OpenAI Frontier is a single platform to control your AI agents

Managing humans is hard. Managing AI agents is… also hard. That’s why OpenAI is launching a new platform called OpenAI Frontier, which it says will help businesses “build, deploy, and…

Spotify’s Page Match syncs your audiobooks and your physical ones

Spotify has launched a new feature called Page Match that lets you quickly sync your spot in a physical or ebook with an audiobook. Point your camera at a page,…

Spotify is partnering with Bookshop.org to sell physical books

Spotify is going all in on books in 2026 and partnering with Bookshop.org to let you buy physical copies of audiobooks and support local retailers starting in the Spring. The…

Substack data breach exposed users’ emails and phone numbers

Substack is notifying some users that the email addresses and phone numbers linked to their accounts were exposed in a “security incident” last year. In an email to account holders,…

Ikea’s new Matter smart home devices are having connection problems

I’ve spent the last couple of weeks trying — and mostly failing — to test Ikea’s new Matter-over-Thread gear. These highly anticipated smart home devices include programmable buttons, smart bulbs,…

Valve’s Steam Machine has been delayed, and the RAM crisis will impact pricing

When Valve first announced its impressive-looking Steam Machine, Steam Frame, and Steam Controller hardware in November, the company said the products would begin shipping in early 2026. Some journalists were…

Senators grill Waymo and Tesla over robotaxi safety, liability, and China

During a two-hour hearing in the US Senate Wednesday, top executives from Waymo and Tesla urged lawmakers to take action on long-stalled legislation to speed the deployment of self-driving cars…

Google’s annual revenue tops $400 billion for the first time

Google’s parent company, Alphabet, has earned more than $400 billion in annual revenue for the first time. The company announced the milestone as part of its Q4 2025 earnings report…

Nintendo’s new Virtual Boy is more fun to look at than to play

Though the Virtual Boy was both a commercial and critical failure, the console’s infamy is part of what has made it such a fascinating piece of Nintendo’s history. Original units…

Sam Altman responds to Anthropic’s ‘funny’ Super Bowl ads

Sam Altman (X): First, the good part of the Anthropic ads: they are funny, and I laughed. But I wonder why Anthropic would go for something so clearly dishonest. Our…