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Most Americans don’t trust AI . It’s proven that it doesn’t know what safe toppings for pizza are.

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There was a period in the early aughts when Definitive Jux (nee: Def Jux) seemed like it was going to be the future of hip-hop. While the label featured plenty of experimental, boundary-pushing, and politically minded acts, Lif stood out as the most “conscious rapper” in the traditional sense.

These may be the last days of Amazon’s Mechanical Turk. An announcement on the Mechanical Turk website says that on July 30, 2026, the crowdsourcing service will close to new customers.

Rockstar’s long-awaited Grand Theft Auto VI is launching November 19th, 2026 for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series S/X consoles. The game will be available digitally at launch, with physical cases containing codes, not discs , so your options for preordering are straightforward.

“Group project, but make it 1776.” That’s how a new commercial for Google Workspace opens. And things only get cringier from there.

“Group project, but make it 1776.” That’s how a new commercial for Google Workspace opens. And things only get cringier from there.

Before Keurig, the coffee in your office was almost certainly terrible. Old, burned, made by someone who would rather poorly eyeball than properly measure.

Baking sourdough bread is inherently old-fashioned, relying on natural fermentation and wild yeast instead of the simple, predictable commercial stuff. So it might sound anathema to bring a gadget into the mix.

How Natural is Artifical Intelligent? TLDR: I think the simple architecture brought unbelievable results.

Today, we’re excited to introduce Alexa+, our next-generation assistant powered by generative AI. Alexa+ is more conversational, smarter, personalized—and she helps you get things done.

Reddit is threatening to sue a group of researchers who used artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots to secretly experiment on its users. Scientists from the University of Zurich set loose an army of AI bots on the popular Reddit forum r/changemyview — where nearly 4 million users congregate to debate contentious topics — to investigate whether the tech…

At the event “The Briefing: AI for Science” earlier this week, Anthropic announced Claude Science , a new “ AI workbench for scientists ” that pulls fragmented tools and datasets into one environment, and generates figures and visuals. Anthropic, already dominating the industry with its popular coding tools and powerful AI models, framed the launch around…

The Matic is our favorite robot vacuum by a pretty comfortable margin. If you’ve been thinking about buying one, you may want to plan on doing it sooner than later.

The US Department of Energy reportedly deleted about 6,000 pages related to energy conservation as a historic heatwave tears across the country. The deletion was suspiciously timed, following Republican outrage over Mayor Zohran Mamdani asking New Yorkers to help reduce strain on the grid by setting their AC to 78 degrees .

The Swift Observatory was launched in 2004, but recent solar storms have pushed its orbit lower, and it’s in danger of burning up in Earth’s atmosphere as soon as this year. To try and stave off its demise , NASA has enlisted Katalyst Space Technologies.

This is The Stepback , a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on the bleak state of the video game industry, follow Andrew Webster .

When I first started testing Vizio’s 65-inch Mini LED Quantum TV, I thought the big story was that Vizio was back and that it had a quantum-dot TV for under $398 — the cheapest on the market. Vizio’s been pretty quiet since it was acquired by Walmart in 2024, so putting out a TV with quantum dots, which allow for higher brightness levels and more accurate…

Fable was relaunched on schedule, and AIE was on top of it with the first Field Guide to Fable talk , as well as the rest of the excellent Richard MacManus coverage of AIEWF Day 3 across Autoresearch , Cursor FDE , and a followup to Zach Lloyd’s popular talk yesterday on Software Factories , as well as “all killer no filler” closing keynotes: AI News for…

Impeccable’s Paul Bakaus at the AI Engineer World’s Fair. Paul Bakaus thinks the emerging discipline of “skill engineering” can make AI agents more capable — but he absolutely does not want to remove people from the creative process.

Adobe Principal Scientist Carlos Sanchez at AIEWF. For as long as I can remember (and I managed websites in the dot-com period), “personalization” has been a holy grail for websites.

Vercel’s Andrew Qu on the AIEWF expo floor. Andrew Qu is Chief of Software at Vercel, where he works with the CTO across internal engineering, product experimentation and emerging technologies.

One of the highlights of the final day of the AI Engineer World’s Fair was a debate about loops. It nicely captured an argument running through the whole conference: are autonomous software factories viable now, or is the engineering discipline lagging behind the ambition?

Artificial intelligence is rewriting the world, and simultaneously inventing a whole new language to describe how it’s doing it. Sit in on any product meeting, pitch, or panel these days, and you’ll hear people toss around LLMs, RAG, RLHF, and a dozen other terms that can make even very smart people in the tech world feel a little insecure.