AI may have just won a literary prize. My heart weeps seeing it poison our love for books.

Three of five winning stories in the 2026 Commonwealth Short Story Prize have been flagged as AI-generated, and it’s a lot bigger deal than you might think.

Canva and Adobe are coming to Gemini, and they want to make everything chatty

Adobe and Canva are coming to Google Gemini, turning the assistant into a starting point for design work while raising bigger questions about who controls the creative workflow.

Americans can now use healthcare funds to buy e-bikes at a huge discount
Americans can now use healthcare funds to buy e-bikes at a huge discount

For many Americans, the idea of buying an electric bike with healthcare funds probably sounds somewhere between confusing and too good to be true.

But increasingly, that’s becoming a real option.

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Tesla (TSLA) officially abandons India factory after years of broken promises
Tesla (TSLA) officially abandons India factory after years of broken promises

Tesla has officially confirmed it will not build a manufacturing facility in India, ending nearly a decade of negotiations, false starts, and broken promises with the Indian government.

India’s Minister of Heavy Industries H.D. Kumaraswamy confirmed…

AI can pass the Turing Test in live chats and appear more human than us. I am spooked now

A UC San Diego study found GPT-4.5 was judged human more often than real people in live chats, raising sharper questions about AI disclosure, trust, and online identity.

Google wants Gemini to help build the next big scientific breakthrough

Google’s Gemini for Science pushes AI beyond research summaries, with experimental tools for hypotheses, computational testing, and literature review. The bigger question is whether it can earn trust inside real labs.

Android 17 is getting its own version of Apple’s Handoff
Android 17 is getting its own version of Apple’s Handoff

Google is adding a new Android feature that resembles Apple’s Handoff, allowing you to start a task on your Android phone and continue it right where you left off from a compatible tablet. “Continue On” is designed to eventually be bidirectional, but Google says that at launch it will only support tasks moving from a […]

Einride L4 autonomous electric semi truck gets real – in Ohio
Einride L4 autonomous electric semi truck gets real – in Ohio

After a successful pilot in Europe, Swedish AI logistics firm Einride is deploying its SAE Level 4 autonomous electric semi trucks in the US, connecting EASE Logistics warehouses in Marysville, Ohio as part of the DriveOhio Truck Automation Corridor Pr…

Forza Horizon 6 gives Game Pass its next must-play

Forza Horizon 6 hits Game Pass today with a Japan-set open world, cloud and handheld support, and access for Ultimate and PC Game Pass subscribers.

Discord calls finally get end-to-end encryption, but your DMs didn’t make the cut 

Discord’s multi-year encryption project is done. Every call is now E2EE by default across consoles, mobile, and browsers. However, there’s a catch that you might want to know.