Products
The current state of products and tools by version, access conditions, real working sessions and failure modes - keeping demos separate from shipped capability.
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Google's Flipkart Checkout Test Inside Gemini Stays Small, For Now
Google is quietly letting a small pool of Indian users buy select Flipkart products straight from Gemini and AI Mode, per TechCrunch, ahead of a wider October rollout.
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MariaDB Has Vector Search. Coding Assistants Keep Recommending Someone Else's Database
MariaDB's native vector search has been generally available since the 11.8 LTS release, but foundation chairman Kaj Arnö says AI coding tools still steer developers toward other databases.
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Claude Code Adds Support for OpenAI's AGENTS.md, Ending a Familiar Workaround
Claude Code now reads AGENTS.md natively, closing a compatibility gap developers had been patching with symlinks and manual imports.
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Canon's EOS R8 Mark II Finally Adds the Stabilization the Original Skipped
Canon's EOS R8 Mark II adds in-body stabilization the original R8 lacked, ships late October at $1,899, still cheaper than the R6 Mark III.
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Apple's iPhone game controllers surface first as code strings, not products
Bloomberg's Mark Gurman says Apple is building two iPhone game controllers, likely under the Beats brand, after MacRumors spotted them in macOS 26.7's code.
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Apple's Ambient Listening Privacy Claim Is Really a Hardware Claim
Apple's new Siri Audio Intelligence features process raw audio inside the S11 chip's Secure Exclave, keeping it off-limits to apps, iOS, and Apple itself.
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Roland's Melody Flip Brings Generative AI Into the DAW, Not the Chat Box
Roland's new Melody Flip plug-in generates melodies, chords, basslines, and drums from genre-sorted "Palettes" inside your DAW, rather than spitting out a finished song.
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Tesla's Cybercab Finally Leaves the Stage for Austin Streets
Tesla's steering-wheel-free Cybercab is now carrying paying riders in Austin, putting Elon Musk's camera-only, no-lidar approach to a real public test after two years of demos.
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John Deere's New AI Chatbot Lands on a Data Platform Still Under Investigation
John Deere's new JD chatbot answers farmers' questions using their own field and machine data, but it's a limited pilot launching amid an active data-privacy probe and fresh right-to-repair settlements.
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Xbox CEO calls Project Helix a "family of devices," not one console
Xbox CEO Asha Sharma says Project Helix, once billed as a single next-gen console, is now a "family of devices," per BBC News, but specs, count, and disc support remain unconfirmed.
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Sprains, Pain, and Whiplash: Robotaxi Test Drivers Are Getting Hurt as Waymo and Zoox Scale
OSHA filings reviewed by TechCrunch show more than two dozen 2024-2025 injuries to Waymo and Zoox test drivers from hard braking, exposing a gap between polished robotaxi demos and the job of riding shotgun in one.
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Startup Pitches Old Macs as Paid Nodes for AI Inference Network
Darkbloom wants to turn idle Apple Macs into paid nodes for a distributed AI inference network, The Register reports, though key details on payouts and safeguards remain unverified.
