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Xbox Game Pass could get more pocket-friendly with...
Discord Nitro subscribers may soon get access to an Xbox Game Pass Starter Edition bundle with over ...
Cohere and Aleph Alpha announce merger in Berlin, ...
Cohere’s shareholders will receive approximately 90% of the combined entity; Aleph Alpha’s sharehold...
DeepSeek returns with V4-Pro and V4-Flash, a year ...
The Hangzhou startup released preview versions of both models on Hugging Face on Friday. V4-Pro clai...
Verda raises $117 million to expand its GPU cloud ...
The Helsinki-based company, formerly DataCrunch, is backed by Lifeline Ventures, byFounders, Tesi, V...
Saros is pure action nirvana
The alien world of Saros feels like it has been touched by King Midas. The sky is golden after anoth...
Norway plans to ban social media for children unde...
The minority Labour government, led by PM Jonas Gahr Støre, announced the legislation on Friday. The...
Tired of Gemini and ChatGPT? Claude now has your b...
Claude now connects to AllTrails, Uber, Spotify, Instacart, TripAdvisor, and more, bringing your eve...
This AI bot does the mindless internet scrolling f...
Noscroll is a new AI-powered service that monitors your social feeds, news sites, and more, then tex...
US arrests soldier who allegedly made $400k on Mad...
We knew someone made over $400,000 on suspicious Polymarket bets around the US operation to capture ...
Leak reveals new Xbox Game Pass ‘Starter Edition’ ...
Microsoft started teasing a mysterious Discord and Xbox Game Pass partnership yesterday, and a new l...
Claude is connecting directly to your personal app...
Claude users can access more apps with Anthropic's AI now thanks to new connectors for everything fr...
X is closing communities. But hey, you now have cu...
X is closing its Communities feature and replacing it with AI-powered custom timelines and expanded ...
Brendan Carr’s war on wokeness targets inclusive c...
Under the guidance of consummate bully / chairman Brendan Carr, the FCC is taking steps towards crac...
Microsoft Gaming is dead, long live Xbox
Microsoft drops the “Microsoft Gaming” name and rebrands back to Xbox, signaling a renewed focus on ...
Save $250 on the Google Pixel 10: Tensor G5, tripl...
The Google Pixel 10 is down to $549 in a limited-time deal, a $250 saving off its $799 list price, a...
OpenAI pushes ChatGPT toward autonomous work with ...
OpenAI has launched GPT-5.5, focusing on improving ChatGPT’s ability to handle complex tasks and rea...
Instagram’s new Instants app is basically Snapchat...
Instagram launches Instants, a new app for sharing disappearing photos and videos, offering a Snapch...
Steam Machine feels like the gaming PC evolution I...
The new Steam Machine has my attention because Valve is building it around an operating system that ...
Meta is cutting 8,000 jobs to pay for AI. It is al...
Summary: Meta is cutting approximately 8,000 employees (10% of its workforce) beginning 20 May, canc...
High gas prices are not saving Tesla. They are jus...
Summary: US petrol prices passed $4/gallon for the first time in four years (+30% YoY), driven by th...
Sonos’ big sale on refurbished speakers is about t...
Portable audio and home theater upgrades can be very pricey, which is why we make a habit out of tel...
Meta is laying off 10 percent of its staff
Meta is planning to layoff around 10 percent of employees in May, according to a memo from the compa...
SoftBank wants to borrow $10 billion against its O...
Summary: SoftBank is seeking a $10 billion margin loan backed by its OpenAI shares at SOFR + 425 bas...
Rilian raises $17.5 million to bring agentic AI to...
The McLean, Virginia startup’s Caspian platform sits as a command layer above existing security stac...
White House accuses China of industrial-scale AI m...
Summary: The White House OSTP released a policy memo accusing China of “industrial-scale” distillati...
Zapata Quantum raises $15 million after emerging f...
The oversubscribed financing, led by Triatomic Capital, caps a restructuring that addressed $18.7 mi...
‘We Are Xbox’: read the memo defining Microsoft’s ...
Microsoft's new Xbox CEO Asha Sharma has laid out a new strategy for what she describes as a "return...
Microsoft’s new Xbox chief is ‘reevaluating’ exclu...
Xbox CEO Asha Sharma held an all-hands meeting this morning and laid out her strategy for a "return ...
Microsoft offers voluntary retirement to 7% of US ...
Summary: Microsoft is offering voluntary retirement to approximately 7% of its US workforce (~8,750 ...
Democrats want to ban ICE from turning warehouses ...
A bill introduced by Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) would prohibit the Department of Homeland Security fr...
Spirit is broken
The bright yellow livery of Spirit Airlines may soon disappear from the skies. The country's seventh...
OpenAI launches GPT-5.5, its first fully retrained...
The model, codenamed “Spud,” is designed to complete complex multi-step tasks with minimal human dir...
Claim Clarity on the role of specialized AI in adv...
Claim Clarity suggests that workers’ compensation represents a significant yet often less visible se...
Anthropic’s Mythos breach was humiliating
Anthropic's tightly controlled rollout of Claude Mythos has taken an awkward turn. After spending we...
OpenAI says its new GPT-5.5 model is more efficien...
OpenAI just announced its new GPT-5.5 model, which the company calls its "smartest and most intuitiv...
Ikea’s new inflatable chair doesn’t look like an i...
Ikea shared a sneak preview of three pieces from a new experimental collection, set to be fully reve...
Great news, the Moto G Stylus is no longer teeming...
The 2026 edition of Motorola's stylus phone is plenty appealing. My review unit is a charming lilac ...
From enterprise IT to entrepreneurship: How Kostia...
Kostiantyn Gitko built his career in a very different environment. Before starting his own company, ...
Microsoft brings Xbox back, scraps Microsoft Gamin...
Xbox CEO Asha Sharma has had a busy week. Sharma held an internal town hall with Xbox employees toda...
Samsung’s new display tech can switch between 2D/3...
Samsung's new metasurface lenticular lens, published in Nature, switches between sharp 2D and glasse...
Keychron’s customizable V1 mechanical keyboard is ...
If you’ve ever wished your laptop keyboard was better tailored to your workflow, the Keychron V1 is ...
Microsoft Copilot can now do actual work inside yo...
Copilot's new Agent Mode can draft and restructure Word documents, build formulas and tables in Exce...
UK Biobank’s 500,000 genomes were listed for sale ...
Summary: Genetic, medical, and lifestyle data from all 500,000 UK Biobank volunteers was listed for ...
The EU is about to tell Google that Gemini cannot ...
The European Commission is preparing to tell Google exactly how it must open Android to rival AI ass...
Inside Microsoft’s wave of executive departures
It feels like not a week has gone by this year without a senior Microsoft executive leaving the comp...
Apple TV 4K may finally evolve beyond a streaming ...
The next Apple TV 4K could bring Apple Intelligence, a new chip, smarter Siri, and improved audio an...
Meta will let parents see children’s chats with AI...
Meta is giving parents weekly topic summaries of their teens' Meta AI conversations across Facebook,...
25 years later, is it time for a new iPod?
This is Lowpass by Janko Roettgers, a newsletter on the ever-evolving intersection of tech and enter...
Microsoft offers voluntary retirement to long-serv...
Microsoft is changing up its annual rewards and performance programs today, and offering long-servin...
The Pentagon just picked the companies that will p...
Summary: The Pentagon has narrowed its Advanced Nuclear Power for Installations (ANPI) programme fro...
