What to expect at CES 2026

CES doesn't start until January, but whispers of the products and announcements that could be in store for tech's biggest annual conference have already started to take shape. The CES 2026 s [...]

Alphabet locked in $811 billion of future spending on AI infrastructure. The number jumped $500 billion in one quarter.

Alphabet had $811 billion in contracted future spending commitments at the end of June, up nearly $500 billion from just three months earlier. The figure, disclosed separately from capital expenditure [...]

The Gmail app can automatically summarize those long email threads

Gmail will now automatically show you a summary card for lengthy email threads if you check a Google Workspace account on the iOS or the Android app. The company introduced AI summaries last year when [...]

World’s largest healthcare cooperative leaks millions of patient-doctor messages

Experts warn Unimed kept an open database with chat logs exposed to the wider internet. [...]

HuggingFace and Pollen Robotics open pre-orders for the $399 Microduck

If you've ever wanted a robotic duck as a companion, now's your chance. [...]

Microsoft releases second emergency Windows 11 update to fix Outlook crashes

Microsoft issued another out-of-band update to fix a bug that caused Outlook to crash for Windows 11 users. This second emergency patch addresses issues seen with Outlook and files stored in the cloud [...]

Former Overwatch director Jeff Kaplan returns with a Western survival shooter

After spending many years as the public face of Overwatch, Jeff Kaplan stayed well out of the limelight after leaving Blizzard in 2021. Five years later, the former Blizzard vice president and Overwat [...]

Movie tracking app Binge uses Apple's Live Activities to warn about jump scares

There's a new movie tracking app in town, with a twist for squeamish horror fans. Binge leverages Apple's Live Activities feature to warn viewers about jump scares in horror movies.<br /& [...]

Sakana AI's Darwin-Gödel Machine evolves by rewriting its own code to boost performance

With the Darwin-Gödel Machine (DGM), Sakana AI introduces an AI system that can iteratively improve itself through self-modification and open-ended exploration. Early results look promising, but the [...]