The New Wild West of AI Kids’ Toys
…and robots, with a choice of offline models that run on-device on Mac computers. Or, you know, there’s always “dumb” toys. Updated May 14, 2026: We've added a comment…
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Buying a Smart Smoke Detector Turns Out to Be a Little Dumb
Smart smoke detectors will let you know if a fire breaks out when you aren't home, but other than that they don't offer any extra benefits over a “dumb” model…
Meta Silently Added Face-Recognition Code for Its Smart Glasses to Millions of Phones
Code discreetly added to Meta’s AI app over multiple updates this year shows that the feature, internally called “NameTag,” identifies people captured by the glasses’ camera and, when activated, alerts the…
Our Favorite Wireless Headphones Are $60 Off
…The listening experience has gotten a lot better with the updated model too, thanks to both better sound isolation and the upgraded processing. Our reviewer Parker Hall noted that “classics like the…
How to Use Apple’s Live Translation on Your AirPods
…or any iPhone 16 or iPhone 17 model, are needed. You also have to have downloaded and installed the latest iOS 26 software update on your phone. With those prerequisites out of…
GoPro’s New Mission 1 Cameras Have 8K Video and Interchangeable Lenses
…model Mission 1 is capable of 8K 30-fps video with slow-motion modes at 4K 120 fps and 1080p 480 fps. The Mission 1 and Mission 1 Pro use an updated…
AI Agents Plunged the Tech World Into Chaos. Here’s Exactly How That Happened
…Anthropic has what it describes as a “notoriously difficult” take-home exam for prospective engineering hires; in a head-to-head comparison of those people and its models, Anthropic claimed that Opus…
Musk v. Altman Is a Battle for OpenAI’s Soul
…an edition of Maxwell Zeff’s Model Behavior newsletter. Read previous newsletters here. Updated: 4/16/26, 7:05 pm EST: This story has been updated to clarify that Elon Musk’s…
WhatsApp Adds Meta AI Chats That Are Built to Be Fully Private
…Incognito Chat includes a feature that will be on by default but can be turned off to allow its AI model to search the web in an anonymized way for up-to…
Rivian’s CEO on Tesla’s Cybertruck, Ferrari’s Luce, and What Happens If the R2 Fails
…the Model 3 and the Model Y. These have been on the road for a while, yet they outsell everything else. If we want to electrify, we need to have a lot…