Apple has become the first to acquire the intellectual property and all rights to the popular series ‘Severance’ from its original studio, Fifth Season. reported by Deadline. Under the deal, which was worth just under $70 million, Apple’s in-house studio will produce future seasons of the show. The fifth season remains executive produced. The deal […]
Waymo has removed the human safety driver from its autonomous test vehicles in Nashville, as the Alphabet-owned company moves closer to launching a robotaxi service in the city. Waymo, which has been testing in Nashville for months, will launch a robotaxi service there this year in partnership with Lyft. Passengers will initially be able to […]
A confidential informant told the FBI in 2017 that Jeffrey Epstein had a “personal hacker.” according to a document The Ministry of Justice announced this on Friday. The document, which was released as part of the Justice Department’s legally mandated effort to release documents related to the investigation into the deceased sex offender, does not […]
Ricursive Intelligence, a startup building an AI system to design and automatically improve AI chips, has raised $300 million at a $4 billion valuation. The company said this on Monday the round was led from Lightspeed. Ricursive says the system will be able to create its own silicon substrate layer and accelerate improvements to the […]
The Trump administration signed a landmark multi-billion dollar trade deal with Taiwan aimed at helping the United States boost domestic semiconductor production. Under the deal announced by the US Commerce Department on Thursday, Taiwanese semiconductor and technology companies have agreed to make direct investments of $250 billion in the US semiconductor industry. These investments will […]
This week in Las Vegas at CES 2026, tech companies are unveiling the latest wearable health devices: glucose monitors, blood pressure monitors, fitness trackers. Probably not During the show, it was mentioned that these gadgets could cause a huge environmental problem. It’s not something that gets a lot of attention, but a new study from […]
Intel wants to double down on gaming hardware with a new chip and platform for portable gaming devices. The platform will include hardware and software, Intel vice president and general manager of PC products Daniel Rogers announced Monday at CES. It will be built on the company’s Intel Core Series 3 processors known as Panther […]
Enterprise software company ServiceNow agreed to acquire nine-year-old cybersecurity startup Armis for $7.75 billion in cash. The deal represents a huge valuation jump for the company. Just last month, Armis raised a $435 million pre-IPO funding round, valuing the company at $6.1 billion. Armis co-founder and CEO Yevgeny Dibrov had told TechCrunch last month that […]
A group of writers, including Theranos whistleblower and ‘Bad Blood’ author John Carreyrou, are filing a lawsuit against Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, Meta, xAI and Perplexity, accusing the companies of training their models on pirated copies of their books. If this sounds familiar, that’s because another group of authors has already filed a class action lawsuit […]
SoftBank Group and Nvidia are in talks to lead a more than $1 billion investment at a $14 billion valuation in Skild AI, a software company building a foundational robotics model. Reuters reported this. The nearly three-year-old startup was last valued at $4.7 billion in May when it raised $500 million in a round led […]