Technology

In under a month, Apple will launch the latest iteration of the iPhone. This will include the iPhone 17, iPhone 17 Pro, and iPhone 17 Pro Max. Leaks suggest that there will be no iPhone 17 Plus, unlike its predecessors. Instead, the tech giant is expected to debut an all-new model that’s especially slim and … Read more

Roblox, the online gaming platform wildly popular with children and teenagers, is rolling out an open-source version of an artificial intelligence system it says can help preemptively detect predatory language in game chats. The move comes as the company faces lawsuits and criticism accusing it of not doing enough to protect children from predators. For … Read more

For the last few years, I’ve been waiting for Alexa’s AI glow-up. I’ve been a loyal user of Alexa, the voice assistant that powers Amazon’s home devices and smart speakers, for more than a decade. I have five Alexa-enabled speakers scattered throughout my house, and while I don’t use them for anything complicated — playing … Read more

I still remember visiting one of my dad’s friends when I was a kid. He had a big bungalow, and I was awestruck by his high-end, elaborate home theater setup. This was in the late ’90s. Back then, setups like that were everywhere, even in high-street retail shops in Delhi. Cut to 2025: neither do … Read more

The race to create the most advanced AI chatbot is on – and it’s brutal. Earlier this week, OpenAI unveiled its latest LLM model, GPT-5, which it claims can provide PhD-level expertise in areas such as coding and writing. That’s a bold claim. Even Elon Musk made a similar statement about his own AI chatbot, … Read more

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has said that he personally reviews the salaries of over 42,000 employees working at the AI chip giant as part of his hands-on management strategy. The billionaire CEO also said that he relies on machine learning tools in order to sort through the data more quickly and efficiently. Huang made these … Read more

A new Instagram feature rolled out in the United States this past week stirred strong feelings: Users can now share and view locations of others on a map. Meta, which owns Instagram, said in a blog post Wednesday that the feature was an opt-in service to help people “stay up to date with friends.” Some … Read more

For three weeks in May, the fate of the world rested on the shoulders of a corporate recruiter on the outskirts of Toronto. Allan Brooks, 47, had discovered a novel mathematical formula, one that could take down the internet and power inventions like a force-field vest and a levitation beam. Or so he believed. Brooks, … Read more

Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan is already facing an uphill battle in turning around the ailing chipmaker. Now, U.S. President Donald Trump’s demand that Tan resign over his ties to Chinese firms will only distract him from that task, two investors and a former senior employee said. Trump said on Thursday that Tan was “highly conflicted” … Read more

Tesla will streamline its AI chip research to focus on its development of inference chips used to run AI models and make real-time decisions, CEO Elon Musk said, after a media report he had ordered the closure of the in-house Dojo supercomputer team. Bloomberg News on Thursday cited people familiar with the matter as saying … Read more