Author: The Tech Guy
The next big trend in AI providers appears to be "studio" environments on the web that allow users to spin up agents and AI applications within minutes. Case in point, today the well-funded French AI startup Mistral launched its own Mistral AI Studio, a new production platform designed to help enterprises build, observe, and operationalize AI applications at scale atop Mistral's growing family of proprietary and open source large language models (LLMs) and multimodal models.It's an evolution of its legacy API and AI building platorm, "Le Platforme," initially launched in late 2023, and that brand name is being retired for…
Your phone buzzes at 6 a.m. It’s ChatGPT: “I see you’re traveling to New York this week. Based on your preferences, I’ve found three restaurants near your hotel. Would you like me to make a reservation?”You didn’t ask for this. The AI simply knew your plans from scanning your calendar and email and decided to help. Later, you mention to the chatbot needing flowers for your wife’s birthday. Within seconds, beautiful arrangements appear in the chat. You tap one: “Buy now.” Done. The flowers are ordered.This isn’t science fiction. On Sept. 29, 2025, OpenAI and payment processor Stripe launched the…
The small phone market may be down to its final embers, but a select few makers are still making compact flagships. It might be just a matter of time before all we have are huge phones, but for now let’s enjoy compact phones while there are still some around. This is the vivo X300, and it may just be a member of an even more exclusive group – the compact flagships that are actually available outside China. While vivo has not yet confirmed its exact plans the existence of a global ROM and the promises that the X300 series will…
I’m still in the early days of my adventures with Roku, as I’ve only recently started properly utilizing my smart television in the ways it was designed for. I’ve mentioned this, but I’ve been using my Xbox Series X for most of my streaming and all-purpose tech needs, which has meant mostly ignoring Roku. But I recently realized the error of my ways, thanks to discovering just how many apps and features Roku has that a console just can’t match up to. From underrated Roku applications that deserve far more love to features like a consolidated all-in-one watchlist that I…
Joe Maring / Android AuthorityTL;DR YouTube’s redesign is now rolling out to its mobile apps for Android and iOS. It brings bold and curvier icons, which Google calls “expressive and intuitive.” Many users previously expressed their disapproval of the similar design that rolled out to the web interface earlier this month. YouTube recently introduced a new player UI on the web, with stark changes, especially to the icons. While YouTube calls these new elements “more expressive,” many users can’t resist calling them unsightly and cartoonish. Regardless of the latter group’s views, YouTube is starting to roll out a similar design…
In a striking act of self-critique, one of the architects of the transformer technology that powers ChatGPT, Claude, and virtually every major AI system told an audience of industry leaders this week that artificial intelligence research has become dangerously narrow — and that he's moving on from his own creation.Llion Jones, who co-authored the seminal 2017 paper "Attention Is All You Need" and even coined the name "transformer," delivered an unusually candid assessment at the TED AI conference in San Francisco on Tuesday: Despite unprecedented investment and talent flooding into AI, the field has calcified around a single architectural approach,…
Earlier this week, OpenAI unveiled an AI browser, dubbed Atlas, which is built around its blockbuster AI product, ChatGPT. “A browser built with ChatGPT takes us closer to a true super-assistant that understands your world and helps you achieve your goals,” the company boasted in its announcement. Thanks to an “agent mode,” the browser can complete entire tasks, such as booking flights or buying groceries online, a process OpenAI engineers quickly dubbed “vibe lifing.” It’s not the first time an AI company has attempted to shoehorn AI chatbot functionality into a web browser. Atlas joins the likes of AI startup…
Why you can trust TechRadar We spend hours testing every product or service we review, so you can be sure you’re buying the best. Find out more about how we test. Turtle Beach Velocityone Race KD3: One-minute reviewPreviously a headset specialist, Turtle Beach has expanded into the more distant shores of sim peripherals lately and has had some especially impressive first forays into flight sim gear. The original VelocityOne direct drive bundle didn’t stick the landing quite as well over in the sim racing space, but this revised KD3 version addresses a lot of user feedback, and the result is…
X’s long-awaited encrypted DM feature, XChat, is becoming more widely available. Though the feature shipped in beta in May, XChat is now accessible for more users, including those who do not subscribe to X Premium. Separate from the existing DM inbox, XChat is end-to-end encrypted. The chat system supports media uploads, group chats, pinned messages, and the ability to mark messages as read or unread. Vanishing mode has been rumored to be in the works as well. Right now, users can only access XChat if they opt into using it. On desktop, XChat is accessible to some users from the…
A gateway to all kinds of entertainment, your smart TV and any associated streaming devices are essentially computers. They process, transmit, and store information, and boast operating systems that let you navigate, sort, and play media. And because yout TV is like a computer, it can require some maintenance from time to time in order to keep it running smoothly. Eventually, it will slow down to the point it is no longer worth using, but just because it’s lagging doesn’t mean it’s completely dead. When your Roku streaming stick or smart TV OS feels like it’s lagging or bloating, it’s…