Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar gives Google’s AI a face
Google's new Gemini 3.8 Live update lets users have conversations with the model while watching an animated AI pe…
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Meta is going to let you build games with AI right on your phone
Meta has a new plan to get people to make games for its Horizon social platform. The company today announced two new…
Microsoft’s new Surface Mouse has haptic feedback and a customizable action button
Microsoft is launching a second generation of its Surface Mouse next month that includes haptic feedback support. The…
Meta’s AI agent is a cute little guy who’s great at spending my money
An adorable little bear that wants to help you buy things. Modern life comes with an unending, auto-populating to-do l…
Anthropic’s biolab made a discovery it’s comparing to Crispr
Anthropic says its AI Claude has "autonomously discovered" a new enzyme system similar to machinery behind …
Forget performance: Qualcomm’s new phone chip is all about AI agents
Qualcomm is back at its Snapdragon Summit in Hawaii, which means only one thing: new flagship Android chipsets are here. …
Score free Pixel Buds 2A when you preorder a Googlebook at Best Buy
An early look at the first set of Googlebooks The Android-powered Googlebooks are coming soon, with familiar brands an…
San Francisco sues Trump Media for selling early access to Trump posts
San Francisco is suing the Trump Media & Technology Group, the parent company behind Truth Social, for selling e…
Amazon wants to help the Colorado River, but we still don’t know how much water the company uses
Amazon plans to spend $20 million on water conservation projects along the Colorado River, a crucial but dwindling wa…
California tightens rules on AI data center energy and water use
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed seven bills designed to prevent AI data centers from passing utility costs o…
Paramount settles lawsuit blocking $110 billion Warner Bros. merger
Paramount has reached a settlement with California and the 11 other states that sued to block its planned $110 billio…
New Xiaomi phone with Leica camera, huge battery and 512GB storage gets massive price cut
29% off Xiaomi's excellent mid-ranger at a bargain price Save a whopping £200 while y…
No Dogs in Space is back to feed your need for obsessive music history
In August, I wrote about my love of the music history podcast No Dogs in Space , but mourned the fact that there had…
No one is surprised that Nvidia’s Jensen Huang thinks AI fears are overblown.
The man who may stand to make the most money from the AI boom seems to think he knows better than anyone else, includ…
Kojima Productions disputes reports the studio is in trouble
After it was announced that Sony was dropping Hideo Kojima's Physint , and that instead the Metal Gear Solid cre…
All roads lead to cable
This is The Stepback , a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on stream…
Meta’s Muse is creepy, but maybe not for the reasons you think
Meta's Muse is apparently an effective AI assistant , but one that's a little creepy. Part of that is because…
The AI regulation smackdown isn’t over
At the start of this week, the who's-who of AI seemed - at least tentatively - on the side of AI regulation. Over…
OpenAI and Microsoft knew they were starting a ‘doom loop’ for the web
Recently unsealed court documents in the New York Times ' case against OpenAI and Microsoft are pretty damning.…
Disney’s first CTO is Character.AI’s former CEO
You would think that a multimedia conglomerate as large as Disney would have a few chief technology officers by now, …