2025-07-23

Trump's AI Action Plan targets state regulation and 'ideological bias'

At the start of the year, President Trump announced his AI Action Plan, an initiative he said would eventually enact policy that would "enhance America's position as an AI powerhouse." [...]

2025-07-23

Qi2 25W wireless charging is coming to iPhones and 'major Android smartphones'

The newest version of the Qi2 wireless standard is coming to iPhones and some Android handsets. It has also received a snappy, new branding of Qi2 25W, denoting the wireless charging speed, which is m [...]

2025-07-23

FDA employees say the agency's Elsa generative AI hallucinates entire studies

Current and former members of the FDA told CNN about issues with the Elsa generative AI tool unveiled by the federal agency last month. Three employees said that in practice, Elsa has hallucinated non [...]

2025-07-23

Microsoft backtracks on $80 The Outer Worlds 2 pricing

There's hope that the gaming industry won't follow Nintendo's lead with $80 pricing. (Well, at least not yet.) On Wednesday, Microsoft backtracked on the price increase for The Outer Wo [...]

2025-07-22

Meta has ended its bonus program on Threads

Meta is no longer paying creators to post on Threads. The company quietly ended the Threads bonus program, which offered some creators thousands of dollars a month in bonuses, earlier this year, Engad [...]

2025-07-22

Elgato's new Game Capture 4K S is Switch 2 compatible

Elgato’s latest capture card supports 4K at 60 fps to capture rich in‑game imagery in all its glory. The Game Capture 4K S works with just about any modern console, PC or handheld gaming device, i [...]

2025-07-22

Video Games Weekly: Censorship, shrinkage and a Subnautica scandal

Welcome to Video Games Weekly on Engadget. Expect a new story every Monday or Tuesday, broken into two parts. The first is a space for short essays and ramblings about video game trends and related to [...]

2025-07-22

Rocker Ozzy Osbourne is dead at 76 as fans and celebrities mourn on social media

Ozzy Osbourne, the legendary heavy metal rocker and reality TV pioneer, died at 76 on July 22. In the wake of the rocker's death, fans mourned on social media. [...]

2025-07-22

Clanker is social medias new slur for our robot future

"Clanker," an in-universe "Star Wars" term, has become a real-world insult aimed at AI and robots. [...]