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/ SEP 3
6:02 PM EDTAI

Anker Wants Your Security Footage to Stay Home, Not in Someone Else's Cloud

The new Eufy MindBase runs AI on-device with no monthly subscription for smart features, a pointed contrast to the cloud-and-fee model most smart home gear now runs on.
By Naomi Feld
6:02 PM EDTAI

Nvidia ships free software that turns your spare laptop into a data center rack

/ SEP 2
8:59 PM EDTAI

Amazon Ships an AI Fraud-Checker Because Its Own Emails Look Like Phishing

/ AUG 27
11:57 AM EDTPlaud's AI earbuds record your meetings, summarize them, and ship in September
/ AUG 25
8:31 PM EDTAI

Instagram's First Draft Trims Your Reels Without Calling It AI

Meta's new auto-editing feature cuts pauses and silences from your clips — and the company is notably careful about the word 'artificial intelligence.'
By Naomi Feld
/ AUG 18
6:29 PM EDTAI

Robin Williams' kids reactivate his Instagram to fight the AI slop machine

/ AUG 14
5:40 PM EDTAI

Google lets you strip the sparkle off AI content — the invisible watermark stays, whether you like it or not

/ AUG 13
3:45 PM EDTAI

Microsoft Merges Its Two Copilot Apps and Kills Podcasts, Group Chat, and Deep Research Along the Way

The unified 'Microsoft Copilot' app is rolling out now — a technical foundation for the super app Microsoft needs to stop losing ground to Anthropic and OpenAI.
By Naomi Feld
/ AUG 12
6:06 PM EDTAI

Amazon turns Twitch into a training dataset — opt out or you're in

/ AUG 11
5:46 PM EDTAI

ChatGPT and Gemini Both Cross 1 Billion Users — But the Numbers Are Not the Same

5:45 PM EDTAI

Anthropic Embeds Invisible Watermarks in Claude Text — and the Fine Print Is Already Complicated

/ AUG 10
4:21 PM EDTAI

Zuckerberg Publishes 6,500-Word AI Manifesto and Calls the Doom Crowd's Bluff

The Meta CEO's 'Future is for Everyone' essay pitches personal superintelligence as a free-market good — and takes a quiet swing at every competitor who says otherwise.
By Naomi Feld
/ AUG 5
4:18 PM EDTAI

Google Assistant is dead on Android — Gemini takes over September 4th

/ AUG 4
10:37 AM EDTAI

OpenAI Publishes the Receipts in Apple's Trade-Secret Fight

/ AUG 3
12:52 PM EDTAI

Alibaba Ships Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4-Trillion-Parameter Model That Benchmarks Just Behind Anthropic's Best

China's biggest tech company is going open-weight again — and the leaderboards suggest it isn't bluffing. Washington is watching.
By Naomi Feld
/ AUG 2
6:58 AM EDTAI

Meta wants to run your entire business for you — for a fee tied to results