Sam Altman is in talks with the US government in a bid to clear political hurdles, says the Financial Times. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images OpenAI’s Sam Altman has reportedly been in talks with the US government to ensure his company’s path towards achieving its goals remains free of political hurdles. According to the Financial Times, […]

I couldn’t believe it. Surely Dbrand had to have seen this coming. There must be a plan B, right? “There is no further plan. We fucked this one up,” Dbrand CEO Adam Ijaz now tells me. He says Dbrand will now have to destroy every single cube it manufactured, and it won’t even get to

A vulnerability can reportedly connect real email addresses to anonymous ones. Dontree_M/Shutterstock Hide My Email may not be keeping your personal information fully private. This feature is an option iCloud+ subscribers can use to create an anonymous email address rather than using their own contact info. It’s used as a workaround to avoid

Smart speakers have spent the past few years searching for a compelling second act. Beyond music, timers, and controlling your lights, they’ve struggled to justify taking up space on the kitchen counter. AI promised to change that. Amazon debuted its new hardware powered by a revamped Alexa last fall, and now it’s finally Google’s turn.

You’ll have to pay for the $20-a-month Meta One Premium plan if you need it longer than three hours a month. Meta Meta has quietly applied rate limits to its smart glasses’ Conversation Focus feature. As The Verge reports, the company’s help page for the Meta One subscription tiers contains information about those

The Spark agentic AI assistant is exclusively available to Google AI Ultra subscribers in the US. Google Google has started rolling out its new agentic AI assistant, Gemini Spark, to Gemini’s app for macOS. When the company launched Spark at its I/O developer conference in May, it explained that the assistant turns Gemini into

This version of Claude should offer more efficient performance at lower costs. Anthropic Anthropic has released a new version of Claude that’s aimed at handling queries not just from human users, but from agentic AI. The company says its new Sonnet 5 model is capable of handling agentic tasks and delivering performance specs

The iPhone may have dodged last week’s price bumps, but it might not last the year. Ringo Chiu/Shutterstock Even Apple can’t avoid the impact of the ongoing memory shortage, and we saw evidence of that when it raised prices on several products. It’s not that surprising, considering outgoing CEO Tim Cook told The Wall

Smartphones are welcoming the agentic AI overlords. OpenClaw OpenClaw announced that it has released standalone apps for both iOS and Android devices. The move officially brings AI agents to the App Store and Play Store marketplaces. Users can now use their smartphones to chat with the AI assistant and to grant it access

Some of Apple’s corporate secrets aren’t so secret any more. onapalmtree/Shutterstock On top of leaks around its next smartphone generation, Apple has had sensitive details about its manufacturing processes revealed. Reuters reported that the documents posted on “the dark web” allegedly show information about both components and their suppliers for the iPhone 18