WWDC 2026 Recap: Siri AI, the Google Gemini Deal, and the Default-AI Switch Apple Never Announced
Apple reset its entire AI strategy at WWDC 2026. In a keynote on June 8, the company rebranded Siri as Siri AI, built it on a new generation of Apple Foundation…
Is AI Bad for the Environment? The Real 2026 Answer
Yes, AI is bad for the environment, and the numbers are no longer up for debate. Global data-center electricity use is set to jump from 415 TWh in 2024 to roughly…
MiniMax M3 Is Here With Frontier Coding, 1M Context, and Native Multimodality
On June 1, 2026, MiniMax officially released M3, the Shanghai lab’s next flagship language model, and it shipped exactly as promised. The model that spent weeks as…
Should Gen Z Be Afraid That AI Will Replace Them?
If you’re graduating college in the next few years, you’re entering a job market that’s changing faster than anyone can predict. Half of entry-level white collar…
Anti-AI Activists on Hunger Strike At Anthropic and DeepMind
Two Anti-AI activists are currently more than 10 days into hunger strikes outside major AI company headquarters, refusing to eat until their demands about…
New Study Finds Romantic AI Chatbots Lead To Poorer Mental Health
One in four young adults is now having regular conversations with AI romantic partners, spending an average of 50 minutes per week chatting with artificial…
Who Is Soham Parekh: An Engineer Who Worked for 10 YC Startups at Once
A few days ago, Sohail Doshi, founder of Playground AI, wrote a post on X (Twitter) saying he had to fire an engineer named Soham Parekh. The firing happened just…
Google I/O 2025 Recap With All The Jaw-Dropping AI Announcements
Google I/O has always been a showcase for R&D projects that might become products one day. The 2025 edition felt different. Almost every demo—whether a light-field…
OpenAI Secures Historic $40 Billion Funding Round
OpenAI has closed a $40 billion funding round, boosting its valuation to $300 billion. The deal, led by SoftBank, is one of the largest capital infusions in the…
Baidu’s New ERNIE 4.5 & X1 – A Free AI That Is Better Than GPT-4.5 & Costs Pennies!
Baidu has since released ERNIE 5.1 — see our full breakdown for the latest. Baidu just dropped two powerful AI models—ERNIE 4.5 and ERNIE X1—and made them…
This AI Lip-Reading Tool Might Shock You – See How It Works!
A new AI-powered lip-reading tool, “Read Their Lips” by Symphonic Labs, has sparked a lot of online discussion. The service, available at readtheirlips.com, uses…
