The rapid scaling of robotaxis over the last two years has come with a hidden human cost. Test drivers for Waymo and Zoox sustained more…
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This former PG&E engineer is building a 'Google Maps for the underground' |
Josh Mackanic left a 10-year engineering career at Pacific Gas and Electric because he kept thinking about what the utility company doesn’t know about what’s…
US seizes domains of Chinese botnet used to target NASA, Justice Department, and the Senate |
10:01 AM PDT · August 26, 2026 The FBI has seized a series of domains that were used by a large-scale botnet to coordinate and…
Amazon just tripled its order of Nvidia chips over 'surging demand' |
Amazon and Nvidia just got a lot closer. The two companies announced Wednesday an expanded partnership that includes a deal to add another 2 million…
Anthropic continues compute-gobbling streak in $45B deal with Nscale |
2:37 PM PDT · August 26, 2026 Anthropic has signed a deal to rent about $45 billion in AI compute from Nscale, a British AI…
Google's Gemini has a branding problem, and so does the rest of AI |
Google gets something right in its Wednesday announcement about new Gemini Live voice features when it says, “You shouldn’t have to guess whether a task…
How do we explain OpenAI's executive exodus? |
OpenAI is the original frontier lab. Its latest publicly released model, GPT-5.6, is one of the most capable and efficient on the market. Its desktop…
OpenAI releases its official report on the Hugging Face breach |
OpenAI released its official report Wednesday on the Hugging Face breach, offering the clearest picture yet of how an unusual chain of events allowed an…
Medical device maker Boston Scientific says a cyberattack is causing a 'global disruption' to its operations |
11:23 AM PDT · August 26, 2026 A cyberattack on U.S. medical device maker Boston Scientific is causing an ongoing “global disruption” to its operations,…