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Google announced Tuesday that it is releasing a slew of Android 16 updates, along with new general Android features and accessibility features. The rollout of new features in Android 16, which will arrive first on Pixel devices, marks a new chapter in how Android updates are delivered, as the company moves from once-a-year updates to more frequent releases. Android 16 adds AI-powered notification summaries that quickly condense long messages and group chats into at-a-glance summaries. The new Notification Organizer automatically groups and silences low-priority notifications like promotions, news, and social alerts. The update also provides more ways to customize your…
Sam Altman is feeling the pressure.OpenAI’s CEO sent a memo to staff on Monday outlining a “Code Red” effort to improve the chatbot ChatGPT, according to multiple reports. According to the report, Altman said that OpenAI will be withdrawing investments in areas such as health, shopping, and advertising in order to prioritize ChatGPT.OpenAI declined to comment Tuesday.”Our focus now is to further enhance ChatGPT’s capabilities to make it more intuitive and personal as we continue to grow and expand access around the world,” Nick Turley, head of ChatGPT at OpenAI, said in a post on X on Monday.The memo was…
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Monday that Belarus’s representative in Brussels had been summoned and that Belarus’ violation of Lithuanian airspace was a “hybrid attack” by Lukashenko’s government. “The situation on the Belarusian border is deteriorating, with increasing numbers of smuggled balloons entering Lithuanian airspace,” von der Leyen said after a meeting with Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda. Her comments came after Lithuania’s Vilnius Airport announced on Monday that “temporary airspace restrictions” had been introduced over the airport over the weekend due to “characteristic navigation signals of balloons moving in the direction of Vilnius Airport.” European airports…
What do American Idol contestants do when they’re not on the show?They are still very busy. Season 2 winner Ruben Studdard recalled how packed his schedule was with song selection, preparation, vocal coaching, and filming show packages and commercials.“I got the song on Thursday,” he recalled in a 2023 interview with West Bird. “We chose the songs on Friday. We recorded the commercials Friday through Saturday, and made the final selections on Sunday. Then we went to the studio Sunday night to Monday night to make sure everything fit the track. Then on Tuesday morning, we did a dry run…
US President Donald Trump waves as he boards Air Force One at Palm Beach International Airport on his way back to Washington, DC, on November 30, 2025. Jim Watson | AFP | Getty ImagesPresident Donald Trump underwent an MRI scan in October to assess his cardiovascular and abdominal health, and the resulting images were “completely normal,” the White House physician announced Monday.The results of President Trump’s magnetic resonance imaging test were released a day after the 79-year-old president told reporters he had “no idea” what part of his body was scanned, and three days later, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz responded…
Tesla CEO Elon Musk attends the US-Saudi Investment Forum held at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, USA on Wednesday, November 19, 2025.Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesElon Musk has once again sounded the alarm about the dangers of AI, naming what he sees as the three most important elements to ensure a positive future for the technology. Billionaire CEO teslaSpaceX, xAI, X, and The Boring Company appeared on a podcast with Indian billionaire Nikhil Kamath on Sunday.”AI does not guarantee a positive future,” Musk said on the podcast. “When you create powerful technology, you run the risk of it…
Anyone who loves beauty knows the million dollar question while preparing for a big trip. Should you get reusable TSA-friendly containers and fill them with your current favorite products, or buy a set that includes mini versions of products you’ve always wanted to try? It can be risky to change your entire routine to travel…but if you’re obsessed with trying new products and brands (like us), there’s never been a better time. Hear from someone who did just that, literally, on a recent trip to Puerto Rico and brought along a set containing a mini version of a whole new…
A Kalsi billboard displays predictions for the New York City mayoral election, Monday, October 27, 2024, in New York City, USA. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesKalsi bettors can now buy and sell tokenized versions of their stakes on Solana, the company exclusively told CNBC on Monday. This is the latest sign that the prediction market firm is stepping up efforts to court the same crypto holders who have funneled billions of dollars in digital assets to rival Polymarket.Tokenization refers to creating digital versions of real-world financial assets such as stocks, bonds, and Treasury bills. The resulting tokens can…
French AI startup Mistral launched its new Mistral 3 family of open-weight models on Tuesday. It’s a launch aimed at leading the way in bringing AI to the public and proving it can serve enterprise customers better than its Big Tech rivals.The 10-model release includes a large Frontier model with multimodal and multilingual capabilities, and nine smaller models that are offline-enabled and fully customizable. The announcement comes as Mistral, which develops open weight language models and Europe-focused AI chatbot Le Chat, appears to be catching up to some of Silicon Valley’s closed-source frontier models. Open-weight models expose the model weights,…
Mateusz Srodkowski | SOPA Images | Light Rocket | Getty ImagesAmazon’s The cloud division on Tuesday unveiled AI-enabled software designed to help customers understand and recover from outages. DevOps Agent is an Amazon Web Services artificial intelligence tool that predicts the cause of technical problems using input from third-party tools such as: data dog and dyna trace. AWS said customers could sign up to use the tool in preview on Tuesday before Amazon starts charging for the service.AWS’ AI outage tools are intended to help businesses more quickly identify the cause of outages and implement fixes, Swami Sivasubramanian, vice president…