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Nvidia announces two ‘personal AI supercomputers’
Nvidia at GTC 2025 announced a new lineup of “AI personal supercomputers” powered by the company’s Grace Blackwell chip platform. Jensen Huang, the semiconductor company’s founder and CEO, unveiled the two new machines, DGX Spark (previously called Project Digits) and DGX Station, during his keynote on Tuesday. The computers will allow users to prototype, fine-tune,…
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FTC removes posts critical of big tech from its website
The FTC has removed over 300 blog posts published during the agency’s leadership under former chair Lina Khan, Wired reports. These include posts that are critical of companies like Amazon and Microsoft for their handling of customer data. The FTC did not respond to a request for comment. As FTC chair during the Biden years,…
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GM teams up with Nvidia to bring AI to robots, factories, and self-driving cars
General Motors is turning to Nvidia to help bring AI to the physical world in an expanded collaboration designed to touch every aspect of the automaker’s business, including factories, robots, and self-driving cars. Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang, who announced the partnership Tuesday during his keynote at the company’s GTC conference in San Jose,…
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Nvidia announces Groot N1, a foundation model for humanoid robotics
Nvidia is releasing what it’s calling an AI foundation model for humanoid robotics. Announced at GTC 2025, the model, dubbed Groot N1, is a “generalist” model — trained on synthetic data and real data. Nvidia said that Groot N1 features a “dual system architecture” for “thinking fast and slow,” inspired by human cognitive processes. Groot…
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Here’s why Google pitched its $32B Wiz acquisition as ‘multicloud’
Tuesday’s big news that Google is acquiring security startup Wiz for a record-breaking $32 billion comes with a very big qualifier. Google says it will position Wiz as a “multicloud” offering, meaning Wiz will not be a Google-only shop. The reality is that Google had no choice but to do this, and a closer look…
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Nvidia announces new GPUs at GTC 2025, including Vera Rubin
On stage at Nvidia’s GTC 2025 conference in San Jose on Tuesday, CEO Jensen Huang announced a slew of new GPUs coming down the company’s product pipeline over the next few months. Perhaps the most significant was Vera Rubin. Vera Rubin, which is set to be released in the second half of 2026, will feature…
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Tesla and Rivian charging networks have fewest problems by far, according to Consumer Reports
The most problem-free EV charging networks in the U.S. right now are the ones built by Tesla and Rivian, according to a new survey from Consumer Reports. The publication surveyed 1,230 owners on their EV charging experiences between March 2024 and February 2024, and just 4% of the respondents said they experienced problems at Tesla’s…
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Bolt’s former CEO is launching a new e-commerce startup
Maju Kuruvilla, who left the CEO role of controversial one-click checkout startup Bolt last year, is back. He’s launching his own startup, focused on a different problem for online shoppers: what he calls “check-in.” When you click on an ad for something like a t-shirt, the experience afterwards can feel a little clunky. The website…
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Pebble creator unveils two new Pebble-inspired smartwatches
It looks like a Pebble, it works like a Pebble, but don’t call it a Pebble. Eric Migicovsky, the original creator of the Pebble smartwatch, just unveiled two new smartwatches — called the Core 2 Duo and the Core Time 2. These spiritual successors to the Pebble smartwatches are available for pre-order, costing $149 and…
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Stability AI’s new AI model turns photos into 3D scenes
Stability AI has released a new AI model, Stable Virtual Camera, that the company claims can transform 2D images into “immersive” videos with realistic depth and perspective. Virtual cameras are tools often used in digital filmmaking and 3D animation to capture and navigate scenes in real-time. With Stable Virtual Camera, Stability sought to add generative…