Google’s next Chrome update is a big deal for Android users
Chrome on Android is getting a major AI upgrade with Gemini at its core, turning the browser into a more helpful assistant that can understand pages, handle tasks, and simplify how you use the web.
6 things Gemini Intelligence is about to do across your Android devices
Google is bringing these Gemini features to Android, expanding it across apps and devices to automate everyday tasks, simplify browsing, and make your phone feel more helpful while keeping you in control.
Google just made Gemini for Home a lot better at running your smart home
Google has rolled out a new Gemini for Home update with smarter camera search, faster device controls, better onboarding, and new Google Home app improvements.
AI voice chats still feel awkward because assistants don’t know when to talk
Thinking Machines Lab is testing full duplex AI that can listen and respond at the same time, but the real test is whether faster voice chats feel useful once people can try them.
Claude just took over the data center Grok needed most
Anthropic’s SpaceX deal gives Claude a major compute boost from the Memphis data center xAI arguably needed most, exposing how brutally infrastructure now shapes the race between Grok and its rivals.
Google Gemini can turn your pile of handwritten notes into a full study guide in seconds
Gemini can now scan your physical handwritten notes and turn them into a structured study guide or flashcards.
Google says AI is being abused at industrial scale for cyberattacks, and it just thwarted one
Google thwarted the first confirmed AI-powered cyberattack, where hackers used AI to find and exploit an unknown software flaw.
Beatbot Sora 70 Leads This Summer’s Smart Pool Upgrades, With Sora 30 and AquaSense Expanding the Range
Explore Beatbot’s Sora 70, Sora 30, and AquaSense range with Anniversary pricing from May 9–25. Discover smart pool cleaning upgrades designed for complete coverage, reduced effort, and more pool time.
Chuwi’s CoreBook Air wants to be the rare ultra-light Copilot+ laptop without an outrageous price
Chuwi launched the CoreBook Air 226V, a sub-1kg Copilot+ PC with Intel Core Ultra 5 226V, 97 TOPS AI compute, a 14-inch 2.8K 90Hz 100% sRGB display, dual Thunderbolt 4, and a 55Wh battery.
AI-pilled graduates are not a big hit for finance jobs with their shallow ideas
Finance firms are reassessing AI-native graduates as concerns grow over shallow analysis, weak critical thinking, and excessive dependence on generative AI tools.
Meta’s own employees are having a hard time digesting AI. Who would’ve thought?
Meta is tracking employee keystrokes, tying AI usage to performance reviews, and laying off thousands — all at once — and somehow seems surprised that morale is in freefall.
Grok Voice Mode finally arrives on CarPlay, in case you enjoy talking to a loud-mouth AI in your car
xAI has launched Grok Voice Mode on Apple CarPlay, bringing hands-free AI conversations to millions of drivers with Grok’s signature sarcastic personality.
How Google Workspace helps small businesses scale with an AI co-founder
Google Workspace with Gemini helps small teams work smarter by acting as a digital co-founder, automating tasks and improving productivity across everyday workflows.
OpenAI’s Codex just moved into Chrome, where the useful work and the risks live
OpenAI’s Codex Chrome extension pushes the coding agent into signed-in browser work, making it more useful for real tasks while raising new questions about access, approvals, and agentic AI risk.
Perplexity’s Personal Computer can work autonomously on your Mac, and it’s now available to all
Perplexity's new Mac app brings Personal Computer to your desktop, letting AI agents work through your local files, native apps, and the web, so you don't have to.
This new OpenAI voice update makes Siri and Alexa look like they need to go back to school
OpenAI launched three new audio models that can reason, translate across 70+ languages, and transcribe speech in real time, making voice a genuinely useful interface for developers.
ChatGPT now lets you name someone to check in if things get dark
ChatGPT can now alert someone you trust if things get serious. It is a simple feature, but it might be one of the most human things OpenAI has ever built into its chatbot.
Perplexity’s AI answering engine is not coming to Snapchat, after all
Snapchat has walked away from its Perplexity AI search plan, raising fresh questions about how much AI users actually want inside social apps.
I built a Mac app to track my bad posture with AirPods. I didn’t write a line of code.
Thanks to Claude, I built an app without any knowledge of programming. Not too long ago, it would have been a pipe-dream for someone like me to even imagine building my own personal software.
Spotify now lets AI agents like OpenClaw and Claude Code create Personal Podcasts for you
With Spotify's new tool, AI agents like OpenClaw, Claude Code, and OpenAI Codex can now turn your daily briefings, class notes, and travel plans into a listenable Personal Podcast.
A shocking study made me rethink how I use AI, and you should probably do that too
A new study finds that after just ten minutes of AI-assisted problem-solving, people performed worse and gave up more easily once the AI was gone. But the culprit isn't AI itself. It's how most people are using it.
Google responds to Chrome’s silent Gemini Nano install, stops short of addressing consent
Google Chrome VP and GM Parisa Tabriz has responded to backlash over Chrome's practice of silently downloading a 4GB Gemini Nano model onto user devices.
Even brief AI use could hurt your ability to think, a new study finds
A new study from researchers at MIT, Carnegie Mellon, Oxford, and UCLA found that even brief AI use can hurt your ability to problem-solve once the tool is taken away.
iOS 27 could treat AI models like default apps, and that may finally get me to use Apple Intelligence
Apple is letting users pick their preferred AI for Writing Tools, Image Playground, and Siri. It's the most coherent AI plan any platform has announced.
Google is working on a “24/7 personal agent” that sounds a lot like its answer to OpenClaw
Google is building an AI agent codenamed Remy inside its Gemini app, as the company looks to compete in a fast-moving market already claimed by OpenClaw, Meta, and Anthropic.
Google Chrome is installing a 4 GB AI model onto your device. Here’s how you can turn it off
Google Chrome is silently downloading a 4 GB Gemini Nano model to your device without consent. Here's what it is, where it lives on your computer, and what you can do about it.
ChatGPT for Excel and Google Sheets is now out of beta, and it’s kind of a big deal
ChatGPT for Excel and Google Sheets is out of beta and now available globally. Build, edit, and ask questions about your spreadsheets using plain language.
Microsoft Copilot Cowork goes mobile and it’s ready to take tasks off your plate
Microsoft Copilot Cowork is now on iOS and Android, and it's adding reusable skills and third-party plugin support to help you delegate more work from anywhere.
Your ChatGPT history is a personality test you didn’t know you were taking
ETH Zurich researchers collected 62,090 real ChatGPT conversations from 668 users and trained an AI to predict personality traits from them. The results are a privacy wake-up call.
Xbox CEO scraps Copilot AI for consoles to refocus the platform on gameplay-first experiences
Microsoft has canceled Xbox Copilot AI development for consoles and mobile, as CEO Asha Sharma shifts focus toward player experience and core platform improvements.
iOS 27 could let users pick an AI model of their choice for text and image tasks
Apple's iOS 27 will reportedly let users swap AI models, including Google's Gemini and Anthropic's Claude, across Writing Tools, Siri, and Image Playground.
You can now trust Perplexity with medical tips, or at least a tad more than ChatGPT or Gemini
Perplexity launches Premium Health Sources, bringing trusted medical journals and clinical data into AI responses to improve accuracy and credibility.
Meta’s AI scans photos for bone structure to catch underage users on Instagram and Facebook
Meta is using AI visual analysis to scan photos and videos for physical indicators like height and bone structure to detect and remove users under 13 from Instagram and Facebook.
OpenAI could launch its first AI agent smartphone in 2027
OpenAI may be developing an AI-first smartphone targeting 2027, focusing on on-device intelligence, advanced processors, and next-gen memory to enable smarter, more autonomous user interactions.
Online ads are snitching more about your private life than you bargained for, finds research
New research shows that the ads you see online carry enough information for AI to reconstruct a detailed personal profile, without you clicking anything or sharing any data.
OpenAI is going Hollywood with ‘Critterz,’ and its Cannes-bound film used AI across its production
Critterz is being positioned as the first mainstream AI-assisted animated family film, arriving at Cannes amid a growing Hollywood debate over artificial intelligence.
AI chatbots continue feeding into our worst delusions, finds worrying report on ChatGPT and Grok
A new report details disturbing cases involving ChatGPT and Grok, adding to the growing concerns that AI chatbots can validate delusions instead of pulling users back.
Grok is about to join ChatGPT and Perplexity on your CarPlay dashboard
A placeholder in the latest Grok iPhone app confirms xAI is bringing Grok Voice mode to Apple CarPlay, making it the third AI chatbot to join the platform.