Microsoft launches new in-house AI models it says cut costs up to 89% versus OpenAI
Microsoft AI released two new in-house models into public preview on Wednesday — MAI-Image-2.5-Pro, its highest-fidelity image generator to date, and MAI-Voice-2-Flash, a speech model built for high-volume enterprise workloads — while publishing production data that amounts to the company’s most aggressive argument yet that it can power its own products without leaning on OpenAI’s […]
Pickleball comedy ‘The Dink’ premieres on Apple TV
Apple TV subscribers can now watch ‘The Dink,’ the platform’s new star-studded sports comedy produced by Ben Stiller. Watch the trailer below. ’The Dink’ premieres on Apple TV ‘The Dink’ is now available to stream on Apple TV, starring Jake Johnson (Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed), Mary Steenburgen (Step Brothers), Ed Harris (The Abyss), Chloe Fineman (Home […]
Galaxy Z Flip 8 vs. Motorola Razr Ultra (2026): Samsung’s flip phone is cheaper, but is it better?
Flip phones have quietly become one of the most competitive corners of the smartphone market. It provides buyers with a satisfying folding snap, reducing the footprint to half the original size, and that’s the entire point. Motorola never really left the format after reviving the Razr name, while Samsung has spent generations treating the Flip […]
Agentic coding goes hands-free as OpenAI brings GPT-Live’s full duplex voice control to Codex and ChatGPT on the desktop
Two weeks after debuting its more naturalistic GPT-Live audio AI model with full-duplex capabilities (listening and speaking at the same time), OpenAI is bringing it directly into developer workflows. The company announced that GPT-Live now powers the ChatGPT desktop application on macOS and Windows, integrating directly with agentic systems like Codex and ChatGPT Work (which […]
Ford Is Channeling Its Model-T History To Build Its $30K Slate Truck Rival
Along with the Mustang, its iconic blue oval logo, and the F-Series truck, Ford is largely known for inventing the moving assembly line in 1913. This allowed workers to remain in place and build the vehicle as it moved down a conveyor belt, allowing the Model T to be […]
US Treasury Threatens Sanctions on China, Claims Its AI Firms Distilled Anthropic’s Fable Model
Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent at the NATO Summit on July 8, 2026. Credit: NurPhoto The US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has warned China that economic sanctions are on the table for what he describes as “IP theft.” He claims that Chinese AI developer Moonshot used improper techniques to train its Kimi K3 AI […]
Black Forest Labs launches FLUX 3 capable of generating images and 20-second video with audio — but in limited release to start
Black Forest Labs (BFL) is expanding its FLUX family beyond image generation with today’s launch of FLUX 3, a multimodal frontier model trained to understand and generate images, or combined audio/video clips up to 20 seconds from a single prompt — and to extend the same underlying architecture to robotic vision and actions. The Freiburg, […]
ChatGPT Health adds privacy costs Siri AI can limit
OpenAI’s new Health feature gives ChatGPT access to Apple Health data and medical records, adding useful analysis at the cost of sharing sensitive information with another company. The feature is available to logged-in users 18 and older across Free, Go, Plus, and Pro plans. OpenAI says ChatGPT can compare laboratory results over time, summarize changes […]
The AI compute gap: Enterprises are buying infrastructure faster than they can measure what it costs
Across 107 enterprises, AI infrastructure spending is accelerating well ahead of the ability to see or steer its economics. Most organizations run their AI on a familiar base of hyperscalers and model-provider APIs, yet the next dollar is aimed at specialized compute almost none of them use today; a majority intend to switch or add […]
Apple announces The Morning Show is ending after season 5
Apple just announced that one of Apple TV’s first ever original series, The Morning Show, will be ending after season 5. Here are the details on the final season of The Morning Show. The Morning Show’s final season to air in 2027 When Apple TV first launched in 2019 (with the name Apple TV+), its […]