Kobalt songwriters can opt into Spotify's upcoming paid Premium add-on for licensed AI covers and remixes. No price or launch date yet.
Honor has launched the Robot Phone in Guangzhou, a flagship whose main camera rides on a motorised titanium arm with four degrees of freedom and ARRI colour science. It goes on sale in China on 18 August from RMB 9,999, and Honor has published no ingress rating for the mechanism.
Insta360's X6 flagship adds 1-inch Sony sensors, native 8K50 360 video, Dolby Vision, and on-device AI edits. The Standard Bundle starts at $699.99.
Google's Tensor G6 chip arrives in every Pixel 11 phone with 25% faster browsing, 50% more TPU compute, and Titan M3 post-quantum secure boot.
Google added an Olive Pixel Buds Pro 2 finish and new software for Dynamic ANC, Gemini bass control, sleep sync, and Live Translate. The buds stay the same hardware.
Google's new Pixel 11 cases match the phone colors, including a first Clear option. The official Pixelsnap Case is $49.99 on the Google Store.
SpaceXAI has launched Grok Bot in early beta: AI teammates that get their own persistent cloud computer, sign into the tools you already use, and hand work to each other. The documentation also reveals that every Bot on an account shares the same machine.
Anthropic has turned the Claude in Chrome side panel into a full Cowork session, so a task started in a browser tab now continues inside the desktop, web and mobile apps. Max and Team subscribers have it today, and Anthropic is unusually candid about the risk it cannot remove.
ASUS has built a 3.7kg friction-drive kit that clamps to a seatpost and turns an ordinary bicycle into an e-bike, then packs into a backpack when the ride is over. The specs are detailed, but ASUS still has not named a price.
Google's open-source Gemma Translator prototype translates speech offline on a Raspberry Pi 5 with Gemma 4 E2B, LiteRT-LM, and a custom 3D-printed case built with Antigravity.
SAIC Volkswagen opened China presales for the ID. Era 5S plug-in hybrid sedan from 115,900 yuan (about $17,175) on a limited-time offer, with a formal launch set for August 21.
New photos show a reported Xbox Elite Controller 3 prototype, but Microsoft has not announced the hardware or confirmed its features.
X is retiring Creator Revenue Sharing and moving eligible creators to Original Content Rewards, with new rules around original work.
BMW is running a limited Spider-Man: Brand New Day Control Display banner and optional full-screen animation on eligible post-2020 cars through August 10.
