A new compliance report shows the disconnect between where it makes its money, and where it pays its taxes. Frantic00/Getty Images A new mandatory compliance report released by Microsoft shows how it declares profits in different European nations to reduce its tax bill, The New York Times reports. The document reveals that the […]

The hosting platform wants sites to have more control over how AI companies use their content. Samuel Boivin/Shutterstock Cloudflare has announced plans to automatically block mixed-use web crawlers that index websites for search engines and act as AI agents and trainers at the same time. The company previously offered its customers the optional

Vibe-coding right in your Pocket. Meta Meta appears to have soft-launched a new app called Pocket that’s aimed at getting people to vibe-code their own minigames. Mobile developer and reverse engineer Alessandro Paluzzi spotted Pocket and posted about it to X today, but reporting platform AppFigures told TechCrunch that the app has been

The game will now arrive three weeks earlier on September 4. Capcom If you’re a video game publisher with a game arriving in the second half of 2026, you’re tossing it into a veritable bloodbath. Nearly every publisher (other than perhaps Nintendo) has been doing everything in its power to keep out of

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