Memorial Day is just around the corner, and you know what that means: Sales galore. As usual, Amazon is ahead of the game with up to 55% off select items from Amazon devices, kitchen items, home goods, electronics, and more, so shoppers can start prepping for summer. The sale started on May 16 and runs through Monday, May 26. Of course, these deals might get even better as the holiday gets closer. Here are some of the best Amazon Memorial Day sales you can shop now.

The LYNX M20, built by DEEP Robotics, is a wheeled-legged robot designed for industrial and emergency environments. It's used for inspections in power substations, tunnels, factories, and disaster zones, navigating challenging terrains with its hybrid design.

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"Significant upgrades to Siri--including the ones promised nearly a year ago--are unlikely to be discussed much and are still months away from shipping," said Gurman in an-depth report that detailed Apple leadership's reported failures to recognize the significance of generative AI for consumer tech products and subsequent issues in rolling out a smarter Siri driven by powerful LLMs and onscreen awareness. At Apple's WWDC 2025, which is less than a month away on June 9, the event will reportedly instead highlight "various non-AI software upgrades" like the reported interface design overhauls to make the operating systems for the iPhone, iPad, and Mac more in the style of the Vision Pro, said Gurman. Reports of Siri trouble have been brewing for a while now. Apple's promise of a more personalized and context-aware version of the voice assistant hasn't yet come to fruition, and instead we've seen minor updates like the ability to type to Siri and even examples of Siri getting worse. Apple even pulled a commercial with actor Bella Ramsey, featuring Siri being able answer who they had had lunch with by pulling up relevant calendar details, over accusations of false advertising.

According to the AI overlords, this is the year of agentic AI. You may have seen Google announce its "agentic era" with a web browsing research assistant and an AI bot that calls nail salons and mechanics for you. OpenAI leadership talked about agentic AI being a "big theme in 2025" and has already introduced a research preview of Operator, an agent that can perform tasks on your behalf, and Deep Research, which "conducts multi-step research on the internet for complex tasks." Microsoft just unveiled Microsoft Discover, an enterprise agentic AI tool for scientists. And your next smartphone could have agentic features that can send custom messages, create calendar events, or pull together information from across different apps.

When OpenAI unleashed ChatGPT on the world in November 2022, it lit the fuse that ignited the generative AI era. But Karen Hao, author of the new book, Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI, had already been covering OpenAI for years. The book comes out on May 20, and it reveals surprising new details about the company's culture of secrecy and religious devotion to the promise of AGI, or artificial general intelligence. Hao profiled the company for MIT Technology Review two years before ChatGPT launched, putting it on the map as a world-changing company. Now, she's giving readers an inside look at pivotal moments in the history of artificial intelligence, including the moment when OpenAI's board forced out CEO and cofounder Sam Altman. Empire of AI dispels any doubt that OpenAI's belief in ushering in AGI to benefit all of humanity had messianic undertones.

The Take It Down Act, a controversial bipartisan bill recently hailed by First Lady Melania Trump as a tool to build a safer internet, is officially law, as President Donald Trump took to the White House Rose Garden today to put ink to legislative paper. It's the first high-profile tech legislation to pass under the new administration. "With the rise of AI image generation, countless women have been harassed with deepfakes and other explicit images distributed against their will. This is wrong, so horribly wrong, and it's a very abusive situation," said Trump at the time of signing. "This will be the first ever federal law to combat the distribution of explicit, imaginary, posted without subject's consent... We've all heard about deepfakes. I have them all the time, but nobody does anything. I ask Pam [Bondi], 'Can you help me Pam?' She says, 'No I'm too busy doing other things. But a lot of people don't survive, that's true and so horrible... Today, we're making it totally illegal."

Do you want allegedly useful "artificial intelligence" features in your face in every single service and tool you use, constantly, unceasingly, and demanding you pay more for it? The latest perpetrator is Adobe, who's now raising the price of its priciest Creative Cloud plans next month and justifying it by bundling in a bunch of generative AI tools. The Creative Cloud All Apps plan is being renamed Creative Cloud Pro, because apparently tools that cost hundreds of dollars a year and aren't available as full purchases aren't for "professionals" unless they're paying the maximum amount. If you're in the US, Canada, or Mexico, and if you're currently subscribed to All Apps, you'll be moved over to the Pro plan starting on June 17th… with a price bump from 60 per month to 70 per month for standard, yearly-subscribed users in the US. Month-to-month prices will jump from the already-sky-high 90 per month to 105 per month.

SAVE 230: As of May 20, the eufy L60 Robot Vacuum is on sale for 319.99 at Amazon. Robot vacuums are massively helpful devices for any home. But to get something that actually does all the heavy lifting, you usually need to fork out a lot of money. That's where this Eufy L60 robot vacuum deal comes in. This impressive device has enough power to pick up the most stubborn dirt and pet hair, all with a lower price tag than you'd expect.

The Amazon Rainforest is a dazzlingly vast and complex ecosystem, a six-million-square-kilometer world unto itself. Despite its central role in countless indigenous origin stories and traditions stretching back millennia, it's largely been ignored by mainstream archaeology. Conventional thinking held that such an apparently raw and dynamic expanse of wilderness couldn't possibly have played any important role in the cultural evolution of human beings. Also: OpenAI upgrades ChatGPT with Codex - and I'm seriously impressed (so far) That's changing, however, now that a raft of new archaeological discoveries is flipping the original paradigm on its head and corroborating what indigenous peoples have long insisted: that the Amazon was once home to a rich, flourishing civilization. These discoveries have largely been enabled by technologies such as satellite imagery and Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR).