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We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Universal Serial Bus (USB) is a standard port found on many devices. Most phones, including iPhones, come with USB-C starting with the iPhone 15 series. The only difference is the physical interface used in different smartphones — some use USB-C while others have the older micro-USB … Read more
The U.S. Air Force (USAF) already has some of the fastest fighter jets in service today, but it’s willing to invest up to $16 billion more to go even faster. The “Advanced Propulsion Acquisition Contract” (APAC) is meant to fast-track the research, development, and deployment of cutting-edge propulsion technologies. It’s sure to be one of … Read more
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Google’s DeepMind division is partnering with Agile Robots to integrate its Gemini Robotics foundation models with Agile Robots’ hardware. The company aims to use the Agile Robot partnership to improve robotics AI models. It’s one of several recent partnerships the search giant has struck in the robotics industry. Google is adding another robotics partnership to … Read more
Key Points Anthropic released a new agentic capability today for its Claude models. The new functionality mimics the open-source Openclaw AI assistant, which enables an agent to take over a computer and execute many tasks. Salesforce is the cheapest it has ever been, but it is yet to be determined as to whether it will … Read more
Trae Stephens, co-founder of defense technology firm Anduril Industries, sharply criticized American lawmakers on Tuesday, warning that congressional dysfunction and Silicon Valley arrogance were handing China a strategic opening in the race for military and technological supremacy. Speaking at the Hill and Valley Forum in Washington, Stephens told hundreds of executives and policymakers that the … Read more
Self-driving laboratories (SDLs) powered by artificial intelligence (AI) are rapidly accelerating materials discovery, but can they also explain their results? Researchers from the Theory Department of the Fritz Haber Institute, in collaboration with BASF, and BasCat—UniCat BASF JointLab, show that they can. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. Their new AI-driven … Read more
NASA is all-in on the moon and plans to invest the money and resources necessary to build a permanent settlement on the lunar surface sooner rather than later, according to the agency. At the space agency’s “Ignition” event Tuesday at NASA headquarters in Washington, D.C., NASA leaders presented an ambitious, $20 billion plan to return … Read more
Elon Musk has publicly declared his intent to put data centers in space and power them with solar energy, framing the move as a response to surging AI compute demand. That vision, already drawing skepticism from engineers and economists, now intersects with a separate line of research: electromagnetic launchers on the Moon, known as mass … Read more
A Southern Dallas development is in line to get a tunnel from Elon Musk: The University Hills Development, a billion-dollar housing project at the northwest corner of I-20 and Lancaster Road, has been awarded an innovative mile-long tunnel to be built by Musk’s The Boring Company, which will connect the development to a nearby DART … Read more
