28 May 2026
Report: Apple Plans to Make On-Device AI a Key WWDC Focus
Apple reportedly plans to use next month's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) to highlight its on-device AI capabilities as a competitive advantage, leaning on 15 years of custom silicon expertise to make the case for running AI models locally rather than in the cloud.
28 May 2026
Introducing: The Barrelhand Monolith Has Landed
After six years in development, Barrelhand is formally launching the Monolith, a watch that represents a new generation of the tool watch genre built explicitly for the space age.
27 May 2026
5 Reasons The New Screenless Fitbit Air Is The Ultimate Tool For Focus
A massive shift in the consumer wellness landscape has officially arrived. Yesterday marked the highly anticipated global retail launch of the Fitbit Air, debuting alongside a ground-up transformation of Google’s wearable ecosystem as the classic Fitbit app officially rebranded into the unified Google Health platform.
27 May 2026
Google AI Threat Defense targets attackers using AI to find flaws faster
Google Cloud introduced AI Threat Defense, an automated cybersecurity platform that combines several of the company’s security assets to find, prioritize, and patch software vulnerabilities at machine speed.
27 May 2026
Tribeca Festival Sets First Premiere of Fully AI-Generated Film, ‘Dreams of Violets’
The 2026 Tribeca Festival has set the world premiere of “Dreams of Violets,” a fully AI-generated film produced by studio Fountain 0 aimed at showcasing Iranian civilian resistance.
27 May 2026
The Google Fitbit Air Is the Best New Fitness Tracker of 2026
FITNESS TRACKERS HAVE become more sophisticated than ever, but they’re also getting a bit complicated. There are more sensors, more notifications, more monthly payments, and more data to make sense of, so it can be a mental workout just to keep up. Google has aimed to simplify that with the new Fitbit Air . At $99 with no required subscription, it’s a tiny, screenless band that tracks your heart…
27 May 2026
Google's entire suite of apps has been "contaminated" by the new model.
It has been more than a week since Google released Gemini 3.5 Flash. At the Google press conference, Sundar Pichai repeatedly claimed that the performance of Gemini 3.5 Flash is even stronger than that of 3.1 Pro, and said it is the foundation for the Agent era. But what's the result? Online reviews of Gemini 3.5 Flash are full of drawbacks, except for the single advantage of high speed. The…
26 May 2026
For AI co-scientists to scale, scientists have to trust them. The architectural bets to earn it vary.
A growing number of vendors, from Google DeepMind to Benchling to traditional ELN companies like Sapio Sciences, are pitching “co-scientist” functionality to bench researchers. They are part of a multibillion-dollar wave of AI life-sciences deals that has accelerated since late 2025.
26 May 2026
Sundar Pichai on AI, the future of search, and what’s happening to the web
Today, I’m talking with Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, in a conversation we recorded just after the Google I/O developer conference. This is the fifth year Sundar and I have sat down after I/O, and it’s become one of my favorite Decoder traditions. There’s always a lot of news at I/O, and this year was no exception — Google has powerful new Gemini models, it’s putting AI agents in…
