Meta to reportedly lay off 10% of Reality Labs staff
Meta is laying off 10% of staff in its Reality Labs division, which is core to developing the company’s VR and metaverse products, The New ...
SkyFi raises $12.7M to turn satellite images into insights
There are thousands of satellites orbiting the Earth, and an increasing number of them are able to capture all types of images in near real...
New York governor clears path for robotaxis everywhere, with one notable exception
New York Governor Kathy Hochul plans to introduce legislation that would effectively legalize robotaxis in the state — except for its most ...
Microsoft announces glut of new data centers but says it won’t let your electricity bill go up
Although public backlash against data centers has been intense over the past 12 months, all of the tech industry’s biggest companies have p...
A consumer watchdog issued a warning about Google’s AI agent shopping protocol — Google says she’s wrong
Shortly after Google announced its new Universal Commerce Protocol for AI-powered shopping agents, a consumer economics watchdog sounded th...
Ammobia says it has reinvented a century-old technology
Ammonia might be the world’s most underappreciated chemical. Without it, crops would go unfertilized and billions of people would starve. ...
Ring founder details the camera company’s ‘intelligent assistant’ era
What does it take to bring a burned-out founder back to the company he sold to Amazon? For Jamie Siminoff of the video doorbell maker Ring,...
Man to plead guilty to hacking US Supreme Court filing system
A resident of Springfield, Tennessee, is expected to plead guilty to hacking the U.S. Supreme Court’s electronic document filing system doz...
Doctors think AI has a place in healthcare — but maybe not as a chatbot
Dr. Sina Bari, a practicing surgeon and AI healthcare leader at data company iMerit, has seen firsthand how ChatGPT can lead patients astra...
Neo humanoid maker 1X releases world model to help bots learn what they see
The robotics company behind the Neo humanoid robot, 1X, has unveiled a new AI model that it says understands the dynamics of the real world...