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Personal Intelligence can tap into your Gmail inbox to check for bookings and purchase receipts. Google is helping AI Mode to provide more personalized responses in Search by allowing the chatbot to analyze your Gmail and Google Photos accounts. After launching for Gemini AI last week, "Personal Intelligence" is now coming to tailor AI Mode search results to your interests and daily life by gather... View Source

Valuations for artificial intelligence startups have soared to astronomical levels, fueled by venture capital firms’ fear of missing out on the next big deal, billionaire private equity executive Orlando Bravo said... View Source

With video features like RAW now the norm on midrange mirrorless cameras, Canon decided not to mess around with its latest model, the 33-megapixel EOS R6 III. It’s a veritable cinematic beast, allowing up to 7K RAW video capture internally with fast and reliable autofocus and rock solid stabilization.  At the same time, it's a solid photo camera with high burst speeds and warm, accurate... View Source

Two years ago, Lenovo introduced a collection of modular Magic Bay accessories for its ThinkBook 16p. They attached to a magnetic pin connector at the top of the laptop's display and added functionality like an improved 4K webcam, or LTE connectivity. The company has since expanded Magic Bay compatibility to more of its laptops and demonstrated concepts for additional accessories, but it's now ope... View Source

Paramount Skydance again extended its tender offer for Warner Bros. Discovery shares, giving investors more time to weigh its proposal to acquire the rival media company. Caroline Hyde reports on "Bloomberg Open Interest." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

While many of us wait (im)patiently for a brand new Mario platformer for the Switch 2, Nintendo is filling the gap with an upgraded version of the tremendous Super Mario Bros. Wonder for the console. Super Mario Bros. Wonder – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition + Meetup in Bellabel Park (to give the new edition's full name) will arrive on March 26. Those who own the original Switch version of the game... View Source

A NASA astronaut on the ISS captured the Space Launch System rocket for Artemis 2, a mission that aims to bring four astronauts around the moon as soon as Feb. 6... View Source

AMD announced an improved version of its popular Ryzen 7 9800X3D processor at CES earlier this month, and it's now confirming a release date and pricing today. The new Ryzen 7 9850X3D will debut on January 29th, priced at $499. That's $20 more than the initial retail pricing of the 9800X3D, and this faster 9850X3D will feature the same 8-core / 16-thread CPU running at faster boost clocks. The boo... View Source

US stocks extended gains on President Donald Trump’s retreat from tariff threats while traders’ appetite for artificial intelligence bets returned... View Source

Scarlett Johannsson, R.E.M., Vince Gilligan and over 700 other artists are demanding that tech companies stop “stealing” their work in order to train AI models. A new campaign called “Stealing isn’t Innovation” demands that AI companies take “the responsible, ethical route” through licensing and partnerships, according to the website. “America’s creative community is the envy of the world and crea... View Source

A new tool aims to help AI chatbots generate more human-sounding text - with the help of Wikipedia's guide for detecting AI, as reported by Ars Technica. Developer Siqi Chen says he created the tool, called Humanizer, by feeding Anthropic's Claude the list of tells that Wikipedia's volunteer editors put together as part of an initiative to combat "poorly written AI-generated content." Wikipedia's... View Source

BlackRock Inc. Chief Executive Officer Larry Fink said there is no bubble in artificial intelligence, emphasizing the volume of investment needed to develop the technology... View Source

Ahead of its upcoming price hike, Spotify is rolling out a more advanced AI playlist feature in the US and Canada. Prompted Playlist, which the company trialed in New Zealand late last year, lets subscribers "control the Spotify algorithm," as the company describes it. "You're not just asking for music, you're shaping how Spotify goes about discovering it for you."For... View Source

4 min read NASA AI Model That Found 370 Exoplanets Now Digs Into TESS Data This artist’s impression shows the star TRAPPIST-1 with two planets transiting across it. ExoMiner++, a recently updated open-source software package developed by NASA, uses artificial intelligence to help find new transiting exoplanets in data collected by NASA’s missions. NASA, ESA, and G. Bacon (STScI) Scientists have di... View Source

The Core And Filament Formation/Evolution In Natal Environments (CAFFEINE) survey is an "astronomer's best friend," according to the European Southern Observatory... View Source

Waymo is kicking off the new year with a new city: Miami. Starting today, anyone on the company's waitlist of approximately 10,000 people can hail one of its robotaxis for trips within a 60-square-mile service area that includes popular neighborhoods like the Design District and Wynwood, Brickell, and Coral Gables - but not popular tourist destinations like South Beach. The vehicles also will init... View Source

Nasdaq Chair & CEO Adena Friedman speaks to Bloomberg Surveillance on the sidelines of the 2026 World Economic Forum in Davos. Friedman says AI needs to be built out and she would like to see AI innovators coming to the market. She adds that 2026 will be all about 'rule-making and rule-changing'. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Israeli digital forensics company Cellebrite has been accused of enabling human rights violations after authorities in Jordan allegedly used its technology to break into the mobile phones of activists... View Source

If you're thinking about upgrading to a new graphics card this year, your window for doing so at MSRP has closed. When I first reported on this at the start of December, things were looking bleak but you could still find GPUs from both AMD and NVIDIA at close to their recommended prices. That changed last week when YouTube channel Hardware Unboxed reported that ASUS had stopped producing the... View Source

Ubisoft is making some massive changes to its business: As part of a reorganization, the company will focus its efforts on the big open-world games it's famous for along with live service titles, and it has canceled six in-development games, including Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Remake. It's all part of a recent trend of the industry's biggest publishers, including companies like EA and So... View Source

PayPal Holdings Inc. agreed to acquire Cymbio, a platform designed to help merchants sell products across AI chatbots. Terms weren’t disclosed... View Source

The CEO of Mistral AI, Europe's only large language model player, said the idea that China is behind in AI is a ‘fairy tale’. He also announced Mistral’s revenues should ‘cross the billion’ by the end of the year. Arthur Mensch spoke with Bloomberg’s Joumanna Bercetche on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Snapchat is updating its parental control features to give parents more detailed information about who their kids are connecting with in the app and which features they use the most. The app's Family Center already gives parents visibility into their child's friend list, but it will now surface contextual details when a new friend is added.For example, the feature could highlight that th... View Source

The UK government said it made a “serious logical error” in approving a proposed large-scale data center west of London, accepting that its decision should be overturned ahead of a London court hearing, according to a campaign group challenging the decision... View Source

Billionaire Elon Musk is going to the World Economic Forum in Davos for the first time, after years of trading barbs with the organizers of the annual gathering of plutocrats... View Source

The iOptron 80mm scope is easy to use and suited to both white-light solar viewing and nighttime observations... View Source

A growing measles outbreak in South Carolina has infected more than 600 people since October, with hundreds more being potentially exposed... View Source

Darktrace CEO Jill Popelka says artificial intelligence has “democratized” cyberattacks, which requires a shift toward sophisticated defenses to protect businesses. She speaks to Bloomberg TV's Francine Lacqua on the sidelines of the 2026 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The US is ahead in the artificial intelligence digital race as companies there have the infrastructure, Accenture CEO Julie Sweet told Bloomberg's Francine Lacqua. They spoke on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Google, Microsoft and Nvidia are among the names vying to make forecasts more accurate for longer... View Source

Memory and storage stocks are the market’s hottest trade, but investors aren’t sweating the companies’ suddenly elevated valuations as the buildout of artificial intelligence transforms their cyclical nature... View Source

Former UK Prime Minister speaks to Bloomberg's Francine Lacqua in Davos on the sidelines of the 2026 World Economic Forum. Sunak says he welcomes the news that the US and NATO have appeared to reach an agreement on Greenland but the process has damaged trust between allies. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The faint outline of a human hand discovered in a cave in eastern Indonesia is the world’s oldest known example of rock art, according to a new study... View Source

Bloomberg News's Mihir Mishra takes us through India's plans to launch over 50 surveillance satellites within two years. This is to strengthen national security after last year’s border conflict with Pakistan exposed critical blind spots. The initiative includes night-vision capabilities, inter-satellite data transfer, and overseas ground stations in regions like the Middle East and Scandinavia. T... View Source

Walmart Inc. and Tiger Global Management are among the backers of digital payments company PhonePe Ltd. offering shares in what’s set to be India’s biggest initial public offering since October... View Source

Shares of Japanese toilet maker Toto Ltd. gained the most in five years after booming memory demand excited expectations of growth in its little-known chipmaking materials operations... View Source

Banco Santander SA is planning to widen the group of staff allowed to use WhatsApp after some complained the existing partial ban is hurting business, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

Billionaire Sarath Ratanavadi’s Gulf Development Pcl, Thailand’s largest power producer, is deepening its expansion into artificial intelligence with an agreement with Alphabet Inc.’s Google to jointly explore business opportunities... View Source

X is rolling out a new feature called “Starterpacks” to all users in the coming weeks, the company’s head of product has announced. It’s made up of compilations of accounts new users can follow based on their interests. If that sounds familiar, it’s because Bluesky launched a very similar feature that’s also called “starter packs” back in 2024. Bluesky allows ordinary users to curate their own pac... View Source

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Around 800 artists, writers, actors, and musicians signed on to a new campaign against what they call "theft at a grand scale" by AI companies. The signatories of the campaign - called "Stealing Isn't Innovation" - include authors George Saunders and Jodi Picoult, actors Cate Blanchett and Scarlett Johansson, and musicians like the band R.E.M., Billy Corgan, and The Roots. "Driven by fierce compet... View Source

Malaysia is reviewing its rules for regulating social media platforms after an outcry over sexualized images of people generated by Elon Musk’s Grok artificial intelligence chatbot... View Source

Eternal Ltd.’s shares jumped in early trading in Mumbai on Thursday after strong momentum in its quick-commerce business boosted its quarterly earnings and prompted several broker upgrades... View Source

Ruba Borno, Vice President, Global Specialists & Partners, Amazon Web Services and Bryan Harris, Executive Vice President & Chief Technology Officer, SAS discuss balancing responsible growth and trust with Bloomberg's Mandeep Singh at Bloomberg House in Davos on the sidelines of the 2026 World Economic Forum. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Jeff Bezos-backed Blue Origin is building a satellite communication network to deliver connectivity to data centers, governments and businesses, the company said on Wednesday... View Source

Global semiconductor stocks advanced, as comments by Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang at Davos helped reinforce investor enthusiasm for the artificial intelligence trade... View Source

TikTok will be able to continue operating its subsidiary in Canada for now, with the government’s blessing, after a judge shelved a previous order for it to wind down... View Source

Federal Reserve GDPNow tracking at 5.4% real GDP growth – Up from first week of January, holding between 5.1-5.4% – Historically within 0.5% accuracy of official BEA numbers – Late 90s had similar growth from telecom/fiber capex spending – Current AI data center buildout creating parallel infrastructure investment Sustained growth potential – AI spending: $400B ... Re... View Source

Tokyo Stock Exchange Inc. is looking to strengthen its market for initial public offerings by pitching itself as a venue for cross-border listings by startups in Asia... View Source

Disco Corp. shares jumped as much as 15% after the supplier of chipmaking tools reported better-than-expected quarterly earnings on surging demand for AI-related hardware... View Source

Congress is one step closer to gaining the authority to review artificial intelligence chip sales to China, a move likely to open a rift with the Trump administration over plans to let Nvidia Corp. sell its powerful H200 processors to the world’s second-largest economy... View Source

Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow discuss President Donald Trump’s call for "immediate negotiations” on Greenland during his speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Plus Netflix shares slid as spending on programming mounts. And Zipline CEO Keller Cliffton discusses the drone delivery startup's new $7.6 billion valuation and expansion plans.  (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Sennheiser’s new Auracast transmitter can be purchased as part of a bundle with its new wireless headphones. | Image: Sennheiser As we've previously lamented, one of Bluetooth's best modern features isn't being embraced by the tech world, but that's changing. Sennheiser has announced a new pair of wireless headphones and a transmitter designed for private TV watching that both use a Bluetooth feat... View Source

Applecart, a marketing technology startup, raised $100 million in a minority funding round led by Blackstone Inc.’s growth equity business... View Source

The fact that Crew-11 returned to Earth safely despite unprecedented circumstances bodes well for the success of future missions that go farther afield, astronauts said... View Source

Deployment will serve data centers, governments and businesses, jumping into market dominated by SpaceXJeff Bezos’s space company Blue Origin on Wednesday announced a plan to deploy 5,408 satellites in space for a communications network that will serve data centers, governments and businesses, jumping into a satellite constellation market dominated by Elon Musk’s SpaceX.Deployment of satellites is... View Source

The Blue Origin New Glenn rocket lifts off at Launch Complex 36 in its second launch attempt at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on November 13, 2025 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. | Miguel J. Rodriguez Carrillo/Getty Images SpaceX has the most internet-beaming satellites in its constellation, but the competition is coming, and now Jeff Bezos' space company Blue Origin, has announced the TeraWave n... View Source

OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman has been meeting with top investors in the Middle East to line up funding for a new investment round that could total at least $50 billion, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

This image shows NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) and Orion spacecraft rolling out of the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. NASA’s massive crawler-transporter, upgraded for the Artemis program, carries the powerful SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft on the Mobile Launcher from the Vehicle Assembly Building to Launch Pad 39B at Kennedy Space Center in preparation for the... View Source

Barry speaks with Cory Doctorow, a science fiction author, activist, journalist and blogger. They discuss the power of large companies over the Internet, and Corey's advocacy for data privacy. Barry and Cory discuss platform decay on the Internet, and how companies keep operating profitably while the user experience decays. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

It may be one of the most iconic sights in the night sky, but astronomers have never seen the Helix Nebula like this before... View Source

A tropical storm has triggered severe flooding across New Zealand’s North Island, leaving people missing, forcing evacuations and prompting helicopter rescues of residents trapped on rooftops... View Source

Apple will reportedly try to succeed where Humane failed (miserably). On Wednesday, The Information reported that the iPhone maker is working on an AI pin. The wearable is said to resemble a slightly thicker AirTag and include multiple cameras, a speaker, microphones, and wireless charging.The report coincides with another from Bloomberg that claims that Apple will revamp Siri as a ChatGPT-style c... View Source

Greenland framework, announced by President Trump on January 21, 2026, following a meeting with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, is described as a preliminary outline or concept of a deal for future negotiations concerning Greenland and broader Arctic security. It is not a finalized agreement but sets ... Read more... View Source

Great Scott! Legends of Tomorrow still rocks even 10 years later... View Source

Apple is working on an AI-powered wearable pin with cameras and microphones designed to pick up a user's surroundings, according to a report from The Information. The rumored device is reportedly the size of an AirTag, with "thin, flat, circular" housing made from aluminium and glass. The Information reports that Apple's rumored AI pin will have a standard lens and a wide-angle lens, along with th... View Source

Disgraced Theranos Inc. founder Elizabeth Holmes has formally asked President Donald Trump to release her from prison with almost six years left to serve on her term... View Source

Marshall plans to add seamless multi-room audio to its Bluetooth speakers via a newly announced music streaming hub called Heddon. The $300 hub makes it possible to connect and synchronize multiple older Marshall speakers together, not unlike Sonos' audio devices.Rather than use Wi-Fi to get multiple speakers playing the same audio, though, the Marshall Heddon uses Auracast. The hub connects... View Source

XAI’s Digital Agent Strategy – Target markets: $100B opportunities (Microsoft Office suite, operating systems) – Implementation phases: 1. Internal XAI automation first 2. Expand to other Musk companies (SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink) 3. External customer rollout – Technical approach: Small, efficient agents (100-200 watts) vs large models – Reinforcement learning agents with fu... View Source

Artificial intelligence startup SambaNova Systems Inc. is considering raising up to $500 million after talks to sell to Intel Corp. stalled, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

Apple has been spinning its wheels for many months over its approach to artificial intelligence, but a strategy finally appears to be emerging for the company. Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reported today that Apple's long-awaited Siri overhaul will allegedly involve transforming the voice assistant into an AI chatbot, internally called Campos. Sources have reportedly told Gurman that App... View Source

"Dark matter can be red hot when it is born, but still have time to cool down before galaxies begin to form."... View Source

Anthropic is overhauling Claude's so-called "soul doc." The new missive is a 57-page document titled "Claude's Constitution," which details "Anthropic's intentions for the model's values and behavior," aimed not at outside readers but the model itself. The document is designed to spell out Claude's "ethical character" and "core identity," including how it should balance conflicting values and high... View Source

Drone delivery startup Zipline has raised more than $600 million in a new funding round that almost doubles its valuation to $7.6 billion. Zipline CEO and co-founder Keller Cliffton joins Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow on "Bloomberg Tech." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Volvo hasn't exactly had a great run of EVs lately. The rollout of its flagship EX90 was stymied out of the gate by a bevy of software glitches. The EX30, meanwhile, was too expensive when it launched — the promised $35,000 model was incompatible with the currently chaotic global tariff situation.Now, it's time for a new generation of EV from Volvo, one that's radically different at... View Source

Explore This Section Science Science Activation Students Across New England… Overview Learning Resources Science Activation Teams SME Map Opportunities More Science Activation Stories Citizen Science Science Activation Opportunities   3 min read Students Across New England Contribute to Climate Science Through NASA’s GLOBE Green Down Students made observations and tracked the changing color of lea... View Source

Astronaut Suni Williams left NASA late last month after 27 years of service. She spent a total of 608 days in space, more than all but one other American astronaut... View Source

Apple is planning a big Siri overhaul that will transform the voice assistant into an AI chatbot built directly into its iPhone and Mac, according to Bloomberg reporter Mark Gurman. The update is reportedly coming later this year and will replace the existing Siri interface, allowing users to interact with the assistant by both typing and talking, similar to the chatbots available from Google, Ope... View Source

Apple Inc. plans to revamp Siri later this year by turning the digital assistant into the company’s first artificial intelligence chatbot, thrusting the iPhone maker into a generative AI race dominated by OpenAI and Google... View Source

Apple TV+ has become one of the best streaming services for sci-fi, with hits like Pluribus, Severance, Foundation and many more. There are so many shows that it's easy to forget the one that started it all. For All Mankind was the platform's very first attempt at sci-fi and it's finally coming back after two years for season five on March 27. The next season will run for ten episod... View Source

Official crew portrait for NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission with NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Takuya Onishi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov. Ayers and Onishi will discuss their recent mission to the International Space Station during a visit to Marshall Space Flight Center on Jan. 23.Credit: NASA NASA will host two astronau... View Source

Blue Origin just announced "TeraWave," a planned satellite megaconstellation designed for customers who need super-high-throughput communication services... View Source

Nex Computer runs both Android and this Windows Phone-esque mobile UI that they made in-house. Nex Computer, a company that makes hardware designed to turn your phone into a laptop, is working on something new: the NexPhone. It's a midrange phone that's designed to double as your computer and comes with Android and Linux installed, both of which will offer desktop experiences when plugged into a m... View Source

Iconiq, Lightspeed and Menlo Ventures are set to join the startup’s new funding round at a $350 billion valuation. ... View Source

Microsoft has announced that the Xbox app is now available on all Arm-based Windows 11 PCs. The app's release follows an update Microsoft made to its Prism emulator in December 2025, which translates x86 and x64 apps to Arm, and now includes support for AVX and AVX2. Both extensions play a role in making games run efficiently on Windows.Windows on Arm users will be able to use the Xbox app to... View Source

Explore This Section Science Science Activation NASA’s Universe of Learning… Overview Learning Resources Science Activation Teams SME Map Opportunities More Science Activation Stories Citizen Science Science Activation Opportunities   3 min read NASA’s Universe of Learning Unveils Fresh Facilitator Guides Inspired by Community Feedback NASA’s Universe of Learning Program Facilitator Guides provide... View Source

The LinkBuds Clip Open’s charging case can be customized with optional colored covers. | Image: Sony Sony is the latest company to announce a pair of open-style wireless earbuds that clip onto the back of your ear instead of resting inside it. The new Sony LinkBuds Clip Open earbuds are similar to the Bose Ultra Open Earbuds, JVC's Nearphones, and Shokz' OpenDots One, with a design that doesn't bl... View Source

A huge portion of the United States is going to be hit with snow or freezing rain this weekend. Exactly where, what, and how much remains uncertain... View Source

The announcement came out of the blue, from Blue, on Wednesday. The space company founded by Jeff Bezos, Blue Origin, said it was developing a new megaconstellation named TeraWave to deliver data speeds of up to 6Tbps anywhere on Earth. The constellation will consist of 5,408 optically interconnected satellites, with a majority in low-Earth orbit and the remainder in medium-Earth orbit. The satell... View Source

Custom blocking tools have replaced brute-force shutdowns... View Source

Threads has grown enough for Meta to fully integrate it into its advertising machine. On Wednesday, the company said that, with the platform now hosting 400 million monthly active users, ads are expanding globally to all users. The inevitable move follows a test in 30 countries early last year.Ads on Threads are powered by Meta's AI-powered advertising system. They'll use the "same... View Source

4 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA’s Cross Flow Attenuated Natural Laminar Flow test article is mounted beneath the agency’s F-15 research aircraft ahead of the design’s high-speed taxi test on Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2026, at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California. The 3-foot-tall scale model is designed to increase a phenomenon k... View Source

The photos were taken during a severe G4 geomagnetic storm, one of the strongest in years... View Source

The network will be designed for enterprise, data center, and government customers and could offer an alternative to SpaceX's Starlink service... View Source

The images in the background serve as covers for each song on The Eleven Album. | Image: ElevenLabs / The Verge ElevenLabs has released an album of AI-generated songs in its latest attempt to separate itself from the ethical concerns surrounding AI music. The Eleven Album aims to showcase "how artists can use AI to expand their creative range while maintaining full authorship and commercial rights... View Source

Hyundai Motor Co. overtook General Motors Co. as the world’s fourth-most valuable automaker as the South Korean firm’s robotics push fuels a blistering stock rally... View Source

Amazon is introducing an AI-powered assistant to One Medical, the tech-forward primary care provider it acquired in 2023. Dubbed 'Health AI,' Amazon says the tool "provides 24/7 personalized health guidance based on your medical records." The company says Health AI can explain lab results, help manage medications, and book appointments for patients. Amazon also says it can... View Source

Bungie's next game returns with a new in-engine trailer and more details ahead of its long-awaited release... View Source

It looks like Samsung is preparing to launch a new Qi2 battery pack for the upcoming Galaxy S26, which is rumored to support the upgraded charging standard. A report from Winfuture shows off leaked images of what appears to be the new accessory, outfitted with a magnetic Qi2 charging ring that delivers up to 15W of power, along with a USB-C cable offering up to 20W. Winfuture suggests that the wir... View Source

Preply, an online marketplace for learning languages, raised $150 million in a funding round, almost tripling its valuation to $1.2 billion... View Source

Two high-profile upcoming Ubisoft games have been starting to look more and more like vaporware with each passing year. One of them is Beyond Good & Evil 2, which we were assured is still in development last year. The other is the Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time remake, which is now officially canceled, along with five other games on Ubisoft’s release slate. The news came in a media briefi... View Source

NASA/Sam Lott This Jan. 17, 2026, image shows NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) and Orion spacecraft rolling out of the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA’s massive Crawler-Transporter, upgraded for the Artemis program, carries the powerful SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft to Launch Pad 39B in preparation for the Artemis II mission. Moving at a maximum sp... View Source

Volvo's EX60, with fast-charging capabilities and a brand-new electric architecture, made its official debut today, with the Swedish automaker positioning the crossover EV as a new direction for its battery-powered lineup. With up to 400 miles of estimated range and an 800-volt architecture for ultra-fast charging, the EX60 feels like a concerted effort by Volvo to address some of the most common... View Source

Sony Group Corp. introduced its latest pair of consumer earbuds, with a clip-on design that resembles recent efforts from Bose Corp., Lenovo Group Ltd.’s Motorola unit and Huawei Technologies Co... View Source

Elon Musk is reportedly looking to finally take SpaceX public after years of resistance, according to sources who spoke to The Wall Street Journal. The company has long said it wouldn't choose an IPO until it had established a presence on Mars. That isn't happening anytime soon. So why now? Company insiders have suggested it's because Musk wants to build AI data centers in spac... View Source

With a host of exciting new Marvel and Star Wars releases landing this year, Disney Plus is the streaming subscription to have in 2026 and now it's a third cheaper with this UK-only deal... View Source

Ubisoft is announcing a major reorganization, and with the changes, it's refocusing its portfolio and canceling some games, including the beleaguered remake of Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. With the reorganization, Ubisoft will focus its efforts on big open worlds and live service games. In the new structure, which goes into effect in April, Ubisoft's new operating model will "be structured... View Source

One of OpenAI’s top executives defended the company’s addition of ads to its popular chatbot ChatGPT as a way to democratize access to artificial intelligence... View Source

I vividly remember when Bose announced the Ultra Open Earbuds. While I applauded the company for trying something different, I wasn’t sure if the clip-on design would take hold. Well, here we are almost two years later and most earbud makers now have something akin to Bose’s fashion experiment. You can now count Sony among those as the company revealed its LinkBuds Clip ($230) open-fit earbuds tod... View Source

A sample of a polymetallic nodule at the Viridian Biometals lab in Pasadena, California. | Photo: Getty Images The Trump administration took the next step toward unilaterally jumpstarting deep-sea mining this week, announcing a "consolidated" permitting process for both searching for and commercially extracting minerals that have so far remained relatively untouched. These minerals are found so de... View Source

GE Vernova CEO Scott Strazik discusses the future of energy and the impact of the AI boom at the 2026 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

YouTube is just as wary of the rise of AI slop as you, and that’s why more AI-generated content is coming to the platform in the near future. In a lengthy blog post outlining YouTube’s 2026 plans, CEO Neal Mohan said the company will continue to embrace this new "creative frontier" by soon allowing its creators to throw together Shorts using their AI-generated likeness. Mohan didn’t elab... View Source

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The first emergency operation in the history of China's human spaceflight program ended on Jan. 19 when an uncrewed Shenzhou 20 capsule damaged by a space-junk strike came safely down to Earth... View Source

DJI’s Mic Mini makes vlogging on the go a little easier. If you want better audio than your phone can deliver while creating content on the go but a high-end wireless mic isn’t in the budget, DJI’s Mic Mini is worth a look. It’ll improve your audio without putting much of a dent in your wallet, especially today now you can buy it with a single mic and two transmitters for $59.99 ($20 off) at Amazo... View Source

ArcelorMittal SA and South Africa’s biggest development-finance institution have resumed talks over the potential acquisition of the Luxembourg-based steel giant’s operations in the African country, after failing to lure other suitors... View Source

Samsung’s 2025 was filled with new foldables, an ultra-thin new form factor and the launch of Google's XR platform. After making some announcements at CES 2026, the company is expected to host its first Galaxy Unpacked of the year in February to introduce the Galaxy S26 lineup.Engadget will be covering Galaxy Unpacked live, and we'll most likely have hands-on coverage of Samsung's n... View Source

It's been just one week since Verizon got permission to lift its 60-day phone unlocking period, and the carrier is already making changes to its policy. Now, Verizon says customers who activate a phone on one of its sub-brands, including Visible, TracFone, Straight Talk, and Total Wireless, will have to pay for service for 365 days before switching their phone to a different network, as spotted ea... View Source

India’s southern state of Andhra Pradesh is studying Australia’s ban on children under 16 years of age from using social media, its minister in charge of technology and human resources said Tuesday... View Source

Weber has been in the smart grilling game since 2020, dabbling in Wi-Fi connectivity for gas and pellet grills. It has also offered grillers a standalone option for its Weber Connect platform. For 2026, the company is expanding its smart grilling lineup to its original fuel source: charcoal. Today, Weber announced the Performer Smart Charcoal Grill and Kettle Smart Ring, both of which bring Weber... View Source

The Large Magellanic Cloud, or LMC, is a key spot for astronomers to study star formation... View Source

She set the record for most spacewalk time by a woman and spent nine months at the International Space StationSuni Williams, one of two Nasa astronauts whose 10-day test flight mission turned into a nine-month odyssey on the International Space Station (ISS), has retired from the US space agency.The 60-year-old former navy captain left in December after 27 years with Nasa, according to a press rel... View Source

Your YouTube Shorts feed might soon be filled with a lot more AI-generated content from your favorite creators - including AI-generated versions of the creators themselves. In his annual letter released today, YouTube CEO Neal Mohan says that sometime this year, creators will be able to make Shorts using their "own likeness." Mohan didn't share further details about these likenesses. "We'll have m... View Source

YouTube Chief Executive Officer Neal Mohan said combating the rise of low-quality “AI slop” on the platform will be a top priority in 2026, emphasizing the need to embrace artificial intelligence while better safeguarding the video app and its users... View Source

If you're looking to expand the storage on your Switch 2, the 512GB Samsung P9 microSD Express card is on sale right now for 33 percent off, marked down to $80 from $120. With component prices skyrocketing these days, it's getting increasingly rare to see good storage on sale, and 512GB for $80 is a much better deal than you'll currently find directly from Nintendo. The P9 boasts tr... View Source

Generate Podcasts will let you listen to a summary of any documents you don’t have time to read. Adobe has added new generative AI features to Acrobat that aim to help you quickly edit PDFs and summarize them in audio and visual formats. These updates include chat-based editing and the ability to generate personalized podcasts and presentations based on your docs, which are now available in Acroba... View Source

Networking company raises $200 million just four months after previous round... View Source

Back in August, Adobe debuted Acrobat Studio. The new service saw Adobe bring the humble PDF into the 21st century with support for a handful of new genAI features, including PDF Spaces, a hub where you can upload up to 100 documents and have AI summarize them. Now the company is enhancing the capabilities of those hubs with the introduction of four new genAI features inside of Adobe Acrobat, Acro... View Source

Starfish Space just scored a $52.5 million contract to deorbit satellites for the U.S. Space Force, the first deal ever signed for such "end of life" disposal services for a constellation in low Earth orbit... View Source

What is an authentic photo? A couple of weeks ago, Adam Mosseri posted to his grid. In a series of messages, Instagram's top exec laid out his concerns for the platform in the coming year, largely around AI. The post was equal parts Working Through It, a sounding of alarms, and a rallying cry to creators who use the platform: AI is about to be everywhere on Instagram, and the best way to stand out... View Source

The boom in data-center development is changing the customer mix significantly for GE Vernova Inc., a key supplier of power-generation equipment... View Source

Microsoft has announced some solid additions to Game Pass this month, ranging from AAA titles to indies, including some of our favorites from 2024 and 2025. Topping the list is Death Stranding Director’s Cut, an extended version of Hideo Kojima’s 2019 sci-fi action game (now available). Other key inclusions are Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 (January 29) and puzzle game The Talos Principle 2 (Ja... View Source

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We're living in a pretty great time for detective games. Over the last few years, developers have been experimenting with all kinds of different ways of turning the act of investigation into a compelling game, which has led to the likes of Her Story, Return of the Obra Dinn, and the Golden Idol series, to name just a few. Now you can add TR-49 to that list - a game that builds on the genre by intr... View Source

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One of the disconcerting things about using a virtual private network (VPN) is that it can be hard to tell when it's doing its job. The best VPNs all work in the background to keep your IP address hidden and your communications with their servers encrypted. The better the VPN, the less you notice it, which can make a top-performing VPN feel (uncomfortably) like one that isn't working at... View Source

The four astronauts of SpaceX's Crew-11 mission will discuss their shorter-than-expected stay aboard the International Space Station today (Jan. 21), and you can watch it live... View Source

As artificial intelligence threatens to upends job markets in countries around the world, Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang brushed off longer term concerns and made the case that skilled vocational workers are seeing increasing demand now... View Source

On a blustery afternoon late last year, on the lawn just outside City Hall in Rowlett, Texas, a strange-looking craft cleared the trees just before me. It hovered overhead for a moment before lowering a second craft on a thin rope all the way to a parched patch of grass. The little, white thing deposited a brown paper payload, then rode its tether back up to its waiting mothership, which turned an... View Source

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said the infrastructure around artificial intelligence will need trillions of dollars in additional investment over the coming years. He made the comments during a conversation with BlackRock’s Larry Fink at the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

After testing the feature for the last six months or so, Netflix said it will bring vertical videos to its mobile app sometime later in 2026, TechCrunch reported. So far, the feature has been used to show clips promoting Netflix films and TV shows, letting you swipe to move to the next one à la TikTok or YouTube Shorts. Going forward, though, it could also serve as a promotion tool for new types o... View Source

Isar Aerospace's Spectrum rocket will try to become the first vehicle ever to reach orbit from European soil today (Jan. 21), and you can watch the action live... View Source

I'm not sure anyone saw this news coming, but the TV landscape as we know it could change considerably over the next year or two. Sony, the storied Japanese TV brand, has announced that it has signed a memorandum of understanding with its Chinese competitor TCL. This potential partnership - with TCL set to hold a 51 percent stake and Sony 49 percent - has prompted speculation across the internet a... View Source

Chinese authorities have fined PDD Holdings Inc. 100,000 yuan ($14,000) for failing to file essential tax documents in time, a modest penalty for a company that’s the target of a widening government probe... View Source

Workers are turning to chatbots to help them get through difficult conversations with their colleagues and business partners... View Source

OpenAI says it will minimize water use and pay for energy infrastructure upgrades needed to power its data centers. "We're being good neighbors," the company said, directly addressing the growing opposition to AI projects amid rising utility bills. "We commit to paying our own way on energy, so that our operations don't increase your electricity prices," OpenAI said. The company promised to work w... View Source

BlackRock Vice Chairman Philipp Hildebrand discusses the changing world order, Europe's role and the impact of the artificial intelligence boom on inflation. He speaks on Bloomberg Television at the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Aurora lights shimmering over Earth were filmed on camera by Russia's space agency Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Kud-Sverchkov from the International Space Station. The phenomenon is caused by solar storms emitting high-speed charged particles colliding with gases in Earth’s atmosphere. The most common colour seen during this display is green, although other colours such as pink and red are sometimes... View Source

Working out whether the artificial intelligence hype is justified is fundamental to judging whether the world faces the danger of more inflation, former central banker Philipp Hildebrand said... View Source

Age prediction is rolling out almost globally, with users in the EU getting it ‘in the coming weeks.’ OpenAI has added age prediction features to ChatGPT, meant to identify and bolster protections for underage users. These age detection plans were announced in December alongside updated guidelines for interacting with teens, and follow a rise in similar age-gating efforts from online platforms, in... View Source

A new analysis finds that data centers’ energy demands will drastically increase power plant emissions over the next decade. Renewables, though, could cut them while helping keep prices from rising... View Source

China’s Zhipu is limiting access to its coding assistant after strong demand for a new AI model siphoned off computing resources... View Source

Meta's Nicola Mendelsohn speaks to Bloomberg's Francine Lacqua on the regulatory regime in Europe. She says it makes it harder to roll out and adopt new AI products, and that business leaders are becoming increasingly frustrated. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The Philippines said on Wednesday that it will restore access to the Grok artificial intelligence system after the company of tech billionaire Elon Musk promised to remove features that allow for creation of pornographic content... View Source

Insight with Haslinda Amin, a daily news program featuring in-depth, high-profile interviews and analysis to give viewers the complete picture on the stories that matter. The show features prominent leaders spanning the worlds of business, finance, politics and culture. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The new funding round comes as residential installations are declining across the bloc. ... View Source

Chinese stocks defied a pullback in global markets Wednesday, as optimism about Beijing’s stronger push to achieve technology self-reliance eclipsed concerns over rising geopolitical uncertainties... View Source

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung downplayed US threats of punishing tariffs on foreign-made chips, while reaffirming his commitment to existing trade agreements... View Source

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Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. has set up an electricity generation venture with one of China’s leading nuclear conglomerates, a move that could help secure the immense power needed to run AI data centers... View Source

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Mark Zuckerberg, Lauren Sanchez, Jeff Bezos and Sundar Pichai attend the inauguration of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda on January 20, 2025 in Washington, DC. | Kenny Holston-Pool/Getty Images. Welcome to Regulator, a newsletter for Verge subscribers about the technology and the tech bros upending American politics and the Trump administration. If you're not a subscr... View Source

OpenAI said it will pay for the costs of developing energy-related infrastructure required by its Stargate data centers to address concerns the facilities may drive up consumers’ utility bills... View Source

Global money managers are warming up to shares of Indian software exporters again, as they gear their business toward artificial intelligence... View Source

Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang is planning to travel to China in late January as he works to reopen a crucial market for his company’s artificial intelligence chips... View Source

Netflix reached an amended, all-cash agreement to buy Warner Bros. Discovery’s studio and streaming business as it battles Paramount Skydance. Geetha Ranganathan has more on "Bloomberg Open Interest." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Artificial intelligence will displace so many jobs that it will eliminate the need for mass immigration, according to Palantir Technologies Inc. Chief Executive Officer Alex Karp... View Source

Demis Hassabis, Google Deepmind CEO, just told the AI world that ChatGPT’s path needs a world model. OpenAI and Google and XAI and Anthropic are all using the LLM (Large Language Model Approach). Google Genie 3 system, released last August, generates interactive 3D environments from text. Here is my review of the state of the ... Read more... View Source

Defense Unicorns, the maker of secure military software, has raised a $136 million Series B financing round led by Bain Capital. The startup’s co-founder and CEO Rob Slaughter joins Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Snap Inc. has reached an agreement to settle a key plaintiff’s claims that the platform’s design led her to become addicted and caused her mental health problems... View Source

The Helix Nebula is one of the most well-known and commonly photographed planetary nebulae because it resembles the "Eye of Sauron." It is also one of the closest bright nebulae to Earth, located approximately 655 light-years from our Solar System. You may not know what this particular nebula looks like when reading its name, but the Hubble Space Telescope has taken some iconic images of it over t... View Source

Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow discuss Netflix’s amended, all-cash offer to buy Warner Bros. Discovery's studio and streaming business. Plus, as tech leaders sit down with Bloomberg from Davos, Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis says Chinese AI firms are six months behind US frontier models. And, funding continues to pour into defense tech startups. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

January 20, 2026, SpaceX Ship 39 is in the final stages of outfitting in Mega Bay 2 at Starbase. Recent progress includes the installation of aft flaps. This is one of the last major steps before testing. Starship 39 and Booster 19 are needed to be completed and stacked to launch Starship Flight 12. What ... Read more... View Source

Netflix is working on a new mobile UI set to roll out later this year that will "better serve the expansion of our business over the decade to come," co-CEO Greg Peters said in an earnings call on Tuesday. The new mobile UI follows last year's big TV revamp that put a new banner front and center on the home screen recommending something to watch. With the TV revamp, former chief product officer Eu... View Source

Data centers that have lined up new electricity capacity for their facilities would get priority in connecting to the largest US power grid under a proposal by PJM Interconnection LLC... View Source

OpenAI is the latest company to hop on the bandwagon of gating access by users' age. The AI business is beginning a global rollout of an age prediction tool to determine whether or not a user is a minor. “The model looks at a combination of behavioral and account-level signals, including how long an account has existed, typical times of day when someone is active, usage patterns over time,and... View Source

The Space Shuttle Columbia Memorial is seen during a wreath laying ceremony that was part of NASA’s Day of Remembrance, Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025, at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia. Wreaths were laid in memory of those men and women who lost their lives in the quest for space exploration.Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls NASA will observe its annual Day of Remembrance on Thursday, Jan. 22, wh... View Source

The latest GDPNow USA GPD estimate is 5.3 percent — January 14, 2026. U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said on Tuesday he expected first quarter GDP growth in the United States would exceed 5% in the first quarter of 2026, adding that its interest rates were too high and were holding back stronger growth. The ... Read more... View Source

Netflix's advertising business more than doubled its advertising revenue to $1.5 billion from 2024 to 2025 - and it's on track to keep growing. "We expect that [advertising] business to roughly double again in '26 to about $3 billion," Netflix co-CEO Greg Peters said during an earnings call on Tuesday, hours ahead of its live viewer voting-enabled Star Search event. "We're making good progress, an... View Source

Seaport Research Partners Senior Analyst David Joyce breaks down Netflix's fourth-quarter results and explains why shares are trading lower on "Bloomberg The Close." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The Federal Trade Commission lost its antitrust case against Meta last year, but the regulator hasn't given up on its attempts to punish the social media company for its acquisitions of WhatsApp and Instagram. The FTC is appealing a ruling last year in which a federal judge found that the government hadn't proven that Meta is currently operating as a monopoly. "Meta has maintai... View Source

Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) staffers working at the Social Security Administration (SSA) broke protocols, had more access to sensitive data on Americans than previously disclosed, and were in touch with a political advocacy group hunting for election fraud, the Trump administration admitted in a recent court filing. Justice Department officials told a federal court in Maryland that... View Source

Zipline, a drone delivery and logistics startup, has raised more than $600 million in new funding, boosting its valuation to $7.6 billion, as it expands commercial deployments... View Source

"I don't think anyone's made this connection between the surface fluid pattern and the interior properties of these planets."... View Source

Tesla aims to restart work on Dojo3, its previously abandoned third-generation AI chip. Only this time, Dojo3 won’t be aimed at training self-driving models on Earth. Instead, Musk says it will be dedicated to “space-based AI compute.”... View Source

The Federal Trade Commission will appeal its loss in a landmark antitrust case against Meta, the agency announced Tuesday. US District Court Judge James Boasberg ruled in November that the government failed to prove that Meta had an illegal monopoly over a subset of social networking services meant for connecting with friends and family online. Boasberg wrote that the government had an "uphill bat... View Source

Artificial intelligence startup Baseten Labs Inc. has raised $300 million at a $5 billion valuation, according to a person familiar with the matter... View Source

NASA astronaut Suni Williams at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station’s Naval Ordnance Test Unit basin in Florida on March 28, 2018. Credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett After 27 years of service, NASA astronaut Suni Williams retired from the agency, effective Dec. 27, 2025. Williams completed three missions aboard the International Space Station, setting numerous human spaceflight records throughout her ca... View Source

Greg Yang, one of the co-founders of Elon Musk’s startup xAI, is stepping down from the company after being diagnosed with Lyme disease... View Source

NASA NASA announced Tuesday the selection of three new science investigations that will strengthen humanity’s understanding and exploration of the Moon. As part of the agency’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative and Artemis campaign, American companies will deliver these research payloads to the lunar surface no earlier than 2028. “With CLPS, NASA has been taking a new approach to... View Source

Bitcoin slid to its lowest level in more than a week. Wintermute CEO and co-founder Evgeny Gaevoy says that the recent crypto market cycles have defied expectations, driven in part by memecoin activity and growing investor preference for ETFs rather than direct speculation. On policy, Gaevoy says that he supports the current market-structure legislation as a necessary next step for crypto’s develo... View Source

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Last year, Nova Launcher founder and sole developer Kevin Barry announced he had left Branch Metrics, Nova's parent company at the time - which followed an announcement from 2024 that nearly everyone working on the project had been laid off. But the launcher is getting new life: in a blog post on Tuesday, the Swedish company Instabridge, which makes an app that helps people connect to Wi-FI hotspo... View Source

The US Federal Trade Commission will appeal a federal judge’s decision that Meta Platforms Inc. doesn’t have a monopoly in social networking, an agency spokesman said Tuesday... View Source

Image credit: HeroX NASA’s Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation (CoECI) assists in the use of crowdsourcing across the federal government. CoECI’s NASA Tournament Lab offers the contract capability to run external crowdsourced challenges on behalf of NASA and other agencies. The Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announces the “Suppleme... View Source

Blue Origin will launch six people to the final frontier on Thursday (Jan. 22), and you can watch the space tourism mission live... View Source

Coinbase's Brian Armstrong still sees a path for the US to pass comprehensive crypto legislation even after helping to derail a bill last week. He pulled support for the latest draft of digital asset market structure legislation in a Jan. 14 social media post. Within hours of Armstrong’s post, Senate Banking Chairman Tim Scott announced he would postpone a planned markup. Armstrong spoke today wit... View Source

Did you save your Google Stadia controller like I told you last month? It's still not too late. This week, Google has finally removed the tool that converts the now-useless controller into a decent Bluetooth gamepad. But there's another way. Christopher Klay, who previously developed the Stadia Enhanced browser extension, is one of many who saved a copy of the tool to a personal GitHub page. What'... View Source

This is the first recorded instance of a bovine using tools from her environment to relieve an itch—leaving scientists astonished... View Source

"Bloomberg Crypto" covers the people, transactions, and technology shaping the world of decentralized finance. Today's guests: SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce and Wintermute Co-Founder and CEO Evgeny Gaevoy. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source