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, [...]

Baseten takes on hyperscalers with new AI training platform that lets you own your model weights

Baseten, the AI infrastructure company recently valued at $2.15 billion, is making its most significant product pivot yet: a full-scale push into model training that could reshape how enterprises wean [...]

Magic Leap reveals an Android XR smart glasses prototype

Magic Leap is once again trying to make a name for itself in augmented reality. The company revealed an Android XR smart glasses prototype and it extended an existing partnership with Google. It said [...]

Mistral AI launches Forge to help companies build proprietary AI models, challenging cloud giants

Mistral AI on Monday launched Forge, an enterprise model training platform that allows organizations to build, customize, and continuously improve AI models using their own proprietary data — a move [...]

Lowe's Foundation is rallying 75 companies to train 1 million skilled trades workers by 2035

The Building Futures Skilled Trades Coalition aims to train and develop 1 million skilled trades workers by 2035 [...]

Google is funding 300,000 electricians and welders, because the AI boom is running out of them

The AI boom has a problem no amount of capital can solve on its own: there are not enough electricians, welders, and pipefitters to build it. Google’s answer is to pay to train them. Its philanthrop [...]

Microsoft built Phi-4-reasoning-vision-15B to know when to think — and when thinking is a waste of time

Microsoft on Tuesday released Phi-4-reasoning-vision-15B, a compact open-weight multimodal AI model that the company says matches or exceeds the performance of systems many times its size — while co [...]

Nvidia's Nemotron-Cascade 2 wins math and coding gold medals with 3B active parameters — and its post-training recipe is now open-source

The prevailing assumption in AI development has been straightforward: larger models trained on more data produce better results. Nvidia's latest release directly challenges that size assumption � [...]

Google Pixel 10 Pro and Pro XL review: Redefining the smart in smartphone

In the ‘90s, the term “smartphone” emerged to denote devices with “advanced computing” features that allowed you to do more than just make calls. But if we’re being honest, applying that l [...]