Google’s first speaker in six years is really a $10-a-month Gemini subscription
Google’s first speaker in six years is really a $10-a-month Gemini subscription

Google has finally made a new smart speaker, its first in roughly six years. The more interesting thing it has made is a reason to pay it every month. The Google Home Speaker costs $99.99, opens for preorder today and ships on June 25. It is the first …

Logitech’s Mobi Fold is a foldable travel mouse with an AI model to stop accidental clicks
Logitech’s Mobi Fold is a foldable travel mouse with an AI model to stop accidental clicks

Logitech has launched the Mobi Fold, its first foldable mouse, aimed at hybrid workers who want a proper mouse on the road but leave it behind because it will not fit in the bag. The mouse folds to nearly half its size, and the fold is also the power s…

Atomicwork launches AI workers that IT departments can hire, budget, and audit like human employees
Atomicwork launches AI workers that IT departments can hire, budget, and audit like human employees

Atomicwork, the Palo Alto-based enterprise IT platform, has launched what it calls the first governed AI workforce for enterprise service teams. The platform lets organisations deploy AI agents, which the company calls “AI Coworkers,” with defined job …

Dell’s $699 XPS 13 walks straight into MacBook Neo territory
Dell’s $699 XPS 13 walks straight into MacBook Neo territory

Dell unveiled a new XPS 13 at Computex on Sunday with a starting price of $699 for general consumers and $599 for students aged 16 and over, the first time the company’s flagship thin-and-light laptop line has launched anywhere near MacBook Neo territo…

Spotify tests narrated magazine articles inside the audiobook tier
Spotify tests narrated magazine articles inside the audiobook tier

Spotify began testing a new content format on Tuesday: narrated long-form magazine articles, slotted in alongside audiobooks rather than podcasts. The launch announced from the company’s newsroom on Tuesday morning, includes more than 650 English-langu…

Forum is Meta’s new Facebook Groups app, and it looks a lot like Reddit
Forum is Meta’s new Facebook Groups app, and it looks a lot like Reddit

The new standalone app sits on top of Facebook Groups, adds an AI tab called “Ask” and an admin assistant, and arrives the same month Mark Zuckerberg told staff he and Chris Cox had discussed whether they could build 50 new apps. Meta has released a ne…

Firefox is getting its biggest redesign in six years, and compact mode is coming back
Firefox is getting its biggest redesign in six years, and compact mode is coming back

Mozilla has officially unveiled Project Nova, the largest visual overhaul of Firefox since 2020. The redesign touches tabs, icons, spacing, colour palette, and settings, with the goal of making the browser feel warmer and faster without losing its iden…

Google announces Pics, a Workspace-native AI image generator that goes after Canva on precision editing
Google announces Pics, a Workspace-native AI image generator that goes after Canva on precision editing

Pics, powered by Nano Banana 2, lets users generate images from a text prompt and then move, resize, or translate individual elements without re-rolling the whole composition. Rolling out to Workspace Business Standard and higher, and to Google AI Pro …

Google launches Gemini Omni Flash, a conversational video-generation model with avatar mode held back
Google launches Gemini Omni Flash, a conversational video-generation model with avatar mode held back

The first model in DeepMind’s new Omni family will generate and edit video from any combination of image, audio, video, and text inputs. Speech-editing is being withheld; SynthID watermarking is on by default. Google introduced Gemini Omni on Tuesday a…

The company that outsells Tesla on humanoid robots just unveiled a pilotable mecha. Unitree is filing for a $7 billion IPO.
The company that outsells Tesla on humanoid robots just unveiled a pilotable mecha. Unitree is filing for a $7 billion IPO.

  Unitree Robotics has unveiled a 2.8-metre transformable mecha that a human pilot climbs inside and operates from an open cockpit in the torso. The GD01 walks on two legs, folds into a quadruped configuration in seconds, weighs roughly 500 kilograms w…