A startup that most people outside Silicon Valley have never heard of just raised $100 million to bet on an idea that would have seemed absurd two years ago: that the future of software development belongs not to elite engineers, but to anyone with an idea and the ability to describe it in plain English.
Google has quietly rolled out a feature that could reshape how teachers interact with student writing across thousands of school districts: an AI-assisted tool within Google Workspace for Education that helps educators draft personalized feedback on written assignments.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has launched what he describes as the first in a series of lawsuits targeting TP-Link Technologies Co. Ltd., the world’s largest seller of Wi-Fi routers, accusing the Chinese-owned company of facilitating access to Americans’ personal data by the Chinese Communist Party. The suit, filed under the Texas Data Privacy and Security Act (TDPSA), marks an escalation in the growing confrontation between U.S. authorities and Chinese technology firms over national security and consumer privacy concerns.
When users ask ChatGPT, Llama, or DeepSeek to generate a secure password, they expect something truly random — a string of characters that would take centuries to brute-force. But new research reveals a disturbing reality: passwords generated by large language models are far less random than they appear, and many can be cracked in under an hour using a standard GPU.
Samsung Electronics, long the dominant force in foldable smartphones, is facing an uncomfortable reality as it pushes the boundaries of multi-fold display technology. Reports from early adopters of the company’s first trifold phone—sold exclusively in South Korea as the Galaxy Z Fold6 Special Edition—are surfacing with alarming frequency, describing screens that go dark, displays that malfunction along fold lines, and hardware failures that raise serious questions about whether the technology is ready for a global rollout.
Amazon has pulled the plug on Blue Jay, its experimental warehouse robot designed to handle the grueling task of sorting and moving inventory through fulfillment centers. The decision, first reported by Mashable, marks a notable retreat for a company that has invested billions in automating its sprawling logistics network — and raises pointed questions about the limits of robotics in environments built for human hands.
When Sundar Pichai took the stage at the AI Impact Summit in Washington, D.C., in late June 2025, he wasn’t just delivering another keynote about Google’s product roadmap. He was making a calculated case—to policymakers, industry leaders, and the broader public—that artificial intelligence represents the most consequential technological shift since the internet itself, and that Google intends to be at the center of it.
At Web Summit Qatar this February, two companies operating in adjacent but increasingly overlapping territories made their ambitions clear. Read AI, the Seattle-based meeting intelligence company, and Lucidya, a Saudi Arabia-headquartered customer experience platform, each laid out visions for how artificial intelligence will reshape the way businesses capture, interpret, and act on conversations — whether those conversations happen in a boardroom or a call center.
Google disclosed this week that its artificial intelligence systems played a central role in preventing 2.36 million policy-violating Android apps from reaching the Play Store in 2025, a figure that underscores both the scale of the threat facing mobile users and the increasingly automated nature of the company’s defenses. The announcement, detailed in Google’s annual security report, represents a significant escalation in the cat-and-mouse game between platform operators and malicious developers who seek to exploit the world’s most widely used mobile operating system.
Microsoft appears to have quietly begun development on Windows 11 version 27H2, a release that could arrive in the second half of 2027 and carry enormous weight for the company’s desktop operating system strategy. Early signals from the Windows Insider Program suggest that the Redmond giant is laying the groundwork for what may be the most consequential Windows update in years — one that will either reinvigorate a platform struggling with adoption or further alienate a user base already skeptical of the company’s direction.
