Microsoft engineer clarifies speculation around plans to 'eliminate' C, C++ languages by 2030

Details have been clarified by a Microsoft engineer. [...]

TCL introduces its own take on a color Kindle Scribe

Hot on the tail of Amazon's Kindle Scribe Colorosoft, TCL is introducing its own take on a distraction-free note-taking and reading device. Unlike the new Scribe, however, it doesn't use E I [...]

Why Meta bought Manus — and what it means for your enterprise AI agent strategy

Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta’s agreement to acquire Manus for more than $2 billion — announced last night by both companies and reported in The Wall Street Journal — marks one of t [...]

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 [...]

Nebius Launches Aether 3.5 to Simplify and Scale AI Workloads

NBIS unveils AI Cloud 3.5 with serverless tools and NVIDIA GPUs, aiming to simplify AI development while scaling capacity to meet rising demand. [...]

OpenAI deploys Cerebras chips for 15x faster code generation in first major move beyond Nvidia

OpenAI on Thursday launched GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark, a stripped-down coding model engineered for near-instantaneous response times, marking the company's first significant inference partnership outsi [...]

How to watch the Sony Honda Afeela CES 2026 presentation

Sony's CES 2026 press conference is just a few days away, and this year comes with a twist: Rather than an overview of Sony's electronics, video game and Hollywood studio plans for the new y [...]

How to watch the AMD CES 2026 keynote with CEO Lisa Su live

AMD is kicking off CES 2026 on Monday, where it'll cover its latest AI developments and perhaps show off its newest Ryzen chips. The company will outline the full scope of its vision for AI imple [...]

Google’s top differential-privacy scientist tells the EU its data-sharing plan can be reversed in two hours

Sergei Vassilvitskii, distinguished scientist at Google since 2012, has written to Brussels warning that the Commission’s proposed anonymisation scheme for forced search-data sharing is, by his red [...]