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Rivian adds a new onboard AI assistant to its latest software update

Rivian has quickly built a reputation as one of the auto industry’s leaders when it comes to vehicle software.

Poppy debuts a proactive AI assistant to help organize your digital life

Smartphones can be distracting with their dizzying array of apps and constant stream of notifications.

Physical AI Conference Comes to San Jose as Robotics & Autonomous AI Go Mainstream

The Physical AI Conference shaping the future of robotics, autonomous systems and real-world AI deployment lands in Silicon Valley this May, bringing together the engineers, builders and AI pioneers turning intelligence into physical action. Physical AI Expo North America will take place on May 18–1

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Meet the Sad Wives of AI

to listen to another minute of my husband talking about Claude Code, I might have actually died. It was 11 pm in Berkeley, California, where I was home alone with our 10-month-old daughter, and 2 am in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he was visiting for his newish job in AI.

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A plan to make drugs in orbit is going commercial

Varda Space Industries, a startup that’s been pitching its ability to perform drug experiments in space, says it has signed up the pharmaceutical company United Therapeutics in what may be remembered as a notable step toward in-orbit manufacturing. The idea of building things in outer space for use

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Submit Your Questions: AI Is Changing Your Job—Now What?

it or not, AI is embedded in every aspect of every industry that matters. Employers are demanding employees become “AI native,” while employees are worried that AI will render them unnecessary.This transformation is coming on fast—and fueling anxiety, dread, and confusion among workers of all ages a

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xAI Adds 19 New Gas Turbines Despite Ongoing Lawsuit

19 natural gas turbines to its second data center campus in Southaven, Mississippi, over the past two months, according to internal emails seen by WIRED.The additions come as xAI is fighting a lawsuit from the NAACP and several environmental groups, alleging that the company is violating the Clean A

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Elon Musk Had ‘Hair-Raising’ Idea of Passing OpenAI On to His Kids, Sam Altman Says

to the witness stand to defend his reputation in the Musk v. Altman trial on Tuesday, as Elon Musk’s lawyers peppered the OpenAI CEO with hours of questions regarding his alleged history of deceptive behavior.The cross-examination was a much needed win for Musk, who has so far struggled to make a co

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Medicare’s new payment model is built for AI, and most of the tech world has no idea

Neil Batlivala has spent seven years building a healthcare company that most of the tech industry has never heard of and that serves a patient population most of Silicon Valley ignores.

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The newest AI boom pitch: Host a mini data center at your home

Data centers may be coming to your neighborhood as side installations associated with new homes—and in exchange would offer subsidized electricity and Internet access along with backup batteries to homeowners.

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The Unitree GD01 Is a Giant Mecha Robot You Can Actually Buy

Chinese company known for making adorable, relatively affordable robots that dance and shuffle and such.

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Google adds Gemini-powered dictation to Gboard, which could be bad news for dictation startups

Google announced Rambler, a new AI-powered voice dictation feature for Gboard — its widely used Android keyboard app — at its Android Show: I/O Edition 2026 event on Tuesday morning.

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Musk mulled handing OpenAI to his children, Altman testifies

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman finally took the stand this morning to defend himself against his former co-founder Elon Musk’s lawsuit challenging OpenAI’s corporate structure. Altman was immediately asked what he thought of Musk’s allegation that OpenAI’s other founders “stole a charity” when they launched

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“Will I be OK?” Teen died after ChatGPT pushed deadly mix of drugs, lawsuit says

OpenAI is facing down another wrongful-death lawsuit after ChatGPT told a 19-year-old, Sam Nelson, to take a lethal mix of Kratom and Xanax. According to a complaint filed on behalf of Nelson’s parents, Leila Turner-Scott and Angus Scott, Nelson trusted ChatGPT as a tool to “safely” experiment with

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World Models: 10 Things That Matter in AI Right Now

World models recently made our list of 10 Things That Matter in AI Right Now. Watch executive editor Niall Firth explain why this emerging area of AI is gaining so much attention. Join MIT Technology Review editors and reporters for a subscriber-only Roundtables discussion, "Can AI Learn to Understa

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The AI legal services industry is heating up. Anthropic is getting in on the action.

Anthropic announced Tuesday that it is launching a host of new chatbot features designed to provide automated assistance to law firms.

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Google brings agentic AI and vibe-coded widgets to Android

Google announced a number of new Gemini Intelligence-branded AI features at its Android Show: I/O Edition event on Tuesday.

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Android is getting a big AI overhaul in 2026

Google’s I/O conference is next week, and we expect to hear a lot about the company’s AI endeavors. The company says there’s so much to talk about that it’s spilling the Android beans a little early, and yes, a lot of AI is involved.

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Google's Android-powered laptops are called Googlebooks, and they're coming this year

Google took its first swing at laptops with Chromebooks way back in 2011. These web-first laptops have seen success over the years, mostly in enterprise and education. Google insists Chromebooks aren’t going away, but the company’s focus has shifted to something new: Googlebooks.

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Everything Google announced at its Android Show, from Googlebooks to vibe-coded widgets

At Google’s virtual Android Show: I/O Edition event on Tuesday, the tech giant announced a series of upcoming updates and features, including improved Gemini Intelligence features; new hardware called Googlebook; and other Android improvements, like vibe-coded widgets, Gemini in Chrome, and new emoj