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Tesla has the world’s most advanced AI (not OpenAI). Autopilot runs superhuman edge AI on HW4 (only 20–50W — same as human brain) while Nvidia B300/Rubin use 1,500–2,000W+. AI5 will jump to 800W for more tasks (distributed inference), but efficiency still unmatched. FSD 14.3 (10x parameters, reasoning model) incoming — “the last big piece” for ... Read more... View Source

Tesla Model Y is the number 2 top selling vehicle in China and Tesla Model 3 is the 5th most sold EV in China. Only the $10,000 Geely Xingyuan sold more units in February 2026. BYD only had one EV model that sold over half as many units as the Tesla Model 3. The BYD ... Read more... View Source

That’s some sloppy looking slop. | Image: Rex_Spy / Reddit Reviews of Crimson Desert have been mixed, but the bigger issue for the game has been the discovery of what appeared to be AI-generated assets in the final release. Now the developer has acknowledged that AI art was indeed used during the game's creation, but says that it was intended to be replaced before release. In a statement on X, the... View Source

Elon Musk has announced the Terafab project, a joint venture between Tesla, SpaceX and xAI, to build the "largest chip manufacturing facility ever." In his usual grandiose fashion, Musk claims Terafab is the next step towards harnessing the power of the sun and creating a "galactic civilization." Musk, CEO of all three companies, announced plans for the Terafab in a livestream on X. As the name im... View Source

Lugano, Switzerland, March 17th, 2026, TechnologyWire On St. Patrick’s Day, as 2 million spectators flood the streets of New York City, USA₮, a digital dollar issued by Anchorage Digital Bank, is taking over Times Square. The brand activation combines synchronized digital billboards with a street-level campaign designed to introduce digital dollar payments to a mainstream ... Read more... View Source

TERAFAB project, which will be done jointly by @SpaceX and @Tesla. The goal is to produce over a TERAWATT of compute per year (logic, memory & packaging) with ~80% for space and ~20% for the ground. The goal is extreme vertical integration to produce custom AI chips (logic, memory, and advanced packaging) at massive scale: ... Read more... View Source

Catch up on all the headlines with BTW. Lisa Mateo, Christina Ruffini and David Gura dive into the headlines you may have missed on Bloomberg This Weekend. Watch more here: Watch the show LIVE every Saturday and Sunday morning. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Elon making the Terafab with a tight loop for making new chip masks. There will be tight recursively improving loop for chip design. Earth is limited on chip production and AI data center production. About 20 GW per year of chips now and tough to get beyond 100-200 GW per year on earth and most ... Read more... View Source

Nasa confirms meteor after residents reported hearing thunder-like noises about the time the fireball was visibleA suspected meteorite crashed into a home in suburban Houston on Saturday night, according to local residents and officials.Speaking to the local news outlet KHOU11 over the weekend, Spring area resident Sherrie James recalled the incident, saying: “My grandson went to check and said th... View Source

Russia launched an uncrewed cargo spacecraft toward the International Space Station on Sunday after recent repairs to the Baikonur Cosmodrome launch site, NASA said... View Source

SpaceX, Elon and Tesla and XAI are showing the AI space plans out in the open because there is no competition for decades. Tesla will need to make billions of optimus for the Petawatts per year of moon production. “I just want to live long enough to see the mass driver on the moon. Because ... Read more... View Source

Australia’s decision to restrict social media for users under 16 has become a global test case for regulating Big Tech and protecting youth mental health. Parents like Dany Elachi see the rules as long overdue, while researchers like Ravi Iyer warn of real psychological risks tied to excessive use. But social media executives such as Snap’s Jennifer Park Stout question whether bans can work in pra... View Source

Iran fired two missiles at Diego Garcia which is over 4100 Kilometers away. There were previous assurances from Iran that they would not develop missiles firing over 2000 kilometers. 4100 kilometer missiles can strike London, and all cities in Europe and all US military bases in Europe. The US fired an SM3 missile that was ... Read more... View Source

Grok, how do you make chips? | Image: Laura Normand / The Verge Elon Musk announced plans to build a Terafab plant in Austin, Texas, that will be jointly run by Tesla and SpaceX. The goal is to eventually build chips at scale for robotics, artificial intelligence, and space-based data centers for Musk's various companies. Musk has expressed concern, as have other executives, about the chip industr... View Source

As the debate about our AI future continues to rage, Yale Budget Lab's Executive Director and Co-Founder, Martha Gimbel,  joined 'Bloomberg This Weekend' to discuss how documentation of the industrial revolution via 19th century novels can inform how this evolution could impact our lives. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The vocoder was never supposed to be a revolution in music. It wasn't supposed to be anything in music, really. Its development began a century ago, when an engineer at Bell Labs was looking for a simpler way to send phone calls across copper telephone lines. The engineer, Homer Dudley, built some pretty neat technology that could both capture and synthesize the human voice. As so much great tech... View Source

Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies declined anew as the US, Israel and Iran traded fresh threats and attacks... View Source

The Pleiades is a 1,000-strong open star cluster in the constellation Taurus... View Source

Sonos is no stranger to the occasional sale. The iconic audio company routinely runs sales around Black Friday, Amazon Prime Day, and the Super Bowl, though it’s rare to see substantial discounts on its portable speakers outside of tentpole shopping events. Fortunately, if you have no interest in the Sonos Move 2 or forthcoming Sonos Play, the Sonos Roam 2 is currently available from Amazon, Walma... View Source

AI was everywhere at the GDC Festival of Gaming this year. Vendors at the event pitched generative AI tools for things like making AI-driven NPCs and even entire games from a chat box. On the show floor, I spent 10 minutes playing a demo of a pixel-art fantasy world generated by Tencent's AI tools. In a briefing with Razer, I watched an AI assistant for QA automatically log issues in a shooter gam... View Source

We're just scratching the surface of what the innovative collaboration between human astronomers and AI can unlock... View Source

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more news about online age verification and your privacy, follow Emma Roth. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers' inboxes at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here. How it started Virtual private networks, or VPNs, weren't always used to access region-locked Netflix streams, bypass censorship onli... View Source

Also: The company hikes prices on external storage... View Source

Proposed constellations of orbiting mirrors and data centers would completely destroy the night sky as humanity has known it for millions of years, experts say... View Source

British retailers are pushing the UK government to act faster and end a tax loophole that has helped online giants Shein and Temu make significant inroads and gain market share... View Source

Elon Musk said his Terafab project — a grand plan to eventually manufacture his own chips for robotics, artificial intelligence and space data centers — will be built in Austin and jointly run by Tesla and SpaceX... View Source

Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook commended Chinese developers and the company’s partners in the country after a week of rising pressures in one of its biggest markets... View Source

Iranian retaliation has caused an effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz since ~March 2–4. Traffic has dropped from 150+ vessels/day to near-zero on many days, with 21+ confirmed attacks on merchant ships. This matches the scenario’s description of disruption, price spikes, and US-led response pressure. Reopening Hormuz is economically non-optional. It carries 20% of ... Read more... View Source

U.S. Navy’s 2005 SINKEX (Sinking Exercise) on the decommissioned supercarrier USS America (CV-66). This remains one of the most significant and still largely classified live-fire tests ever conducted on a modern aircraft carrier. The 2005 live fire tests show that US aircraft carriers can take dozens of 250-500 kg bombs to top decks without sinking ... Read more... View Source

Halide running on an iPhone. | Photo: Allison Johnson / The Verge Lux Optics co-founder Sebastiaan de With made headlines when he joined Apple in late January. The company was behind Halide, one of the most popular photography apps for the iPhone, which gained a cult following for its robust pro-level controls. Apple was apparently a big enough fan that it tried to acquire the developer last summe... View Source

A Russian Progress cargo spacecraft will launch toward the International Space Station on Sunday morning (March 22), and you can watch the action live... View Source

There could be one more step required before creating an account and posting on Reddit in the future. According to Reddit's CEO, Steve Huffman, the social media platform is exploring different ways to verify a user is human and not a bot. When asked by the TBPN podcast how to confirm that it's a human using Reddit, Huffman responded with several verification methods with varying degrees of heavy-h... View Source

Need something new for your reading list? Here are two titles we think are worth checking out. This week, we've got Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary and The Thing on the Doorstep, an H.P. Lovecraft adaptation for Image Comics.  This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/entertainment/what-to-read-this-weekend-revisiting-project-hail-mary-and-the-thing-on-the-doorste... View Source

The best-selling game of all time is moving from the virtual to the physical. Minecraft World, a permanent Greater London theme park based on the game, is scheduled to open in 2027. The announcement came during Minecraft Live 2026.It will be a new section in Chessington World of Adventures, a theme park with a built-in zoo. The resort is a 35-minute train ride from London's Waterloo station.D... View Source

A legal feud between the co-founders of Lux Optics, the developer behind the Halide camera app, revealed that Apple was close to acquiring the company. As first reported by The Information, Apple held acquisition talks for Lux Optics, which also developed the Kino, Spectre and Orion apps, in the summer of 2025. According to The Information, the deal eventually fell through in September of that yea... View Source

Less than a week ago, Apple announced the forthcoming AirPods Max 2, a pair of over-ear headphones that leverage the company’s H2 chip for AI-powered live translation, conversation awareness, and a host of newer features. However, if you’re okay with a pair of earbuds, the AirPods Pro 3 offer access to all the same features for less — especially given they’re currently on sale at Amazon, Walmart,... View Source

While other tech companies have been laying off employees year after year, OpenAI is doing the opposite. According to a report from the Financial Times, the AI giant is looking to expand its workforce to 8,000 employees by the end of 2026, nearly doubling staff from its current headcount of 4,500. The FT reported that the new hires will be across several departments, including product development,... View Source

It doesn’t sound like Crimson Desert, the recently released prequel to Black Desert Online, will support Intel Arc GPUs anytime soon, if at all. On the game’s FAQ page, its developer Pearl Abyss advised players expecting Arc support to apply for a refund. “If you purchased the game expecting Intel Arc support, please refer to the refund policy of the platform where the game was purchased for avail... View Source

Apple’s new laptops and high-end display fit the bill for the company’s most demanding customers... View Source

Remember when Japan sent a spacecraft to an asteroid 180 million miles away to scoop some dirt off the surface? Six years on from its arrival to Earth, that sample has yielded some insights about what may have seeded life on our planet. Read on to learn more about the latest findings, and other science news we found interesting this week.  DNA ingredients on RyuguIn 2020, a capsule from... View Source

REI’s latest sale is in full swing. The outdoor retailer’s exclusive shopping event runs through Monday, March 23rd, bringing with it a batch of discounts on Garmin watches, tents, portable stoves, and a slew of Verge-approved goodies. As expected, most deals are available only to REI members; however, you can still join the co-op for $30. Members will also receive 20 percent off one full-priced i... View Source

Twitter is officially 20 years old. In another reality, that might make me kind of nostalgic. I've been lurking and scrolling and tweeting for 16 years; most of my adult life. There was a time when Twitter was a place where some internet strangers became my IRL friends, when I was excited to "live-tweet". When my infinitely more well-adjusted friends would send me memes, I would smu... View Source

A brand new feature-length documentary showcases the inspirational accomplishments of pioneering astronaut Eileen Collins... View Source

Like many people, director Valerie Veatch was intrigued when OpenAI first released its Sora text-to-video generative AI model to the public in 2024. Though she didn't fully understand the technology, she was curious about what it could do, and she saw that other artists were building online communities to share their new AI creations. The hope of connecting with people drew Veatch into the AI spac... View Source

OpenAI plans to almost double its headcount by the end of 2026 as it seeks to fend off competition from companies such as Anthropic PBC and Alphabet Inc.’s Google, according to the Financial Times... View Source

On Episode 202 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik are joined by Mike Wall, the spaceflight and tech editor at Space.com, to bring us up to date on all the latest Artemis news... View Source

It just looks like, well, most other MacBook Pros. | Photo: Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge Apple's flagship 16-inch MacBook Pro has reigned supreme in the world of creator-focused laptops since its M-series processor overhaul in 2021. Since then, we've mostly seen the same design with year-over-year chip bumps and small refinements. "If it ain't broke," right? If you want to know everything a... View Source

As moon missions accelerate, countries are working to define how to respond to emergencies and avoid interference between competing operations... View Source

The funny shape of eggs is the curious lifeblood of Oeuf, the new physics platformer by prolific developer Increpare Games. In a gaming landscape saturated with complex systems dropped into simple games, that grapples with metaphor within straightforward narratives, and that is desperate to bring cinematic sensibilities into gaming, Oeuf only asks that you briefly consider how an egg might move as... View Source

Amazon’s Big Spring Sale doesn’t kick off until next week, but the retailer is already dropping a host of good deals, especially on robot vacuums. We recently saw Ecovacs’ Deebot X8 and X9 Pro Omni drop to $599 ($501 off) and $679 ($621 off), respectively; however, if you’re looking for a cheaper robot vacuum / mop, the Dreame L10s Pro Ultra is down to $349.98 ($950 off its original list price) at... View Source

Apple already announced a lot of new devices in 2026 and we’ve been busy reviewing them all. In this installment of our bi-weekly roundup, we revisit the MacBook Neo, iPhone 17e and more, in addition to the “regular” Galaxy S26 and Dell XPS 16. There’s even more than those gadget to catch up on, so sit back, relax and cozy up to some fresh reviews. Apple MacBook Neo The main attraction for Apple’s... View Source

Extreme exomoons with tidal heating and thick, hydrogen-rich atmospheres may be able to create billions of years of potentially habitable surface conditions... View Source

Sightings in Varginha in 1996 have been dismissed as hoax, but saga continues to draw people from around worldThe skies over this far-flung coffee-growing hub went charcoal black, the heavens opened and one of Brazil’s greatest mysteries was born.“It really was something unique,” recalls Marco Antônio Reis, a zoo director, who was at his ranch outside Varginha one stormy day in January 1996 when,... View Source

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 120, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, get ready for Pen Opinions, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I've been reading about Banksy and music apps and influencer agents, watching Netflix docs about the manosphere and The Red Hot Chili Peppers, marveling at Ed... View Source

Welcome to our latest roundup of what's going on in the indie game space. There are a whole bunch of neat new games out this week, as well as updates on some interesting upcoming projects. In case you missed it, the Steam Spring Sale is under way. There are lots of solid deals here, and my credit card is already screaming at me. I've picked up a bunch of games from my wishlist. For instance, at ju... View Source

An AI assistant that can actually get things done. I've been testing out Gemini's new task automation on the Pixel 10 Pro and the Galaxy S26 Ultra, which for the first time lets Gemini take the wheel and use apps for you. It's limited to a small subset right now - a handful of food delivery and rideshare services - and it's still in beta. It's slow, it's clunky at times, and it doesn't solve any s... View Source

This year is shaping up to be a big one for self-driving trucks. In addition to Aurora's plan to deploy hundreds of autonomous big rigs and Waabi expanding into robotaxis, you've also got Kodiak AI aiming to launch its own fully driverless long-haul freight operation by the end of 2026. While robotaxis may still win all the headlines, driverless trucks are making their own progress, slowly but sur... View Source

The latest Starship Troopers video game knows where its strengths lie and packs a couple of neat twists that set it apart from its predecessors... View Source

Barry speaks with Bill Miller IV, Chief Investment Officer and the Portfolio Manager for the Miller Value Fund about his start in investing. They discuss the rise of bitcoin, and how it may mirror technology in general. They also discuss his firm's approach to high concentration and conviction investing. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

All hail true remote access. My Starlink Mini has radically changed the way I live. It's the biggest reason I can work remotely from my converted van, providing fast and reliable internet in places that traditional 4G and 5G data signals don't reach. Peakdo's latest LinkPower battery makes the smallest Starlink terminal even better by setting it free from power cables for hours at a time. While th... View Source

The eye-popping market debut of a tiny drone software company this week reveals a newfound investor appetite for stocks that fall at the intersection of geopolitics, defense technology and artificial intelligence... View Source

The US Defense Department will establish Palantir Technologies Inc.’s Maven AI system as a “program of record,” Reuters reported on Friday night, as the Pentagon rapidly integrates the technology into its combat operations... View Source

Super Micro Computer Inc., the AI computing provider at the center of a smuggling scandal, is working to shore up its compliance operations after a stock rout erased a third of the company’s value... View Source

President Donald Trump released a national framework for regulating artificial intelligence on Friday, laying the groundwork for Congress to create a federal standard for the rapidly growing technology... View Source

Polymarket took over a bar near the White House, for a promotional event showcasing the prediction market’s vision of betting on current events as a new form of entertainment... View Source

NASA’s quiet supersonic X-59 aircraft flew its second flight on March 20, 2026, near NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California.NASA/Jim Ross NASA’s quiet supersonic X-59 aircraft made its second flight on Friday, kicking off a series of dozens of test flights in 2026.  Although the flight duration was abbreviated due to a... View Source

A California jury determined that Elon Musk misled Twitter investors before making a $44 billion deal to buy the company in 2022, reports CNBC. The New York Times reports that Musk had testified this month that he didn't believe his posts would spook markets, but he did say that "If this was a trial about whether I made stupid tweets, I would say I'm guilty." CNBC reports Musk's attorneys are expe... View Source

Veteran game director Josh Sawyer thinks developers need to make fewer big changes during production... View Source

A group of former Twitter investors have prevailed at a federal civil trial over Elon Musk's actions amid his $44 billion acquisition of the social platform in 2022. A jury in San Francisco found Friday that tweets made by Musk about fake accounts on the platform had defrauded investors in the company. The jury sided with Musk on other allegations in the case. It's not yet clear how much Musk... View Source

Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow discuss shares of Super Micro as the company's co-founder was charged by the US for allegedly illegally diverting Nvidia-powered servers to China. Plus, NASA gives SpaceX a bigger role in its mission to the moon. And NYC real estate gets an AI boost as the likes of Anthropic, Palantir and OpenAI hire in the Big Apple. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Elon Musk defrauded Twitter Inc. investors when he disparaged the company in 2022 in an effort to buy the social media platform for a lower price than his original $44 billion bid, a jury concluded... View Source

Tumblr users were left scrambling on Wednesday after dozens of accounts were banned in the same afternoon by an automated system. Numerous users contacted The Verge about the incident, claiming that the wave of bans disproportionately seemed to impact accounts run by users who identify as trans women, many of whom were given no specific reason for why their accounts were terminated. Screenshots of... View Source

Bloomberg Intelligence's Mandeep Singh discusses the recent developments surrounding Super Micro Computer, highlighting new charges from US authorities and the resignation of co-founder Yih-Shyan "Wally" Liaw from the board. He speaks on "Bloomberg The Close." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Anker’s magnetic battery pack can both prop up and charge your phone. | Image: Anker Given how often most of us rely on our smartphones, it’s a good idea to keep a power bank on hand in the event your phone dies while you’re out and about. If you don’t own one already, Anker’s MagGo Power Bank (10K) is down to $71.99 (nearly $20 off) at Amazon in the lead-up to the retailer’s annual Big Spring Sal... View Source

Barry speaks with Bill Miller IV, Chief Investment Officer and the Portfolio Manager for the Miller Value Fund about his start in investing. They discuss the rise of bitcoin, and how it may mirror technology in general. They also discuss his firm's approach to high concentration and conviction investing. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Pinterest's CEO has thrown his support behind an Australia measure banning social media for younger teens and is calling for governments around the world to implement similar bans. "Social media, as it’s configured today, is not safe for young people under 16," Ready writes in a piece published by Time. "We need a clear standard: no social media for teens under 16, backed by real enforcement, and... View Source

Hangar One at Moffett Federal Airfield, Moffett Field, California, in 2006.Credits: NASA/Dominic Hart Editor’s Note: This article was originally published on April 25, 2022 and has been updated to reflect changes including the completion of Hangar One’s restoration. Restoration has been completed on Hangar One, a historic landmark in the San Francisco Bay Area and a key part... View Source

Astronomers have found four new moons orbiting Jupiter and 11 new moons around Saturn... View Source

E Ink displays have expanded beyond e-readers. They're now used in digital photo frames, smartphones, and even the price tags found on grocery store shelves. VidaBay's Classic Plus NFC E-Ink Fridge Magnet - which looks like a Polaroid photo - features the same low power color E Ink screens used in those electronic price tags, but to display photos from your phone without the need for a battery. Th... View Source

Arun Mathew of Accel says we're in a "reinvention of work" as AI bolsters productivity but sees a fallout in the market with fewer winners in the next era. He speaks with Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow on "Bloomberg Tech." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

After one too many of you threatened to switch to Linux, Microsoft has published a long list of changes it plans to make to Windows 11. In a lengthy blog titled "Our commitment to Windows quality," Pavan Davuluri, the executive vice president of Windows and Devices, said the company has spent a "great deal" of time in recent months reading feedback from users. "What came t... View Source

It's taken almost five years, but Microsoft is finally bringing back the ability to move the Windows taskbar to the top or sides of your screen. The movable taskbar is part of some much bigger changes coming to Windows 11 this year in response to growing criticism of the operating system's performance, reliability, and user experience. "Repositioning the taskbar is one of the top asks we've heard... View Source

Anduril Industries is ready to roll its first uncrewed Fury fighter off a production line in Ohio this summer, producing the computer-brained plane with a novel techniques: made-by-hand assembly without complicated machinery or robotics... View Source

5 min read How Open NASA Data on Comet 3I/ATLAS Will Power Tomorrow’s Discoveries Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS on Nov. 30, 2025, as observed by the Wide Field Camera 3 instrument on NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. NASA missions all across the solar system have collected data about the comet to be shared in public archives. NASA, ESA, STScI, D. Jewitt (UCLA), M.-T. Hui (Shanghai Astronomical Observat... View Source

The U.S. Space Force has swapped rockets for an upcoming GPS satellite launch, moving to a SpaceX Falcon 9 while the investigation into an anomaly with ULA's Vulcan Centaur continues... View Source

Mark Cerny, the lead architect of the PlayStation 5 and PS5 Pro, told Digital Foundry that ML-based frame generation tech is coming to "PlayStation platforms" in the future, letting the game console use AI to imagine new frames between the ones it's actually rendering, which can create smoother perceived image quality while (typically) introducing some amount of lag. At least, that's how it works... View Source

Halter, a startup making artificial intelligence-powered collars for cows, is in talks to raise a new funding round that would double its valuation to more than $2 billion, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

A French officer recently leaked the location of an aircraft carrier because of a run on the sports app Strava. This is not the first time this has happened, as the app tracks location data. It was used to access the location of US military bases back in 2018 and members of the Secret Service accidentally shared their whereabouts while protecting then-US President Joe Biden. The same has happened... View Source

Image Credit: National Institute of Aerospace NASA selected 14 university teams from across the nation as finalists in the 2026 Revolutionary Aerospace Systems Concepts – Academic Linkage (RASC-AL) Competition. This NASA challenge tasks students to design innovative concepts that could further human life and work on the Moon, Mars, and beyond. The competition links academia and the aerospace commu... View Source

Has Project Hail Mary left you craving more of Andy Weir's work? We've rounded up the best of Andy Weir's sci-fi books, from The Martian to Artemis... View Source

Nintendo plans to release a Switch 2 revision in the European Union that will let users replace their own batteries, Nikkei reports. The current version of the Switch 2 has a glued-in battery. But Nintendo apparently plans to make the change in order to comply with EU rules going into effect in February 2027 that will require devices to let users easily swap out portable batteries. The new version... View Source

NASA is revising its moon-landing plans, reducing Boeing’s role while elevating SpaceX’s Starship rocket to do the job of propelling astronauts to lunar orbit, according to sources. Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow discuss the news with Bloomberg's space reporter Loren Grush and Laurie Leshin, Arizona State University Professor of Space Futures and former director of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. T... View Source

The White House has announced a new AI policy framework that calls for Congress to craft federal regulation that overrules state AI laws. The Trump administration has made multiple attempts to overrule more restrictive state-level AI regulation, but has failed so far, most notably in the passing of the “One Big Beautiful Bill.”The framework focuses on a variety of topics, covering everything from... View Source

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In 2015, Microsoft decided that you shouldn't be in control of updating your PC anymore. At first, it seemed like a good idea to keep malware at bay - but soon, users discovered their computers were automatically shutting down and erasing work in the middle of the day. Then, Microsoft abused its power to install shovelware apps and force-feed us a new web browser. Now, each new update might add un... View Source

"Bloomberg Real Yield" highlights the market-moving news you need to know. Today's guests: Schwab Center for Financial Research Kathy Jones, Allspring Global Investment George Bory, BNP Paribas Head of Credit Strategy Meghan Robson, and CreditSights Head of US IG & Marco Strategy Zachary Griffiths. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York has charged three people with illegally exporting NVIDIA GPUs to China in violation of the Export Control Reform Act. NVIDIA's chips have become a critical component in the rush to train and run increasingly complex artificial intelligence models, one the US has sought to manipulate with export controls and profit-sharing schemes with... View Source

NASA/Zena Cardman NASA astronaut Chris Williams smiles at the camera during a spacesuit fit verification on Jan. 2, 2026, inside the International Space Station’s Quest airlock. This procedure confirms that the spacesuit is airtight and properly configured, assesses comfort and mobility, and helps prevent potential safety risks. Williams and fellow NASA astronaut Jessica Meir completed an approxim... View Source

Microsoft has faced a breakdown of trust in Windows 11 and a backlash over AI additions to its operating system in recent months. After promising to rebuild trust in Windows earlier this year, Microsoft's Windows chief, Pavan Davuluri, is now revealing the company's plan to fix Windows 11 - and there are a lot of changes on the way. "Over the past several months, the team and I have spent a great... View Source

NASA is revising its moon-landing plans, reducing Boeing’s role while elevating SpaceX’s Starship rocket to do the job of propelling astronauts to lunar orbit, people familiar with the matter said. Ed Ludlow reports on the new proposal. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Andrej Karpathy is pioneering autonomous loop” AI systems—especially coding agents and self-improving research agents—while advancing AI-native education through Eureka Labs and ultra-minimal open-source LLM implementations. Coding agents can now reliably edit code, run experiments, and iterate for days. He created AutoResearch, AI agents that fully close the research loop—design experiments, edit... View Source

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a rare cosmic moment: a comet breaking apart in real time... View Source

The Trump administration on Friday unveiled its new legislative blueprint for AI regulation, and the seven-point plan includes a clear message: The federal government should avoid many AI regulations beyond a set of child safety rules, and it should bar states from messing with the "national strategy to achieve global AI dominance." The plan advises Congress to protect minors using AI services wit... View Source

Firefly Aerospace posted record annual revenue, capping a year marked by a moon landing and a public offering, but also some explosive mishaps with its core rocket. Jason Kim, Firefly Aerospace CEO, joins Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow after the company's quarterly earnings on "Bloomberg Tech." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Netflix’s live-action Assassin’s Creed show has entered production and will officially be set in Rome in the year 64AD, confirming previous reports. The upcoming adaptation, then, will return to the setting of 2010’s Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood, although the latter’s story took place more than 1,000 years after the events we'll see in Netflix's show. Ubisoft confirmed in a press release that the... View Source

NASA astronaut Kjell Lindgren takes a selfie with the people behind “Project Hail Mary” and the audience during a panel about the movie at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Feb. 25, 2026.NASA/Dan Goods Real-life space exploration and big-screen science fiction will converge on Friday. As NASA prepares to launch Artemis II, the first crewed mission under the agency’s Artemis pro... View Source

Where's the Trump phone? We're going to keep talking about it every week. We've reached out, as usual, to ask about the Trump phone's whereabouts. Once again, we're waiting for a response. It's been more than a month since two Trump Mobile executives showed me what they claimed was the T1 Phone, and in the time since, there's been… nothing. No news, no announcements, no phone. And the company has... View Source

Amy Webb, Future Today Strategy Group CEO, joins Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow to discuss why issues like that of Super Micro's co-founder charged with smuggling restricted AI chips to China should be top of mind for the US administration, because the "future of business and warfare is directly tied to AI and chips." She speaks on "Bloomberg Tech." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Nintendo is reportedly preparing a new version of the Switch 2 with a user-replaceable battery, according to Nikkei. This is to comply with a 2023 EU "right-to-repair" policy on portable electronics that mandates easy battery replacement. The regulation also covers the Joy-Con 2 controllers, so they are reportedly being redesigned to allow users to replace each lithium-ion battery. We do... View Source

Auroras may be visible from Alaska to Illinois tonight and over the weekend as several coronal mass ejections and fast solar wind impact Earth... View Source

NextEra Energy Inc. plans to build up to 10 gigawatts of natural gas-fired generation in Texas and Pennsylvania to meet soaring demand driven in part by the data center boom... View Source

If you’re looking for the best time to get a deal this spring, it might very well be during Amazon’s Big Spring Sale, which kicks off at 3:01AM ET on March 25th and runs through 2:59AM ET on April 1st. Some early deals have already begun (we’re compiling them here), but we’ll also be highlighting newer, more notable sales and the many so-called “doorbuster” deals that will appear... View Source

Soybean futures were headed for the biggest weekly decline since July 2024 as American exports once again stall after US President Donald Trump postponed his meeting with Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping... View Source

Rocket Lab has inked a $190 million contract with the U.S. Department of Defense for 20 launches of the company's suborbital HASTE rocket... View Source

Since roughly the turn of the millennium, Google Search has been the bedrock of the web. People loved Google's trustworthy "10 blue links" search experience and its unspoken promise: The website you click is the website you get. Now, Google is beginning to replace news headlines in its search results with ones that are AI-generated. After doing something similar in its Google Discover news feed, i... View Source

“This will be so, so, so, so, so bad,” one analyst says... View Source

The owners of Echelon Data Centres are considering options including selling part or all of their stakes in the Dublin-based company, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

It's hard not to find the premise of Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary instantly compelling: Something is slowly killing the sun and threatening life on Earth. That same mysterious force, dubbed the Astrophage, also destroyed every nearby star — except one. Our only hope is to visit that solar system and figure out what helped it survive. And there's just one middle school science teach... View Source

NASA's Space Launch System rocket was back on the move overnight ahead of its second mission to the moon, which will be the first time the vehicle carries a crew... View Source

The standard Nest Doorbell makes it easy to identify visitors and packages when you’re not at home. | Image: Google Buying a video doorbell is worth it for several reasons. They’re convenient if you get a lot of deliveries or visitors, as they let you glance at a phone alert to decide whether it’s necessary to drop everything and go to the door. They can provide peace of mind, too, particularly if... View Source

Patrice Caine, the Chairman and CEO of Thales Group, one of Europe's biggest defense contractors joins Bloomberg Open Interest to break down how the Iran war is reshaping global military demand. From surging orders in the Middle East to missile shortages and the urgent need for cheaper, scalable weapons, the conversation highlights a major shift in modern warfare—and why Europe is now racing... View Source

The XP-Pen Artist Pro 27 (pictured) is available now for $1,899.99. | Image: XP-Pen XP-Pen has launched a new 27-inch display drawing tablet that competes with the visual performance of Wacom's beloved Cintiq Pro series, but for a fraction of the cost. The Artist Pro 27 is available starting today for $1,899.99, providing a 4K resolution display with a 120Hz refresh rate and extreme color accuracy... View Source

A little more than a month ago, SpaceX founder Elon Musk put down a marker of his intent to saturate low-Earth orbit with up to 1 million satellites. Its purpose? Provide always-on data center services around the planet. Now, Amazon and Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos has done something similar with a filing to the Federal Communications Commission of his own, proposing a constellation of up to 51,... View Source

Elon Musk’s xAI is sending engineers directly into the offices of prospective corporate clients in an attempt to claw business customers away from rivals OpenAI and Anthropic PBC... View Source

Last year, Belkin released a couple of cases for the Nintendo Switch 2 just in time for launch, including one that came with a handy battery pack. That one was simple and effective, but it felt a bit crude because it wasn't much more than a basic travel pouch with a generic power cell tossed inside. Now, Belkin is back with a Pro version of its Charging Case for the Nintendo Switch 2, featuring a... View Source

Incoming solar storms could spark auroras this weekend and thanks to the spring equinox, Earth is perfectly aligned to amplify the show... View Source

The clock uses animated lights instead of moving hands to display the time. | Image: Balmuda Dieter Rams already showed the world that something as mundane as an alarm clock can be beautiful. Balmuda, a Japanese company best known for its steam-infused toasters, has released a travel-friendly alarm clock simply called The Clock. Its minimalist dial is reminiscent of Braun's iconic alarm clocks but... View Source

SoftBank Group Corp. is working to build a massive AI data center on federally owned land in Ohio that it’s planning to power with roughly $33 billion worth of natural gas-fired electricity to be installed by the end of the decade... View Source

Amazon is reportedly planning to re-enter the smartphone market more than 10 years after its last attempt. According to a Reuters report, the mysterious phone is internally codenamed "Transformer" and is being developed by the company’s devices and services unit. There isn’t a whole lot to go on right now, but it probably won’t surprise many to learn that the phone will likely lean heavily on... View Source

2 Min Read NASA Simulations Improve Artemis II Launch Environment This simulation of the Artemis I launch shows how the Space Launch System rocket’s exhaust plumes interact with the air, water, and the launchpad. Colors on surfaces indicate pressure levels—red for high pressure and blue for low pressure. The teal contours illustrate where water is present. Credits: NASA/Chris DeGrendele, Tim... View Source

NASA's SLS rocket is back at the launch pad as the space agency gears up to launch Artemis 2 astronauts on a mission around the moon next month... View Source

Why is my local Target selling protein powder in the tampon aisle? An investigation. This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent every Friday from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that swear they're going to change your life. Opt in for Optimizer here. Wellness crazes come and go, but protein is forever. At least that's how it feels as t... View Source

Bloomberg's Caroline Hyde discusses the recent indictments against the co-founder of Super Micro Computer, a Taiwan-based executive, and a contractor, accused of conspiring to illegally divert servers containing Nvidia chips to China. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Over ten years after shelving the Fire Phone, Amazon is reportedly planning to launch another smartphone, this time focused on Alexa. According to Reuters, the phone, which is code-named "Transformer," will center around Amazon's AI assistant, but Alexa won't "necessarily be the primary operating system of the phone." "Transformer" is currently in development in Amazon's ZeroOne group, led by J Al... View Source

In this video, a Supreme Court advocate tests generative AI on his own case, sparking debate over whether the technology can truly aid legal advocacy or merely sound convincing. Produced by Paul Detrick Senior Producer: Andrew Satter Executive Producer: Josh Block (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

If you're like me, you've absolutely had enough of winter and you're hoping warm weather is right around the corner. When it's finally more enjoyable to spend time outside, you're likely going to be cooking on the grill, so now is a great time to give everything a deep clean to prepare for your upcoming culinary adventures.  I don’t blame you if you opted to let your... View Source

Students collaborate on a hands‑on STEM project, assembling and testing components during the NASA Glenn High School Engineering Institute at NASA’s Glenn Research Center on July 18, 2025.NASA/Sara Lowthian-Hanna NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland is hosting the 2026 NASA Glenn High School Engineering Institute this July. The hands-on learning ex... View Source

NASA has not reestablished contact with its MAVEN Mars orbiter since a planned communications blackout ended Jan. 16... View Source

Moon orbit program, preceding planned landing in 2028, has been delayed due to fuel leaks and clogged helium linesFor the second time this year, Nasa moved its moon rocket from the hangar out toward the launchpad on Friday in hopes of sending four astronauts on a lunar fly-around next month.If the latest repairs work and everything else goes Nasa’s way, the Space Launch System could blast off as e... View Source

There's a big, and increasing, disconnect in culture right now when it comes to artificial intelligence. Companies of all shapes and sizes are hunting for places to deploy AI and can't stop talking about how this new technology will change everything. But when you ask people about AI, the consistent response is: no thanks. Study after study shows people are worried about the effects of AI and simp... View Source

This is the year AI has come for tax prep. Interviews with tax professionals suggest that artificial intelligence has finally improved to the point where it at least seems capable of navigating the US tax system as leading developers release more features for financial services. Bloomberg’s Charlie Wells reports... View Source

Following discussions first reported on earlier this year, ByteDance has agreed to sell its games unit Moonton to Savvy Games Group for $6 billion. Moonton is known for mobile titles popular in Asia like Mobile Legends: Bang Bang, which has been downloaded 1.5 billion times. The transaction is set to be finalized in the "near future," according to an internal memo from Moonton's CEO seen by Bloomb... View Source

China’s leading robot company, Unitree Robotics, has filed for an initial public offering in Shanghai, moving a step closer to a domestic listing as investor interest in the sector builds... View Source

NVIDIA started an online firestorm this week when it announced DLSS 5 at its GTC conference. The company claims it's meant to deliver "photorealistic" lighting and materials in games by using neural processing. But it differs considerably from previous versions of DLSS, which were focused on using machine learning to upscale lower resolutions and generate additional frames, and gamers online aren’... View Source

A cosmic explosion with an energy equivalent to the output of a billion suns went unnoticed by astronomers until they caught the "echo" of this gamma-ray burst... View Source

Many organizations have called employees back to offices following Covid-related lockdowns, but the Iran war and ensuing energy crisis may quickly see workers returning to work from home. The International Energy Agency (IEA) - an energy watchdog established to help safeguard global power supplies following the 1970s oil crisis - is pushing for governments, businesses, and households to adopt reco... View Source

Welcome to Edition 8.34 of the Rocket Report! The most important significant news this week, I believe, is the decision by Canada to make a serious investment in launch infrastructure at a spaceport in Nova Scotia. Tensions have risen between the United States and Canada of late (for reasons which are baffling to this author, who has always had an affinity for the nation to our north), and as a re... View Source

SAP SE Chief Executive Officer Christian Klein said the defense industry has become the company’s fastest growing business line as military budgets soar around the world... View Source

Blue Origin has revealed its plans for an orbital AI data center system in a new filing with the Federal Communications Commission. The company has asked the agency for permission to deploy 51,600 satellites, as reported by the Wall Street Journal and SpaceNews. Called Project Sunrise, the initiative aims to launch and operate a constellation of satellites that can deliver computing capacity for a... View Source

While the United States and Europe are moving cautiously forward with clinical trials, China is racing toward the commercialization of brain implants... View Source

Orange SA is close to naming director Frédéric Sanchez as its next chairman as the French carrier weighs a major deal at home, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

Huang doesn’t always feel like he’s getting his message across... View Source

Nvidia Corp.’s $20 billion licensing deal with artificial intelligence startup Groq is being probed by a pair of Democratic senators over whether it violates antitrust laws by improperly avoiding a merger review and illegally consolidating its power in the market for AI computing... View Source

The spring equinox marks the first day of spring today, but daylight actually lasts several minutes longer than night. Here's why the equinox doesn't appear perfectly equal... View Source

Beijing Dongchedi Technology Co. has picked Citigroup Inc. and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. to work on its planned initial public offering in Hong Kong, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

ByteDance Ltd. has agreed to sell games unit Moonton to Savvy Games Group for $6 billion, unloading a gaming studio it acquired just a few years ago to focus on generative AI... View Source

After series of delays, US space agency hopes to carry out first crewed flyby of the moon in more than half a century Nasa has begun returning its towering SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft to its Florida launch pad ahead of a planned flyby of the moon, after completing necessary repairs.Artemis engineers began the manoeuvre, which can take up to 12 hours, at 8pm local time. The US space agency will... View Source

Oasis Security, a cybersecurity startup that helps companies manage access to their systems from non-human accounts such as artificial intelligence agents, has raised $120 million from investors including Sequoia Capital and Accel... View Source

Delton Technology Guangzhou Inc.’s shares rallied in their Hong Kong trading debut after the Chinese circuit board maker raised HK$3.3 billion ($421 million) in a listing... View Source

Macquarie Capital's Ellie Jiang says this year marks "a reality check" for Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. earnings. However, she tells Bloomberg Television that the Chinese company is still "probably the best one to be positioned into this AI front." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Earth Observatory Science Earth Observatory Restless Kīlauea Launches… 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 Notes from the Field Blog Earth Matters Blog Blue Marble:... View Source

OpenAI is developing a desktop application to bring together its popular ChatGPT chatbot, coding tool and web browser in an effort to keep users engaged in the face of fierce competition from rivals like Anthropic PBC... View Source

Shares of Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. briefly traded at a record premium in Hong Kong over their mainland-listed peers, as strong earnings and energy supply shocks boosted demand for the battery giant... View Source

Quantum computing companies are braving turbulent public markets in order to raise money to develop the still experimental technology, with two more taking critical steps toward debuts this week alone... View Source

OpenAI is developing a “super app” for desktop that unifies ChatGPT, its browser and its Codex app, according to the Wall Street Journal and CNBC. A company spokesperson told the publications that OpenAI Chief of Applications Fidji Simo will lead the application revamp with assistance from OpenAI President Greg Brockman. Simo will also help the marketing team advertise the app when it comes out. O... View Source

Yotta Data Services Pvt., the data center operator that runs India’s largest cluster of Nvidia Corp. AI processors, is seeking to raise fresh capital at a valuation of about $4 billion as it prepares to file its draft prospectus for an initial public offering... View Source

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and Tencent Holdings Ltd. bled $66 billion of value in roughly 24 hours, after the market punished the twin leaders of China’s tech arena for failing to lay out clear visions for how to profit off artificial intelligence... View Source

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Valve has just released SteamOS 3.8.0 in preview, and it's a doozy. Not only is it the first release to support the upcoming Steam Machine living room gaming PC, it comes with long-awaited features for Valve's handhelds and more support for other companies' handhelds than we've seen to date - including Microsoft and Asus' Xbox Ally series, the Lenovo Legion Go 2, the OneXPlayer X1, and additional... View Source

The UK is not fully prepared for a severe space weather event that could disrupt power systems, air travel and mobile networks, causing billions of economic losses, a government watchdog found... View Source

OpenAI is working on a desktop "superapp" that merges its ChatGPT app, the Codex AI coding app, and its AI-powered Atlas browser into one app, The Wall Street Journal reports. The company is making the change as part of an effort to simplify its various product efforts, according to a memo cited by the WSJ from Fidji Simo, OpenAI's CEO of Applications. Fragmentation "has been slowing us down and m... View Source

Alibaba says it's aiming to generate $100 billion in cloud and AI revenue within the next five years. It comes as China’s embrace of OpenClaw-style agentic AI has handed rival Tencent an initial advantage. Jacob Cooke, CEO of WPIC Marketing + Technologies, discusses the AI landscape in China with Caroline Hyde on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

A member of Super Micro Computer Inc.’s board was among three people indicted for allegedly plotting to divert billions of dollars’ worth of artificial intelligence technology from the California based company to China... View Source

Gemini Space Station Inc.’s workforce reduction has reached roughly 30% since the start of the year following layoffs, with the crypto exchange saying Thursday it is deploying artificial intelligence tools to increased productivity. The firm lost more than $500 million last year... View Source

California, Massachusetts, Connecticut and New York are leading a group of 20 other states in suing the US Environmental Protection Agency for renouncing its ability to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, The New York Times reports. The lawsuit specifically argues that the EPA's decision to rescind a 2009 study that determined greenhouse gases are dangerous to public health was illegal. The study,... View Source

Google is ramping up development of a dedicated Gemini AI app for Apple Inc.’s Mac computer lineup, looking to step up competition with OpenAI and Anthropic PBC... View Source

Alphabet's life sciences business Verily is restructuring and raising money as a new corporate entity. Verily announced that with its $300 million investment round, it will change from an LLC to a corporation and rename itself Verily Health Inc. As a result, Alphabet now has a minority stake rather than a controlling one in the business. Similar to every other tech business, this chapter... View Source

Industry insiders acknowledge that many in the US have negative feelings about the technology... View Source

Amazon has acquired Rivr, a startup focused on autonomous robotics. Rivr is based in Zurich and was valued at $110 million in a funding round from August 2024, which both Amazon and its CEO's Bezos Expeditions participated in. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed. Rivr's robots have four legs and wheels that allow it to maneuver on stairs and other potentially uneven surfac... View Source

Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde discusses Micron earnings as the memory maker plans heavy spending on production to meet demand. Plus, Alibaba says it's aiming to generate $100 billion in cloud and AI revenue within the next five years, even as earnings come under pressure. And, Uber is set to invest up to $1.25 billion in Rivian's robotaxi fleet in the ride-hail company’s latest deal. (Source: Bloomber... View Source

Google is testing a version of its Gemini app for macOS, Bloomberg reports. The app would bring the AI assistant to uncharted territory, and in more direct competition with OpenAI's ChatGPT and Anthropic's Claude, both of which offer standalone Mac apps.Gemini remains accessible through the web, and it sounds like the macOS app offers the same set of features, with the ability to respond... View Source

These worlds are among the least dense ever found, and all attempts to probe their atmospheres have been blocked by a mysterious smog... View Source

Sony’s WF-1000XM6 are on sale in both color options. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Sony’s WF-1000XM6 are the best noise-canceling wireless earbuds you can buy, but they’ve been hard to recommend over the last-gen model because of the price. While the older version is often on sale for $248, the update costs $329 — and has never before been marked down. That’s why this deal is worth... View Source

Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang said tech leaders need to be careful not to scare people about artificial intelligence, in response to a question about how Anthropic PBC could have better handled messy contract negotiations with the Pentagon... View Source

DoorDash has launched a new option for its gig economy workers to earn some extra cash. The delivery service introduced Tasks, which it describes as "short activities Dashers can complete between deliveries or in their own time." It gives taking pictures of restaurant dishes or recording video of unscripted conversations in languages other than English as examples. These materials will b... View Source

Google has revealed the "advanced flow" that will be required to install certain Android apps once the company introduces mandatory developer verification later this year. The company had initially announced that it would no longer be possible to install apps from unverified developers, and the process announced today is its concession to critics who accused it of killing off app sideloading and m... View Source

Kalshi Inc. has raised more than $1 billion at a valuation of $22 billion in a new financing round, according to a person familiar with the situation... View Source

The Switch 2 ports keep on coming. This time it's Kena: Bridge of Spirits, the award-winning 2021 title from Ember Lab. Previously announced for spring 2026, the visually striking title now has an official release date of March 26.Kena: Bridge of Spirits won Best Independent Game and Best Debut Indie Game at The Game Awards 2021. It's already available for PS5 / PS4, PC (Steam and Epic) and Xbox S... View Source

One of the two spacecraft that make up Europe's Proba-3 solar-eclipse mission just reestablished contact with its handlers after being incommunicado for a month... View Source

What inner life? | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images I admit, this is an innovation I did not see coming: Silicon Valley has invented the philosophical zombie from the classic thought experiment "lol how crazy would it be if there were a philosophical zombie." Until recently, the philosophical zombie was a concept closely associated with Australian philosopher David Chalmers, who def... View Source

Amazon.com Inc. founder Jeff Bezos is in talks to raise $100 billion for a fund to acquire manufacturing companies and infuse them with artificial intelligence, the Wall Street Journal reported... View Source

A little more than a year after ditching third-party fact checkers and rolling back much of its proactive content moderation, the company says it will further "transform" its approach by drastically reducing the number of human moderators in favor of AI-based systems. The company says the change will happen "over the next few years," and will allow the company to catch more iss... View Source

NASA is proposing SpaceX Starship now handles translunar injection (TLI) propulsion and the full landing role, while SLS/Orion is limited to LEO only. This shrinks Boeing’s role and gives more to SpaceX Starship. Artemis III (2027) — LEO Docking Test (Almost Unchanged, Now a Perfect Dress Rehearsal) Before today’s proposal (Feb 27 baseline): Orion (with ... Read more... View Source

The MCON includes an adhesive-backed ring for phones that aren’t MagSafe- or Pixelsnap-ready. | Image: OhSnap The MCON is the closest to a Swiss army knife that a controller can be. No, it doesn’t contain a can opener, but it makes up for it with a surprising array of features. Once you attach your MagSafe- or Pixelsnap-ready phone to the top plate, pressing a button along its top edge satisfyingl... View Source

Ethan Choi, partner at Khosla Ventures, says the world has only scratched the surface of AI possibilities. He says some AI model startups may be overvalued but those figures are justified because of the cost of buildout and possible upside. Choi joins Caroline Hyde on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The Steam Spring Sale is underway and as usual, there's plenty of good stuff to add to your library. The seasonal discounts will run through Thursday, March 26 at 1PM ET. If there's anything you've been waiting to buy, it's worth checking to see if it's on sale now, because huge chunks of the Steam catalog are at least a little bit off. Recent releases don't usua... View Source

Catch the soft glow of earthshine as a young crescent moon appears low after sunset... View Source

BYO power. | Image: Hermès Over a decade after Apple first partnered with Hermès for a special Apple Watch collaboration, the French luxury goods maker has released a new collection of leather-wrapped charging accessories for Apple's mobile devices. The most expensive option is a multi-device wireless charger in a case made from the brand's signature gold-colored calfskin leather that will... View Source

Electric boat startup Arc has raised a new $50 million funding round from the likes of Eclipse, Menlo Ventures, a16z, and others as it works to expand from the consumer market into tugboats, ferries, and defense vessels. Arc CEO Mitch Lee joins Caroline Hyde on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source