Chinese automaker BYD unveiled a new battery pack Thursday that the company says is capable of charging from 10% to 70% in five minutes. Taking it to almost 100% takes about four minutes more. Recharge times like those would nullify concerns about electric vehicles’ charging times — one of the few…
US reportedly considering sweeping new chip export controls
How, and if, the Trump administration plans to regulate the export of semiconductors has remained unclear since Donald Trump took office last year. Now, we have an idea of what the administration is thinking. U.S. regulators have allegedly drafted rules that would require U.S. government approval to ship AI chips…
FBI investigating hack on its wiretap and surveillance systems: Report
Hackers have reportedly broken into the networks of the FBI. On Thursday, citing an anonymous source, CNN reported that the breach affected a system used to manage wiretaps and foreign intelligence surveillance warrants. “The FBI identified and addressed suspicious activities on FBI networks, and we have leveraged all technical capabilities…
An HDMI 2.1 cable isn’t enough
You might not realize it, but there have been several generations of HDMI cables at this point. HDMI 2.2 is on the horizon, but your selection of cables is likely made up of 2.0 and 2.1 cables, all depending on the age of your devices. At the time of this…
Anthropic to challenge DOD’s supply chain label in court
Dario Amodei said Thursday that Anthropic plans to challenge the Defense Department’s decision to label the AI firm a supply chain risk in court, a designation he has called “legally unsound.” The statement comes a few hours after the Department officially designated Anthropic a supply chain risk following a weeks-long…
Cluely CEO Roy Lee admits to publicly lying about revenue numbers last year
The $7 million in annual recurring revenue that Cluely co-founder and CEO Roy Lee shared with TechCrunch last summer was a lie, Lee admitted on Thursday on X. Wrote Lee, this “is the only blatantly dishonest thing i’ve said publicly online, so this is my formal retraction.” Yet his post…
I don’t stress about using the right HDMI cable (and you shouldn’t either)
TVs have come a long way over the past 20 years. We’ve gone from HD to 4K, and even 8K, and technologies like OLED, QLED, and mini-LED have completely changed what modern TVs can do. But despite differences in resolution or panel type, one thing every TV still has in…
DiligenceSquared uses AI, voice agents to make M&A research affordable
A typical merger-and-acquisition process is time consuming and expensive, even for the largest, well-staffed private equity firms. In addition to spending countless hours meeting with senior executives of potential targets and modeling financial outcomes, these groups spend millions of dollars on external advisers: accountants, lawyers, and management consultants. Since expenses…
5 new Google Pixel features that make Android 16 better than ever
Android 17 might already be in early preview, but that doesn’t mean Google is done working on bringing improvements to its existing Android 16 platform release. The company has just pushed out a surprisingly beefy software update to all eligible Pixel devices, bringing with it both the Android 16 Quarterly…
AWS launches a new AI agent platform specifically for health care
Amazon Web Services announced Thursday the launch of Amazon Connect Health. This AI agent-powered platform is meant to help health care organizations automate repetitive administrative tasks including appointment scheduling, documentation, and patient verification, among other things. Amazon Connect Health is HIPAA eligible and connects with electronic health record (EHR) software.…