What If Your Coffee Mug Knew Your Next Move? AI Researchers Made It HappenPicture this: You're making cookies for a holiday get-together, and things have gotten hectic in the kitchen. You've opened the oven door, donned the oven mitts and grabbed a hot metal tray of warm snickerdoodles. You turn around to place them on the countertop and… whoops, you forgot to prepare something for the tray to...

New report details abuse Palestinian journalists face in Israeli prisons New report details abuse Palestinian journalists face in Israeli prisons NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Sara Qudah of the Committee to Protect Journalists about a new report on the abusive treatment that Palestinian journalists endure in Israeli prisons.

Anthropic Expands Claude's Free Tier With More FeaturesNow that OpenAI has added ads to its free and low-cost ChatGPT plans, its competition is having a "field day," so to speak. Anthropic hit back with Super Bowl ads criticizing the move and saying its Claude service would stay ad-free. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman responded by saying OpenAI intended to avoid putting its best features behind a...

SoftBank to spend an eye-popping $33B to build huge U.S. gas power plant In Brief Posted: 8:27 AM PST · February 19, 2026 Image Credits:Ron and Patty Thomas / Getty Images SoftBank subsidiary SB Energy is expected to build a massive 9.2 gigawatt natural gas-fired power plant on the Ohio-Kentucky border, according to a report from...

Google settles with Epic Games, drops its Play Store commissions to 20% Google is moving forward with a series of Play Store changes after settling a years-long legal battle with Fortnite maker Epic Games over anticompetitive concerns. The tech giant on Wednesday said it will drop its Play Store commissions to 20% on in-app purchases, with another 5% tacked on if app developers choose to use...