You’re a “traitor” if you don’t use our Chinese chips.

That was the message to Chinese companies from a confidant of leader Xi Jinping, who’s heading up domestic efforts to overcome Nvidia’s stranglehold on cutting-edge AI chips. Go read this report from ...

The pause on Paramount’s $110 billion WBD deal has been extended for another fortnight.

US District Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín issued a decision Thursday extending her temporary restraining order to a total of ...

Google’s expanding access to Gemini Spark.

The new agentic AI platform, announced at Google I/O earlier this year, will be available to Google AI Pro subscribers in the US starting today. It’s also rolling out to Google AI Ultra subscribers ...

Meet the new Avatar.

Seven Havens was originally slated to debut some time in 2027, Paramount has given the series a new October 9th premiere date — which is previously when Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender was going to ...

Alexa Plus is getting an AI update to handle more complicated instructions

Amazon is launching an update to its Alexa Plus assistant that will allow it to connect to smart home devices in new ways.
Opinion

The FDA’s peptide circus is underway.

An advisory panel, stacked with RFK Jr.’s pro-peptide appointees, has voted to add BPC-157 and KPV to the bulk compounding list. This is despite FDA staff clinicians stating that there’s no convincing ...

Intel reports its “strongest revenue growth in more than fifteen years.”

The partially government-owned chipmaker’s Q2 2026 revenue increased 25 percent from last year, with data center and AI ...

OpenAI brings its updated voice mode to the ChatGPT desktop app.

Live, allows users to ask ChatGPT to check their calendar, draft an email, prepare for a meeting, and perform other tasks on their computer by talking out loud. OpenAI is rolling out the update to the ...

ChatGPT’s going to start using Yelp reviews.

Axios reports that the platform’s reviews, photos, and other business info will soon start appearing in ChatGPT responses as sources for local recommendations. Yelp also plans to add a “Request a ...

Claude’s voice mode is now available for Opus and Sonnet

Until now, voice mode has only been available on Claude Haiku, Anthropic’s faster but less powerful model. Now the company is ...

A Tesla solar owner went looking for their lease, and got an ancient text about fallen angels instead.

When I logged into my Tesla account and view my lease/contract with it, it loads a PDF which just shows the Book of Enoch?” the anonymous owner said in a Reddit post (first spotted by Electrek). “What ...

Patreon is laying off 20 percent of workers

Patreon CEO Jack Conte doesn’t believe ‘AI replaces humans,’ but says the technology has ‘fundamentally transformed the tech ...