Technology
America isn’t short of electricity. It’s short of ...
On 22 July 2026, the Texas grid set an all-time record. Demand reached about 91 gigawatts on a punis...
Discord opens its ad business to smaller brands, A...
Discord is opening its advertising business to companies of any size, as Scharon Harding reported fo...
Caverion to build €15M substation for Nebius data ...
Caverion Finland has agreed to design and build a substation for Nebius’s new data centre in Mäntsäl...
AI music maker Suno now generates spoken words
Suno is branching out from the world of AI music, launching a new feature that generates spoken voic...
The difference between a liar and a bullshitter
Back in 1986, a Princeton philosopher named Harry Frankfurt published a short essay with a title you...
AI broke the economics of software. Vayu wants to ...
Here is a problem the software industry did not have three years ago. A customer signs a contract fo...
French state-owned Bull doubles supercomputer outp...
Bull, the French state-owned supercomputer maker, has doubled production at its factory in Angers, w...
SoftBank completes $30bn OpenAI investment with fi...
SoftBank Group has completed its $30bn follow-on investment in OpenAI, after paying the third and fi...
Apple’s reportedly developing a smart home camera ...
Apple's rumored push into smart home tech could include a smart home security camera that only gives...
Google’s new Guided Vision feature can help you re...
Guided Vision is launching in Gemini Live on compatible Android devices today to use AI to give real...
Japan eyes $140bn AI data centre push with Dell an...
Japan’s biggest power generator is teaming up with Dell to build AI data centres across the country....
OpenAI cuts ties with three staff over sensitive i...
OpenAI has parted ways with three employees who it says mishandled sensitive company information. Th...
CFPB can’t say if data on abandoned office kit is ...
The US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau cannot confirm that IT equipment it left in four closed ...
Android Central ‘will continue’ despite laying off...
Android Central, a blog focused on the Android ecosystem, laid off its staff yesterday, but owner Fu...
GM’s Q3 sales drop 5.5% as its electric models col...
GM’s third-quarter sales fell 5.5% and its electric models collapsed, with the Equinox EV down 92.4%...
Steam Deck 2: Is AMD Gainsborough the chip Valve’s...
The Steam Deck is four and a half years old, and handheld gamers are eagerly awaiting a Steam Deck 2...
Factory and Cognition bosses clash over adviser’s ...
The heads of two AI coding startups are fighting in public over an adviser who switched sides, as Ca...
Samsung lifts prices across most of the Galaxy S26...
Samsung has added $100 to the Galaxy S26, S26+ and Ultra and $200 to the 1TB Ultra, seven months aft...
Grindr to buy HIV prevention telehealth firm Fredd...
Grindr has agreed to buy PurposeMed, the company behind HIV prevention service Freddie, for $250mn i...
Coliving startup PadSplit expands to San Francisco...
PadSplit rents out single rooms in shared homes. It is now moving into the San Francisco Bay Area, t...
TSMC eyes a multibillion-dollar Texas campus for m...
TSMC is weighing a new Texas campus of multiple fabs, each costing at least $20B, contingent on Cong...
An AI startup is driving 3,400 miles to film how A...
The founder of a US AI software company is taking a camera crew on a road trip to ask ordinary Ameri...
Judge dismisses antitrust lawsuits over Google’s A...
A federal judge has dismissed a pair of antitrust lawsuits filed by Chegg and Rolling Stone parent c...
Walmart shelf labels will light up to guide shoppe...
Walmart is turning its digital shelf labels into a way to find things. Shoppers can now make the lab...
LinkedIn’s former chief Ryan Roslansky to leave Mi...
Ryan Roslansky, who ran LinkedIn before taking over Microsoft’s Office group, will leave the company...
Ford’s CEO says it is too late for Europe to fend ...
Ford chief executive Jim Farley said it is too late for Europe to fend off Chinese carmakers and tha...
Sony brings AI graphics upscaling to the regular P...
Sony is launching a new AI upscaling technology specifically for the regular PS5. The new tech, call...
Can VR glasses save VR?
I'm pretty sure I won't be buying the $1,299 Meta VR Glasses. That's too rich for my blood in today'...
FedEx is buying 2,000 electric trucks for $300M, a...
FedEx has ordered 2,000 electric delivery trucks worth $300M from Harbinger, a Californian startup i...
Trump tells TIME the US might take stakes in OpenA...
President Donald Trump has ruled out nationalising America’s leading AI labs. But the US might still...
Microsoft’s Office and Teams chief is leaving
After nearly 18 years at LinkedIn and Microsoft, Ryan Roslansky is leaving the company. Roslansky, w...
Inside Microsoft’s big Copilot rethink
Last week, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella hosted an intimate, invite-only event for leaders from some o...
ABC and SBS want AI companies to pay for Australia...
Australia’s public broadcasters, the ABC and SBS, want the country’s news bargaining incentive to co...
Broadcom to lend Anthropic up to $42bn for its chi...
Broadcom has agreed to lend Anthropic up to $42bn to help pay for its AI infrastructure, Reuters rep...
Kanu AI raises $11.7m to turn how staff work into ...
Kanu AI has come out of stealth with $11.7m in funding. The Seattle startup builds software that run...
Restate raises $20m to keep AI agents running when...
Restate, a Berlin startup founded by the creators of Apache Flink, has raised a $20m Series A. It bu...
Metaview raises $60m to put AI agents across the w...
Metaview, a London and San Francisco startup that builds AI agents for recruiting, has raised a $60m...
NYC is now the first city in America that bans ske...
New York City residents struggling to get out of recurring subscription fees can now submit complain...
Instagram’s Edits app gets an AI assistant that re...
Instagram is putting a chatbot inside Edits, its video editing app for creators. The tool reads a cr...
OpenAI’s new agent is a shot at Meta — but can it ...
At OpenAI's annual DevDay conference, the company pulled out all the stops to compete with its rival...
Xbox is not for sale, CEO Asha Sharma tells The Ne...
Asha Sharma was asked whether her endgame at Xbox was divestiture, Zachary Small reported for The Ne...
Google DeepMind’s watermarked AI proteins still wo...
Google DeepMind has brought its SynthID watermarking technology to synthetic biology. The new tool, ...
MI5 says over 100 UK academics worked on projects ...
MI5 has told UK universities to review any work with the China General Technology Research Institute...
Inside our months-long investigation into Kevin O’...
Today I’m talking with Josh Dzieza, a longtime features writer here at The Verge, about Kevin O’Lear...
Nvidia-backed GMI Cloud raises $668m as contracted...
GMI Cloud, a Mountain View company that rents out Nvidia GPU servers, has raised $668m in new financ...
OpenAI’s 2017 plan to auction AGI to China and Rus...
In 2017, OpenAI co-founders Greg Brockman and Ilya Sutskever proposed auctioning the rights to the c...
What even is a ‘microdrama’?
On Monday, Variety reported that RoseBerry Media is recutting episodes of the Australian soap opera ...
McDonald’s uses AI to set an optimal price at each...
McDonald’s is using an AI pricing engine to recommend what each of its nearly 14,000 restaurants sho...
Samsung raised prices on the Galaxy S26 by $100
The base Galaxy S26 with 256GB of storage costs nearly $1,000 after Samsung raised prices in the US ...
Gears of War: E-Day is a great game launching at a...
There are few blockbuster games that are as confident as Gears of War: E-Day. A prequel to one of Xb...
