Sam Altman once described the leap to GPT-5 as conversation with a Ph.D.-level expert on any subject. When OpenAI finally shipped the model on August 7, 2025, the reality proved more complicated. Users quickly pointed out stumbles on basic math and oddly distant tone. The company scrambled to restore access to GPT-4o for paying customers. […]

President Donald Trump wasted little time. On Friday he fired off a warning shot across the Atlantic. Any country that moves forward with a tax on digital services from American companies will face an immediate 100% tariff on all its goods shipped to the United States. The threat overrides existing trade pacts. It singles out

Paul Meade spent 16 years at Apple. He shaped the iPhone, the iPad, and later the hardware that became the Vision Pro. Now he is leaving for OpenAI. The move, reported Friday by Bloomberg, marks the latest high-profile exit from Cupertino to a rival hungry for device expertise. Meade, a vice president, oversaw development of

Expertise is a slow-building force. It starts as casual interest, accumulates through repetition and failure, and eventually produces people who can tell immediately when something is not built for them. That moment of recognition happens in very different rooms. A pop culture obsessive sitting through a trivia round calibrated for casual viewers. A clinical informatics

Bruce Clay passed away in late May. The founder of Bruce Clay Inc. had shaped search marketing since before the field had a name. Colleagues across the industry described the loss as profound. Search Engine Roundtable reported the news on June 26, noting his role in professionalizing an emerging practice. Search Engine Roundtable Clay started

Google has heard the outcry. After months of user frustration with an animated visual cue in its photo app, the company is preparing a toggle to silence the shimmer. The feature, designed to highlight subjects ripe for conversion into custom stickers, flashes across images after a brief pause. But what began as a helpful prompt

Sam Altman gathered OpenAI employees this week for a familiar ritual. The topic wasn’t product metrics or user growth. It was the White House. The Trump administration had asked the company to hold back its next model. Not forever. Just long enough for officials to review who gets it first. OpenAI complied. On Friday the

Netflix has introduced new measures to limit account sharing beyond immediate household members, a policy shift that has generated significant discussion among subscribers worldwide. According to a report from Android Police, the streaming service now displays clearer warnings and restrictions when it detects viewing activity from locations outside an established primary household. These changes mark

Samsung stands on the verge of one of its most crowded product launches in years. On July 22 in London the company will likely reveal the Galaxy Z Fold 8, a wider variant some call the Wide Fold, the Z Flip 8, the Galaxy Watch 9 series and its first pair of Galaxy Glasses. The

IBM announced a prototype chip packing nearly 100 billion transistors into a fingernail-sized area. The design uses a new “nanostack” architecture that stacks transistors in two layers instead of shrinking them only on a flat plane. The result nearly doubles the density of the company’s 2-nanometer chip from 2021 and points to performance gains or