Rings around a tiny body have changed over the past decade
Chariklo is only about 250 km across, but it has two rings, and they're changing.
Chariklo is only about 250 km across, but it has two rings, and they're changing.
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Powerful AI models have created an existential risk to the field, but researchers can’t stop relying on them because they’re too useful.
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As dozens of cities end contracts for its controversial license plate readers, Flock is rolling out a voluntary severance program, WIRED has learned.
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UP.Labs, now doing business under the name Vantora, is building startups for industrial corporations.
AI leaders have been promising that AI is the key to curing human disease. Anthropic researchers have also been warning that AI might kill us all.
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CNN's sources claim the US nearly attacked a Chinese ship it believed was carrying nuclear weapon components.
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Recently unsealed court documents in the New York Times' case against OpenAI and Microsoft are pretty damning. The companies' own documentation warned that it was starting a "doom loop" that would damage the web, characterized its scraping of data to train its models as the "largest theft of labor in human history," and that it […]
In a new lawsuit, the labels argue Suno found a roundabout way to train its v6 models on unlicensed music.
The BlackBerry-like phone also got a spec bump and an impending price hike.
There's a lot for Mark Zuckerberg to cover at this year's keynote.
But the military's overall use of AI seems to be accelerating.
Jeremy Klaperman, the CFO of the company's WordPress VIP Enterprise business unit, will act as CFO for the time being.
Angle Health has grown to 5,000 customers and become profitable by helping small businesses get "level-funded" health insurance.
Everyone in the world-models space is sitting on a pile of cash and a ton of buzz, but good luck getting anyone — from the founders to their own data suppliers — to tell you what they're actually building.
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Even if big AI companies agree to a pause, ensuring that nobody tries to sneak ahead could prove tricky.
FAA plans for AI tool to help manage DC air traffic before a nationwide rollout.
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Jev, a new kind of AI model, is showing developers a cheaper and faster path to software intelligence.
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Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger ordered the state government to take steps that could empower local communities to have a larger say in data center development and slow down approvals in a state that is already home to the data center capital of the world. Executive Order 22 bans executive branch officials from signing nondisclosure agreements […]
You would think that a multimedia conglomerate as large as Disney would have a few chief technology officers by now, but the company has just appointed someone to the position for the very first time. Today, Disney announced that Karandeep Anand is joining the company as its new CTO. Anand will report directly to recently […]
Great news for the Ellisons and Saudi Arabia. Everyone else: not so much!
The former CEO of Character.AI, which Disney previously sent a cease-and-desist letter to, will serve as the company's first-ever chief technology officer.
FCC rejects concerns about repressive governments buying influence over CBS owner.
Rare cells with widespread connectivity seem to be able to trigger sleep.
Availability of Apple's iPhone 18 Pro series turned patchy within hours of its debut on India's quick-commerce apps.
Google is refocusing its CC AI agent on household coordination, letting families share emails, schedules, and tasks so the AI can manage calendars, fill out forms, make shopping lists, plan meals, and more.
The Federal Register website briefly used an open source Chinese AI search tool.
An aircraft equipped with Joby Aviation's autonomy technology flew across the United States without a human pilot taking control at any point.
A week after an Anthropic researcher’s doomsday warning rattled the AI world, the company’s CEO Dario Amodei has outlined his plan to “pace the frontier” of AI development. The proposal leans on independent safety evaluators and coordination between AI labs in democratic countries, and it’s already picked up some industry support, along with some pointed pushback from Nvidia’s Jensen Huang.  Watch […]
It's one of the most fascinating years in a while when it comes to iPhone camera upgrades. The big story of the iPhone 18 Pro is the variable aperture main lens, which lets you open the aperture up wider for better low light shots and make the aperture smaller for better depth of field in […]
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) is positioning the state to take the lead on AI oversight, including the potential to mandate a "kill switch" for frontier models, with a new executive order issued Friday. Newsom's order directs the state to convene a group of experts that will deliver recommendations within two months on how to […]
Manus, which earlier this year had to break off a merger with Meta, is in discussions to raise $500M at a $4B valuation.
As the tech sector sounds alarms about AI's potential to destroy humanity, entertainment labor groups are urging the public to stay focused on what's already happening. The Verge reached out to Disney, Netflix, Amazon, Lionsgate, and other studios who have started using AI, as well film startups focused on bringing generative AI into the mainstream […]
Whether it's a permanent shift or part of a familiar cycle is worth asking, though.
TeamPCP pulled off the worst-ever software supply-chain hacking spree and breached thousands of companies. Now Google’s threat intelligence group says it had a mole inside the hackers’ inner circle.
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A team of three independent security researchers at Hacktron says it took less than 72 hours for them to hack into OpenAI employee accounts using Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 and 5, The Wall Street Journal reports. They were able to access OpenAI's GitHub repository, called "Monorepo," which reportedly contains "OpenAI's algorithmic secrets," according to The […]
Nvidia's Nader Khalil and Sydney Sykes discuss one of the decisions shaping next-gen startups on the Builders Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026.
Muse is now available on the Mac, where it can work with your files and apps to take action on your behalf.
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The FCC has announced it's waiving its rules limiting foreign equity ownership to 25 percent in the Paramount-Warner Bros. case and will allow three sovereign wealth funds run by the governments of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Abu Dhabi to own 49.5 percent of the company. During Brendan Carr's tenure, the FCC has repeatedly threatened ABC, […]
The reliably Republican South Dakota senate seat has an incumbent on the ballot. But PACs associated with AI labs and investors have already spent more money on the race than actual residents have.
Anthropic’s CEO says that safety hinges on understanding how AI “thinks.” So far the evidence is disturbing.
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FunnyPlaying, a Chinese company known for its Game Boy and GBA upgrade kits, has announced a new handheld that plays original Nintendo cartridges and ROMs. The FPGB Mini's cartridge support is limited to the Game Boy and Game Boy Color so it isn't as capable as the Analogue Pocket that's also compatible with the GBA […]
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Ning Xu of Tsinghua University captured tiny cilia beating in airways of a child with rare respiratory disorder.
Researchers used Claude to reach an OpenAI employee account and sensitive GitHub data.
The satirical collaboration between a creative studio and the music producer behind Big Data, “Bezzy” is a cute little doll that spews the sounds of real data centers.
After three months of daily anti-government protests—dubbed the Flamingo Revolution—the sudden mass suspension of Instagram accounts has led to fears of brigading against demonstrators.
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Anthropic now has its own bio research lab in San Francisco.
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Images taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter led to the discovery of a moon crater that's 728 feet wide. Impacts like that only happen once a century.
Executives from OpenAI and Microsoft were reportedly worried about ChatGPT training that scraped millions of news articles.
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David Baker spoke with WIRED en Español about where biological design is headed next and the great potential and risks of taking biology outside the bounds of the natural world.
The left wants AI regulation. They just can’t agree on what it should look like or how concerned they should be.
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CC gives an AI agent its own Google account in your family or group and sends all members a daily briefing.
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This week on “Uncanny Valley,” we discuss three possible AI doomsday scenarios, AI safety, and the unexpected bipartisan alliance forming against AI.
Scaleout deploys decentralized AI-driven learning to military bases and drones.
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Microsoft, OpenAI emails reveal fear of AI “doom loop” killing news orgs.
By framing their efforts as a “slowdown” rather than an industry-wide push for better security standards, AI labs may have set themselves up for years of regulatory headaches.
Amazon Web Services didn’t design its data centers to withstand war, and now the company admits it can’t recover what’s been lost.
Bill would help rightsholders obtain court orders to block foreign piracy sites.
The Dreamforce conference became an unlikely battleground for the CEOs of OpenAI, Anthropic, and Nvidia to debate whether AI development should slow down.
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A new creature-catching adventure is ready to stream from the cloud this week. Pawprint Studio’s Aniimo arrives on GeForce NOW at launch, inviting gamers to explore the vibrant continent of Idyll across supported devices. Also this week, 007 First Light receives a path-tracing update on GeForce NOW, alongside a smashing limited-time Deluxe Edition sale on […]
After wearing it day and night for a week, I found that better health tracking, faster charging, and a simpler interface make Apple’s latest smartwatch noticeably easier to live with.
The first folding iPhone Duo is here, alongside the 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max, but they’re not your only options. We have all the details on Apple’s smartphone lineup to help you find the right model.
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A grassroots live tour by YouTuber Louis Rossmann highlights growing resistance to companies that keep people from controlling their devices.
Vin Diesel, the star of the series, didn’t make a planned appearance at the grand opening of its dynamite new theme park ride. But it didn’t stop his fans from having a good time.
ChatGPT, Character.ai, and Snapchat’s My AI will all be in the crosshairs as the EU Kids Act aims to strip minor-facing chatbots of all the things that make people love them.
System performance, efficient infrastructure scaling and continuous software optimization are key levers that determine AI inference economics. Higher system performance means more tokens generated, resulting in higher revenue. Efficient scaling means throughput grows proportionally as hardware gets added, requiring fewer resources to serve users at scale. Continuous optimization means generating more value from infrastructure investments. […]
AI factories are the infrastructure of the intelligence era. Scaling them responsibly will depend as much on innovation across the grid as inside the data center. Today, Emerald AI, Google and NVIDIA announced the launch of the AI Energy Management Alliance (AEMA), a first-of-its-kind coalition advancing data centers that can dynamically manage their electricity use […]
Air pollution is a serious public health risk, contributing to an estimated 30,000 deaths in the U.K. alone last year. Data-driven insights can help — but computing air quality with traditional chemistry-based models is expensive, which limits how detailed they can be and how regularly they can be run. David Topping, a professor in the […]
Know everything. Do anything. That was the message NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang brought to Salesforce Dreamforce Tuesday, joining CEO Marc Benioff onstage in an appearance that coincided with the announcement of Koa — Salesforce’s first CRM reasoning model, built on NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super. Huang didn’t just take the stage. He walked into […]
On a sweltering August evening in Silicon Valley, as the sun dropped and air conditioning loads spiked, Silicon Valley Power sent a signal to an AI factory to adjust its power consumption. Varun Sivaram was watching on Zoom with about forty others — his team at Emerald AI in their San Francisco conference room, engineers […]
Ian Buck, vice president of hyperscale and high-performance computing at NVIDIA, Tuesday spoke on AI factory efficiency at the AI Infra Summit, the Santa Clara Convention Center event that has morphed into a Coachella of infrastructure tech. Before a packed audience — with more than 8,000 attendees this year, up from 3,500 last year — […]
As local models become more capable, AI agents can handle more work directly on a PC while keeping sensitive information on the device. Portable Computer is a local version of the agent Perplexity Computer that plans and carries out multistep tasks. Accelerated by NVIDIA GPUs, it uses local models to analyze data, bring together information […]
Manufacturing floors, warehouses and production lines rarely stay fixed — tasks change, layouts shift and new products arrive, and most robots can’t keep up without significant reprogramming. Skild AI’s new S1 robot foundation model helps address this, designed to learn previously unseen, long-horizon tasks from a single video demonstration. The model, launched last week, uses […]
The global robotaxi market — physical AI’s first commercial breakthrough — is projected to reach $400 billion by 2035, with over 6 million commercial vehicles in operation as driverless fleets are already moving people through some of the world’s busiest and most complex streets. Deploying a driverless vehicle is one challenge. Scaling a fleet is […]
AI inference chipmaker d-Matrix today announced it will use NVLink Fusion to connect its next-generation Raptor XPUs to NVIDIA’s AI infrastructure platform — joining a growing roster of ecosystem partners. By connecting Raptor to NVIDIA NVLink scale-up and Spectrum-X scale-out networking, the NVIDIA MGX rack architecture and the broader NVIDIA AI platform, NVLink Fusion gives […]
Gear up: The latest PC games and major updates are ready to play on GeForce NOW this week. WARDOGS drops onto the cloud at early-access launch, alongside the Valheim 1.0 Deep North update and Bus Simulator 27 — part of nine new titles joining the cloud. The newest PC releases can demand serious hardware, storage […]
At the IBC conference, running Sept. 11-14 in Amsterdam, the creative, technology and business communities are coming together to turn ideas into action and discuss innovations across the media and entertainment industries. More than 44,000 attendees from 170+ countries are gathering to explore 1,300+ exhibitions in 14+ halls and outdoor spaces, with over 600 speakers […]
Frontier intelligence is going local. At IFA 2026, NVIDIA, Microsoft and its partners are teaming up to provide faster inference and new tools that make agents easier to set up and run locally on NVIDIA hardware. New compact NVIDIA RTX Spark Windows PCs are also coming in October to give AI enthusiasts, developers and creators […]
September is here with 28 more games streaming on GeForce NOW this month, led by a slam dunk: NBA 2K27 with the NVIDIA DLSS 5 3D-Guided Neural Rendering feature. Through NVIDIA’s close collaboration with Visual Concepts and 2K, DLSS 5 brings a new level of lifelike lighting and material detail to the court — tuned […]
I’m excited to announce that NVIDIA has agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12,930,300,000. Together, we will scale Hugging Face’s platform, strengthen its infrastructure and expand access to AI for developers and institutions worldwide. Over the past decade, Clem, Julien, Thomas and the team at Hugging Face have built something remarkable: a vibrant home for […]
“We’re at an inflection point in cybersecurity,” Jensen Huang told a sold-out crowd at CrowdStrike’s Fal.Con 2026 in Las Vegas Tuesday. Attacks are now automated. Defense has to be, too. The NVIDIA founder and CEO joined CrowdStrike CEO and founder George Kurtz to announce CrowdStrike SafeMind, its agentic cybersecurity system developed by the CrowdStrike Cyber […]