Washington, SpaceX’s Starlink announced free broadband service in Venezuela through February 3, Elon Musk posted on X January 4. The announcement followed the United States’ removal and custody of President Nicolás Maduro, with U.S. authorities releasing video showing him handcuffed in a perp walk. Venezuela’s Supreme Court ordered Vice President...
San Francisco — Waymo resumed robotaxi service on Sunday after temporarily suspending operations Saturday when a fire at a PG&E substation cut power to roughly 130,000 customers, causing traffic lights to fail and multiple Waymo vehicles to stop at intersections, blocking streets and prompting the company to pause service. Social...
Washington this week: Economists and industry reports show that 2025 economic growth remained largely stagnant while massive private AI investments drove most measurable gains. Tech companies invested heavily in AI infrastructure this year, with analysts and a Harvard analysis attributing about 92% of GDP growth to those investments. Enterprise vendors...
New York — Time Magazine named the "Architects of AI" its 2025 Person of the Year on Thursday, highlighting leaders whose work reshaped technology and society this year. The issue spotlights figures including Jensen Huang, Sam Altman, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg and Fei-Fei Li across two covers, one echoing "Lunch...
United States — Companies and issuers announced corporate milestones this week, including awards, drilling completions, personnel appointments, senior note redemptions, stock rebranding, inducement grants, and investor-relations disclosures. Cloudastructure said it won the 2025 MHN Excellence Award on December 5. Sego completed four South Gold Zone drill holes and prepared samples...
Las Vegas — Amazon Web Services announced on Tuesday at its re:Invent conference that it will integrate NVIDIA’s NVLink Fusion into a future Trainium4 AI chip and launch coordinated AI Factories with NVIDIA to offer customers high-performance accelerators, networking, storage, and managed services. AWS outlined industry-focused cloud expansion in the...
Cupertino: Apple appointed Amar Subramanya as vice president of AI on Dec. 2, reporting to Craig Federighi and leading Foundation Models, machine learning research and AI safety and evaluation. John Giannandrea, senior vice president for Machine Learning and AI Strategy, will step down and serve as an advisor before retiring...
United States — Cardano engineers and operators restored network consensus after a chain split that began Friday, November 21, 2025, when a malformed delegation transaction exploited a validation mismatch between node versions. Intersect reported the bug traced to a cryptographic library; nodes running newer software accepted the transaction while older...
United States. Sony announced on November 21 it will reduce PlayStation 5 console prices by $100 across models during Black Friday, offering bundled Fortnite packs and lowered PS5 Pro pricing. Retailers including Amazon, Best Buy and Walmart will carry the promotion alongside Amazon's Black Friday week deals beginning November 20....
United States — Aylo, owner of Pornhub and other adult sites, urged Apple, Google and Microsoft this week to implement device-based age verification to comply with growing US and UK laws. The company said site-level ID checks have failed and cited traffic drops after implementations. Aylo proposes device age signals...
