Apple has unveiled the MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display, a 14- and 16-inch laptop built on tandem OLED technology. It delivers up to 2000 nits of peak HDR and SDR brightness and a 10,000,000:1 contrast ratio. It also brings Touch to the Mac for the first time, letting pros interact with their content directly on the screen, from manipulating 3D models to playing musical instruments onscreen.
The display pairs a 120Hz variable refresh rate with a wider color gamut covering both P3 and Adobe RGB. Apple says the OLED display stack is also more efficient, which enables a slimmer design. The...
Google's newest model, Gemini 4 Argon, is built for its hardest problems: complex, real-world tasks and high-stakes work that used to take months of manual effort. Google says it can reason, code, and coordinate tools, so users can hand it dense research materials, raw photos, and multi-step projects. Google describes it as its most intelligent model yet and shares eight examples of what it can do.
Argon's strengths are in deep comprehension and long-horizon workflows. From a short prompt, with zero assets or libraries, it wrote 5,000 lines of math to render a 3D sunlit library from...
College students use Gemini for far more than homework. Google asked 15 Google Student Ambassadors to share their favorite Gemini features and how they use them to study smarter, learn faster, produce better work, and stay organized. Their answers cover 11 features, from study notebooks and Gemini Live to Deep Research and connected Google apps.
Studying with notebooks, guided learning, study guides, and quizzes
Study notebooks turn course materials into personalized, bite-sized lessons. Beverlyn T. of the University of Southern California says they “make studying more manageable,...
XREAL AURA is the first wired XR glasses powered by Android XR. The transparent glasses weigh under 95 grams, and a portable compute puck handles the heavy processing, so the headset stays light while still running spatial apps, Gemini, and Google Play titles.
AURA's lenses are transparent, so you can see the real world while spatial content is projected into your field of view. The 70-degree field of view leaves room to see several spatial and 2D apps at once. Gemini on Android XR can understand what you're seeing and doing, both in the real world and on your screens, so you can get help...
NVIDIA's RTX Spark laptops, built on a single Blackwell GPU and Grace CPU superchip with up to 128GB of unified memory, are now sold by ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Microsoft and MSI. The systems deliver up to 1 petaflop of FP4 AI performance in premium Windows laptops, bringing the CUDA platform, RTX graphics and what NVIDIA calls a personal AI supercomputer into machines designed to travel. The launch comes with a set of software updates for local AI, gaming and creative work, including a new open speech model, a new Liquid AI model family, a new resource management control and a launch-day...
Google has announced Gemini 4 Carbon, its strongest model yet, with state-of-the-art cybersecurity and long-horizon capabilities. Carbon ranks #1 on the recently updated v5.0 of the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, where it scores 59. It follows Gemini 4 Argon, which launched two weeks earlier, and Google says the pace shows how quickly it is pushing the frontier forward while strengthening safeguards alongside capability gains.
Carbon shows significant gains across coding and agentic tasks, as well as in the capabilities that matter for cyber defense. It takes a firm lead on three...
NVIDIA has released Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe, an open-weight, promptable speech model that turns recorded audio into text and can also attribute speakers, translate, and answer questions about the recording. Most transcription tools produce a word-for-word record and stop there. A transcript can capture every spoken word and still leave people wondering who said what, how to translate it, or how to spell domain jargon. Multilingual calls, fast-paced meetings, and medical dictation each need different output. Transcribe puts these tasks in one checkpoint and lets developers choose the output...
Authors: Granite Team, IBM
Overview
Granite 4.2 is IBM's first family of dense, decoder-only reasoning LLMs, released in three sizes: 3B, 8B, and 30B. These models are post-trained from Granite-4.1 base models. The Granite-4.1 base models were pre-trained from scratch on roughly 15T tokens with a five-phase strategy that extends the context window to 512K tokens. They were then supervised fine-tuned on chain-of-thought, reasoning, and agentic-trajectory data, and post-trained with a multi-stage reinforcement learning pipeline. That pipeline includes agentic RL, where the 8B and 30B models...
Google's new frontier model, Gemini 4 Argon, is designed for deep work on complex tasks in coding, finance, legal, cybersecurity, and science. Google says its depth and precision across multi-step tasks let Argon outperform other frontier models on benchmarks across those domains. Since the broad rollout, community builders have used it to create interactive tools and 3D worlds. Google highlighted five of these builds, including a globe that maps tectonic shockwaves in real time and a 3D multiplayer game.
Five builds, five different strengths
Argon's upgrades in spatial reasoning,...
