Dell’s $699 XPS 13 walks straight into MacBook Neo territory
Dell’s $699 XPS 13 walks straight into MacBook Neo territory

Dell unveiled a new XPS 13 at Computex on Sunday with a starting price of $699 for general consumers and $599 for students aged 16 and over, the first time the company’s flagship thin-and-light laptop line has launched anywhere near MacBook Neo territo…

Spotify tests narrated magazine articles inside the audiobook tier
Spotify tests narrated magazine articles inside the audiobook tier

Spotify began testing a new content format on Tuesday: narrated long-form magazine articles, slotted in alongside audiobooks rather than podcasts. The launch announced from the company’s newsroom on Tuesday morning, includes more than 650 English-langu…

Forum is Meta’s new Facebook Groups app, and it looks a lot like Reddit
Forum is Meta’s new Facebook Groups app, and it looks a lot like Reddit

The new standalone app sits on top of Facebook Groups, adds an AI tab called “Ask” and an admin assistant, and arrives the same month Mark Zuckerberg told staff he and Chris Cox had discussed whether they could build 50 new apps. Meta has released a ne…

Firefox is getting its biggest redesign in six years, and compact mode is coming back
Firefox is getting its biggest redesign in six years, and compact mode is coming back

Mozilla has officially unveiled Project Nova, the largest visual overhaul of Firefox since 2020. The redesign touches tabs, icons, spacing, colour palette, and settings, with the goal of making the browser feel warmer and faster without losing its iden…

Google announces Pics, a Workspace-native AI image generator that goes after Canva on precision editing
Google announces Pics, a Workspace-native AI image generator that goes after Canva on precision editing

Pics, powered by Nano Banana 2, lets users generate images from a text prompt and then move, resize, or translate individual elements without re-rolling the whole composition. Rolling out to Workspace Business Standard and higher, and to Google AI Pro …

Google launches Gemini Omni Flash, a conversational video-generation model with avatar mode held back
Google launches Gemini Omni Flash, a conversational video-generation model with avatar mode held back

The first model in DeepMind’s new Omni family will generate and edit video from any combination of image, audio, video, and text inputs. Speech-editing is being withheld; SynthID watermarking is on by default. Google introduced Gemini Omni on Tuesday a…

The company that outsells Tesla on humanoid robots just unveiled a pilotable mecha. Unitree is filing for a $7 billion IPO.
The company that outsells Tesla on humanoid robots just unveiled a pilotable mecha. Unitree is filing for a $7 billion IPO.

  Unitree Robotics has unveiled a 2.8-metre transformable mecha that a human pilot climbs inside and operates from an open cockpit in the torso. The GD01 walks on two legs, folds into a quadruped configuration in seconds, weighs roughly 500 kilograms w…

Meta launches Incognito Chat on WhatsApp, the first AI mode it says even Meta cannot read
Meta launches Incognito Chat on WhatsApp, the first AI mode it says even Meta cannot read

The new mode runs Meta AI on WhatsApp inside the company’s Private Processing enclave, with conversations deleted by default and no server-side record retained. Meta has launched an Incognito Chat mode for Meta AI on WhatsApp and the Meta AI app, an ef…

A Berlin side project just became the orchestration layer of SAP’s AI platform. n8n is now worth $5.2 billion.
A Berlin side project just became the orchestration layer of SAP’s AI platform. n8n is now worth $5.2 billion.

  Jan Oberhauser started n8n in 2019 as a side project in Berlin because the workflow automation tools he used at work were too expensive and too closed. Seven years later, SAP has embedded his company’s software inside Joule Studio, the agent-building…

Google killed the Chromebook. Its replacement turns your cursor into an AI agent.
Google killed the Chromebook. Its replacement turns your cursor into an AI agent.

  Google killed the Chromebook. It took 15 years, but the company that invented the browser-as-operating-system has concluded that a browser is not enough. At the Android Show on Monday, Google unveiled Googlebook, a new category of premium laptops run…