Meta returns to open models with Zuckerberg's plan to out-copy China and sell compute by auction

Meta has released Muse Glimmer, the first open model from its new Superintelligence Labs. It's a 30B agent model that runs on consumer hardware once the weights are compressed, needing less than [...]

Anthropic CEO says AI centralizes by nature and open models just shift power to whoever owns the chips

An open fight over AI regulation has broken out on X. Investor Gavin Baker, former White House adviser David Sacks, and Meta researcher Yann LeCun accuse Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei of using fear rheto [...]

Slack wants to drag AI coding out of the terminal and into the group chat

Slack wants to drag AI coding out of the terminal and into the group chat.The Salesforce-owned messaging platform today announced Slack Code, a new product that embeds AI coding agents — including A [...]

Sakana AI's orchestrator adds Nvidia Nemotron to prove "collective intelligence" can rival single frontier models

Sakana AI is integrating Nvidia's open-source Nemotron models into its Fugu orchestrator, which dynamically combines multiple language models for specific tasks. The core argument: Open models on [...]

Wheel of Time is getting a new AAA open-world RPG adaptation

Wheel of Time is getting a new video game adaptation. The popular fantasy book series has already seen an imagining for the small screen with an Amazon Prime Video series that is currently airing its [...]

Anthropic gives Claude shared context across Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint, enabling reusable workflows in multiple applications

Anthropic has upgraded its Claude AI model with new capabilities for Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint, marking a strategic move to expand its enterprise footprint and potentially challenging Microsoft� [...]

Europe must ‘get real’ on tech sovereignty and stay open, warns industry group

As Europe pushes for tech sovereignty, one open-source advocate has a warning: don’t forget global cooperation. Amanda Brock, CEO of industry group OpenUK, told TNW that the EU must “get real” a [...]

Are VPNs really safe? The security factors to consider before using one

Virtual private networks (VPNs) have been household technology for a while now, but there's still a lot of uncertainty around them. This is partly due to the fact that they can conceal online act [...]

Engadget's favorite games of 2025

From indies like Silksong, to AAAs like Ghost of Yotei, and everything in between, 2025 truly had it all, and is likely to go down in the history books as one of the best years in gaming. But these ar [...]