The U.S. government has once again postponed the TikTok ban, extending ByteDance’s divestment deadline by another 90 days. Negotiations continue, meaning the hugely popular app stays online for at least the summer—buying time for 170 million American users.

Open-source AI heavyweight Hugging Face jumped into hardware territory, introducing HopeJR—a humanoid robot priced around $3K—and Reachy Mini, a desktop-sized companion costing just $300. These bots offer plug-and-play compatibility with Hugging Face’s extensive model library, giving users unmatched freedom without vendor lock-ins.

OpenAI stunned the industry by reserving horsepower on Google Cloud the very moment it lifted the curtain on GPT-4.1—an upgrade that reads and reasons across a staggering one-million-token span while scoring a 55 % bump on SWE-bench. Even bitter rivals, it seems, will share racks when scale is the name of the game.

Meta confirmed that Status and Channels will soon host targeted ads and optional monthly paywalls, leaving peer-to-peer chats untouched but finally giving WhatsApp a serious revenue engine nearly 15 years after launch.

The first major Git release of 2025 delivers a sleeker sparse-clone flow, a second-generation bitmap index for lightning-quick fetches, and a bag of cross-platform polish that Windows and macOS devs have begged for.

Micron will double its Idaho footprint with a colossal DRAM mega-fab aimed at feeding the high-bandwidth hunger of next-gen AI accelerators—and at creating thousands of stateside tech jobs.

Adobe’s June update lets designers type a prompt and watch Illustrator auto-grow vectors to fill bleeds or enlarge artboards—plus real-time Pencil previews that finally feel lag-free.

Faced with a chorus of fans upset over an $80 tag, Gearbox and 2K chopped Borderlands 4’s standard edition to the industry-norm $69.99 just days before next week’s Fan Fest gameplay showcase.

Financial Times says Nintendo’s hybrid follow-up is flying off shelves, forcing analysts to crank FY revenue targets above ¥2 trillion.

A TV trivia segment reignited fascination with the Brewers’ 1970s glove mark, revealing the sneaky “M” and “B” lurking inside to a whole new generation.