Tech

Amazon Alexa+ released to the general public via an early access website

Amazon brings back browser-based Alexa but will eventually add a paywall.

Former Google CEO plans to singlehandedly fund a Hubble telescope replacement

“This is a very significant contribution to the astronomical community.”

X restricts Grok's image generation to paying subscribers only after drawing the world's ire

Elon Musk's AI company has restricted Grok's controversial AI image-generation feature to only paying subscribers on X, after the tool invited heated criticism from across the world for letting users generate sexualized images of women and children.

Anthropic adds Allianz to growing list of enterprise wins

Anthropic announces its first enterprise deal of 2026 which includes building agents and for, and giving Claude code, to Allianz.

Governments grapple with the flood of non-consensual nudity on X

For the past two weeks, X has been flooded with AI-manipulated nude images, created by the Grok AI chatbot — and governments around the world are promising to take action.

‘Amazon Basics’ AI models.

That’s what some AWS employees call the company’s own AI model Nova due to its lackluster performance compared to other commercial models, Amazon insiders told The Information. Company leaders are reportedly starting to worry about how reliant AWS’s flagship AI products, such as Rufus and Kiro, are on Anthropic’s AI models.