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Payments firm Ramp reports that while AI token usage kept rising, actual spending on AI services grew just 1.5% combined across August and September, down sharply from 42% growth in July alone. Ramp's lead economist Ara Kharazian said the slowdown is concentrated among the top 1% of spenders, who have dipped slightly below the roughly $10,000-per-employee monthly spending they hit over the summer.
A QR code hides its destination until you have already opened it. susQR is a free web tool that checks the link first, and it is worth keeping one tap away.
Apple has released a new MacBook Pro that reviewers describe as high-quality but expensive, with fully configured models reaching prices mostly affordable to well-funded businesses. The laptop notably includes a touchscreen, a first for Apple's lineup, while remaining largely built around established computing design rather than new AI-driven paradigms.
An agent is a language model given tools and a loop. That single design choice explains both why agents can finish real work and why they fail in ways a chatbot never could.
Jack Turner, a self-taught 23-year-old animatronics expert, is repairing and restoring decades-old animatronic figures that had fallen into disrepair. His work focuses on returning these aging mechanical systems to working order rather than replacing them with new technology.
Quishing works because a QR code gives you nothing to judge before you commit. Here is what the scams look like in practice and the habits that defuse them.
The launch of NASA's Artemis 2 crewed Moon mission generated ripples in Earth's upper atmosphere that spread across roughly 3,100 miles. GPS receivers on the ground picked up three distinct wave-like disturbances tied to the rocket's ascent through the ionosphere.
A new router upgrades the link between your devices and the router. Almost nothing people complain about lives on that link, which is why the box rarely delivers the numbers on it.
Elon Musk announced on X that Tesla will wind down Cybertruck production at Gigafactory Texas around mid-2026 to make room for increased Cybercab output. The vehicle, built exclusively at that plant due to its unique stainless steel body, sold fewer than 50,000 units despite Musk's claims of over a million reservations, with US sales down 28 percent year-over-year through the first three quarters of this year. Tesla has not confirmed to WIRED whether production will end entirely.
Weibo leaker Digital Chat Station claims OPPO has paused work on an unnamed upcoming flagship, widely believed to be the Find X10 Ultra. OPPO has not confirmed this officially, and the report remains unverified. The phone had been rumored to carry a quad rear camera setup featuring multiple 200MP sensors.
Google skipped its usual first-Tuesday Pixel security update in November, breaking a pattern it had followed for most of 2025. A Reddit user points to entries in Google's Android security vulnerability database tagged with a November 2026 QPR2 identifier, plus unusually large driver and firmware changes, as evidence that Android 17 QPR2 may be arriving earlier than its expected December release. Build-tracking site BetaWiki has also listed two November-dated release candidate builds, though Google has not confirmed any of this or explained the missing update.
Amazon is selling the Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra for $949.99, a $450 cut from its $1,399.99 list price. The listing carries a 4.6-star rating, and the phone features a 6.9-inch display, S Pen support, a customized Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 for Galaxy chip, and storage options up to 1TB.