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This Congressional investigation into Nvidia's China sales and its dealings with Trump is the second one, so far, since news of the alleged spy affair broke.
Muse's AI can now place outbound calls to US businesses but it's not free.
Nebius plans to fund its $40 billion AI infrastructure expansion through customer prepayments and loans, even as delays at a Microsoft data center raise questions about its financing model.
Reuters is withholding the name of the new employee linked to Huang, but says she is an employee of Nvidia.
The airline said it will not allow customers to use AI agents to book flights and manage reservations.
Rather than giving consumers yet another photo-editing tool, Phota Labs aims to use advances in AI to automate the editing process so its easier for anyone to turn everyday moments into better photos.
Huang, who was ousted as CEO following reports of an alleged affair with a woman suspected of spying for China, agreed to testify Wednesday after several senior lawmakers threatened to subpoena him.
Nvidia's ousted CEO Jensen Huang's downfall isnt just your run-of-the-mill salacious billionaire sex scandal. He was using his influence to push the AI industry in some very specific ways.
In a post on Truth Social, President Trump says only one man can take Jensen Huang's place as head of Nvidia: Tim Cook.
Whoop is launching a social network that lets members share their sleep, recovery and workout data, but the bigger bet is on becoming more of a personal health brand, with CEO Will Ahmed hinting at acquisitions to come.
Nvidia CFO Colette Kress is taking over as an interim replacement for longtime CEO Jensen Huang, who is embroiled in scandal.
This is the investment firm's largest fund to date.
This is Fireworks' second data breach in as many months.
The startups work across the deep tech sector, including healthcare, fintech, energy, semiconductors, and AI. All nine are looking to enter the US.
Nvidia has no succession plan and a CEO in hot water, so weve drafted a shortlist.
The affair could have ramifications for national security as the U.S. and China race to develop the most advanced AI infrastructure.
Jensen Huang, who has come under fire for admitting to an affair with a woman accused of being a Chinese intelligence agent, has been accused of having a separate affair with an Nvidia subordinate.
Helix said that its voice ID tech can run on an iPhone 13
Like the end-to-end models trained to drive cars, AI agents are probabilistic systems operating in unpredictable environments.
X is jumping into clipping, the popular practice of cutting long videos into short, shareable clips that can go viral.
OpenAI has not yet said what its plans are for the future of travel. But Sonder founder Francis Davidson is a well-known figure in the travel industry.
New York is preparing to enforce its sweeping AI safety law, requiring major developers like OpenAI and Anthropic to register, disclose safety practices, and report critical incidents or face fines.
Former SignalFire investor Sahir Raoof raises $27.5M for new fund targeting AI in pharma
X-energy received a construction permit from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission to build four reactors in Texas.
Each of the seven co-founders plans to sell exactly the same number of shares in the IPO, which would bring each of them about $250 million in cash at the midpoint of the price range while leaving the group in control of the company.
The deal comes a few weeks after Oura postponed its up to $2.2 billion IPO indefinitely, citing uncertainty in the IPO market.
PSI used an unreleased Anthropic model to answer a fundamental question about quantum computing that scientists have pursued for nearly two decades.
OpenAI is looking to make ChatGPT a more robust consumer discovery engine, and a host of new features seek to empower businesses to help it do that.
Google's Pixel Tag lets you track lost items with your Android device, similar to Apple's AirTag.
Amazon-owned Ring is pushing into robotics with the launch of a home security drone and a rolling robot designed to patrol and protect businesses.
Hugging Face executive Irene Solaiman warns that growing cyberattacks on open AI platforms could force tighter security restrictions, threatening the accessibility that makes open-source communities valuable to developers worldwide.
Otter AI just added support for 27 languages and revealed an upcoming feature that can follow along if speakers switch between languages.
The AI company is expected to set its valuation range this week, the Wall Street Journal reported.
The PR firm was enlisted shortly after an Oct. 2025 New York Times report described Alice Huang's business dealings with Jensen Huang, Wired reported.
Exclusive: Wyndham left a hardcoded credential in its customer app, allowing anyone to access customer data. The hotel giant wouldn't say if it has the ability to check for any past unauthorized access.
Six months before Nvidia's spy scandal erupted, Culper Research was already questioning Jensen Huang's unusually close relationship with a Chinese executive.
Nvidias stock slid more than 4% after its board opened an investigation into Jensen Huangs relationship with a suspected Chinese spy, and one securities law expert says the companys earlier insistence that it was all normal could turn into a very expensive problem.
Geothermal company Fervo is targeting natural gas as it brings down geothermal drilling costs at its 8.4 GW resource in Utah.
The Nvidia CEO also pulled out of an Anthropic event earlier.
YouTube will resume sharing streaming data with Billboard in 2027 after changes to the chart formula give more weight to free, ad-supported music streams.
Anthropic says the new models show improvements in areas like coding, reasoning, and vision, as well as in communicating more clearly with users.
Nominal, a startup that offers an AI platform for hardware engineering and claims Anduril as a major customer, has raised another big round of financing that triples its valuation.
France's foreign minister blamed Iran for launching at least two waves of cyberattacks targeting industrial refrigerated and freezer units across France and wider Europe.
At 10 cents per million input tokens, Ember is significantly cheaper than frontier competitors like Haiku and Luna.
The update to Waymo's self-driving system was rolled out nearly a year ago.
Automattic aims to compete with likes of Lovable with Spacefast
The new music discovery app lets users scroll through 10-to-30-second snippets of songs, comment, and share with friends.
Elon Musk defended the company's decision to stop making the Cybertruck, which will go out of production in around 8 months.
This will be the fourth Texas city in which Tesla will launch robotaxis.

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