Pixel 9 Pro Fold one year later: How Google caught up to Samsung in just two generations

The Pixel 9 Pro Fold was one of my favorite gadgets of 2024 to the point where it even landed on our list of the biggest winners of the year. Not only was it a worthy alternative to Samsung's lon [...]

Deel acquires deepfake-detection startup Clarity as fake hire problem grows

Deel, the global HR and payroll platform, has acquired Clarity, a Tel Aviv-based AI cybersecurity startup that detects deepfakes and verifies identities in real time. The deal, reportedly worth betwee [...]

Google is about to disable uBlock Origin and every other Manifest V2 extension in Chrome

Google is weeks away from permanently disabling every Manifest V2 browser extension in Chrome, a change that will kill uBlock Origin and fundamentally limit what content blockers can do inside the wor [...]

Claude is winning over paying consumers in a market ChatGPT has owned, credit card data shows

Consumers who pay for AI chatbots are increasingly choosing Anthropic’s Claude over competitors, according to new data from credit card transaction analysis firm Indagari. Claude’s paying consumer [...]

DJI Neo 2 review: The best budget drone is now even better

Even with its US future in limbo, DJI keeps releasing impressive drones. Its latest is the Neo 2, an inexpensive, lightweight model aimed at creators and hobbyists. It’s an upgraded version of the N [...]

Palantir posted a manifesto that reads like the ramblings of a comic book villain

In case you haven't gotten around to reading Palantir CEO Alex Karp and Nicholas W. Zamiska's 2025 book, The Technological Republic, (because why would you do that to yourself?), the company [...]

A startup betting on a different material for AI’s optics problem just raised $80mn from the people who build the hardware

AI’s next bottleneck is not the chips. It is the wiring between them. As clusters grow to hundreds of thousands of GPUs, the copper links that shuttle data between them are running out of road. So t [...]

Apple investors are running out of patience with its AI promises

Apple investors are losing patience with the company’s AI strategy. The stock is coming off its worst week since February after the annual Worldwide Developers Conference failed to convince Wall St [...]

DeepSeek closes $7bn-plus round with an unusual structure

DeepSeek, the Chinese AI lab that unsettled the industry with a cheap, capable model last year, has closed its first round of outside funding, raising roughly 50 billion yuan, about $7bn, in a deal wh [...]