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The Alan Turing Institute's Chief Scientist has temporarily stepped into the hot seat at the UK's flagship AI research organization after the long-flagged departure of CEO Jean Innes. According to a statement from the Institute, "Professor Mark Girolami will be in post as acting CEO before handing over to a new CEO and resuming full

Anthropic’s Claude is getting a new constitution. On Wednesday, the company announced that the document, which provides a “detailed description of Anthropic’s vision for Claude’s values and behavior,” is getting a rewrite that will introduce broad principles that the company expects its chatbot to follow rather than the more stringent set of rules that it

The tech industry’s “VR is really going to happen” push comes around roughly once a decade. And while this generation’s devices—the Meta Quest, Apple Vision Pro, etc—are certainly the most technologically advanced yet, you might be surprised by the results that previous attempts at VR were able to achieve. Take, for example, the Virtual Boy

April Fools’ Day is always an occasion to be very, very careful about what you read, see, or hear about, especially online—but this is confirmed to be real: MAD About DC, a team-up between the legendary humor magazine and legendary comics imprint that releases April 1. It’s a 64-page one-shot guest-edited by yet another legend:

The holiday season has been over for weeks … or has it? If you’re thinking about switching from Big Wireless to Mint Mobile so you can save a pile of money while connecting to the nation’s largest 5G network, it might as well still be Christmas, because Mint Mobile’s holiday offers on their Unlimited plan

The arrival of semaglutide and similar GLP-1 drugs in recent years has ushered in a new era of obesity treatment. These drugs, which mimic the GLP-1 hormone, help people lose substantially more weight than they typically would with diet and exercise alone. Semaglutide was developed by Novo Nordisk. It’s the active ingredient in the type

X is rolling out a new feature called “Starterpacks” to all users in the coming weeks, the company’s head of product has announced. It’s made up of compilations of accounts new users can follow based on their interests. If that sounds familiar, it’s because Bluesky launched a very similar feature that’s also called “starter packs”

Marshall plans to add seamless multi-room audio to its Bluetooth speakers via a newly announced music streaming hub called Heddon. The $300 hub makes it possible to connect and synchronize multiple older Marshall speakers together, not unlike Sonos' audio devices. Rather than use Wi-Fi to get multiple speakers playing the same audio, though, the Marshall

Apple has been spinning its wheels for many months over its approach to artificial intelligence, but a strategy finally appears to be emerging for the company. Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reported today that Apple's long-awaited Siri overhaul will allegedly involve transforming the voice assistant into an AI chatbot, internally called Campos. Sources have reportedly told Gurman

Microsoft has announced that the Xbox app is now available on all Arm-based Windows 11 PCs. The app's release follows an update Microsoft made to its Prism emulator in December 2025, which translates x86 and x64 apps to Arm, and now includes support for AVX and AVX2. Both extensions play a role in making games