Innovation

OpenAI Adds Shopping to ChatGPT in a Challenge to Google
OpenAI announced today that users will soon be able to buy products through ChatGPT. The rollout of shopping buttons for AI-powered search queries will come to everyone, whether they...
Temu adds ‘import charges’ after Trump tariffs | TechCrunch
Temu is adding “import charges” of around 145% in response to President Donald Trump’s tariffs on goods shipped from China, CNBC reports. The fees cost more than the products...
The Agonizing Task of Turning Europe’s Power Back On
At 12:30 pm local time on Monday, the power went out. Across Spain and Portugal trains, planes, and traffic lights abruptly stopped working.Reports emerged of people being stuck in...
Amazon Shoppers Love This Apple Pencil Alternative, and Now It’s Practically Free
If you use an Apple iPad regularly, you know how many things you can use it with a stylus for. While you typically might buy an Apple Pencil for...
It’s time to ditch the traditional offsite. Here are 4 ways to rethink your next corporate retreat
We’ve all been there: the windowless conference room, the stale coffee, the flip charts, the obligatory icebreaker, followed by hours of sticky notes and talk of disruption that feels,...
Which Instax Camera Should You Buy?
Other Instax Cameras and PrintersFujifilm is constantly refreshing its Instax lineup, adding new features like parallax correction and faster USB-C charging, which almost all Instax cameras now offer. In...
Lightrun grabs $70M using AI to debug code in production | TechCrunch
AI-based coding has exploded in popularity on the promise that it will make developers’ jobs faster and easier. But it’s also resulted in something else: a vast increase in...
The Download: China’s manufacturers’ viral moment, and how AI is changing creativity
Since the video was posted earlier this month, millions of TikTok users have watched as a young Chinese man in a blue T-shirt sits beside a traditional tea set...
Car Subscription Features Raise Your Risk of Government Surveillance, Police Records Show
What is also clear from the documents is that US police are aware of the control corporations have over their ability to acquire vehicle location data, expressing fears that...
Donald Trump Is Already Ruining Christmas
While children are told stories about elves and reindeer, the truth is that hundreds of thousands of people work year-round to make sure Christmas feels magical. From factory employees...
ARX Robotics rides defence tech wave with €31M for battlefield robots
German defence tech startup ARX Robotics has secured €31mn to ramp up production of its autonomous battlefield robots, which look like mini tanks — minus the guns.  ARX —...
‘It wouldn’t let us out of the car’: Waymo’s self-driving vehicles keep getting roasted online
Social media users have been having a field day with Waymo’s autonomous vehicles, sharing videos that poke fun at the driverless cars getting stuck, acting unpredictably, or simply navigating...