Amazon.com, on Tuesday unveiled the first of a dozen Volvo electric big rigs it plans to deploy this year to pick up cargo from the nation's busiest container seaport in Southern California.
A newly proposed bill in California could ban grocery stores and certain retailers from offering self-checkout options for customers in an effort to cut down on theft.
Spirit Airlines CEO Ted Christie spoke candidly about the airline industry, likening it to a rigged game and saying U.S. consumers are "the long-term losers."
Reddit, the cheeky social media platform that serves as a bridge for thousands of forums , is having a better-than-expected inaugural earnings debut as a public company. Read more...
Last month, on a very odd investor call , Elon Musk declared that Tesla was no longer a car company. It’s a robotics company now, an AI company , and the cars are just means to that end. So how’s the whole robotics thing going? Well, according to a new video from the Optimus
Microsoft deployed a generative AI model on Thursday for U.S. intelligence agencies to analyze top-secret information, Bloomberg reports . Microsoft announced the AI offering at the 2024 SCSP AI Expo for National Competitiveness in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday. The GPT-4-based
The fuselage supplier behind the door plug blowout that plunged Boeing into months of chaos and slowdowns is, like Boeing, struggling to deal with the fallout from the incident. Read more...
Light famously cannot escape the event horizon of a black hole, leaving astrophysicists to theorize and speculate what it’s like beyond the limits of human perception. Now, NASA researchers take that theorization a step further, in the form of an animation that takes you (the
The mysterious AI chatbot, “gpt2-chatbot,” returned to the major large language model benchmarking site, LMSYS Org, on Monday night roughly a week after it abruptly disappeared . But now, there are two: “im-a-good-gpt2-chatbot” and “im-also-a-good-gpt2-chatbot.” These models
Hyundai Motor Co. and Aptiv’s joint self-driving car joint venture is pausing its operations, delaying commercialization plans, and laying off employees, according to the startup’s CEO. Read more...
The Swiss Army Knife has become such a shorthand for multifunctionality that companies producing does-a-lot-of-stuff wares will often say that their goods are the “Swiss Army Knife” of whatever category they’re a part of. You can use the tool to cut stuff, snip stuff, uncork
The updated iPad Pro utilizes Apple’s more powerful M4 chip, which is set to power the company’s push to integrate artificial intelligence features within the devices.
What happens when you stick your finger in the closing trunk—or, in this case, the “ frunk ”—of a Tesla Cybertruck ? It’s a question that way too many Cybertruck owners are asking themselves these days. And a new video posted to YouTube appears to show the most grotesque answer
Disney said it will release no more than three Marvel movies and up to two Disney+ shows each year as it focuses on “quality” following criticism that the company has been cranking out too many mediocre superhero flicks. The Mouse House said Tuesday its Disney+ and Hulu
Amid a backdrop of spring birds chirping away the morning, Apple announced a bevy of updates to its iPad lineup in a streamed presentation. The company has launched a new family of iPad Airs with an updated processor and double the storage, plus two new iPad Pros with
Sam Altman heads the company driving the current generative artificial intelligence hype — and he says it’s nothing compared to what’s coming next. Read more...
Tesla retained its position as China’s second-largest seller of electric vehicles last month, even as its sales went down in the world’s largest auto market. Read more...
When Elizabeth Holmes, founder of the now-disgraced blood testing company Theranos, received the sentence for her fraud conviction in 2022, she was originally expected to serve 11 years after she reported to prison last May . But it looks like she’ll be getting out by Labor Day