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The money will fund a rapid expansion, including dozens more megawatt-hours of battery storage and plans for a domestic battery factory.

Sarah Wynn-Williams, Facebook’s former Head of Global Public Policy, testified before the U.S. Senate today about the company’s relationship...

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang appears to have struck a deal with the Trump administration to avoid export restrictions on the company’s H20 AI chi...

OpenAI co-founder and former chief scientist Ilya Sutskever’s new AI startup, Safe Superintelligence (SSI), is using Google Cloud’s TPU chip...

The list of 1,223 victims in 51 countries hints at the “true scale of the spyware problem,” per one researcher.

New York’s A-list venture capital seed fund, Lerer Hippeau, announced it closed a ninth $200 million fund on Wednesday. That’s a step up fro...

OpenAI, like many AI labs, thinks AI benchmarks are broken. It says it wants to fix them through a new program. Called the OpenAI Pioneers P...

Anthropic announced on Wednesday that it’s launching a new, very expensive subscription plan for its AI chatbot Claude: Max. An answer to Op...

A study went viral several months ago for implying that, as AI becomes increasingly sophisticated, it develops “value systems” — systems tha...

Sean Plankey's nomination to head up CISA will be blocked, for now.

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) may have to pay a fine of $1 billion or more to resolve a U.S. export control investigatio...

Doing laundry can be a chore. It takes time and is tedious. Few of us like to do it. So it’s no surprise that startups have emerged to take...

Hosting platform WordPress.com on Wednesday launched a new AI website builder that allows anyone to create a functioning website using an AI...

Instagram appears to be quietly testing locked reels that viewers would have to unlock with a code and a provided hint. The feature is a sim...

Legal tech has come a long way, but the bulk of an intellectual property or patent lawyer’s work today is still done with spreadsheets, word...

During its Cloud Next conference this week, Google unveiled the latest generation of its TPU AI accelerator chip. The new chip, called Ironw...

Fashion goes in and out of style, and so, it turns out, do fashion startups. Lyst — the high-end fashion marketplace with 160 million users...

The advisories say the spyware apps are used to target members of civil society who may oppose China’s state interests.

If you ever call 911 from an area that’s hard to get to, you might hear the buzz of a drone well before a police cruiser pulls up. And there...

Instagram head Adam Mosseri says the company is looking to improve the app’s search functionality, admitting this is an area where Instagram...

A new company, Deep Cogito, has emerged from stealth with a family of openly available AI models that can be switched between “reasoning” an...

Jeff Bezos is funding a secretive EV startup based in Michigan called Slate Auto that could start production as soon as next year, according...

Your 401k is suffering. The billionaires are fighting. The gamers are imperiled. Not even the penguins on McDonald Island, where no humans r...

On Monday, the “de-extinction” startup Colossal Biosciences announced its most ambitious results to the dire wolf. These are creatures tha...

Tech giants like Microsoft might be touting AI “agents” as profit-boosting tools for corporations, but a nonprofit is trying to prove that a...