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Despite investor fears of an AI bubble, Nvidia's latest conference shows that most in the industry aren't concerned by that possibility.
Fusion power promises to generate large amounts of clean electricity from nearly limitless fuel. This article explains the main approaches and the companies that use them.
Anthropic submitted two sworn declarations to a California federal court late Friday afternoon, pushing back on the Pentagon's assertion that the AI company poses an unacceptable risk to national security and arguing that the government's case relies on technical misunderstandings and claims that were never actually raised during the months of negotiations.
At the time, Musk had tweeted that Twitter had too many bots, which is why he was trying to renege on his commitment to buy the company.
The company is reducing Copilot entry points on Windows, starting with Photos, Widgets, Notepad, and other apps.
CEOJensen Huang took the stage atNvidias GTC conferencethis week in his signature leather jacket to deliver a two-and-a-half-hour keynote, projecting$1 trillionin AI chip sales through 2027, declaring that every company needs an OpenClaw strategy, and closing with a rambling Olaf robot that had to get its mic cut. The message was hard to miss: Nvidia []
It's the latest escalation in a regulatory battle over the future of prediction markets.
Pinterests chief compares social media to tobacco and alcohol, saying children need similar protections.
Amazon and Jeff Bezos had previously invested in the startup.
MLB is only the latest in a string of recently announced partnerships involving the prediction market.
AI bots may outnumber humans online by 2027, says Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince, as generative AI agents dramatically increase web traffic and infrastructure demands.
The additional funds have been used to scale Bluesky's team, while the company continues to develop Bluesky's app and the underlying ATProto that powers it.
Delivery couriers will be able to earn money by completing activities like filming everyday tasks or recording themselves speaking in another language.
Horizon Worlds was once a cornerstone of Meta's plans to build a social metaverse -- four years later, the company almost shut it down.
The FBI and the Justice Department took down two websites linked to the pro-Iranian hacktivist group Handala, which last week hacked medical tech giant Stryker.
The U.S. cybersecurity agency urged companies to prevent access to systems used for remotely managing their fleets of employee devices after hackers broke into a major U.S. medical tech giant and remotely wiped thousands of phones and computers.
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Rivian admitted in a regulatory filing that it is delaying its goal of reaching positive EBITDA next year because of how much it is spending on developing self-driving technology.
K2's Gravitas is an ambitious project that aims to demonstrate the tech needed to build data centers in space.
Founders can create frameworks for working through conflict and change when the team is just two or three people, and if done correctly, it can scale with the company.
Anori aims to shrink down the pre-development process by getting all parties, including the city, on to a unified platform from the start so that compliance conflicts are surfaced in weeks instead of months or years.
Cloaked's latest round is a mix of equity and growth funding.
The Los Angeles startup raised $50 million from Eclipse, a16z, Menlo Ventures, and others as it seeks to expand beyond sport boats.
Tubi launched its Creatorverse Incubator to help TikTokers create original shows exclusively for the streaming service.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has upgraded its probe after finding more instances of Tesla's driving software struggling in low-visibility conditions.
After compressing models from major AI labs including OpenAI, Meta, DeepSeek and Mistral AI, Multiverse Computing has launched both an app that showcases the capabilities of its compressed models and an API that makes them more widely available.
The founders are worth paying attention to.
A rogue AI agent inadvertently exposed Meta company and user data to engineers who didn't have permission to see it.
Altman expresses gratitude for people who knew how to write their code from scratch. The internet replies with salty jokes.
Nvidia's networking business raked in $11 billion last quarter despite getting significantly less fanfare than chips and gaming.
FBI director Kash Patel told lawmakers that the agency is actively purchasing commercially available location data, which can track Americans without needing a warrant.
Artificial intelligencemodels are multiplying fast, and competition is stiff. With so many players crowding the space, which one will be the best and who decides that?Arena, formerly LM Arena, hasemergedas the de facto public leaderboard for frontier LLMs, influencing funding, launches, and PR cycles. In just seven months, the startup went from aUCBerkeley PhD research []
Facebook says it paid creators nearly $3 billion through its monetization programs in 2025, a 35% increase from the previous year and its highest annual total to date.
The company has raised $12 million in seed funding to build an AI operating system for enterprise.
With its Series A, Sequen is bringing its proprietary AI ranking and personalization technology to large consumer business.
AI collaboration startup Cove is shutting down after its team joined Microsoft, with service ending April 1 and customer data set for deletion.
Fintech company Marquis is notifying hundreds of thousands of people that hackers stole their personal and financial information, including their Social Security numbers.
A suspected group of Russian government hackers was caught targeting Ukrainians with new iPhone hacking tools designed for espionage and potentially to steal crypto.
The Defense Department said concerns that Anthropic might attempt to disable its technology during warfighting operations validate its decision to label the AI firm a supply chain risk.
Mave Health is listing the headset at $495 for pre-orders. It aims to ship devices to users in the U.S. and India in April 2026.

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