The Sony Afeela Was Doomed to Fail
…A “near production” refined prototype made an appearance in Las Vegas just this past January. But by then, the whole concept felt a bit stale. A “computer on wheels” was sort of…
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Mira Murati Wants Her AI to ‘Keep Humans in the Loop’
…This week, Thinking Machines previewed a new kind of AI model that it says points toward a more human-inclusive reality. The company’s “interaction models” are trained to communicate with a…
‘The Odyssey’ Is Inspiring Unprecedented Levels of Cope
…What Universal Pictures, the studio behind the film, would stand to gain by spending millions beyond a $250 million production budget and $125 million in marketing costs to astroturf a flop was…
Rivian R2 First Drive: The Rivian for the Masses
…Does This R2 Unit Have a Bad Motivator? No doubt burned by the serious headaches induced by launching three products at once last time, Rivian is cautiously rolling out the new R2…
I Like Ferrari's Luce EV. But This Is Why It's Heartbreaking
…car capable of hitting 62 mph in 2.5 seconds. Meanwhile, as Pope Leo was no doubt pondering how the Luce could boast one of the largest batteries in any production EV…
A Court Has Ruled That Google Is Liable for False Statements Generated by AI Overviews
…The authorities found that, unlike traditional search engines, which merely display lists of links with statements made by third parties, Google’s tool produced “independent, new, and substantial statements” based on a…
Your Period Tracker Is (Probably) Spying on You
…expands and their capabilities increase, the tech giant Anthropic continued a push to get US states to regulate AI. Speaking about AI transparency requirements in California and New York from last year…
You Can Finally Buy Snap’s New AR Specs—for $2,195
Snap CEO Evan Spiegel revealed the new glasses at an event during the Augmented World Expo (AWE) tech conference in Long Beach, California. As Snap frames it, this isn’t a prototype…
China’s OpenClaw Boom Is a Gold Rush for AI Companies
…People who are proficient in AI see OpenClaw as a game changer in productivity, but those with no technical background feel they were promised a miraculously powerful AI product that ultimately didn…
Razer’s Bantamweight Viper V4 Pro Mouse Packs a Heavyweight Punch
…The mouse’s guts are capable of 8,000-Hz polling (the same as the V3) and 50,000 DPI (15,000 more than the V3), and the new hemispherical dongle (which…