Analysis
Sometimes the news can be complicated and nuanced, which is why our experts go deeper into the most important developments and trends in the tech world to help you understand how they might evolve through analysis, explainers, critical takes, and expert points of view.



Apple’s and Amazon’s new smart displays might make smart displays actually useful.

It’s thinner, lighter, and has an incredible OLED display, but after all this time, the touchscreen feels like an afterthought.

Anthropic faces intense competitive pressure and huge fixed costs. Can Claude build itself fast enough to succeed?

Yes, of course there are pay package incentives in play for Musk. But that’s not all.



Between The Social Reckoning, You Can See Everything, Musk, and Artificial, filmmakers are taking Big Tech to task.

If Apple’s first smart display finally gets my family to actually use my smart home, I’ll consider it a win.

Tech companies with new AI hardware want you to agree that always-listening, often-recapping devices don’t count as recording.











Meta’s new tool is very cute — and heavily inspired by its open-source predecessor.







An Anthropic researcher’s resignation letter went viral, and the company released details of four concerning cybersecurity incidents.







Recent US Open shenanigans and YouTubers’ disastrous golf ad show a risky relationship between brands and influencers.

Meta is back to adding AI labels on original photos, while not tagging AI images it should.

It emphasized stronger guardrails for GPT-6 Astra after the company’s models hacked Hugging Face.

After years of living with home robots, I think we’re chasing the wrong machine.



Cook’s 15-year tenure as Apple CEO was filled with ups and downs.

Over 1,000 AI agents sent 70,000 messages on a secret message board and worked together to evade OpenAI’s restrictions.



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