Ian Lyall

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Sports streaming is getting more complicated and also slightly less confusing

By giving sports fans a cheaper option to maintain access through the slower months, YouTube TV is betting it can reduce churn rather than lose subscribers entirely

The foldable phone as laptop experiment mostly works, and that's the surprising part

A Samsung ZFold 7 and a $40 Logitech keyboard can replace a MacBook for a weekend trip. The hardware is ready. Android is not.

Injecting mitochondria from the young into the old

So far, two people have received three infusions each

A rough week for social media

The software slump nobody is talking about

While hardware grabs headlines, the software sector is quietly having a difficult year.

OpenAI is building a smart speaker with a camera that watches you

A 200-person team is racing to ship the company's first consumer hardware device by early next year, priced around $200, with Jony Ive's design studio holding final veto power over how it looks.

Google and Reliance Are Handing Out AI Like It’s Festival Season

AI Fever: Trillion-Dollar Tech, Billion-Dollar Blunders and Bots Behaving Badly

If you thought the AI boom had peaked, think again. Big Tech is swimming in money, the cloud is having meltdowns, and the robots are learning to write songs. Here’s your lightning tour through the week’s biggest tech and AI chaos.

Alphabet, Apple, Meta: Is Big Tech’s AI Reality Check About To Arrive?

Over the next two days, the biggest names in technology will report their latest results. Meta, Microsoft and Alphabet will publish tonight, followed by Amazon and Apple tomorrow.

Paywalls For Training Data, Glasses That Listen, And Chips Everywhere

AI and tech headlines for Sunday, October 26, 2025

The 2025 State of AI Decoded: Chips, Agents, and a Whole Lot of Power Cables

Your cut-out-and-keep guide to what's happening in the exponentially expanding universe of artificial intelligence

AI Ate My Homework (and My Job, My Lawyer, and Half the Internet)

AI News Roundup: The State of Artificial Intelligence, October 25

When the Cloud Broke: AWS Trips Over Its Own DNS and Takes Half the Internet With It

Five days after the Amazon Web Services outage that left much of the internet clutching its coffee and muttering about “multi-region failover,” the post-mortem finally arrived.

AI Slop Is Drowning Your Company. Nate B Jones Has a Mop.

If your workplace feels like a dumping ground of mediocre AI-written memos, you’re not imagining it.

When the News Anchor Wasn’t Real: Channel 4’s AI Stunt That Fooled the Nation

It started like any other TV special about artificial intelligence and jobs. Then it became something else entirely.

Anthropic’s Mega Compute Play with Google Cloud: Big Chips, Bigger Ambitions

Anthropic has announced a major expansion of its partnership with Google Cloud, committing to use up to one million TPUs to power the next generation of its AI models.

Microsoft’s AI Empire: Code, Carbon and Corporate Zen

Satya Nadella’s latest shareholder letter reads less like a corporate update and more like a manifesto for an empire built on silicon, spreadsheets, and self-belief.

Asia Rising, Rebels Singing and Netflix’s KPop Demon Hunters Toy Empire

The world is ready for more stories sung in other languages, powered by new cultural engines. And Netflix, it seems, is ready to sell you the dolls to go with them.

Tadum: Netflix’s Ad Gamble. Not Picture Perfect, But Still a Must-Watch

For now, Netflix remains what it’s always been: a great story with the occasional plot twist. Just don’t skip the ads.

Nvidia and TSMC Roll Out First US-Made AI Chip Wafer, and Jensen Huang Says It’s Just the Beginning

America’s semiconductor comeback just got a little more real