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With a record salmon run fueling Katmai’s brown bears, this year’s competition promises heavyweight showdowns and plenty of fan favorites.

Utilities are likely overestimating how much electricity new data centers are going to need to support AI, which is still a problem for power grids.

Google is rolling out its Gemini AI assistant to Google TV, bringing conversational AI to over 300 million devices. Users will be able to ask Gemini for help with TV recommendations, show recaps, reviews, or even general tasks like homework help, vacation planning, or learning new skills. TechCrunch...

OpenAI loves to make grand announcements. Earlier this year we had the hoopla about its Stargate data center venture, worth up to $500 billion. Today the ChatGPT creator announced a letter of intent to form a strategic partnership with Nvidia to “build and deploy” artificial intelligence data ...

Both companies signed a letter of intent to deploy at least 10 gigawatts of Nvidia chips for OpenAI's AI infrastructure.

Tech got what it wanted by electing Trump. A year later, it looks more like a suicide pact.

President Donald Trump also said that Larry Ellison and Michael Dell are also likely to be involved in the TikTok deal.

After years of modest upgrades, Apple finally has a standout new iPhone on its hands. Here are my first impressions. Also: Meta launches game-changing display glasses while touch screen Macs get closer to reality.

As per usual, iFixit has done their excellent annual iPhone teardown and analysis, and they’ve discovered some great news about...

Being a carmaker where ‘everything is connected’ has left JLR unable to isolate its plants or functions, forcing a shutdown of most systems

US-India airfares rose sharply after President Trump’s H-1B visa proclamation, with 4Chan users reportedly orchestrating 'Operation Clog the Toilet' to inflate prices. The move caused confusion and disrupted travel for H-1B holders.

By Stephen Wilmot / Wall Street Journal. View the full context on Techmeme.

Oracle’s potential TikTok takeover is a big deal to US competitors like Meta and Snap....

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The report details a behavior the company calls ‘scheming’: when AI models intentionally try to deceive people, such as pretending to have completed work.

The Justice Department will argue in a Virginia courthouse that Google’s ad tech monopoly should be broken up.

Chinese tech giant Huawei has co-developed a safety-focused version of artificial intelligence model DeepSeek that it said is "nearly 100% successful" in preventing discussion of politically sensitive topics.

JerryRigEverything needed a trip to his garage and a crane scale to find the wafer-thin iPhone Air’s breaking point.

Exclusive: Instagram pictures of girls as young as 13 were posted to promote Threads site ‘as bait’, campaigner says

Probably—and safety organisations are beginning to take note

Mark Zuckerberg’s glitch-filled unveiling of computerized glasses revealed a company that may struggle to deliver on its promise for the future of computing.

The Shai-Hulud malware campaign impacted hundreds of npm packages across multiple maintainers, reports Koi Security, including popular libraries like @ctrl/tinycolor and some packages maintained by CrowdStrike. Malicious versions embed a trojanized script (bundle.js) designed to steal developer cre...

It's still not clear exactly who will own the app or how the deal will work in practice for users.

Staff from the EPA’s Office of Water were summoned to a town hall meeting this week and told to pause the publication of most research, pending a review.

The $100,000 fee for the highly prized visa is intended to boost jobs for U.S. workers.

xAI's latest Grok 4 Fast model is faster and can smoothly transition between complex tasks and simple requests.

A battle between Anthropic’s Dario Amodei and the White House pits worries about safe development against a free-market approach.

The White House press secretary said Americans will hold six of seven board seats in the restructured TikTok, and the video app’s algorithm will be U.S.-controlled.

Amazon, Google, and Microsoft tell H-1B visa workers to rush back to the US before Sunday.

(Photo by iStrfry , Marcus on Unsplash) Longtime entrepreneurs and venture capitalists are sounding the alarm over President Trump's new H-1B fee that