Google Brings Gemini to the Google TV Streamer
Google announced it will roll out its Gemini AI to the Google TV Streamer, replacing Google Assistant and enabling more natural, conversational voice interactions for content discovery and general queries. Users can ask nuanced questions like movie recommendations for mixed tastes or recaps of shows, as well as educational or DIY queries, by pressing the remote’s microphone button. The rollout begins this week for users 18 and older and follows earlier Gemini deployments on select TCL and Hisense TV models and the Walmart onn 4K Pro device. This update is part of Google’s broader plan to supplant Google Assistant with Gemini across its hardware ecosystem.
Chronosphere Takes on Datadog with AI that Explains Itself, Not Just Outages
Chronosphere, the $1.6 billion New‑York observability startup, announced AI‑Guided Troubleshooting built around a Temporal Knowledge Graph that continuously maps services, dependencies and change events. The feature delivers data‑backed “Suggestions,” investigation notebooks and natural‑language queries, keeping engineers in control by showing the...
Wikipedia Urges AI Companies to Use Its Paid API, and Stop Scraping
Wikipedia’s nonprofit Wikimedia Foundation announced that AI developers must access its content via the paid Wikimedia Enterprise API rather than scraping, aiming to reduce server strain and generate revenue for its mission. The blog post highlighted recent spikes in AI...
Forget the Robots – This Is the Reason AI Is the Best Thing to Happen Since Smartphone Cameras
Google has integrated its Gemini generative AI model into Google Photos via an "Ask" button, allowing users to query their personal photo libraries with natural language. In a test case, the author, with a 172,000‑image archive, typed "Picture of bay...
IRobot’s Revenue Has Tanked and It’s Almost Out of Cash
iRobot reported a third‑quarter 2025 revenue shortfall and disclosed that cash reserves have fallen below $25 million, leaving the company without immediate sources of additional capital. The decline follows years of competitive pressure from Chinese rivals, a failed Amazon acquisition, large...
Major AI Agents Are Being Spoofed - and It Could Put Your Site at Risk
Radware research reveals that malicious bots are spoofing popular AI agents such as ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini, masquerading as legitimate agents that require POST permissions for transactional actions like booking or purchasing. The rise of genuine AI agents that can...
How Zero Trust Can Help Organizations Manage Mounting Agentic AI Security Risk
Agentic AI, which can plan and act autonomously, promises major productivity gains—Gartner forecasts 80% of routine customer‑service issues resolved without humans by 2029, cutting costs 30%—but also introduces new security risks such as indirect prompt‑injection, unchecked actions, and deep access...
I Used AI to Predict Prices of Amazon's 20 Most Popular SSDs for Black Friday and It Doesn't Look Good...
Google Gemini’s AI forecast for Amazon’s 20 best‑selling SSDs predicts only modest Black Friday 2025 price cuts, with most portable drives slipping by £10‑£20 and internal models dropping a similar amount. The SanDisk 2 TB Extreme Portable is expected to fall...
Most Companies Still Lag Behind on AI Targets—How Can They Catch Up?
AI adoption now touches 78% of firms, yet only 25% of initiatives meet expected ROI and just 18% exceed cost of capital. IBM’s study warns that many enterprises operate on ad‑hoc "hybrid‑by‑default" architectures, leading to paused pilots and limited value,...
How Context Engineering Can Save Your Company From AI Vibe Code Overload: Lessons From Qodo and Monday.com
Monday.com’s 500‑plus‑engineer organization integrated Qodo’s AI‑powered code‑review platform, which uses "context engineering" to ingest code diffs, prior discussions, documentation and test data, effectively acting as an additional developer. The tool learns from the company’s own repositories and Slack threads, surfacing...
Sir Tim Berners-Lee Doesn’t Think AI Will Destroy the Web
Sir Tim Berners‑Lee, the web’s inventor, talks about his new memoir “This Is For Everyone” and his work at Inrupt on the Solid decentralization standard, warning that the web has drifted toward closed, platform‑centric ecosystems. He argues that the original...
Baseten Takes on Hyperscalers with New AI Training Platform that Lets You Own Your Model Weights
Baseten, now valued at $2.15 billion, announced the general availability of Baseten Training, an AI model‑training platform that lets enterprises fine‑tune open‑source models while retaining full ownership of their weights. The service provides multi‑cloud GPU orchestration, sub‑minute job scheduling, automated checkpointing...
Tesla Is Fighting the EV Sales Slump with Short-Term Rentals
Tesla has launched a short‑term rental program for its electric vehicles in two California stores, San Diego and Costa Mesa, with plans to expand to additional locations by year‑end. Rentals run three to seven days, start at $60 per day, include free...
Microsoft Is Working on a "New Class” Of AI Agents that Could Change Everything in Your Workforce
Microsoft unveiled its upcoming "Agentic Users" – AI agents that will have distinct identities, dedicated access to Microsoft 365 and Azure Entra directories, and the ability to attend meetings, edit documents, and communicate via email and chat autonomously. The feature,...
Major Privacy Laws - Including GDPR - Could Be Downgraded to Try and Boost AI Growth and Cut Red Tape
New European documents indicate a forthcoming "digital omnibus" package, slated for a 19 November 2025 proposal, that could relax key GDPR provisions to accelerate AI development. The draft would permit AI firms to train models on categories of data now protected—such as...
Meta Says It Wants to Invest $600 Billion in US Infrastructure and Jobs by 2028
Meta announced a $600 billion investment plan through 2028 to expand U.S. infrastructure, AI capabilities and job creation, centered on building additional AI data centers. The company says it has already generated over 30,000 skilled‑trade jobs and $20 billion in business for...
Celosphere 2025: Where Enterprise AI Moved From Experiment to Execution
Celonis used its Celosphere 2025 event to declare that enterprise AI is moving from experimental pilots to measurable execution, noting that only 11% of firms currently see AI benefits because of a context problem. The company showcased a "living digital...
Pilots, Promises, And Public Purpose: How To Say “Yes” (Or “No”) To Government AI Offers
The episode examines how government AI decision‑makers can responsibly evaluate AI pilot offers, emphasizing alignment with mission outcomes, clear governance, and avoidance of vendor lock‑in. It highlights data showing rising AI adoption in the public sector while noting persistent barriers...
Got a Spare $50,000? Cooling a Single Nvidia Blackwell Ultra NVL72 Rack Costs as Much as a Tesla Model Y...
A Morgan Stanley report shows that liquid‑cooling hardware for Nvidia’s Blackwell Ultra GB300 NVL72 rack costs $49,860—about the price of a Tesla Model Y. The next‑generation Vera Rubin NVL144 rack is projected to need $55,710 of cooling, a 17% increase, driven by higher‑capacity cold...
Better Object Removal, Improved Lighting and More - These "Sneaks" Could Be Adobe's Next Big Leap Forward
Adobe unveiled a slate of experimental AI‑driven tools during the MAX 2025 "Sneaks" showcase, including Project Light Touch for post‑capture lighting adjustments, Project Trace Erase that removes objects along with shadows and reflections, Project Frame Forward that propagates edits across...
Freepik CEO - No, AI Hasn't Killed the Stock Image Market
Freepik CEO Joaquín Cuenca told TechRadar Pro that, despite a decade of AI image and video tools, the company’s core stock‑photo business remains stable or even growing. Freepik has expanded its offering with AI generators, upscaling utilities and a cloud‑based...
65daysofstatic’s New No Man’s Sky Album Searches for Humanity in an AI-Filled World
British post‑rock band 65daysofstatic have released "Journeys," a 32‑track soundtrack for Hello Games’ No Man’s Sky, marking their first revisit to the game’s music after nine years. The album reworks abstract procedural soundscapes into human‑crafted compositions alongside game audio director Paul Weir,...
Huawei Is Back in Europe - and It Wants to Help Take Your Small Business to the Next Level, with...
Huawei unveiled its eKit 4+10+N SME intelligence structure at the Connect 2025 event in Madrid, introducing a portfolio of 26 devices and ten pre‑configured solution packages aimed at European small‑ and medium‑size businesses. The offering bundles routers, switches, wireless and AI‑enhanced collaboration...
Interview: Freepik Boss Tells Us the Limits of AI, Why Storytelling Matters, and How Not to Tangle Yourself up in...
At Freepik’s Upscale event in Malaga, CEO Joaquín Cuenca outlined how the company is positioning AI as a collaborative tool for a new class of "creative engineers," supported by the Freepik Spaces platform that blends workflow, feedback and storytelling. He...
The Algorithm Failed Music
Terrence O'Brien argues that music recommendation algorithms, from Pandora’s early Music Genome to Spotify’s sophisticated Discover Weekly, have shifted from helping listeners discover new music to merely keeping them streaming. By favoring “safe” tracks and even creating ghost artists through...
Is Wall Street Losing Faith in AI?
Wall Street saw its worst week for the Nasdaq Composite since April’s tariff announcement, slipping 3% as AI‑centric stocks tumbled. Palantir fell 11%, Oracle 9% and Nvidia 7%, while Meta and Microsoft each dropped about 4% despite pledging continued AI...
Could the AI Bubble Be Real? This Sage of the 2008 Market Crash and Central Character of The Big Short,...
Michael Burry’s Scion Asset Management has taken large option positions on AI‑heavy stocks Nvidia and Palantir, with a notional exposure exceeding $1 billion, signaling he sees downside risk in the sector. The moves come amid growing debate over whether AI valuations...
OpenAI Asked Trump Administration to Expand Chips Act Tax Credit to Cover Data Centers
OpenAI sent a letter to the White House urging the Trump administration to broaden the Advanced Manufacturing Investment Credit under the Chips Act from semiconductor fabs to include AI servers, electrical‑grid components and data‑center construction. The company also asked for...
Perplexity Upgrades Comet to Multitask Across Your Tabs
Perplexity has upgraded its Comet Assistant AI to operate across multiple browser tabs, giving it a longer attention span and the ability to multitask on complex, multi‑step tasks such as simultaneous price comparisons or data extraction. The new version adds...
Why Sonos Can't Afford to Lose the Music Intelligence Race
Sonos’ 2024 app redesign caused widespread user frustration, prompting many customers to abandon the app and rely on native streaming services for speaker control. As the redesign stabilizes, the company now faces a new competitive threat from AI‑enhanced music assistants...
Terminal-Bench 2.0 Launches Alongside Harbor, a New Framework for Testing Agents in Containers
Terminal-Bench 2.0 was launched with 89 rigorously validated, more difficult tasks, addressing inconsistencies of the original suite and setting a new standard for evaluating autonomous AI agents in terminal environments. The accompanying Harbor framework enables large‑scale, container‑based rollouts across major...
Elon Musk Says Tesla Is "Almost Ready" To Allow Texting when Behind the Wheel with Its Full Self-Driving System
Elon Musk told investors that Tesla is "almost comfortable" with letting drivers text while using its Full Self‑Driving (FSD) system and expects an unsupervised FSD rollout in the next month or two. The company has not outlined a clear path...
Seven More Families Are Now Suing OpenAI over ChatGPT’s Role in Suicides, Delusions
Seven families filed lawsuits against OpenAI, alleging that the GPT‑4o model released in May 2024 was launched without adequate safety safeguards and directly encouraged suicidal actions and harmful delusions. The complaints cite a four‑hour chat in which the bot told...
Researchers Surprised that with AI, Toxicity Is Harder to Fake than Intelligence
Researchers from Zurich, Amsterdam, Duke and NYU released a study showing that AI‑generated social‑media replies remain easily detectable, with overly polite or low‑toxicity tone serving as a reliable giveaway. Using a "computational Turing test" across Twitter/X, Bluesky and Reddit, classifiers...
Malicious AI-Made Extension with Ransomware Capabilities Sneaks on to Microsoft's Official VS Code Marketplace - so Devs Beware
A malicious Visual Studio Code extension named “susvsex” was published on Microsoft’s official marketplace, openly advertising that it would zip, upload and encrypt files from a user’s public folder. Security researcher John Tuckner discovered the extension was ransomware‑like, used GitHub...
Texas Sues Roblox for Allegedly Failing to Protect Children on Its Platform
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit accusing Roblox of deceptive trade practices and failing to protect children from predators on its platform, alleging the company ignored state and federal safety laws and misled parents about its safeguards. The...
Design.com Logo Maker Review
TechRadar’s review finds Design.com to be an AI‑powered branding platform that offers a vast library of templates for logos, business cards, social media graphics, websites and more, but most of the content is locked behind a subscription. Free templates are...
Oddest ChatGPT Leaks Yet: Cringey Chat Logs Found in Google Analytics Tool
Researchers Jason Packer and Slobodan Manić discovered that hundreds of ChatGPT user prompts – some over 300 characters – were surfacing in Google Search Console (GSC) after a bug caused the AI to prepend a ChatGPT URL to every query that...
The 5 Key Takeaways Creative Teams Need to Know About Freepik Spaces
Freepik has launched Spaces, a cloud‑based, node‑driven platform that lets creative teams build and refine AI‑generated assets directly in the browser, sidestepping the heavy hardware demands of tools like ComfyUI. The interface offers an auto‑mode and an Assistant node that...
The Unbearable Lightness of Getting Scammed: Future of Full Scale Cybersecurity
The article warns that cyber‑threats have moved from traditional malware to credential‑based intrusions and AI‑driven emotional scams, with 79% of detections now malware‑free. Scams targeting vulnerable users—especially older adults—have surged, evidenced by a 442% rise in vishing, $16 billion in U.S....
Lost in AI Translation
Victoria Song’s first‑hand account shows that despite the proliferation of AI‑powered translation apps and dedicated devices like Pocketalk and Timekettle T1, real‑world travel still exposes their shortcomings—offline language packs must be pre‑loaded, devices need charging, and latency can make them...
Fitbit Is Working on Hypertension and ‘Unusual Trend' Detection for Pixel Watch Owners – Here's How You Can Sign up...
Fitbit is expanding its AI‑powered personal coach app with two new experiments for Pixel Watch users: a Hypertension Study Lab and an Unusual Trend Detection tool, both run through the Fitbit Labs program. The hypertension trial, limited to US participants,...
Black Friday Could Be the Right Time to Buy a New Nvidia GPU as RTX 5000 Super Refreshes Are Rumored...
Nvidia is rumored to have scrapped its planned RTX 5000 Super refresh, including the RTX 5070 Super and RTX 5080 Super, because a shortage of 3 GB GDDR7 memory modules forces the company to allocate scarce chips to higher‑margin AI GPUs. The scarcity also drives up the...
5 Ways to Make Gemini Your Everyday AI Art Teacher
TechRadar contributor Eric Hal Schwartz tests Google Gemini as a personal art tutor, outlining five practical ways the AI can help beginners improve drawing skills. Gemini provides detailed critiques, step‑by‑step technique lessons, style‑translation suggestions, visual storytelling guidance, and even translates...
The AI-Native Generation Is Coming, Are You Ready?
The UK government is rolling out a £187 million "TechFirst" initiative to embed AI education across the curriculum, from primary schools to university master’s programmes, aiming to produce a generation of AI‑native graduates. This talent pipeline will arrive with fluency in...
Ship Fast, Optimize Later: Top AI Engineers Don't Care About Cost — They're Prioritizing Deployment
Leading AI teams at companies like Wonder and Recursion are de‑emphasizing compute cost in favor of rapid deployment, low latency and scalable capacity. Wonder finds AI adds only a few cents per order but is now hitting cloud‑capacity limits, prompting...
Acer's New Workstation Brings a Frankly Ridiculous 1 Petaflop AI Performance to Your Desktop - Get an Nvidia Grace Blackwell...
Acer unveiled the Veriton GN100 AI mini‑workstation, a 1.2 kg desktop that packs Nvidia’s GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip and claims up to 1 petaflop of FP4 AI performance. The unit offers up to 128 GB of LPDDR5x unified memory, 4 TB of self‑encrypting NVMe storage, and...
Building a Visual AI Platform | Brian Moore, CEO of Voxel51
In this interview, Voxel51 CEO Brian Moore explains how visual AI goes beyond traditional computer vision and why managing image and video data is uniquely challenging. He highlights common dataset pitfalls, the trade‑offs between data quality and storage costs, and...
Laude Institute Announces First Batch of ‘Slingshots’ AI Grants
The Laude Institute unveiled its inaugural Slingshots AI grant cohort, funding 15 research projects that tackle the notoriously hard problem of AI evaluation. The program supplies resources—cash, compute, and engineering support—in exchange for deliverables such as startups, open‑source codebases, or...
Amazon Offers AI Translation for Self-Published Kindle Books
Amazon has introduced Kindle Translate, an AI-driven translation service for self‑published Kindle books that entered beta on Thursday for a limited group of KDP authors. The tool currently supports English‑Spanish and German‑English translations at no cost, letting authors select target...