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Amazon shuts 4 Fresh stores in Southern California after UK closures
An employee arranges a salad dressing display at an Amazon Fresh grocery store on December 12, 2024 in Federal Way, Washington.David Ryder | Getty ImagesAmazon is closing four more Fresh supermarkets in Southern California as the…
AI in an ‘industrial bubble’ but society will benefit
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos gestures as he speaks at the main panel of Italian Tech Week 2025 in Turin, Italy October 3, 2025. Remo Casilli | ReutersTURIN, Italy — Artificial intelligence is currently in an "industrial bubble" but the…
How developers are using Apple’s local AI models with iOS 26
Earlier this year, Apple introduced its Foundation Models framework during WWDC 2025, which allows developers to use the company’s local AI models to power features in their applications.
The company touted that with this framework,…
Silicon Valley’s defense tech startups are booming as war shifts
Guvendemir | E+ | Getty ImagesA wave of defense tech startups in Silicon Valley is drawing billions in funding and reshaping America's national security.Anduril Industries, recently valued at $30.5 billion following its latest funding…
Amazon to resume drone delivery following crash in Arizona
Amazon will restart its drone delivery service in Arizona beginning Friday as two federal agencies continue to investigate a crash that occurred earlier this week.
Amazon suspended operations in the West Valley of the Phoenix Metro…
OpenAI wraps $6.6 billion share sale at $500 billion valuation
Sam Altman, chief executive officer of OpenAI Inc., during a media tour of the Stargate AI data center in Abilene, Texas, US, on Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2025. Kyle Grillot | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesOpenAI has finalized a secondary share sale…
Tokenization of assets is freight train coming to markets: Robinhood CEO
Vlad Tenev, chief executive officer of Robinhood Markets Inc., during the Token2049 conference in Singapore, on Thursday, Oct. 2, 2025. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesThe tokenization of real-world assets, from stocks to real…
Visa crackdowns are blocking students’ study-abroad dreams, so India’s Leverage Edu is rerouting…
As visa crackdowns and diplomatic tensions block traditional study-abroad routes, India’s Leverage Edu is helping students reroute their dreams — from Canada to Germany, and from India to Nigeria and Saudi Arabia. That agility is paying…
Trump crypto firm plans expansion with tokenized commodities, debit cards
Donald Trump Jr., co-founder of World Liberty Financial, during at the Token2049 conference in Singapore, on Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2025. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesSINGAPORE — World Liberty Financial, a crypto venture linked to…
OpenAI staff grapples with the company’s social media push
Several current and former OpenAI researchers are speaking out over the company’s first foray into social media: the Sora app, a TikTok-style feed filled with AI-generated videos and a lot of Sam Altman deepfakes. The researchers,…
Microsoft hikes price of top-tier Xbox Game Pass Ultimate by $10
A gamer plays soccer title Pro Evolution Soccer 2019 on an Xbox console.Sezgin Pancar | Anadolu Agency via Getty ImagesMicrosoft is raising the Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscription price by 50% to $29.99 per month, effective immediately,…
New project makes Wikipedia data more accessible to AI
On Wednesday, Wikimedia Deutschland announced a new database that will make Wikipedia’s wealth of knowledge more accessible to AI models.
Called the Wikidata Embedding Project, the system applies a vector-based semantic search — a…
DoorDash launches delivery robot in push into autonomous technology
DoorDash launches autonomous delivery robot called Dot.Courtesy: DoorDashYour DoorDash deliverer could soon look a little different.DoorDash on Tuesday announced a robot, known as Dot, that navigates busy streets, parking lots and…
Palantir up 1,700% since NYSE debut five years ago. How it got there
People walk by a banner featuring the logo of Palantir Technologies (PLTR) at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on the day of their initial public offering (IPO) in Manhattan, New York City, U.S., September 30, 2020.Andrew Kelly |…
Former OpenAI and DeepMind researchers raise whopping $300M seed to automate science
Periodic Labs came out of stealth on Tuesday with a war chest of $300 million as a seed round, backed by a tech industry’s who’s who: Andreessen Horowitz, DST, Nvidia, Accel, Elad Gil, Jeff Dean, Eric Schmidt, and Jeff Bezos.
Period…
Firefly Aerospace stock tanks 24% after test rocket explosion
A model of the Firefly Aerospace Blue Ghost lander during the company's initial public offering at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York, US, on Thursday, Aug. 7, 2025. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesFirefly Aerospace shares sank…
Notion Capital raises $130M growth fund to tackle Europe’s follow-on gap
The lack of growth capital in Europe is such a persisting issue that some early-stage firms have taken the matter into their own hands. London-headquartered firm Notion Capital is one of them.
In 2017, Notion Capital was one of the…
Taiwan should only produce half of America’s chips, says U.S. Commerce Chief
A logo of the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) displayed on a smartphone screenVcg | Visual China Group | Getty ImagesThe Trump administration is pushing Taipei to shift investment and chip production to the U.S. so that…