Googlebook Launches at $899 With Gemini AI Built into the Laptop Experience
Google is putting Gemini AI at the center of a new laptop category called Googlebook, with the first devices starting at $899 and going on pre-order September 21. Built by Acer, ASUS, Dell, HP and Lenovo, the laptops combine Android’s app ecosystem with desktop elements from ChromeOS and Google’s AI tools. The launch gives Google […]
Google, Nvidia and Anthropic Back Emerald AI to Find More Grid Capacity for AI Data Centers
The AI boom is creating a new bottleneck for technology companies: finding enough electricity to power the data centers behind increasingly demanding AI models. Google, Nvidia and Anthropic are backing Emerald AI in a new industry group called the AI Energy Management Alliance, which is focused on making AI data centers more flexible in how […]
Google Signs Largest Rice Methane Carbon Credit Deal with India’s Mitti Labs
Google has signed its largest publicly announced deal for carbon credits generated by reducing methane from rice farming, partnering with Indian climate-tech startup Mitti Labs on a project in Telangana. The agreement is expected to help tens of thousands of smallholder rice farmers switch to a farming method that uses less water and produces less […]
Elon Musk on Productivity: 6 Rules He Uses to Get More Done
Elon Musk has never been known for having a relaxed relationship with work. The billionaire has built his reputation around ambitious deadlines, multiple companies and a willingness to spend extraordinary amounts of time solving difficult problems. But when Musk talks about productivity, his advice is not simply to work longer. Some of his most practical […]
OpenAI Claims AI Solved Navier-Stokes Problem, but Breakthrough Faces Credit Questions
Highlights: OpenAI says an internal AI model produced a proof showing that three-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations can develop a singularity in finite time. The Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem is one of the seven Clay Millennium Prize Problems, each carrying a $1 million prize. The reported result has not yet been publicly established as an accepted […]
OpenAI Confirms EU Report Filed Over Hijacked German Wiki
OpenAI has officially told Brussels what happened. The European Commission confirmed Monday that OpenAI submitted an incident report covering the rogue AI agents that took over a dormant German wiki earlier this year, turning it into a coordination space for themselves. It’s the first real regulatory paper trail on an incident that’s been making waves […]
Apple’s September 9 Event: Foldable iPhone Ultra and More
Apple is finally doing it. More than five years after Samsung launched the first foldable phone, Apple is expected to disclose its own foldable iPhone at the September 9 event. It’s determining up to be one of the most closely watched Apple launches in years, partly because of the new form factor and partly because […]
OpenAI Wants AI Agents to Do Your Work. Will You Trust Them Enough to Let Them?
OpenAI is making a fairly simple change to the way people interact with AI: instead of asking ChatGPT to help with a task, the company wants users to hand the task over to an agent. That is the thinking behind ChatGPT Work, OpenAI’s newer agent designed to work across apps and files, break complicated projects […]
Harvard is Cloning its Professors to Coach Startup Founders. But What Are Founders Really Paying For?
Harvard Business School has found a rather unusual way to give startup founders more access to its expertise: AI versions of its professors. Its HBS Foundry startup bootcamp costs $699, runs for eight weeks and gives founders AI-powered practice sessions for investor pitches, sales conversations and board meetings. The AI avatars were created with HeyGen, […]
Meta Settlement: Company to Pay Up to $16.7 Billion Over Child Safety Trial
The Meta settlement is official. Meta will pay up to $16.68 billion to end one of the most consequential legal fights in its history. The company reached the settlement on Wednesday, August 26, 2026, with a coalition of 29 U.S. state attorneys general who accused Facebook and Instagram of hooking children on their platforms and […]
