OpenAI’s CFO Says Its First AI Device Ships This Year
OpenAI’s first piece of hardware will arrive before the year is out. Chief Financial Officer Sarah Friar said this week that she has already used the company’s self-developed AI device…
Anthropic Files to Go Public, Following OpenAI’s Lead
Anthropic, the AI company founded by Dario Amodei, has filed for an initial public offering, making it the second top-tier AI laboratory to seek a public listing after OpenAI. The…
Meta Names Ex-Epic Executive to Run Reality Labs, Shifting Focus
Meta Platforms has picked a video-game veteran to run its money-losing virtual reality division, a leadership change that signals a quieter strategy for the unit once seen as the company’s…
BYD Joins the Humanoid Robot Race, Citing Its Car Technology
BYD, the Chinese automaker that became the world’s largest seller of electric vehicles, is developing humanoid robots, making it the second major car company to stake a claim in a…
xAI Hires Chinese Tutors to Teach Grok the Language
Elon Musk’s AI company is hiring people to teach its chatbot to speak Chinese. xAI is recruiting Chinese-language AI tutors to label and refine Grok’s understanding and generation of Chinese,…
Oura Ring 5 Gets Thinner, Lighter, Smarter
The computer on your finger is getting an upgrade. Oura, the company that made the smart ring a category, has released the fifth generation of its namesake device, and the…
Honor Launches Magic V6 Folding Phone With Waterproofing First
The most durable folding phone yet is going on sale outside China. Honor has begun shipping the Magic V6, its latest foldable, in Singapore and Malaysia at a price of…
Google’s Dreambeans Turns Photos Into Cartoons
Google has a new AI toy, and it has an unusual name. The company this week launched Dreambeans, a tool that transforms photographs and everyday scenes into cartoon-style images with…
NVIDIA’s RTX Spark Lands in Microsoft’s Surface, Opening a New Front in PC Chips
SEATTLE — The laptop looked like every other premium ultraportable on the Build 2026 stage: thin metal chassis, edge-to-edge display, the kind of machine executives carry to meetings. Then the…
Meta Turns WhatsApp Into a Customer Service Machine, With AI Agents for Every Business
LONDON — The small business had a familiar problem: customers asked the same five questions all day, and a human could not be in three conversations at once. The shop…
