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When Igor Dobrianskyi looks at a car dealership lot, he sees a wasted opportunity. “Millions and millions of used cars are sitting on parking lots, depreciating and losing value,” Dobrianskyi said in a recent interview, adding that there are 76,000 dealerships in the United States. “At the same time,
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Google may have a monopoly in search, but neither lawsuit made a compelling case the company was leveraging it. Hapabapa/Getty Images A federal judge has dismissed lawsuits from publisher Penske Media Corporation (PMC) and ed tech company Chegg that alleged Google's AI Overviews illegally pulled readers away
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The heads of two AI coding startups are fighting in public over an adviser who switched sides, as Carmen Arroyo reported for Bloomberg. Factory chief executive Matan Grinberg said on X on Wednesday that he was cutting ties with Chris Degnan, an adviser of about a year. Degnan was later
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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. Facepalm: With AI demand pushing memory prices to record highs, consumers have been hoping that a swift end to the AI boom could make RAM affordable again. Memory manufacturer Micron, however, believes that even
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Google’s prototype of its orbital compute satellite took off today onboard a SpaceX rocket launched from California — the first time the tech giant has sent one of its advanced chips into space. Built by Planet Labs, the satellite will prove that a Google Tensor Processing Unit, its competitor to
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OpenAI is again experimenting with how its conversational AI assistant, ChatGPT, can help users as they shop online. On Thursday, the company announced the global launch of two new shopping features, including a way to virtually try on clothing and accessories and a new favoriting function that can help users
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Nuthawut Somsuk/Getty Images ByChristian Robles, Technology Reporter, Nextgov/FCW October 1, 2026 03:03 PM ET Concerns about the design system have heightened after a DOGE alum and AI engineer began deleting comments and adding AI tools to a GitHub repository. * Websites * GSA * Accessibility A group of technologists is
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Andrew Harnik/Getty Images ByDavid DiMolfetta, Cybersecurity Reporter, Nextgov/FCW October 1, 2026 03:12 PM ET The national cyber director said developers are strengthening safeguards after a series of unauthorized AI intrusions, while defending the administration’s push for rapid deployment. * White House * Industry * Cyber Threats National Cyber Director
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A man walks into a party and spends the evening networking with new people without getting his phone out even once. As he leaves at the end of the night, he tells his smart glasses to add the people he just met that evening on LinkedIn with a note about
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Call it what you want: RAMageddon, chipflation, the AI tax. Amid a global memory shortage that’s compelling companies to hike prices on phones, PCs, laptops and gaming consoles, our devices keep getting more expensive. On Thursday, Samsung quietly raised prices on the Galaxy S26, S26 Plus and S26 Ultra
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After months of delays, Google is gearing up to get back in the AI game. The company on Wednesday announced its newest frontier model, called Gemini 4 Argon. But you won’t be able to use it yet. Here’s why. A lot has changed in the 10 months since
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The debate over whether companies can set prices based on information they have about individual customers continues to grow. So-called surveillance pricing is in the news again on reports that Walmart patented technology for dynamic AI pricing about six months after filing for patents related to digital shelf labels. Walmart,
