Literary Prizewinners Are Facing AI Allegations. It Feels Like the New Normal
At first, the winners of the prestigious Commonwealth Short Story Prize for 2026 enjoyed the envy of their peers. But
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Tech & AI
Google just declared itself a contender in AI design at IO 2026
Google announced at its annual Google I/O event on Tuesday that it’s launching Pics, a new AI-powered design and image-generation
Read MoreGoogle Workspace Icons Get New Look on Android, iOS, and Web
Google’s gradient Workspace icons are rolling out across Android, iOS, and web, giving Gmail, Drive, Docs, Calendar, and more a
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Can Samsung and Gentle Monster finally make smart glasses cool?
For years, smart glasses have existed in a kind of aesthetic purgatory: too techy for fashion people, too awkward for
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Everything Announced at Google I/O 2026: Gemini, Search, Smart Glasses
Much weirder is voice editing in Google Docs, in a new feature called Docs Live. By describing with your voice
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Google takes a page out of Meta’s book, announces new audio-powered smart glasses
Google is getting (back) into the smart glasses game. At Google I/O on Tuesday, the company announced a new partnership
Read MoreMicrosoft Confirms Windows Update Bug Blocking Security Fixes
Microsoft confirmed that KB5089549 can fail with error 0x800f0922 on Windows 11 devices with low EFI partition space, and shared
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Google I/O 2026 live updates: Gemini, Android XR, Workspace news
Google kicks off developer conference season with Google I/O 2026 on Tuesday, May 19. You can watch the keynote livestream starting at
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Former OpenAI Staffers Warn That xAI’s Poor Safety Record Could Complicate SpaceX’s IPO
Two former OpenAI employees and a group of AI safety nonprofits are warning that Elon Musk’s AI lab, xAI, could
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OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic’s pre-training team
Andrej Karpathy, the AI researcher who co-founded and formerly worked at OpenAI and previously led AI at Tesla, has joined
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