Ando Raises $20M to Build a Team Chat Where AI Agents Are First-Class Members
Ando launched from stealth with $20M from Accel, Index Ventures, and Emergence to build a team messaging platform where AI agents have their own identity, permissions, and inbox — not just integration hooks. »
COSMIC Desktop 1.9 Ships a Native Image Viewer and On-Screen Keyboard
COSMIC Epoch 1.9 ships two new applications — COSMIC Viewer for images and COSMIC OSK for touch input — alongside a redesigned app store with developer attribution and optional systemd-homed login support. »
Alibaba's Qwen-Audio 3.1 Drops Five Voice Models and Slashes API Prices by Up to 95%
Alibaba's Qwen-Audio 3.1 ships five voice models — including ASR-Next for audio understanding and TTS-Next for single-pass creation — and cuts speech API prices by up to 95%, dramatically lowering the cost of building voice-enabled applications. »
EA Sports FC 27 Launches Today: The Grounds, Free Lite Edition, and 21,000 Players
EA's biggest football game yet launches worldwide today with an open-world social district, a fully rebuilt transfer market in Career Mode, and a free FC 27 Lite download for newcomers. »
Xiaomi Open-Sources MiMo-V2.6: A 1-Trillion-Parameter Multimodal Model at a Fraction of the Cost
Xiaomi's MiMo-V2.6-Pro is a 1.02-trillion-parameter open-source model that handles text, image, video, and audio in a single pass — and costs as little as $0.44 per million tokens, versus $10–$50 for comparable proprietary models. »