Who decides the best AI?

The AI industry has become adept at measuring itself. Benchmarks improve, model scores rise, and every new release arrives with a list of metrics meant to signal progress. And yet, somewhere between t [...]

Lego Smart Play hands-on: Using technology to get kids to play together

Lego’s new Smart Play system, announced at CES earlier this week, is an embrace of digital technology the likes of which we haven’t seen from the company before. And while the demonstration it gav [...]

Lego Smart Play hands-on: Using Smart Brick technology to get kids to play together

Lego’s Smart Play system announced at CES 2026 earlier this week is a new embrace of digital technology that we haven’t seen from the company before. While the demo Lego gave at its press conferen [...]

OpenAI is hiring ad-tech firms to make ChatGPT ads talk back to you

Six weeks was all it took. On 9 February, OpenAI switched on advertisements inside ChatGPT for free-tier users in the United States. By late March, the company disclosed that the pilot had crossed $10 [...]

ChatGPT Health has arrived

I’ve said this many times: the products we see on the market are rarely visionary leaps. Most of the time, they are mirrors. They reflect people’s habits, shortcuts, fears, and small daily behavio [...]

CES 2026 Day 2: All of the coolest tech we saw on the show floor during the second day

CES 2026’s second day was all about hands on time with new tech. From Lego’s most ambitious play experiment yet to assistive mobility tech, smart home ideas that actually feel affordable and robot [...]

Cursor is raising $2 billion at a $50 billion valuation as AI coding tools become the fastest-growing software category

In short: AI coding startup Cursor (Anysphere) is in talks to raise at least $2 billion at a $50 billion valuation, co-led by Andreessen Horowitz, Thrive Capital, and Nvidia, nearly doubling its Novem [...]

Beyond the lakehouse: Fundamental's NEXUS bypasses manual ETL with a native foundation model for tabular data

The deep learning revolution has a curious blind spot: the spreadsheet. While Large Language Models (LLMs) have mastered the nuances of human prose and image generators have conquered the digital canv [...]

A former Swiss president just filed criminal charges over AI-generated abuse. The target is Grok.

Karin Keller-Sutter, Switzerland’s finance minister and the country’s former president, has filed criminal charges for defamation and insult after Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok was prompted by an [...]