Google is testing a new product designed to help families coordinate with the support of an AI agent. This week, the search giant introduced a new version of CC, an AI agent designed to work across email, calendar, chats, and tasks. With the update, CC now focuses on keeping families organized, planning for the day … Read more
New data shows that sales for new and used electric vehicles rose in August.
Chinese AI startup Manus, which earlier this year had to break off a merger with Meta, is in discussions to raise $500 million at a $4 billion valuation now that it has resumed operations as an independent company, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing anonymous sources. Potential investors in the round include IDG Capital, Boyu … Read more
For the wealthy families who manage their own money through a family office, the math right now is simple, according to Djoann Fal, a family office advisor and investor at the private wealth platform Atlas Capital in San Francisco. A family office might want to put money into something like green energy for the long … Read more
You have an AI product to build. Do you choose a proprietary frontier model and get moving quickly? Build on an open model and gain greater control? Fine-tune your own version? Run locally? Use multiple models? Change strategy six months from now when the economics and capabilities shift again? There may not be one right … Read more
Jeff Lawson has already helped build a company with more than $4 billion in revenue and 300,000 customers worldwide. After scaling Twilio into a public company, his next challenge reaches well beyond software: bringing fusion power to the grid as co-founder and CEO of Inertia. It’s a striking change in direction. It also raises a … Read more
Audi now targets March 2029 production, underscoring continued Volkswagen SSP delays.
In a twist that captures the strange new state of AI security, independent security researchers have used Anthropic’s Claude to break into OpenAI, exposing cracks in the ChatGPT-maker’s defenses, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday evening. A three-person security team at startup Hacktron AI carried out the attack as part of an OpenAI bug-bounty … Read more
NACTOY’s 2027 truck shortlist skips the Ford F-150, spotlighting Slate, Ram, and GM instead.
In a statement Thursday, Willie Underwood, president of the American Medical Association, called Kennedy’s new slate of members “a significant departure from the Task Force’s traditional membership.” USPSTF’s “credibility has been built on a membership grounded in prevention and primary care—the physicians who routinely deliver preventive services and understand how recommendations translate into clinical practice,” … Read more