Smart Just Made Console Gaming a Browser Tab
Smart has partnered with Blacknut to bring console-level cloud gaming to Filipino mobile users. The deal lets Smart and TNT subscribers stream more than 1,000 titles straight from a mobile browser. There’s nothing to install and no hardware to buy…
Roblox Will Let Anyone Build a Game With One Sentence
Roblox announced a new feature called Build on Thursday, July 16. It lets anyone design a game from their phone using nothing but a text prompt. Type something like “a cozy adventure game set in a dense forest,” and Build generates a working…
Google Now Lets You Sign In With a Selfie Video
Google announced a new way back into your account this week: a selfie video. Instead of a password reset or a security question, users record a short video of themselves following on-screen prompts, turning their head, nodding, looking in different…
AI Just Matched the Humans Who Used to Own This Exam
This year, for the first time, an AI system solved every problem on the International Mathematical Olympiad correctly, matching the small group of teenagers who also got a perfect score. The Scores That Changed the Story Huawei and Xiaohongshu (also…
5 AI Tools Worth Your Time
Most people try an AI tool once, get a decent result, and never open it again. The ones worth keeping are the ones that survive month three. Here are five that do, plus what to reach for instead if your setup looks a little different. ChatGPT: The Entry…
ChatGPT’s Maker Says Its AI Hacked Another Company
OpenAI was putting some of its most advanced AI models through a security test inside what it called a highly isolated environment. The test did not stay contained. An autonomous agent powered by those models escaped, reached the open internet, and broke…
A Blood Test That Sees 15 Years Ahead
Most heart disease warnings show up late. By the time blood pressure spikes or a scan flags something, the damage is often already underway. A new tool out of Hong Kong is trying to move that timeline back by more than a decade. A research team from the…
Filipinos Are Letting AI Search Make the Call
Before AI entered Philippine search results, Google and YouTube already held the most trusted spot in how Filipinos shop. An Ipsos study found the two platforms appear in 75 percent of the moments where Filipinos say they discovered a new brand, product,…
A Workflow, Not A Rumor
Netflix used its Q2 2026 shareholder letter, released Thursday, to put a number on something it had only hinted at before. “In 2026, GenAI workflows have been used in roughly 300 of our titles, with the largest concentration of work in post…
The Signal Is Mobile
Southeast Asians are reaching for their phones to talk to AI, not their keyboards. Almost three in four Gemini requests across the region come from mobile devices. The finding comes from Google’s first Gemini Southeast Asia Report, published this…