Amazon is taking another step toward making voice assistants feel less like “responders” and more like creative media producers. In a new update, Alexa Plus—Amazon’s upgraded AI assistant—can now generate AI-created podcasts on “virtually any topic,” according to an announcement…
Amazon is quietly turning Alexa from a “find me something” assistant into a “make something for me” engine—and the latest move is aimed squarely at audio. With a new Alexa+ powered capability, Amazon can now generate custom AI podcast episodes…
In the UK, libraries have always been more than places to borrow books. They are quiet infrastructure: catalogues that make knowledge findable, local collections that preserve community memory, and professional expertise that turns messy information into something people can actually…
South Korea’s LetinAR is betting that the next leap in AI glasses won’t come from bigger screens or flashier software—it will come from something far less glamorous: optics. Specifically, the company is developing a compact optical lens roughly the size…
OpenAI’s path toward a potential $1tn IPO is entering a new, more unpredictable phase—one that will be decided not in boardrooms or investor roadshows, but in an Oakland jury room. Elon Musk’s legal challenge, now set to be weighed by…
Anthropic is set to brief the Financial Stability Board on cyber vulnerabilities that have been highlighted by a separate investigation involving “Mythos”, while also using the meeting to explain the capabilities of its latest AI model. The dual-track agenda—cyber risk…
Executive education has always promised to compress years of experience into a few intensive weeks. But in 2026, the most valuable lesson many business schools are trying to deliver is no longer “how AI works” or even “how to use…
Apple’s next Siri update is shaping up to be less about flashier AI tricks and more about something far more consequential: control. According to reporting circulating ahead of the release, Apple is preparing a privacy-forward revamp that could include an…
In the final stretch of the Elon Musk–OpenAI trial, the courtroom debate has increasingly felt less like a narrow fight over specific documents and more like a referendum on something harder to prove: trust. Not trust in the abstract—trust as…
Apple’s next big Siri upgrade isn’t just about making the assistant feel more like a conversation partner. It’s also about giving users a new kind of control—one that treats chat history not as an inevitable byproduct of using AI, but…
On a bright commencement Friday at the University of Arizona, the mood was supposed to be celebratory—caps in the air, families cheering, and a high-profile speaker offering a final burst of inspiration before graduates stepped into the next chapter of…
Graduation season has always been a strange mix of celebration and forecasting. Families cheer, schools reflect, and students—often for the first time—try to imagine what their lives will look like after the cap and gown come off. In 2026, that…