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By Daniel Rao The pitch sounds like a dare: a $99 ring that lets you order shampoo mid-shower without touching your phone. Natura, a seven-person hardware startup from Italy, unveiled Interface this week — a smart ring that turns a finger-press into a direct line to your AI agents. If the idea sounds familiar, that's because the industry has been circling it for years. The difference is that Natura wants to sell it to you before the year is out, for less than the cost of a decent pair of sneakers. Announced on 8 October, Interface is worn on the index finger and pairs with a phone. You press its button, speak, release — and the request is routed through Natura's NatureOS software to whichever AI agent you chose: Meta's Muse, Instinct, Grok Bot, Claude or ChatGPT, with a 140-strong agent store promised at launch. It also tracks heart rate, HRV, sleep stages and skin temperature, lasts up to 12 days on a charge, and recharges in about 100 minutes. Natura plans to open ...

SpaceX's Starlink satellites could soon carry phone calls and data straight from orbit — no cell towers required. Image:SpaceX's Starlink satellites could soon carry phone calls and data straight from orbit — no cell towers required. Image: TechPulse USA TechPulse USA Elon Musk just bought the airwaves to become America's fourth wireless carrier — and T-Mobile dropped 13% in a single day. Here's what the Starlink Mobile shakeup could mean for your phone bill. Published October 10, 2026 · By Daniel Rao, TechPulse USA On a Friday when Wall Street was celebrating a tech rebound, three stocks were getting crushed — and the culprit wasn't earnings or the economy. It was a post on X. Late Thursday, Elon Musk's SpaceX announced it had agreed to buy a nationwide portfolio of low-band wireless spectrum, the missing ingredient for turning Starlink Mobile into a genuine fourth US carrier. By Friday's closing bell, T-Mobile had fallen more than 13% , AT&T nearly 1...

Flock Safety's solar-powered cameras read license plates across 49 states — and now the company behind them is cutting 18% of its workforce. Image: TechPulse USA The AI camera giant that put 120,000 license-plate readers on America's streets is shrinking — the privacy backlash just claimed its first corporate casualty. Published October 9, 2026 · By Daniel Rao 270 pink slips after the buyout nobody wanted to name The startup that built America's largest civilian vehicle-tracking network is about to get a lot smaller. Flock Safety, the Atlanta company whose AI-powered cameras photograph license plates on streets and highways in 49 states , plans to lay off about 18% of its employees — roughly 270 people — according to sources who spoke to Reuters on Thursday. The departures are expected at the end of the month, and the sources asked to stay anonymous because the company hasn't made the plan public. Flock declined to comment. The cuts come right after a voluntary s...

The White House's "Science: A New Golden Age" summit ended with $2.4 billion in computing pledges — and a new name for AI itself. Image: TechPulse USA Silicon Valley just pledged $2.4 billion in computing power to Washington's science labs — and agreed to call AI by a brand-new name. Published October 9, 2026 · By Daniel Rao A handshake worth $2.4 billion It was quite a scene. On Thursday, President Trump stood in the White House presenting the National Medal of Technology and Innovation to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang — with Elon Musk looking on — and then announced the number: $2.4 billion in computing power commitments from America's biggest tech giants to supercharge federal scientific research. The money is earmarked for the Genesis Mission , the administration's project to aim AI at hard science, which will now expand to 14 federal agencies across energy, health, and space research, according to the White House. And it comes wrapped in something stran...

Claude Went Dark for an Hour: Inside Anthropic's Second Major Outage in Seven Days On Tuesday morning, Claude stopped working. Not just the chatbot — the web app, the desktop and mobile apps, the coding tool, the developer API, all of it. For roughly an hour, one of the most widely used AI systems in the world was effectively unreachable, and Anthropic's own status page read like a real-time incident log. The trouble began at 10:21 a.m. Eastern, when Anthropic started investigating what it described as "elevated error rates" across claude.ai, Claude Code, Claude Cowork and the Claude API. About ninety minutes later, the company said everything was back to normal. In between came failed requests, broken logins, unsaved conversations, and a warning to users that read, simply: if you're signed in, please don't sign out. It was the second significant Claude outage in seven days — and, according to incident trackers, the 13th entry on Anthropic's status p...

Published September 28, 2026 · By Daniel Rao Donald Trump is hosting technology executives at the White House on Tuesday for a closed-door meeting on artificial intelligence — a session that will bring together the president, House Speaker Mike Johnson, and the leaders of an industry that has spent the past week publicly divided over whether the technology is moving too fast to be left alone. Reuters reported on September 24, first citing Axios, that the meeting is set for September 29, and a White House official has since confirmed to the Washington Examiner that the meeting will take place. According to the report's source, the identities of the attending CEOs and further details of the agenda were not disclosed, and the official declined to say who else would attend. President Donald Trump, in his official 2025 portrait. He is set to meet tech CEOs and House Speaker Mike Johnson on Tuesday for closed-door talks on artificial intelligence. Photo: Daniel Torok / The Whit...

Verizon's AI Skills for America bundles $70 million with donated training content from Google, Microsoft, Anthropic, IBM, OpenAI, and Coursera — free to learners. Image: TechPulse USA FREE AI TRAINING One of America's biggest employers just offered the workforce a deal that sounds too good to be true: premium AI training, free — if you know where to claim it. Published September 24, 2026 · By Daniel Rao There is a delicious irony buried in the biggest corporate AI-reskilling pledge of the year. The company writing the check — $70 million — is the same one that cut 13,000 jobs last year and set up a $20 million fund to retrain the very workers it was letting go. On September 23, 2026 , Verizon CEO Dan Schulman tripled the total, announcing AI Skills for America , a nationwide program offering free AI training to job seekers, students, educators, small businesses, and displaced workers. The training comes from a lineup Verizon could never assemble alone: course co...

AMD notified partners on September 17 of roughly 10% price increases on AI accelerators, Radeon GPUs, and motherboard chipsets, effective October 1, 2026. Image: TechPulse USA PRICE HIKE TSMC's foundry bill just got passed downstream — and October 1 is when the meter starts running for gamers, PC builders, and cloud customers. Published September 23, 2026 · By Daniel Rao The letter arrived on September 17 , and nobody in the hardware business is smiling about it. According to supply-chain reports, AMD quietly notified partners of roughly 10% price increases starting Q4 2026 — on AI accelerators, Radeon graphics cards, and motherboard chipsets. The cause, per the reports: TSMC is raising foundry prices by about 10% , and AMD is not absorbing the difference. Here is the part that stings. The increase lands October 1 , right as the holiday shopping season begins — two weeks after AMD crossed the $1 trillion market cap mark on September 21, with shares topping $600 for the ...