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, [...]

Shadow mode, drift alerts and audit logs: Inside the modern audit loop

Traditional software governance often uses static compliance checklists, quarterly audits and after-the-fact reviews. But this method can't keep up with AI systems that change in real time. A mac [...]

Monitoring LLM behavior: Drift, retries, and refusal patterns

The stochastic challengeTraditional software is predictable: Input A plus function B always equals output C. This determinism allows engineers to develop robust tests. On the other hand, generative AI [...]

DeepSWE blows up the AI coding leaderboard, crowns GPT-5.5, and finds Claude Opus exploiting a benchmark loophole

For months, the leading AI coding benchmarks have told enterprise buyers a comforting but misleading story: the top models are all roughly the same. OpenAI's GPT-5 family, Anthropic's Claude [...]

Testing autonomous agents (Or: how I learned to stop worrying and embrace chaos)

Look, we've spent the last 18 months building production AI systems, and we'll tell you what keeps us up at night — and it's not whether the model can answer questions. That's ta [...]

The limits of bubble thinking: How AI breaks every historical analogy

It’s always the same story: A new technology appears and everyone starts talking about how it’ll change everything. Then capital rushes in, companies form overnight, and valuations climb faster th [...]

Engadget Podcast: We've survived two days of CES 2025

In this bonus episode, Cherlynn and Devindra discuss the latest innovations in robot vacuums, new AI PC hardware from AMD and Intel, and Dell's decision to nuke its PC brands in favor of Apple-es [...]

Researchers used 1,600 YouTube fail videos to show AI models struggle with surprises

YouTube fail videos reveal a major blind spot for leading AI models: they struggle with surprises and rarely reconsider their first impressions. Even advanced systems like GPT-4o stumble over simple p [...]

Forrester: Gen AI is a chaos agent, models are wrong 60% of the time

The shark from Jaws attacked without warning, showing how an apex predator exploits chaos to create lethal, devastating harm on its prey. Now, Forrester says, gen AI has become that predator in the ha [...]