Google Launches an Offline AI Meeting Note-Taker for Mac
The Note-Taker That Never Phones Home Google just shipped a meeting note-taker that breaks the category’s golden rule: your audio never leaves your Mac. According…
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Tavus Griffin AI Avatar Fooled 48% of Job Interviewers
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Claude Filed a Fake Homicide Tip to Police — and Washington Just Made AI Incidents Reportable Like Data Breaches
The Tip That Sat in a Spam Folder for Two Months At 11:27 p.m. on July 18, a tip about…
OpenAI’s $20B Revenue Gap, Explained: The Accounting Behind the Missing Billions
The $20 Billion Vanishing Act It took one Financial Times report to erase $20 billion from OpenAI’s top line. According…
Smartphones & Mobile
OPPO Find X10 Pro Max Global Launch Set for October 21
Mark October 21: OPPO’s Camera Flagship Goes Global OPPO has confirmed that the Find X10 and Find X10 Pro Max…
Apple’s $100 iPhone 18 Pro Bet Backfires: Component Orders Cut Up to 20% as Buyers Wait for Deals
The 15% Cut Nobody Wanted to Announce Apple has asked some suppliers to cut component production for the newly launched…
iPhone Duo’s App Problem Is Getting Fixed: What the ‘Optimized’ Badge Means for You
The Badge You’ll See on Launch Day Apple has opened App Store Connect submissions for iPhone Duo-optimized apps, according to…
Pixel 10a Price Jumps to $599 as AI Data Centers Devour the Memory Supply
A Budget Phone That Got More ExpensiveEight months after launch, phones are supposed to get cheaper. The Pixel 10a just…
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Samsung ‘Galaxy Studio’ Headphones Leak: AirPods Max Rival
The Name Leak That Fills in the Blanks Let us be clear up front: Samsung has not announced these headphones….
Google’s Fitbit Edge Is Real: the $180 Tracker That Completes Fitbit’s Missing Middle
It’s official — almost. Google’s health division posted a teaser this week that reads “Get an Edge on your health….
Amazon Just Killed the Fire Tablet: New Alexa Tablets Start at $230 With Full Google Play
Fire Is Dead. Here’s What Replaces It Amazon announced an all-new tablet lineup on October 8 — and quietly retired…
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Google Launches an Offline AI Meeting Note-Taker for Mac
The Note-Taker That Never Phones Home Google just shipped a meeting note-taker that breaks the category’s golden rule: your audio…
Google Shrinks Free Gemini to Flash-Lite as OpenAI Hands Free Users GPT-6
The Quiet Downgrade Free Gemini got smaller this week — and Google barely announced it. According to 9to5Google, which spotted…
Robotics & Automation
This Recycling Robot Sorts 40 Items a Minute — and the Math Finally Works
From Bank Bins to Robot Arms For Danu Robotics founder Amy Ma, the eureka moment came while working as a…
Boston Dynamics Hands Its Future to Alexa’s Chief: Rohit Prasad Named CEO
The Alexa-to-Atlas Bet Boston Dynamics has a new CEO, and he has never run a robotics company. According to Reuters,…
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