Snap unveiled new features for its smart glasses this week.
Snap’s new Specs, launched amidst a busy smartglasses season, aim to redefine enterprise use beyond simple remote guidance.
Google is expanding its tools so you can invoke a variety of AI agents in your smart home.

Snap is introducing “Specs Intelligence,” a new AI assistant that can connect other digital accounts to help you with things like work tasks and keeping track of travel information. It seems similar to AI assistants like Meta’s Muse and Gemini’s Spark, though Snap is pitching Specs Intelligence as an “anticipatory AI service” that “helps you […]
The Federal Reserve hiked interest rates. Now, if you want to finance a tech upgrade, you’ll pay more in interest.
Anthropic and OpenAI want to embed independent safety evaluators inside their AI labs. Researchers welcome the unprecedented access, but warn meaningful oversight requires transparency, independence, and eventually regulation.

Christopher Nolan’s engrossing take on The Odyssey dominated at the box office and spurred a newfound interest in classic literature among filmgoers. But a new retelling of the story made entirely with AI is so bad that it might just make viewers hate the original tale altogether. The new film, called Odysseus: The Fall, comes […]

E-waste from the AI boom has been vastly underestimated, a new report warns. By 2050, it could become enough trash to fill 23 million shipping containers – roughly enough 40-foot containers to circle the world six times if lined up in a row. It’s a significantly higher estimate of AI’s e-waste than previous studies have […]
Cloud gaming services are facing the same kinds of cost increases as other parts of the tech industry amid more demand for data center services.