Samsung Galaxy Unpacked 2026 is Feb. 25 Valve's Steam Machine: Everything we know Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die rails against AI in style It's not particularly deep, but it sure is fun. Sam Rockwell (center) and crew in Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die. You've seen this movie before: A disheveled man (Sam Rockwell) busts into a restaurant, threatening to blow up the joint unless a crew of people joins him. Like, he's been through this countless times before, and he immediately starts recounting otherwise unknowable details to convince the diner patrons. Like, he's from the future -- the timely twist in is that, rather than a world-ending virus, he needs help preventing a humanity-ending AI from being born.

Samsung Galaxy Unpacked 2026 is Feb. 25 Valve's Steam Machine: Everything we know The controversial technology could roll out as soon as this year. Meta has backed away from highly controversial facial recognition tech in its products and services before, but seemingly not so far that it isn't willing to have another crack at it. A new report from claims Mark Zuckerberg's company wants to add facial recognition to its lineup of branded smart glasses at some point this year. The spoke to four anonymous people with knowledge of Meta's plans, who told the publication that the feature is codenamed Name Tag internally. As you'd expect, it would let people wearing Meta-powered Oakley or Ray-Ban glasses identify people and get information about them using AI.

Samsung Galaxy Unpacked 2026 is Feb. 25 Valve's Steam Machine: Everything we know DoorDashers are getting paid to close Waymo's self-driving car doors The companies are running a pilot program in Atlanta. A few days ago, a Redditor posted in the community for DoorDash drivers that they received an offer to close a Waymo vehicle's door. The job paid a guaranteed fee of $6.25 with a $5 extra on top of it after the DoorDasher verifies that it has been completed. Waymo has confirmed to and that, yes, it is indeed paying Dashers to shut the doors of its self-driving cars. And it makes sense because, well, there's nobody to do it otherwise if a passenger accidentally leaves it open.

Samsung Galaxy Unpacked 2026 is Feb. 25 Valve's Steam Machine: Everything we know Dear algo posts on Threads will change your recommendations for three days. Threads users have complained about its recommendation algorithm since 2023. Users even started writing posts addressed to the algorithm, specifying the topics they wanted to see more of. Now, that's part of the system: Users can write a post that begins with "dear algo" to adjust their preferences, officially. For example, you could write: "Dear algo, show me more posts about sous vide recipes."

Samsung Galaxy Unpacked 2026 is Feb. 25 Valve's Steam Machine: Everything we know Amazon's Send to Alexa+ feature arrives on Kindle Scribe and Scribe Colorsoft The AI assistant integration was first announced last fall. Amazon is launching a feature that will add a new artificial intelligence layer to its writing tablets. Send to Alexa+ is rolling out to the current generation of Kindle Scribe and Kindle Scribe Colorsoft devices. This concept was announced when Amazon first debuted the Kindle Scribe Colorsoft last fall, but the company said that the feature wouldn't be available until this year. As the name implies, "Send to Alexa+" lets users share their notebooks and documents from their supported Kindle with the Alexa+ AI assistant, making their information accessible on other Amazon platforms, including Alexa.com and the Alexa app.

Samsung Galaxy Unpacked 2026 is Feb. 25 Valve's Steam Machine: Everything we know The company is going to release its capabilities in portions over future software updates, according to Bloomberg. Apple's long-delayed AI-powered Siri redesign may not be rolling out this year, at least in the way the company had planned. According to Mark Gurman, Apple found problems with its software upon testing, such as the virtual assistant taking too long to accomplish tasks or even not processing queries properly altogether. Siri's new version was also reportedly so sluggish during testing that its developers believed Apple would have to push back its launch by months. Instead of releasing the redesigned assistant in March as was previously reported, Gurman says Apple will roll out its capabilities piecemeal over future software updates.

Samsung Galaxy Unpacked 2026 is Feb. 25 Valve's Steam Machine: Everything we know Anthropic beefs up Claude's free tier as OpenAI prepares to stuff ads into ChatGPT's You no longer need a subscription to create files or use Connectors and Skills in Claude. Anthropic is upgrading Claude's free tier, apparently to capitalize on OpenAI's planned integration of ads into ChatGPT . On Wednesday, Anthropic said free Claude users can now create files, connect to external services, use skills and more. Anthropic added the ability for paid users to create files in September. Starting today, free users of the chatbot can also create and edit Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations, Word docs and PDFs.

Valve's Steam Machine: Everything we know Uber Eats' new Cart Assistant feature is an AI hack for your grocery shopping The feature accepts both image and text prompts, but is still in beta at the moment. If there's any area of your life that you might be willing to introduce more AI into, it's likely something as mundane as grocery shopping. That's what Uber is betting on with its new AI-powered in the Uber Eats app. Cart Assistant lets you build grocery baskets faster and with less effort by using AI to automatically fill your basket with items included on your shopping list. To use it, you search for a supported grocery store on the home screen of the app and tap the new Cart Assistant icon that appears at the top of the screen.

Valve's Steam Machine: Everything we know Or use AI to restyle your Stories and Memories if you want to further detach them from reality. Meta has been going all in on AI, whether people want it or not, and now it's bringing more features in that vein to Facebook. The network's latest move is to let people use Meta AI to animate their profile photos. Because what better way to express your individuality than to use a pre-canned AI-generated animation on your own face? Meta AI is also coming for your Facebook Stories and Memories.

Valve's Steam Machine: Everything we know Toyota and Pony.ai start mass producing robotaxis for China The first bZ4X robotaxi is ready to be deployed. It's the first of many, if the companies stick to their plan, which is to produce more than 1,000 bZ4X robotaxis this year. The bZ4X is one of the three autonomous vehicle models Pony.ai intends to use for commercial services in Tier 1 Chinese cities, including Beijing and Shanghai. The other two vehicles are already being used for Pony.ai's Pony.ai's goal is to operate 3,000 vehicles by the end of 2026.