How the music industry is split over AI; some labels signed licensing deals for AI that mirror revenue splits they use with YouTube for user-generated content (Anna Nicolaou/Financial Times) Reviewed by Contributer on January 31, 2026 Rating: 5

Your Galaxy S25 Ultra is about to get a secret camera boost Reviewed by Contributer on January 31, 2026 Rating: 5

Filing: SpaceX is seeking FCC approval to launch 1M satellites into space; SpaceX claims the fleet will orbit the Earth and use the sun to power AI data centers (Reuters) Reviewed by Contributer on January 31, 2026 Rating: 5

Anthropic expands its agentic plugins, which let enterprise users automate department-specific workflows, from Claude Code to its new general-use tool Cowork (Lucas Ropek/TechCrunch) Reviewed by Contributer on January 30, 2026 Rating: 5

Gurman: internal development at Apple "runs on Anthropic at this point", Apple wanted to rebuild Siri around Claude, but Anthropic's terms were too steep (@tbpn) Reviewed by Contributer on January 30, 2026 Rating: 5

Bluesky releases its first transparency report: users rose 60% in 2025 to 41.2M, including AT Protocol accounts; moderation reports from users grew 54% to 9.97M (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) Reviewed by Contributer on January 30, 2026 Rating: 5

Why resume work feels different when the process is calm Reviewed by unique on January 29, 2026 Rating: 5

Make a video game where you play as your own cat in Google’s new virtual world creator Reviewed by Contributer on January 29, 2026 Rating: 5

Apple acquires Q.ai, whose tech can analyze facial expressions and could enable non-verbal discussions with AI assistants; sources: the deal values Q.ai at ~$2B (Financial Times) Reviewed by Contributer on January 29, 2026 Rating: 5

“The Little Tool That Stopped Interrupting My Day” Reviewed by unique on January 29, 2026 Rating: 5

One Less Thing to Worry About During the Workday Reviewed by unique on January 28, 2026 Rating: 5

Google Chrome gets new features that turn it into a personal assistant Reviewed by Contributer on January 28, 2026 Rating: 5

Following UK CMA's proposals, Google says it is exploring controls to let websites opt out of AI Overviews and AI Mode (Barry Schwartz/Search Engine Roundtable) Reviewed by Contributer on January 28, 2026 Rating: 5

What Is a VPN and How Does It Work? A Complete Guide with Thunder VPN Reviewed by unique on January 28, 2026 Rating: 5

Google expands its AI Plus subscription to 35 new countries and territories, including the US at $7.99/month, with "enhanced access" to Gemini 3 Pro and more (Abner Li/9to5Google) Reviewed by Contributer on January 27, 2026 Rating: 5

DeepSeek launches DeepSeek-OCR 2, an upgraded optical character recognition model that replaces OpenAI-developed CLIP framework with Alibaba's Qwen2-0.5b (Ben Jiang/South China Morning Post) Reviewed by Contributer on January 27, 2026 Rating: 5

Amazon’s latest OnePlus Pad 3 deal makes even a Sammy fanboy like me feel tempted Reviewed by Contributer on January 26, 2026 Rating: 5

Qwen releases Qwen3-Max-Thinking, its flagship reasoning model that it says demonstrates performance comparable to models such as GPT-5.2 Thinking and Opus 4.5 (Qwen) Reviewed by Contributer on January 26, 2026 Rating: 5

Redmi Note 15 Pro+ 5G Review: Xiaomi's best mid-ranger takes on Pixel 9a Reviewed by Contributer on January 25, 2026 Rating: 5

Did Google kill Gmailify because it became too expensive to maintain in the AI era? Reviewed by Contributer on January 25, 2026 Rating: 5

Power prices surge in Virginia, home to the world's largest data center hub; record demand is expected during the winter storm, partly due to data center needs (Tim McLaughlin/Reuters) Reviewed by Contributer on January 25, 2026 Rating: 5

SanDisk's stock has surged ~1,000% in the past five months, driven by AI demand for its chips, which have a cost advantage thanks to its 20-year JV with Kioxia (Matt Phillips/Sherwood News) Reviewed by Contributer on January 24, 2026 Rating: 5

Gemini Live is getting a major upgrade for multitasking Reviewed by Contributer on January 24, 2026 Rating: 5

Nifty Gateway, the NFT trading platform which had facilitated $300M in sales by mid-2021, enters withdrawal-only mode and plans to shut down on Feb. 23, 2026 (CoinDesk) Reviewed by Contributer on January 24, 2026 Rating: 5

Does this headline even matter? Google Discover is writing its own with AI Reviewed by Contributer on January 23, 2026 Rating: 5

Galaxy S26 base storage is all but confirmed, and you’ll love the news Reviewed by Contributer on January 23, 2026 Rating: 5

Source: smart ring maker Oura plans a tender offer for early investors at a 25% discount to its $11B valuation from Series E, aiming to stay private longer (Bloomberg) Reviewed by Contributer on January 23, 2026 Rating: 5

Sources: Apple expanded the job of hardware chief John Ternus to manage design teams at the end of 2025, solidifying his status as a leading CEO candidate (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg) Reviewed by Contributer on January 22, 2026 Rating: 5

Forget smart speakers — Nintendo’s chatty new gadget will talk to you all day long Reviewed by Contributer on January 22, 2026 Rating: 5

Yelp acquires Hatch, which charges a monthly fee for AI-powered agents that can respond to customer inquiries and make appointments, for $300M (Laura Mandaro/The Information) Reviewed by Contributer on January 22, 2026 Rating: 5

Google Chat is just now getting a feature Teams and Slack have had for years Reviewed by Contributer on January 21, 2026 Rating: 5

Ubisoft cancels six games and delays others amid a restructuring into five genre-specific "creative houses"; it expects net bookings of ~€1.5B for FY 2025-2026 (Benoit Berthelot/Bloomberg) Reviewed by Contributer on January 21, 2026 Rating: 5

Demis Hassabis says Chinese AI companies are about six months behind leading western labs and the response to DeepSeek's R1 was a "massive overreaction" (Bloomberg) Reviewed by Contributer on January 20, 2026 Rating: 5

The UK government will take a £25M stake in Octopus Energy's tech spin-off Kraken, last valued at $8.65B, in an effort to encourage Kraken to list in London (Financial Times) Reviewed by Contributer on January 19, 2026 Rating: 5

Google Calendar is making it harder to lose track of all your multiple calendars Reviewed by Contributer on January 19, 2026 Rating: 5

Most people would ditch the Galaxy S Ultra if Samsung doesn’t change something Reviewed by Contributer on January 19, 2026 Rating: 5

Similarweb: Claude's web audience more than doubled in December 2025 compared with December 2024, as many coders spent their holiday breaks on a "Claude bender" (Bradley Olson/Wall Street Journal) Reviewed by Contributer on January 18, 2026 Rating: 5

Google seeks to reduce the appearance of bogus News and Sports headlines Reviewed by Contributer on January 18, 2026 Rating: 5

Inside the 2026 National Retail Federation conference in New York City, where integrating AI into retail businesses was the overarching theme on the expo floor (New York Times) Reviewed by Contributer on January 18, 2026 Rating: 5

CoinGecko: over 53% of the 20.2M crypto tokens launched since 2021 are now inactive, with 7.7M tokens failing in Q4 2025, after Oct. 10 "liquidation cascade" (Helene Braun/CoinDesk) Reviewed by Contributer on January 18, 2026 Rating: 5

Some Verizon subscribers claim the carrier agreed to credit them $50-$100 for Wednesday's outage Reviewed by Contributer on January 17, 2026 Rating: 5

This OxygenOS update breathes new life into the OnePlus 13 — literally Reviewed by Contributer on January 17, 2026 Rating: 5

Luminate 2025 report: the global music industry hit 5.1T streams, up 9.6% YoY and a single-year record; AI artist Xania Monet had 125M on-demand audio streams (Maria Sherman/Associated Press) Reviewed by Contributer on January 17, 2026 Rating: 5

ZachXBT: a crypto user lost $282M+ in BTC and LTC in a hardware wallet social engineering scam; XMR jumped as the attacker began converting the funds to Monero (Daniel Kuhn/The Block) Reviewed by Contributer on January 17, 2026 Rating: 5

Unsealed docs from Elon Musk's OpenAI lawsuit, set for a jury trial on April 27: Sutskever's concerns about treating open-source AI as a "side show", and more (Alex Heath/Sources) Reviewed by Contributer on January 16, 2026 Rating: 5