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Sony
Behold: The Same Controller, Now With Extra Branding! Only $85 for the privilege of pressing the same buttons in a slightly fancier way. Limited Edition—until we make another one.
Mobile World Congress
I could be cruel and lay out exactly what they wanted the world to disregard, but I’m feeling generous. Instead, let’s play a game. Here are five clues about Fibocom’s mystery announcement.
Funding
Turing secures $111M to advance AGI, or as we like to call it, ‘the perpetual AI fundraising machine.’ Investors just can’t resist those glowing red eyes.
AI
DuckDuckGo is joining the AI fray with its latest update: AI-assisted answers and a chatbot interface at Duck.ai. And you know what? Their announcement is surprisingly… refreshingly… normal.
Mobile World Congress
What does this even mean? Huawei Releases the ISP Business Success Driven by RAMS White Paper and GIGA+ Global Online Showcase.
AI
TECNO has entered the AI glasses race. Because if there's one thing the world needed, it was another company claiming that its headset will redefine reality.
AI
Salesforce just dropped Agentforce 2dx—a name that sounds like it was cooked up in a lab dedicated to confusing CIOs.
AI
Google is rolling out AI Mode for Search, ensuring that when you ask Google something, you get a response so advanced it practically hands you a PhD before you hit ‘Enter.’
Launch
In its ongoing mission to create the world’s most baffling subscription model, YouTube has just introduced Premium Lite—a new, “more affordable” way to watch most videos ad-free for the low, low price of $7.99 per month.
Satire
Samsung’s Galaxy S25 and its AI companion features deserve some poetic treatment. Here’s a sonnet capturing the spirit of the latest device.
Satire
If an iPad remains unchanged in form but receives a new chip, is it truly "new"?
Mobile World Congress
While most companies are content with a single press release at Mobile World Congress, Huawei decided that March 4, 2025, deserved not one, not two, but four celebratory announcements.