Chamath Palihapitiya raises $135M Series A for his AI coding startup, takes CEO role
VCs remain thirsty to fund AI coding startups. This one, founded by investor, Chamath Palihapitiya, is no exception.
VCs remain thirsty to fund AI coding startups. This one, founded by investor, Chamath Palihapitiya, is no exception.
Rather than external partnerships, Uber may start leaning on its own robotaxis for driverless options.
Leaked iPhone 18 Pro photos and parts lists appeared on the dark web following a data breach affecting one of Apple's key suppliers, according to a report from Reuters. The leaked images show a drop test of what a source tells Reuters is the iPhone 18 Pro, equipped with a three-camera layout and Apple logo. […]
Google is expanding Gemini’s personalized AI image generation to eligible free users in the U.S., allowing the chatbot to create images based on your interests and data from connected Google apps.
Small-scale solar helped renewables nearly triple coal generation on the US grid.
SCOTUS falls short of deeming geofence warrants unconstitutional, though.
Google expands personalized intelligence to Gemini app image creation
Tidal shared its new policies regarding AI-generated music today and how the platform plans to "protect artists" and "inform listeners." Instead of banning it outright, starting on July 15th Tidal will label tracks it has identified as being 100 percent AI-generated with an icon. But starting today those tracks will no longer be monetizable. "Tidal's […]
Sony hinted in a recent Q&A with investors that the next generation PlayStation will offer some kind of experience that lets you play games outside of your living room. Here's the relevant portion from the transcript, emphasis mine: Q: How can you bring back to the PlayStation platform users who migrated to gaming PCs during […]
Sony has been scaling down its digitial store for a few years.
Xbox union members argue for transparency and good-faith bargaining.
Kobo users can now automatically sync their reading progress to StoryGraph, making it easier to track books, reading stats, and challenges without relying on Amazon’s Goodreads.
With today’s scientific tools, the problem could have been spotted in the 1950s.
OpenAI is releasing some sort of device related to its AI-powered coding tool, Codex, on July 15th. In a video posted to X on Monday, OpenAI shows a square-shaped device with several buttons, alongside the caption, "Your favorite Codex shortcuts are getting an upgrade." This isn't the mysterious AI-powered device OpenAI is working on with […]
The US Supreme Court has surprisingly decided to restrict geofence warrants.
Uber said it is readying the launch of a separate autonomous vehicle partnership in the city, but did not name the partner.
It may be tempting to control an entire power strip with a smart plug, but there are some things you should know about this setup.
Apple's rumored touchscreen MacBook may launch soon, here's what to expect.
The EU wants Google to share search data with competitors and open up AI on Android, but Google alleges major privacy risks.
As Anthropic forges a closer relationship with the state of California, the federal government has made an enemy out of the OpenAI rival.
The world's two largest memory chip companies vow to build more memory lab fabs as South Korea positions itself as an AI tech powerhouse country.
But the system would require a massive leap from any of its existing hardware.
Most of Apple’s price increases have gone into effect, resulting in iPads and other products costing hundreds more than they did a few days ago. If last week’s Prime Day sale wasn’t a good time to consider buying an iPad, we found a deal worth considering that’s just under $500 right now. The 128GB iPad […]
Illinois now a key battleground in fight over prediction market sports bets.
The startup, which runs a popular free AI leaderboard, launched its commercial service just last September.
If you want a 4K display you can easily move around the house, LG has you covered.
Tidal's new policy says that 100-percent AI-generated music will be demonetized.
Cursor has launched a new mobile app for remote oversight over coding agents.
Dbrand did not do its homework when it made the Companion Cube case for the Steam Machine.
Anthropic’s Claude models in Microsoft Foundry — hosted on Microsoft Azure and running on NVIDIA GB300 Blackwell Ultra GPUs — are now generally available, giving Azure-native enterprises a powerful new way to build autonomous and domain-specific AI agents. As agentic AI continues to drive enterprise innovation and becomes more autonomous, organizations need access to computing […]
The Trump administration's moves threaten $121 billion in new solar and wind power, two energy sources that are the biggest contributors to new capacity in the U.S.
July 4th sales are typically a precursor to what we’d see during a mid-July Prime Day, but obviously things are flipped around this year. Last week’s big Prime Day sale is over, yet there are a number of familiar deals still poking around in the week leading up to the nation’s birthday. Best Buy is […]
In addition, TIDAL will use automated tools to remove AI-generated music that attempts to impersonate an artist or a group, the company said.
The Supreme Court's decision to limit geofence warrants is a win for privacy advocates, who called their use unconstitutional but sought an outright ban.
A heatwave, engine upgrades, plus power levels for the next two seasons.
A new report found half of social media safety features intended to keep children safe online do not work as claimed.
WhatsApp username can be between 3 to 35 characters.
WhatsApp is introducing a new way to add and chat with contacts, without having to share your phone number. Usernames will launch "later this year," in a move to make the communications platform "even more private," allowing you to keep your phone number concealed from people who aren't already in your contacts. Usernames are available […]
A new proposal would ban the sale of Americans' health and location information to data brokers - including information people reveal to an AI chatbot like ChatGPT or Claude. In the coming weeks, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Representative Mary Gay Scanlon (D-PA) are planning to debut a new version of the Health and Location […]
Even if you only use WhatsApp sometimes, you might want to snag your username now to stop giving out your phone number.
WhatsApp is launching usernames later this year, but you can reserve yours starting this week.
Dbrand announced Monday that it's refunding everyone who bought its Steam Machine Companion Cube, which it said it made "without a license from Valve." Dbrand announced the Portal-themed Steam Machine accessory in November and took preorders for it last Monday. But a few days later, the product had disappeared from the company's website and the […]
Director Travis Knight is also the creative mind behind 2016's Oscar-nominated Kubo and the Two Strings .
"We believe this will be one of the most transformative deals in the space industry."
Want to go back to your ex... AI assistant? We don't blame you. Take these steps to get Google Assistant back after your fling with Gemini.
"Where does the threshold live that an action necessitates some proportional reaction?"
Xgimi, the Chinese company known for its all-in-one smart projectors, is expanding its portfolio with a new line of screen-equipped smart glasses that first debuted at CES 2026. Unlike AR glasses from companies like Meta and Snap, Xgimi’s new privacy-focused MemoMind One skip cameras for a lighter and more discreet design that helps hide their […]
Comcast plans to spin out NBCUniversal and leave the entertainment business.
The all-stock deal values Iridium at $8 billion and gives Rocket Lab even more firepower to compete against Amazon and SpaceX.
The startup, Proception, is taking a unique approach to collecting training data to tackle one of the hardest problems in robotics: hands.
Burn-in is often overblown, but understanding the phenomenon is still important.
NBCUniversal and Sky will be spun off into separate companies.
Pocket sells a $129 credit card-shaped puck, which sticks to the back of your phone, and promises unlimited recordings, transcriptions, and to-do items.
The company's productivity-focused gadget helps you set timers, block apps, and display custom messages and widgets on an LED display.
Omen AI raised a $31 million Series A to monitor chip coolant and stop bacterial outbreaks in data centers.
Flipper Devices, a company that built a banned hacking device, now wants to hack your attention span.
Rocket Lab will own satellites connecting the most remote corners of the Earth.
Oura took its class-leading smart ring, made it 40 percent smaller and made the battery last longer.
Google was forced to cap Meta's use of Gemini AI due to a lack of capacity.
The 1970s porn actress turned New York City late night public access queen says censorship and a lack of star quality among modern adult entertainers turned her off of the industry.
Showcasing the importance of open source innovation in American AI, Palantir’s new intelligent engine — introduced today — uses NVIDIA Nemotron open models to serve the needs of U.S. government agencies. Open source software has long been a pillar of U.S. technology leadership. In 1969, DARPA connected four university computers — from UCLA, Stanford, UCSB […]
With AI-powered noise reduction, an automatic speech-focusing system, and a simple, effective hearing test, it’s a shame these aids don't come with a better app.
NASA’s quiet supersonic flight tests could eventually go on a national tour.
Climate activist Will Lawrence cofounded the Sunrise Movement. Now, he has shifted his focus in his attempt to compete for a swing-district seat by calling for a data center moratorium.
Europe’s pro-competition proposals could see Google Search and Android systems opened up. The company claims there are serious privacy flaws.
FIFA says hydration breaks protect players from heat. They also create new annoying commercial breaks—and fans are calling foul.
Drone shows are the new fireworks—and possibly a new kind of religion. I traveled to Texas to be converted.
Nine major suspected cargo thefts happened at Tesla’s Nevada battery factory in January alone, according to sheriff’s records obtained by WIRED.
DJI's Osmo Pocket 4P introduces a new D-Log2 format and promises 17 stops of dynamic range.
Flexion Robotics, a startup founded by ex-Nvidia engineers, has a clever way of training robots to do useful work.
Streaming ads might be getting a lot quieter.
"Mistakenly we thought that by just introducing artificial intelligence ... that would produce a high-quality product.”
Clicking on the links now reveals blank pages and empty PDFs. "Intellectually, it’s not acceptable.”
These little tricks will help you spend more time driving instead of charging.
Has Silicon Valley been building the wrong things?
The fine can now potentially hit 99 million AUD, or $68 million.
Where to eat, stay, work, and eat some more while visiting Space City on business.
As the billionaire class gets richer, the growing online community is offering tips on how to survive with very little.
Sun hoodies are the greatest new garment since the original hoodie.
The Euclid space telescope's stunning photo of our galaxy's “crowded heart” captures more than 60 million stars.
An unadorned ebike is a blank canvas. Here, get tips for maximizing its cargo-hauling and person-carrying capabilities.
The Chinese supercomputer LineShine was ranked as the fastest in the world, despite not using any GPUs.
Prime Day is officially over, but many of our favorite, hand-picked deals are still available through the weekend.
The Amble One is a street-legal $25,000 electric buggy designed for luxury resorts.
It’s not often you can score discounts from the outdoor-coded Canadian company that makes understated and stylish performance clothing.
Everyone is sick of spam calls and creeper sites that show weirdos where you live—but can any service solve it?
Plus: Former national security advisor John Bolton pleads guilty in classified-materials case, Microsoft helps take down major infostealer infrastructure, and more.
Whether you need a tent, sleeping pad, rain jacket, or new pack, REI’s Independence Day sale has something for everyone.
Factors like the short interval between the two powerful quakes and different types of soil led to some structures collapsing while others stayed standing.
Times are hard in 2026. These Amazon Prime Day deals under $100 on earbuds, Kindles, and other tested products should help make life just a little bit easier.
After weeks of negotiations, the White House permitted Anthropic to grant access to its most advanced AI model to a select group of US companies and government agencies.
Despite the surprise price increases to iPads and Macs, there are some fantastic Prime Day deals still left to shop.
With discourse about Christopher Nolan’s epic already raging, first viewer reactions will come from mainstream press, not content creators. Some critics are gloating over this break from the norm.
Half-million-strong military will train on drones as “universal combat tool.”
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Move over, spring cleaning. These vacuum deals will give your home the cleanest summer yet thanks to Amazon Prime Day.
His doctors went looking for cancer, then they saw the worms' heads.
From MacBooks to gaming laptops, these are the very best deals on some of my very favorite laptops for Amazon Prime Day.
Illinois passed a similar law, giving services more incentive to make ads less booming.
As Anthropic tightens restrictions on access to Claude in China, users keep finding new workarounds, from proxy services to fake identities sourced on Telegram.
Samsung makes some of the very best OLED gaming monitors, and they’ve never been this affordable.
Russian government lashes out at Apple's "bizarre" decisions.
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NYT shifts OpenAI/Microsoft copyright claims after SCOTUS ruling against Sony.
Prime Day isn’t just about cheap TVs. It’s also about cheap stuff to watch on your cheap TV.
The asteroid will be visible for several nights from different parts of the world. We’ll tell you when and where to look, and what equipment you’ll need to spot it.
Bose headphones are already one of our favorites for comfort, sound, and noise canceling. Now they’re cheaper.
Apple has warned about MacBook prices rising, making these Prime Day deals even more worthwhile to consider.
If you want to beef up your home security this Prime Day, Eufy’s Floodlight Camera is a great way to do it.
The White House asked OpenAI to delay the rollout of its GPT-5.6 AI models, two weeks after Anthropic had to take its most advanced AI models offline.
Exposed records from the private group included the personal information of a senior White House intelligence official and an active-duty special operations officer.
It wouldn't be Amazon Prime Day without some beauty deals. Here's a roundup of all our favorites.
Google Pixel Buds are steeply on sale, presumably only through the end of the day.
These are the best last-minute Prime Day discounts on handheld fans, from $10 budget buys to Shark’s high-tech ChillPill.
Edward Nalwamba is a 78-year-old retired pastor whose health has rapidly declined while in detention, his attorney says.
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I've compiled a list of the best fitness tech deals this Amazon Prime Day, including smartwatches, walking pads, and recovery gear. You can thank me later.
It's a stretch to think that the continent can build a top-tier model, but it has an advantage: Donald Trump.
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A scuffle between stan account Club Chalamet and another Heated Rivalry die-hard shines a light on how parasocial fans are a publicist’s greatest asset—and liability.
If you don't know you need a jump starter, it’s a sign you really, really need a jump-starter. NOCO and Wolfbox are the best ones.
Looking for family fun this summer? You need these WIRED-recommended Prime Day board game deals.
Summer savings are heating up. From the Steam Summer Sale to GeForce NOW membership discounts, this week’s GFN Thursday delivers double the deals and more ways to get the most value from cloud gaming. Plus, Dark Scrolls joins the growing Devolver lineup, alongside Square Enix’s The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales. They lead the […]
Building AI systems at scale is demanding, requiring low-latency inference, fast vector search, strong GPU price-performance and infrastructure that can grow without multiplying operational complexity. NVIDIA’s latest work with Amazon Web Services (AWS) addresses each of those constraints. Across Amazon OpenSearch and Amazon EC2, NVIDIA AI infrastructure is giving enterprises more practical paths to deploy […]
Editor’s note: This post is part of the Nemotron Labs blog series, which explores how the latest open models, datasets and training techniques help businesses build specialized AI systems and applications on NVIDIA platforms. Each post highlights practical ways to use an open stack to deliver real value in production — from transparent research copilots […]
NVIDIA technologies power more than 400 of the world’s 500 fastest supercomputers — 81% of the TOP500 — according to the latest rankings released this week at the ISC High Performance conference in Hamburg, Germany.
Telecom operators have seen remarkable returns from using generative AI to automate network management, customer care and back-office operations. Most of that impact has been task‑based: automation that speeds up predetermined steps while people manually correlate insights and direct next steps. Automation is no longer the finish line — it’s the launchpad to autonomy. The […]
JUPITER, Europe’s first exascale supercomputer at Germany’s Forschungszentrum Jülich, runs on NVIDIA Grace Hopper Superchips and NVIDIA Quantum-X800 InfiniBand networking — and it’s had a busy year. As the international supercomputing community gathers at ISC in Hamburg this week, four projects running on JUPITER point to what exascale computing can actually do: map the human […]
For the past two years, the U.S. National Science Foundation’s National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR) pilot program has driven innovative research across the U.S. for over 700 projects — spanning protein prediction and infectious disease outbreak management. NVIDIA contributed to the NAIRR pilot through a cloud-based resource that gives researchers dedicated access to a […]
At the ISC conference running in Hamburg this week, NVIDIA is introducing new software that speeds AI for science, from chemistry and materials discovery to the search for dark matter. The NVIDIA DAQIRI library and new NVIDIA ALCHEMI NIM microservices — as well as the NVIDIA cuPhoton reference code, coming soon — turn work that […]
Mission, Vision and Veritas — new Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) supercomputers to be built with HPE and NVIDIA — are tapping NVIDIA Vera CPUs to accelerate scientific discovery, unlocking agentic AI for science. The supercomputers will use the HPE Cray Supercomputing GX5000 architecture with the NVIDIA Vera Rubin platform, combining NVIDIA Vera CPUs, NVIDIA […]
The next era of AI will not be defined by compute alone. Its growth will be determined by energy. As accelerated computing scales across AI factories, agentic AI, industrial AI, edge computing and physical AI — including robotics and autonomous systems — global electricity demand is rising at unprecedented speed. In many regions, expanding grid […]
Hot tubs sit at about 38 to 40 degrees Celsius, warm enough that most people can only soak for about 15 minutes. NVIDIA’s newest AI servers can run their cooling liquid even hotter — up to 45 degrees Celsius, or 113 degrees Fahrenheit. That higher temperature limit is precisely what makes them more energy efficient. […]
In a consequential grid infrastructure decision, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) today issued a major milestone on large-load interconnection impacting how those building AI factories, semiconductor fabrication support systems and advanced manufacturing facilities can connect to the grid. In the era of AI, which NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang has described as a […]
The digital era gave the advertising and marketing industry speed; the AI era is giving it autonomous operations. For companies building next-generation technologies for advertising and marketing, the question is no longer whether to adopt AI but whether their infrastructure can support it at the speed and scale the industry demands. At Cannes Lions, running […]
Play favorite titles from popular game libraries, keep progress synced and jump back into gaming sessions on virtually any device. That’s the power of GeForce NOW cloud gaming. From providing access to members’ favorite game libraries to offering some of the season’s best membership pricing, GeForce NOW is making it easier than ever to get […]
A year ago at NVIDIA GTC Paris at VivaTech, France laid out plans to advance local AI — from new AI factories and national compute capacity to open frontier models and industrial platforms. Now, that AI infrastructure is coming online. AI agents are running in production, startups are deploying applications and the French AI ecosystem […]
For a quarter century, the Google search box has been one of the most recognizable interfaces in computing: a thin white rectangle, a blinking cursor, a few typed words, and a list of blue links. On Tuesday, Google will formally retire that paradigm. At its annual I/O developer conference , Google announced a sweeping redesign of the search box itself — the literal text field where billions of queries begin every day — transforming it from a simple keyword input into a dynamic, AI-driven con
Railway , a San Francisco-based cloud platform that has quietly amassed two million developers without spending a dollar on marketing, announced Thursday that it raised $100 million in a Series B funding round, as surging demand for artificial intelligence applications exposes the limitations of legacy cloud infrastructure. TQ Ventures led the round, with participation from FPV Ventures , Redpoint , and Unusual Ventures . The investment values Railway as one of the most significant infrast
The artificial intelligence coding revolution comes with a catch: it's expensive. Claude Code , Anthropic's terminal-based AI agent that can write, debug, and deploy code autonomously, has captured the imagination of software developers worldwide. But its pricing — ranging from $20 to $200 per month depending on usage — has sparked a growing rebellion among the very programmers it aims to serve. Now, a free alternative is gaining traction. Goose , an open-source AI agent develope
Alfred Wahlforss was running out of options. His startup, Listen Labs , needed to hire over 100 engineers, but competing against Mark Zuckerberg's $100 million offers seemed impossible. So he spent $5,000 — a fifth of his marketing budget — on a billboard in San Francisco displaying what looked like gibberish: five strings of random numbers. The numbers were actually AI tokens. Decoded, they led to a coding challenge: build an algorithm to act as a digital bouncer at Berghain, the Ber
Salesforce on Tuesday launched an entirely rebuilt version of Slackbot , the company's workplace assistant, transforming it from a simple notification tool into what executives describe as a fully powered AI agent capable of searching enterprise data, drafting documents, and taking action on behalf of employees. The new Slackbot, now generally available to Business+ and Enterprise+ customers, is Salesforce's most aggressive move yet to position Slack at the center of the emergin
Anthropic released Cowork on Monday, a new AI agent capability that extends the power of its wildly successful Claude Code tool to non-technical users — and according to company insiders, the team built the entire feature in approximately a week and a half, largely using Claude Code itself. The launch marks a major inflection point in the race to deliver practical AI agents to mainstream users, positioning Anthropic to compete not just with OpenAI and Google in conversational AI, but w
Nous Research , the open-source artificial intelligence startup backed by crypto venture firm Paradigm , released a new competitive programming model on Monday that it says matches or exceeds several larger proprietary systems — trained in just four days using 48 of Nvidia's latest B200 graphics processors . The model, called NousCoder-14B , is another entry in a crowded field of AI coding assistants, but arrives at a particularly charged moment: Claude Code , the agentic programming t