The 2026 Honda Prelude is a marvel of hybrid technology
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Utility companies promise to spare us from AI’s energy bill
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Reddit might cut ties with Google as traffic drops.
Reddit has discussed shutting off Google’s access to data used to train its Gemini AI models. Or maybe it’s just a renegotiation bluff now that its $60 million-a-year deal is coming to an end. According to The Wall Street Journal:
Neill Blomkamp’s new zombie AI ‘film’ is just slop warmed over
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OpenAI says it accidentally hacked Hugging Face with a new AI system
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Substack adds an AI detector to help spot blogs written by no one
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Apple’s rumored ‘Upgrade’ program brings lease-to-own pricing for iPhones, Macs, and iPads
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Anthropic’s $1.5 billion book piracy settlement approved by judge
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Deezer says AI music now makes up half of all daily song uploads.
The music streaming platform receives almost 90,000 AI-generated tracks each day, a jump from the 75,000 it last reported in April. Using its AI music detection tool, Deezer now says it will take down AI tracks “used to generate fraudulent streams,” in addition to those that haven’t been streamed in six months or more.
The Light Flip is a minimalist flip phone with a point to prove
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Google Launches a Cheaper Alternative to Large AI Security Models Like Mythos
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Garmin’s new screen-free fitness tracker doesn’t require a subscription
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Google Zero is here
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Judge puts Anthropic’s $1.5 billion book piracy settlement on hold
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Halliday’s latest smart glasses feature a much-improved display
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America needs to stop getting shocked by Chinese AI
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Anthropic has to pay authors.
In what is thought to be the largest copyright recovery case in history, a federal US judge granted final approval of Anthropic’s landmark $1.5 billion class-action settlement. In 2024, authors sued Anthropic over the training of its Claude AI chatbot using copyrighted works. Authors will be paid “as promptly as possible,” just as soon as lawyers take their $101 million cut.
Who’s afraid of the big, bad GPU?
How you feel about AI’s energy use might change how you feel about computers entirely.
Vibecoded apps flood Apple.
According to sensor tower, apps added to the App Store almost doubled to about 560K in the first half of 2026, compared to about 600K added in all of 2025. The surge comes as AI makes it increasingly trivial to develop apps. That’s good if it means useful apps finding an audience, bad if Apple’s reviewers can’t keep up and more junk and malware slips through.
NYT recognizes Google Zero.
Nilay called it back in 2024, and now the Gray Lady is on board with recognizing the demise of the open web. It takes a look at at how Google went from being a gateway to the internet to becoming the internet for many users who never leave the cozy confines of its AI summaries.