OpenAI’s ChatGPT Atlas browser is gone , but now ChatGPT’s Google Chrome extension is getting some upgrades that allow it to use the browser tabs you already have open. With the extension installed, OpenAI says ChatGPT can now view your browser tabs when you tag Chrome in ChatGPT’s web or desktop app, posting a demo video showing someone asking ChatGPT to…
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Last 90 daysSega is removing Total War: Shogun 2 — Complete Edition from storefronts following a disastrous launch where users complained about issues like bugs and upscaling that appears to have been done by AI. Complete Edition , a remaster of the 2011 strategy game, launched on Tuesday, and it bundled the main game and all of its DLC with promised upgrades…
OpenAI’s ChatGPT Atlas browser is gone , but now ChatGPT’s Google Chrome extension is getting some upgrades that allow it to use the browser tabs you already have open. With the extension installed, OpenAI says ChatGPT can now view your browser tabs when you tag Chrome in ChatGPT’s web or desktop app, posting a demo video showing someone asking ChatGPT to…
Valve is introducing a major new feature for Steam achievements called “achievement sets” that lets developers list different groups of achievements for a base game and DLCs. “In games that support sets, you still unlock achievements by playing the game as usual,” Valve says .
Though movies about disruptive tech founders are nothing new, 2026 has been unusually stacked with features that take a much more critical look at how Silicon Valley is reshaping our reality. Aaron Sorkin’s The Social Reckoning frames Mark Zuckerberg as a robotic villain whose ambitions are destabilizing society .
Introduced last spring, the Granite Switch project enables a modular approach to model development. Now Granite Switch 4.1 models, armed with a Decision adapter and the fastest ASR model on the OpenASR leaderboard, can move efficiently between natural-language responses, general and specialized decisions, and speech-to-text tasks—all from one hosted…
President Donald Trump posted a series of photos on Truth Social showing off renovations to the White House — but one of them appears to be modified with AI. The picture, which compares an old White House column to a “restored” one, has several discrepancies and was flagged by Google’s AI detector as “made or edited with OpenAI.” As pointed out by users on…
Among the major vendors that listed Discover-Tech as a “certified” or “verified” vendor were Google and the advertising industry association IAB Europe. The Israeli firm also used European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) consent frameworks to target users within the European Union.
Amazon is placing its bets on ambient computing, not apps, as the future of personal AI. Alongside the launch of the company’s new AI wearables from Bee , Panos Panay, who serves as Amazon’s SVP of Devices, Alexa & Leo, took the stage at TechCrunch Disrupt on Thursday to talk more in depth about where he sees personal computing headed.
Meta has launched what it calls the “most capable” open-weight model in the United States. Dubbed Muse Spark Open, the model also has the distinction of having been designed to work with Macs.
If you’re a new user of Withings’ fitness-tracking smartwatches or smart scales and want to sync and access your health data through third party apps like Apple Health or Google Health it’s now going to cost you. According to a discussion on Withings’ support forums spotted by MacRumors , new Withings accounts created from October 13th, 2026, and onwards…
Bluesky’s Attie AI tool, which initially launched earlier this year as a way to use AI to build your own feeds, now lets you make “small” social apps like games, polls, and dashboards that you can then share with others as their own websites. In an interview at TechCrunch Disrupt , Bluesky CEO Toni Schneider said to think of Attie as “social vibe coding or…
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Open social network Bluesky is once again expanding beyond its flagship app. At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 on Thursday, the company announced the launch of a new tool that allows creators to make websites, quizzes, games, polls, and other interactive experiences.
Anthropic is giving employee-level access to six researchers from METR , a nonprofit that tests frontier AI models, to independently assess Anthropic’s models, safety practices, and risk management, the company said in a blog post on Thursday. The arrangement comes at a time where incidents of AI agents acting outside their instructions have been disclosed…
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Google is updating its AI search results to make inline links appear “higher up in responses more frequently,” according to a blog post . The company’s search results from AI Overviews and AI Mode give you answers in a customized view instead of the traditional list of links, but there are concerns that the format reduces traffic to publishers .
The Alienware AW3426DW is discounted to $742.22 at Amazon , just over $50 off its usual price of $799.99. It’s not quite the lowest price we’ve seen on this well-equipped gaming monitor, but still a decent discount.
Volvo plans to launch hands-free, point-to-point driving by 2030, powered by Nvidia’s latest AI technology. The Chinese-owned, Swedish-designed automaker said Thursday it would use Nvidia’s autonomous driving stack to power a new partially automated driving system similar to Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (Supervised).
Sony has announced a trio of new Walkman portable media players that start at an already absurd $1,899.99 for the NW-ZX900 and climb all the way up to $5,899 for the gold-plated NW-WM1ZM3. Sandwiched in between is the $2,999.99 Walkman NW-WM1AM3, which is nearly identical to the WM1ZM3, just minus the gaudy gold shell.
Meta announced the Muse Spark Open AI model today , claiming that it’s the “most capable US open-weight model to date.” But the company also says that it’s the “the first model in its class” that can “run on your desktop using two Apple M5 Ultra Mac Studios with the latest MLX framework.” Meta and Apple, typically rivals , worked together on the launch and…
Muse Spark Open is an open-weight model from Meta. The mixture of experts model brings text, images, audio, and video into a model with approximately 816 billion parameters, around 42 billion active per token, and a context window of up to one million tokens.
There’s a growing trend in the consumer tech world: gadgets designed to spy on everything and everyone around you , regardless of whether or not anyone else actually consented to it. Now, with the advent of “AI personal assistants” like Meta’s Muse, you’re being cheerfully asked not just to give up your own data, but also the information of your friends,…
If you missed out on Prime Day’s headphones deals, you’re in luck. Sony’s latest flagship headphones are selling for even less than they did during Amazon’s big fall sale.