From PC Mag: AMD plans to acquire Finnish AI startup Silo AI for approximately $665 million, the US tech giant announced this week. The acquisition is expected to be finalized by the end of this year.

Silo AI is a private AI lab with four offices in Europe and over 300 employees, including 125 AI...

From CNET: The Pixel 9 series looks set to arrive much sooner than anticipated, with Google inviting the press to a Pixel hardware event on Aug. 13. The company's Pixel 8 and 8 Pro launched in October last year, but it looks like Google wants to get its phones out before Apple announces its iPhone...

From PC Mag: Microsoft will give up its board observer role on the OpenAI board, while Apple will no longer pursue a similar position, The Financial Times reports.

In a letter to OpenAI, Microsoft’s deputy general counsel Keith Dolliver says it has "witnessed significant progress by the newly...

From PC World: People hate printers. They have tons of breakable moving parts and they require expensive ink refills. But it was even worse when HP started making printers that required 24/7 online connectivity and blocked third-party ink cartridges via DRM.

It was so bad that consumers started...

From CNET: This summer's Samsung Galaxy Unpacked brought a handful of new devices including the highly anticipated Galaxy Ring, two new phones -- the Z Fold 6 and Z Flip 6 -- a pair of wearables, the Galaxy Watch 7 and Watch 7 Ultra and the redesigned Galaxy Buds 3 and Buds 3 Pro. They were...

From Corsair Press Release: CORSAIR (Nasdaq: CRSR) today announced the release of the new RS Series of cooling fans, boasting impressive and affordable cooling with simple daisy-chained connections for a hassle-free setup. Incorporating the latest fan technology advances, RS Series fans are ideal...

From Corsair Press Release: CORSAIR (Nasdaq: CRSR) today announced the immediate availability of the CORSAIR 3500X Series Mid-Tower PC Case for builders seeking a blend of aesthetics, compatibility, and cooling performance at an affordable price. Providing stunning views of your PC's internals...

From Thermaltake Press Release: Thermaltake is proud to launch the CTE E660 MX Mid Tower Chassis, a dual chamber mid-tower supporting ASUS and MSI Hidden-Connector motherboards. Along with excellent motherboard compatibility, the CTE E660 MX also features an interchangeable dual front panel design...

From The Verge: Spotify is launching the ability to leave comments on podcasts. The company already lets Spotify podcasters offer polls and Q&As, so this new feature could give creators new ways to interact with their audiences.

Comments will be private by default (similar to Q&A responses), so...

From PC Mag: X, formerly known as Twitter, is seeing user growth slow to a crawl since Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk bought the social media platform for a staggering $44 billion in mid-2022.

X's daily active user growth has plummeted from roughly 30% annually just a few years ago in 2020 to less...