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Android XR's First Glasses Have a Cable — and Google Thinks That's a Feature
XREAL's Aura is the first wired pair of glasses powered by Android XR: under 95 grams, $1,099, shipping in the US in mid-November. The cable isn't a compromise — it's the whole thesis.
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Google Cloud Doubled in a Quarter — and Alphabet's Stock Still Fell 7%
Alphabet's cloud revenue more than doubled to $30.7 billion, yet shares fell over 6% after hours as a $9.1 billion cash burn and an earnings miss reminded investors that the AI buildout has a bill — and it is coming due every quarter now.
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Amazon Just Put Alexa in Every Room — Including Your Nightstand and Your Wall
Amazon unveiled five new Alexa devices on Wednesday, led by the $499.99 Echo Show 16 — a room-by-room bet that the smart home's next fight is won with purpose-built hardware, not one general-purpose speaker.
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Apple Finally Made a Touchscreen MacBook Pro — and It Starts at $2,899
Apple's first touchscreen MacBook Pro is real — a tandem-OLED PROLED XDR display, M5 Pro and M5 Max chips, and a $2,899 starting price, $900 more than the M6 model announced yesterday. After a decade of saying touchscreens don't belong on laptops, Apple is now charging a premium for one.
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Apple's M6 Macs Held the Line on Price — the Touchscreen MacBook Pro Probably Won't
Apple raised prices across its lineup in June, then raised them again with each new model this fall — but the M6 iMac and MacBook Pro broke the pattern. With a $2,899 touchscreen MacBook Pro rumored for today's event, the reprieve may last about twelve hours.
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The FCC Cleared Amazon's $11.5 Billion Globalstar Deal — and the Satellite Race Finally Has a Second Player
The FCC approved Amazon Leo's $11.57 billion acquisition of Globalstar, handing Amazon the spectrum and satellites it needs to beam connectivity straight to ordinary phones — and buying Apple a new landlord for the Emergency SOS service in your pocket.
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The Fed Held Rates at 4% — and the AI Boom Is Now Part of Its Inflation Math
The Federal Reserve held its benchmark rate at 3.75% to 4% on Wednesday in a 10-2 vote, pausing one meeting after its first hike since 2023 — with AI-driven demand now cited among the forces keeping inflation elevated, and a December hike still the market's base case.
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GitHub's New Scanner Hunts Prompt Injection in AI Agents — With One Big Preview Caveat
GitHub's new code-scanning detector flags the agent-specific risks traditional scanners miss — indirect prompt injection, data disclosure, and excessive agency — but in public preview it only catches one of the three, and its findings can't block a merge.
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Google's Gemini 4 Carbon Is Its Best Model Yet — and Almost Nobody Gets to Use It
Google's new frontier model tops the Artificial Analysis index at 59 and posts state-of-the-art scores across vulnerability discovery, exploitation, and patching — but its first users are a hand-picked group of cyber defenders, not developers.
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House Democrats Draw Two Lines Around AI — No Bailouts, and 48 Hours to Report When Models Go Rogue
In a single day, House Democrats told AI companies they won't be rescued if they fail — and told the five biggest frontier labs to report safety incidents to Congress within 48 hours.
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iOS 27.2 Will Let You Prove You're an Adult With a Selfie — No ID Required
iOS 27.2 adds a selfie-based way to prove you're an adult — a four-angle face scan, processed partly on-device and partly in Apple's Private Cloud Compute, then deleted. It's Apple's answer to a wave of age-check laws, and it puts a biometric gate at the operating-system level.
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A Judge Just Handed Apple the Keys to OpenAI's Hiring Playbook
Judge Edward Davila granted more of Apple's discovery requests in its trade-secrets suit against OpenAI, ordering the company to hand over details on ex-Apple hires' devices, messaging apps, and AI tool use — with 14 days to comply.
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Microsoft's Azure Jumped 48% — and for Once, the AI Spending Story Has a Receipt
Microsoft's Azure revenue hit $33.2 billion, up 48%, in its fiscal first quarter — the first time the company has disclosed Azure's revenue in dollars — as total revenue rose 19% to $92.3 billion and beat expectations on every line that mattered.
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Nvidia and AMD Just Bought $4 Billion of Meta — the AI Boom Is Now Funding Itself
Nvidia will invest $3 billion and AMD $1 billion in Meta's mammoth share sale, turning the AI boom's two biggest chip suppliers into shareholders of their biggest customer — and raising the question of who pays for the data centers when the buyers run out of balance sheet.
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OpenAI Plans to Buy Google's AI Chips — the Rivalry Is Now a Supply Chain
OpenAI reportedly plans to buy Google's Tensor Processing Units, deepening a commercial relationship between two companies that compete in AI products and search — and signaling that the chip wars are now a multi-supplier game.