The signal, not the noise
The opening keynote at IFA 2026 was held by AMD and our team on the ground was there to see it. During the event, AMD announced the Threadripper Halo Station, a liquid-cooled workstation built around the 96-core Threadripper PRO 9995WX CPU codenamed "Shimada Peak" and up to four AMD Instinct MI350P accelerators.
Today at Lenovo Innovation World 2026, Lenovo expanded its vision for Personal AI with its latest consumer portfolio of laptops, desktops, and smarter experiences. Together, the distinctive IdeaPad Vibe series and IdeaCentre AIO desktops give consumers a broader range of devices designed to reflect different lifestyles and everyday needs.
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The three-year-old startup says it reached $15 million in ARR and profitability before raising its latest $15 million round.
A federal judge ruled the Trump administration illegally labeled Anthropic a supply-chain risk, handing the AI company a victory as its second Pentagon lawsuit continues in Washington.
Forget email surveys or long calls spent on hold. Voicebox lets people send customer feedback by recording a voice note on their phone.
China once waited for fast-growing industries to create problems before cracking down. With artificial intelligence, regulators are creating policies much earlier.
An extremely fortunate bargain hunter in Kuwait found three Samsung 980 Pro 2TB SSDs slotted inside a $30 PCIe expansion card. Each of those drives is worth between $400 and $500, so it's clear to say the thrifter struck gold during an AI rush.
Cradlewise has raised $12 million to expand its AI-powered cribs, as questions remain over its finances, child data collection and compliance with India’s DPDP framework. The post Cradlewise raises $12 million to make AI cribs for newborns: What about DPDP compliance?
GoPro is merging with a company that builds AI infrastructure, and will continue supporting existing consumer products.
CETLS will focus on students up to Class 12, higher education, executive training, and learning for the third age
Today at Lenovo Innovation World during IFA 2026, Lenovo unveiled a new portfolio of personal and enterprise technology, showing how its Hybrid AI strategy is moving from vision to practical experiences across devices, infrastructure, services, and the everyday moments that connect them.
Rockstar is making major changes to GTA 6, including a more tactical gunplay system than in previous GTA games. Australian creator TGG has revealed new details about GTA 6's gunplay and combat after a two-hour preview at Rockstar North with studio co-head Rob Nelson.
Amazon is adding a new Alexa-powered feature called “Update Me When” that can send personalized alerts about product launches, tours, books, shows, and other events that could trigger a purchase.
Sandhya Devanathan will oversee some OpenAI operations across Southeast Asia and Australia in her new role.
This is Adobe's second acquisition out of India after Rephrase.ai in 2023
Apple’s annual hardware launch event may feel different as the company welcomes a new CEO alongside a folding iPhone.
AMD's Threadripper Halo Station packs a 96-core Zen 5 Threadripper, dual MI350P accelerators with support for four, and 2TB of DDR5.
AIR's platform can discover agents running at a company, continuously vets any skills and add-ons they use, and blocks any unwanted behavior.
The family-focused AI assistant wants access to the details of your everyday life, but says it won’t use that data to train AI models or share it with others.
Confusion is a generally accepted side effect of mystery box shows. They slather on secrets with the promise of a satisfying payoff in the end, and sometimes the cast and crew even have a hard time following what's going on.
Huawei has released its third trifold phone in China, and the company has clearly had half an eye on Samsung during development. Not only does the Mate XT 2 adopt the inward-folding form factor used on Samsung's Galaxy Z TriFold, it's also the first foldable to include a privacy-enhancing display, much like the one Samsung […]
I’ve tested every single Kindle. Here’s how Amazon’s ebook readers stack up.
Qualcomm Technologies has announced the Dragonwing Q-2390 and IQ-2390 processors ahead of IFA 2026. The Dragonwing Q-2390 is designed for consumer, commercial and enterprise IoT products, while the Dragonwing IQ-2390 is the first processor in the company’s new IQ2 Series for industrial edge applications.
Looming on the horizon. Rockstar Games has said Grand Theft Auto 6 will have no microtransactions or generative AI when it launches in November.The studio behind GTA 6 confirmed this year's monumental open-world game will dodge two potentially controversial practices during a conversation with Kinda Funny Games earlier this week.
Frontier intelligence is going local. At IFA 2026, NVIDIA, Microsoft and its partners are teaming up to provide faster inference and new tools that make agents easier to set up and run locally on NVIDIA hardware.
Ramamoorthy outlined how localised AI solutions could enhance operational efficiency and mitigate tech debt
1666: Amsterdam developer, Panache Games, previously acknowledged the use of AI-generated assets in the 1666: Amsterdam prologue in a statement following its appearance at the Summer Game Fest, claiming that there were "early versions of assets" in the game's prologue and promising that these assets would be replaced by human-made versions in the game's…
AI Compute-as-a-Service to let AI firms contract dedicated capacity
Users can search for emails or draft documents using the new conversational feature.