How a VPN works (and why you should care)

The best VPNs can make your online life more private with software that's convenient and cheap — sometimes even free. While keeping your IP address invisible, you can use your VPN to explore st [...]

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, [...]

ChatGPT Agent reportedly lost 75% of its users because nobody knew what it was actually for

OpenAI may shelve ChatGPT Agent just months after launch. Users dropped from four million to under one million, plagued by technical issues and unclear purpose: many didn't know what to use it fo [...]

OpenAI cofounder envisions "almost no interface" future where nobody learns software anymore

Greg Brockman admits ChatGPT's plugins, heavily marketed in 2023, failed "because the models weren't ready." Instead of app extensions, he sees the future in an invisible, context- [...]

Claude Cowork's biggest use case is the mundane office work nobody wants to own, Anthropic says

Anthropic analyzed 1.2 million Claude Cowork sessions from more than 600,000 organizations. About half of all usage goes toward business processes and text creation, what Anthropic calls "the wor [...]

Deepmind CEO Hassabis says "nobody in the world knows what happens next" so "cautious optimism" means building guardrails now

Google Deepmind CEO Demis Hassabis has published a sweeping proposal for how to handle advanced AI. He wants a new US standards body modeled after financial regulator FINRA that would develop evaluati [...]

FOMO is why enterprises pay for GPUs they don't use — and why prices keep climbing

Enterprises can't fix their GPU waste problem because the fix makes the problem worse. Releasing idle capacity would improve utilization, but the same shortage driving GPU prices up is exactly wh [...]

Google AI Mode now speaks Spanish

Google's AI Mode is continuing its rapid global growth. Today, the company announced that this addition to Google Search is rolling out in Spanish. The new option is available in all countries th [...]

Spotify’s AI DJ now speaks French, German, Italian, and Brazilian Portuguese

Spotify has just released an expansion of its premium AI DJ feature that promises to enhance the experience for users in Europe and Brazil, adding the DJ function to new markets and four additional la [...]