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Friend-focused photo sharing app Retro snags $21M

Retro, a friend-focused photo-sharing app built by former Instagram employees, has raised more than $21 million in Series A funding.

Cohere Parse 5 loses the benchmark on points. It wins on cost per page.

Enterprises trying to feed PDFs, slides and scanned documents into AI pipelines keep running into the same wall: the tools either miss the structure — tables, charts, layout — or cost too much to run at scale.Cohere released Parse 5 on Thursday, positioning it on price-to-performance, not raw accuracy — the right cost-capability mix for enterprise scale. Parse 5 is a 2.3-billion-parameter vision language model built to convert PDFs, slides and images into structured Markdown at enterprise scale. Cohere s own published benchmark comparison puts Parse 5 behind three larger, general-purpose frontier models on accuracy. GPT-5.5, Opus 4.8 and Gemini 3.5 Flash all score higher than Parse on the three ParseBench dimensions Cohere reports. Cohere is not claiming the top score. It is claiming the best price for a score close to the top.The company priced the model at $1.50 per 1,000 pages through its API, with Model Vault, Cohere s secure, single-tenant platform for managed inference, available

VentureBeat·Aug 28, 2026

The iPhone Fold could make concerts even worse

You know the person blocking your view of the concert because their phone is swaying in the air, recording the entire thing? Get ready for the unfolded version of it. This week on The Vergecast, we dive right into the big week of Apple news. First, it's the refreshed Mac Mini and Mac Studio, as well as the new M6 and M5 Ultra chips. Apple is advertising them all as achievements in AI inference, but we're skeptical this is more than a marketing ploy for now. Then we get into the newly announced Apple event, why we're not expecting to see an iPhone 18, and whether the folding phone form factor is really good enough yet for Apple. After that, … Read the full story at The Verge.

The Verge·Aug 28, 2026

Autistici/Inventati's main .org domain goes dark after US terrorism designation

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Apple TV now costs $14.99 a month after its fourth price hike in four years

Apple raised the price of its streaming service for new and current subscribers on Friday, bumping it up from $12.99 per month to $14.99, Deadline and Variety are reporting. An annual subscription now costs $119, up from $99. Apple also increased the cost of its individual Apple One subscription, which includes Apple TV and Apple's other subscription services, from $19.95 per month to $21.95. According to Deadline and Variety, the price change is effective immediately, and current subscribers will be notified of it before their next bill. This price hike comes almost exactly a year after Apple last increased its Apple TV subscription fe … Read the full story at The Verge.

The Verge·Aug 28, 2026

a16z creates a $1.1B ‘Machine Age’ fund to ‘accelerate the physical buildout of AI’

The firm, known for its focus on software, is going to start throwing more money at the hardware behind AI.

U.S. Sanctions Against the a/I Collective

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Anthropic gets its first court win over the Pentagon’s supply chain risk label

A federal judge ruled the Trump administration illegally labeled Anthropic a supply chain risk, handing the AI company a victory as its second Pentagon lawsuit continues in Washington.

OpenAI: Migrating to HTTPX2

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As electric two-wheelers gain a foothold, Belgian startup Any bets on cargo space

Launched by Belgian startup Any, LUV1 is a modular electric motorcycle with 120 liters of cargo space that can be used to carry bags, work equipment, or even pets.

Sovereign Tech Agency invests €500k in Flatpak

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Please stop flooding our projects with AI slop to furnish your CV

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