California’s debate over a proposed billionaire tax has erupted online, as prominent tech and finance figures rally opposition and some wealthy residents pack up for new states. The fight, centered
In New York, a young company called Merciv announced its public debut with fresh capital. The startup emerged from stealth with $14 million in seed funding, signaling plans to scale
A new paid plan promises higher usage limits for messaging, file uploads, and image generation, signaling a push to convert free users into subscribers. The offering, described this week by
When major winter storms move through, the white scenery quickly gives way to back-breaking work and mounting bills. From neighborhood sidewalks to interstate highways, clearing snow and ice becomes an
AI moved fast this week, but one storyline stands out. OpenAI is steering into ads, cheaper plans, and even claims on user-led discoveries. I believe that is a strategic misstep.
You know you do not have independent deployability when a “small” change turns into a release train. Someone updates orders, then payments needs a tweak, then notifications fails in staging,
You rarely fear the migration itself. You fear the Tuesday after. Production data migration is one of the few engineering tasks where “mostly correct” is still failure. You can migrate
New images taken over the Christmas period appear to show a civilian-style Chinese cargo ship fitted with military systems at the Hudong–Zhonghua shipyard in Shanghai. Analysts say the vessel carries
If you have shipped enough products, the pattern is familiar. Define requirements, build the feature, QA it, launch, iterate. That muscle memory works for CRUD flows and dashboards. It breaks
Most large-scale rewrites do not start with a dramatic declaration. They start quietly. Velocity slows. On-call pain increases. Roadmaps fill with “platform work” that never seems to end. You still
Researchers at the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab have introduced PaTH Attention, an expressive architecture designed to help large language models maintain state and reason over long text. The team says
XBuild, a self-described first AI platform for construction, announced a $19 million Series A funding round in San Francisco. The company’s statement arrived today and signals growing interest in applying
You have seen it happen in design reviews and roadmap discussions. A proposal looks polished at first glance, but something feels off within the first few minutes. Senior engineering leaders
A media request for the then-UK technology secretary’s ChatGPT logs has opened a new front in government transparency, testing how freedom of information rules apply to AI tools. The move,
From drones to data dashboards, a wave of farm technology is promising higher crop yields and lower food prices. Companies are pitching new tools as growers plan the next season.
Social media platforms have removed access to roughly 4.7 million accounts flagged as belonging to children in Australia, signaling a sweeping enforcement move in a long-running fight over youth safety
WIRED has used a code-focused AI system to review thousands of machine learning papers, seeking fresh evidence of how the United States and China work together on artificial intelligence research.
Thinking Machines Lab is grappling with a wave of departures that insiders describe as a blow to its momentum. The exits, which surfaced in recent days, have sparked urgent questions
Smart glasses do not need to shout to be useful. They need to disappear. After watching Lou test Even Realities’ new G2 glasses—and the ring that drives them—I’m convinced the
AI has grown by stacking more chips, more data centers, and more compute. That playbook is hitting a wall. The wall is energy. I see a clear shift: the next
As shoppers rush online for holiday deals, tech reporter Kurt “CyberGuy” Knutsson urged viewers to shop smart and stay safe. Appearing on Fox & Friends ahead of Cyber Monday, he
You usually discover the inference pipelines need “scaling” right after it stops behaving like a pipeline. At low volume, everything feels reasonable. One model, one endpoint, stable latency, calm dashboards.
GeekWire will launch a new event in 2026 focused on artificial intelligence and business change, signaling how fast executives are reorganizing for the technology’s next phase. The half-day summit, titled
If you have deployed AI into a real production workflow, you have probably felt this tension already. The model looks solid in offline evaluation. Latency is acceptable. Accuracy metrics clear
At a major Silicon Valley gathering, quantum computing leaders said progress toward practical machines is accelerating, even as big technical and market challenges persist. Scientists and executives at the Q2B
Your dashboards look calm. Accuracy curves are flat, latency budgets are intact, and no one has paged you in weeks. On paper, the AI system is healthy. In practice, something
Speaking on Friday during an appearance on “The Joe Rogan Experience,” actor and director Ben Affleck argued that generative artificial intelligence will serve filmmakers as a practical aid rather than
The team behind a recent chart-topping track says their work has been misread by fans and critics, urging a more accurate view of how the song came together. The creators
Previous funds tied to a private investment manager have drawn backing from one of private equity’s most recognized founders and two large U.S. public pensions. The mix of capital, which
Nvidia has told customers in China to pay the full amount upfront for its H200 artificial intelligence chips, even as regulatory approval in the United States and China remains unclear.