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The chatbot-enabled Friend necklace eavesdrops on your life and provides a running commentary that’s snarky and unhelpful. Worse, it can also make the people around you uneasy.

AI companies are revealing the one number that researchers have long sought. What comes next?

The Xbox app is heading to cars

U.S. technology firms such as IBM, Dell and Cisco largely designed and built China’s surveillance state, an AP investigation finds. The tech companies deny wrongdoing.

Mistral AI, the French company that develops the AI chatbot, Le Chat, and several foundational large language models, is considered one of France’s most

After watching Reddit's OpenAI and Anthropic communities, Sam Altman thinks social media cannot be trusted. And bots are to blame.

Apple continues to be highly regarded according to the 2025 American Customer Satisfaction Index's Household Appliance and Electronics Study, but is narrowly beaten to the top spot by HP.

Hours before Apple reveals them with the iPhone 17 at its "Awe Dropping" event, Best Buy is already publicizing a deal on AirPods Pro 3.

As the App Store faces increasing regulatory pressure in Brazil, Apple is highlighting a study as it triesto make its case against sideloading.

Introducing Alterego, the first near-telepathic interface, designed to make technology as intuitive as using your inner voice.

The film, called “Critterz,” aims to debut at the Cannes Film Festival and will leverage the startup’s AI tools and resources.

Farmers, builders and police officers use drones made by DJI, a Chinese company. President Trump and his allies want to stop all imports.

Now you know exactly how many prompts you get for free a day.

YouTube got into the game with its first exclusive NFL broadcast Sept. 5, which the platform said averaged more than 17.3 million global viewers.

In a lawsuit filed Monday, the former head of security for the messaging app accused the social media company of putting billions of users at risk. Meta pushed back on his claim.

Google's CEO, Sundar Pichai, said in May that web publishing is not dying. Nick Fox, VP of Search at Google, said in May that the web is thriving. But in a court document filed by Google on late Friday, Google's lawyers wrote, "The fact is that today, the open web is already in rapid decline."

The federal judge overseeing Anthropic PBC’s proposed $1.5 billion copyright settlement is concerned class lawyers are striking a deal behind the scenes that will be forced “down the throat of authors.”

In a supply chain attack, attackers have injected malware into NPM packages with over 2.6 billion weekly downloads after compromising a maintainer's account in a phishing attack.

OpenAI hopes Critterz will convince wary film execs to embrace AI with its low budget and accelerated production schedule.

Format is “more aligned with how artists are making and releasing music in the streaming era.”…

Elon Musk’s grand vision is coming into focus.

Elon Musk's SpaceX has agreed to acquire 50MHz of wireless spectrum and Mobile Satellite Service spectrum licenses from EchoStar for about $17 billion in cash and stock for its Starlink satellite network.

SpaceX and the company behind Boost Mobile have struck a deal that will bolster Starlink’s direct-to-cell satellite mobile service. EchoStar...

On Saturday, Microsoft reported the possibility of increased latency for the Middle East thanks to cut cables in the Red Sea.

Flyoobe has received a major update that allows customers to disable all AI and Copilot features in Windows 11.

And why the $1.5bn Anthropic books settlement may count as a win for Anthropic

Ahead of Apple’s “Awe dropping” event on Tuesday, Ming-Chi Kuo is joining the fun with a last-minute rumor. After initially...

A carrier in South Korea has seemingly leaked the specifications for the iPhone 17 lineup, including 8K video support for the Pro models and details for the iPhone 17 Air.

Early last month, Bloomberg reported on Apple’s new in-house generative AI search product – with a new ‘Answers, Knowledge, and...

Postal flows to the United States have almost come to a halt, with 88 operators worldwide fully or partially suspending services, the Universal Postal Union said.