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Singapore has signed new partnerships with Google and OpenAI to strengthen the city-state's position as a global AI hub and accelerating AI deployment.

Alibaba announced updates to its AI offerings, including a more powerful chip and a new large language model.

South Korean media outlet Yonhap said that a strike will begin Thursday. More than 47,000 workers are expected to join the strike

A global reshuffling in stock-market hierarchy is underway. AI is propelling Taiwan and South Korea past a couple long-established Western countries. 

Connections is a New York Times word game that's all about finding the "common threads between words." How to solve the puzzle.

The NYT Strands hints and answers you need to make the most of your puzzling experience.

Here's the answer for "Wordle" #1796 on May 20 as well as a few hints, tips, and clues to help you solve it yourself.

Trump faces resistance at home even as inflation expectations rise and affordability looms large ahead of the midterms.

U.S. Treasurys are in a "danger zone" as surging long-term yields raise fears that sticky inflation could begin spilling over into equities, strategists said.

North Asian markets are outperforming South Asian markets, supported by stronger fiscal ability and AI developments, Goldman said.

President Donald Trump had targeted Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., for opposing GOP priorities.

Asia-Pacific markets were poised to open mixed on Wednesday as investors weighed elevated bond yields and renewed geopolitical tensions.

SpaceX has picked Goldman Sachs to lead what's expected to be a record-setting IPO.

Google announced a boatload of new AI-powered features at its I/O keynote, but most of them will launch behind paywalls.

Google had a slew of Gemini announcements to share at I/O 2026. Here are the big ones.

The war with Iran has now blown past the 60-day requirement under the War Powers Act for the president to seek the authorization of Congress.

Find the best TV deal at Amazon. Save 42% on the Hisense 75-inch E7 Cinema Series at Amazon.

Work smarter, not harder with some help from this lifetime license to Microsoft Office Home and Business for Mac 2021.

Altman said OpenAI will make sure it leaves enough capacity available for its products like ChatGPT and its coding assistant Codex.

Google says it's designed the app to be accessible to everyone, from teachers to small business owners.

Google expands Gmail’s AI Inbox with conversational voice search, letting users ask Gemini to find buried email details.

Google is launching AI-powered “information agents” that can monitor topics in the background and proactively alert users to updates and changes.

Good news! Discord's hundreds of millions of users now have their communications scrambled, so not even Discord can see them.

Mach says the acquisition meaningfully improves unit economics across its five vehicle programs at exactly the moment the company is starting to scale.

Ocean, an agentic email security platform, raised funding from Lightspeed Venture Partners.

The Trump Organization says the president’s financial investments are handled by outside firms and that it has no control over the timing or selection of transactions.

With Gentle Monster, Google and Samsung are betting stylish design — not just AI features — will finally bring smart eyewear into the fashion mainstream.

Everything announced at Google I/O 2026 keynote

Apple is adding Apple Intelligence features to its popular accessibility tools, including Voice Over, live captioning, and even Apple Vision Pro.

“By the end of this week, you and Sam will be the most hated men in America.”

At Google I/O 2026, the company debuted the new Workspace program, Google Pics, which felt quite familiar. So is the AI-powered Google Pics the new Canva?

AI startup Chronicle is working to take the guesswork out of the systems controlling the social media economy.

Meta told employees last month that it would carry out mass layoffs on May 20, as the Silicon Valley giant tries to transform into an A.I.-first company.

President Trump agreed to drop his lawsuit against the IRS in exchange for a fund that can compensate allies who were targeted under the Biden administration.

An electronics wizard, he was already a veteran inventor when he collaborated with Ron Dubren on an idea for a toy that giggled. The rest is retail history.

Google's announcements at Google I/O 2026 included a Daily Brief for paid Google AI subscribers.

In 1996, the giggling stuffed doll turned holiday shopping into chaos, a preview of every sneaker drop, PlayStation launch and Taylor Swift ticket rush to come.

At its annual developer conference, Google announced it's bringing YouTube to AI Search.

Google is back in the glasses game with "audio glasses" out this fall.

Google is calling the new devices "audio glasses," in that users will be able to issue verbal commands to them and get things done via its ecosystem of apps and services, including Gemini.

The finding effectively paves the way for continued use of atrazine, a widely used herbicide that has been linked to birth defects and cancer in humans.

Successful entrepreneurs recognize that how they show up visually should evolve alongside their business, ensuring their appearance reflects their ambition and credibility.

The 30-year U.S. Treasury yield hasn’t been this high since the lead up to the global financial crisis. Across Europe and Asia, yields are also elevated.

At Google I/O 2026, Google revealed Gemini Spark, a personal AI agent that runs on the cloud. Here's why it might win out over OpenClaw.

At Google I/O 2026, Google and Samsung pulled back the curtain on two new pairs of smart glasses.

I spent over a year grinding consumer sales before a single corporate enquiry rewired how I thought about my business.

The way leaders communicate — especially how they frame feedback, challenges and expectations — directly shapes trust, accountability and performance across the entire organization.

At Google I/O, the company announced three new features coming to Google Workspace including Google Pics, Gmail and Docs Live, and AI Inbox.

Google unveiled a new AI model, Gemini 3.5 Flash, at Google I/O 2026. The new model is available now at no cost.

Google DeepMind is integrating Street View with Project Genie to create immersive, interactive world simulations for robotics, gaming, and travel, allowing users to explore environments, weather changes, and rare scenarios.

Google launched Gemini 3.5 Flash, its most powerful coding and agentic AI model yet, at the company's annual developer conference. It is capable of autonomously executing complex tasks and building software from scratch.

Google is launching AI-powered “information agents” that can monitor topics in the background and proactively alert users to updates and changes.

Google made a number of AI announcements at its annual developer conference, rolling out more-advanced models and agentic tools for its expansive user base.

Google is transforming Search from a list of links into an AI-powered experience filled with conversational answers, autonomous agents, and interactive interfaces — a shift that could further reduce traffic to publishers across the web.

Powered by a new Gemini A.I. model, the tech giant is overhauling its search box to answer longer queries, introducing a video-generation and video-editing tool and simplifying online shopping.

At Google I/O 2026, many new AI-powered Google Search features were unveiled. Here's what Google has coming.

At Google I/O, three new features to Google Shopping were announced. Universal Commerce Protocol, Agent Payments Protocol, and Universal Cart are now using AI to power the Google shopping experience.

Despite its early stumbles, Google’s Gemini has leapfrogged ChatGPT in relevance and usefulness. Soon, it will be ubiquitous.

Google announced new Gmail features at its I/O conference Tuesday, including an AI voice integration tool called Gmail Live.

Google is debuting a new AI Ultra plan priced at $100, which will give users 5x more usage limit than the AI Pro plan alongside the Antigravity 2.0 launch.

Google expands Gmail’s AI Inbox with conversational voice search, letting users ask Gemini to find buried email details.

Google unveiled new web-based AI tools that can generate native Android apps in minutes, as the company expands its push into AI-powered software development.

The tech giant says it's designed the app to be accessible to everyone, from teachers to small business owners.

The updates signal Google’s push to turn its Gemini Gemini app into an all-purpose AI hub rather than a standalone chatbot.

Google is embracing the rise of AI coding agents with new Android tools designed to work with platforms like Claude Code and OpenAI’s Codex, allowing developers — or their AI assistants — to build Android apps faster from the command line.

OpenAI announced two new measures to help detect AI generated imagery: joining the open C2PA standard and adding Google's SynthID to its products.

The tech giant says it's aware that most people shop across multiple devices, many retailers, and over the course of many days, which is why it's launching Universal Cart.

At the I/O developer conference, Google announced a new agentic personal assistant called Gemini Spark, built from Gemini's base models and an agentic harness from Google Antigravity.

Google is letting users create drafts, take notes, and search for email with voice with the new Workspace update

Google is debuting a new AI Ultra plan priced at $100, which will give users 5x more usage limit than the AI Pro plan alongside Antigravity 2.0 launch.

Google's Gemini Omni is a new multimodal model that reasons across text, images, audio, and video to generate and edit videos through simple conversation — starting with Omni Flash.

Most people shop across multiple devices, many retailers, and over the course of many days, which is why Google is launching Universal Cart.

At Google I/O 2026, Google unveiled a new AI model called Gemini Omni.

At Google I/O 2026, the company announced it's expanding its SynthID digital watermark, and OpenAI announced it's adopting it, too

Google overhauled its AI subscription plans at I/O, and made them cheaper

Google introduces its new AI agent, Gemini Spark

The updates signal Google’s push to turn its Gemini app into an all-purpose AI hub rather than a stand-alone chatbot.

The sophisticated messages are very convincing.

After scaling an e-commerce business into 19 European markets, I came to call my approach the country-signal rule.

How one pizza operator built an empire by ditching the commercials and betting on his own story.

Unitree says its GD01 rideable robot starts at $574,000, walks on two legs, transforms into four-legged form and can smash through a pile of bricks.

AI search is driving traffic. Here's how successful teams are measuring it.

Isak Andic, the billionaire who built the Spanish brand, died while hiking with his son in 2024. News outlets had reported that the son was under investigation.

The Beatbot Sora 70 robotic pool cleaner is on sale at Amazon for $1,149, down from the standard price of $1,499. That's a 23% discount.

Andrej Karpathy, an artificial intelligence researcher who co-founded OpenAI before getting poached by Tesla, said he's joining Anthropic.

As of May 19, save $600 on the Samsung Odyssey Neo G9 gaming monitor.

The United States and Europe were at odds over the Trump administration’s decision to ease oil sanctions on Russia.

Full terms and rules for the 2026 Mashable contest.

Ahead of WWDC 2026, test your knowledge of Apple products. Beat the experts, and you could take home a new Apple Watch.

Sony's 1000X the Collexion headphones hit markets today, retailing for $649.99 at Sony, Best Buy, and Amazon. We rounded up everything you need to know about the new headphones.

Asked how long Iran has to come to the table, Trump said it could be two or three days, or perhaps until Sunday or early next week.

Businesses in the Middle East bought insurance that protects against terrorism or sabotage, but far fewer purchased coverage explicitly designed to cover "war."

Andrej Karpathy has joined Anthropic to work on pre-training. He previously co-founded and worked at OpenAI and led computer vision and AI at Tesla.

As of May 19, save $10 on the pocket mic Insta360 Mic Air.

"The Light Phone is designed to be used as little as possible," founder Joe Hollier told TechCrunch.

The attacks are part of a wider campaign known as Mini Shai-Hulud, which has already compromised several open source projects and, in turn, developers and companies that use them.

Clips4Sale revealed the increase average cost of certain fetish clips.

As of May 19, get the Bose QuietComfort Ultra 2nd gen earbuds for $50 off, bringing them down to $249. That's the lowest price we've ever seen on the earbuds.

German prosthetics firm Ottobock fell over 10% on Tuesday in the wake of a report published by US-based hedge fund Grizzly Research.

Find out how to watch "The Super Mario Galaxy Movie" at home, including when and where it will be streaming.