Microsoft wants lawyers to trust its new AI agent in Word documents
Microsoft wants lawyers to trust its new AI agent in Word documents

Microsoft is launching a new AI agent inside Word that’s specifically designed for legal teams. Legal Agent handles document edits, negotiation history, and complex documents to help legal teams handle tasks like reviewing contracts. “Instead of relying on general AI models to interpret commands, the agent follows structured workflows shaped by real legal practice, managing […]

Dyson put someone else’s motor in its robot vacuum
Dyson put someone else’s motor in its robot vacuum

Dyson, a company built on engineering high-speed motors, has confirmed to The Verge that its newest robot vacuum doesn’t use a Dyson motor. The recently launched Spot & Scrub Ai robot vacuum and mop was “co-engineered,” Nathan Lawson McLean, senior design manager at Dyson, told The Verge. According to Lawson McLean, the device merges “new […]

Dyson finally made a better robot, but a worse vacuum
Dyson finally made a better robot, but a worse vacuum

I’m deeply conflicted about the Dyson Spot + Scrub Ai robot vacuum and mop. It’s the company’s best robotic floor cleaner to date, with excellent mopping performance, good navigation and obstacle detection, and a multifunction dock that takes much of the busywork off your hands. But Dyson’s first attempt at a vacuum-and-mop combo is a […]

Top tech of the month: the best new gadgets we’ve tested for May 2026

Including a ‘fantastic’ OLED TV, and some five-star speakers that are ‘crystal clear, fathoms deep and sound at least twice their size’.

The craziest part of Musk v. Altman happened while the jury was out of the room
The craziest part of Musk v. Altman happened while the jury was out of the room

Okay, I am not a lawyer so I only understood about half of what just happened. But I am fairly sure, given the context, that Elon Musk’s lawyers may have just fucked up big. Jared “James Brickhouse” Birchall, Musk’s finance guy and all-around fixer, took the stand after Musk today. Most of his testimony was […]

Roblox’s daily users continue to drop as age checks slow growth
Roblox’s daily users continue to drop as age checks slow growth

Roblox’s daily active users continued to slip last quarter due in part to its rollout of age checks on its platform. According to its latest earnings report, Roblox currently has 132 million daily active users globally, down from 144 million at the end of last year, which was a drop from 152 million in Q3 […]

Congress keeps kicking surveillance reform down the road
Congress keeps kicking surveillance reform down the road

Congress has reauthorized Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act – but only for another 45 days. The extension is meant to give legislators more time to negotiate reforms to the controversial wiretapping bill. If the past few weeks are any indication of how future debates will go, however, we’re in for a bumpy […]

Apple’s iPhone revenue jumps to $57 billion despite chip shortages
Apple’s iPhone revenue jumps to $57 billion despite chip shortages

Apple’s iPhone revenue jumped 22 percent to $57 billion over the past few months, despite supply chain issues impacting the device’s processor. In an interview with Reuters, Apple CEO Tim Cook said iPhone “demand was off the charts,” but there’s “a little less flexibility at the moment for getting more parts.” Cook added during an […]

Microsoft’s Xbox mode is now available for all Windows 11 PCs
Microsoft’s Xbox mode is now available for all Windows 11 PCs

Microsoft is now rolling out its Xbox mode to all Windows 11 PCs. The new Xbox mode adds a full-screen interface to the Xbox PC app, much like Steam’s Big Picture Mode, and originally debuted as the Xbox Full Screen Experience (FSE) with Asus’ Xbox Ally devices. “Some players in select markets will be able […]

Meta threatens to pull its apps from New Mexico if forced to make ‘technologically impractical’ changes
Meta threatens to pull its apps from New Mexico if forced to make ‘technologically impractical’ changes

Meta says it may be forced to pull Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp from New Mexico if the attorney general gets his way. The state is demanding a host of changes that the company says are impossible to achieve. After winning a $375 million jury award against Meta in a trial that argued the company misled […]