2025-07-01

The $799 Nothing Phone 3 has four 50MP cameras and a secondary micro-LED display

The wait is over. Nothing has officially announced the Phone 3, its first flagship smartphone since entering the market in 2022. Nothing CEO Carl Pei said the company would go "all-in" on th [...]

2025-07-01

Baidu releases open source model family ERNIE 4.5

Baidu is shifting its strategy in the global AI race by open-sourcing its new ERNIE 4.5 model family under the Apache 2.0 license. This marks a major reversal for the company, which previously kept ER [...]

2025-07-01

X will let AI write Community Notes

In what was probably an inevitable conclusion, X has announced that it will allow AI to author Community Notes. With a pilot program beginning today, the social network is releasing developer tools to [...]

2025-07-01

The best Prime Day Apple deals on iPads, AirPods, Apple Watches and more

Amazon’s Prime Day doesn’t officially begin until Tuesday, July 8, but we’re already seeing deals on some of our recommended Apple gear. Right now, Amazon has discounts on the AirPods Max, the l [...]

2025-07-01

Cloudflare experiment will block AI bot scrapers unless they pay a fee

Cloudflare has rolled out a couple of new measures meant to keep AI bot crawlers at bay. To start with, every new domain customer that signs up with the company to manage their website traffic will no [...]

2025-06-30

One of France's largest cities has now also ditched Microsoft for open source software

The French city of Lyon wants to reduce its reliance on American software, so it's replacing Microsoft tools with open source alternatives. [...]

2025-06-30

US lawmakers allege that OnePlus phones transmit data to Chinese servers without user consent

A pair of US lawmakers have called on the US Department of Commerce to investigate OnePlus over allegations that the company's devices transmit data to Chinese servers without user consent, accor [...]

2025-06-30

'Someone has broken into our home and stolen something': An OpenAI exec on Meta's poaching spree

Fresh defections to Mark Zuckerberg’s “superintelligence lab” at Meta spark an urgent compensation overhaul at OpenAI [...]

2025-06-30

11 Bit Studios clarifies its AI use in The Alters after player outcry

11 Bit Studios has drawn the ire of players for the undisclosed use of artificial intelligence in its recent release, The Alters. The new project from the team behind Frostpunk and This War of Mine is [...]