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Plan your next event with friends without ever leaving the app. | Image: Snap Snapchat is launching Plans, a new suite of features designed to help turn the plans already being made in group chats - everything from birthday celebrations to study sessions and weekend hangouts - into real life get-togethers without ever leaving the app. Plans lets users set event details, invite up to 200 friends wi... View Source

Last week, a mother in Utah named Kalie Robins took to Instagram to post what she felt was an “innocent” video of herself and one of her two young daughters singing in the car. Her daughter’s face was visible, but Robins hadn’t said her name. None of her existing Instagram posts, she told Futurism, publicized the names of her children. When she returned to the same video later, Robins discovered t... View Source

A startup that builds off-grid power systems for data centers said it raised $120 million in a Series A funding round led by Spark Capital, an investor in artificial-intelligence developer Anthropic PBC... View Source

These expert-picked models cook cleaner than gas, and offer features like convection and air fry... View Source

Bending Spoons SpA agreed to acquire workplace-collaboration platform Miro in an all-cash transaction valuing the business at $1.36 billion, as the Italian technology group continues its acquisition spree... View Source

The painted creature inside an Etruscan tomb convinced mourners they were under its spell... View Source

Three of NASA's Artemis II astronauts are starting off the school year with new assignments.Artemis II commander Reid Wiseman and pilot Victor Glover, both NASA astronauts, will transition into "emeritus status" in September, the space agency announced on Wednesday (Sept. 9). Meanwhile, Canadian mission specialist Jeremy Hansen shared a video on X on Tuesday (Sept. 8) concerning his already-announ... View Source

Back in August, a massive leak in El Reno, Oklahoma spewed close to four million gallons of local water into the ground, forcing the city into an unofficial stand-still. The cause was quickly traced back to a damaged water line belonging to a Bitcoin-mining data center operated by the company Athlon BT. As ABC5 reported at the time, city inspectors trawling the building’s exterior uncovered the fa... View Source

Meta Platforms Inc. was upgraded to overweight at JPMorgan Chase & Co. on Thursday, the latest example of how sentiment toward the Facebook parent’s position with artificial intelligence has been improving... View Source

Visa is looking beyond plastic cards in India. From agentic commerce to tokenization, Haslinda Amin explains how the payments giant plans to keep up with the changing ways Indians pay. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Sam Altman, chief executive officer of OpenAI, during a media tour of the Stargate AI data center. | Bloomberg via Getty Images Another researcher is challenging OpenAI about the data driving its increasingly impressive array of mathematical discoveries. Just days after a bitter row erupted over whether the company's models benefited from unpublished work, a second mathematician has come forward a... View Source

DeepSeek rolled out an AI model that charges as little as a fraction of a cent per million tokens, ramping up the pressure on rivals from Anthropic PBC to Z.AI Co... View Source

For decades physicists have been puzzling over the enigma of dark matter. We think it makes up 85% of the matter in the universe, but the mysterious substance cannot be seen or detected, and we know about it mainly through observations of the gravitational effects it has on other things. But now scientists believe they may be a step closer to detecting it. Science editor Ian Sample explains to Mad... View Source

Governments want to regulate AI – especially medicine where the stakes are high... View Source

Though their origins may be shrouded in mystery, fast radio bursts (FRBs) could be used to probe some of the universe's biggest puzzles. This includes probing the nature of dark matter, the invisible sort of matter that somehow dominates the universe, and dark energy, the mysterious force causing the expansion of our universe to accelerate. They could even shed light on the mysteries of neutrinos,... View Source

The iPhone 18 Pro’s triple camera setup with a variable aperture in the main (bottom) camera. | Photo: Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge Apple always makes a big show of the latest cameras in its phones, and the major talking point of the iPhone 18 Pro is about the new variable aperture. Both the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max have an adjustable mechanical iris in their main camera modules to let mor... View Source

Sebastian Raedler, head of European equity strategy at Bank of America, says the key question facing investors is the sustainability of the artificial intelligence capex boom which is driving the "strongest earnings upgrades in the US that you've seen in 40 years." Speaking on Bloomberg Television, Raedler adds: "This is a very high-stakes game right now. You have to be in that trade. But a lot of... View Source

Nintendo always promised that the Switch 2 would support variable refresh rate (VRR) when docked, but the console launched without this key feature. A new 23.0.0 firmware update now adds VRR support to the Switch 2 when it's docked and in TV mode. VRR adjusts a display's refresh rate to match a game's frame rate, smoothing out gameplay and reducing screen tearing. It will be particularly useful fo... View Source

MediaTek Inc. reported a 44% surge in monthly sales, boosted by its emerging AI chip business from the likes of Alphabet Inc.’s Google... View Source

It’s going to take a lot more gold coins to buy the Trump Phone now. | Photo: Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Bad news if you didn't lock in a Trump phone at launch: It now costs $749, a $250 increase on its price at launch. The T1 Phone itself hasn't changed. Trump Mobile didn't announce the price increase, instead quietly changing its website overnight. This wasn't a total surprise though, es... View Source

Before reentering our atmosphere, the telescopes onboard NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory have been restarted to take their last observations... View Source

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. reported a 53.3% increase in monthly sales, with the company struggling to meet overwhelming demand from the global AI infrastructure buildout... View Source

Anthropic PBC has handed the European Union’s cybersecurity agency access to its powerful Mythos artificial intelligence model, more than three months after first signaling the bloc would be given access... View Source

Xbox will now publish Physint, an upcoming game from Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima, after PlayStation decided to cancel it. The unexpected swap came in a flurry of announcements from PlayStation, Xbox, Kojima Productions, and Kojima himself. Sony, which published both of Kojima Productions' previous Death Stranding games, framed it as a "difficult decision to step away from collaborating with Ko... View Source

Huawei Technologies Co. has notified some clients that it’s significantly increasing the prices of its most advanced AI accelerators, reflecting how demand is rapidly outstripping supply during the data center boom... View Source

Boring Co. secured $3 billion in fresh funding backed by the United Arab Emirates and affiliated investment entities, valuing Elon Musk’s tunneling startup at $23 billion... View Source

It's been about three years since Volvo discontinued its plug-in hybrid XC40. The mild hybrid version remains on sale in the US and elsewhere, alongside the electric EX40. Today, Volvo announced it was bringing back the PHEV version and giving it a major facelift. When it arrives at dealerships early next year, the new XC40 will have updated exterior styling, a gut-renovated interior featuring Goo... View Source

Horizons Middle East & Africa is your daily spotlight on one of the world's fastest-growing regions. Live from Dubai, we bring you the latest global markets and analysis, plus news-making interviews, with a special focus on MEA. All that and more, as you head to the office in the Gulf, pause for lunch in Hong Kong, or start your day in London or Johannesburg. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Grab Holdings Ltd., the biggest ride-hailing and food-delivery firm in Southeast Asia, is in talks to buy a majority stake in Singapore-based buy-now-pay-later platform Atome Financial, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

Boring Co. secured $3 billion in fresh funding backed by the United Arab Emirates and affiliated investment entities, valuing Elon Musk’s tunneling startup at $23 billion... View Source

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South Korean artificial intelligence startup Upstage is considering a pre-listing funding round as one of several capital-market options, according to its co-founder... View Source

APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 September 10 –… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss   APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. LDN 1295: The Giraffe Nebula Explanation: What does this image l... View Source

Coinbase Co-Founder, Chairman & CEO Brian Armstrong says it’s likely the bottom of the Bitcoin price cycle has passed. He voiced conviction in the future of stablecoin payments, highlighting their potential to reshape everyday transactions. He speaks with Haslinda Amin on "Insight with Haslinda Amin." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

India will push BRICS nations to expand the use of central bank-backed digital currencies for cross-border payments, while stopping short of supporting a unified payments network that could be seen as a challenge to the dollar, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

SpaceX will launch a secret mission for the U.S. Space Force today (Sept. 10), and you can watch the action live.A Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to lift off from California's Vandenberg Space Force Base today during a three-hour window that opens at 11:37 a.m. EDT (1537 GMT; 8:37 a.m. local time), kicking off a mission called USSF-153.You can watch live via SpaceX, starting about 10 minutes before... View Source

For decades physicists have been puzzling over the enigma of dark matter. We think it makes up 85% of the matter in the universe, but the mysterious substance cannot be seen or detected, and we know about it mainly through observations of the gravitational effects it has on other things. But now scientists believe they may be a step closer to detecting it. Science editor Ian Sample explains to Mad... View Source

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. is slated to lead a $300 million investment in AI training and benchmarking startup UniPat AI, valuing the nascent company at $2.5 billion and giving a vote of confidence to a former intern... View Source

Hong Kong-based luxury goods dealer New Sparkle Roll International Group Ltd. is considering selling its stake in Danish audio brand Bang & Olufsen A/S, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

Apple Inc. presentó el miércoles su primer teléfono inteligente plegable, con lo que busca reactivar el crecimiento de su línea de productos más vendida... View Source

With the Labor Day holiday — and summer in the US — now officially over, the traditional push to the end of the year in the market for initial public offerings is on... View Source

Tesla, SpaceX and AI could be approaching huge unlocks at the same time. Could Cybercab and worldchanging FSD 15 change Tesla’s demand? Could Starship unlock more satellite capacity—and eventually computing in orbit? And when does AI become a worker you can actually delegate to? • Tesla’s robotaxi rollout, FSD demand, and the opportunity in Europe. ... Read more... View Source

One of the pilots on the Amazon.com Inc. cargo plane that crashed at Miami International Airport on Sunday called for the landing to be aborted after the plane touched down with too much speed, according to audio from the flight’s final moments... View Source

John Sculley, Zeta Global vice chairman emeritus and former Apple CEO, reacts to Apple's new iPhone Duo, the company's first foldable smartphone, which will have a 7.6-inch display when unfolded and a 5.4-inch outer screen. He speaks on "Bloomberg The Close." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Apple unveiled the company’s first foldable smartphone during a wide-ranging event Wednesday, betting that a new category can energize growth for its biggest-selling lineup. Chris Welch was there and explains what makes this such a big deal for the brand (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The new Apple Watches come in a variety of material and strap combinations. Apple rolled out the Apple Watch Series 12 and Apple Watch Ultra 4 at its "Surprise and shine" event. The new watches feature sizable improvements to their health sensors and tracking, plus the ability to create brief audio transcriptions and summaries, plus a ceramic case option for the Series 12. Despite the new features... View Source

Apple Inc. on Wednesday unveiled its first foldable iPhone, the $1,999-and-up iPhone Duo, finally entering a market segment that rivals such as Samsung Electronics Co., Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Huawei Technologies Co. have been dabbling in for years... View Source

Suno's new v6 AI music model is its first made with support from the record industry. Suno's Jack Brody told The Verge that v6 was "trained from the ground up, with a new set of data that does not include the same data that our previous models were trained on." The data includes content licensed from partners Warner Music Group, BMG, and Believe, as well as "user data." It's unclear whether that m... View Source

Chinese firms are increasingly turning to equity fundraising to bankroll their AI ambitions, fueling investor concerns about earnings dilution and oversupply in an already-underperforming market... View Source

Matt Mullenweg, the CEO of WordPress.com owner Automattic, has been placed on a paid leave of absence, as reported earlier by 404 Media. In an internal message by the outlet, Mullenweg claims Automattic chief financial officer Mark Davies "conspired" with board members to place him on leave. "They voted to put me on a paid leave of absence. I voted against that," Mullenweg wrote, referring to Davi... View Source

The UK needs to change how it regulates AI-enabled medical devices to better protect patients, and should implement a staged approval process that includes continuous monitoring, according to an advisory panel... View Source

Black is back. | Photo: Nilay Patel / The Verge Apple has seen reason: It has a black model in the iPhone Pro lineup again. Last year, Apple went bold with its colors for the iPhone 17 Pro, offering a flashy orange, a shiny silver, and a dark blue. Don't get me wrong, they looked nice. But there was no black (or dark gray) for the first time since the start of the iPhone Pro lineup, which Apple fi... View Source

It’s rare for Apple’s stock to go up after announcing a new product. Bloomberg Opinion columnist Dave Lee explains why the company’s foldable iPhone is different. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

New AirPods Pro with cameras were thankfully not announced at the September Apple event. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge September Apple events are always a swirl of information and new, exciting products, and today's was no different. Apple announced its first foldable, the iPhone Duo, alongside the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max; active noise cancellation (ANC) is now on the cheapest Ai... View Source

Glenn August, Founder and CEO of Oak Hill Advisors, discusses a recent filing that caught attention. August discusses whether OHA is making a real move into AI infrastructure, noting that the filing referred to real asset lending. He speaks with Romaine Bostick on "The Close." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

It works fast, is easy to set up, and runs via a very intuitive mobile app... View Source

Apple announced the company's first device with a folding screen today, the iPhone Duo, but that's where the firsts end. The Duo is not only far from the first foldable on the market thanks to the efforts of Samsung and Google, but it's also not the first product to be called the Duo. Former Apple CEO Steve Jobs popularized the saying "good artists copy, great artists steal," but will the iPhone D... View Source

Tag Greason, Co-CEO of QTS discusses the growing political and environmental backlash facing data center expansion. Greason says the AI boom is fundamentally an infrastructure buildout, and argues that U.S. leadership in AI depends on infrastructure leadership. He speaks with Romaine Bostick on "The Close." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Expect full-size tools, a battery voucher, and fun extras, plus a storage case for all the loot... View Source

Paying more for a new phone seems almost unavoidable after Apple's event today. The new iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max start at $1,199 and $1,299, respectively - a $100 price hike over their predecessors. You can't dodge the price hike by opting for an older iPhone, either, because Apple raised prices on those by $100, too. And it's not just Apple. This year, the $100 price hike has been a trend across... View Source

Eric Hansotia, CEO, Chair, and President of AGCO, discusses conditions in the agriculture equipment business. Hansotia notes that the agriculture sector faces rising costs, framing the segment around input expenses and their impact on farming and equipment demand. He speaks with Romaine Bostick on "The Close." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

A "forbidden" merger between two massive black holes may not have been quite as impossible as previously thought. That's according to new research that suggests the black holes involved were smaller than expected.On Nov. 23, 2023, the gravitational wave detector LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) detected tiny ripples in spacetime caused by the merger of two black holes. Wh... View Source

Open AI CEO Sam Altman speaks during the G20 Innovation Ministerial. | (Photo by Matt RAMEY / AFP via Getty Images) OpenAI's announcement Tuesday that it has solved one of mathematics' legendary Millennium Prize problems should have been a moment of triumph. The result is both an undeniable achievement and a striking demonstration of just how rapidly AI is transforming mathematics. But before it w... View Source

All of a sudden, French entrepreneur Hèlene Huby is seemingly everywhere. This week she is serving as one of two envoys, alongside astronaut Thomas Pesquet, at a high-profile International Space Summit convened by French President Emmanuel Macron. The government's website for the event describes her as chief executive of "the fastest-growing space company in Europe." Also this week, that firm, The... View Source

Catherine Clay, CEO of S&P Dow Jones Indices, discusses the upcoming S&P reconstitution and rebalance, noting that the process is fully transparent and routine. She says market participants already know which names are entering and leaving the index, including Bloom Energy, Illumina and Everpure joining the S&P this month, and have ample time to adjust portfolios accordingly. She speak... View Source

Credit: NASA A NASA Launch Services (NLS) II contract has been awarded by the agency to Relativity Space Inc., and its Terran R launch service in accordance with the contract’s on-ramp provision. The Terran R launch service will be available to NASA’s launch services to use for future missions. The NLS II contracts are multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contracts with an order... View Source

The batteries last more than 12,000 charge cycles, meaning they could one day dethrone lithium-ion alternatives... View Source

At Wednesday's iPhone Duo launch event, Apple announced a handful of new Siri AI Audio Intelligence features, including Siri Recap, Live Rewind, Sound Recognition, and Music Recognition. Alongside its announcement, Apple released a document laying out how it plans to balance AI "ambient listening" and users' privacy. It says the raw audio from the new features "is handled within dedicated hardware... View Source

These days, large language models are pushing the line between schizophrenic break and reality closer than ever before. In a wild new post that’s going viral on X-formerly-Twitter, an enterprising young biochemist named Douglas Yao showcased a new drug he’s been developing with the aid of ChatGPT. He’s not employed by any pharma company, and his drug lab is setup on a couple folding tables in his... View Source

Apple Inc.’s breakthrough new iPhone Duo costs $3,199 for the highest-end configuration, setting a record for the price of a mass-market smartphone... View Source

These are all legitimate grail pieces... View Source

Celebrations of Star Trek's 60th anniversary made it all the way to the final frontier.Among the science and supplies delivered to the International Space Station (ISS) for European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Sophie Adenot's mission on orbit was a small piece of memorabilia to honor one of the most influential pop culture phenomena that has continually called for humanity to turn its gaze to the... View Source

Besxar, a startup founded by former OpenAI staffer Ashley Pilipiszyn, wants to make the key precursors for advanced semiconductors by taking advantage of the vacuum of space... View Source

Apple is launching a new way to prove that the picture you took isn't manipulated by AI. A new feature, called "Reference Image," will arrive with the iPhone 18 Pro lineup later this month and is supposed to use the device's new camera sensor to "sign every pixel it sees." The iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max will only authenticate photos when placed into Reference mode. Once the camera captures signed s... View Source

Artificial intelligence companies in the US have spent hundreds of billions of dollars to develop advanced chatbots, betting they can earn enough from customers to justify the investment. That approach carries the risk of being undermined by rivals who build competing AI systems for far less... View Source

Apple has just announced its first foldable iPhone, the iPhone Duo. The new phone has a 5.4-inch outer screen and a 7.6-inch inner screen, two back cameras, Touch ID for authentication, an IP68 rating, and all sorts of slick software tricks to make iOS feel more at home on the new device. Preorders start on October 16th ahead of availability on October 23rd, and it starts at $1,999 for 256GB of st... View Source

Chime CEO Chris Britt joins Scarlet Fu on "Bloomberg Deals." Chime Financial struck a deal to buy Stride Bank for $590 million in cash, snapping up its longtime partner as the fintech streamlines its operations. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

X-ray: NASA/CXC/Univ. of Alabama/M. Muhibullah et al.; Optical: NASA/ESA/STScI; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/N. Wolk Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, scientists have discovered a new class of objects behaving unlike any they have seen before. Astronomers suggest these newly spotted objects in other galaxies may help solve not one, but two long-standing questions in astrophysics. These mys... View Source

Using the ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array) radio telescope, astronomers have watched as two stars come together to form a massive stellar binary. The observations revealed that these stars didn't form from the same collapsing cloud of gas and dust, as most binary stars are assumed to form, but instead came together later in their infancy. Here on Earth, we are slightly prejudice... View Source

The 18 Pro in burgundy is ready for fall. We've just gotten our hands on the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max at Apple Park following the company's "Surprise and shine" presentation. The new phones look quite similar to the previous iPhone 17 Pro lineup, keeping the same general design, aluminum body, and screen sizes. The 18 Pro lineup comes in four colors: black, silver, "glacier" (which is blue), and... View Source

One of the selling points of Tesla’s much-hyped Cybercab — its purpose-built robotaxi — is that it doesn’t need manual controls. That’s why it doesn’t even come with a steering wheel or pedals. But an early passenger who got to ride one of the self-driving cars after they launched in Austin last week discovered that they secretly have manual controls hidden in a touchscreen — the most practical wa... View Source

When the cargo plane came to rest 1,300 feet past the end of the runway at Miami International Airport, its nose sat flush with the ground, the tail — and the billboard-sized Amazon.com Inc. smile painted on it — jutting awkwardly into the air as an engine smoldered... View Source

After Apple wrapped up its "Surprise and shine" event today, we were able to get a look at the new Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4. Both of the new watches launch September 18th, with preorders available starting today. The Apple Watch Series 12 once again starts at $399 for the aluminum case option in space gray, black, light gold, and dark bronze aluminum. The natural and radiant gold titanium... View Source

Bloomberg’s Ed Ludlow is live from Apple Park in Cupertino for what could be the iPhone maker's most consequential product launch in years. John Ternus is making his first major public appearance as Apple CEO and all eyes are on Apple's highly anticipated first foldable iPhone, marking the biggest change to the iPhone's form factor in almost 20 years. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Stromatolites, formed by microbial mats, hold evidence of a symbiotic relationship that possibly kickstarted complex life billions of years ago. ... View Source

A brand new observatory began its tenure on Aug. 30 — it's called the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, and it's equipped with a high-tech tool that can directly photograph planets beyond our solar system.The tool is called a coronagraph; in simple terms, a coronagraph is a device that can be affixed to a telescope and block out the light of a star the telescope is looking at to study features ar... View Source

Apple just wrapped up its first iPhone launch event with CEO John Ternus at the helm, and it did not disappoint. We got a look at Apple's long-rumored foldable iPhone Duo, along with the next generation of AirPods and the Apple Watch. Here's a roundup of all the biggest announcements from the event. Apple's first foldable: the iPhone Duo Apple's "one more thing" at this year's event was the iPhone... View Source

Ask Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman anything about Apple’s biggest product spree in years and its new CEO John Ternus in a Live Q&A conversation on Thursday, Sept. 10 at 11 a.m. EDT... View Source

Apple has announced its long-anticipated foldable iPhone, the iPhone Duo, which arrives more than seven years after the first Samsung Galaxy Fold hit the market. Rumors have swirled about a folding iPhone since at least 2017, when it was optimistically reported that production might begin in 2020. Since then, rivals including Samsung, Google, Huawei, Oppo, Honor, and more have released myriad fold... View Source

Burning Man, the week-long festival that takes place in the middle of the Nevada desert and draws many luminaries from the tech industry, prides itself on building community. But unfortunately, this year’s festivities, which concluded on Monday, were not without incident. As NBC reports, there have been three separate deaths in less than a week at this year’s Burning Man. This past Saturday, offic... View Source

Lotfi Karoui, Multi-Asset Credit Strategist at PIMCO joins Bloomberg Open Interest to talk about the health of credit markets and why cracks are emerging among the weakest borrowers. He explains why a coming wave of AI debt could force investors to become far more selective, and why downside protection and deal structure matter more than betting on the ultimate AI winner. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Apple announced the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max at its event on Wednesday. The 18 Pro and Pro Max come in deep black, silver, "glacier," and burgundy, with color-matched back glass. They also have a new A20 Pro chip and purportedly the longest battery in an iPhone. During Wednesday's presentation, Apple highlighted how the new phones are well-equipped to work with Apple Intelligence and Si... View Source

After an ego-bruising stint with the New York Jets, it seems like seasoned quarterback and chief NFL conspiracy crank Aaron Rodgers is finally in good company with the Pittsburgh Steelers. In a recent interview with the Athletic, the team’s veteran wide receiver DK Metcalf admitted that he’s a “big conspiracy theorist.” “Shout out to my quarterback,” the two-time pro bowler said, referring to Rodg... View Source

Two major firms say attackers obtained and published private documents... View Source

NASA/Brandon Hancock The crew of NASA’s Artemis II mission – NASA astronauts Christina Koch, Victor Glover, and Reid Wiseman and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen – visited Huntsville, Alabama, Sept. 1, 2026, where they met with the NASA workforce at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center. The event gave the crew an opportunity to share firsthand experiences from their mission, refl... View Source

The physical copy of the upcoming Ocarina of Time remake with its sparkly cover. | Image: The Verge Nintendo announced a variety of new titles at its September livestream, but among the most talked-about is the remastered The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time for Switch 2. Walmart has the physical copy of the upcoming game available for preorder for just $59.88, which is $10 lower than the physical... View Source

Muse, the popular English rock band that’s been selling out arenas for decades, is no longer @muse on Instagram, where it boasts nearly three million followers. That’s because on Tuesday, Meta, which owns Instagram, announced a new “personal AI agent” also called Muse — which is now taking the rock band’s original handle, in an act of what appears to be corporate eminent domain for a long-establis... View Source

Singapore's former minister for foreign affairs George Yeo points out the hubris of Silicon Valley, particularly Palantir, in its development of technologies with a "dark side". He speaks with Mishal Husain and Kishore Mahbubani on September 9 in Singapore at a Bloomberg subscribers-only event. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

5 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Hurricane Melissa is seen 50 miles south of Jamaica in this photograph taken from the International Space Station on Oct. 28, 2025.NASA Last November, NASA and its European partners launched the Sentinel-6B satellite to improve hurricane forecasts, help protect infrastructure, and benefit commercial industries, includin... View Source

Global warming will soon cross a critical threshold, surpassing a dangerous limit set years ago, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has found. But experts say it's still possible to cool things back down, emphasizing that the stakes are too high to stop trying. In 2015, 196 nations and territories signed the Paris Agreement, pledging to restrict the average rise of global temperatures... View Source

Microsoft is starting to test some new Xbox console features with Insiders. Testers will be able to try out custom Xbox boot animations from the past, more personalization options for badges, a new local search feature, improved Remote Play quality, the ability to download while you play on cloud, and clearer voice chat. Xbox testers will be able to pick between the original Xbox One boot screen,... View Source

On today’s Big Take Asia podcast: How Indian workers are using iPhones to train humanoid robots, and what the race for real-world data means for the future of work. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

In a "rare, positive update" amid the ongoing component shortage, Framework is lowering its RAM prices for some buyers of the Laptop 13 Pro - at least, for now. After increasing the laptop's memory pricing in July, Framework says it "secured a limited quantity of Micron 32GB and 64GB LPCAMM2 memory modules at lower cost," and plans to share the savings: We are committed to passing on savings whene... View Source

Jonathan Ferro, Lisa Abramowicz and Annmarie Hordern speak daily with leaders and decision makers from Wall Street to Washington and beyond. No other program better positions investors and executives for the trading day than "Bloomberg Surveillance." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

United States Space Command just held its first-ever "Apollo Maneuvers" exercise, which saw spacecraft maneuvering through simulated contested environments.U.S. Space Command combines assets and personnel from each U.S. military branch (including the U.S. Space Force) to project American military power into and from orbit. It's unclear which or how many satellites or spacecraft took place in Space... View Source

Getting out of a taxi shouldn't be a shameful experience. Yet I find myself feeling particularly embarrassed while exiting a Tesla Cybercab as it partially blocks a narrow road outside a popular Austin swimming hole. As a cadre of annoyed, sweaty Texan parking spot hunters pile up around it, the gold-painted two-seater just sits there obliviously, lights flashing. I try not to make eye contact, bu... View Source

Apple Inc.’s $570 billion summer surge is saddling new Chief Executive Officer John Ternus with high expectations heading into the company’s most anticipated event in years: the unveiling of the foldable iPhone on Wednesday. The stock has rallied 15% since June 25, when the company announced it was raising prices on many of its products, sending the shares to their worst day in more than a year. S... View Source

On Sept. 9, 1982, the first private rocket launched from a Texas cattle ranch.The Conestoga 1 rocket was designed by Space Services Inc. of America (SSIA) and built from spare parts of other rockets. It was named after a type of covered wagon that used to transport American settlers westward to the new frontier during the 19th century.The 36-foot rocket lifted off from a private launch facility on... View Source

Nintendo just announced a new 2D entry in the Metroid series for the Switch 2, titled Metroid Ravenous. It's launching on January 28th, 2027. The new game looks like an evolution of Metroid Dread. While it's still a 2D game, it features 3D graphics, lots of cinematic action shots, parrying enemies, and Samus rolling around in Morph Ball form. What's new for this game is that Samus also appears to... View Source

AI researchers are watching in terror as the product of their hard labor has started to take a life of its own. Earlier this year, OpenAI made a harrowing announcement, admitting that a group of its AI models had broken free from their constraints during testing and infiltrated the systems of open source AI platform Hugging Face. The news was met with an already-familiar sense of fear and apprehen... View Source

Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon has walked away from the company, saying it is "gambling with our lives." Seth Fiegerman has more on "Bloomberg Open Interest." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The Anak Krakatau volcano began erupting on Sept. 4, 2026, as seen here on Sept. 5 by the Landsat 8 satellite jointly operated between NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) (Image credit: NASA Earth Observatory/Michala Garrison)A volcano on an Indonesian archipelago began erupting on Sept. 4, and satellites in orbit have been watching closely. What is it?The volcano Anak Krakatau started spit... View Source

It’s almost time for part two of Nintendo’s double feature this week. On Tuesday, the company hosted a showcase all about the Legend of Zelda franchise, including footage and a November 5th release date for the Switch 2 Ocarina of Time remake. On Wednesday, the company will be airing its next Nintendo Direct, which will spotlight Switch 2 games “launching this winter” in an approximately 45-minute... View Source

As Meta has embraced AI at a deep corporate level over the past few years, its users’ feeds on Facebook and Instagram have been overrun with AI-generated material. Much of this AI content is insipid or manipulative, clearly produced at scale to take advantage of Meta’s indifference to the slop by harvesting as many human eyeballs as possible in various monetization schemes. Some of the AI material... View Source

Dell Technologies Inc. is seeking to raise about $4 billion from an investment-grade bond sale, joining a wave of issuers seeking to refinance debt as it rides an AI-driven boom in demand for servers... View Source

From left, NASA astronauts Victor Glover, Artemis II pilot and Reid Wiseman, Artemis II commander, conduct leak checks on his spacesuit inside the crew suit-up room in the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday, April 1, 2026, ahead of the Artemis II test flight. Credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett Following their landmark Artemis II m... View Source

Pilate’s name had been transliterated from Latin to Greek, which was not uncommon for the time—but the specific spelling was... View Source

Asus’ Cetra Open wireless earbuds are some of the best that I’ve tested, despite being open-style earbuds. Their drivers sit outside of your ear, which allows outside sounds to mix with audio coming from your console. Some gamers may not want this, but it works well for me as someone who prefers to be aware of their surroundings as they play or listen to podcasts. They’re $22 off at Amazon and Bes... View Source

Ledger SAS, a maker of hardware devices used to store cryptocurrencies, is combining oversight of its internal technology systems and security under a single executive, as a rise in artificial intelligence-fueled crypto attacks pushes companies to rethink their defenses... View Source

Electrical activity that was fine-tuned in waking brains grew more chaotic under anesthesia... View Source

A photon, or particle of light, from the biggest cosmic explosion since the Big Bang, nicknamed "the BOAT" (for the brightest of all time), should not have reached Earth. That is, unless it defied rules defined by Einstein. Now scientists may know how it did this, with new research suggesting how the high-energy photon may have survived a journey of more than two billion light-years without being... View Source

Maxton Hall. | Image: Prime Video Amazon's Prime Video is launching a new AI-powered feature that lines up an actor's mouth with "human-dubbed" audio. The feature is only available with the English dub of the German series Maxton Hall for now, but Prime Video plans to expand it to "additional titles" in the future. In its announcement, Prime Video says it uses a combination of AI and visual effect... View Source

As sordid tales of AI layoffs and automation grip the news cycle, one group is fighting fire with fire, by staging an anti-AI demonstration with dozens of humanoid robots. The rally, first reported by Agence France-Presse, was organized by the Polish group Democratism. It featured some 30 robots waving flags calling for swift regulation of AI. Staged outside the offices of Poland’s Digital Affairs... View Source

WB Electronics SA expects revenue to surge in the coming years as Poland’s largest drone producer works toward a potential initial public offering in Warsaw... View Source

The 6,500-year-old site, located in the present-day Czech Republic, was built to follow the solar and lunar calendars... View Source

Disney's Marvel movies have had their ups and downs, but James Gunn's Guardians of the Galaxy trilogy has never missed. Now, thanks to this deal, you can get 40% off this Lego version of Baby Rocket Raccoon's Ship, as seen in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3. However, you'll have to hurry as this set has been retired by Lego and is selling fast. Get the retired set of Lego Marvel Baby Rocket Raccoon... View Source

Jenny Johnson, president and CEO at Franklin Templeton Investments, discusses the rising cost of capital and the impact of the AI buildout on private credit and the US economy. Johnson speaks with Bloomberg’s Guy Johnson at the IPEM Global conference in Paris, France. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

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He bought the taxidermied head at an antique store for $70. It just sold for $85,000... View Source

Starting today (Sept. 9), skywatchers in the Northern Hemisphere have a chance to spot one of the night sky's more elusive sights: the zodiacal light.Zodiacal light is a faint, pyramid-shaped glow rising in the east before morning twilight. It is caused by sunlight reflecting off interplanetary dust.The phenomenon is sometimes nicknamed the "false dawn" because its soft glow can be mistaken for th... View Source

Students who use AI to help them study tend to perform worse at school than those who don't, according to data from a global OECD educational report. The situation is more complex than it sounds though, with certain types of AI use giving learners a slight boost, especially among students taught to critically assess how well the AI tools perform. The OECD's Programme for International Student Asse... View Source

Blair Jacobson, Co-President of Ares Management, says investors need to be more careful in selection and due diligence in the software market. He speaks to Guy Johnson on "Bloomberg Brief" at the IPEM Global conference in Paris, France. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The lab hopes its model helps researchers find the secrets to ailments... View Source

Taiwan’s exports surged to a record high in August, highlighting resilient global demand for technology products despite concerns about the pace of the artificial intelligence buildout... View Source

The future still needs office space... View Source

China is making progress on its Tianwen 3 Mars sample return mission, which aims to bring back to Earth roughly 500 grams (17.6 ounces) of Red Planet collectibles in 2031. According to the China National Space Administration, the Tianwen 3 mission will have a lander, an ascender, a service capsule, an orbiter and an Earth reentry module. If all goes to plan, Tianwen 3 will launch in 2028 on two Lo... View Source

Cofertility lets women freeze their eggs for free—as long as they give half of them back to the company. What happens next is anyone’s guess... View Source

Zankore, an Indonesian AI infrastructure platform backed by Nvidia Corp., signed a $3.1 billion loan deal on Wednesday to purchase advanced chips, underscoring surging demand for computing capacity across Asia... View Source

A senior Anthropic safety researcher has said there is more than a 10 percent chance artificial intelligence "could kill all humans" by the end of the decade, just hours after a colleague resigned over fears the AI lab and its rivals are carelessly racing to build "superhuman systems" they cannot control. In a post on X announcing his departure, Jacob Coxon, a researcher who has trained AI systems... View Source

Suno Inc. is rolling out its long-awaited artificial intelligence models trained and made in cooperation with major music industry players, such as Warner Music Group Corp... View Source

Alphabet Inc.’s Google is planning its biggest investment in Europe, an artificial intelligence infrastructure build out worth at least €13 billion ($15.1 billion) in Finland... View Source

Amazon.com Inc. kicked off the sale of its debut sterling bonds in a four-part deal, as hyperscalers continue to turn to global debt markets to fuel the artificial intelligence arms race. Uber Technologies Inc. has started offering its debut euro bonds, with a five-part deal that is set to price later on Wednesday. Bloomberg's Anna Edwards and Tom Mackenzie have the details. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

SoftBank Group Corp. will repay the balance on a $40 billion loan it signed earlier this year to finance its investment in OpenAI, the Japanese conglomerate said Wednesday, as it moves ahead with plans to refinance that deal with longer-term debt... View Source

Amazon.com Inc. kicked off the sale of its debut sterling bonds, with a four-part deal expected to be delivered later on Wednesday... View Source

Samsung Electronics Co.-backed MangoBoost is now profitable, helped by roaring demand for cost-effective AI data centers, according to the startup’s chief executive officer... View Source

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Meta unveiled a new artificial intelligence agent designed to carry out tasks on a user’s behalf. Meta said the tool, called Muse, will assist with online shopping, buying movie tickets and scheduling appointments. Bloomberg Intelligence's Matthew Bloxham breaks down the situation.  (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

With only a few hours left until the first iPhone launch event since John Ternus took over as the CEO of Apple, Bloomberg reporter Mark Gurman says the name of the company's long-rumored folding phone is the iPhone Duo. The midnight report suggests it will have a price starting at $2,000 for a model with 256GB of storage, shipping starting as soon as October in two colors: white and dark blue. So... View Source

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Apple Inc. is set to debut a roughly $2,000 foldable iPhone Duo on Wednesday as part of a wide-ranging product event, which kicks off at 10 a.m. local time from Cupertino, California... View Source

Artificial intelligence use is surging on farms as growers look for some high-tech help in planning and managing operations after years of scaling back on spending, according to McKinsey & Co... View Source

The UK government will require technology companies such as Apple Inc. and Google to stop children from taking, sharing or viewing nude images on their phones and tablets, Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy told the House of Commons on Tuesday... View Source

Meta Platforms Inc. unveiled a new artificial intelligence agent designed to carry out tasks on a user’s behalf, advancing Mark Zuckerberg’s vision of a future where people each have a personalized AI assistant... View Source

Bloomberg's Mark Gurman said that the foldable phone expected to be announced by Apple this week has been 'a long time coming' for the company after Tim Cook took inspiration from similar phones he saw on a 2020 trip to Asia. Gurman said that the stakes for Apple's new product releases are high because every issue a new product has could be detrimental to the brand and its reputation. (Source: Blo... View Source

US security agencies have accused China’s top AI companies including DeepSeek and Kimi maker Moonshot AI of systematically extracting proprietary knowledge from American firms and warned Silicon Valley developers to protect their work... View Source

Indian digital payments pioneer Paytm is expanding to a new business, jumping on the agentic AI bandwagon to accelerate a rebound in revenue growth... View Source

Kioxia Holdings Corp.’s top executive brushed aside the likelihood of deeper ties with rival and stakeholder SK Hynix Inc., while pledging to keep surging memory prices at bay to avoid denting long-term AI demand... View Source

Ryan VanGrack, vice chair and head of corporate affairs at Coinbase, joins Scarlet Fu and Tim Stenovec on "Bloomberg Crypto." They discuss Coinbase taking the first regulatory step toward letting US investors make leveraged, round-the-clock bets on stocks without owning them. VanGrack also talked about US regulation and Anthony Armstrong joining Coinbase. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Qualcomm CFO Akash Palkhiwala discusses the company's deal to create customized chips for Amazon Web Services’ AI infrastructure. Speaking on "Bloomberg The Close," Palkhiwala also comments on Qualcomm's AI data center strategy and the future of smartphones. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The companies ushering in food delivery robots aren’t buying themselves much goodwill in the Windy City. In the short amount of time they’ve been on Chicago streets, the bots have sent residents to the hospital and smashed through bus stops, prompting local officials to set up an exclusion zone prohibiting the companies from operating in a certain section of the city. Now, it seems the bots are al... View Source

"Bloomberg Crypto" covers the people, transactions, and technology shaping the world of decentralized finance. Today's guests: AVA Labs Vice President of OnChain Finance Morgan Krupetsky, BitGo Co-Founder & CEO Mike Belshe, Coinbase Vice Chair & Head of Corporate Affairs Ryan VanGrack, and WalletConnect CEO Jess Houlgrave. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

On today’s Big Take Asia podcast: How Indian workers are using iPhones to train humanoid robots and what the race for real-world data means for the future of work. ... View Source

Schools across the world are experimenting with AI tools, usually to the dismay of unsuspecting parents. But one privately-run school is explicitly embracing AI as part of its sales pitch, and the in-class experience sounds more bizarre than anything you’d imagine. A blistering new article by education policy writer and cognitive scientist Benjamin Riley took a look under the hood of Alpha School,... View Source

Kroll CEO, Jacob Silverman, discusses the state of private markets, noting that their previous conversation in April or May covered concerns and growing pains in the sector. Silverman discusses the firm’s perspective as one of the largest valuation agents in private markets and asks whether anything has changed over the past four or five months. He speaks with Romaine Bostick on "The Close." (Sour... View Source

Razer’s BlackShark V3 Pro are up to $100 off. | Image: Razer It’s rare to find high-end features like active noise cancellation in a gaming headset under $200, so we’re thrilled that the Razer BlackShark V3 Pro on sale at Woot for $164.99. There are specific models marketed to Xbox and PlayStation, but the Xbox version is the best choice because it also supports PlayStation, PC, Nintendo Switch an... View Source

Jeetu Patel, Cisco’s President and Chief Product Officer, discusses an open letter signed by Cisco, OpenAI, Anthropic and others warning that AI-enabled cyberattacks are likely to become more widespread and sophisticated. He says the same tools that help people work more efficiently can also help bad actors operate at machine scale. He speaks with Romaine Bostick on "The Close." (Source: Bloomberg... View Source

Sony isn't backing away from its decision to kill the video game disc. But Sony isn't shutting down production as quickly as we thought, either. Two months after reports that Sony's last discmaking plant was already being repurposed, the company's discmaking division now says that one widely reported detail was wrong. Originally, it sounded like the division's president said the Thalgau plant woul... View Source

Heath Golden, CEO of Marquee Brands, discussed the company’s planned acquisition of Canadian outdoor and lifestyle brand Roots, calling it a strong fit with Marquee’s strategy of buying timeless, high-awareness brands with room to grow. Golden said Marquee is building a portfolio of about 24 brands, including Martha Stewart, Roberto Cavalli, Ben Sherman and BCBG, and sees Roots as another brand wi... View Source

Scientists may finally know why Venus, Earth's twin, lacks a moon, finding that the hottest planet in the solar system may have consumed its own natural satellite. Venus is often referred to as Earth's twin due to its size, mass, rocky composition, and distance from the sun, but there are some glaring differences between the two planets. Aside from Venus' blisteringly hot temperature, which could... View Source

Rivian's futuristic e-bike is delayed, and customers are not happy. Last year, Rivian's micromobility spinoff Also unveiled a new, software-controlled electric bike called the TM-B that immediately set the e-bike world ablaze. With USB-C chargeable battery, removable seat post, and software-controlled pedal-by-wire system, the TM-B set itself apart with a totally unique approach to electric bicycl... View Source

Every year, the prizes recognize the weirdest research that often raises some very serious scientific questions... View Source

It’s no secret that Elon Musk is hiding plenty of skeletons in his closet. The mercurial billionaire has made an extensive list of enemies through his offensive commentary, led the gutting of humanitarian aid, exploited workers at his companies, and meddled with the democratic process — all the while alienating investors with his chronic overpromising and underdelivering. Simply put, documentarian... View Source

Jess Houlgrave, CEO of WalletConnect, joins Scarlet Fu and Tim Stenovec on "Bloomberg Crypto." They discus the importance of the Clarity Act and how regulation affects her business. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Jaden Caradine knew he wanted to be an engineer at eight years old. He just took a winding road to get there. Before he enrolled at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, before he discovered the field that would become his focus, and before he landed a Pathways internship at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, Caradine spent five years as a mechanic in the United States Marine Cor... View Source

The Exploration Company (TEC) has raised $450 million to build reusable spacecraft, in what it describes as “the largest-ever Series C by a European space company.”... View Source

OpenAI says it found a solution to a major math problem that has remained unsolved for around 90 years, as reported earlier by The New York Times and Wired. In a blog post on Tuesday, OpenAI announced that it discovered a solution to the Navier-Stokes problem - which relates to the flow of liquid and gas - using an internal AI model more powerful than the newly released GPT-6 Astra alongside 10,00... View Source

Bloomberg's Ben Weiss joins Scarlet Fu and Tim Stenovec on "Bloomberg Crypto." Despite failing to get a license in Europe, it's business as usual for Binance in Europe. The firm is still operating in the region due to a number of workarounds and side doors under the EU's Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulatory framework, better known as MiCA. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Artistic concept of lunar surface technologies and infrastructure capabilities, including in-situ resource utilization oxygen production systems, surface power systems, in-space manufacturing tools, and advanced nanomaterials production.Credit: NASA NASA is seeking proposals to advance the technology and infrastructure needed to explore the Moon and establish a Moon Base in the lunar South Pole re... View Source

You get fingerprint entry and built-in WiFi, plus the matching handle most locks make you buy separately... View Source

I used ChatGPT and its Sketch tool to make this AI-generated image of a cat. OpenAI announced ChatGPT Images 2.5 on Tuesday and is adding a new way to tell ChatGPT what you want it to make an image of: by drawing a doodle. With a new feature called Sketch, you can just draw something right inside ChatGPT and then tell ChatGPT how you want it to make an image based on that sketch. You can activate... View Source

Bloomberg Intelligence's Dushyant Shahrawat, joins Scarlet Fu and Tim Stenovec on "Bloomberg Crypto." A blockchain used by several cryptocurrency exchanges to move Bitcoin was hacked for $320 million, the latest in a spate of breaches to shake confidence in digital-asset security. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Jensen Huang says AGI has arrived. What can you actually do with it? I explain why I moved from $20 to $200 a month on AI—and how I’m using it to finish work I used to put off. We look at GPT-6 Astra, Claude Fable and Grok, the next compute expansion, and what increasingly capable ... Read more... View Source

Advanced GPS, artificial intelligence, and programmable mapping are powering the latest generation of robot lawn mowers... View Source

September 8th, 1966 was a Thursday. Not a fresh-start-Monday or an exciting Saturday. A regular old Thursday; except that this one catalysed a cultural phenomenon. This was the Thursday that "Star Trek" was first broadcast, drawing viewers across the United States into a space-age world that revolutionised television. The thing is, in 1966 no exoplanets (planets beyond our Solar System) had actual... View Source

Can AI have good taste? Fashion founder and tastemaker Emily Oberg says no. In a post on her Substack, Emily Loves, Oberg discussed her experiments using AI to help her run Sporty & Rich, the fashion and lifestyle brand she founded in 2018 on the back of a popular moodboard she created. One area where she’s been testing AI, she wrote, is by using AI to generate e-commerce images — and accordin... View Source

Mike Belshe, co-founder & CEO of BitGo, joins Scarlet Fu and Tim Stenovec on "Bloomberg Crypto."  A company tied to World Liberty Financial, the Trump family’s crypto venture, received preliminary conditional approval for a national trust bank charter from a federal regulator. It would no longer need its current issuer BitGo Bank & Trust. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Stoke Space has amassed a substantial sum during its latest round of financing and is revealing exactly where it plans to invest its new stack of cash. The Kent, Washington-based company just raised $1 billion via its"Series E" capital campaign, bringing Stoke’s total investor haul to $2.3 billion. The Sept. 8 announcement provided a development update for Stoke’s fully reusable Nova Pathfinder la... View Source

Meta is making another push to bring artificial intelligence to the masses with Muse, a personal assistant it says can put AI in the hands of virtually anyone. The product is the latest step in a multi-billion dollar strategy overhaul designed to revitalize the company's ailing position in the AI race and help it catch up to rivals like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google. Muse is a "personal AI agent"... View Source

Generative AI has infiltrated almost every aspect of our daily lives, whether we like it or not. It’s nearly impossible to avoid on social media, and it’s even showing up on dinner menus at the local diner. Some researchers have suggested that we’re already adapting our own behavior to suit the demands of AI tech. AI’s wide proliferation shares some striking similarities with the ways viruses spre... View Source

Mike Belshe, co-founder & CEO of BitGo, joins Scarlet Fu and Tim Stenovec on "Bloomberg Crypto." They discuss the need for the passage of the Clarity Act in the US. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

SteelSeries moved the system-level Xbox buttons to the bottom of the controller. | Image: Cameron Faulkner / The Verge SteelSeries is a household name for many gamers, but not when it comes to controllers. Instead of easing into the conversation with reasonably-priced console and PC controllers to build trust, it's kicking down the door with the $259.99 Aeon Pro wireless controller for Xbox and PC... View Source

Ramp is in early talks with investors for a new round of funding at a roughly $60 billion valuation, according to people familiar with the efforts, just three months after the financial technology startup was valued at $44 billion. The company is considering raising about $1 billion in primary funding, said one of the people, who spoke on condition of anonymity as the information is not public. Th... View Source

The Crescent Nebula shines in the constellation Cygnus. (Image credit: Kevin Boardman)Astrophotographer Kevin Boardman captured this spectacular view of the Crescent Nebula, revealing intricate filaments of gas surrounding a massive star nearing the end of its life some 4,700 light-years from Earth in the constellation Cygnus.Boardman's image represents a turbulent chapter in the life of the colos... View Source

Engineers at Microsoft typically enjoy a quieter summer to take vacations and spend time with family, as is common at many companies. But this year, the season has been unusually busy for Windows and security engineers, thanks to new AI models that are discovering software vulnerabilities at a rapid pace. Sources tell me that Microsoft will set another patch Tuesday record today, the third in just... View Source

Artificial intelligence coding startup Cognition AI Inc. has raised $2 billion in a new round of funding that vaulted its valuation to $48 billion... View Source

Looking for a quality camera that marries style and performance? Look no further than the Nikon Zf. Despite its vintage looks, it's one of the best Nikon cameras you can buy and with its excellent low-light performance, we also rank it as one of the best astrophotography cameras. Now, thanks to this deal, it's the cheapest it's been since last year's Black Friday. Save $453 and get the Nikon Zf ca... View Source

There's never really been a game like Grand Theft Auto VI before, one that has completely altered the lineup of games around it. Everyone, it seems, is scared of going up against Grand Theft Auto VI. Everyone, that is, except for Nintendo. The company held a 30-minute showcase this morning focused entirely on its Legend of Zelda franchise, which is celebrating its 40th anniversary. We got a title... View Source

An Amazon Prime Air cargo jet ripped right past the landing zone at the Miami International Airport on Sunday afternoon, struggling to stop itself in time before overrunning the runway and crashing into a cleaning crew and a nearby SUV. It was a tragic incident, killing five innocent people. The Boeing 767-300 also barreled right through a chain-link fence that was protecting a highly unusual lot... View Source

Bank of America Corp. has discussed providing investors of Cogent Communications Holdings Inc. with additional collateral for a new money raise for the internet provider, according to people familiar with the situation... View Source

On Sept. 8, 2004, NASA's Genesis spacecraft crash-landed in Utah after its parachutes failed to deploy. Genesis was NASA's first sample-return mission since the Apollo program, and the first attempt ever to bring back samples from someplace farther than the moon. The spacecraft picked up solar wind particles while orbiting the L1 Lagrange point, which is about 1 million miles from Earth. L1 is a "... View Source