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 I tried Google’s new AI wardrobe feature with Motorola’s Razr — and it turns your photos into a surprisingly useful digital closet full of outfits
Sources: Apple plans a new Siri camera mode in iOS 27 by moving Visual Intelligence, currently tied to the Camera Control button, into the camera app (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
AWS launches Amazon Connect Decisions and Amazon Connect Talent, which are AI agentic tools aimed at logistics workers and recruiters (Matt Day/Bloomberg)
 'Near-unlimited AI coding for $50': Mini PC bundle gives programmers up to 288,000 prompts over 90 days
 AI did what? ChatGPT's big upgrade, Google’s plans to make AI invisible, DeepSeek’s return and more of the week’s most surprising developments
Have I Been Pwned: ShinyHunters' breach of ADT exposed the personal data of 5.5M people; ADT previously disclosed data breaches in August 2024 and October 2024 (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)
Collov Labs, whose visual interface lets users feed images and camera input into a model that AI agents can reason over and act on, raised a $23M Series A (Chris Metinko/Axios)
 ‘Nothing can replace good room design’: how one award-winning home theater designer approaches custom installs
 Adobe Illustrator (2026) review
A profile of Dwarkesh Patel, whose podcast has become mandatory listening in the AI community, with guests like Jensen Huang, Elon Musk, and Mark Zuckerberg (Benjamin Wallace/New York Times)
Trump hosted a gala luncheon for leading $TRUMP holders, where he spoke about his pro-crypto policies, but avoided the memecoin's declining value (Wall Street Journal)
 For its 40th birthday, IKEA has created a collection of its most iconic products — and I bet you have at least one of them somewhere in your home
A look at Tin Can's $100 retro-style, Wi-Fi-enabled landline phone, and how some schools are seeding the device to students in an attempt to curb smartphone use (Samantha Kelly/Bloomberg)
 I'm still playing Forza Horizon 3 a decade after release — here's why I can't get enough of its beautiful world
 First Advantage review
 The T3 Aire 360 is the closest I've got to Dyson Airwrap-style results without paying Dyson prices
The DOJ joins xAI in its legal challenge to a new Colorado law that seeks to prevent discrimination by AI tools in employment and other areas (Madlin Mekelburg/Bloomberg)
 If you think this Unitree G1 robot rollerblading is scary, wait until you see it iceskating — robot Winter Olympics can’t be far behind, and we should talk about robot mobility
A look at Microsoft's recent wave of executive departures, as it struggles to retain talent and changes its annual rewards and performance programs in response (Tom Warren/The Verge)
 'A tabletop window into extreme physics': How graphene is breaking a fundamental law to unlock quantum computing
Google says 75% of new code created inside the company is now generated by AI and reviewed by human engineers, up from 50% last fall (Hugh Langley/Business Insider)
Clarifai says it has deleted 3M OkCupid user photos and facial-recognition models trained on them after the US FTC settled with OkCupid over privacy violations (Jody Godoy/Reuters)
Sources: CISA doesn't have access to Mythos Preview, even as some other government agencies use it; Anthropic says it briefed CISA before Mythos' unveiling (Sam Sabin/Axios)
 Hyundai reinvents the hatchback with the 300-mile range Ioniq 3 — a compact, aerodynamic EV that runs on Android Automotive
A new media company called MTS launches for "monitoring the situation" across tech, business, politics, and culture, with backing from a16z and others (a16z)
Palantir posts a 22-point summary of Alex Karp's book, promoting hard power, AI weapons and deterrence, while denouncing pluralism and "regressive" cultures (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch)
 Home Depot's spring sale is, dare I say, better than Black Friday? 40% off patio furniture, appliances, grills, and more
 The Narwal Flow 2 an AI-forward robot vacuum and mop that uses its smarts to determine how dirty your floor is, and the best way to clean it
 'An impressive leap': Artemis II used lasers to communicate 100000x faster than the Apollo 13 mission
Airbnb launches a pilot in NYC, LA, and other cities that lets users to select from a range of boutique hotels alongside private homes in a bid to boost growth (Stephanie Stacey/Financial Times)
 'So we've got a proper four wall bedroom situation': I asked Alexa+ to help redecorate my apartment, and she has a great eye for design
Ad buyers say ad rates for ChatGPT are falling from $60 CPM to as low as $25 and the minimum spend to advertise is down to $50K from $250K at launch (Krystal Scanlon/Digiday)
 Rolls-Royce launches its most 'ambitious work' to date — as limited edition Project Nightingale takes electric luxury to a new level
The UK unveils Sovereign AI, a £500M fund to invest in domestic AI startups, starting with Callosum, which builds software to help different chips work together (Joel Khalili/Wired)
WPP, Dentsu, and Publicis settle with the FTC over claims they colluded on misinformation policies that denied ad revenue to conservative publishers (David McCabe/New York Times)
 How to watch Love Island: Beyond the Villa season 2 online from anywhere
Adobe unveils Firefly AI Assistant, which can orchestrate and execute multistep tasks across Creative Cloud apps, available in public beta in the coming weeks (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
 The Saros 20 is a predictably accomplished addition to Roborock's robot vacuum lineup, delivering all-round cleaning excellence
Anthropic launches a repeatable routines feature for Claude Code as a research preview, allowing developers to schedule and automate software development tasks (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)
Google launches Skills, repeatable AI prompts users can run in Chrome with a keyboard shortcut; users can set up their own Skills or choose from 50+ presets (Reece Rogers/Wired)
Internal memo: Microsoft's gaming chief Asha Sharma says "Game Pass has become too expensive for players" and that Microsoft needs "a better value equation" (Tom Warren/The Verge)
 Score best-selling running shoes on a budget at Amazon — save up to 40% on Nike, Hoka, Brooks, and more
 Pokémon Champions isn't perfect, but that hasn't stopped me playing it non-stop for days
As weather betting grows on prediction markets, climate experts are debating whether it improves forecasts by aggregating knowledge or is simply a zero-sum game (Bloomberg)
 Samsung releases its new 2026 TVs — that means you can score stunning discounts on older models, with prices starting at $249.99
Sources: Anthropic met with Christian leaders in March to seek input on Claude's moral and spiritual development and if it could be considered a "child of God" (Washington Post)
 Want cafe-quality lattes at home without buying an expensive new coffee machine? Jura's new gadget upgrades your drinks with perfectly foamed milk every time
 Playing The Last of Us with friends made my favorite PlayStation game feel brand new again
Source: federal prosecutors have subpoenaed Reddit to appear before a grand jury, to provide personal data on an anonymous user who criticized ICE (Ryan Devereaux/The Intercept)