This Speaker I Tried From Soundboks Can Handle a Real Party
…The Mix doesn’t quite compare with the more distinctly PA-like models we feature in our Karaoke Gear Guide —largely in a good way when it comes to audio quality—but…
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Since the new model can tap into ChatGPT’s “reasoning” capabilities, Images 2.0 can search the internet for recent information and generate more than one image at a time. In essence, the bot can use additional steps to output more thorough generations from a single prompt. Images 2.0 also has a more recent knowledge cutoff date: December 2025. This also means that outputs from the new model are more granular. For example, I generated an infographic with San Francisco’s weather forecast for the next day, as well as activities worth doing. The image ChatGPT generated included accurate weather de
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Inside OpenAI’s Race to Catch Up to Claude Code
…OpenAI would supply new models to power the tool, but this was Microsoft’s turf. OpenAI spent much of 2023 and 2024 investing instead in its multimodal AI models and agents—designed…
Meta’s New Reality: Record High Profits. Record Low Morale
…1,000 top engineers to a new Applied AI Engineering division working on tools and data to help research scientists develop better generative AI models. Anyone refusing a transfer faced the prospect…
Framework Has a Better, More Take-Apartable Laptop
…as the previous model, at just under 0.62 inches (16 mm) thick. At 3 pounds (1.4 kg), it’s relatively lightweight. It also comes in new colors, like anodized graphite…
I’ve Been Testing the New Sonos Play for Weeks. It’s My New Favorite
…The Play, which borrows its name from earlier Sonos models like the Play 1 and Play:5 , fills a crucial new niche in the family. As the third Sonos portable, the Play…
Oura’s New Ring 5 Is Smaller and Lighter—and Adds an AI Health Coach
…The new launch comes with a stronger emphasis on privacy controls, according to Oura. A new time-based Data Deletion feature lets users—across all Oura generations—erase data from specific periods…
AI Agents Are Coming for Your Dating Life
…Each agent runs atop a customized version of a large language model, fed with a mixture of publicly available data about a person and any additional information they supply. The agents are…
Google Search Goes Agentic—and Doesn’t Need You Anymore
…Alongside these agentic additions coming to Search, Google also announced a new underlying model, Gemini 3.5 Flash, as the global default model for AI Mode answers, as well as improvements to…
Apple Will Pay $250 Million to Settle Lawsuit Over Siri’s AI Features
…Marni Goldberg, an Apple spokesperson, gave a statement to The New York Times claiming that with “the launch of Apple Intelligence” Apple has “introduced dozens of features across many languages that are…
Physical Media Is Making a Comeback. The Next Console Generation Might Kill It
…lack a disc drive, and Sony even dropped the feature from the more powerful PS5 Pro—though both that and the Digital model can be upgraded with the sold-separately disc drive…