When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. Google's Gmail just got a big AI upgrade and it's (mostly) free This shouldn't come as a surprise-AI is omnipresent these days-but Gmail is getting a big old AI upgrade, and this time Google's taking a hammer to its paywall. During a press briefing led by Ross Reichardi from Gmail PR and Blake Barnes, head of Gmail product, Google announced a wide rollout of AI-powered Gmail features to all U.S. users for free. That includes tools like Help Me Write, AI-generated summaries in email threads, and more advanced Smart Replies, which were previously limited to paying customers. There's a brand-new Proofread feature that helps you spiffy up your email drafts in real time.

Organizations have a wealth of unstructured data that most AI models can't yet read. Preparing and contextualizing this data is essential for moving from AI experiments to measurable results. Enterprises are sitting on vast quantities of unstructured data, from call records and video footage to customer complaint histories and supply chain signals. Yet this invaluable business intelligence, estimated to make up as much as 90% of the data generated by organizations, historically remained dormant because its unstructured nature makes analysis extremely difficult. But if managed and centralized effectively, this messy and often voluminous data is not only a precious asset for training and optimizing next-generation AI systems, enhancing their accuracy, context, and adaptability, it can also deliver profound insights that drive real business outcomes. A compelling example of this can be seen in the US NBA basketball team the Charlotte Hornets who successfully leveraged untapped video footage of gameplay--previously too copious to watch and too unstructured to analyze--to identify a new competition-winning recruit.

Could Ukraine hold a presidential election right now? Will Europe use frozen Russian assets to fund war? How can Ukraine rebuild China ties? 'Ukraine is running out of men, money and time' Russian mortality rates on the front lines are rising to levels that cannot be sustained by the current method of voluntary recruitment, Ukrainian figures suggest. "In December, 35,000 occupiers were eliminated - and this has been confirmed with video footage," said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in a Monday evening address.

The crop of next-generation TVs arriving this year has more accurate colors than ever, thanks to a fancy new kind of backlighting. For how excellent they've come to look, today's televisions come with a brain-numbing assortment of acronyms for shoppers to parse. It's like the scariest dinner party I've ever attended. Remember LED, QLED, Mini LED, Micro LED, OLED, QD OLED? Sadly, all these acronyms do actually mean something, and this year's popular newcomer--RGB LED--implies shockingly accurate colors. Hiding behind upcoming panels from Hisense, Sony, Samsung, and LG announced at CES 2026, RGB LED (unhelpfully also called Micro RGB or RGB Mini LED) is the hot panel technology to talk about this year.

Elon Musk, who co-founded OpenAI, is suing the ChatGPT developer and its CEO, Sam Altman, left, over claims its leaders violated founding nonprofit mission. Elon Musk, who co-founded OpenAI, is suing the ChatGPT developer and its CEO, Sam Altman, left, over claims its leaders violated founding nonprofit mission. Judge says there is plenty of evidence to suggest OpenAI's leaders made assurances nonprofit structure would be kept Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI is to go to trial after a US judge said there is plenty of evidence to support the billionaire's case. The world's richest man, who co-founded OpenAI, is suing the ChatGPT developer and its chief executive, Sam Altman, over claims its leaders violated the organisation's founding mission by shifting to a for-profit model. The US district judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers in Oakland, California, told a hearing there was plenty of evidence that suggested OpenAI's leaders made assurances that its original nonprofit structure was going to be maintained.

The supply shortage of the RAM needed to build phones and PCs isn't going away. But a few companies have a plan to solve it. A supply shortage is the last thing tech companies want to talk about at CES . The annual trade show is their chance to promote new products and drum up excitement for what's coming, not discuss the one thing that could make selling new products in 2026 an uphill battle. But I've read the reports.

When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. At least once a year, what happens in Vegas is made very, very public. As the official kickoff for all the cool high-tech and cutting-edge products and trends that consumers should expect in the coming year, CES is all about the hype and publicity. Surprising exactly no one, a lot of that hype included AI and robots. Some of which is legitimately exciting. But we're PCWorld, so we naturally care deeply about how the latest products and innovations will impact the near future of our beloved pastime.

Things to Do in L.A. Tap to enable a layout that focuses on the article. A renter drives a U-Haul in Mission Valley in 2023. This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here . Anecdotal data suggest there is also an exodus of regular people who load their belongings into rental trucks and lug them to another state.

You won't be able to buy Samsung's household Ballie robot after all The company will keep using Ballie internally as an active innovation platform, but it seems doomed as a consumer device. Samsung's Ballie robot was a highlight of its CES 2024 press conference. For years, we've been wondering when Samsung would actually bring Ballie, its cute household companion robot, to market and now we finally have our answer: it won't. After the planned summer 2025 release window came and went, the company has opted not to release the gizmo as a consumer product, at least not for the foreseeable future. According to, Samsung has indefinitely shelved the robot.

Is Craigslist the Last Real Place on the Internet? Millennials are still using Craigslist to find jobs, find love, and even to cast creative projects--eschewing other AIand algorithm-dominated online spaces. The writer and comedian Megan Koester got her first writing job, reviewing internet pornography, from a Craigslist ad she responded to more than 15 years ago. Several years after that, she used the listings website to find the rent-controlled apartment where she still lives today. When she wanted to buy property, she scrolled through Craigslist and found a parcel of land in the Mojave Desert.