Meta Names Ex-Epic Executive to Run Reality Labs, Shifting Focus
Meta Platforms has picked a video-game veteran to run its money-losing virtual reality division, a leadership change that signals a quieter strategy for the unit once seen as the company’s…
BYD Joins the Humanoid Robot Race, Citing Its Car Technology
BYD, the Chinese automaker that became the world’s largest seller of electric vehicles, is developing humanoid robots, making it the second major car company to stake a claim in a…
Amazon Shows AI-Generated Product Photos in Search Results
Some of the products appearing in Amazon’s search results do not exist. The retailer has begun displaying AI-generated images for certain items, and in tests by The Verge, searches for…
Suno Raises $400 Million While Fighting the Music Industry
Suno, the AI company that lets anyone generate a song from a text prompt, has raised $400 million in new funding even as it fights a copyright battle that could…
Oura Ring 5 Gets Thinner, Lighter, Smarter
The computer on your finger is getting an upgrade. Oura, the company that made the smart ring a category, has released the fifth generation of its namesake device, and the…
WeChat Lets Phone Assistants Place Its Calls
WeChat, the messaging service used by more than a billion people, is opening its most guarded asset: the ability to place calls and send messages. The company said this week…
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…
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…
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…
Meta Turns WhatsApp Into a Customer Service Machine, With AI Agents for Every Business
LONDON — The small business had a familiar problem: customers asked the same five questions all day, and a human could not be in three conversations at once. The shop…
