Corporate leadership changes rarely come without internal shakeups, reorganizations, and layoffs, and Xbox appears to be going through that right now. Just a few months after longtime Xbox head Phil Spencer left the company and former AI executive Asha Sharma was put in charge, the gaming world received a duet of news stories from Xbox…
The overall power output is not bad, though. On “Want Want” by Maggie Rogers, I was impressed by the grungy, guttural sound thanks to the sub. On “So Neurotic” by the band Ex-Vöid, I was expecting total mush as the guitars intersect, but it’s loud, jangly, and clear. “Spangled” by the band Fust had bone-crunching…
As Meta tries to catch up in the AI race and boost engagement with its AI bot, the company announced Monday that it’s rolling out new AI features on Facebook that aim to change how users find information, create content, and interact with the platform. The headline update is “AI Mode,” a new way to…
Father’s Day gifts are easier to get right when they fit into your dad’s everyday routine. With Father’s Day coming up, Amazon, Best Buy, and Walmart are already discounting tech that can make those routines a little easier, from listening on the go to tracking workouts and packing lighter for travel. I picked deals that…
“Staid.” That’s how the Washington Post recently described the job market — not specifically in crisis, but the labor force is shrinking and hiring is relatively anemic compared to the incredible growth seen after the ebbing of COVID. The unemployment rate in the U.S. ticked up from the 3-4 percent range in 2022-2024 and settled…
Patrick Bewley’s X feed was normally filled with posts about leather three-ways and clips of pool-house erotica. The gay OnlyFans star, known as Daddy Patrick, had decided to get into the adult industry at age 60, and in under two years his followers on X swelled to 132,000. But in April, his feed suddenly became…
A group made up of dozens of cybersecurity experts, including several well-known veterans of the industry, published an open letter to the U.S. government asking it to lift the export control order on Anthropic’s Fable and Mythos models. According to the open letter, “this action has taken the best models away from [cybersecurity] defenders” who…
98% of mid-market companies have discussed whether to involve AI in boardroom decisions, according to a survey conducted by Board Intelligence. The Summer 2026 edition of the Board Value Index canvassed just over 400 board directors, CEOs and CFOs in the UK, the US, Scandinavia and the Middle East, with the corresponding companies having annual…
A decade ago, kratom advocates fought a surprisingly successful campaign against a proposed Drug Enforcement Administration ban that claimed the obscure Southeast Asian plant posed “an imminent hazard to public safety.” They won bipartisan allies from Bernie Sanders to Rand Paul, and helped create a billion-dollar industry out of kratom, which has pain-relieving effects they…
For the first time, an Earth observation satellite has found what it was looking for — on its own, without human analysts on the ground. The milestone, which occurred in April, marks the first reported use of a vision-language model in orbit, and offers a glimpse of how AI could fundamentally change what space-based sensors…
