Google Search is changing forever. Here’s what that actually means.
At last year's Google I/O event, we (and most outlets) modestly declared that the Google Search we had known for the past 20 years was dead. Fast forward a year,...
Fairplay and NCSE ask the FTC to investigate Roblox over child safety and ‘unfair and deceptive’ marketing
The complaint accuses the gaming platform of misleading the public about its safety and pressuring young users to spend. Roblox ‘strongly disputes’ the claims; the FTC has declined to comment....
Best gaming monitor deal: Get the Asus ROG Strix ultrawide gaming monitor for its lowest price yet
SAVE $300: As of May 20, get the 34-inch Asus ROG Strix Ultrawide Gaming Monitor for $699 at Amazon, down from its usual price of $999. That's a discount of...
French companies bid $10bn for one of the EU’s five planned AI gigafactory sites
A Scaleway-led AION consortium, with backing from Iliad, GENCI, Inria, Eviden, SiPearl, Hugging Face, and Mistral-adjacent partners, is positioning France as a single-country bidder against multi-state proposals from Spain, Germany,...
WhatsApp is testing messages that self-destruct after you read them
WhatsApp is working on a new feature: Messages that disappear after you read them. This is according to WABetaInfo, which found the feature in the latest WhatsApp for iOS beta,...
ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Grok are not ready to brief American voters
A new generation of voters will ask ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok how to vote, where the polling station is, and who is telling the truth. The published research is...
Best Magic The Gathering deal: Edge of Eternities Play Booster Box now $20 off
TL;DR: Amazon has the Magic: The Gathering Edge of Eternities Play Booster Box available from $143.88, down from its $164.70 list price. Credit: Magic: The Gathering $143.88 at Amazon $164.70...
Meta offers rival AI chatbots a limited free pass into WhatsApp, on Brussels’ terms
After January’s blanket ban and March’s $0.0625-per-message fee, Meta has filed a fresh European Commission proposal: free WhatsApp access for OpenAI, Perplexity, and others, up to a usage cap, then...
Robot vacuum deals are live ahead of Memorial Day — the Shark AV2501S AI Ultra robot vacuum is under $300
SAVE $250: As of May 20, the Shark AV2501S AI Ultra robot vacuum is on sale for $299.99 at Amazon. That's a 45% discount on the list price. $299.99 at...
Berlin’s Dunia Innovations commits €280M to an autonomous AI-materials GigaLab
The 6,000-square-metre autonomous R&D facility, backed by Siemens, ABB Robotics, NVIDIA, AWS and ILS, is positioned as Europe’s answer to the materials-verification bottleneck that AI-led design has opened up. Dunia...