• Motorola's new Signature 27 has it all if you can stomach the $1,600 price tag
• Agility Robotics' Nasdaq debut invites scrutiny of humanoid robot market
• 2026 iPad mini review: Maximizing the mini
• Mercedes-AMG GT 4-Door Coupe first drive: Where tech and fun collide
• Nintendo's biggest ROM chip supplier is bowing out of the business
• Hackers exploited iOS and Android flaws to infect phones
• Uranium cubes reveal why the German nuclear project failed
• VMware releases vSphere Express for virtualization on up to 128 cores
• AMD's record quarter: Data center business doubles, while gaming craters
• Big Tech claims voters’ AI backlash is “anti-Trump” not “anti-tech”
• After Texas' blue wave, what happens to Elon Musk and SpaceX?
• Ted Cruz aims to stack FCC with Republicans before Democrats take Senate control
• People say they want small smartphones—the Enough Phone will put that to the test
• Binance says hackers who stole billions in crypto spent months planning heist
• What I learned driving the Slate electric truck prototype
• The DEA banned a drug some opioid users called a miracle
• California fights "preposterous" Trump admin demand to scrap state broadband laws
• Ukraine’s drone strikes spur hasty Russian plans for underground data centers
• NYT demands Brave shut down its paywall blocker and end deals with AI firms
• Buttons are back and storage is king when it comes to car interiors
| • Anthropic launches Personal Finance in Claude, letting users connect bank and credit card accounts via Plaid with read-only access to analyze spending trends (Radhika Rajkumar/ZDNET)
• Microsoft rolls out a Xbox PC app with an overhauled design to Xbox Insiders that it says launches up to 60% faster than before (Tom Warren/The Verge)
• OpenAI says GPT-6 Cyber will first launch to a limited number of customers in its Daybreak Red program and has found 81+ "novel" vulnerabilities in Firefox (Djohnson/CyberScoop)
• Marc Lore's Wonder files confidentially for a US IPO; the company, which acquired Grubhub for $650M in 2025, raised $650M at a $9B pre-money valuation in July (Reuters)
• OpenAI launches GPT-6 Cyber, which it says outperforms GPT-6 Astra on cyber benchmarks, is better at finding vulnerabilities, and is less likely to go rogue (Emma Roth/The Verge)
• Defense tech startup Shield AI raises $2.5B to help acquire radar company Echodyne, including a $1B Series H at a $28.8B valuation, up from $12.7B in March (Rebecca Torrence/Bloomberg)
• Aina, which raised $5.5M, launches an "AI ring" with a screen, joystick, and mic to let users talk to their AI agents, take notes, control Apple TV, and more (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
• Sources: Microsoft is tightening oversight of some data center projects, stepping away from those it deems risky, and debating whether to ink new neocloud deals (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)
• Greece's parliament approves a 10% capital gains tax on crypto, exempting gains of up to €500 a year, in the country's first comprehensive crypto tax framework (Lefteris Papadimas/Reuters)
• Google, Meta, and TikTok file lawsuits to block a California law that bans online platforms from providing "psychologically exploitative features" to under-16s (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)
• Motorola launches the $1,599+ Signature 27, featuring a Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 chipset, a 6.8-inch Tandem OLED display, and seven years of OS updates (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)
• Humble Robotics, which is building cabless electric autonomous trucks for regional routes under 250 miles, raised $51M, taking its total funding to $75M (Rya Jetha/Business Insider)
• Mercedes-Benz rolls out conversational models that run directly on its cars instead of the cloud through a partnership with MIT spinout Liquid AI (Isabelle Bousquette/Wall Street Journal)
• Dropbox plans to acquire AI storage startup Tigris Data for $350M, its largest acquisition to date; Tigris raised ~$31.9M from Spark, a16z, and others (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
• ElevenLabs says users can now publish AI-generated music made with ElevenMusic directly on SoundCloud and that users have created 25M+ tracks using its models (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
| • Now Claude can help with your finances too
• iPhone Duo just got a new accessibility feature in iOS 27.3 beta
• Lyft's new subscription bundles in DoorDash's DashPass for $10 per month
• Sony's MDR-3R wired headphones are steeped in retro aesthetics
• Instagram's Edits is now on desktop as a Mac app
• WhatsApp is taking on Partiful with expanded Events feature
• 2027 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 First Drive: Big displays meet big V8s
• Apple iMac M6 review: Faster, more expensive and deeply in need of a refresh
• MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display review: Lighter, brighter, but the touchscreen doesn't add much
• MacBook Pro M6 review: A slight upgrade, but still the most accessible MacBook Pro
• Spotify is coming to United's seatback screens
• OpenAI says it will protect local resources and report on the impact of its data centers
• Amazon teams with Uber Eats for new Prime perks
• Switch 2 sales fell by almost 40 percent after Nintendo increased prices
• Sony is selling more PS5 games but still struggling to meet console demand
• Snap has more than 30 million paid subscribers across Snapchat+ and other plans
• Pangram expands its AI detection tools to video and images
• Xbox is testing two new controller options for Cloud Gaming
• Nintendo's main Switch cartridge supplier is leaving the ROM business
• God of War Laufey is delayed until May 20
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