Google has been trying to make AI feel less like a tool you open and more like something that quietly works in the background. With Gemini Spark, it’s taking another step toward that vision—an “always on” assistant positioned around the…
The browser wars in 2026 aren’t being fought with flashy marketing anymore. They’re being fought with the stuff people actually feel every day: how quickly a page becomes usable, how reliably sites behave under real-world conditions, how much control users…
Across TikTok, Facebook, and Instagram, a new kind of storefront has begun to appear—one that looks personal, emotional, and “real,” but is often neither. A recent report from The Verge describes how scammers and grifters are using AI-generated influencer avatars…
Craig Campbell didn’t just step away from the AI rush—he stepped toward something that, at least on paper, looked almost unfashionable. In a moment when founders were being pulled into building models, copilots, and “AI-native” everything, Campbell chose to build…
SpaceX has taken the first formal step toward becoming a public company, and the early attention around its IPO filing is already revealing a familiar tension in modern tech finance: how much investors are willing to pay for a future…
British defence officials are exploring a controversial shift in how lethal force could be authorised in the field: allowing certain autonomous systems to identify and engage targets without waiting for human approval, at least in narrowly defined “exceptional circumstances.” The…
The question “Will AI steal your job?” has become a kind of shorthand for a much larger anxiety: that work—stable, familiar, and tied to identity—might be replaced by systems that don’t care who gets hurt. But as Sarah O’Connor argues…
In a quiet but increasingly visible shift, some software developers are beginning to treat AI assistance less like an optional productivity tool and more like a baseline requirement for doing the job. The motivation is straightforward: modern coding assistants can…
AI vocabulary has become its own weather system. One day you’re hearing “prompt” and “model,” the next you’re getting hit with “hallucination,” “alignment,” “RAG,” “fine-tuning,” and a dozen other terms that sound like they belong in a lab notebook rather…
In boardrooms and product meetings, “AI” has become a kind of shorthand for certainty. It’s the promise that work can be streamlined, costs can be contained, and teams can move faster—often with fewer people. But there’s a growing pattern behind…
An AI training startup is offering something that sounds like a small miracle in a world where “free” usually comes with fine print: it will clean your home for free. The company, Shift, says it’s expanding beyond New York and…
Groq is reportedly preparing to raise $650 million in internal funding as it pivots more decisively from building AI hardware toward the business of AI inference—turning model computation into fast, reliable answers for real users. The shift, described by Axios,…