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Drug discovery is one of the most expensive pursuits in modern industry. Finding a single viable molecule can take a decade and cost billions, and most candidates still don’t make it.
Volvo’s compact, quirky EX30 had a lot of problems when it was first released. Tariffs essentially erased its affordability, making it more expensive to own, and a battery recall made it dangerous to park indoors.
Anthropic announced Monday it has acquired Stainless, a startup founded by former Stripe engineer Alex Rattray whose software is widely used by rival AI labs, including OpenAI and Google. Anthropic didn’t disclose terms of the deal.
Walmart’s Onn brand just launched a whole line of budget-friendly Android tablets that, all together, cost less in total than a single iPad Pro. As spotted by 9to5Google , the six new tablets ship with Android 16 and all but one cost less than $200.
The tech trial of the year, Musk v. Altman , was ultimately a fight for control.
Sony reportedly won’t release its major single-player PlayStation games on PC anymore. According to Bloomberg ’s Jason Schreier, Hermen Hulst, who heads up PlayStation’s studios business, informed employees in a town hall on Monday about the change in strategy.
Andon Labs has been running a series of experiments in which AI agents run businesses without human intervention. Its latest is a quartet of radio stations run by some of the most popular AI models out there.
After around two hours of deliberation, the jury has reached a unanimous verdict in Musk v. Altman , the tech trial of the year.
Elon Musk’s claim that he was mistreated by his OpenAI co-founders failed after nine California jurors returned a unanimous verdict that his lawsuits had been filed too late. Musk accused Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, OpenAI, and Microsoft of “stealing a charity” by creating a for-profit affiliate of the frontier AI lab.
After around two hours of deliberation, the jury has reached a unanimous verdict in Musk v. Altman , the tech trial of the year.
If Dyson’s PencilVac Fluffycones made you wish the company had built something similarly slim for scrubbing the hard floors in your home, enter the recently released Dyson PencilWash . The cordless cleaner is designed to tackle spills and stains on tile and other surfaces, and right now, it’s available for a new low price of $249.99 ($100 off) from Amazon…
Fine-Tuning NVIDIA Cosmos Predict 2.5 with LoRA/DoRA for Robot Video Generation NVIDIA Cosmos Predict 2.5 is a large-scale world model capable of generating physically plausible videos conditioned on text, images, or video clips. To adapt it to a specific domain, such as robot manipulation or a particular camera viewpoint, teams still need targeted…
Alexa Plus, Amazon’s upgraded AI assistant, can now generate podcasts on “virtually any topic,” according to an announcement on Monday . With the update, Amazon says you can give Alexa Plus a topic, and the AI assistant will offer an overview of what its AI hosts plan to talk about, allowing you to steer the conversation and adjust its length before it…
Sony is hiking the starting price of one-month and three-month PlayStation Plus subscriptions in “select regions,” blaming “ongoing market conditions.” Beginning May 20th, 1-month subscriptions will start at $10.99 USD / €9.99 EUR / £7.99 GBP, while 3-month subscriptions will start at $27.99 USD / €27.99 EUR / £21.99 GBP. In the US, the changes result in a…
It’s not just you — the Google Workspace apps are getting a new look. The redesigned app icons, leaked last month , are now rolling out widely, as we started noticing this morning.
Amazon announced the latest update to Alexa+ on Monday: the ability to generate podcast episodes on demand. The new feature, called “Alexa Podcasts,” is rolling out to customers in the U.S.
Graduating from college is exciting, but it can also feel slightly terrifying. Along with celebrating a huge accomplishment, many grads jump right into looking for a job.
Woot is having a day-long sale on a range of tech, including a mix of new and open-box Philips Hue smart lighting . The retailer’s already-discounted prices are even cheaper today when you enter the code SAVETWENTY at checkout through midnight Central Time.
PaddleOCR 3.5: Running OCR and Document Parsing Tasks with a Transformers Backend PaddleOCR 3.5 brings OCR and document parsing tasks closer to the Hugging Face ecosystem. With this release, supported PaddleOCR models can run with Hugging Face Transformers as an inference backend by setting: engine= "transformers" PaddleOCR continues to provide OCR model…
(Photo by iStock/necati bahadir bermek) The digital economy’s story often centers on stock prices and initial public offerings, but the processes and people behind it reveal a very different reality. Across outsourcing hubs like Nairobi, Manila, and Hyderabad, content moderators working for Facebook, OpenAI, and their subcontractors spend hours each day…
Starlink is raising prices across its satellite internet plans in the US — including Standby Mode — with the cheapest 100Mbps Residential plan going from $50 to $55 / month, as reported earlier by PCMag . Meanwhile, Starlink’s 200Mbps residential plan has jumped from $80 to $85 / month, while the Residential Max plan went from $120 to $130 / month.
Today, I’m talking with Jonah Peretti, who is, technically, the CEO of BuzzFeed — although that will be coming to an end very soon. Just days before we spoke, Jonah agreed to sell 52 percent of BuzzFeed for a total of $120 million to Byron Allen, who owns The Weather Channel, a number of broadcast stations, and several other websites.
We’re making it clear that AI detected bugs are pretty much by definition not secret, and treating them on some private list is a waste of time for everybody involved - and only makes that duplication worse because the reporters can’t even see each other’s reports. AI tools are great, but only if they actually help, rather than cause unnecessary pain and…
The future of war has been evolving before our eyes in Ukraine, yet the west still plans to fight the last war. In this special episode, guest host Noah Smith ( @noahpinion ) and Brandon Anderson sit down with Yaroslav Azhnyuk ( @YaroslavAzhnyuk ) , a serial tech founder who went from building PetCube to founding The Fourth Law , one of the world’s most…