Google I/O 2026 kicks off Tuesday, May 19, with the main keynote starting at 10 a.m. Pacific Time at the company’s annual developer conference in Mountain View. The two-day event runs through May 20 and is free to watch online via Google’s YouTube channel and the I/O website, so nobody needs a badge to follow along.
Apple is three weeks out from its annual developer conference, and Bloomberg is already filling in the picture. A new report from the outlet details three features coming to iOS 27: a smarter grammar checker baked into Writing Tools, a natural-language interface for building Shortcuts automations, and an AI-powered custom wallpaper generator tied to the … Read more
A European-Chinese spacecraft built to map the invisible battle between the sun and Earth's magnetic field made it to orbit Monday night, lifted there by a Vega C rocket that departed French Guiana right on schedule. The SMILE satellite lifted off from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou at 11:52 p.m. EDT on May 18, and about … Read more
A nine-person federal jury in Oakland, California, unanimously rejected Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI, Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, the OpenAI Foundation, and Microsoft on Monday, ending a three-week trial with a verdict that took jurors less than two hours to reach. The outcome turned not on whether OpenAI had betrayed its founding mission, but on … Read more
A nine-person federal jury in Oakland, California, took less than two hours on Monday to reject every claim Elon Musk brought against OpenAI, Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, and Microsoft. The verdict was unanimous and swift: Musk waited too long to file his 2024 lawsuit, and the applicable statutes of limitations had expired. U.S. District Judge … Read more
Apple has locked in June 8 for the WWDC26 keynote, kicking off a five-day developer conference that runs through June 12 at Apple Park. The opening keynote starts at 10 a.m. PDT, with the Platforms State of the Union following at 1 p.m. PDT the same day. Apple says the event will cover AI advancements, … Read more
Apple is bringing back the Hikawa Grip & Stand for iPhone, a MagSafe-compatible accessory that sold out within days of its debut last November. The grip is now available worldwide through Apple's online store, and for the first time, it's being distributed globally thanks to a collaboration between its designer and PopSockets. The accessory was … Read more
Simon Willison used a five-minute lightning talk at PyCon US 2026 to compress six months of LLM history into something digestible, and his annotated slide deck tells the story well: November 2025 was a turning point, coding agents quietly crossed a quality threshold that actually matters, and the open-weight models running on laptop hardware have … Read more
Apple's next version of Siri is shaping up to be, by most measurable standards, the most privacy-conscious AI assistant on the market. Bloomberg reported this week that the forthcoming Siri app will include an option to automatically delete conversation history, offering users the same retention choices already available in the Messages app: wipe chats after … Read more
The satellite industry has a bold vision for the future: hundreds of thousands, maybe millions, of spacecraft circling Earth, beaming internet to remote communities, running orbital data centers, harvesting solar power. It is an ambitious picture. It is also, according to atmospheric researchers, quietly running an uncontrolled experiment on the planet's climate. A new study … Read more