At its developer conference on Thursday, Box showed off a new feature that will build Nvidia’s Nemotron embedding system into the core of its product. Called Box Content Retrieval, the new feature allows agents to answer queries far more effectively by relying on the embedded metadata created by Nemotron. Box…
Scarlett Johansson’s most unsettling sci-fi movie is finally free to stream
Ever since the dawn of cinema, movies have been a dime a dozen. They come and go with each passing week, rapidly and in large quantities. Some movies have the distinct honor of standing out from the crowd and being so revered that they become cultural touchstones or icons, like…
A YC startup is putting $1M behind five unsolved materials science problems for AI
Discovered Materials, a months-old, San Francisco startup using AI models to find new substances for building advanced chips, announced a million-dollar challenge for AI models to solve five critical problems in materials science. While frontier AI models have solved a remarkable series of outstanding mathematics problems and made progress in…
What I wish everyone knew about native vs. upscaled 4K
These days, I find comfort in cozying up in my recliner for the evening, turning off the lights, and putting on an exciting film to be viewed in modern, glorious 4K resolution. Classic movies that have been remastered in 4K receive new life as the up-res picture closes the gap,…
Amazon ditches GrubHub, taps Uber Eats for Prime
Amazon has made Uber Eats as its official restaurant delivery partner for Prime members in the United States, effectively ending the e-commerce giant’s existing deal with Grubhub. Under the new partnership announced Thursday, Amazon Prime members will be able to order food from Uber Eats directly through Amazon.com and the…
DuckDuckGo pitches itself to schools amid backlash over Google’s AI policy
DuckDuckGo is pitching itself to schools after Google created an opening for the alternative search engine. On Tuesday, Google told schools they could turn off Gemini, but it said shutting off its other AI features would cost schools Google Search, as well. DuckDuckGo, a company that focuses on user privacy…
Hackers stole DreamHost customer files and inboxes during months-long attack
Web host DreamHost has confirmed that hackers stole customer emails and credentials during a months-long cyberattack on its systems. DreamHost disclosed the breach last Thursday after it sparked an outage that spanned several days, during which it reset some customer passwords. In a data breach notice filed with California’s attorney…
OpenAI is already trying to shape the 2028 election
OpenAI’s chief global affairs officer Chris Lehane thinks the 2028 presidential election could be a defining moment for AI. And he wants politicians to start developing policies that address Americans’ concerns about the technology, rather than simply paying lip service to anti-AI sentiment and the backlash against data centers. In…
Snapchat surpasses 30M paid subscribers
Snap has surpassed 30 million paid Snapchat+ subscribers, the company announced Wednesday in its third-quarter 2026 earnings release. The milestone marks an increase of 5 million subscribers since February, when Snap reported crossing the 25 million mark. Launched in 2022, Snapchat+ gives subscribers access to exclusive and pre-release features for…
Almost no one uses AI agents to book their Uber, company says
Very few people are using personal AI agents to order Ubers, apparently. On the transportation giant’s third-quarter earnings call on Wednesday, the company said that only four rides were ordered through an AI agent during its busiest week in October: the week of Halloween. While more people used an AI…