After first unveiling its new AI-powered laptop, dubbed Googlebook, in May, Google on Monday said the new device is now available for preorder for $899.
Meant to offer a step up from traditional Chromebooks, Googlebooks run on Android OS with a desktop version of the Chrome browser and other familiar ChromeOS elements. However, the real pull for the new devices is that they’ll prominently…
Is the AI industry really ready to slow down?
September 21, 2026
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We’re seeing a big debate over AI safety and a potential slowdown, as Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei recently published a plan to “pace the frontier,” while Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has publicly echoed President…
Vocci’s ring adds a new form factor to meeting note-taking
September 21, 2026
There is no dearth of different forms of hardware for meeting note-taking, including pendants, pins, and credit-card-styled devices. That hasn’t stopped Vocci from releasing a new device for the same use case in a ring form factor, which is convenient but could create…
ScrollEd wants to turn textbooks into TikTok
September 21, 2026
Society has spent a lot of time bemoaning our digitally addled minds and goldfish-like attention spans, pointing the finger of blame at doomscrolling as the reason we can’t just sit down and read a book or study for exams. But what if the solution isn’t to stop scrolling, but to rethink what we’re scrolling through?
That’s the bet startup ScrollEd is making. The Palo…
AI safety conversations have gotten unbelievable
September 20, 2026
This week two conversations about AI safety went viral that demonstrate just how hard it is to discern AI fact from fiction.
In the first case, Andrew Yang, the former presidential candidate and current CEO of mobile carrier Noble Moble, told CNN on Thursday that he had…
Petlibro’s new AI-powered feeder is a game changer for multi-cat homes
September 20, 2026
Smart feeders have become one of the most crowded categories in pet tech, with companies racing to add AI cameras and health tracking to devices that used to just dispense food on a schedule. I enjoyed testing Petlibro’s wet food dispenser a couple of years ago, so…
Vals, backed by Andreessen Horowitz, is looking to become the gold standard for AI benchmarking
September 20, 2026
Benchmarking has become the industry norm for how AI companies validate their models’ capabilities and, when the metrics swing in their favor, stand out from competitors and advertise their superiority. In other words, good benchmarks pretty much always mean good PR.
Unfortunately, companies have also figured out how to outwit legacy benchmarking systems – many of which are older, and…
A new kind of AI model from a ChatGPT inventor is thrilling developers
September 19, 2026
ChatGPT broke Diogo Almeida’s heart.
Almeida was an OpenAI researcher who helped build the chatbot and then invent reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF), the model-training technique perhaps most responsible for our current age of AI. But despite its…
Google is testing a new product designed to help families coordinate with the support of an AI agent. This week, the search giant introduced a new version of CC, an AI agent designed to work across email, calendar, chats, and tasks. With the update, CC now focuses on keeping…
Researchers used Anthropic’s Claude to hack into OpenAI
September 19, 2026
In a twist that captures the strange new state of AI security, independent security researchers have used Anthropic’s Claude to break into OpenAI, exposing cracks in the ChatGPT-maker’s defenses, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday evening.
A three-person security team at startup Hacktron AI carried out the attack as part of an OpenAI bug-bounty program. Hacktron reported its…
