I connected Claude to Gmail, and it got to know me scarily well — as well as saving me time

If you don’t mind Claude having a shuffle around your inbox, it can quickly get up to speed with your way of working.

‘We are livid and still trying to get all the details’: Google Cloud accused of suspending major customer without any warning, leading to major outage

Railway takes ownership of outage, but says “a temporary loss of service” was caused by Google Cloud “incorrectly placing our account in a suspended status.”

‘We crossed that about 3 months ago’: A16z’s Marc Andreessen drops huge bombshell about AGI on Joe Rogan’s podcast

Marc Andreessen says the latest frontier models have realized AGI – tech leaders believe the boundaries are shifting.

‘Resistance is futile’: the 5 most revealing quotes from Computex 2026 — and what they tell us about the future of computing

Weighty quotes from the likes of Microsoft’s Satya Nadella and Nvidia’s Jensen Huang, with a Borg-like prediction from Qualcomm’s Cristiano Amon.

Hasbro is turning Optimus Prime and Mr. Potato Head into AI-powered voices — which is one sure-fire way to ruin our childhood memories

Hasbro’s new AI character initiative may be a smart licensing strategy, but transforming iconic childhood figures into endlessly available conversational AI could weaken the very magic that made them beloved in the first p…

I just watched a robot kick a child and I’m over it — let’s keep robots away from people until these bots are 100% safe

A humanoid robot was filmed accidentally kicking a child in the chest, and it’s probably time for us to rethink bringing these early bots inside our homes.

Anthropic’s bizarre call for everyone to slow down on AI is a pipe dream — here’s why that will never happen

Anthropic’s fears about recursive development are well-founded, but its idea for how to control it is laughable.