A day later The Wall Street Journal published a blockbuster about Meta’s own dismal findings about teenage girls’ mental health on Instagram, CEO Mark Zuckerberg wondered if Meta should change the way it studies the potential harms of its platforms. “Recent events have made me wonder if we should change our approach to research and … 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
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
Spotify is going all in on books in 2026, partnering with Bookshop.org to let you buy physical copies of audiobooks and supporting local retailers starting in the spring. The announcement comes with the launch of Page Match, a new feature that lets you sync physical books and e-books with audiobooks in the Spotify app using … Read more
Spotify has launched a new feature called Page Match that lets you quickly sync your place in a physical or ebook with an audiobook. Point your camera at the page and the Spotify app uses computer vision to match the text to the audio. If you have to jump behind the wheel for a long … Read more
Substack is warning some users that email addresses and phone numbers linked to their accounts were exposed in a “security incident” last year. In an email to account holders, Substack CEO Chris Best said a hacker gained unauthorized access to internal data in October 2025, but passwords, credit card numbers and other financial information remain … Read more
When Valve first announced its impressive-looking Steam Machine, Steam Frame, and Steam Controller hardware in November, the company said the products would begin shipping in early 2026. Some journalists were specifically told “Q1 2026.” But due to the ongoing memory and storage crisis, that launch has been pushed back to sometime in the first half … 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
During a two-hour hearing in the U.S. Senate on Wednesday, top executives from Waymo and Tesla urged lawmakers to act on long-stalled legislation to speed up the deployment of self-driving cars on public roads. But after two hours of questions and answers on a range of hot-button topics, including robotaxi safety, legal liability, remote control … Read more
Sam Altman (X): First, the good part about the Anthropic ads: they are funny and I laughed. But I wonder why Anthropic would go for something so clearly dishonest. Our most important policy for ads is that we won’t do exactly this; we would obviously never display ads the way Anthropic displays them. We are … Read more