Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch:
Amazon debuts “Join the chat”, an AI-powered feature that lets users ask questions about products and get conversational audio responses generated in real time  —  Amazon launched a new AI-powered feature on Tuesday that allows users to ask questions about products …

Juli Clover / MacRumors:
Tim Cook says that the Mac Studio and the Mac mini, which many are buying for AI and agentic tools, “may take several months to reach supply demand balance”  —  During today's earnings call for the second fiscal quarter of 2026, Apple CEO Tim Cook said that the Mac mini and Mac Studio …

Nintendo Switch 2 has more than a few interesting new releases in May, including an indie game, a AAA port, and a Nintendo platformer

For the first time in the 25-year history of the World Press Freedom Index, more than half of the world’s countries now fall into the “difficult” or “very serious” categories for press freedom. The share is 52.2 per cent, up from 13.7 per cent when Reporters Without Borders first published the index in 2002. The […]

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Katrina Manson / Bloomberg:
The DOD strikes deals with AWS, Microsoft, Nvidia, Oracle, and Reflection AI to use their AI tools on classified military networks “for lawful operational use”  —  The Pentagon has struck agreements with more technology companies for expanded use of advanced artificial intelligence tools …