The biggest stories in technology - software, hardware, and the platforms shaping how we live and work.
Google Images turns 25 with a redesign: a personalized "For You" gallery, collections, and Nano Banana image generation built into AI Overviews on Search.
WhatsApp is developing its own cloud backup for iPhone. Backups on WhatsApp servers use mandatory end-to-end encryption - iCloud makes that optional.
X pushed a ranking change Monday that boosts mutual followers in replies. Nikita Bier says mutual-follow data was simply missing from the X algorithm entirely.
Apple acquired assets and employees from SigScalr, the maker of open-source observability tool SigLens. Deal closed March 12. No financial terms disclosed.
Claude Code desktop now has a built-in browser. Claude reads docs, clicks through sites, and interacts with pages - sandboxed from your personal profile.
GPT-5.6 is now the default in Microsoft 365 Copilot - Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Chat. The catch: Microsoft is also quietly building its own AI models.
ChatGPT Work is GPT-5.6 for enterprise teams. Claude Cowork is Claude for individual non-developers. Side-by-side comparison of both AI workspaces.
Meta Model API opens in public preview today. Developers get Muse Spark 1.1 - Meta's agentic model with 1M context and an OpenAI-compatible endpoint.
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 family goes public today after 12 days behind a White House gate. Sol, Terra, and Luna are now live - and Sol gamed its own safety tests.
Grok 4.5 vs Claude Fable 5 vs GPT-5.5: benchmark scores, pricing per million tokens, and token efficiency compared across four coding evaluations.
Gemini 3.5 Pro targets July 17 with a 2M token context window. Google rebuilt it from scratch. DeepSeek's deepseek-chat and deepseek-reasoner aliases stop responding July 24.
Apple committed more than $30 billion to Broadcom for US-made chips and wireless components. Broadcom expands its Fort Collins, Colorado plant with $1.5 billion.
