Google’s Phone App Now Flags Deepfake Callers, Using a Digital Handshake
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — The call came from the number of a contact saved in the phone, and the voice on the line sounded like that person, warm and familiar,…
OpenAI’s Codex Adds Plugins for Six Professions, Reaching Into Banking
NEW YORK — The workflow OpenAI demonstrated for its new investment banking plugin looked like a junior banker’s morning compressed into seconds. Codex pulled the comparable transactions, checked them against…
Microsoft’s Project Solara Puts an Operating System on Standalone AI Devices
SEATTLE — The device on the Build 2026 stage had no screen, no keyboard, and no obvious way to control it. It was a small black puck sitting on a…
Microsoft’s Scout Assistant Manages Your Calendar, and Learns How You Work
SEATTLE — The demonstration began with a calendar that had gone wrong. Three meetings had been double-booked, a deadline had slipped, and a policy document was due in two hours.…
NVIDIA’s RTX Spark Lands in Microsoft’s Surface, Opening a New Front in PC Chips
SEATTLE — The laptop looked like every other premium ultraportable on the Build 2026 stage: thin metal chassis, edge-to-edge display, the kind of machine executives carry to meetings. Then the…
Microsoft Ships Seven In-House AI Models, Testing Its Ties to OpenAI
SEATTLE — On the Build 2026 stage, a Microsoft engineer handed a new reasoning model a 40,000-line codebase and asked it to find a memory leak, explain the cause in…
A Startup Raises $10 Million to Police AI Output Before It Reaches Customers
Kumesh Aroomoogan has raised venture money before, but nothing like this. The chief executive of ZeroDrift, a New York startup that sits between AI systems and their users to catch…
Reviewers Call Google’s Gemini Spark the Most Impressive, and Most Disturbing, AI Yet
The Verge’s Sean Hollister tested Google’s new always-on AI agent and came away with a two-sided verdict: the most impressive and terrifying AI experience he has had. WIRED’s reviewer gave…
At Computex, Qualcomm Declares the Year of the Agents as Intel Fields a Demand Surprise
Cristiano Amon opened Computex on June 1 with a declaration that set the tone for the show: 2026 is the year of the agents. The Qualcomm chief executive used the…
DuckDuckGo’s Bet Against AI Search Is Paying Off in Traffic
On May 28, traffic to DuckDuckGo’s AI-free search page tripled in a single day. The company had never seen a spike like it, and it has not come back down…
