An AWS billing bug sent users estimated charges of up to $2.5 trillion
An AWS billing bug sent users estimated charges of up to $2.5 trillion

AWS users woke up Friday to find estimated billing emails showing charges ranging from hundreds of millions to $2.5 trillion. A unit pricing error in the AWS Billing Console’s estimated billing computation subsystem was the cause, Amazon confirmed. One…

Apple Music is getting a price hike
Apple Music is getting a price hike

Apple Music is more expensive now. In the US, an individual plan now costs $11.99 per month, a $1 bump up from the previous $10.99 price. A family plan now costs $19.99 per month, up from $16.99, and a student plan costs $6.99 per month, up from $5.99. Apple, in a statement to Music Business […]

A Chinese open-source model just triggered another AI selloff. The panic says more about US spending than about Kimi.
A Chinese open-source model just triggered another AI selloff. The panic says more about US spending than about Kimi.

A new Chinese AI model has rattled global markets, sending tech and chip stocks sharply lower. Moonshot’s Kimi K3 surprised investors and helped fuel a broad selloff, Bloomberg reports. Traders quickly labelled it a “Kimi moment”, echoing the DeepSeek …

Why an AI browser might become part of your everyday life
Why an AI browser might become part of your everyday life

The browser you already use every day is learning how to help you get things done. On a typical evening, you might have twenty tabs open comparing two mattresses, a half-written message to your landlord, and a recipe you keep scrolling back to. Sound f…

You can now link your favorite apps to AI Mode in Google Search to get things done

Google Search’s AI Mode can now connect to apps like Instacart, Canva, and YouTube Music to complete tasks for you.

Google Vids now lets you star in your own AI videos

Google is adding personalized AI avatars to Vids that let users create videos starring a digital version of themselves, alongside Gemini Omni-powered tools for generating and editing videos from prompts and reference images.

Roblox launches an AI-powered game-creation feature in its mobile app

Roblox’s new “Build” feature lets users generate basic games using a single text prompt.

Newsletter platform Beehiiv now lets subscribers chat with each other, adds AI

Beehiiv is launching an AI Copilot to help publishers with user growth and analytics.

Google is renaming NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook
Google is renaming NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook

Google is giving its AI note-taking app a new name. The company announced on Thursday that NotebookLM is becoming Gemini Notebook, but will remain a standalone app even as it integrates more deeply across Gemini and Google Search. Google first revealed Gemini Notebook – then called Project Tailwind – in May 2023 before widely releasing […]

Google continues its renaming streak by turning NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook

Google said users can soon access their notebooks through AI Mode in Search.