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, [...]

Microsoft and OpenAI gut their exclusive deal, freeing OpenAI to sell on AWS and Google Cloud

Microsoft and OpenAI on Monday announced a sweeping overhaul of the partnership that has defined the commercial AI era, dismantling key pillars of exclusivity and revenue-sharing that bound the two co [...]

Engadget Podcast: We've survived two days of CES 2025

In this bonus episode, Cherlynn and Devindra discuss the latest innovations in robot vacuums, new AI PC hardware from AMD and Intel, and Dell's decision to nuke its PC brands in favor of Apple-es [...]

AI IQ is here: a new site scores frontier AI models on the human IQ scale. The results are already dividing tech.

For decades, the IQ test has been one of the most familiar — and most contested — yardsticks for human intelligence. Now, a startup project called AI IQ is applying the same metaphor to artificial [...]

OpenAI secures another $110 billion in funding from Amazon, NVIDIA and SoftBank

OpenAI just announced a massive funding round of $110 billion, which is one of the biggest investment rounds in Silicon Valley history. The investors feature many of the usual suspects, including Amaz [...]

Samsung AI researcher's new, open reasoning model TRM outperforms models 10,000X larger — on specific problems

The trend of AI researchers developing new, small open source generative models that outperform far larger, proprietary peers continued this week with yet another staggering advancement.Alexia Jolicoe [...]

Deepmind co-founder Shane Legg sees 50 percent chance of "minimal AGI" by 2028

DeepMind co-founder Shane Legg puts the odds of achieving "minimal AGI" at 50 percent by 2028. In the DeepMind podcast, Legg lays out his framework: a scale running from minimal AGI through [...]

Microsoft's AI Futurist explains how he uses Copilot — and the real-world problems enterprises are solving with agents

Microsoft used its Build 2026 conference this week to push a clear message: agents are rapidly moving into production throughout enterprise systems, and the winning platform will be the one that gives [...]

Grok 4 edges out GPT-5 in complex reasoning benchmark ARC-AGI

In the ARC-AGI-2 benchmark, which is designed to measure a language model's general reasoning skills, GPT-5 (High) scored 9.9 percent at a cost of $0.73 per task, according to ARC Prize.<br /& [...]