Dominic Preston

In case you haven’t heard, RAMageddon is here. And while the tech industry will survive this apocalypse, it might well be forever changed by it.

The “conversational” assistant was announced for phones last month, after a rollout on TVs, and is now available in the One UI 8.5 beta in the US and a few other countries. Expect to hear more about it, and its full release plans, at next week’s Unpacked.

Amid reports that Meta is preparing to release a smartwatch later this year, one Verge commenter has already figured out what the social media giant is going to do with all that new data.

He faces potential “misconduct in public office” charges, related to documents he allegedly passed to Jeffrey Epstein while serving as a trade envoy. Already stripped of his titles, he made a few appearances in the files, and is the first senior British royal to be arrested since 1647.

Chatbots could bring back the golden age of search spam, as one BBC journalist found after publishing a blog post about his (fake) hot dog eating exploits, which fed right into AI answers. SEO spam is nothing new, but Gemini’s confident attribution to hot dog “reporting” makes things a whole lot worse.

Look, if you’re going to build a product that sits below a car’s backup camera and squirts it clean every now and then, there’s really only one name you can give it, and it isn’t Lens Lizard.

As Axios reports that the Department of Defense and / or War is preparing to brand Anthropic a “supply chain risk,” one commenter wonders if the Claude company might revisit its Super Bowl ad to turn that to its advantage.

CEO Carl Pei had previously teased the date in a playful response to Apple’s recently announced event on the 4th, but now it’s official. With no Phone 4 this year, the 4A, and likely 4A Pro, should be Nothing’s biggest releases in 2026.

It can apparently recognize how much influence a given track or artist had on AI content, and can work with or without cooperation from AI developers. Sony thinks it could be used to create a licensing system for AI music, but “has yet to decide” when it might be put to use.