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Tech's biggest losers of 2025

It’s the end of another year, so it’s time for the Engadget staff to compile a list of the year’s biggest losers. We scour over articles from the previous 12 months to determine the people, companies, products and trends that made our lives worse over the course of the year. Some selections may be so pervasive they actually make our list of biggest winners. But, for the most part, we’re confident you’ll share in our collective rage over the biggest losers of 2025.OpenAIOpenAI CEO Sam Altman delivers a speech with video at the SK AI Summit 2025 at COEX in Seoul, South Korea on November 3, 2025 Anadolu via Getty ImagesIn 2025, OpenAI shed any pretense it was committed to anything more than making money. There are a few different things you could point to, including the company' [...]

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The Morning After: Tech’s biggest losers of 2025

Honestly, compiling the biggest losers for Engadget is more fun than talking up the winners. While we reviewed nothing as atrocious as those ill-fated AI assistant gadgets from 2024, AI companies and [...]

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The Morning After: Tech’s biggest losers in 2024

Welcome to 2025. Wave farewell to yesteryear with the biggest losers in tech. Picking our favorite villains in 2024 was challenging when it simply wasn’t a great time for tech. With the depressing s [...]

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Tech’s biggest losers in 2024

The tricky thing about naming the year’s biggest losers in tech is that in 2024, it once again felt like everyone lost. Amid the depressing spiral that is social media, the will-they-or-won’t-they [...]

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The best things Engadget editors bought in 2025

For many of us at Engadget, a big part of our jobs is testing out new tech on a regular basis. Our desks are cluttered with new smartphones, power banks, gaming accessories and more pretty much all th [...]

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6 of the best stocks from Trump's first 100 days — and 3 of the worst

The first 100 days of the Trump administration unleashed economic chaos throughout the U.S. economy, including the stock market, which saw the worst first 100 days of a presidency since Nixon. Still, [...]

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Tech's biggest winners of 2025

Every December, the Engadget staff compiles a list of the year’s biggest winners. We scour over articles from the previous 12 months to determine the people, companies, products and trends that made [...]

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eSIM market set to explode by 2030, claims report - global mobile operators set to be the biggest losers as roaming costs crater

CCS Insight forecasts global travel eSIM growth, quadrupling adoption by 2030 and disrupting traditional roaming markets across Europe, Asia, and North America. [...]

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‘The biggest losers in all of this are everyday people and civilians in conflict zones’: OpenAI is filling the gap left by Anthropic — but almost left in the same loopholes for mass domestic surveillance

OpenAI has signed a contract with the Pentagon, days after Anthropic's $200 million contract was severed. [...]

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For AI to succeed in the SOC, CISOs need to remove legacy walls now

What separates the SOCs getting results from their AI strategies from those that don't begins with CISOs who take ownership of AI initiatives and anticipate roadblocks early, systematically demol [...]

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