Google's AI Brain Drain: Transformer Legend and Nobel Laureate Exit in One Week
Noam Shazeer and John Jumper — two of the architects of modern AI — left Google for OpenAI and Anthropic within days of each other, sending Alphabet stock tumbling 7%. »
Grok 4.3 Arrives on Amazon Bedrock with a 1-Million-Token Context and Steep Price Cuts
xAI's reasoning model is now available on Bedrock with 40% lower input pricing, native video input, and a 1-million-token context window — making it a serious contender for enterprise workloads. »
Epic Games Open-Sources Lore: A Rust-Built VCS That Finally Handles Large Game Files
After years of studios wrestling with Perforce licenses and Git LFS duct-tape, Epic's MIT-licensed Lore offers a purpose-built, open-source path forward for binary-heavy game projects. »
Google's First Smart Speaker in Six Years Launches June 25 — With Gemini Built In
After a six-year hardware silence, Google's $99 Home Speaker ships June 25 with Gemini-powered voice, 360-degree sound, and a new approach to smart home control. »
Microsoft's Majorana 2 Claims 1,000x More Stable Qubits — and Scientists Are Not Convinced
Microsoft unveiled its Majorana 2 quantum chip at Build 2026, claiming a thousandfold leap in qubit stability — but independent physicists say the underlying technology still hasn't been proven to work. »