China is falling behind in the AI race, according to a US government benchmark

A US government agency says China is now eight months behind in the AI race, but independent data doesn't back that up. And while US labs keep chasing smarter models, the price edge from Deepseek [...]

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, [...]

While everyone talks about an AI bubble, Salesforce quietly added 6,000 enterprise customers in 3 months

While Silicon Valley debates whether artificial intelligence has become an overinflated bubble, Salesforce's enterprise AI platform quietly added 6,000 new customers in a single quarter — a 48% [...]

Lenovo ThinkPad X9-14 Aura Edition review: A solid business laptop with some quirks

Step aside, old boy. The ThinkPad X9-14 Aura Edition is making me forget all about the ThinkPad X1 Carbon, the most renowned business laptop for over a decade. Of course, Lenovo isn’t doing away wit [...]

There's an upside for the housing market in all this economic uncertainty — for now

Despite daily fluctuations, the trend on 30-year fixed mortgage interest rates has been slowly falling through the first three months of this year. Experts say the falling rate could thaw the largely [...]

OpenAI's deployment chief on Codex growth, falling AI prices, and the ROI question

OpenAI deployment chief Arnaud Fournier explains in an interview how DeployCo wants to embed AI deep inside large corporations using its own engineers. He talks about explosive Codex growth, the feedb [...]

Vibe coding can build your pipeline. It can't explain it six months later

AI coding agents are rapidly accelerating data engineering by generating transformations, pipelines, orchestration workflows, validation tests, and infrastructure configurations from prompts. However, [...]

Palmer Luckey: US universities are falling behind China’s, and it shows

Palmer Luckey has a blunt warning about the US-China tech race: America is losing the classroom. The Anduril founder argues that US universities have stopped teaching engineers how to build. That, he [...]

The AI speed trap: why software quality Is falling behind in the race to release

In the race to release with AI, software quality is falling behind, risking outages and trust. [...]