First came the AI beauty pageant. Then the AI music contests. Now, there is an award for AI Personality of the Year - perhaps the inevitable next step for the AI influencer economy as it transforms from quirky novelty into a serious and lucrative industry. The contest, a joint venture between generative AI studio OpenArt […]
Last week's recommendation, Sotomayor's Wabi Sabi, has a very particular vibe that you don't find in a lot of records. One of the few things it called to mind was 2022's Topical Dancer from Charlotte Adigery and Bolis Pupul, which I ended up revisiting this week a lot. The two records don't seem particularly alike […]
With the Iran war doubling oil prices, experts say the airline industry’s belt-tightening is an economic canary in the coal mine for the rest of the world.
After four years, and multiple subpoenas and depositions, the beleaguered startup has dodged yet another bullet.
On the latest episode of the Equity podcast, we recapped CEO Jensen Huang’s GTC keynote and debated what it means for Nvidia’s future.
Building on top of a Chinese model feels particularly fraught right now.
The developer behind the open-world RPG Crimson Desert has issued an official apology after players discovered several instances of AI-generated art in the game. Pearl Abyss posted on X that it released the game with some 2D visual props that were made with "experimental AI generative tools" and forgot to replace them before launch. We would like to address questions regarding the use of AI in Crimson Desert. During development, some 2D visual props were created as part of early-stage i
Reviews of Crimson Desert have been mixed, but the bigger issue for the game has been the discovery of what appeared to be AI-generated assets in the final release. Now the developer has acknowledged that AI art was indeed used during the game's creation, but says that it was intended to be replaced before release. […]
Elon Musk has announced the Terafab project, a joint venture between Tesla, SpaceX and xAI, to build the "largest chip manufacturing facility ever." In his usual grandiose fashion, Musk claims Terafab is the next step towards harnessing the power of the sun and creating a "galactic civilization." Musk, CEO of all three companies, announced plans for the Terafab in a livestream on X . As the name implies, the project's ultimate goal is to produce a terawatt of computing power each year so th
Amazon’s Prime Day sale may arrive earlier than usual this year, but there’s a deal event happening much sooner: Amazon’s annual Big Spring Sale, which is happening March 25th through the 31st. While it won’t be as big as Prime Day or Black Friday, it does offer you a chance to save money at a […]
Elon Musk recently outlined ambitious plans for a chip-building collaboration Tesla and SpaceX — but he has a history of overpromising.
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An anonymous Substack post accuses compliance startup Delve of “falsely” convincing “hundreds of customers they were compliant” with privacy and security regulations.
Sure, it's cheesy in many respects, but its central mythology still resonates even decades later.
Elon Musk announced plans to build a Terafab plant in Austin, Texas, that will be jointly run by Tesla and SpaceX. The goal is to eventually build chips at scale for robotics, artificial intelligence, and space-based data centers for Musk's various companies. Musk has expressed concern, as have other executives, about the chip industry's ability […]
The vocoder was never supposed to be a revolution in music. It wasn't supposed to be anything in music, really. Its development began a century ago, when an engineer at Bell Labs was looking for a simpler way to send phone calls across copper telephone lines. The engineer, Homer Dudley, built some pretty neat technology […]
Sonos is no stranger to the occasional sale. The iconic audio company routinely runs sales around Black Friday, Amazon Prime Day, and the Super Bowl, though it’s rare to see substantial discounts on its portable speakers outside of tentpole shopping events. Fortunately, if you have no interest in the Sonos Move 2 or forthcoming Sonos […]
Shortly after Amazon announced its $50 billion investment in OpenAI, AWS invited me on a private tour of the chip lab at the heart of the deal.
AI was everywhere at the GDC Festival of Gaming this year. Vendors at the event pitched generative AI tools for things like making AI-driven NPCs and even entire games from a chat box. On the show floor, I spent 10 minutes playing a demo of a pixel-art fantasy world generated by Tencent's AI tools. In […]
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Merino is one of the best fabrics you can wear. We explain the different blends, what “gsm” means, and how to care for your clothes.
Should you buy an Instax Mini or Mini Evo? Instax Square or Wide? We demystify Fujifilm’s Instax lineup to help you find the perfect instant camera (or printer).
Do your future self a favor and back up all your precious photos, messages, and files before disaster strikes.
Policymakers debate if we even need deep ocean mining and if we can do it safely.
You don’t have to upload your video to the cloud or pay a monthly fee to secure your home. These security cameras record locally.
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The launch of “Xoli” adds to the technological efforts promoted by the federal government to turn the 2026 World Cup into an engine of development for the entire country.
Maybe tokens really will become the fourth pillar of engineering compensation. But engineers might want to hold the line before embracing this as a straightforward win.
Lux Optics co-founder Sebastiaan de With made headlines when he joined Apple in late January. The company was behind Halide, one of the most popular photography apps for the iPhone, which gained a cult following for its robust pro-level controls. Apple was apparently a big enough fan that it tried to acquire the developer last […]
On March 21, 2006, Jack Dorsey posted a simple message: “just setting up my twittr”.
There could be one more step required before creating an account and posting on Reddit in the future. According to Reddit's CEO, Steve Huffman , the social media platform is exploring different ways to verify a user is human and not a bot. When asked by the TBPN podcast how to confirm that it's a human using Reddit, Huffman responded with several verification methods with varying degrees of heavy-handedness. RDDT requiring Face ID was not something I had on my bingo card but something has
Hachette Book Group said it will not be publishing “Shy Girl” over concerns that artificial intelligence was used to generate the text.
Need something new for your reading list? Here are two titles we think are worth checking out. This week, we've got Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary and The Thing on the Doorstep, an H.P. Lovecraft adaptation for Image Comics. This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/entertainment/what-to-read-this-weekend-revisiting-project-hail-mary-and-the-thing-on-the-doorstep-190000250.html?src=rss
A legal feud between the co-founders of Lux Optics, the developer behind the Halide camera app, revealed that Apple was close to acquiring the company. As first reported by The Information , Apple held acquisition talks for Lux Optics, which also developed the Kino, Spectre and Orion apps, in the summer of 2025. According to The Information , the deal eventually fell through in September of that year, but the potential acquisition could've provided Apple with the third-party software t
The best-selling game of all time is moving from the virtual to the physical. Minecraft World, a permanent Greater London theme park based on the game, is scheduled to open in 2027. The announcement came during Minecraft Live 2026. It will be a new section in Chessington World of Adventures, a theme park with a built-in zoo. The resort is a 35-minute train ride from London's Waterloo station. Details are still fairly light on the park. But we know it will include a roller coaster, "
Despite investor fears of an AI bubble, Nvidia's latest conference shows that most in the industry aren't concerned by that possibility.
While other tech companies have been laying off employees year after year, OpenAI is doing the opposite. According to a report from the Financial Times , the AI giant is looking to expand its workforce to 8,000 employees by the end of 2026, nearly doubling staff from its current headcount of 4,500. The FT reported that the new hires will be across several departments, including product development, engineering, research and sales. OpenAI's hiring spree will also include "specialists" fo
It doesn’t sound like Crimson Desert , the recently released prequel to Black Desert Online , will support Intel Arc GPUs anytime soon, if at all. On the game’s FAQ page , its developer Pearl Abyss advised players expecting Arc support to apply for a refund. “If you purchased the game expecting Intel Arc support, please refer to the refund policy of the platform where the game was purchased for available options,” the company wrote. Apparently, though, it’s not from lack of guidance from In
Remember when Japan sent a spacecraft to an asteroid 180 million miles away to scoop some dirt off the surface? Six years on from its arrival to Earth, that sample has yielded some insights about what may have seeded life on our planet. Read on to learn more about the latest findings, and other science news we found interesting this week. DNA ingredients on Ryugu In 2020, a capsule from the Japanese space probe Hayabusa2 returned to Earth with samples collected from the surface o
Fusion power promises to generate large amounts of clean electricity from nearly limitless fuel. This article explains the main approaches and the companies that use them.
Twitter is officially 20 years old. In another reality, that might make me kind of nostalgic. I've been lurking and scrolling and tweeting for 16 years; most of my adult life. There was a time when Twitter was a place where some internet strangers became my IRL friends, when I was excited to "live-tweet". When my infinitely more well-adjusted friends would send me memes, I would smugly say "I saw that on Twitter days ago." Twitter stopped being that place a long time ago
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Apple already announced a lot of new devices in 2026 and we’ve been busy reviewing them all. In this installment of our bi-weekly roundup, we revisit the MacBook Neo, iPhone 17e and more, in addition to the “regular” Galaxy S26 and Dell XPS 16. There’s even more than those gadget to catch up on, so sit back, relax and cozy up to some fresh reviews . Apple MacBook Neo The main attraction for Apple’s early device deluge was the $599 MacBook Neo . The company is finally giving us somet
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Welcome to our latest roundup of what's going on in the indie game space. There are a whole bunch of neat new games out this week, as well as updates on some interesting upcoming projects. In case you missed it, the Steam Spring Sale is under way. There are lots of solid deals here, and my credit card is already screaming at me. I've picked up a bunch of games from my wishlist. For instance, at just $3, I couldn't resist snagging Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Splintered Fate. Meanwhile, o
Now outfitted with AI computer vision, this new pool cleaner can actively search for debris.
This week's result is just the latest in a growing collection of discoveries.
I recorded videos of myself doing laundry, scrambling eggs, and walking around the park in DoorDash’s new Tasks app, where gig workers are paid to train AI.
Plus: The FBI admits it’s buying phone data to track Americans, Iranian hackers disrupt medical care at Maryland hospitals, and more.
“Assume the NRC is going to do whatever we tell the NRC to do.”
We’re expecting fresh electrics from Rivian, Hyundai, Honda, BMW, and newcomer Slate, among others. Here are the EVs arriving this year that we’re most excited about.
The Amazon Prime prank series amplifies the hijinks of workplace dynamics, while showing how people find purpose—and community—in their jobs despite impossible situations.
The Chinese automaker is racing ahead of global competitors—but don’t expect to see those gains in the US anytime soon.
Anthropic submitted two sworn declarations to a California federal court late Friday afternoon, pushing back on the Pentagon's assertion that the AI company poses an "unacceptable risk to national security" and arguing that the government's case relies on technical misunderstandings and claims that were never actually raised during the months of negotiations.
The Department of Defense alleges the AI developer could manipulate models in the middle of war. Company executives argue that’s impossible.
At the time, Musk had tweeted that Twitter had too many bots, which is why he was trying to renege on his commitment to buy the company.
A group of former Twitter investors have prevailed at a federal civil trial over Elon Musk's actions amid his $44 billion acquisition of the social platform in 2022. A jury in San Francisco found Friday that tweets made by Musk about fake accounts on the platform had defrauded investors in the company. The jury sided with Musk on other allegations in the case. It's not yet clear how much Musk will owe in damages as a result of the case but, as the Associated Press reports , it could
The verdict, while not a complete loss, could still cost him billions.
Fatal brain infection was thought to be from profound immune suppression. Not anymore.
The company is reportedly building a new AI-powered mobile device. If Amazon follows through on the plan, experts warn it would be next to impossible to break into a crowded market.
ULA's Vulcan launch vehicle is grounded after a solid rocket booster anomaly last month.
"Reducing unnecessary Copilot entry points" is one of Microsoft's action items.
Pinterest's CEO has thrown his support behind an Australia measure banning social media for younger teens and is calling for governments around the world to implement similar bans. "Social media, as it’s configured today, is not safe for young people under 16," Ready writes in a piece published by Time . "We need a clear standard: no social media for teens under 16, backed by real enforcement, and accountability for mobile phone operating systems and the apps that run on them." Ready is one
As the prediction market boom continues, backlash is growing, too, with Arizona filing criminal charges against Kalshi and public outcry after Polymarket traders threatened a journalist.
The White House has announced a new AI policy framework that calls for Congress to craft federal regulation that overrules state AI laws. The Trump administration has made multiple attempts to overrule more restrictive state-level AI regulation, but has failed so far, most notably in the passing of the “One Big Beautiful Bill.” The framework focuses on a variety of topics, covering everything from child privacy to the use of AI in the workforce. “Importantly, this framework can succeed only
One of the first controversies of its kind.
The company is reducing Copilot entry points on Windows, starting with Photos, Widgets, Notepad, and other apps.
Admins: Sorry to say, but it's likely a rotate-your-secrets kind of weekend.
Congressman Jim Himes claims a sweeping surveillance authority should stay intact because he hasn't seen abuses by Kash Patel's FBI, according to internal messaging obtained by WIRED.
After one too many of you threatened to switch to Linux, Microsoft has published a long list of changes it plans to make to Windows 11. In a lengthy blog titled " Our commitment to Windows quality ," Pavan Davuluri, the executive vice president of Windows and Devices, said the company has spent a "great deal" of time in recent months reading feedback from users. "What came through was the voice of people who care deeply about Windows and want it to be better," he sa
The request goes beyond a one-time move to transporting all types of vehicles.
Brendan Carr lets Trump-favorite Nexstar exceed national station ownership limit.
CEO Jensen Huang took the stage at Nvidia’s GTC conference this week in his signature leather jacket to deliver a two-and-a-half-hour keynote, projecting $1 trillion in AI chip sales through 2027, declaring that every company needs an “OpenClaw strategy,” and closing with a rambling Olaf robot that had to get its mic cut. The message was hard to miss: Nvidia […]
It's the latest escalation in a regulatory battle over the future of prediction markets.
Nvidia’s new AI upscaling gaming technology struck gamers as uncanny and off-putting. Developers don't seem to like it, either, but it could be “the default” in a few years.
Pinterest’s chief compares social media to tobacco and alcohol, saying children need similar protections.
The US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York has charged three people with illegally exporting NVIDIA GPUs to China in violation of the Export Control Reform Act. NVIDIA's chips have become a critical component in the rush to train and run increasingly complex artificial intelligence models, one the US has sought to manipulate with export controls and profit-sharing schemes with NVIDIA. The three people, Yih-Shyan "Wally" Liaw, Ruei-Tsang "Steven" Chang and Ting-Wei "Wil
A French officer recently leaked the location of an aircraft carrier because of a run on the sports app Strava. This is not the first time this has happened, as the app tracks location data. It was used to access the location of US military bases back in 2018 and members of the Secret Service accidentally shared their whereabouts while protecting then-US President Joe Biden . The same has happened to President Trump and other world leaders. 🚨🇫🇷 NEW: The location of the French
Bose might be known for its noise-canceling headphones, but the brand’s soundbars are pretty solid too.
Humor is hard to pull off in front of a cold audience, full stop.
Robert Malone made the claim, then retracted it, as HHS denied it.
Nintendo is reportedly preparing a new version of the Switch 2 with a user-replaceable battery, according to Nikkei . This is to comply with a 2023 EU "right-to-repair" policy on portable electronics that mandates easy battery replacement . The regulation also covers the Joy-Con 2 controllers, so they are reportedly being redesigned to allow users to replace each lithium-ion battery. We don't know when this new Switch 2 will hit store shelves, but the policy gives compani
A French naval officer went on a run around the deck of the Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier, inadvertently leaking the warship's location when he uploaded the workout to Strava.
There may be a river delta hidden under the obvious delta in a Martian crater.
"We put fuel in a rocket, blow it up in a remote location, and measure how big the boom is."
Netflix’s live-action Assassin’s Creed show has entered production and will officially be set in Rome in the year 64AD, confirming previous reports. The upcoming adaptation, then, will return to the setting of 2010’s Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood , although the latter’s story took place more than 1,000 years after the events we'll see in Netflix's show. Ubisoft confirmed in a press release that the Netflix series will tell an original story centered on a war between the Templar Ord
A judge ordered Kalshi to immediately halt sports and election contracts in the state, intensifying a growing regulatory battle over prediction markets.
Amazon's second smartphone could forego an app store.
“This will be so, so, so, so, so bad,” one analyst says.
It's hard not to find the premise of Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary instantly compelling: Something is slowly killing the sun and threatening life on Earth. That same mysterious force, dubbed the Astrophage, also destroyed every nearby star — except one. Our only hope is to visit that solar system and figure out what helped it survive. And there's just one middle school science teacher who can do it. At its core is Weir's love of technical problem solving, along with a tr
Both AMD- and Intel-based hardware is getting better support in SteamOS 3.8.
Stop trying to make "Clovis First" happen; it's not going to happen.
As business soars, Palantir is doubling down on a vision of AI built for battlefield advantage—and attracting customers who agree.
Last year, Belkin released a couple of cases for the Nintendo Switch 2 just in time for launch, including one that came with a handy battery pack . That one was simple and effective, but it felt a bit crude because it wasn't much more than a basic travel pouch with a generic power cell tossed inside. Now, Belkin is back with a Pro version of its Charging Case for the Nintendo Switch 2 , featuring a more sophisticated battery pack along with a higher price tag ($100 vs. $70). So here’s the qu
"Space-based data centers will be a complement to terrestrial infrastructure."
Massive Western heat wave, potential El Niño raise concerns about unpredictable, extreme weather.
Amazon is reportedly planning to re-enter the smartphone market more than 10 years after its last attempt. According to a Reuters report, the mysterious phone is internally codenamed "Transformer" and is being developed by the company’s devices and services unit. There isn’t a whole lot to go on right now, but it probably won’t surprise many to learn that the phone will likely lean heavily on AI. According to Reuters’ sources, Alexa functionality would be a core part of the
Following discussions first reported on earlier this year , ByteDance has agreed to sell its games unit Moonton to Savvy Games Group for $6 billion. Moonton is known for mobile titles popular in Asia like Mobile Legends: Bang Bang , which has been downloaded 1.5 billion times. The transaction is set to be finalized in the "near future," according to an internal memo from Moonton's CEO seen by Bloomberg . ByteDance has been winding down its gaming arm and shopping Moonton since 2023
NVIDIA started an online firestorm this week when it announced DLSS 5 at its GTC conference. The company claims it's meant to deliver "photorealistic" lighting and materials in games by using neural processing. But it differs considerably from previous versions of DLSS, which were focused on using machine learning to upscale lower resolutions and generate additional frames, and gamers online aren’t too happy . To help us break this down, Anshel Sag , VP and principal analyst at Moor Insights
If you're like me, you've absolutely had enough of winter and you're hoping warm weather is right around the corner. When it's finally more enjoyable to spend time outside, you're likely going to be cooking on the grill , so now is a great time to give everything a deep clean to prepare for your upcoming culinary adventures. I don’t blame you if you opted to let your grill hibernate during the winter months, but if that’s the case, it’ll probably need a tune-up befor
The WIRED Reviews team has kids, and we tested all types of kids’ bikes. Here are our top picks.
Blue Origin has revealed its plans for an orbital AI data center system in a new filing with the Federal Communications Commission. The company has asked the agency for permission to deploy 51,600 satellites, as reported by the Wall Street Journal and SpaceNews . Called Project Sunrise, the initiative aims to launch and operate a constellation of satellites that can deliver computing capacity for artificial intelligence uses. Project Sunrise’s satellites will be placed in sun-sync
While the United States and Europe are moving cautiously forward with clinical trials, China is racing toward the commercialization of brain implants.
Tote your photo and video gear around in style. We tested more than 100 packs and rounded up our favorites.
Firewire makes the most innovative surfboards in the industry. This winter, I tried the Neutrino, Machado, and Revo Max to see if they're worth the hype.
With more than a dozen new features, including analyzing users’ camera rolls and astrology-based matches, Tinder is trying to lure Gen Z—and bring back those burned out from dating apps.
These apps, some of which use AI and computer vision, were helpful for meeting my caloric and nutrition intake goals. But they also gave me some anxiety.
Corsair's updated 4000D is one of the best cases you can buy, even if I still love the old one.
Meta blamed users for not opting into the privacy-protecting feature. Experts fear the move could be the first major domino to fall for end-to-end encryption tech worldwide.
When social media is constantly pushing people to use AI, why not let AI agents participate?
The ActiveBreeze smart bed cools from within, pairing airflow tech with surprisingly detailed sleep data.
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OpenAI is developing a “super app” for desktop that unifies ChatGPT , its browser and its Codex app, according to the Wall Street Journal and CNBC . A company spokesperson told the publications that OpenAI Chief of Applications Fidji Simo will lead the application revamp with assistance from OpenAI President Greg Brockman. Simo will also help the marketing team advertise the app when it comes out. OpenAI’s leadership is apparently hoping that combining several products can help it s
Rolling coverage from San Jose, including NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang’s keynote, news highlights, live demos and on‑the‑ground color through March 19.
The Aisuru, Kimwolf, JackSkid, and Mossad botnets had infected more than 3 million devices in total, many inside home networks, according to the US Justice Department.
Alphabet's life sciences business Verily is restructuring and raising money as a new corporate entity. Verily announced that with its $300 million investment round, it will change from an LLC to a corporation and rename itself Verily Health Inc. As a result, Alphabet now has a minority stake rather than a controlling one in the business. Similar to every other tech business, this chapter for Verily will be focused on AI. “From research to care, our customers need solutions that brin
California, Massachusetts, Connecticut and New York are leading a group of 20 other states in suing the US Environmental Protection Agency for renouncing its ability to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, The New York Times reports . The lawsuit specifically argues that the EPA's decision to rescind a 2009 study that determined greenhouse gases are dangerous to public health was illegal. The study, which is the source of what's called the "Endangerment Finding," was one of several justif
In this episode, we dive into Nvidia’s annual developer conference and what CEO Jensen Huang is saying about the future of the company.
Amazon has acquired Rivr, a startup focused on autonomous robotics. Rivr is based in Zurich and was valued at $110 million in a funding round from August 2024, which both Amazon and its CEO's Bezos Expeditions participated in. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed. Rivr's robots have four legs and wheels that allow it to maneuver on stairs and other potentially uneven surfaces. The company just released its second generation of the robot. The purchase will likely further
DoorDash has launched a new option for its gig economy workers to earn some extra cash. The delivery service introduced Tasks , which it describes as "short activities Dashers can complete between deliveries or in their own time." It gives taking pictures of restaurant dishes or recording video of unscripted conversations in languages other than English as examples. These materials will be used to train artificial intelligence and robotics models. A representative from DoorDash
Google is testing a version of its Gemini app for macOS, Bloomberg reports . The app would bring the AI assistant to uncharted territory, and in more direct competition with OpenAI's ChatGPT and Anthropic's Claude , both of which offer standalone Mac apps. Gemini remains accessible through the web, and it sounds like the macOS app offers the same set of features, with the ability to respond to prompts, search the web and generate text, images and code. The major differentiator of
Google has detailed how users will be able to sideload apps from unverified developers once it implements its more restrictive policy towards downloading software on Android. The company originally planned to require all developers to be "verified" to distribute on Android, but softened its stance in November 2025 to allow carveouts for Android power-users and hobbyist developers. For the average Android users, the ability to sideload apps will now be locked behind a multi-step
The Steam Spring Sale is underway and as usual, there's plenty of good stuff to add to your library. The seasonal discounts will run through Thursday, March 26 at 1PM ET. If there's anything you've been waiting to buy, it's worth checking to see if it's on sale now, because huge chunks of the Steam catalog are at least a little bit off. Recent releases don't usually receive big price cuts during Steam sales, but you can save at least a couple bucks on several 202
A little more than a year after ditching third-party fact checkers and rolling back much of its proactive content moderation, the company says it will further "transform" its approach by drastically reducing the number of human moderators in favor of AI-based systems. The company says the change will happen "over the next few years," and will allow the company to catch more issues faster than its current approach. Meta didn't say how much of its contract workfo
The FBI has confirmed to the Senate it is once again buying data which can be used to track the locations of US citizens. That may have surprised the people who thought the precedent in Carpenter v. United States prohibited it. But while that case examined if it was legal for law enforcement to obtain location data from mobile networks without a warrant, here the FBI and other agencies have found a way to skirt the Fourth Amendment entirely. Over the last few years, they have taken to ju
Last year, as FCC chair Brendan Carr threatened ABC over a Jimmy Kimmel monolog, a civil servant overseeing West Coast stations privately pledged support, according to emails obtained by WIRED.
As Silicon Valley obsesses over a new wave of AI coding agents, Google and other AI labs are shifting their bets.
Save big on Apple’s previous-generation premium over-ear headset.
A day after saying it would shut down its metaverse, Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth announced the service will remain available in VR—with limited support.
Stranger Things fans will soon have permanent access to the Upside Down, as a full DVD set is now available to preorder . Stranger Things: The Complete Series comes in Blu-Ray and 4K UHD editions. This collection includes all five seasons of the hit show, which totals 25 discs. It'll be available at brick-and-mortar and online retailers beginning on July 28. Prices range from $200 to $260, depending on the media type and edition. Return to Hawkins this July with STRANGER THINGS
Ubisoft is ceasing game development at its studio, Red Storm Entertainment, best known for its work on the Tom Clancy’s series. While the studio is set to remain open, 105 people will be laid off, a Ubisoft source told GamesIndustry.biz . Those who survive the cull will reportedly continue to work on the Snowdrop engine, used in many of Ubisoft’s tentpole games over the last decade, including Star Wars Outlaws and Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora more recently. Red Storm had been
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Meta is backtracking on its plans to shut down the VR version of its metaverse. The company now plans to support Horizon Worlds in VR for the "foreseeable future," though users shouldn't expect new games, CTO Andrew Bosworth said in an update. "We will keep Horizon Worlds working in VR for existing games, to support the fans who've reached out," Bosworth said in a post on Instagram. "For people who already have games they like that they're using in Horizon W
The Switch 2 ports keep on coming. This time it's Kena: Bridge of Spirits , the award-winning 2021 title from Ember Lab. Previously announced for spring 2026 , the visually striking title now has an official release date of March 26. Kena: Bridge of Spirits won Best Independent Game and Best Debut Indie Game at The Game Awards 2021. It's already available for PS5 / PS4 , PC ( Steam and Epic ) and Xbox Series X/S and One . You play as Kena, a young spirit guide on a quest to a sacred
OpenAI plans to allow sexting with ChatGPT. A human-AI interaction expert warns of a privacy nightmare.
Rivian and Uber have entered into a major partnership , with the former to provide the latter with 50,000 robotaxis in a deal worth $1.25 billion in funding. This starts with Uber purchasing 10,000 Rivian R2 robotaxis, which will be deployed in San Francisco and Miami by 2028. If all goes well, Uber will scoop up 40,000 more robotaxis by 2030. The company plans to scale the initiative to 25 major cities by 2031. The full $1.25 billion investment is contingent on several autonomous miles
Google and cybersecurity companies Lookout and iVerify have detailed a new hacking technique that potentially puts a significant portion of iPhone users in danger, just by visiting the wrong web page. The hack is called "DarkSword" and it currently targets iOS 18 releases between iOS 18.4 and iOS 18.6.2. For its part, an Apple spokesperson told Engadget that the company had patched the underlying vulnerabilities in iOS versions 15 through 26 last year; the company also issued an emergency
Poncle could be about to ruin the planet’s productivity all over again now that Vampire Crawlers has a release date for PC and consoles. The dungeon-crawling roguelike deckbuilder — which is a Vampire Survivors spinoff — is coming to Steam, Xbox Series X/S, PS5 and Nintendo Switch on April 21. It’ll cost $10. Alternatively, you’ll be able to check it out via Xbox Game Pass on day one. Vampire Crawlers is on the way to iOS and Android as well. However, you’ll have to wait until someti
Amazon’s next-generation smart assistant has entered its Early Access program in the UK, marking Alexa+’s European debut following rollouts in the US, Canada and Mexico. Starting March 19, invitations to start using the smarter, more conversational Alexa will be sent out to "hundreds of thousands" of willing participants, Amazon said in a press release , adding that Alexa is the most popular voice assistant in the UK. As well as its more natural communication, agentic capabilities, co
Moxie Marlinspike says the technology powering his encrypted AI chatbot, Confer, will be integrated into Meta AI. The move could help protect the AI conversations of millions of people.
Nothing takes a different tack with its phone series. For the second time in a row, its midrange entry-level A-series smartphones debuted ahead of its next flagship device. The company has even warned that we won’t be getting the Nothing Phone 4 until next year. Until then, the Phone 4a Pro is here to make an impact, with a more restrained design, a less obtrusive camera bump and specs that beat out last year’s Nothing Phone 3 — all for $499 . In 2026, Nothing is truly aiming to dethrone the
It’s a double feature on GFN Thursday. This week, GeForce NOW offers smoother sights in virtual reality (VR) and a sprawling new land to conquer. Streaming at 90 frames per second (fps) comes to supported VR headsets. And Crimson Desert, which recently surpassed 3 million wishlist additions on Steam, debuts in the cloud with GeForce […]
Lightweight shoes now dominate the trails, so do you still need boots? Here’s how to choose the right footwear for your outdoor adventures.
UK’s Ofcom has fined 4chan a total of £520,000 ($690,000) over the website’s failure to comply with the rules of Online Safety Act 2023 . The biggest chunk of the amount came from 4chan’s failure to ensure children cannot encounter pornographic content on its website by implementing an effective age check mechanism. For that violation, the website has received a penalty of £450,000 ($598,000) and an order to apply an age check system by April 2. It carries a daily rate penalty of £500 ($664)
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Fueled by the manosphere, men are boosting their testosterone levels through natural and synthetic means, with some competitively swapping test results on a regular basis.
During a Senate hearing, FBI Director Kash Patel confirmed that his agency has bought information that could be used to track individuals' movement and location. "We do purchase commercially available information that’s consistent with the Constitution and the laws under the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, and it has led to some valuable intelligence for us," he said. Law enforcement is required to obtain a warrant in order to get location data from cell service providers followi
The Information reported that an AI agent within Meta took unauthorized action that led to an employee creating a security breach at the social company last week. According to the publication, an employee used an in-house agentic AI to analyze a query from a second employee on an internal forum. The AI agent posted a response to the second employee with advice even though the first person did not direct it to do so. The second employee took the agent's recommended action, sparking a dom
The White House has been promising a set of national rules to guide artificial intelligence since late last year, and today Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) fired the first volley. The senator shared a discussion draft for codifying the executive order signed by President Donald Trump in December calling for an AI bill. Her stated goal is a policy that "protects children, creators, conservatives and communities from harm." Blackburn has called for tougher policies for AI safety, a
The latest open models and frameworks from NVIDIA bring together simulation, robot learning and embedded compute to accelerate cloud-to-robot workflows.
NVIDIA and Apple’s collaboration brings native integration of NVIDIA CloudXR 6.0 to visionOS, securely delivering NVIDIA RTX-powered simulators and professional 3D graphics applications — like Immersive for Autodesk VRED on Innoactive’s XR streaming solutions — to Apple Vision Pro.
As AI‑native applications scale to more users, agents and devices, the telecommunications network is becoming the next frontier for distributing AI. At NVIDIA GTC 2026, leading operators in the U.S. and Asia showed that this shift is underway, announcing AI grids — geographically distributed and interconnected AI infrastructure — using their network footprint to power […]
The paradigm of consumer computing has revolved around the concept of a personal device — from PCs to smartphones and tablets. Now, generative AI — particularly OpenClaw — has introduced a new category: agent computers. These devices, like the NVIDIA DGX Spark desktop AI supercomputer or dedicated NVIDIA RTX PCs, are ideal for running personal […]
The features on social media apps like Snapchat evolve nearly as fast as what’s trending. To keep pace, its parent company Snap has adopted open data processing libraries from NVIDIA on Google Cloud services to boost development. Every new feature rolled out to Snapchat’s more than 940 million monthly active users goes through a set […]
Roche's new deployment spans more than 3,500 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs across its worldwide operations and embedded across the entire value chain, massively scaling R&D productivity, next-generation diagnostics and manufacturing efficiencies.
Setting up AI factories in simulation — decreasing deployment time from months to days — is accelerating the next industrial revolution. Nowhere was that more apparent than at GTC 2026, in San Jose, where NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang introduced NVIDIA DSX Air. Part of NVIDIA DSX Sim in the DSX platform, NVIDIA’s blueprint […]
Industrial AI, digital twins, AI physics and accelerated AI infrastructure are empowering companies across industries to accelerate and scale the design, simulation and optimization of products, processes and facilities before building in the real world.
Launched today, NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super is a 120‑billion‑parameter open model with 12 billion active parameters designed to run complex agentic AI systems at scale. Available now, the model combines advanced reasoning capabilities to efficiently complete tasks with high accuracy for autonomous agents. AI-Native Companies: Perplexity offers its users access to Nemotron 3 Super for […]
The Cat 306 CR mini-excavator weighs just under eight tons and fits inside a standard shipping container. It’s the machine a contractor rents when the job site is tight: a utility trench near a foundation, a basement dig in a dense neighborhood. The cab is roughly the size of a phone booth. The operator sits […]
Game development teams are working across larger worlds, more complex pipelines and more distributed teams than ever. At the same time, many studios still rely on fixed, desk-bound GPU hardware for critical production work. At the Game Developers Conference (GDC) this week in San Francisco, NVIDIA is showcasing a new approach to bring together disparate […]
Game developers and artists are building cinematic worlds and iconic characters — raising the bar for immersive experiences on NVIDIA RTX AI PCs. At the Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco this week, NVIDIA announced a suite of updates that streamline AI video generation for concept development and storyboarding on RTX GPUs and the […]
NVIDIA and Thinking Machines Lab announced today a multiyear strategic partnership to deploy at least one gigawatt of next-generation NVIDIA Vera Rubin systems to support Thinking Machines’ frontier model training and platforms delivering customizable AI at scale. Deployment on the NVIDIA Vera Rubin platform is targeted for early next year. The partnership also includes an […]
AI is one of the most powerful forces shaping the world today. It is not a clever app or a single model; it is essential infrastructure, like electricity and the internet.
ABB Robotics and NVIDIA today announced a breakthrough partnership that brings industrial‑grade physical AI to the factory floor. By integrating NVIDIA Omniverse libraries directly into its RobotStudio programming and simulation suite, ABB Robotics will now deliver physically accurate simulation capabilities in its platform, dramatically cutting engineering time, reducing deployment costs by up to 40% and […]
AI is everywhere and accelerating everything — becoming essential infrastructure to create the intelligence that will advance every industry. That’s why companies are increasingly focusing on the technology’s return on investment (ROI), as well as how to best apply AI to their own use cases. NVIDIA’s annual “State of AI” reports show how AI is […]
Railway , a San Francisco-based cloud platform that has quietly amassed two million developers without spending a dollar on marketing, announced Thursday that it raised $100 million in a Series B funding round, as surging demand for artificial intelligence applications exposes the limitations of legacy cloud infrastructure. TQ Ventures led the round, with participation from FPV Ventures , Redpoint , and Unusual Ventures . The investment values Railway as one of the most significant infrast
The artificial intelligence coding revolution comes with a catch: it's expensive. Claude Code , Anthropic's terminal-based AI agent that can write, debug, and deploy code autonomously, has captured the imagination of software developers worldwide. But its pricing — ranging from $20 to $200 per month depending on usage — has sparked a growing rebellion among the very programmers it aims to serve. Now, a free alternative is gaining traction. Goose , an open-source AI agent develope
Alfred Wahlforss was running out of options. His startup, Listen Labs , needed to hire over 100 engineers, but competing against Mark Zuckerberg's $100 million offers seemed impossible. So he spent $5,000 — a fifth of his marketing budget — on a billboard in San Francisco displaying what looked like gibberish: five strings of random numbers. The numbers were actually AI tokens. Decoded, they led to a coding challenge: build an algorithm to act as a digital bouncer at Berghain, the Ber
Salesforce on Tuesday launched an entirely rebuilt version of Slackbot , the company's workplace assistant, transforming it from a simple notification tool into what executives describe as a fully powered AI agent capable of searching enterprise data, drafting documents, and taking action on behalf of employees. The new Slackbot, now generally available to Business+ and Enterprise+ customers, is Salesforce's most aggressive move yet to position Slack at the center of the emergin
Anthropic released Cowork on Monday, a new AI agent capability that extends the power of its wildly successful Claude Code tool to non-technical users — and according to company insiders, the team built the entire feature in approximately a week and a half, largely using Claude Code itself. The launch marks a major inflection point in the race to deliver practical AI agents to mainstream users, positioning Anthropic to compete not just with OpenAI and Google in conversational AI, but w
Nous Research , the open-source artificial intelligence startup backed by crypto venture firm Paradigm , released a new competitive programming model on Monday that it says matches or exceeds several larger proprietary systems — trained in just four days using 48 of Nvidia's latest B200 graphics processors . The model, called NousCoder-14B , is another entry in a crowded field of AI coding assistants, but arrives at a particularly charged moment: Claude Code , the agentic programming t
When the creator of the world's most advanced coding agent speaks, Silicon Valley doesn't just listen — it takes notes. For the past week, the engineering community has been dissecting a thread on X from Boris Cherny , the creator and head of Claude Code at Anthropic . What began as a casual sharing of his personal terminal setup has spiraled into a viral manifesto on the future of software development, with industry insiders calling it a watershed moment for the startup. &qu