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Nvidia is planning to invest up to $1 billion in Poolside as part of the artificial intelligence startup’s ongoing funding round, Bloomberg reported Thursday. Poolside previously developed AI-powered coding assistants, but is pivoting to training foundation models. The startup has been seeking ...
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An abandoned New York City subway station will briefly return to public life when mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is sworn in there on January 1. Read more ›
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With the year coming to a close, now’s a good time to set yourself up for a cleaner, more organized start in 2026. The Dreame X40 Ultra — one of our favorite robot vacuum deals from Black Friday — can handle most of the heavy lifting for you, and it’s once again on sale. You […] Read more ›
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The festive lights, time off and cute scarfs can only conceal the truth for so long: Winter can be pretty bleak. I don't mean to be a downer, but it's cold all of the time, dark most of the time and this lasts far beyond the most wonderful time of the year. Here at Engadget, we've tried so many tools and products to make winter more bearable from therapy lamps... Read more ›
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2025 was dominated by the second iteration of the Trump administration, the release of the Epstein files, and government shakeups that ranged from the longest federal shutdown in history to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene announcing her resignation. It was also a year of historic political moments — from a ceasefire in Gaza to Gen Z-led […] Read more ›
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Nvidia has stopped testing an Intel process to manufacture its chips, Reuters reported, driving Intel’s shares down. Nvidia was recently testing an Intel production process known as 18A but decided to stop moving forward with the efforts, Reuters reported, citing two people familiar with the ... Read more ›
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Meta Platform’s announcement on Monday that it has acquired Chinese agent startup Manus represents a big win for Manus’ backers, including Benchmark, ZhenFund and HongShan, who last invested in Manus in an April funding round that valued it at $500 million. Meta is paying more than $2 billion, my colleague Juro Osawa has reported (as have other outlets).That’s a huge gain on an eight month old investment. The deal also... Read more ›
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Love it or hate it, artificial intelligence dominated another year in tech. As AI firms like OpenAI and Anthropic raced to release smarter models, the largest tech firms mapped out massive data centers that would guzzle up more energy than tens of millions of American households to power them. “Agent” became the industry’s favorite buzzword for tools promising to eliminate human work. The popularity of coding assistant Cursor made its... Read more ›
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Waymo on Tuesday provided further details about its decision on Saturday to temporarily pause its robotaxi service in San Francisco amid a citywide power outage that caused its driverless cars to stall traffic. The company said it made the decision so its vehicles wouldn’t obstruct first ... Read more ›
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SoftBank said Monday it would buy data center investment firm DigitalBridge for $4 billion, or $16 per share, a 15% premium to Friday’s closing price, its latest step to increase investment in infrastructure for data centers. DigitalBridge owns several data center subsidiaries that are involved ... Read more ›
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In my hometown of Memphis, Tenn., Elon Musk’s xAI is a big topic of conversation for the second holiday season in a row thanks to the two gigantic data centers the company has opened here. The multibillion-dollar facilities have sparked a lot of local opposition because they’re being powered by gas generators that emit air pollution. In response, xAI has ramped up efforts to convince Memphians it’s a good neighbor.... Read more ›
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“Suspense is an artform,” said Bruce Holsinger, the author of “Culpability,” a tense family drama about the ramifications of a horrific car accident. Oh, yes, I should add: The mini-van was driving itself. “I think a lot about suspense—at the level of the chapter, the sentence, the sequence of chapters,” said Holsinger, an author of four previous novels. “I like a sense of momentum, so that the characters are kind... Read more ›
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Meta Platform is acquiring Manus, an artificial intelligence agent that went viral earlier this year and got financial backing from Benchmark, in the U.S. tech giant’s latest move to expand its AI offerings. The deal will give Manus, operated by a Singapore-based startup called Butterfly Effect, ... Read more ›
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As AI has completely consumed the tech industry, Apple has held back from the colossal investments in the technology its peers have been making. Wall Street, pundits and media outlets have criticized and chronicled Apple’s stumbles and seeming lack of urgency in the AI arms race. That includes us. But I would like to propose another possibility: that 2026 could vindicate Apple’s decision to stay out of the fray. Read more ›
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Nvidia stunned Silicon Valley on Wednesday by agreeing to pay about $20 billion to license technology from Groq, one of the best-funded startups trying to challenge Nvidia’s dominance in chips for powering AI applications, known as inference computing, according to a person involved in the deal. Nvidia is also hiring Groq’s founders and other leaders, according to the startup, which didn’t disclose the financial details. It isn’t clear whether the... Read more ›
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