Author: The Tech Guy

Sakana AI has progressed beyond its early demonstrations. But I did not find evidence that it has established a widening research lead through sustained, accelerating RSI. Its published results support bounded self-improvement and increasingly capable orchestration. Your test asks for something stronger: does the improved researcher make the next improvement faster, cheaper, and more consequential? So far the faster and faster on RSI methodology is drowned out by faster and faster making and raising more money and bigger and bigger AI Data centers and hiring the best staff. A company can build faster and faster like say SPACEXAI with data…

Apple has announced the AirPods 5 – that, you obviously know – and they’re coming with Active Noise Cancellation as standard. Now, while I’d say there’s still some debate to be had over the designation of ANC in an open-ear design, this type of feature in an open-ear design has gone from a rarity to becoming more widespread. And with the cheapest version of the AirPods 5 at £119 / $129, that’s made ANC open-ear a fairly affordable proposition for iOS owners. And given the AirPods sell like hotcakes, it’ll likely give Apple even more dominance in the headphone market.…

One of the first apps I think to install on a new device is a video player, since the default one is usually subpar. But you rarely find an app that works smoothly across devices and ecosystems without glitches. Enter VLC. For over a decade, this has been my go-to video player. Whether I’m at my workstation, swiping on my smartphone on a flight, or using my tablet in bed, this is the only media player that works the same way every time. Related VLC is secretly the most powerful media tool on your PC — and you’ve barely scratched…

Credit: Megan Ellis / Android Authority TL;DR Anthropic is reportedly working on a new “Money” feature for Claude that will let users link their bank accounts to the AI assistant. The feature could help users ask Claude questions about their spending, balances, recurring payments, budgeting, and financial plans. Claude Money will likely launch in the US first, although Anthropic has not confirmed any plans officially. Anthropic seems to be working on a new personal finance feature for Claude that could let the AI assistant connect to your bank accounts.

British fintech giant Revolut is notifying a subset of users that their personal and financial information was compromised in a data breach. Based in London, the neobank and financial technology company provides banking and investment services to over 80 million users in 160 countries and regions. Late last week, the company informed a small number of users that their personally identifiable information (PII) was exposed to a third party posing as a government agency. The exposed data, it said in emails to the affected users, included names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, dates of birth, occupation, copies of driver’s licenses…

NASA’s Commercial Satellite Data Acquisition Program is a science‑enabling program that provides licensed access to high‑quality commercial Earth observation data, strengthens data quality through calibration/validation (cal/val) partnerships and transparent evaluations, and funds the development of science and application use cases to help turn commercial data into actionable research and applied solutions.  The program augments NASA’s gold standard fleet of freely and openly available Earth observing satellite observations and data products with high-resolution, high-frequency, and taskable commercial datasets. During this webinar, speakers will provide an overview of the CSDA program’s activities and progress. Topics will include data modalities available through the…

Honor’s increasingly vast Play11 family has added a new member today, namely the ‘vanilla’ Honor Play11. This device comes with a 6.872-inch LCD screen with 720×1592 resolution, a 120Hz refresh rate, and 1,020-nit peak brightness. On the rear there’s a 50MP camera with f/1.8 aperture, while on the front there’s a 5MP selfie shooter. The handset is powered by the Snapdragon 4 Gen 4 SoC, paired with 6/8GB of RAM and 128/256GB of storage. Honor Play11 official images Keeping the lights on is an 8,300 mAh battery with support for 45W fast wired charging and…

Amazon Prime Video is coming after TikTok with the addition of short-form news clips. The company said on Monday that it’s expanding its news coverage to include on-demand news clips offering both local and national stories. These will be available on TVs and other living room devices, but will soon roll out to the web and Prime Video’s mobile apps, the company said. The clips will be available in the News destination within the Prime Video app in its Trending Topics and the Local News carousels. They join Prime Video’s existing local, national, and world news coverage from a number…

The amount of attention Apple throws at CarPlay can vary wildly. Sometimes, it barely mentions the tech during major press events, if at all. At other times, it’s centerstage — say when executives are trying to pitch CarPlay Ultra to both automakers and iPhone owners alike. The iOS 27 update might be classified somewhere in between. That makes sense, since while there’s one giant change Apple wants you to focus on, the others are harder to sell as dramatic improvements. They could have a meaningful impact on your commute, however, since they include a few things iPhone owners have long…

New warnings from within the artificial intelligence industry have revived a long-running debate over whether advanced AI could escape human control and ultimately threaten humanity’s survival, and whether the companies developing the technology are doing enough to prevent such a scenario. The CEO of Anthropic, the San Francisco company behind Claude, said he thought the industry needed to reduce the speed of its work, cautioning Saturday that a swarm of AI agents might be able to take over the internet in six months to a year unless companies devoted more time to putting safeguards in place. Dario Amodei outlined a…