Everyone compares Tesla Optimus with Figure and other humanoid robots: better hands, better walking, better demonstrations. But what happens when the factory or the world is changed so the robot can succeed ? Tesla’s advantages go far beyond Optimus itself. It can develop the robot, redesign its workplaces, and improve both together. This changes how ... Read more... View Source
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The Close brings you the latest news and analysis leading up to the final minutes and seconds before and after the closing bell on Wall Street. Today's guests are UBS US Rates Strategy Head Phoebe White, Cboe Global Markets VP, Head of Derivatives Market Intelligence Mandy Xu, Musician & FYI.AI Founder & CEO will.i.am, BNY Investments Chief Economist Vincent Reinhart, Charles Schwab Chief... View Source
More than a quarter of Anthropic PBC’s research and development work for artificial intelligence is driven by its Claude chatbot, according to the company, providing the clearest indication yet that AI can help speed up development of future models... View Source
Some women may have an extra color receptor. Whether they can actually use it is a far more complicated question... View Source
The threat of perjury has a funny way of forcing people to say the quiet parts out loud. As a recently unsealed and unredacted motion in the ongoing legal battle between the New York Times and OpenAI and Microsoft shows, top AI executives have admitted that training AI models required “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions.” In the motion filed on behalf of the NYT, flagged by digital... View Source
Michael Kliger, CEO of LuxExperience, said the luxury market is becoming increasingly polarized, with affluent customers continuing to spend heavily while middle-class shoppers pull back under inflationary pressure. He said the company is less concerned about total active customers, which are around 900,000, than about growing the small group of top customers that generate a disproportionate share... View Source
Elon Musk’s SpaceX has held internal discussions about buying customer and operational information from troubled or defunct startups, according to people familiar with the matter. That data could help improve its artificial intelligence models. Ed Ludlow reports. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source
Credit: NASA NASA has selected SpaceX to provide launch services for the agency’s StarBurst mission, a small satellite designed to investigate neutron star mergers and the origins of short gamma-ray bursts. StarBurst will launch aboard a Bandwagon rideshare mission on a Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida no earlier than 2028. The selection... View Source
It’s always a good idea to carefully consider the company you keep — especially if you happen to work for one of Elon Musk’s massive companies. According to local channel FOX7, SpaceX manager Kyle Gonzalez has been arrested over the alleged stabbing of a Tesla contractor during a team-building exercise gone horribly wrong. During the night out with a group of co-workers and friends, Gonzalez repor... View Source
United Nations General Assembly president Khalilur Rahman speaks with Bloomberg's Romaine Bostick. This week United Nations Secretary General said nations must coordinate global efforts to regulate AI, echoing calls for closer monitoring of the technology after warnings from leaders of the world’s top firms. The comments come days before world leaders descend on New York for the UNGA’s annual high... View Source
Grammy-Award winning artist will.i.am sits down with Bloomberg's Romaine Bostick from Dreamforce to discuss his efforts to develop personal AI agents for college students, and the fundraising efforts around his company, FYI.AI (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source
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In Austin, a man’s attempt to be chauffeured out of his hotel in style was foiled when his confused ride couldn’t even pull out of the building. His ride, of course, was a Tesla Cybercab — Elon Musk’s self-driving, steer-wheeling free robotaxi. “The Robotaxi arrived… and then couldn’t get out of the hotel parking lot,” the man, who claims to be a computer engineer, wrote on X, posting brief footag... View Source
Palantir Technologies Inc. Chief Executive Officer Alex Karp said developers of artificial-intelligence systems need to be held liable for their own work as opposed to depending on government regulation... View Source
Remember when tech leaders would tell their employees to “move fast and break things”? It seemed that would be the way of AI too. But after a summer where rogue AI agents became reality, and researchers warned that AI could kill us all, a number of leading US AI companies are publicly suggesting it’s time to pump the brakes and “pace the frontier” of bleeding-edge AI development. Their motivations... View Source
After only a few months on the market, Meta’s new AI-integrated smart glasses are already being exploited for nefarious purposes. Dubbed “pervert glasses” for their incognito ability to film anybody in public, the new specs have enabled voyeurs and content creeps the world over, leading to widespread harassment, bullying, and privacy violations. And now the pervert glasses are also feeding another... View Source
New ventures involving ‘Giggly Squad,’ NPR, Steven Bartlett and Serial Productions have set the podcasting world atwitter... View Source
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches on May 15, 2026, carrying about 6,500 pounds of science, supplies, and equipment to the International Space Station during the company’s 34th commercial resupply mission for NASA.Credit: NASA Media accreditation is open for the next cargo launch that will deliver NASA science investigations, supplies, and equipment to the International Space Station. The 35th Spac... View Source
Two oval brooches and preserved pieces of thread will undergo further study to give experts some insight into the Viking age... View Source
The revamped projects feature in Claude Code allows users to run multiple agents under the same roof, with a shared memory, goals, and library of files and artifacts. Similar to Grok Bot and other tools that manage groups of AI agents, each project has "threads" running different tasks in parallel, with a "coordinator" directing everything: Under the hood, each thread is a Claude Code cloud sessio... View Source
Some experts worry that heated rhetoric makes it hard to hold companies accountable, and sets back attempts to deal with environmental impact and job loss... View Source
Summer is winding down, but portable air conditioners are a smart investment long after the last heat wave... View Source
Earlier this year, a group of rogue OpenAI models managed to break out of containment to hack the systems of open source AI platform Hugging Face. The company’s “extensive investigation” detailed how the models exchanged messages and cheered each other on as they stole credentials to infiltrate a third party, actions that could easily have real repercussions for a human hacker. New details keep tr... View Source
As the global AI debate heats up, another major AI-related discussion is roiling the US tech capital: Who is reaping the financial benefits of the AI boom, and who is missing out? As the coming IPOs of Anthropic and OpenAI are set to bring wealth to San Francisco, a recent gathering of laid-off workers highlight the flip side of the AI boom. Bloomberg's California reporter Francesca Maglione joins... View Source
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Venezuela began lifting years-long blocks on news websites, but some remain dark... View Source
The refurbished Apple TV 4K with its voice remote. | Image: The Verge Most hardware prices have soared in 2026, and that includes a variety of Apple laptops, tablets, and smart devices. Thankfully, you can offset some of the increased costs on an Apple TV 4K by buying one refurbished through the company. The 64GB model is selling for $169, $30 lower than the new retail price. The upgraded model, w... View Source
As the USA’s war with Iran shows no signs of letting up, strikes on data centers are putting not just human lives in peril, but even customer data. According to a September 15 Amazon Web Services update, Iranian drone strikes left some of the tech giant’s data centers in the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain in tatters. The company admitted that it was “unable to restore access to the resources and... View Source
In the last few weeks AI Leaders have urged a slow down in the rapid advancement of AI, while President Trump rebuffs these concerns. Danish Nagda, Founder and CEO at Rezilient Health joins to discuss the future of AI as well as Xi Jinping's upcoming visit to the White House. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source
Deep inside your cells, microscopic structures could be hiding one of humanity’s greatest secrets: the source of your consciousness... View Source
Today, I’m talking with Mustafa Suleyman, the CEO of Microsoft AI. As you’re no doubt aware, the biggest story in tech right now is the spiraling debate about AI safety and regulation. It should come as no surprise that Mustafa has strong opinions on how AI should be built and regulated. Microsoft just published a 37-page statement called the “Humanist AI Code of Conduct,” which lays out the comp... View Source
The specter of an omnipotent large language model that rules over its AI engineers continues to loom large. The industry already has had its fair share of brushes with ominously cult-like behavior, from OpenAI cofounder Ilya Sutskever commissioning wooden effigies to represent “unaligned” AIs to a murder sect that wanted to save the world from killer AI. As it turns out, Dario Amodei’s Anthropic i... View Source
The Trump administration is considering whether to update interagency antitrust guidance on cybersecurity to address a new wave of threats posed by artificial intelligence, according to Associate US Attorney General Stanley Woodward... View Source
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When Xbox announced a new feature last month that lets you digitize existing physical game collections, I immediately thought of the Xbox One. Disc-to-digital seems like a clever new feature for Xbox, perfectly timed as a response to Sony killing PlayStation discs. But the reality is that it has been 15 years in the making and is now a big part of Xbox's ongoing game preservation efforts. Ahead of... View Source
If you ever feel like spilling your guts to ChatGPT, just know that you may have an audience. 404 Media reports that OpenAI is hiring hundreds of employees to sift through and read users’ prompts — including messages that contain sensitive personal information. This isn’t part of a moderation effort. Instead, by reviewing the prompts, OpenAI hopes to improve the responses that ChatGPT gives. The c... View Source
Can technology leaders keep AI under control? King Charles asked industry heads including Nvidia’s Jensen Huang and Google DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis at his Scotland Summit, Shona Ghosh reports. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source
The rollout ceremony for NASA’s first space shuttle, OV-101, coincided with Constitution Day of the nation’s bicentennial on Sept.17, 1976. Although the orbiter was originally planned to be named Constitution, Star Trek fans successfully convinced President Gerald Ford to name it Enterprise after the series’ fictional starship. NASA Fifty years ago, on Sept. 17, 1976—Constitution Day of America’s... View Source
Camp Snap is expanding its small collection of screenless digital point-and-shoot cameras with the new pocket-friendly 110D featuring a thin horizontal design first popularized by Kodak film cameras in the 1970s. The Camp Snap 110D is available for preorder starting today for $74.95 in back in black (black and gray) or dreamsicle (white and orange) color options with matching accessories. The Camp... View Source
Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang expects to sell twice as many chips in the coming year, fueled by the spread of artificial intelligence across different industries... View Source
In early September, two teenagers got into a Waymo, but then ended up in the back of a police car. The robotaxi company said it detected "a violation of our terms of service involving a firearm," pulled the car over, and alerted emergency services, according to the Los Angeles Times. Police arrested the passengers after allegedly finding a loaded AR-style "ghost gun" in the vehicle. The arrests ex... View Source
As it contemplates a future without access to SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft, NASA will make some key moves to ensure that Boeing's Starliner spacecraft, which has a decidedly checkered record in spaceflight to date, is safer and can continue flying after its Atlas V rocket retires. Multiple sources confirmed to Ars that as early as next week, NASA will announce that it will order two additional... View Source
CoreWeave is raising funds through a $3 billion convertible bond issue and a vehicle for potential share sales. Ed Ludlow has more on "Bloomberg Open Interest." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source
In 34 of the 37 surveyed countries, people are more likely to believe AI will lead to job losses over the next 20 years. | Image: Pew Pew Research has published a new global survey that sheds light on how people view AI, including its impact on jobs, life in general, and income inequality. The survey questioned 42,151 people across 37 countries from February 8th to May 13th - well ahead of recent... View Source
In September 2024, an entrepreneur named Justin Brown uploaded a YouTube video in which he argued that writers should be “scared right now” about the rise of AI. “I think that one of the big dangers is that AI is going to take many people’s jobs,” Brown muses to the camera as he hikes through a national park in Australia. “This includes writers, by the way.” What Justin didn’t mention in the video... View Source
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang comments on the sidelines of an event hosted by King Charles III in Scotland about concerns surrounding the mounting risks of artificial intelligence. "You have rigorous testing systems, the testing lab should be contained, and products should not be released to the public until it's ready to be used by the public," Huang says. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source
The interface of the Nova plugin for browsing and loading Nova plugins inside your DAW. | Screenshot: Terrence O’Brien / The Verge Lunacy, purveyor of fine VST plugins like Cube, a synth that you control by moving a ball around a 3D space, has just launched Nova, a platform where creators can build custom music tools using AI and sell them to others. At first, there will be a handful of instrument... View Source
India has received investment pledges of as much as $12 billion from global and local investors within months of launching it’s new semiconductor policy, marking an acceleration in its efforts to become a chip-making nation... View Source
They weigh just grams—yet they show that modern humans reached Eurasia 35,000 years earlier than previously thought... View Source
