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Emma Roth is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. ABC is firing back at the Federal Communications Commission after the agency opened an investigation into The View’s airtime of political
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While the auto industry wrings its hands over the electric vehicle market, sweating details like aerodynamic efficiency and range anxiety, a new EV startup based in Lisbon, Portugal, is zagging in a different direction. Amble’s new electric buggy won’t impress anyone with its 0–60 time or its
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The Roomba Electro Plus disinfects your floors without detergents. iRobot has announced a new floor cleaner that looks a lot like one of the very traditional vacuum cleaners its robots were supposed to replace. The Roomba Electro Plus is the company's first non-robotic floor cleaner, so rather than
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A lidar maker the Pentagon brands a Chinese military company quietly wires up America’s robotaxis, trucks, and even an airport. Nvidia is one of its partners. Hesai makes many of the sensors self-driving machines use to see. The Shanghai firm also sits on a US Department of Defense blacklist
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Europe’s banking regulator has a new fear: an AI model clever enough to break into the financial system. It wants every big bank to have a plan by October. The European Central Bank has a warning for the euro area’s largest banks. Frontier AI now poses a serious
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Most AI legal startups sell software to law firms. Norm Ai built its own firm instead, and investors just valued the bet at $1.2 billion. Norm Ai has raised $120 million in a Series C round that values the New York startup at $1.2 billion, Bloomberg first reported.
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Geothermal used to mean shallow wells and modest heat. Quaise wants to drill kilometres down and blast the rock with microwaves, and it just raised $134 million to try. Quaise Energy has raised $134 million to drill for superhot rock deep underground, Bloomberg reports. Prelude Ventures led the first close
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Artificial intelligence has dramatically accelerated software development, with coding agents now capable of producing large volumes of production-ready code in minutes. Yet while writing software has become faster, ensuring that software behaves correctly in production remains one of engineering’s biggest challenges. For decades, observability platforms have helped teams monitor
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A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on the morning of 7 July, carrying a satellite roughly the size of a loaf of bread that will spend the next year probing how European spacecraft can be attacked. The payload, called CyberCUBE, is the first
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SpaceX just joined the Nasdaq 100. On the same day, one Wall Street analyst put a $10.5 trillion price tag on it. A famed investor put the odds of a crash at 90 per cent. SpaceX has plenty of admirers on Wall Street. None goes further than Raymond James
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In today's world, artificial intelligence chatbots such as ChatGPT and Claude can perform many functions, such as composing work emails and planning travel itineraries. These chatbots are systems built around large vision-language models (VLMs): AI trained on a massive dataset that includes books, websites, code, and images. The
