Poll time: What feature do you actually look for in earbuds or headphones?

Call us cynical, but our reviews team here at Tom's Guide have been pondering how much the specs touted by new earbud and headphone models actually match up with what customers want.

So we'd love to know, when you're buying, what's most important to you? Let us know in the poll below.

When you vote in the poll above you should see the current results, if you're as curious about what others think as we are. Hint: at the time of writing, the deciding factor wasn't more AI features.

We've posed the same question to our Reddit community, and will be drawing on the results of our polling in an article coming soon. Stay tuned...

Anthropic could ban users who are mean to Claude

At the start of this year, our AI editor stopped being polite to ChatGPT, and her answers got dramatically better. But if you go even further and you're actively rude to your chatbot — well, it might not put up with it for much longer.

The team at TechSpot noticed Anthropic has made a change to its usage policy (the first in over a year) to say that abuse of Claude will not be tolerated. The updated policy prohibits "sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior" toward its models. The company says it will only uphold the policy in extreme cases when users are repeatedly and maliciously acting cruelly towards the AI for no discernible reason.

Meta and Microsoft are asking employees to use Claude less

Microsoft and Meta are both going all-in on AI. In fact, Microsoft just held an event yesterday revealing the big AI-based changes coming to Windows 11. So it's probably not a surprise that the tech companies don't want their workers using a rival service.

According to a report in The Information, Microsoft has asked employees to limit their Claude usage whilst Meta has halved the number of workers using Claude Code from 60,000 to 30,000. Part of this could be down to cost — as per The Information, Microsoft's internal spending on Claude could hit $1 billion this year.