SeaPRwire – Zest began in November 2024 as a restaurant discovery app with an unusual data source. It connects to a user’s credit card through Plaid and builds its recommendations from where that person has actually paid for food and drink. This week the company put a concierge in text messages. A user texts (212) […]
SeaPRwire – Dream came out of stealth this week with $17 million in seed funding led by Andreessen Horowitz, with SV Angel, XYZ and Zigg Capital participating. The company was founded by Andy Elder and Arjun Mathur, who met as Stanford computer science students and spent the following decade at Palantir. Elder led product design […]
Dubai has 1,860 public charging points and 23,600 registered users. For a tenant on the 14th floor, the hard part is not the charger, it is the meter SeaPRwire – The car is not the problem. A 60kWh crossover sold in 2026 does 300 kilometres on a full battery in Gulf heat with the air […]
Four claims about Japanese elder care that circulate in English, checked against the 2025 payment statistics and the 2026 premium schedule SeaPRwire – Every few months an English-language outlet discovers that Japan’s long-term care insurance is about to collapse. The story usually opens with the cost figure, notes that the population is ageing, quotes a […]
HealthHub absorbs Health Buddy, the NUHS app and NHG Health by November 2026, leaving nine private hospitals and 2,000 GP clinics to decide what a shared record is worth AsiaPresswire – Singapore is doing something no other health system in the region has attempted at this scale: it is deleting three hospital apps and keeping […]
Inside the February 2026 price rises, the U Mobile handover and the DNB associate stake: what 30 million 5G subscriptions actually cost an operator in Malaysia AsiaPresswire – On paper, Malaysia finished its 5G argument. Two wholesale networks now run side by side, a state-owned wholesaler sells capacity to three tenants, and a fourth operator […]
SeaPRwire – Bill C-22, the Lawful Access Act, 2026, was introduced on 12 March, passed the House of Commons on 18 June and has been before a Senate committee since; as of 22 October it was still there. Planet VPN, a Romanian VPN operator, added a section on the bill to its guide to Canadian […]
SeaPRwire – A voice agent is assembled rather than bought. Someone wires a speech recogniser to a language model to a synthesiser, and then spends the rest of the build on the seams: audio buffers, turn detection, the half-second where a user talks over the bot. Pipecat is one of the frameworks that does the […]
SeaPRwire – The arithmetic has not moved. Democrats need a net gain of four Republican-held seats to control the Senate, and they still need it with five days to go. What moved is the number of places where that arithmetic could be satisfied. Alaska, Iowa, Kansas, Ohio and Texas — all won by double digits […]
SeaPRwire – A model release is usually a product event. This one is a procurement event. Mistral put the weights for Mistral Large 4, a trillion-parameter model it calls Le Chonk, on Hugging Face and behind its own API on Thursday, which means a customer can now take the checkpoint, install it on hardware it […]