Apple's new wireless chips give it even more control of the iPhone

Apple introduced two new wireless chips in the iPhone Air, a preview of a world where all the key components of the company's products are custom-designed. The C1X and N1 chips enable wireless fe [...]

IFA 2025: What to expect from Samsung, Acer, Lenovo and more

IFA, Europe's answer to the CES, kicks off on September 5 in Berlin, Germany. The show likely won't be the biggest source of news in September — Apple's iPhone launch event is officia [...]

Mistral AI just released a text-to-speech model it says beats ElevenLabs — and it's giving away the weights for free

The enterprise voice AI market is in the middle of a land grab. ElevenLabs and IBM announced a collaboration just this week to bring premium voice capabilities into IBM's watsonx Orchestrate plat [...]

Google's latest Pixel drop brings the Material 3 Expressive UI to older devices

Now that the Pixel 10 series has been out for a week, Google has begun rolling many of the software features it debuted with those phones to its older devices as part of the September Pixel drop. Star [...]

Apple's AirPods Pro 3 drop to $230 on Amazon

If you haven't yet upgraded to Apple's AirPods Pro 3, you can pick up the company's latest model at a discount through a deal on Amazon right now. The AirPods Pro 3, which came out in S [...]

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 [...]

Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 is here with 3X cheaper fast mode and near-Mythos level alignment

Anthropic today released Claude Opus 4.8, an upgrade to its flagship model that ships at the same price as its predecessor, alongside a dramatically cheaper "fast mode" tier and a new featur [...]

I tried Fitbit Premium on my Pixel Watch for a month - now I take AI health coaches seriously

The intelligence that powers the subscription makes a convincing case to stay, thanks in part to Gemini. [...]

The $54 billion drone boom

How unmanned systems are rapidly redefining how goods, intelligence, and force move across the world [...]