Karandeep Anand, CEO of Character AI, joins the AI Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 to discuss human-like AI companions, ethical and technical challenges, and the legal scrutiny facing conversational AI.
The new Kindle Scribe has a larger 11-inch glare-free display, is just 5.4mm thick, and weighs only 400g. It’s also 40% faster when writing or turning pages.
Alexa Plus is coming to a bunch of Amazon’s new and current Fire TV hardware. Just like before, you can summon the new, improved version of Alexa with your voice, but it’s designed to be much more helpful and better at fetching context-sensitive information about things happening onscreen that you might normally reach for your […]
Amazon announced new Fire TV devices, 4K Stick, and Alexa+ AI features for TV viewers.
Amazon announced three new Kindle Scribes this morning with a much nicer design. There’s even one with a color screen. I had a chance to check them out ahead of Amazon’s press event, and I have some thoughts. This marks the third generation of the company’s larger 11-inch eReaders aimed at professionals, students, and people […]
Amazon’s newest Echo speakers look gorgeous. Thin bezels, bright, responsive touchscreens, 3D knit fabric-wrapped speakers with controls front and center, and most importantly, powerful hardware to help make the smart home sing. It’s almost everything I’ve ever asked for from my smart speakers and displays. A lack of premium hardware – or any clear strategy […]
Amazon took the wraps off its latest Echo Dot smart speaker during its fall hardware event on Tuesday. The Echo Dot Max is a new entry that updates the recognizable spherical design with a flat face housing the speaker’s control buttons and LED light ring. At $99.99, the Echo Dot Max is the same price […]
At Amazon’s annual hardware event, it announced a fleet of new Fire TVs, including an Omni QLED model, as well as new 2- and 4-series televisions that are all available to preorder starting today and will ship next month. These TVs feature what the company calls omnisense presence detection. It will allow the TV to […]
Imgur, one of the web’s most popular image sharing and hosting platforms, has shut off access to its site in the U.K., following a notice of a fine by the country’s data protection watchdog.
Amazon debuted the new Echo Show 8 and Echo Show 11 during its fall 2025 hardware event on Tuesday, after heavily relying on previous versions of the smart display to demonstrate upgrades coming to its Alexa smart assistant at an event earlier this year. The Echo Show 8 is a new version of one of […]