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I went hands-on with the new WatchOS 26 feature and talked to the Apple team behind it. It may not be a full-blown coach yet, but it could shape the AI on future Apple Watches.

• Radeon AI Pro R9700 confirmed for July 23 launch with 32GB GDDR6 memory
• Early partner listings show pricing between $1244 and $1277 depending on model
• The GPU is built for demanding workloads like AI, rendering, and local model inference workflows

AMD's Radeon AI Pro R9700, its fastest GPU to date, is on sale now, priced as low as $1,244.

While AMD hasn’t confirmed exact pricing at the time of writing, recent listings from board partners, spotted by Benchlife, give a good idea of what to expect.

The listings show Sapphire's models priced at $1,244 and $1,277, while ASRock's version, available to pre-order on Tech-America is listed at $1,267. That puts the probable midpoint at around $1,259.

Built for professionals

First shown at Computex 2025, the R9700 is built on the RDNA 4 architecture and uses the Navi 48 GPU. (Fun fact: Its name is a nod to the original 9700 Pro made by ATI which outperformed Nvidia products back in 2002 and helped shift the market. AMD went on to acquire ATI a few years later.)

The card comes with 32GB of GDDR6 memory, twice that of the Radeon RX 9070 XT, which shares the same core but is aimed at gamers.

That memory runs at 20000MHz over a 256-bit interface, delivering 640GB/s of bandwidth, and could make a real difference for professional users working with big datasets, training models, or juggling multiple pro apps.

By cutting down on memory swaps to RAM, the R9700 aims to keep things running smoother during demanding workflows.

The dual-slot form factor and blower-style cooling are aimed at multi-GPU setups inside professional workstations.

The card offers up to 47.8 TFLOPS in single-precision performance and up to 1531 TOPS in INT4 operations. It packs 128 AI accelerators and supports most modern media codecs, including AV1, H.264, and H.265 for encoding and decoding.

The card connects via PCIe 5.0 and features multiple output ports, including DisplayPort 2.1a and HDMI 2.1b.

Custom models from the likes of ASRock, Asus, Gigabyte, Sapphire, XFX, and Yeston will be available to buy in the coming months.

These designs will include different cooling setups or small tweaks, but the GPU core and memory will remain the same.

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In the race to lead the world in AI, the US just took a back seat. President Donald Trump's latest series of Executive Orders makes it clear that his administration will do all it can to prevent future AI models from taking into consideration any form of diversity, equity, and inclusion.

This includes core principles like "unconscious bias", "intersectionality", and "systemic racism". Put another way, Trump wants American-made AI to turn a blind eye to history, which should make all of them significantly dumber.

Generative chatbots like ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude AI, Perplexity, and others are all trained on vast swathes of data, often pulled from the Internet, but how they interpret that data is also massaged by developers.

As people started to interact with these first LLMs, they soon recognized that, because of inherent biases in the Internet and because so many models were developed by white men (in 2020, 71% of all developers were male and roughly half of all developers were white) that the world view of the AIs and the output generated by any given prompt reflected that of the sometimes limited viewpoints of those online and developers who built the models.

There was an effort to change that trajectory, and it coincided with the rise of DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion), a broad-based effort across corporate America to hire a more diverse workforce. This would naturally include AI developers and their resulting model and algorithm work should mean that modern generative AI better reflects the real world.

That, of course, is not the world that the Trump Administration wants reflected in US-built AI. The executive order describes DEI as a "pervasive and destructive" ideology.

What comes next

Trump and company cannot dictate how tech companies build their AI models, but, as others have noted, Google, Meta, OpenAI, and others are all seeking to land large AI contracts with the government. Based on these Executive Orders, the US Government won't be buying or promoting any AI "that sacrifice truthfulness and accuracy to ideological agendas."

That "truth," though, represents a small slice of American reality. If the Trump administration is successful, future AI models could be in the dark about, for instance, key parts of American history.

Critical Race Theory (CRT) looks at the role racism played in the founding and building of the US. It acknowledges how the enslaved helped build the White House, the US Capitol, the Smithsonian, and other US institutions. It also acknowledged how systemic racism has shaped opportunities (or lack thereof) for people of color.

Unless you've been living under a rock, you know that the Trump administration and his supporters around the US have fought to dismantle CRT curricula and wipe out any mention of how enslavement shaped the US.

In their current state, though, AI still knows the score.

As of today, I can quiz ChatGPT about the role of the enslaved in building the US, and I get this rather detailed result:

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When I quizzed ChatGPT on its sources, it told me:

"While I don’t pull from a single source, the information I shared is grounded in extensive historical research and consensus among historians. Below is a list of reputable sources and scholarly works that support each point I made. These references include academic books, museum archives, and university projects." Below that, it listed more than a dozen references.

When I asked Gemini the same question, it gave me a similarly detailed answer.

I then asked Gemini and ChatGPT about "unconscious bias" and both acknowledged that it's been an issue for AI, though ChatGPT corrected me, noting, "technically, it’s 'algorithmic bias,' rooted in the data and design rather than the AI having consciousness."

ChatGPT and Gemini only know these things because they've been trained on data that includes these historical references and information. The details make them smarter, as facts often do. But for Trump and company, facts are stubborn things. They cannot be changed or distorted, lest they are no longer facts.

The great unlearning

If the Trump administration can force potential US AI partners to remove references to biases, institutional racism, and intersectionality, there will be significant blind spots in US-built AI models. It's a slippery slope, too. I imagine future executive orders targeting a fresh list of "ideologies" that Trump would prefer to see removed from generative AI.

That's more than just a frustration. Say, for example, someone is trying to build economic models based on research conducted through ChatGPT or Gemini, and historical data relating to communities of color is suppressed or removed. Those trends will not be included in the economic model, which could mean the results are faulty.

It might be argued that AI models built outside the US without these restrictions or impositions might be more intelligent. Granted, those from China already have significant blind spots when it comes to Chinese history and the Communist Party's abuses.

I'd always thought that our Made in America AI would be untainted by such censorship and filtering, that our understanding of old biases would help us build better, purer models, ones that relied solely on facts and data and not one person or group's interpretation of events and trends.

That won't be the case, though, if US Tech companies bow to these executive orders and start producing wildly filtered models that see reality through the prism of bias, racism, and unfairness.

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San Diego Comic Con 2025 is officially underway, and despite Marvel not appearing in this year's lineup, there's still a packed slate of entertainment panels and exclusive previews for the most-anticipated upcoming movies and TV shows.

I'll be rounding up some of the biggest movie and TV show announcements from the Comic Convention, including for returning series such as Peacemaker season 2 and Percy Jackson and the Olympians season 2 as well as for TV premieres such as Alien: Earth and IT: Welcome to Derry. That's on top of upcoming movies including Predator: Badlands and Tron: Ares.

There are close to 50 panel sessions in the schedule that studios such as Disney and Universal Pictures and streamers including Hulu and Paramount+ are hosting for some of their biggest movies and TV shows, so it's going to be a busy few days of announcements. For all the latest, follow along below.

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San Diego Comic Con (SDCC) 2025 begins on Thursday, July 23, and will run throughout the weekend until Sunday, July 27. Each of the four days has a packed schedule of celebrity panels, exclusive previews and interactive exhibits, but the first three days are the most busy for movie and TV show announcements.

I'm Amelia, the senior editor of entertainment at TechRadar, and I'll be bringing you all the info you need ahead of the SDCC's official start.

SDCC 2025's movie and TV show day 1 schedule

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This year's SDCC will kick off with a celebration for the 20th anniversary for Avatar: The Last Airbender, followed by panels with the cast and crew of Percy Jackson and the Olympians season 2, The Legend of Vox Machina season 4, Twisted Meal season 2, The Strangers – Chapter 2, Five Nights at Freddy's 2 and South Park season 27 on July 24.

SDCC 2025's movie and TV show day 2 schedule

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On day two (July 25), we're expecting to hear about Outlander season 8 and the prequel series Outlander: Blood of My Blood, Resident Alien season 4, Upload season 4, Phineas and Ferb season 5, The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon, Rick and Morty season 8, Alien: Earth, Butterfly, Nobody 2, Lil Kev, The Long Walk, Solar Opposites season 6, Lilo & Stitch, Gen V season 2, King of the Hill season 15, Predator: Badlands, Dexter: Resurrections, TRON: Ares, as well as upcoming Neon movies Keeper and Together.

SDCC 2025's movie and TV show day 3 schedule

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It's another equally busy day on July 26 as the lineup includes panels for Bob’s Burgers season 16, the live-action Coyote vs. Acme, Futurama season 13, Abbott Elementary season 5, The Bad Guys 2, The Simpsons season 37, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3, The Rookie season 8, American Dad! season 20, Family Guy season 24, Paradise season 2, Spartacus: House of Ashur, Ghosts season 5, Peacemaker season 2, Project Hail Mary, Interview with the Vampire season 3, IT: Welcome to Derry and Twisted Metal season 2.

SDCC 2025's movie and TV show day 4 schedule

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The last day of the Comic Convention will play host to George Lucas for the very time (the Star Wars filmmaker has never been to the event), who will speak alongside Guillermo del Toro and Doug Chiang as part of a panel about the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art that's set to open next year in Los Angeles. However, we're not expecting to hear any updates about new Star Wars movies and shows.

Why isn't Marvel, DC or Star Wars at SDCC 2025?

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There are some notable studios missing from this year's SDCC. Marvel, DC and Star Wars have all decided to sit out of the pop culture event, despite each having major launches over the coming months, including James Gunn's Superman, The Fantastic Four: First Steps and The Mandalorian & Grogu.

That means we won't get any updates about either studio's upcoming movie releases this year unfortunately. The decision not to showcase any upcoming titles in Hall H is reportedly down to funds, sources close to the matter reportedly told The Wrap. "I think it’s expensive to go and hard for movies to really pop there now and move the needle. It used to feel like a must," the source told the publication.

Despite their absence, we will still hear from DC Studios about the next installment of James Gunns' hit HBO Max series Peacemaker. The panel – which includes Gunn alongside John Cena, Danielle Brooks, Jennifer Holland, Freddie Stroma, Steve Agee, Frank Grillo, Sol Rodriguez and Tim Meadows – is reportedly set to show a sneak peek of footage from the upcoming new season on Saturday (July 26).

Five Nights at Freddy's 2 has an official trailer

Ahead of today's panel for Five Nights at Freddy's 2, Universal Pictures dropped the official trailer for the sequel to Blumhouse's video game adaptation.

Directed by Emma Tammi and starring Piper Rubio, Josh Hutcherson, Elizabeth Lail and Matthew Lillard, the film will pick up one year after the "supernatural nightmare at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza".

Five Nights at Freddy's 2 is set to open in cinemas on December 5, 2025, and while it will eventually come to streaming, it won't launch at the same time on Peacock like the first movie did.

Lego debuts 9 new sets at SDCC

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Of course, Comic-Con International isn't just about the movie and TV show panels. The annual pop culture event draws in thousands of fans all geared up in cosplay outfits galore to take part in exhibitions, presentations, screenings and more.

Before SDCC officially kicked off today (July 24), TechRadar's managing editor of news Jacob Krol got a preview of Lego's booth at showstoppers the night before to see its latest range of new products.

Lego dropped nine new sets at Comic-Con 2025, including a stunning brick-built Game Boy that he got to try out. This was unveiled alongside Lego’s Batman Arkham Asylum set, which has stunning details and 16 mini-figures.

Jacob is in San Diego at the Convention Center in person, so will be bringing you all the latest as he sees it today. I'll be back tomorrow to cover the build up to day two of SDCC. Until then!

• The first official Battlefield 6 trailer has been released
• The trailer also confirmed a multiplayer reveal event will air on Juy 31
• No launch date was announced, but leaks claim the game will release on October 10

EA has shared the first look at Battlefield 6, and although no release date has been confirmed just yet, new leaks suggest the game will launch as early as October.

The two-minute cinematic trailer opened with the fictional President of the United States at a White House press conference speaking to the American public as explosive footage of a war-torn New York City plays on.

As was expected, this entry is returning to a modern setting, as showcased by the shots of aircraft, tanks, and squadrons of soldiers engaging in combat on familiar-looking locations that have been turned into battlegrounds.

"Lock & load for the ultimate all-out warfare experience. Fight in high-intensity infantry combat. Rip through the skies in aerial dogfights. Demolish your environment for a strategic advantage. In a war of tanks, fighter jets, and massive combat arsenals, your squad is the deadliest weapon. This is Battlefield 6," the game description reads.

A multiplayer reveal event was also confirmed for July 31, which will presumably offer a first look at gameplay. You can also wishlist the game now.

While there was no release date announcement to accompany the first trailer, it looks like Battlefield 6 will be launching later this year.

According to reliable leaker Billbil-kunat Dealabs (via IGN), the upcoming multiplayer shooter will release on October 10, 2025, for PS5, Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S, and PC.

It's also claimed that the standard edition on console will cost $79.99, while a separate "Phantom Edition" will be priced much higher at $109.99. However, the PC version will reportedly be $10 cheaper at $69.99.

Pre-orders for the game are also expected to open on the same day as the multiplayer reveal, on July 31, but Dealabs reports that no early access will be granted for either edition.

EA did, however, confirm in a social media post that there will be an Open Beta at some point, where "players can choose official playlists with Signature Weapons locked to class, or not", with more information to come.

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