The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has ruled that Google must allow online publishers to opt out of having their content appear in AI Search features, including AI Overviews, and prevent i…
Intel's new Arc G3 Extreme chip, demonstrated in the MSI Claw 8 EX AI Plus handheld on Monday, delivers comparable gaming performance at half the power consumption of AMD's flagship chip, according to…
Microsoft launched its Build 2026 conference with a keynote focused on AI, unveiling new Surface hardware, an always-on assistant called Scout, and seven new in-house AI models. The Surface RTX Spark …
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday establishing a voluntary framework for AI companies to share their frontier models with the federal government for pre-release review, aiming t…
Microsoft announced MAI-Thinking-1, its first advanced reasoning AI model, at Build 2026 as part of a suite of seven new in-house models. The medium-sized model matches leading competitors on key soft…
Microsoft launched Microsoft Scout, a new AI personal assistant built on OpenClaw, that integrates into Microsoft 365 apps like Outlook, OneDrive, and Teams to help employees with tasks such as calend…
Google is launching a new feature for its Phone app that flags calls from scammers impersonating a user's contacts. The feature, which will be enabled by default on Android 12 and later devices starti…
Microsoft announced Project Solara, a new operating system built on Android for AI agent-powered gadgets, at Build 2026. The company demonstrated two concept devices—a desk terminal and a wearable bad…
A reporter spent weeks investigating Gudtrip, a vape device that claims to reward users with Bitcoin for every puff, after encountering the product on social media on 4/20. The device, marketed as "th…
*Andor* showrunner Tony Gilroy has scrapped plans to publish the critically acclaimed show's scripts, despite having a 1,500-page collection ready, due to fears the material would be used as training …
Accenture has agreed to acquire Ookla, the owner of Downdetector and Speedtest, from Ziff Davis for $1.2 billion. The consulting and IT services provider plans to use the platforms' network data to he…
Craig Campbell turned down venture capital funding for an AI startup in 2022 to launch Past Maps, a website that overlays historical maps onto modern-day locations. The site has grown from 20,000 to o…
AI-generated influencers posing as Black small business owners are being used to sell mass-produced products from fast-fashion site Shein at inflated prices on TikTok, Facebook, and Instagram. The Ver…
Elon Musk filed to take SpaceX public with a rumored valuation exceeding $1 trillion, despite nearly $5 billion in losses last year, in what critics call the largest and most dangerous IPO in history.…
AI training startup Shift is offering free home cleaning services in New York and other cities in exchange for permission to film the work, using the footage to train robots for domestic chores. The c…
Ferrari unveiled its first electric vehicle, the Luce, featuring design and technology contributions from Sir Jony Ive. The car's unconventional styling and departure from Ferrari's legacy have sparke…
Shift, an AI training startup, is offering free home cleaning services in New York in exchange for recording the work to train future robots. Cleaners will wear a camera-equipped "magic hat" to captur…
MSI has unveiled the Claw 8 EX AI Plus gaming handheld ahead of Computex 2026, claiming it as the "world's first" device to feature Intel's new Arc G3 Extreme processor with Xe3 GPU cores. The handhel…
Adobe's new Firefly AI Assistant, a conversational chatbot that operates Photoshop and Illustrator tools, can edit photos and generate images but produces results comparable to a novice designer. The …
Multiple major AI chatbots, including Google's Gemini, AI Overviews, and Microsoft's Copilot, are increasingly citing Elon Musk's Grokipedia as a source, according to data from analytics firms. The AI…