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Amazon employees say the company’s internal AI tools are increasing workloads instead of reducing them. Sure enough, a new study backs this up. In a report by The Guardian, workers describe AI systems for coding, writing, and office tasks as half‑baked and say they spend extra time fixing mistakes or …

There’s probably no catching Nvidia on AI training hardware, at least in the short term, but there’s plenty of scope for more advanced and (crucially) more efficient AI inferencing hardware. That’s why Meta is just one of the companies with its own inferencing chips, and on Thursday, it showed off …

You might still be digging for devices to connect to your Wi-Fi 7 router, but Qualcomm is already forging ahead. At Mobile World Congress this week, it showed off a new Wi-Fi 8-capable chip in the FastConnect 8800. It’s designed to provide the kind of extreme bandwidth and concurrent connection …

Starship might be running late, but it’s still likely to be the most capable heavy-lift launch vehicle when it’s ready. Europeans looking to develop an alternative that isn’t governed by America or the whims of SpaceX’s CEO have suggested a similar design could be made to deliver a new European-centric …

Apple will reportedly introduce a new Core AI framework aimed at developers during its iOS 27 announcement at WWDC 2026. The framework is expected to replace the long‑running Core ML stack that Apple first introduced in 2017, per Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, who says Apple wants a more modern AI layer …

Anthropic has retired its former flagship Claude 3 Opus model, allowing it to spend its golden years on something unexpected: blogging. Opus 3 is the author of a new Substack newsletter called “Claude’s Corner,” where it publishes long-form essays while a newer Claude steps into its former role. In November …

Google’s Gemini AI can now handle multi-step tasks on Android, making it more like an on-device agent that can get things done across apps rather than just answering prompts in a chat window. Google says the feature is currently in early preview on a limited set of flagship phones and …

A new Android app called Nearby Glasses claims to warn people when camera‑equipped smart glasses are nearby. The open-source app was created by Yves Jeanrenaud, a Swiss sociologist and hobbyist developer, as a small act of resistance against wearable surveillance. Nearby Glasses scans for Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) broadcasts and …

Google is expanding its AI Mode within Chrome by turning the desktop browser’s address bar into a full AI prompt box in version 145. In version 145, you’ll see a new “plus” icon on the left side of the address bar, which serves as the main entry point for AI …

A paper published this week in the journal Science Advances demonstrates an optical computing concept that could greatly accelerate AI, while reducing energy costs and heat production. Intriguingly, it does all this by way of an “infinity mirror.”Optical computers have several intrinsic advantages, provided they work. Not only does light …