5 Best Smart Speakers (2026): Alexa, Google, Apple
Looking to add a smart speaker to your house? Here’s which to choose, whether you’re an Alexa, Siri, or Gemini fan.
Meta bets on AI agent Muse to catch up in AI race
Meta is making another push to bring artificial intelligence to the masses with Muse, a personal assistant it says can put AI in the hands of virtually anyone. The product is the latest step in a multi-billion dollar strategy overhaul designed to revitalize the company’s ailing position in the AI race and help it catch…
Google Cloud races to catch up in the AI deployment wars with Accenture deal
Google Cloud expands its enterprise AI push with Accenture, betting on forward-deployed engineers to drive adoption and overcome deployment bottlenecks.
Google’s revived nuclear power plant gets $1.9B loan from US government
Google said it would bring an Iowa nuclear power plant back from the dead. Now the plant’s owner is getting a $1.9 billion loan from the U.S. Energy Department.
Chrome is now shipping updates every 2 weeks as AI changes the security landscape
Google is speeding up Chrome’s release schedule to ship security patches and new features faster.
This AI entrepreneur is developing agents that can plan ahead for the unexpected
Danijar Hafner’s office in San Francisco’s SoMa district sits mostly empty. His brand-new startup is still in stealth mode and doesn’t even have its name on the door. On the day I visit, there’s only one other person there, and little in the way of furniture. But what it lacks in decor, it makes up…
N-able’s 3rd Zero-Day in 6 Weeks Hits CVSS 10.0 [2026]
N-able shipped a fourth emergency hotfix for its N-central remote monitoring and management platform on September 6, 2026, after Huntress security researchers flagged CVE-2026-86218, a pre-authentication remote code execution flaw carrying the maximum possible severity score of 10.0. It is the third distinct N-central vulnerability disclosed inside six weeks, and the second time in three…
Pokemon Champions Unlikely to Get Offline Mode: 10M Downloads [2026]
Pokémon Champions is not getting a single-player mode anytime soon, and the reason has nothing to do with a lack of ideas at Game Freak. According to a report published by My Nintendo News on September 7, 2026, the game’s director explained in a recent interview that adding offline content would work against the title’s…
PEEP Turns Chrome and Edge Into Post-Compromise Backdoors for Host Command Execution
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a complex Chromium-based post-exploitation toolkit called PEEP that masquerades as a bookmarks extension for the web browser. “Requiring prior administrative or code execution access, its installer injects the extension directly into Chrome/Edge profiles, bypassing Web Store checks and user prompts by forging Chromium’s own Secure Preferences
AI Image Generator API Costs: 12 Steps, $150 Gap [2026]
Picking an AI image generator in September 2026 isn’t the problem it was two years ago. The problem now is that there are too many good options, priced in confusingly different ways, and most comparison charts online are already stale by the time you read them. Recraft V4.1 bills per “unit.” Grok Imagine Image 2.0…