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Aerospace, energy, healthcare, mobility, and media. Thirty years ago, we’d be talking about General Electric. Today, we’re talking about Elon Musk. He’s the CEO of Tesla, xAI, and SpaceX, which also owns the telecoms company Starlink. He owns the social media platform X. He’s developing neural impla...

January was such a long month that it has already brought us five fresh European unicorns: from Belgium to Ukraine, several tech startups raised funding at valuations above the $1 billion threshold....

The Southeast Asian countries banned Grok after it was used to create a flood of nonconsensual, sexualized imagery on X (now a subsidiary of xAI), including images of real women and minors. In late December and January, Grok was used to create at least 1.8 million sexualized images of women, accordi...

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said Saturday that a recent report of friction between his company and OpenAI was “nonsense.”...

The viral personal AI assistant formerly known as Clawdbot has a new name — again. After a legal challenge from Claude’s maker, Anthropic, it had briefly rebranded as Moltbot, but has now settled on OpenClaw as its new name....

A few years ago, Selina Tobaccowala’s daughter started leaving post-it notes around the house, telling everyone to “turn off the lights” and such....

Waymo has nearly finalized a new $16 billion funding round that will value the robotaxi company at $110 billion, according to the Financial Times....

From the street, the only indication I’ve found Physical Intelligence’s headquarters in San Francisco is a pi symbol that’s a slightly different color than the rest of the door. When I walk in, I’m immediately confronted with activity. There’s no reception desk, no gleaming logo in fluorescent light...

A lip-syncing robot, Leonardo’s DNA, and new evidence that humans, not glaciers, moved stones to Stonehenge...

It took Android devicemakers a very long time to commit to long-term update support. Samsung and Google have only recently decided to offer seven years of updates for their flagship Android devices, but a decade ago, you were lucky to get more than one or two updates on even the most expensive Andro...

When a new presidential administration comes in, it is responsible for filling around 4,000 jobs sprinkled across the federal government’s vast bureaucracy. These political appointees help carry out the president’s agenda, and, at least in theory, make government agencies responsive to elected offic...

Exterminators keep getting calls for a reason. Wood-devouring insects, such as beetles, termites, and carpenter ants, are constantly chewing through walls or infecting trees and breaking them down. The fight against these insects usually involved noxious insecticides; but now, at least some of them ...

A lip-syncing robot, Leonardo’s DNA, and new evidence that humans, not glaciers, moved stones to Stonehenge...

About a decade ago, many media outlets—including WIRED—zeroed in on a weird trend at the intersection of mental health, drug science, and Silicon Valley biohacking: microdosing, or the practice of taking a small amount of a psychedelic drug seeking not full-blown hallucinatory revels but gentler, mo...

Technology companies spent part of the 2010s trying to convince us that we would want an 8K display one day....

Minnesota resident Nicole Cleland had her Global Entry and TSA Precheck privileges revoked three days after an incident in which she observed activity by immigration agents, the woman said in a court declaration. An agent told Cleland that he used facial recognition technology to identify her, she w...

The Trump administration is delaying the release of TrumpRx, an online platform that lets people buy prescription drugs directly from pharmaceutical companies at a discount, according to Politico. While the reason for the delay is unclear, it comes as Democratic senators raise questions about how th...

On Friday, a Reddit-style social network called Moltbook reportedly crossed 32,000 registered AI agent users, creating what may be the largest-scale experiment in machine-to-machine social interaction yet devised. It arrives complete with security nightmares and a huge dose of surreal weirdness....

Apple addressed concerns over potential memory shortages during its earnings call on the 29th, as Samsung and SK hynix are reported to be preparing price hikes for memory used in iPhones. According to ZDNet, Apple CEO Tim Cook said that memory costs had only a limited impact on gross margins in fisc...

As market buzz suggests DeepSeek plans to unveil its next-generation AI model over the Lunar New Year holiday, China has reportedly given the leading startup conditional approval to acquire NVIDIA’s H200 AI chips, though the regulatory terms are still being finalized, Reuters reports....

China is rumored to roll out new AI models during the Lunar New Year holiday in February. According to ijiwei, sources say that ByteDance and Alibaba are preparing to launch a new generation of flagship AI models around the period....

As Meta lifts its 2026 capital spending to US$115–135 billion—nearly double its 2025 outlay—CNBC reports that the company’s investment push remains in full swing. Commercial Times notes that Meta’s sustained capex momentum is directly driving stronger demand for AI servers and ASICs (application-spe...

Memory tightness persists. According to Nikkei Asia, sources say the three major memory chipmakers—Micron, SK hynix, and Samsung Electronics—have stepped up scrutiny of customer orders to prevent intentional inventory hoarding....

While Samsung and SK hynix’s freshly announced record 4Q25 results, NAND giant SanDisk emerges as another major beneficiary amid the AI boom. According to Barron’s, for the December quarter, SanDisk delivered a clear earnings beat, posting adjusted EPS of US$6.20, far above Wall Street’s US$3.62 con...

On January 21, JCET announced a major breakthrough in its co-packaged optics (Co-Packaged Optics, CPO) technology development....

Memory prices are soaring, and smartphone makers are starting to feel the pinch. After Xiaomi reportedly cut its 2026 shipment forecast, IT Home, citing a company announcement, reports that another Chinese brand, Transsion, expects its 2025 net profit to tumble over 50% YoY amid rising memory costs....

Samsung appears to be gaining momentum in advanced processes, with signs of a potential rebound in its foundry business. According to ZDNet, Samsung Electronics said progress on its 2nm node, along with related customer order intake, is proceeding smoothly. The report notes that the company says tha...

As NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang arrived in Taipei today and reportedly reaffirmed cooperation with Intel on x86 CPU development, market attention has refocused on how Team Green will navigate the rising wave of dual-foundry strategies....

AI is almost certain to eliminate many entry-level jobs in chip design by automating repetitive and data-intensive tasks, but there is a corresponding expectation that today’s engineering students will be trained using these tools so they can enter the workforce higher up the ladder....

All electronics generate heat, and that heat must be removed to ensure those electronics don’t overheat. Moving air has been the predominant approach for decades, with liquid cooling limited to particularly intense computing workloads, largely in the supercomputing domain....

Wafer probe, one of the key processes for ensuring reliability in semiconductor manufacturing, is becoming increasingly unreliable in multi-die assemblies and at leading-edge nodes....

Multiple disciplines are associated with verification, each important and each becoming increasingly complex. RISC-V adds another one — architectural conformance — which until recently has been tackled behind closed doors by just a few companies....

Multi-die assemblies are forcing engineering teams to map out how the various components will function and interact much earlier in the design process, and to develop a detailed plan for how they will be verified and tested....

Experts At The Table: AI/ML is driving a steep ramp in neural processing unit (NPU) design activity for everything from data centers to edge devices such as PCs and smartphones....

Artificial-intelligence workloads are pushing semiconductor design to a point where traditional scaling strategies are running out of room. Performance improvements that once came from shrinking transistors now depend increasingly on how devices are stacked, interconnected, and isolated....

For decades, electronics offered two levels of routing structure to manage signals that originate or terminate in an integrated circuit. Recently, that number has risen to five, and while it adds far more flexibility for structuring electronic equipment, it also brings greater complexity and ratchet...