Ring, the Amazon-owned home security company, is launching its own robotics division, with an eye toward automating security at both the home and the office. The company announced Ring Robotics on Tuesday, debuting two new devices that are sure to stir more than a little bit of controversy. The first…

Nominal, a four-year-old, Austin-based startup that offers an AI platform purpose-built for engineering and testing complex hardware, like aircraft, nuclear reactors, and smart factories, has raised another big round of financing that triples its valuation. On Monday, it announced a $240 million Series C at a $3 billion valuation led…

Anthropic released new versions of its most advanced models on Monday, with the launch of Mythos 5.2 and Fable 5.2. The company says the new models “show improvements in areas like coding, reasoning, and vision” and communicate more clearly with users. Notably, Anthropic is lowering the cost of Fable from…

The heist movie has been a prolific genre in Hollywood for decades. It still manages to garner attention from studios, producers, and audiences. Movies like The Usual Suspects, Baby Driver, The Town, Ocean’s Eleven, Heat, and more focus the action on the heist itself. Even unique heist films like Inception…

YouTube is officially returning to the Billboard charts, ending a disagreement over how music streams should count toward chart rankings. Announced Monday, YouTube is set to resume sharing its streaming data with Billboard in 2027. The decision follows recent changes to Billboard’s chart formula, which now gives more weight to…

Otter.ai, the AI-powered note-taking tool, announced Tuesday that it’s expanding its multilingual capabilities, including a new multilingual transcription feature that can follow conversations as speakers switch between languages during the same meeting. The company is also adding support for 27 languages, its largest language expansion to date. Once the rollout…

Jensen Huang, the CEO and co-founder of the world’s most prominent chip company, has allegedly been honey-trapped by a suspected Chinese spy, and the news has struck the internet like a match to gasoline. Huang has long been seen as a wife guy (or so everyone assumed). He and his…

California voters have rejected Proposition 40, the state’s proposed one-time tax on billionaires, the Associated Press reported Monday. The measure failed after an expensive campaign that pitted labor unions against some of tech’s wealthiest figures. It was also opposed by Gov. Gavin Newsom. Nic Carter lives about as far from…

Nvidia’s stock slid more than 4% on Monday, the first trading day after its board said it would investigate CEO Jensen Huang over his relationship with Alice Huang, an executive U.S. intelligence believes was spying for China. Securities lawyers were already moving. At least four firms, including Schall, Brown &…

Six months before the Nvidia spy scandal emerged, the New York-based short seller firm Culper Research had already raised questions about Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s unusually close relationship with Alice Huang, an executive at Megaspeed, a Singapore-based company that buys Nvidia chips. She is now suspected to be a Chinese…