Microsoft is quietly opening the Windows 11 taskbar to third‑party AI agents that can work directly on the desktop. The new model lets Microsoft and external developers create agents that can plan tasks, interact with apps and files, and generally run semi‑autonomously, rather than only answering prompts in a chat …

Ahead of the 10th anniversary of AMD’s socket AM4 this September, the brand may be set to release a special anniversary edition of its most beloved AM4 CPU: The Ryzen 5800X3D. Rumors suggest AMD has made a special edition of the chip with anniversary branding and may have even restarted …

Nvidia and AMD have a number of features that you can only enjoy if you’re running the latest generations of their respective graphics cards. However, you can get around much of this with some fantastic third-party tools. A new report from VideoCardz reveals that the beloved DLSS Enabler is offering …

Apple reportedly plans to release an iPhone Air 2 despite how poorly the first-generation iPhone Air has sold. The claim comes from Weibo leaker Fixed Focus Digital, who says Apple will produce at least two generations of the ultrathin iPhone.The first iPhone Air launched in 2025 as Apple’s thinnest phone …

Google is integrating NotebookLM directly into Gemini, making it a core part of Google’s main AI product. NotebookLM lets users build notebooks from PDFs, Google Docs, websites, and other sources, then query them with AI. “Notebooks” are dedicated workspaces where you group all those sources for a single project and …

The modder working to get Intel’s unique 12 P-core Bartlett Lake 273PQE CPU running on a consumer motherboard has hit a new milestone: It now boots to Windows! They were even able to get some basic system info apps running. No benchmark results yet, but after some more tweaking, I …

On Tuesday, a security researcher named Chaofan Shou revealed on X that he had found a 59.8MB JavaScript source map file in a public release of Anthropic’s Claude Code.This file is intended for internal debugging purposes and helps to associate compiled, public code with the original source code. With it, …

OnePlus has launched the OnePlus 15T in China, squeezing high-end performance into a compact form factor. The phone uses Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 and comes with 16GB LPDDR5X RAM and up to 1TB UFS 4.1 storage. Its 6.32‑inch 1.5K AMOLED display boasts a refresh rate similar to that …

A new paper from Stockholm University lays out an intriguing idea: What if the spontaneous radiation emitted by single atoms is actually affected by passing gravitational waves? And what if those effects could be read out to create a detection of the gravitational wave in question?Let’s go back to the …

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 …