Microsoft is rolling out a new Agent Mode inside Office apps like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint this week. Previously described by Microsoft as "vibe working," the Agent Mode is a more powerful version of the Copilot experience in Office that Microsoft has been trying to sell to businesses."When we first shipped Copilot, foundation models were not powerful enough to use Copilot to command the applications," admits Sumit Chauhan, corporate vice president of Microsoft's Office Product Group. "This meant Copilot was a passive partner in documents: it could answer questions but missed the mark when it was asked to take action on the canvas direc …Read the full story at The Verge.

Proxmox has always been one of those platforms that makes me want to tinker first and justify it later. When Proxmox VE 9.1 added native OCI image support, that itch got even worse. The pitch is immediately appealing because it sounds like the cleanest possible shortcut. Pull an OCI image, spin it up from the Proxmox interface, and skip some of the ceremony that usually comes with standing up containerized services.

X is putting its AI chatbot, Grok, in charge of your timeline. In an announcement on Wednesday, X product head Nikita Bier says Premium subscribers on iOS can get early access to a feature that allows users to pin specific topics to their home tab, which Grok will then use to curate the posts you see across each feed."It's powered by Grok's understanding of every post with the algorithm's personalization - meaning every timeline is made just for you," Bier writes. "And it works even better when it's a topic you already engage with."Bier says early access to the Grok-powered timeline is coming to Android users "very soon." Along with this …Read the full story at The Verge.

When someone tells you an Nvidia feature doubled their framerate, you probably immediately think of DLSS Multi Frame Generation or maybe the upscaler using the transformer model. Those features can be useful, but when it comes to fast-paced games where visual clarity and low latency are crucial, they're better left disabled. When I first heard of Nvidia's Smooth Motion toggle, I thought the same thing. Another frame generation setting that would add a ton of latency and not much else, so I ignored it until someone mentioned trying it on one of my favorite games, and it honestly blew me away. It doubled my framerate with next to no visual artifacting, and it actually lowered end-to-end latency. It doesn't work flawlessly in every game, but in the games that it does, it's really effective.

Modern operating systems on modern SSDs mostly just work. Plug a drive in, install the OS, and the defaults will get you a system that boots, runs games, and handles daily tasks without any manual intervention. Compared to a decade ago, we've come a very long way, but the defaults drives and motherboards ship with today are tuned for the widest possible range of hardware: laptops on battery, desktops with mixed SSD and HDD configurations, systems with limited RAM, and users who will never open a BIOS. For an enthusiast, some of these defaults are less than ideal, and they leave performance and potential endurance on the table.

On Wednesday, President Donald Trump claimed to have secured the release of eight Iranian women condemned to execution for protesting the regime. Only the night before, he had posted on Truth Social about the imminent executions of these women, quoting a screenshot that included a collage of eight glamorously backlit, soft-focus portraits. The photos of the women were immediately accused of being AI-generated. "Trump is begging Iranian leaders to not execute 8 AI-generated women. This is the funniest thing I've ever seen," said one viral X post.Trump is begging Iranian leaders to not execute 8 AI-generated women. This is the funniest th …Read the full story at The Verge.

Tesla released its 2026 first-quarter financial earnings today, providing another look at the progress of Elon Musk's $1 trillion bet to transform his company into a leader of AI and robotics.Tesla said it earned $477 million in net income on $22.4 billion in revenue in the quarter that ended in April 2026. That's a 16 percent increase in revenue and a 17 percent increase in profits over the first quarter of 2025, when the company earned $409 million in net income on $19.3 billion in revenue. Tesla missed revenue expectations from Wall Street, which assumed approximately $22.64 billion in revenue.As part of the earnings update deck, Tesl …Read the full story at The Verge.

Honor has announced the 600 and 600 Pro, which it calls "accessible flagships," and they look… familiar. Especially in that orange.The Pro makes the iPhone comparison especially obvious thanks to its triple rear camera - it even has the same flash layout - while the 600 is just a hair subtler because it drops the Pro's 3.5x telephoto lens. Honor actually pulled the same move with last year's iPhone Air-inspired Honor 500, but that phone only launched in Asia.Both phones have IP69K water-resistance ratings (a tougher rating that covers testing with water jets closer to the phone), midsize 6.57-inch OLED displays, and big 6,400mAh batterie …Read the full story at The Verge.

Tesla vehicles with the company's Hardware 3 (HW3) computer actually won't receive unsupervised Full Self-Driving (FSD), CEO Elon Musk said on Wednesday's Q1 2026 earnings call. Approximately 4 million Tesla vehicles operate on the HW3 platform, meaning that a significant chunk of Tesla owners - including customers that paid for the feature when they bought their cars - are now locked out of being able to use unsupervised FSD, which has been something Musk has been hyping for years, unless they upgrade their car or their car's hardware.Musk:I wish it were otherwise, but Hardware 3 simply does not have the capability to achieve unsupervi …Read the full story at The Verge.

There's probably no other interface that allows you to write, build and publish interactive applications as conveniently as Claude, and that's precisely why it makes artifacts such an incredibly underrated feature.

Let's say you're considering a $150 smart display for your nightstand or kitchen, but the interface just feels laggy when you test it out. The screen looks washed out, and it's essentially a locked-down advertising billboard for the manufacturer. Why should you have to view ads in your own home on hardware that you own?

Most users treat Claude as a sophisticated AI board where you dump a prompt and hope for a clean output. But if you are using it that way, you are only scratching the surface of its utility. For a long time, I found myself re-uploading the same style guides and technical documentation to Claude every single morning just to get it up to speed. That changed when I stopped treating it like a simple chat box and started utilizing Claude Projects.