OpenAI is launching two new models, which it says are cut from the same cloth as Astra.

Waymo is opening its robotaxi service to teenagers aged 13 to 17 in Nashville, its second city to offer rides to minors.

Anthropic called it "the strongest-performing model we've tested to date."

Researchers say another looming threat hangs over some of America's most important critical infrastructure.

Noble Carbon has developed a smart circuit breaker that allows households to electrify without the pain of a main panel upgrade.

Autonomy-1 will have a small, transformer-based AI model taking charge of a space probe.

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Eight months after establishing a U.S.-based joint venture, TikTok is getting on board fellow platforms to support industrywide child safety work.

Singapore-based Nexstrom has raised new funding to develop equipment that could help chipmakers manufacture 2D semiconductor materials at scale.

Inside two years of fraught AI data center debates in Pennsylvania.

To the investors at Bill Gates' Breakthrough Energy, the coming wave of electrification will make data center energy demands look quaint by comparison. Here's how they're preparing.

The British AI data center developer depends on tech giants Microsoft and Anthropic for most of its revenue.

Meta is giving plastic recycling a boost in a new deal with startup MacroCycle, which is building its first commercial plant.

Deep tech company Morphotonics raises €40M from investors including 3M Ventures, Innovation Industries, BOM, and Invest-NL.

Apple Store architect Ron Johnson says Apple's secret sauce has always been its people.

The group won't be given leeway to slow down or redirect OpenAI's ongoing mathematical research.

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Future Google supplier Kairos Power inked a deal with Samsung C&T to help build its first 50-megawatt nuclear power plant.

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