Ads are coming to AI chatbots. That sentence would have sounded weird not long ago, because the whole point of a “chat” interface is that it feels like a private workspace: you ask a question, you get help, you move on. But in 2026, the economics of running frontier models (GPUs, data centers, inference costs, […]

In the last couple of years, “AI agent” stopped being a marketing phrase and started being a real workflow: an assistant that can read your files, open your browser, run commands, and stitch together actions across services. That’s the promise. The problem is that power has a distribution channel. And that channel is increasingly called

Matter was supposed to be the smart home’s “USB-C moment”: buy a device, scan a code, and it just works in whatever ecosystem you use. Ikea’s newest wave of inexpensive buttons, bulbs, plugs, and sensors was meant to be the proof point — the day mass‑market pricing met the long-promised interoperability standard. Instead, early adopters

GitHub is taking a clear step from “AI that helps you type” toward “AI that can take work off your plate.” In a public preview announced on February 4, 2026, GitHub says developers can now run third‑party coding agents from Anthropic (Claude) and OpenAI (Codex) directly inside Agent HQ, alongside GitHub Copilot. If you’ve used

Microsoft is changing who leads its security organization — again — and this time the move is tightly tied to a broader story the company has been telling for the last two years: security has to become a first-class engineering priority, not a compliance checkbox or a post-incident cleanup. According to an internal memo from

Google has effectively put the Pixel 10A on the calendar. A short official teaser and a February 18th preorder date mean the next budget Pixel is no longer just a rumor-cycle device — it’s a product Google wants you thinking about now. What’s interesting is how little Google is saying beyond the reveal timing and