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Nscale, a cloud computing firm focused on artificial intelligence, is in talks with potential investors to raise as much as $3.5 billion in financing ahead of a planned initial public offering, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

The statue’s unique style hints at a vanished empire... View Source

It's not quite the "push button; get song" of Suno, but Roland's new Melody Flip tool marks the company's foray into generative AI music. Available as a plug-in for your digital audio workstation (DAW), Melody Flip offers around 250 "Palettes," which are essentially themed collections of musical ideas sorted by genre. You can start from scratch and ask it to generate any combination of melody, cho... View Source

An artificial intelligence startup is attempting to wrest away a vast trove of Spirit Aviation Holdings Inc.’s business records from Google LLC... View Source

Two technicians at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans stand around one of the four RS-25 engines on the core stage of the agency’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket on Sept. 8, 2023. The RS-25 engine test looks like a bell-shaped nozzle attached to a network of pipes. The engine is being held by the horizontal engine installer so it looks like it’s lying on its side. The RS-25 engine i... View Source

OpenAI announced its next big model, GPT-6 Astra, and also, by the way, that "the AGI era" is here now. Today on The Vergecast, we've got an all-star panel to break down the news of the week. First, senior AI reporter Hayden Field joins us to talk about our supposed AGI era and Nvidia's acquisition of Hugging Face. Then, our friend Joanna Stern pops in to talk about new Apple CEO John Ternus, old... View Source

Anthropic PBC is set to finalize an expansion of its revolving credit facility to $15 billion, according to people familiar with the matter, clearing a hurdle before the artificial intelligence firm’s public filing for its highly anticipated IPO. Morgan Stanley is leading the process, the people said. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and JPMorgan Chase & Co. also have prominent roles on the facility,... View Source

Works great on a sunny day. | Image: Bluetti Bluetti doesn't want you to call the Pioneer 5000 a solar generator (SoGen), even though that's what it is. What makes it slightly different from other large power stations that can be charged off solar - aka, a SoGen - is the dolly cart and up to 18KW of instant surge power available to start heavy equipment like air compressors, water pumps, and indus... View Source

OpenAI is facing 30 new lawsuits from victims of the devastating school shooting in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, who accuse the company of providing “substantial assistance and encouragement” to the shooter and failing to alert police about her alarming ChatGPT interactions during the run-up to the mass killing. The AI company’s legal peril is growing: it’s now fighting more than 50 lawsuits a... View Source

Are Chinese rivals a serious threat to OpenAI and Anthropic? Former Google China chief Kai-Fu Lee explains the business model behind the country's cheaper rivals. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Scientists are closer than ever before to understanding how stars forge the elements that comprise our planet, bodies and pretty much everything else around us — and they're gaining a clearer picture of where star explosions fit into the story. New research reported in two different papers looks at how stars forge elements as they explode and how these supernova explosions spread those elements —... View Source

Microsoft's Copilot rarely reproduces even full sentences from news articles and books, let alone substantive chunks that could substitute for the original, the company says in new legal filings as it fights copyright claims from publishers including The New York Times and book authors. As part of the lawsuit's discovery, Microsoft provided 8.2 million Copilot chat logs to an expert hired by news... View Source

The normally genteel world of international space policy turned ugly this week as several prominent US space companies—including SpaceX, Blue Origin, Stoke Space, K2, and Starcloud—pulled out of a high-profile French space summit organized by the country's president, Emmanuel Macron. Politico first reported the diplomatic turmoil, saying that the White House "pressured" US space companies to skip... View Source

Just a few decades ago, programs like Star Wars, the Reagan-era missile defense system, seemed like a pipedream; today, lasers can shoot down missiles and much more. Col. Wayne Sanders (Ret.) of Bloomberg Intelligence joins Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway on the Odd Lots podcast to discuss today's most sophisticated weapons system and how laser weapons became a reality. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

What is going on with Tesla Cybercab and Robotaxi? No clearly presented answers from Tesla. Answers are scattered. But looking at what is happening. We can put all the reports into context. QUESTIONS State of Rollout How Much Ramp by Dec 2026? What Cities? How Many Cybercab? FSD ? Tesla Cars? When Will Robotaxi Revenue ... Read more... View Source

The tool is worth it for the hours and effort it’s saved me compared to using a handsaw... View Source

Elon Musk's gilded robot car barely made it on public roads before federal regulators launched an investigation into the vehicle's lack of traditional features - many of which are required by law. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said it was opening an audit query (AQ) into the Tesla Cybercab "to examine the process and technical data on which Tesla relied when certifying the Cyb... View Source

On Thursday, three major chatbots — ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok — all went down without warning. The simultaneous outage of three flagship from AI systems from three different providers was bizarre. But, in an exceedingly peculiar information gap, we still don’t know why models from Anthropic, OpenAI, and SpaceXAI respectively suffered outages at the same time, Wired reports. Whatever linked the dis... View Source

APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 September 4 – Na… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss   APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. Nā ʻUhane Māhoe Huki Pū i ke Ola Explanation: Nā ʻUhane Māhoe... View Source

Our favorite folders, flippers, and automatics from Benchmade, CRKT, Case, and more... View Source

Exhibition features artworks in townhouse where William and Caroline Herschel worked and lived in late-18th centuryFrom the garden of their Georgian townhouse in Bath in the late 18th century, a brother and sister made a series of extraordinary astronomical discoveries.A new art show in the house where the siblings – William and Caroline Herschel – worked and lived highlights their pioneering spir... View Source

Apple's September 9th launch event could be one of its biggest in years. It will be Apple's first event since John Ternus took over as CEO on September 1st, stepping in for Tim Cook, and will likely feature the first models in Apple's iPhone 18 lineup. That could include the long-rumored foldable "iPhone Ultra," coming just a couple months after Samsung debuted its own passport-style foldable, the... View Source

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent held out the prospect that stablecoin companies could emerge as trillion-dollar buyers of US government debt... View Source

Venus is seen as it disappears behind the Moon at the start of the occultation on June 17, 2026, from the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters building in WashingtonNASA/Joel Kowsky On Wednesday, June 17, skywatchers across the United States—and parts of Canada—enjoyed a rare event: a daytime lunar occultation of Venus. A lunar occultation occurs when the Moon moves directly in front of another celes... View Source

This nebula is named LHA 120-N44, or N44 for short, and it’s located in the constellation Dorado. (Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Gouliermis)About 160,000 light-years away lies one of our Milky Way's little galactic neighbors: The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). And thanks to a new observing program, the Hubble Space Telescope has provided us with an intricate image of a nebula in the LMC... View Source

Gaming laptop deals aren’t what they used to be (stares daggers at RAMageddon), which is why I consider Woot’s deal on a refurbished Alienware 16 Aurora gaming laptop with Nvidia’s RTX 5050 a pretty good deal at $927 for new Woot customers (with code WOOTALIEN used at checkout). It costs $1,029 for returning Woot shoppers, which is a decent discount off the new $1,099.99 price at Alienware’s site... View Source

A new paper published in the Journal of the American Medical Association this month concluded, after surveying hundreds of studies on AI in medicine, that not only is AI already an indispensable tool that supports doctors, but that it’s in many ways surpassing them, and will soon be able to care patients on its own better than a human physician could. “In cognitive medical functions, AI-alone medi... View Source

A hidden pattern of clustered connections did all the remembering... View Source

On Sept. 4, 1962, NASA's Mariner 2 spacecraft performed the first-ever rocket maneuver in deep space as it did a quick mid-course correction on its way to Venus. It had launched just eight days earlier and needed to burn its engines to ensure that its trajectory would take it to Venus. The midcourse maneuver was necessary because the Atlas-Agena rocket that launched Mariner 2 didn't launch with en... View Source

Nintendo just announced two Direct events for next week, scheduled back to back. First up is the Legend of Zelda 40th Anniversary Direct on September 8th at 10AM ET / 7AM PT. It's set to last around 30 minutes, streaming live on Nintendo's YouTube channel or the Nintendo Today app. Images recently leaked showing a special-edition 40th anniversary Zelda Switch 2 console and controller, plus there's... View Source

AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc. boss Adam Aron criticized Robinhood Markets Inc. after the platform launched a tokenized version of the theater chain’s shares, escalating a debate over synthetic equities as Wall Street pushes toward always-on markets... View Source

A new study says that 620 million kids will experience another month of heat stress once Earth reaches the 1.5 degrees Celsius warming mark... View Source

Exodus' journey so far has been quite transparent, with publisher Wizards of the Coast and developer Archetype Entertainment giving us a surprising number of updates and looks at the sci-fi action RPG over the years. Now, at Gamescom 2026, they've finally given us the release date and a striking hands-on demo.I was able to play a 50-minute demo that takes protagonist Jun Aslan (who you can customi... View Source

A swarm of rogue AI agents from OpenAI reportedly commandeered a German website and transformed it into a messaging board for other agents, with officials staying quiet about the incident for weeks as the company prepared to launch its most advanced model yet, Astra. The finding adds to intensifying concern surrounding oversight at frontier AI labs after multiple breaches were discovered this summ... View Source

Will AI supercharge the economy? Will the data centers powering it bring prosperity and provide paying jobs to the communities they’re built in? Probably not. New research shows that rapid rise of AI has instead coincided with “unusually high levels” of unemployment among college graduates in Texas, the Financial Times reports. Texas, crucially, is the state with the most data center under constru... View Source

From the foldable iPhone to a touch-screen MacBook, here’s what to expect on Sept. 9 and beyond... View Source

The latest model builds upon its predecessor with more suction, an improved mop roller, and enhanced smart features... View Source

New research suggests that dust from meteorites contains a "fossil record" dating back to the formation of the sun. The research reveals that magnetism played a far greater role in the birth of the solar system than had previously been suspected.Around 4.6 billion years ago, the solar system was a cloud of gas and dust, known as a solar nebula. Over the next few million years, this cloud began to... View Source

Microsoft is partnering with TCL to bring its Xbox app to supported TCL smart TVs. The Xbox app lets you connect to Xbox Cloud Gaming and stream Game Pass titles or select games you own as part of a subscription. The Xbox app will arrive on TCL TVs at some point "in the coming months," which is just in time for Microsoft's new pay-as-you-go option for Xbox Cloud Gaming in November. This will let a... View Source

Executives at Abu Dhabi-based artificial intelligence firm G42 have held exploratory talks over potentially selling a majority stake to American companies, people familiar with the matter said, as it races to guarantee access to high-tech chips beyond next year... View Source

Skulls had been turned into cups, some bones had been boiled, but the reason these stone age people were eating other humans remains unknown... View Source

The Roomba Duo is two robot floor cleaners in one. The original robot vacuum company showed off a concept robot at the IFA tech show in Berlin today. The Roomba Duo combines a heavy-duty floor-washing machine with a smaller, slimmer Roomba. The two floor cleaners can move around your home together, with the main unit mopping and sweeping larger floor areas and the smaller unit lowering mechanicall... View Source

Uber drivers and their passengers across Nigeria and Uganda were shocked on Wednesday when the platform abruptly ceased operations in the middle of the day — and, in some cases, even mid-trip. According to reporting by the Register, the “Uber rapture,” as it’s come to be known, came with little warning — an email notice sent on the very same day. “We are writing to share some difficult news,” Uber... View Source

The Persian Gulf’s richest states are pushing forward with plans for a massive build-out of artificial intelligence infrastructure, even though data centers have become repeated targets in the US war with Iran... View Source

The search wasn’t supposed to turn up human remains... View Source

Instagram's visible AI labels are supposed to help people quickly spot synthetically generated content at a glance. Over the last few weeks, however, users have been reporting that the system has gone haywire. They say Meta has been automatically applying an "AI Content" label to images that they didn't create or edit using generative AI tools. Meanwhile, actual AI imagery is slipping through the... View Source

The mission to Phobos, Japan’s first Mars probe launch in 28 years, may reveal new information about our closest planetary neighbor... View Source

FTC says the e-commerce company overcharged advertisers by $20 billion... View Source

Just hours after OpenAI launched GPT-6 Astra, CEO Sam Altman was already apologizing for what he describes as a "messy rollout" after paying users expecting access to the new frontier model were left waiting. The company hailed the model as a "generational leap in capability" on Thursday and described it as the start of "the AGI era," a fuzzy and poorly defined term tech executives nevertheless in... View Source

Moonshot AI is considering raising up to $5 billion in its planned Hong Kong initial public offering as soon as this year, people familiar with the matter said, as the Chinese artificial intelligence champion taps into strong investor demand... View Source

There is a torrent of unappetizing slop coming from restaurants, cafes, and brands that are increasingly turning to AI to generate images promoting their food. The resulting horror show includes donut shrimp, Reubens from the deep, wormlike noodles, and noodle-like pastries and stringy chicken. There's also construction material masquerading as ice cream, ice cream masquerading as brains, and othe... View Source

The success of a program linking zoos across the US has created social media stars and generated a wave of interest in how to protect the endangered great apes in the wild... View Source

DeepSeek plans to power a massive data center it’s building in Inner Mongolia with at least 160,000 of Huawei Technologies Co.’s top accelerators. Neil Campling reports on Bloomberg Television. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Microsoft is giving its developer-optimized Windows experience a name: Project Zenith. While the software maker originally announced a similar developer-optimized Windows effort at Build earlier this year, Project Zenith is designed for new developer-focused devices with 64GB or more of unified memory. "Project Zenith devices come with a preconfigured Windows setup for development and a set of too... View Source

With the risk of infection rising, parents and young adults are facing agonizing choices about being out in public as school starts back up... View Source

Autonomous rides with hands still hovering over the steering wheel... View Source

Astronomers have witnessed a small, icy body that orbits the sun out beyond Jupiter transforming into a comet, providing a missing link between comets and inert bodies called centaurs.The object in question is called 450P/LONEOS and is named after the Lowell Observatory survey that found it back in 2004. It is a centaur, which is a breed of inactive body that orbits the sun between Jupiter and Nep... View Source

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Ugreen’s HomeAgent H100 Pro hub combines local storage, on-device AI, and a new voice assistant, Uliya, to run your smart home. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge Ugreen, known for its phone power banks, chargers, and NAS storage solutions, is moving into the smart home - in a big way. This week at the IFA tech show, the company launched its HomeAgent smart home platform that combines... View Source

The discovery adds to the planet’s history of strange atmospheric phenomena that scientists don’t full understand... View Source

DeepSeek plans to deploy at least 160,000 of Huawei Technologies Co.’s top accelerators at a massive data center it’s building in Inner Mongolia, which could create one of the largest known clusters of Huawei AI chips and advance China’s efforts to replace Nvidia Corp... View Source

Adobe Inc. named Anil Chakravarthy, the leader of its marketing and analytics software business, as its next chief executive officer, thrusting the company veteran into a challenging competition with artificial intelligence upstarts... View Source

Video game developer Capcom Co. and chip gear maker Kokusai Electric Corp are set to join Japan’s Nikkei 225 Stock Average from Oct. 1, according to index provider Nikkei Inc... View Source

Following the lead of companies like Xteink, Lexar is the latest to sacrifice a USB-C port in the pursuit of slimming down its hardware. When the Lexar Muse Ultra-Slim Portable SSD launches later this year in 512GB and 1TB capacities it will be one of the slimmest you can buy. At its thickest point in the middle it measures just 3.8mm, but that tapers to only 1mm at the edges thanks to high-densit... View Source

Thailand’s embrace of data centers hit a speed bump after the government suspended construction of 49 server farms as public concerns about the power-hungry facilities’ impact on communities intensify... View Source

After showing off several smart home firsts at CES, Aqara has returned to IFA with a major lineup of smart lighting compatible with both Zigbee and Thread. One of these new devices is the Floor Lamp T1, which trades the look of a typical lamp for an LED-equipped pole attached to a base. The lamp stands 4.6 feet tall, offering RGBIC lighting and 18 individually addressable zones. Similar to the flo... View Source

The Los Angeles Unified School District is barring students from using generative AI tools on district devices as part of a broader push to reduce screen time in the classroom... View Source

RugOne's Xsnap 7 Pro comes with both an IP68 and IP69K rating, meaning the rugged phone can survive intense water blasts and complete submersion for up to 30 minutes. But what really sets the Xsnap 7 Pro apart from everything else on the market is that one of its three rear cameras can be removed and used as a standalone action cam. It made its debut at MWC 2026 earlier this year but is launching... View Source

Oura's Chief Medical Officer Dr Ricky Bloomfield says their ring will help detect diseases, as the company files for an initial public offering, showing soaring revenue as well as increasing losses. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

South Korea’s lead over China in memory chip production is expected to widen further thanks to an aggressive expansion of domestic facilities by Samsung Electronics Co. and SK Hynix Inc., according to the Bank of Korea... View Source

Anthropic PBC is set to finalize an expansion of its revolving credit facility to $15 billion, according to people familiar with the matter, ahead of the firm's public filing for its initial public offering. The maker of the Claude chatbot is seeking to raise as much as SpaceX or more in the IPO, people familiar with the preparations said. Morgan Stanley is leading the process, the people said. Bl... View Source

These reliable models give you a comfortable, safe commute and offer good range, top speeds, and anti-theft features... View Source

These off-center patio umbrellas offer excellent coverage and are easy to adjust. Here’s what you should know before buying... View Source

From wood pellets to charcoal, these cookers use a little heat and a lot of time to make incredible barbecue... View Source

What happened on Aloha Airlines Flight 243 was nothing short of miraculous... View Source

This “transducer” concept could explain consciousness, dreams, genius, and around 90 mysterious phenomena... View Source

Lego debuted its take on the classic Air Force 1s... View Source

This ice maker looks great on my countertop, and is a great portable option for ice on the go... View Source

It’s surprisingly maneuverable and doesn’t leave the carpet soaking wet... View Source

IBM hopes this modular system will contain its fault-tolerant quantum computer—Quantum Starling—in 2029. ... View Source

Fracking is vital for enhanced geothermal energy, so scientists are exploring how to predict—and mitigate—the tremors it causes... View Source

A new study suggests the real reason Naegleria fowleri is crawling up your nasal cavity might have something to do with its claustrophilic lifestyle. ... View Source

The object is so dense that physics itself starts behaving in strange, unfamiliar ways... View Source

A magnetized mix of oil, water, and nickel particles created a never-before-seen state... View Source

The fish’s extreme lifespan could reshape how conservationists protect it... View Source

One router can provide good coverage, but a multi-device mesh WiFi network will make sure you always stay connected... View Source

Researchers trained an AI model to identify signals in the Earth’s core-mantle boundary that could be harbingers of tectonic activity... View Source

Top off your phone, tablet, laptop, or any other gadget without dropping everything to sit by an outlet... View Source

New experiments raise important questions about what it means to die... View Source

One of our best-tested smoker/grill combos is now under $250... View Source

Upgrade your fall yardwork setup with deals on Ego tools editors recommend... View Source

Is our search for the ever-elusive substance finally at an end? ... View Source

It delivers best-in-class performance in a more countertop-efficient package. ... View Source

Scientists long thought this pricey piece of carbon held no piezoelectric properties, but a new study says that isn’t the case. ... View Source

A 3,000-year-old hoard and a $4 million royal necklace disappeared within hours of each other... View Source

Adding a whole new meaning to the phrase “soiled underwear.” ... View Source

Pulling up 40 pounds of silver sure beats plain old gravel... View Source

Editor-tested grills and smokers are up to 40 percent off for Labor Day... View Source

Don’t miss holiday weekend sales on models we’ve tested from Jackery, Anker, EcoFlow, Generac, and more... View Source

These lawn care, landscaping, and DIY must-haves are all available for less during The Home Depot’s Labor Day event... View Source

Some of our favorites, including the MacBook Air, are available at rare discounts... View Source

Save big on multitools from Leatherman, Gerber, Victorinox, and more during Labor Day weekend... View Source

Take 20% off with our exclusive PopMech code through Labor Day weekend... View Source

Editor-tested gear is deeply discounted... View Source

Labor Day weekend is underrated for Lego enthusiasts... View Source

We got our hands on multiple units and looked for models that are quiet, energy-efficient, and easy to install... View Source

If you don’t mind skipping the bells and whistles, these affordable appliances—all priced under $1,000—get the job done... View Source

We tested the Ooni Karu 2, Ninja Artisan, Gozney Tread, and others to find out which models are worth the dough... View Source

These handy small appliances ensure there’s a continual supply of cubes to keep your drinks cold... View Source

If you want your TV to sound as good as it looks, you need a soundbar... View Source

There’s a sweet TV deal for every taste and budget... View Source

We thoroughly scrutinized and reviewed the most impressive TVs available today—and several of our picks are surprisingly affordable... View Source

OLED technology creates deeper contrast and “pure” black levels, giving you the best possible picture... View Source

These alternative screen designs feature matte, anti-glare displays that make static art look just as good as your favorite movie... View Source

We tried out the best versions that sit on your countertop and churn out several pounds of ice per day... View Source

These top-rated dehumidifiers remove excess moisture and reduce musty odors... View Source

Using LiDAR, the team discovered 1.5 miles of pre-Columbian roads, but to protect the find, officials are keeping the specific location a secret... View Source

You could always rent a unit, but you'll save some cash in the long run using one of these reliable models... View Source

We compared different models’ heating levels, timer functions, safety features, and more... View Source

I put the Wagner Flexio 5000 and the Graco TrueCoat 360 Variable Speed head-to-head to see which delivered the best finish... View Source

On the latest episode of “The Astounding Pop Mech Show,” Andrew Daniels, Shawn Gorman, and John Gilpatrick discuss the tiny killer lurking inside an ancient Polish tomb... View Source

The foundation that controls Ozempic maker Novo Nordisk A/S is building a new quantum chip factory in Copenhagen as the global race to develop the emerging technology heats up... View Source

Earth Observatory Science Earth Observatory A Trio of Tropical Cyclones in… Earth Earth Observatory Image of the Day EO Explorer Topics All Topics Atmosphere Land Heat & Radiation Life on Earth Human Dimensions Natural Events Oceans Remote Sensing Technology Snow & Ice Water More Content Collections Global Maps World of Change Articles Earth Matters Blog Blue Marble: Next Generation EO K... View Source

Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s recent trip to Paris showed glimpses of the depth of the French-Saudi relationship. He was spotted with Emmanuel Macron at the Esports World Cup, which was moved out of Riyadh due to the Iran war, and the two unveiled deals spanning everything from technology and defense to a €6 billion theme park... View Source

India’s space program notched a much-needed success with a rocket launch on Friday, after two consecutive failures of another launcher that had long served as its workhorse rocket. Bloomberg's Mihir Mishra reports. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Julie Bornstein, Founder & CEO of Daydream, says back-to-school season is becoming a major test case for AI-powered shopping. She explains that Daydream works as an app and website where users can describe themselves and then chat with an AI agent to get personalized shopping results. She speaks with Scarlet Fu & Kristine Aquino on "The Close." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The company, which helps divide AI tasks among different chips, raised $300 million in its latest round... View Source

Bloomberg Television brings you the latest news and analysis leading up to the final minutes and seconds before and after the closing bell on Wall Street. Today's guests are Barings Head ofMulti-Asset Solutions Trevor Slaven, Ciena President & CEO Gary Smith, Skyworks Chair Chris King, S&P Global Global Head of Quantitative Research and Solutions Daniel Sandberg, OpenAI CEO & Co-Founde... View Source

The FBI is investigating a potential breach of an ID verification company that may have exposed scans of millions of Americans’ driver’s licenses, a bureau spokesperson told Bloomberg News on Thursday... View Source

India’s space program notched a much-needed success with a rocket launch on Friday, after two consecutive failures of another launcher that had long served as its workhorse rocket... View Source

Google makes its suite of voice tools available for Gmail, Docs and Live - at least if you're a paying customer... View Source

Officially, Nvidia's controversial DLSS 5 AI rendering was supposed to launch this evening with only a single game, only on Nvidia's latest RTX 50 GPUs, and with developers in full control of their artistic vision. But unofficially, modders have already ported a leaked version of DLSS 5 to run on just about anything while cranking sliders to the max. Now, Nvidia is changing its plans. DLSS 5 is st... View Source

David Booth, Co-Founder of Dimensional Fund Advisors, discusses his new book, "Stay Calm," which blends memoir and investment guidance. Booth’s discusses his long-standing message to investors: ignore short-term market noise, avoid trying to outguess the market, and stay invested rather than panic during volatility. He speaks with Romaine Bostick on "The Close." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

NVIDIA's PAIR is a free, open-source tool that can distribute AI workloads across idle computers... View Source

SoftBank Group Corp. priced a ¥1 trillion ($6.3 billion) retail bond with a coupon of 4.75%, as higher rates boost the appeal of bonds, potentially drawing more companies to retail funding... View Source

At $85, the hardware only costs a little bit more than the game... View Source

Nell Minow, Chair of ValueEdge Advisors, says Anthropic is moving in the opposite direction from SpaceX on governance, but argues its structure is still unusual and potentially problematic. She says the company is combining elements of public companies and nonprofits, including a public benefit corporation framework that she says both cares about shareholder value and does not. She speaks with Rom... View Source

The new frontier model is particularly competent at agentic, computer-use tasks... View Source

At a private, closed-door event in Austin, Texas today, Tesla officially launched its gilded car of the future. It's a huge milestone for Elon Musk, who has been hyping the imminent arrival of driverless cars for years and has bet the future of his company on AI, autonomous vehicles, and humanoid robots. It was an unusually muted event: with no livestream, pro-Tesla accounts on X.com were left str... View Source

Bill Perkins discusses a new ETF built around short-dated electricity futures in PJM and ERCOT, saying it gives investors direct exposure to power pricing rather than to utilities themselves. He argues the product is timely because electricity demand is expected to grow, driven by manufacturing reshoring, data centers, and the broader AI buildout. He speaks with Romaine Bostick on "The Close." (So... View Source

The popular free audio editor gets a colorful dark mode and granular editing tools... View Source

INGLEWOOD, CA - JULY 19: A view of Halo Board inside the Intuit Dome, the Los Angeles Clippers new arena, during a press preview on July 19, 2024 in Inglewood, California. (Photo by Jevone Moore/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images) | Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Last September, Steve Ballmer insisted in an ESPN interview that the Clippers weren't involved in a shady-looking $28 million endorsemen... View Source

Alec Litowitz, Founder of Magnetar and now head of his family office, Qstar Capital, discusses his new book, "The Adaptability Quotient," which focuses on decision-making when old strategies stop working. He links the book’s themes to his experience at Magnetar, saying the firm looked for periods of rapid change because uncertainty often drives others away and creates opportunity for those first a... View Source

There's nothing like lounging by the pool, listening to your favorite tunes. But is your Bluetooth speaker waterproof enough to handle a simple splash of water?... View Source

Crusoe, a cloud-computing provider and data center developer doing business with OpenAI, Microsoft Corp. and Meta Platforms Inc., has raised over $3 billion in a funding round that values the startup at roughly $30 billion, according to people familiar with the situation... View Source

Alfonso Cuarón will executive produce the dark fantasy vampire story based on the popular D&D campaign setting... View Source

Cast your mind back a decade or so, and smartphone makers were obsessed with shrinking the bezel on phones. Screens got bigger, the black bars around them got smaller, and for a while it looked like truly edge-to-edge displays were imminent. Then, progress just stopped. The bezel shrunk down until it was a millimeter or so on every side, on just about every phone, and phone manufacturers seemed to... View Source

Gene-edited pig kidneys could offer a lifeline to patients stuck waiting for a human donor... View Source

Jeff Christian, who says he oversaw the last two board searches at Apple under Steve Jobs and argues that the selection of John Ternus signals a strategic shift. The discussion then moves to what a hardware engineer can bring to Apple, especially given concerns that the company’s bigger challenges may lie in software and AI rather than hardware. He speaks with Romaine Bostick on "The Close." (Sour... View Source

Ugreen has three new hubs that run your smart home with local AI rather than the cloud. The top model runs on Nvidia's Jetson Thor platform and costs $20,000... View Source

Does your power bank have "CryoPulse technology" or a "Cyber Window"? If you disappointingly answered "no" to both, you might want to consider upgrading to Ugreen's new MagFlow Pro Magnetic Power Bank. It's available starting today for $149.99, which puts it on the really expensive end of power banks with only a 10,000mAh battery, but those fancy-sounding features are part of what Ugreen is claimi... View Source

Chris King, Chairman of Skyworks Solutions, is introduced as a semiconductor industry veteran with more than 50 years of experience. The segment highlights her time at IBM, her role as the first female CEO of a chip company at AMI Semiconductor, and that company’s later acquisition by Onsemi. She speaks with Scarlet Fu & Kristine Aquino on "The Close." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Several AI companies experienced issues at around the same time... View Source

Circular announced its new Ring 3 Series today as a follow-up to the Ring 2 that debuted at CES 2025 with upgraded sensors and FDA-cleared atrial fibrillation detection. The new Ring 3 collection consists of both a Pro model that carries forward those same health-tracking features, and a smaller Slim option that offers more limited stats tracking. But both versions of the new Ring 3 feature vibrat... View Source

Adobe named Anil Chakravarthy, the president of its customer experience business, as its next CEO, succeeding Shantanu Narayen. Ed Ludlow has more on "Bloomberg The Close." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Stryker says its SportSuite Vision software for the headset received De Novo authorization from the FDA in July... View Source

SHOCKING Today Taiwan 11% GDP Growth, 2030 10% US GDP from AI Agents Literally Worldchanging... View Source

The Moto Watch Ultra comes in one size, two colors, and with Google’s smartwatch software. Just a few months after getting back into the smartwatch game, Motorola is targeting the premium end of the market with the first Moto Watch Ultra. It comes with some upgrades from the recent Moto Watch - most obviously the jump to Wear OS - but lacks the outdoorsy features that would make it a true rival to... View Source

While most of the vandals ripping down automatic license plate readers prefer to go incognito, an Albuquerque character named Jevon Martinez isn’t afraid to show his face. Weeks after Bernalillo county officials cancelled their contract with the controversial surveillance company Flock earlier this year, Martinez noticed the automatic license plate readers (ALPRs) were still up. In a series... View Source

Zumba CEO and President Alberto Perlman sits down with Romaine Bostick on 'The Close' to discuss all things fitness, how AI is changing the business, what's next for dance fitness and more. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

A lawsuit claims the policy was stricter on third-party developers than Apple itself... View Source

Tesla is letting people sign up to buy robotaxi fleets. Me and my friends pic.twitter.com/90ZPIBBBZH — Tesla Robotaxi (@robotaxi) September 1, 2026... View Source

Strahd returned earlier this year in Ravenloft: The Horrors Within. | Image: Wizards of the Coast A Ravenloft series is currently in development from executive producer Alfonso Cuarón, writer and executive producer John August, and Hasbro Entertainment, Deadline reports. It could bring to life one of Dungeons & Dragons' most iconic campaign settings, which got an update earlier this yea... View Source

OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman says top artificial intelligence developers have fumbled at communicating the benefits of the technology, leaving the industry vulnerable to growing backlash from communities around the world... View Source

WeatherNext 3 is also supposed to be much better at predicting precipitation... View Source

It's hard to downplay excitement for Alien: Isolation 2 after a first menacing teaser and promising early previews. Alien video games are in a good spot right now thanks to bangers like Aliens Dark Descent and Fireteam Elite 2, but nothing has hit quite like Creative Assembly's 2014 survival horror classic. Now, after a thrilling Gamescom hands-on demo, it looks like the studio has nailed it once... View Source

Tag yourself. I’m spicy gold. | Photo: Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge Lenovo is announcing the IdeaPad Vibe, a productivity laptop aimed at taking on the MacBook Neo with a similar starting price and a wider range of colors. The Vibe comes in 14- and 15-inch sizes, with AMD and Qualcomm chip options due out in October and November, respectively. Intel versions (likely Wildcat Lake) are set to... View Source

OpenAI CEO and co-founder Sam Altman discusses the rollout GPT-6 Astra, the company's latest AI model. He speaks with Ed Ludlow on "Bloomberg The Close." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The state was the first to target VPN usage in the wake of age verification laws, but an ongoing court case has put things on ice... View Source

A laptop we’ll hopefully see but never hear. Lenovo is announcing a new concept laptop for IFA 2026 that uses solid-state cooling instead of traditional fans, making it incredibly thin and super light. The 14-inch Project AeroBlade concept laptop is less than 10mm thick and weighs under 1.8 pounds / 830g. For reference, recent ThinkPad X1 Carbons are around 14mm at their thickest and weigh about 1... View Source

With so many climate projections and mitigation strategies eyeing far-away years like 2050, it can be tempting to assume there’s still time to reverse the worst impacts of an ever-warming planet. Unfortunately, that’s no longer in the cards — at least according to the United Nations Environment Programme, which just released a dismal report calling for the “world to face the inev... View Source

The Trump administration is scrutinizing some of the country’s most elite public high schools over whether their admissions practices discriminate based on race... View Source

Game and yap from across Epic's ecosystem... View Source

GPT-6 Astra leads every comparable benchmark against Claude Fable 5.1, Claude Fable 5, and Claude Opus 5. Clear wins (large gaps) ARC-AGI-3: Astra 98.6% vs Opus 5 30.2% (high). No scores for the Fable models. FrontierMath Tier 4 (v2): Astra 97.6% vs Fable 5.1 / Fable 5 87.8% and Opus 5 73.2%. AutomationBench: Astra 41.4% ... Read more... View Source

OpenAI's next big model is here: GPT-6 Astra. The company calls it a "generational leap in capability" for areas like cybersecurity, professional work, software engineering, science, and computer use. As OpenAI announced earlier this week, it's also the first model designated as meeting OpenAI's "critical cybersecurity capability threshold" - but the company promises that won't lead to a repeat of... View Source

Crusoe, a data center upstart with contracts to supply AI computing power to the likes of Meta Platforms Inc. and Oracle Corp., has signed a cloud contract with trading firm Jane Street Group valued at around $13 billion, according to people with knowledge of the matter... View Source

This is especially noteworthy, as the cans cost just $150... View Source

TikTok backed out of a congressional committee's "public roundtable" set for this month over concerns it would be asked about child safety practices, the chair of the committee said. After negotiating "in good faith" to bring TikTok's chief security officer before the House Select Committee on China to answer questions about Chinese government access to Americans' data and the TikTok algorithm, Ch... View Source

Around the world, the demand for cleaner alternatives to petroleum-based jet fuel is rising. By 2030, the European Union will require a minimum sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) blend of 6 percent, which will rise to 70 percent by 2050. Countries like the United Kingdom, Singapore, Japan, and Brazil are instituting similar policies, putting pressure on players in the global energy trade to ease reli... View Source

OpenAI is releasing a new generation of its technology called GPT-6 that the company is positioning as a key milestone in its decade-long push to build so-called artificial general intelligence... View Source

Anything but your console or PC can be an Xbox for 5-15 hours a month... View Source

Mercury, the tiniest and least-explored planet in the inner solar system, is hiding mysteries far larger than itself — and finally, scientists will soon be getting not one but two spacecraft designed to decode the strange world.That's thanks to the BepiColombo mission, a joint project of the European Space Agency (ESA) and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) that launched in October 2018. Af... View Source

Samsung’s Q990F is a full home audio system in a single box. | Image: The Verge Researching, buying, then finally assembling a sound system for your TV is daunting, but it doesn’t have to be. If you want one of the best kits you can get at a rare discount, Best Buy and Amazon are selling the Samsung Q990F Soundbar for $999.99. It normally retails between $1,300 and $1,600. This bundle includes a 4... View Source

Bloomberg’s Ed Ludlow breaks down what earnings from Broadcom, Snowflake, and HPE tell us about the strength of the AI boom. Plus, Hugging Face co-founder Thomas Wolf joins to discuss Nvidia's $13 billion acquisition deal for the AI startup, And, self-driving tech startup Wayve reaches a deal with Uber to offer robotaxi rides in London. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The interactive slasher Until Dawn 2 takes place on a tropical island and stars 'Stranger Things' actor Dacre Montgomery... View Source

The Roscosmos Progress 92 cargo spacecraft is photographed in March 2026 from the International Space Station as it flies into an orbital sunset 267 miles above Earth’s surface.Credit: NASA NASA will provide live coverage of the launch and docking of a Roscosmos cargo spacecraft carrying about three tons of food, fuel, and supplies for the crew aboard the International Space Station. The unpiloted... View Source

Microsoft is announcing some major changes to Xbox Cloud Gaming today, less than a year after opening up cloud gaming to its Xbox Game Pass Premium and Essential tiers. While all Game Pass plans have included unlimited cloud gaming over the past year, from November this will be limited to just 15 hours on Ultimate, 10 hours for Premium subscribers, and a measly 5 hours for Game Pass Essential. "We... View Source

As if a million white collar workers suddenly cried out in terror at once, a great disturbance in the AI force forced down every major AI chatbot service — a brief moment of reprieve from our AI empire overlords. OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Anthropic’s Claude, Google’s Gemini, and X’s Grok mysteriously went down Thursday morning, and we still don’t know what’s behind it... View Source

Snowflake posted a third straight quarter of accelerating product revenue growth and raised its full-year outlook, with CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy saying AI accounted for about half of the company’s outperformance. He discusses the rapid adoption of Snowflake’s AI coding agent Coco, growing customer usage, and how the company is competing with Databricks in the race to turn enterprise data into AI-driv... View Source

It's also letting people upload multiple photos at once when reacting to a post... View Source

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"Strange New Worlds"' fourth season has doubled down on the show's long-established penchant for seeking out new genres beyond "Trek"'s traditional frontiers. So far the Enterprise has encountered Martians, hangovers and Muppets, and now its latest mission, "Like Chronitons Through the Hourglass", has made a detour into full-on soap opera territory. Thanks to the meddling of Q junior Trelane (Rhys... View Source

Microsoft says it will let anyone access Xbox Cloud Gaming in November, without the need to subscribe to Xbox Game Pass. The change to a pay-as-you-go model is part of some sweeping changes to Xbox Cloud Gaming today, and is designed for people who don't use cloud access enough to warrant a monthly subscription. "Players will be able to purchase cloud playtime hours through the Xbox Store and stre... View Source

The animation industry is facing an existential threat in the form of generative AI. Entertainment execs remain adamant that the tech is the answer, allowing fewer workers to accomplish more in less time — a thinly-veiled attempt, critics charge, to pinch pennies and churn out lower quality content. Marketing teams are also frequently caving to the irresistible draw of text-to-video generators, a... View Source

Snowflake shares jumped by the most in three months after the company raised its outlook for annual sales and touted rapid adoption of its AI-assisted coding tool. Bloomberg Intelligence Senior Tech Analyst Matt Bloxham discusses the outlook from Snowflake as well as Broadcom's AI chip forecast and Nvidia's move to buy Hugging Face. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Infostealer malware apparently had harvested active Claude login sessions from users' PCs... View Source

After nearly eight years traveling through the inner solar system, the trailblazing BepiColombo spacecraft has finally begun its arrival at Mercury.The joint European Space Agency (ESA)-Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) mission reached a major milestone today (Sep. 3), entering its arrival phase at one of our sun's least-studied planets. BepiColombo's Mercury Transfer Module (MTM), the... View Source

Google is rolling out AI-powered voice assistant modes for Gmail, Docs, and Keep that allow you to manage the apps by talking to them. The real time conversational capabilities are called Gmail Live, Docs Live, and Keep Live, and like the Gemini Live experience for Google's chatbot, aim to make it easier to note down or find specific information when you're on the move or unable to do so manually... View Source

New York City just instituted a sweeping ban on schools using AI in the classroom through the start of high school, along with other restrictions on the technology. Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced the one-year moratorium on Wednesday, calling it the “most comprehensive of its kind anywhere in the country.” “The tech industry wants us to believe that AI in early education is not on... View Source

US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said Anthropic PBC has resolved its long-running issues with the Trump administration but a top Pentagon official begs to differ... View Source