The Google AI Ultra plan now starts at $100 a month - Engadget
… The cost for the top tier of its AI subscription plan has been halved. Before, the Google AI Ultra plan cost a whopping $250 a month. …
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Google's $20 per month AI Pro plan just got a big storage boost - Engadget
… Finally, Google announced that it's bundling its Home Premium subscription into AI Pro, a perk that usually costs $10 per month by itself. The storage and extra features are now available for new and existing subscribers. …
MSI's Claw 8 EX AI+ handheld comes out on June 23 - Engadget
… By Jackson Chen May 31, 2026 4:22 pm EST A new wave of premium handhelds is on the way and MSI 's upcoming Claw 8 EX AI+ is leading the charge. The company revealed its latest handheld during a hands-on event at its headquarters in Taipei, Taiwan before Computex 2026. …
OpenAI 'pauses' its Stargate UK data center plan - Engadget
OpenAI 'pauses' its Stargate UK data center plan The company says it's because of high energy costs and regulatory issues. By Mariella Moon April 9, 2026 7:56 am EST OpenAI is putting the brakes on Stargate UK, according to Politico and Bloomberg . …
DeepSeek promises its new AI model has 'world-class' reasoning - Engadget
… "Welcome to the era of cost-effective 1 million context length," DeepSeek said in its announcement . Context length is what you call the maximum number of tokens that an AI model can remember, so the bigger it is, the more coherent and consistent an AI is when it comes to extended conversations. …
Microsoft raises prices on Surface PCs due to skyrocketing RAM costs - Engadget
Microsoft raises prices on Surface PCs due to skyrocketing RAM costs The Laptop 7 and Pro 11 are now hundreds of dollars more expensive than at launch. …
DeepSeek permanently reduces the price of its flagship V4 model by 75 percent - Engadget
… The major price drop also presents a more affordable alternative to other popular AI models, like OpenAI's GPT-5 or the recently released Gemini 3.5 Flash from Google. …
Razer updates the Blade 18 with new chips, a specced-out model costs $7,000 - Engadget
… However, to say its pricing isn't for the faint of heart would be an understatement. You're looking at an ungodly $7,000 for the top-tier model. Cue spit take. RAM starts at 32GB in the base model, which "only" costs $4,000. …
Chrome downloads a 4GB AI file without user consent, researcher alleges - Engadget
… So much so that Chrome apparently downloads a 4GB file containing details for running Gemini Nano, Google's on-device LLM. Computer scientist Alexander Hanff published the details earlier this week on his website The Privacy Guy and goes into extreme detail on why this isn't a good look for Google. …
NAACP sues xAI over data center pollution - Engadget
… The lawsuit claims that xAI — the Elon Musk-founded AI startup now owned by SpaceX — is operating 27 gas turbines without an air permit to power Colossus 2, one of a growing number of data centers xAI has set up to train Grok, its AI assistant. …