Zohran Mamdani’s NYC Tech Team Is What DOGE Should Have Been

The mayor of New York City has assembled a crew of Silicon Valley and United States Digital Service veterans to overhaul city services with better software. [...]

I asked Gemini and ChatGPT to build OpenAI's mythical AI hardware — the results are shockingly good but still don't make me want this $300-plus device

We have fresh rumors on OpenAI's AI hardware, but what do they really mean? We turned to Gemini and ChatGPT for fresh perspective, renders, and have new thoughts about why the gadget still won� [...]

Stanford is running 37,000 AI agents as a virtual biotech — and one of its drug designs got independently confirmed by Merck

For developers, the operating assumption has been one engineer, one agent — the model Claude Code and similar tools. At VB Transform 2026, James Zou, associate professor of biomedical data science a [...]

Samsung Galaxy Watch 9 review: Health data overload, but built for the future

Samsung's latest smartwatch introduces new metrics, a longer-lasting battery, and hints at the future of wearables. [...]

Trump warned that Congress is trying to regulate the AI industry "out of business"

NIST separately proposed new federal guidelines Friday for evaluating AI systems, asking for public comment [...]

Mountain Dew is dropping a spicy Baja Blast birthday flavor exclusively on TikTok Shop

The new Baja Leo flavor combines spiced mango, chili lime, and black pepper, and goes on sale Aug. 12 in 13-can bundles for $8 [...]

Live shopping marketplace Whatnot's valuation nearly doubled to $20 billion with a new funding round

The live commerce platform's valuation has nearly doubled since its $11.5 billion Series F round last October [...]

We thought we wouldn't write about Overwatch characters anymore but D.Mon looks too sick not to

The new Overwatch hero is part-D.Va, part-Reinhardt and 100 percent cool as heck. [...]

Shock horror — AI-generated security patches fall short of actually solving all the problems they were meant to fix

AI without oversight creates patches that rarely fix the issue entirely and sometimes just create new problems. [...]