UNIGRID’s sodium-ion home battery debuts in Europe, US is next
UNIGRID’s sodium-ion home battery debuts in Europe, US is next

Lithium-ion has long dominated home battery storage, but sodium-ion is starting to make its move. Sodium-ion battery startup UNIGRID has shipped the first units of its Na+Casa residential battery, with the first systems now installed in homes across Eu…

Well… at least God of War Laufey is getting a physical disc

Santa Monica Studio has confirmed that God of War Laufey will be released on a physical disc, offering welcome news for collectors amid growing concerns over digital-only game releases.

Claude Code can now browse the web without opening Chrome

Anthropic has added an in-app browser to Claude Code on desktop, allowing the AI coding assistant to browse websites, read documentation, and interact with web pages directly inside the app.

Apple sues OpenAI for allegedly stealing hardware secrets
Apple sues OpenAI for allegedly stealing hardware secrets

Apple has sued OpenAI, alleging that engineers stole Apple secrets to advance the AI startup’s hardware plans. In its complaint, Apple says it uncovered “a pattern of theft of Apple’s trade secrets by OpenAI employees who were formerly at Apple.” In addition to OpenAI, the lawsuit also names IO Products – Jony Ive’s hardware startup, […]

Musk tells Tesla staff to switch to Grok — a model he admits is worse
Musk tells Tesla staff to switch to Grok — a model he admits is worse

Elon Musk told Tesla staff to move to using Grok, the AI model from his own xAI (now folded into SpaceX), according to a memo sent to employees on Friday.
The push comes days after Tesla capped employee spending on third-party AI tools — and it lands e…

Apple is suing OpenAI over theft of trade secrets in blockbuster lawsuit

Apple has sued OpenAI, alleging the company orchestrated a campaign to steal confidential product information through former employees as both companies race to build next-generation AI hardware.

BYD’s $10,000 Seagull EV revealed with a longer body and more upgrades
BYD’s $10,000 Seagull EV revealed with a longer body and more upgrades

BYD’s low-cost Seagull EV, sold as the Dolphin Surf in Europe, is getting another update with a longer body and a more powerful motor.

Podcast: Rivian goes to market, Xiaomi goes big, and a $14,000 tiny EV in the US
Podcast: Rivian goes to market, Xiaomi goes big, and a $14,000 tiny EV in the US

In the Electrek Podcast, we discuss the most popular news in the world of sustainable transport and energy. In this week’s episode, we discuss Rivian going back to the stock market market, Xiaomi going big, and a $14,000 tiny EV in the US.

A decade later, Pokémon Go finally made good on its original promise
A decade later, Pokémon Go finally made good on its original promise

When Niantic dropped the first Pokémon Go trailer in 2015, it was hard to grasp how a bunch of players could work together to catch a pokémon like Mewtwo. But this week at the game’s 10th anniversary event in New York City, Pokémon Go showed the world how it’s done. Almost 2,000 players (many of […]

Meta’s detection tool fails to identify photos generated by its own Muse Image AI

According to an analysis by Reuters, Meta’s AI image detector fails to identify pictures created by Muse Image in more than half the cases after merely cropping the AI-generated photos.