
New phones shine but look the same, AI hits your shopping cart, and regulators scramble to catch up with the pace of progress. From safety policy rewrites to consent-based AI music, is tech finally listening — or just talking louder?

This week’s tech headlines feature layoffs fueled by AI hype, phones that might finally lose all physical buttons, ambitious foldable hardware, and politicians discovering that chatbots now need chaperones. Is innovation getting ahead of itself, or are we just stuck on repeat?