Some Kids Will Never Think AI Is Cool

“I think it should stand for artificial idiot,” one 9-year-old says. Here’s why kids of all ages are calling AI “disgusting” and “creepy.” [...]

The 7 most incredible snorkeling spots in the Caribbean

From a Belize blue hole plunging hundreds of feet to an artificial reef built after a hurricane, seven Caribbean snorkel spots worth the swim [...]

AI Content Labels Become Mandatory Under EU Law

The European Union's rules on labelling AI-generated content stop being guidance and start being law on August 2, 2026. From that date, companies that build generative AI systems must mark the im [...]

DeepSeek's latest AI model is by far the cheapest of major models to run

Research firm Artificial Analysis found V4-Flash costs 3 cents per test run, versus $3.15 for Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 [...]

SpaceXAI's Grok Bot turns agents into persistent digital coworkers that can operate your apps for $120-per-month

SpaceXAI, the division of SpaceX formerly known as xAI, is launching an early beta version of Grok Bot, a new agent designed to move AI assistants beyond answering prompts and toward continuously exec [...]

Engadget Podcast: A taste of iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS 26 and more

We’ve been playing around with the developer betas of Apple’s latest software, and now that we’ve spent time with iOS 26, Liquid Glass and more on actual devices, we have thoughts. From represen [...]

Qwen3-Max Thinking beats Gemini 3 Pro and GPT-5.2 on Humanity's Last Exam (with search)

Chinese AI and tech firms continue to impress with their development of cutting-edge, state-of-the-art AI language models.Today, the one drawing eyeballs is Alibaba Cloud's Qwen Team of AI resear [...]

Intuit is integrating its tax and accounting products with ChatGPT

The financial software company Intuit has signed a nine-figure deal with OpenAI which will allow customers to use its various services within ChatGPT. Intuit’s apps include Intuit Turbo Tax, Credit [...]

François Chollet on the end of scaling, ARC-3 and his path to AGI

AI researcher François Chollet argues that the era of simply scaling up models to achieve intelligence has run its course. Instead, he sees the field moving toward systems that can adapt to new probl [...]