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 […]

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

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

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,

Google’s parent company, Alphabet, says it has earned more than $400 billion in annual revenue for the first time. On its face, that’s a clean headline: “big number got bigger.” But it’s also a useful lens for understanding where modern tech platforms are going next — because you don’t get to $400B just by shipping

When Microsoft ships an out-of-band (unscheduled) security update for Office, that’s Microsoft waving a big red flag: this can’t wait for Patch Tuesday. What’s changed in the last few years is not that vulnerabilities exist — Office has been a high-value target for decades — but how quickly sophisticated actors can turn a vendor fix

Valve’s Steam Machine delay is a RAM-crisis story (and it tells you a lot about where PC hardware is headed) Valve’s newly announced “Steam Machine” reboot is, on paper, exactly the kind of product PC gaming has been circling for years: a small living‑room box that behaves like a console, runs SteamOS, and tries to

The US wants a “critical minerals trade zone” to loosen China’s grip — what that really means The gadgets we argue about — phones, laptops, EVs, data centers — are the visible layer of the tech economy. Underneath is a quieter dependency: a long list of minerals and metals that have to be mined, refined,

The United States is trying to rewire one of the least visible but most strategically important parts of the modern economy: the supply chains for “critical minerals” and rare earths. This week, the State Department convened officials from more than 50 countries to discuss a proposed “trade zone” and coordinated policies meant to make it

In a recent court filing, the FBI acknowledged something unusual for modern phone investigations: it had the device in hand, and still couldn’t get in. According to the government’s own declaration, the Bureau’s Computer Analysis Response Team (CART) attempted to extract data from a seized iPhone belonging to a journalist—but the effort stalled because the