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, [...]

Grok 4.1 Fast's compelling dev access and Agent Tools API overshadowed by Musk glazing

Elon Musk's frontier generative AI startup xAI formally opened developer access to its Grok 4.1 Fast models last night and introduced a new Agent Tools API—but the technical milestones were imm [...]

Grok 4.1 tops emotional intelligence scores yet drifts into sycophancy

xAI has released Grok 4.1, a new model designed to deliver more creative, emotionally aware, and coherent interactions. But a companion safety report shows that these gains come with a marked rise in [...]

How I Get Free Traffic from ChatGPT in 2025 (AIO vs SEO)

Three weeks ago, I tested something that completely changed how I think about organic traffic. I opened ChatGPT and asked a simple question: "What's the best course on building SaaS with Wor [...]

Proton adds a secure video conferencing service called Meet to its toolbox

We’ve written about the Swiss company Proton’s moves to take on Google and Microsoft with an expanding variety of privacy-focused internet services, and the company is announcing yet another new t [...]

Navigating AI Bias: A Guide for Responsible Development

AI is revolutionizing industries worldwide, but with this transformation comes significant responsibility. As these systems increasingly drive critical business decisions, companies face mounting risk [...]

Persona vectors allow Anthropic to steer language model behaviors like sycophancy and evil

Anthropic has developed a technique for monitoring, controlling, and even preventing specific personality traits in language models.<br /> The article Persona vectors allow Anthropic to steer la [...]

AI sycophancy makes people less likely to apologize and more likely to double down, study finds

AI models tell people what they want to hear nearly 50 percent more often than other humans do. A new Science study shows this isn't just annoying: it makes people less willing to apologize, less [...]

Engadget's favorite games of 2025

From indies like Silksong, to AAAs like Ghost of Yotei, and everything in between, 2025 truly had it all, and is likely to go down in the history books as one of the best years in gaming. But these ar [...]