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GIGABYTE Wants You to Battle AI at SXSW. We’re Not Sure Who Wins

GIGABYTE’s big reveal at SXSW 2025: an arcade game where you battle AI in real time. Oh, and something about editing 8K VR videos that no one but professional YouTubers will care about.

Deals

Rocket Companies Acquires Redfin to Make Homebuying Algorithmically Magical

Rocket Companies is acquiring Redfin in a $1.75 billion all-stock deal, promising AI-powered homebuying convenience, cost savings, and 14 petabytes of consumer data — but raising big questions for real estate, mortgages, and housing competition.

Funding

Turing’s $111M Series E: When in Doubt, Just Say "AGI"

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.

DuckDuckGo’s AI Announcement Is Refreshingly Free of Jargon, So We Added All the Missing Buzzwords Back In

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.

TECNO Reinvents Google Glass, Pretends It's New

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.

Enterprise AI Just Got Even More Confusing, and Salesforce Couldn’t Be Happier

Salesforce just dropped Agentforce 2dx—a name that sounds like it was cooked up in a lab dedicated to confusing CIOs.

8 Searches You Should do Right Now with the New Google AI Mode

Google’s new AI Mode for Search replaces traditional results with AI-generated answers. Learn how it works, why it matters, and the funniest ways to use it — from burritos to Taylor Swift.

Satire

The Samsung Galaxy S25 AI: As Told in Verse

Samsung’s Galaxy S25 and its AI companion features deserve some poetic treatment. Here’s a sonnet capturing the spirit of the latest device.

Mobile World Congress

Huawei’s MWC Strategy: If You Can’t Impress With One Announcement, Try Four

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.

Deutsche Telekom’s “AI Phone” Is Here to Save You from the Horrors of Tapping Apps

Deutsche Telekom and Perplexity debut the “AI Phone” at MWC 2025, promising to kill apps, save time, and redefine déjà vu.

Lenovo’s New Laptops Fold, Flip, and Even Soak Up the Sun

Lenovo’s new laptops fold, flip, soak up the sun, and probably do your taxes. We braved their 10,000-word press release so you don’t have to. Here’s what actually matters.

Amazon

Alexa+ Is Here: Amazon’s Plan to Make You Pay for the Voice Assistant You Already Own

Amazon launches Alexa+, a $19.99/month generative AI voice assistant with memory, smart home automation, and the new Echo Show 21. Here’s what’s new, how it works, and whether it’s worth it.

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