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Musk also said that Optimus would change life for incarcerated people at the meeting. Instead of physically jailing prisoners, Optimus could "follow you around and stop you from doing crime," he said.

Nvidia, the world's biggest company, has revealed its sales are soaring — delivering a thunderous boost to the US economy, Wall Street and Americans' retirement savings. The chipmaker, which has been the engine of the AI boom and a key driver of the market's rally, delivered another blockbuster quarter that reassured investors the tech revolution is going nowhere. 'There's been a lot of talk about an AI bubble,' CEO Jensen Huang said on Wednesday. 'We see something very different.' The company reported $57billion in sales, smashing analyst forecasts of $54.9 billion. Profit hit $31.9billion for the past three months, up...

It’s not just OpenAI that looks overhyped. There’s a whole mountain of sketchy financial engineering underneath. One thing I’ve been tracking this year is the areas where Wall Street and Silicon Valley are going to war. Tech firms clearly want to become banking apps and receive special charters, private equity and crypto are jostling for position in worker 401(k) plans, and the tech right in general wants to supplant big banks as the go-to director of conservative business policy.That’s all still going on. But in one area, Silicon Valley and Wall Street are in sync: conjuring up sketchy credit...

Google's ultra-private CEO Sundar Pichai is showing me around Googleplex, its California headquarters. A walkway runs along the length of it, passing by a giant dinosaur skeleton, a beach volleyball pitch and dozens of Googlers lunching under the hazy November sun. But it's a laboratory, hidden away at the back of the campus behind some trees, that he is most excited to show me.This is where the invention that Google believes is its secret weapon is being developed.Known as a Tensor Processing Unit (or TPU), it looks like an unassuming little chip but, says Mr Pichai, it will one day...

There is nothing finer than to sit back on Thanksgiving morning and turn on the TV to watch a huge heaping of Mystery Science Theater 3000 as the turkey sits in the oven. This is a tradition that started back in 1991 on Comedy Central. Now the celebration of cheesy movies and celluloid turkeys will be available on various digital platforms including the MST3K FAST channel that’s free on various services including PlutoTV and Tubi. This year is special since movies from The Return and The Gauntlet that ran on Netflix will be part of the FAST Channel. There’s enjoy...

Bitcoin has lost almost a quarter of its value. The tech-heavy NASDAQ index on Wall Street has started to fall. And even leaders of the industry, such as the Google CEO Sundar Pichai, have started to warn about valuations getting out of control. We already knew that AI was driving a boom in investment. But this week there are worrying signs the market is about to crack. The only real question is whether that turns into a full scale crash. Bitcoin, as so often, is leading the market rout. More than $1 trillion has been wiped off the value of...

For most brides, their wedding day entails an exchange of vows standing next to their partner. But for one 32-year-old Japanese office worker, her groom existed only within her smartphone. Ms Kano recently wed an artificial intelligence (AI) persona named Klaus – a digital companion she created using the AI app ChatGPT, according to a Nov 8 report by Japan’s RSK Sanyo Broadcasting. Ms Kano recently wed an artificial intelligence (AI) persona named Klaus – a digital companion she created using the AI app ChatGPT. PHOTOS: SCREENGRAB FROM RSK SANYO BROADCASTING The unconventional union, which was not legally recognised, took...

You’ve probably seen the discourse — the doom-scrolling debates about whether AI has made programming obsolete. The “vibe coding” trend where people spin up apps in an evening with AI assistance has everyone from tech bros to your aunt asking: Do we even need to learn programming languages anymore? At Codecademy, we’ve been on our soapbox saying that AI won’t kill programming since ChatGPT burst on the scene in 2022. Even with sophisticated AI assistants and the best vibes, understanding code is how you direct AI tools, validate their output, and shape the systems that matter in your field. Which...

You tube video on how the Flock security systems are being used, and by who.

A major outage affecting Cloudflare’s Global Network has led to widespread internet disruptions, impacting popular platforms like Elon Musk’s X, ChatGPT,and even Downdetector, the first place people look to understand internet outages. Cloudflare, the world’s leading web infrastructure and security company, confirmed that it was experiencing a significant issue with its Global Network in the early hours of Tuesday morning, causing widespread outages across the internet. The problem has affected various services, including social media platform X, OpenAI’s ChatGPT, and the outage monitoring site Downdetector among many other sites and apps experiencing problems. Even some news sites, including Axios, appear...

In the last few minutes Cloudflare has confirmed it is aware of a major issue affecting its Global Network, which is causing widespread internet outages ranging from platforms like X (formerly Twitter) to ChatGPT, and, ironically, Downdetector. A wave of other websites and services are also experiencing outages. November 18, 2025 at 7:43 AM Windscribe Cloudflare outage (Image credit: Windscribe) Is the Windscribe VPN another victim of the Cloudflare outage? We don't know because the status page is also down. Stewart is not having a good day, he uses it to check our deals. November 18, 2025 at 7:35 AM...

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Apple is in for a big shake-up with its iPhone release cycle, it seems — the upcoming iPhone Air and the mainstream iPhone 18 are now rumored to be arriving in a spring slot rather than the usual fall slot. The pivot, reported by Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman and echoed in supply-chain chatter picked up by The Information, indicates that Apple is heading for a two-wave annual cycle that could be the new normal. A split iPhone release calendar begins to take shape Gurman also says Apple plans to divide iPhone introductions between spring and fall for years, with perhaps five...

Apple (AAPL.O), opens new tab is stepping up its succession planning efforts as it prepares for Tim Cook to step down as chief executive of the tech giant as soon as next year, the Financial Times reported on Friday. John Ternus, Apple's senior vice president of hardware engineering, is widely seen as Cook's most likely successor, the FT reported, citing several people familiar with discussions. Make sense of the latest ESG trends affecting companies and governments with the Reuters Sustainable Switch newsletter. Sign up here. Apple did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.

Thousands of posts on Biblical subjects by the grace of God. · 15h · Google AI claims when asked that it was written by people with diverse political opinions. How many of its developers were on the political right versus the left?I cannot say how many of AI claims were written by people with diverse political opinions, but based upon a 2020 report by CNBC[1] on “The most liberal and conservative tech companies, ranked by employees’ political donations,” then, as with most tech companies, we see Google as overwhelming liberal:Alphabet (Google) Democrats - $5,437,048 (88%), Republicans - $766,920 (12%)Some others...

A Texas mother’s viral TikTok is sparking outrage after she shared footage of her daughter, Karrie Jones, in visible agony while waiting to be admitted for labor at Dallas Regional Medical Center in Mesquite, Texas. The video, posted by Jones’ mother Kash (@kashman2814), has now been viewed more than 23 million times. In the clip, Jones is seen doubled over in a wheelchair as a nurse asks admission questions. Her mother wrote in the text overlay that the staff kept her daughter in the waiting area for “more than 30 mins,” and that Jones’ son was born just “12 min...

Vertiv Chairman Dave Cote joins 'Squawk on the Street' to discuss why he expects AI-driven data-center growth to remain positive for at least five years, how machine-to-machine AI is beginning to reshape business operations, and much more. Vertiv chairman Dave Cote: AI data-center demand 'very positive' for at least the next five years | 4:40 CNBC Television | 3.29M subscribers | 12,152 views | November 14, 2025 Vertiv search

The controversy surrounding the sexual assault claim leveled against the company DoorDash has taken a dramatic turn, after the man at the forefront of the viral outrage was arrested on charges of a felony offense. According to the authorities, the woman’s story did not align with the evidence, while what began as a call for justice has escalated to a criminal case. Internet users are still grappling to understand the twist in the story. The controversy began when a TikTok user named ‘irlmonsterhighdoll’ posted a clip on the platform TikTok on October 12, stating that she was the victim of...

The British actress Tilly Norwood began appearing in viral videos and short films across the internet earlier this year. She is young, fresh-faced, with girl-next-door vibes. She will be signed by a major talent agency soon. But Tilly Norwood is not real. She is an artificial-intelligence synthetic. She is not in the real world, not embodied. She is not a person or an actress. She is a digital Frankenstein’s monster of video software and ChatGPT. Tilly was created by Particle6 Productions, an AI studio founded by Dutch comedian and actress Eline Van der Velden. Tilly is her project. Van der...

This is Donald Trump’s world—we’re all just living in it. The disruptor-in-chief was the biggest factor shaping global affairs in 2025, and that will be the case for as long as he remains in the White House. His norm-shattering approach has caused turmoil in some areas (as in trade) but has also delivered diplomatic results (as in Gaza) and forced necessary change (as with European defence spending). As the Trumpnado spins on in 2026, here are ten trends and themes to watch in the coming year. 1. America’s 250th.Expect to hear wildly diverging accounts of America’s past, present and future,...