StepFun beat OpenAI to a headline OpenAI hadn’t even earned yet. At a launch event in Shanghai on July 13, the Tencent-backed AI startup unveiled the StepX Neo, calling it the world’s first mass-market agentic smartphone. It is built around…
AI has become one of the fastest-growing line items on many companies’ budgets, and a growing number of them are responding the same way businesses always respond to rising costs: shopping around. Data from OpenRouter, a platform developers use to…
OpenAI’s long-rumored hardware debut has a shape now, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman: a screen-free, portable smart speaker built to feel less like an appliance and more like something alive in the room with you. Citing people familiar with the…
South Korea’s AI-linked chip stocks have taken another sharp hit, and the instinct is to read that as evidence the AI boom itself is losing steam. The more accurate read, according to the numbers underneath the selloff, is narrower than…
Nokia is back with four new feature phones, and this time the headline isn’t nostalgia — it’s a button. Right in the middle of the D-pad, where you’d expect the “OK” key on any classic brick phone, HMD has wedged…
Something odd happened at Google DeepMind over six days in June 2026. Four senior researchers walked out the door, and two of them weren’t just any researchers — one had a Nobel Prize, the other co-invented the architecture that every…
Meta removed the most controversial part of its Muse Image feature on July 10 after widespread criticism. The feature had allowed anyone to tag a public Instagram account and generate AI images from that person’s public photos without notifying them…
Clem Delangue says he has seen the same pattern repeat across Hugging Face’s enterprise customers. Companies often begin by building applications with proprietary AI APIs, but as usage grows and costs increase, many migrate to open-weight models they can host,…
Meta has rolled back part of its new Muse Image feature just three days after launch. The company removed the @-mention capability that allowed users to generate AI images based on public Instagram accounts. The feature debuted on July 7…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella sparked widespread discussion after publishing a lengthy essay on X instead of announcing a new product. The post, which attracted nearly 10 million views, argued that businesses using AI may be giving away valuable intellectual property…