase Abyle,…

WhatsApp launched a new feature on Friday. Here, users can include simple music clips in status updates reminiscent of the MySpace era. The status is similar to Instagram stories, allowing users to share photos, videos and text that disappear after 24 hours. When creating a new status, users can tap the Music Note icon to select from millions of available songs. You can post music clips up to 15 seconds for photos and up to 60 seconds for videos. The release of the music clip follows parent company Meta, and introduces similar features to Instagram. Users can add songs to…