01-Nov-26
Satlyt takes another step toward turning satellites into space data centers [ 30-Oct-26 6:01pm ]
Zest's new AI agent finds restaurants and books reservations over text [ 30-Oct-26 5:47pm ]
Google's first data center satellite is online and writing poetry [ 30-Oct-26 5:00pm ]
Theranos whistleblower Tyler Shultz warns that the AI boom is 'a great opportunity to go deceive people' [ 30-Oct-26 4:03pm ]
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Pixel 11 Pro Fold: Sturdy rectangle in a wide wide world [ 01-Nov-26 3:00pm ]
Google made a sturdy phone, but there is increasing competition in the foldable world.
Here's what 'renoa' — the first new fiber in 25 years — feels like [ 01-Nov-26 2:00pm ]
Startup Everbloom's new material, renoa, is the first new fiber in 25 years, and it feels very familiar.
Data centers are now a midterm issue, even in Brooklyn [ 01-Nov-26 2:22am ]
At a Brooklyn midterm party five days before Election Day, every conversation, from a council member's fireside chat to a debate about the Democratic Party, kept circling back to AI and data centers.
31-Oct-26
Apple CEO says the company doesn't 'want to ship AI for AI's sake' [ 31-Oct-26 9:41pm ]
Apple's new CEO defended the company's current position in the AI landscape.
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Judge allows NAACP lawsuit over xAI data center pollution to move forward [ 31-Oct-26 9:17pm ]
An NAACP lawsuit accuses the SpaceX-owned AI company of violating the Clean Air Act.
OpenAI reportedly lowers funding target for new round [ 31-Oct-26 4:12pm ]
OpenAI's latest funding round doesn't seem to be living up to expectations.
From restaurant guides to payments, here's how TikTok is building a super app [ 31-Oct-26 3:41pm ]
TikTok may be working to become the app that people use for most of their digital activities.
I took two iPhones on vacation. The Duo won me over. [ 31-Oct-26 2:00pm ]
The iPhone Duo has its frustrations, but it's also fun and engaging enough that I didn't want to switch back to my Pro Max.
Pile-ins, payouts, and pacing pressure: the investors behind the VCs open up [ 31-Oct-26 4:16am ]
The money behind the money is thrilled, mostly.
Nvidia weighs playing the cosigner for Nscale's AI data center in West Virginia [ 31-Oct-26 1:20am ]
When investors get nervous about AI spending, it helps to have the chipmaker that sells the chips offer to cosign the loan.
30-Oct-26
Salesforce's M&A spree continues with a reported $375M deal for defense tech startup Rune [ 30-Oct-26 11:21pm ]
The AI logistics startup will bolster the CRM giant's Missionforce defense platform.
Ollie, a privacy-focused AI assistant, is shutting down [ 30-Oct-26 10:56pm ]
As an increasing number of AI assistants flood the market, the founder of Ollie, an assistant that respected its users' privacy, says it will be shutting down in a week.
Intel's stock crashes, knocking $12B from government's stake [ 30-Oct-26 9:54pm ]
Intel is being hurt by PC sales as the AI industry gobbles memory and other components causing PC prices to rise.
Anthropic expected to receive high 'junk' rating from credit agencies following IPO, report says [ 30-Oct-26 9:52pm ]
The new report says the AI lab will likely qualify for a high junk rating.
Applebee's exposed customers' personal data after leaving database password in app [ 30-Oct-26 9:48pm ]
EXCLUSIVE: A security researcher discovered the hardcoded credential in Applebee's app, allowing unrestricted access to customers' personal data.
Last-minute Halloween costumes for tech nerds [ 30-Oct-26 9:26pm ]
No Halloween costume? Just be a deceptively cute AI agent icon, a PHP vulnerability, or sleepy time Bryan Johnson.
Cracks are emerging in the AI spending boom [ 30-Oct-26 9:17pm ]
Big Tech is pouring billions into AI infrastructure, but mounting debt, negative cash flow, and growing investor skepticism are raising questions about the sustainability of the AI spending boom.
AI law firm Crosby bids on disintegrating, famed firm Weil Gotshal [ 30-Oct-26 7:55pm ]
Like a real-life episode of Suits, the demise of famed white-shoe Wall Street law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges has been the talk of the legal industry. And now, an AI firm has entered the picture.
Satlyt ran a successful test this month bringing it closer to turning spacecraft, starting with satellites, into virtual data centers.
Can't agree on where to eat? Zest's AI concierge can combine everyone's tastes, put restaurant options to a vote, and make the reservation.
The first TPU in space is a running a Google DeepMind Gemma 4 model and writing cheesy poetry.
The cautionary Theranos tale takes on a new significance in the AI era, when companies that have never turned a profit are raising capital at trillion-dollar valuations.
North Korean hackers blamed for stealing record $6.3B in Binance breach [ 30-Oct-26 2:00pm ]
Hackers working for North Korea are suspected of hacking a Binance employee's laptop, which allowed the theft of billions in crypto.
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DoorDash said it's only received 'several hundred' orders from AI agents [ 30-Oct-26 1:54pm ]
DoorDash said that it is open to working with third-party agent makers
Can AI data centers be mass-produced like cars? This startup aims to find out [ 30-Oct-26 1:00pm ]
Runware is building a factory to turn out prefabricated AI data centers on an assembly line. The real test will be whether it can deliver at that scale.
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Waymo taps Toyota to supply robotaxis for Japan and the U.K. [ 30-Oct-26 7:01am ]
Waymo will begin testing self-driving versions of Toyota's electric bZ4X vehicles in Japan next year as part of a broader partnership with the automaker.
You don't need to believe in a god to get a religious exemption from using AI at work [ 30-Oct-26 1:20am ]
David Durman, a University of Kentucky administrator, recently earned a religious exemption from using AI in the workplace.
29-Oct-26
Andy Jassy says Prime Video is on track to earn 'tens of billions of dollars' [ 29-Oct-26 11:44pm ]
The success of blockbuster hits like Project Hail Mary and Verity is only part of the story, Amazon's CEO says.
AWS will be a $1T business, Jassy says. But first, it will spend big. [ 29-Oct-26 11:42pm ]
Amazon wants to be the king of AI cloud computing and become the first $1 trillion revenue business. But to do that it will have to continue on its capex spending spree, its CEO said Thursday.
Binance pauses withdrawals as hackers suspected of stealing billions in crypto [ 29-Oct-26 10:27pm ]
Some estimates say hackers stole billions in crypto from Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, during a cyberattack on Thursday.
Elon Musk is 'truly a genius,' says Vladimir Putin [ 29-Oct-26 9:51pm ]
Putin said that he and Musk are in "close contact" about Rassvet, Russia's Starlink-like satellite connectivity project.
Amazon reported booming cloud revenue but otherwise missed expectations [ 29-Oct-26 9:20pm ]
The biggest ouch of the report was its negative free cash flow of $2.4 billion.
GM reaches $220M settlement over selling drivers' private data [ 29-Oct-26 9:01pm ]
As part of the settlement, GM must get drivers' express consent before it collects or shares their driving and location data.
Fan fiction site Archive of Our Own could be offline for up to 4 weeks [ 29-Oct-26 8:43pm ]
Archive of Our Own, the popular online home of fan fiction readers and writers, has bad news for its community.
As search traffic dries up, Reddit announces it's shifting to a logged-in experience [ 29-Oct-26 8:08pm ]
As AI transforms how people find information online, Reddit is rethinking its open-web roots to protect its audience and business.
Rivian expands joint venture with VW to include AI assistant [ 29-Oct-26 8:05pm ]
Rivian doesn't disclose if the value of its $5.8 billion joint venture will expand as a result.
The R2 SUV is already Rivian's best-selling vehicle [ 29-Oct-26 8:02pm ]
Rivian is seeing strong enough sales of the new EV that it improved its guidance to Wall Street for the second time this year.
OpenAI-backed Thrive Holdings acquires ADT [ 29-Oct-26 7:56pm ]
OpenAI-backed Thrive Holdings is buying ADT in a $15.3 billion deal, with plans to bring AI to the home security business.
Where was my invite to the — wait, what? Airbnb had a gala? [ 29-Oct-26 7:17pm ]
Airbnb's nonprofit held its inaugural gala on Wednesday in Los Angeles, and the internet had one reaction — the *what* gala?
Meta quietly launches an AI fashion app called Style Sketch [ 29-Oct-26 7:14pm ]
The app connects to Instagram to build a virtual closet from photos you've already shared, or lets you add items manually by snapping a photo, recording a quick video, or uploading images from your camera roll.
Granola crunches up a dictation feature to compete with Wispr [ 29-Oct-26 5:54pm ]
Uno reverse! After Wispr added meeting notes to its dictation app, Granola is adding dictation to its meeting notetaker. The voice AI wars are getting interesting.
Mistral releases weights for its trillion-parameter AI model, targeting cybersecurity [ 29-Oct-26 2:00pm ]
Mistral says its new model can afford organizations a kind of control over its cyber defenses that closed models can't.
U.S. investigated Chinese spy plot aimed at Nvidia CEO [ 29-Oct-26 4:42pm ]
A top executive of a Singapore AI cloud company that was accused of illegally selling Nvidia chips to China could also have been a Chinese spy, sources have told the New York Times.
Ex-Palantir execs launch Dream with $17M from a16z to build AI world models for construction [ 29-Oct-26 4:21pm ]
rained on 100 million square feet of building permits, dream wants to disrupt Autodesk with AI.
SuperMe raises $20M for its network of AI expert profiles [ 29-Oct-26 4:19pm ]
SuperMe just raised $20 million to let you pester AI clones of Silicon Valley's savviest people about your career.
Agent identity startup Mintive lands Cowboy Ventures, Coatue, angels Jeff Dean, Andrej Karpathy [ 29-Oct-26 3:00pm ]
Mintive was founded by two engineers who have been working on AI for decades through Google Brain, Coursera. It's platform promises to help IT easily control enterprise agents
Wabi, the AI agent that builds mini apps, now valued at $1.25B after latest round [ 29-Oct-26 2:35pm ]
On Thursday, AI app, Wabi, now describing itself as a "personal agent," said it has raised $55 million at a $1.25 billion valuation.