Sony’s Xperia 1 VIII Has Bigger Camera Sensors And A New Look
Sony has launched a new flagship phone, the Xperia 1 VIII, with its most notable features revolving around photography. The phone comes with the brand’s new AI Camera Assistant powered by Xperia Intelligence. Sony says the assistant can suggest changes to your settings based on what you’re photographing. When you point the camera at your subject, the […]
Meet the Sad Wives of AI
Though things keep changing, some analyses suggest that women are about 20 percent less likely than men to use generative AI. “It’s a function not of gender per se,” Rodgers suggests, “but of the occupations that women hold.” Women are disproportionately represented in jobs—education, health care, social services—that right now use AI less. The result […]
TCL’s new SQD mini-LED TVs finally have a UK price, and I’d be very tempted to pick one over an LG OLED when the value is this good — we’ve already tested the tech, and it’s impressive
TCL’s SQD mini-LED TVs get UK pricing, ranging from £1,099 to £3,999 Sizes from 55 inches to 98 inches We’re impressed with the tech in our first review TCL‘s C8L premium TV and its C7L mid-range TV have launched in the UK, and they’re priced very competitively against the LG C-series OLED TVs. The TVs […]
The Brooks Ghost 18 has launched — here’s everything you need to know about the latest model of popular running shoe
Running shoes don’t reach 18 generations if they’re not beloved, and the Brooks Ghost line has been one of the most popular options with runners for almost two decades at this point. The reason for this isn’t that it’s the fastest or flashiest among the best running shoes; it’s because it’s extremely dependable. It’s cushioned […]
Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab Introduces Interaction Models: A Native Multimodal Architecture for Real-Time Human-AI Collaboration
Most AI systems today work in turns. You type or speak, the model waits, processes your input, and then responds. That’s the entire interaction loop. Thinking Machines Lab, an AI research lab, is arguing that this model of interaction is a fundamental bottleneck. Thinking Machines Lab team introduced a research preview of a new class […]
Silicon Valley’s A.I. Lobbying Blitz Reaches a Fever Pitch
OpenAI plans to host the grand opening of its first lobbying office in Washington, called the Workshop, on Wednesday. The artificial intelligence start-up has said it created the space — part lab, part showroom — just blocks from the White House to better work alongside lawmakers. The office is part of OpenAI’s increasingly aggressive push […]
Tired of Hacked Passwords? Help Is on the Way.
Database breaches, phishing scams and emerging artificial intelligence tools have made simple passwords passé as a way of protecting online accounts — but you still have ways to shore up your defenses. First, you need to be proactive with longer, unique passwords and extra layers of protection. A password manager app can help, and it’s […]
Notable Researchers Join $4 Billion Effort to Build Self-Improving A.I.
Companies like Anthropic and OpenAI released new A.I. systems late last year that were particularly good at writing computer code. In recent months, the technology has rapidly remade the way that Silicon Valley’s engineers build, test and modify new software applications. If an artificial intelligence system can write code, it can help accelerate the development […]
HubSpot Stock Crashed 19% – What It Means For Partner Agencies
On Thursday, May 7, 2026, HubSpot CEO Yamini Rangan announced that the company was changing how it charges customers for AI agent features. Instead of charging for compute usage regardless of outcome, HubSpot would switch to outcome-based pricing. Customers would only pay when an AI agent actually resolves a support ticket or delivers a useful […]
Xperia 1 VIII is Sony’s latest camera nerd phone, but I’m wary of all the AI tuning
Sony’s Xperia phones have always been a little different. The company built phones for those who actually care about focal lengths, shutter buttons, color science, and camera-style controls on a phone. The new Xperia 1 VIII continues this tradition, but Sony is now adding a layer of AI assistance to the formula. Its latest flagship […]