CarPlay users could soon be able to use their chatbot instead of Siri. Ace Bloomberg Apple is working to add support for CarPlay voice control apps from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and others. Previously, users who wanted to access third-party chatbots in the car had to go through their iPhone, but soon they will be able … Read more
If you primarily want a tablet device to annotate, highlight, and annotate your e-books and documents, and maybe scribble some notes of your own now and then, Amazon’s new Kindle Scribe Colorsoft could be a hefty investment. Everyone else will likely find it hard to justify the cost of an 11-inch, $630-plus e-ink tablet with … Read more
Reddit suggested on Thursday that its AI-powered search engine could be the next big opportunity for its business — not just as a product, but as a revenue driver affecting its bottom line. During the company’s quarterly earnings call Thursday, the company offered an update on its plans to merge traditional and artificial search, suggesting … Read more
Apple CEO Tim Cook said he was excited about “new categories of products and services that are enabled through AI” during a meeting with company employees on Thursday. He didn’t go into detail, but some new AI-powered devices have reportedly already leaked on the drawing boards at Apple headquarters. Here’s what’s coming. Tim Cook says … Read more
On Monday, OpenAI launched Codex, an agent-based coding tool offered to software developers. OpenAI also released a new Codex supercharger model today: the GPT-5.3 Codex. The company says this model transforms Codex from an agent that can only “write and review code” to one that can do “nearly everything that developers and computing professionals do, … Read more
Super Bowl LX is almost here, the Seattle Seahawks take on the New England Patriots. While Bad Bunny will be the star of the halftime show, artificial intelligence could be the star of the commercial breaks, much like cryptocurrency was a few years ago. Super Bowl LX is set to kick off at 6:30 PM … Read more
Meta is testing a standalone Vibes app, the company confirmed to TechCrunch on Thursday. Launched last September, Vibes lets you create and share short AI-generated videos and access a dedicated feed that displays AI videos from others. Think TikTok or Instagram Reels, but every video you come across is generated by artificial intelligence. Until now, … Read more
Managing people is hard. Managing AI agents is… also challenging. That’s why OpenAI is launching a new platform called OpenAI Frontier, which it says will help enterprises “build, deploy and manage” AI agents, even those not created by OpenAI itself. OpenAI’s description of Frontier sounds like HR for AI. “Frontier provides agents with the same … Read more
Google’s parent company, Alphabet, earned more than $400 billion in annual revenue for the first time. The company announced the milestone as part of its Q4 2025 earnings report released Wednesday, which highlighted a 15 percent year-over-year increase as its cloud business and YouTube continue to grow. As noted in the earnings report, Google’s cloud … Read more
Gizmo, a TikTok-like app for vibrating code widgets, offers a new way to create interactive media. A relatively new mobile app from startup Atma Sciences allows anyone to create experiences using text, photos, sound and touch, which are then displayed in a vertical channel, similar to TikTok or Reels. But unlike traditional short video apps, … Read more