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Back in 1996, when Tamagotchis became the must-have toy, I was 8 years old -- the perfect target audience. I remember handing over my crisp British £10 note to the good people at Toys R Us, shaking wi

It might be a little early to declare 2026 the year that robots went mainstream but at CES in Las Vegas this week, we're starting to see signs that the biggest companies in tech are taking robotics mo

Google really wants you to get comfortable talking to your TV. The company is adding even more of its Gemini AI to its TV devices, including the ability to create and edit photos and videos with AI us

The show floors of CES 2026 are awash with AI-powered notetaking and companion devices that listen to everything around you so you can go back and have a computer remember a conversation you just had.

Anthropic’s $200 million contract with the Department of Defense (DOD) broke down last week after the two parties failed to come to an agreement over the degree to which the military could obtain unre

As agentic coding spreads, the working life of a software engineer has become dazzlingly complex. A single engineer might oversee dozens of coding agents at once, launching and guiding different proce

For the second year in a row, Roborock was the talk of CES in Las Vegas. At the 2025 show, the Saros Z70 wowed with the world's first robot vacuum with a mechanical arm to clear obstacles from its pat

AI video-generation startup Luma on Thursday launched Luma Agents, designed to handle end-to-end creative work across text, image, video, and audio. Luma Agents are powered by the startup’s Unified In

I really like voice assistants, not just because it's my job to like them, but because they're useful for multitasking. And conversational AI is making them much better. Still, there's a catch: Voice

Ah, the tween years for chip announcements: Those periods when companies roll out tweaked versions of the big architectural changes we saw over the previous year (or earlier). In AMD's case, some of t

On Thursday, OpenAI released GPT-5.4, a new foundation model billed as “our most capable and efficient frontier model for professional work.” In addition to the standard version, GPT-5.4 is also avail

How, and if, the Trump administration plans to regulate the export of semiconductors has remained unclear since Donald Trump took office last year. Now, we have an idea of what the administration is t

The Department of Defense (DOD) has officially notified Anthropic leadership that the company and its products have been designated a supply-chain risk, Bloomberg reports, citing a senior department o

A typical merger-and-acquisition process is time-consuming and expensive, even for the largest, well-staffed private equity firms. In addition to spending countless hours meeting with senior executive

Amazon Web Services announced Thursday the launch of Amazon Connect Health. This AI agent-powered platform is meant to help healthcare organizations automate repetitive administrative tasks, including