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* The US Army wants laser weapons transferable between ordinary military vehicles * LOCUST X3 could destroy drones for $5 to $10 per engagement * Detachable laser mounts could prevent vehicle repairs from disabling weapons The US Army wants modular lasers that mount on ordinary trucks, and AeroVironment won the initial manufacturing award
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Featured Podcasts Great Chat: AI's Spooky Season A podcast mostly about tech. Brought to you weekly by Angela Du, Sally Shin, Mac Bohannon, Helen Min, and Ashley Mayer. Subscribe to Great Chat. Sundar Pichai on Gemini 4 and the AI compute crunch Candid conversations with the leaders shaping
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Featured Podcasts Great Chat: AI's Spooky Season A podcast mostly about tech. Brought to you weekly by Angela Du, Sally Shin, Mac Bohannon, Helen Min, and Ashley Mayer. Subscribe to Great Chat. Sundar Pichai on Gemini 4 and the AI compute crunch Candid conversations with the leaders shaping
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For years, Elon Musk has been making big promises to Tesla owners about unsupervised autonomous driving and the ability to add their own vehicles to the company’s robotaxi fleet. During today’s third-quarter earnings call, the company finally gave itself a deadline. According to Tesla VP for Autonomous Driving
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Food delivery robots might not just be carrying burritos. They could be taking a measurement of your face. Two proposed class action lawsuits in Chicago accuse Coco Robotics and Serve Robotics of collecting biometric information without consent and using it to train their artificial intelligence systems. The Cook County residents
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Building a multi-agent system is now pretty straightforward. Taking it to production is where the real challenges begin. Thanks to open source frameworks and cloud services, you can set up an agent in a matter of days. A few tool calls, a few lines of prompt, and you have something
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When enterprise data sits behind a corporate firewall or in a private on-premises data center, there’s no direct network path from AWS, even though the AI agents and dashboards in Amazon Quick can query virtually any data source. Administrators must make sure their sensitive enterprise data isn’t exposed
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Ranking member Rep. Jim Himes, D-Mass., left, and chairman Rep. Rick Crawford, R-Ark., conduct the House Select Intelligence Committee hearing on "25 Years After 9/11: Confronting the Next Generation of Threats" on Tuesday, July 21, 2026. Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images ByEdward Graham, Managing
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* Lenovo's Snapdragon-based IdeaPad Vibe 14Q8X12 is on sale a month before its promised date * US pricing starts at $799.99 for 8GB and 256GB, $100 above both Lenovo's IFA promise and the base MacBook Neo * It beats the Neo on ports, keyboard backlighting, colors, and RAM
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Meta is making a big push into AI, and it’s creating a new kind of stock that could help pay for it. On Wednesday, as the company reported its third-quarter earnings, Semafor reported the company might issue non-voting stock, meaning shares that don’t give their owners a vote
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Private equity giant Blackstone is putting itself at the center of the AI boom, firm veteran Jas Khaira discussed last week on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt. It is writing checks via various strategies, ranging from offering massive loans to data centers to investing in frontier AI models and applications. Earlier
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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has agreed to keep living in Silicon Valley for eight years, potentially exposing himself to billions of dollars in one-time taxes if California voters approve a contentious ballot measure next month, according to a company regulatory filing released Wednesday. During a dinner with Meta board members
