Engadget Podcast: iPhone 16e review and Amazon's AI-powered Alexa+

The keyword for the iPhone 16e seems to be "compromise." In this episode, Devindra chats with Cherlynn about her iPhone 16e review and try to figure out who this phone is actually for. Also, [...]

Can construction robots solve Europe’s housing crisis?

Europe’s housing crisis is deepening. High building costs, tight regulations, and labour shortages have choked the supply of affordable homes. As cities swell with new arrivals and construction work [...]

How I Get Free Traffic from ChatGPT in 2025 (AIO vs SEO)

Three weeks ago, I tested something that completely changed how I think about organic traffic. I opened ChatGPT and asked a simple question: "What's the best course on building SaaS with Wor [...]

The robots we saw at CES 2026: The lovable, the creepy and the utterly confusing

CES always has its share of attention-grabbing robots. But this year in particular seemed to be a landmark year for robotics. The advancement in AI technology has not only given robots better “brain [...]

This fluffball robot stole my heart at CES 2025

I tried to go into meeting Mirumi with a heart of steel. There are a lot of cute robots at CES every year, that is a given, and you can’t just let yourself get wooed by every puppy-eyed bot that loo [...]

The AI Arms Race and Its Potential Impact on Businesses

The AI arms race is no longer a distant theoretical concern; it's a present-day sprint between tech giants, startups, and nation-states to outpace one another in artificial intelligence innovatio [...]

Standard Bots raises $200 million to build robotic arms in the US and claims it will handle 10% of industrial deployments by year-end

Standard Bots has raised $200 million at a $1 billion valuation to expand US manufacturing of AI-powered robotic arms. The round was led by General Catalyst and RoboStrategy, a robotics-focused fund, [...]

Getting Language Models to Open Up on ‘Risky’ Subjects

Many top language models now err on the side of caution, refusing harmless prompts that merely sound risky – an ‘over-refusal' behavior that affects their usefulness in real-world scenarios. [...]

Red teaming LLMs exposes a harsh truth about the AI security arms race

Unrelenting, persistent attacks on frontier models make them fail, with the patterns of failure varying by model and developer. Red teaming shows that it’s not the sophisticated, complex attacks tha [...]