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These Gen Zers just raised $11.75M to put Africa’s defense back in the hands of Africans
After five years of building an edtech company, Nathan Nwachuku, 22, realized that Africa was at a crossroads. The continent is undergoing rapid industrialization, he told TechCrunch. There is money, opportunity, and a young, driven…
Malaysia and Indonesia block Elon Musk’s Grok due to nonconsensual sexual content
Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesMalaysia and Indonesia blocked access to Elon Musk's artificial intelligence chatbot Grok over the weekend due to concerns that the tool was being used to generate nonconsensual, sexually explicit…
Walmart partners with Google Gemini on shopping tool
A Walmart sign hangs on the exterior of the store on Nov. 20, 2025 in Hollywood, Florida. Joe Raedle | Getty ImagesWalmart and Google said Sunday that shoppers will soon be able to use Google's artificial intelligence assistant Gemini to…
Google removes AI Overviews for certain medical queries
Following an investigation by the Guardian that found Google AI Overviews offering misleading information in response to certain health-related queries, the company appears to have removed the AI Overviews for some of those queries.…
How AI bubble story is playing out inside one booming energy stock
Bloom Energy power storage equipment, San Ramon, California.Smith Collection | Gado | Archive Photos | Getty ImagesA million bubbles were swirling inside each glass of Champagne poured on New Year's Eve — which seems about like the…
SpaceX gets FCC approval to launch 7,500 more Starlink satellites
The Federal Communications Commission announced Friday that it has given SpaceX approval to launch another 7,500 of its second generation Starlink satellites, for a total of 15,000 satellites worldwide.
Beyond simply allowing SpaceX to…
AI question every job candidate on interview should prepare to answer
Maskot | Maskot | Getty ImagesIf there is still no clear answer to the question of how artificial intelligence is influencing gains and losses in the job market, there is at least one AI question that job candidates, and current workers…
AI memory is sold out, causing an unprecedented surge in prices
Eugene Mymrin | Moment | Getty ImagesAll computing devices require a part called memory, or RAM, for short-term data storage, but this year, there won't be enough of these essential components to meet worldwide demand.That's because…
Indonesia blocks Grok over non-consensual, sexualized deepfakes
Indonesian officials said Saturday that they are temporarily blocking access to xAI’s chatbot Grok.
This is one of the most aggressive moves so far from government officials responding to a flood of sexualized, AI-generated imagery —…
Amazon plans first big-box retail store in Chicago suburb
An Amazon warehouse in Warrington, England.Nathan Stirk | Getty ImagesAmazon has submitted plans for a large-format store near Chicago that would be larger than a Walmart Supercenter, marking the latest experiment with physical retail…
I met a lot of weird robots at CES — here are the most memorable
CES has always been a robot extravaganza, and this year’s event saw the announcement of a number of important robotics developments, including the new, production-ready debut of Atlas, the humanoid from Boston Dynamics. Then there were…
Oracle announces board departures George Conrades and Naomi Seligman
George Conrades, then chairman and CEO of Akamai Technologies, listens during a meeting of the National Infrastructure Advisory Council in Washington on April 13, 2004.Jay Mallin | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesOracle said Friday that two…
X restricts Grok’s image generation to paying subscribers only after drawing the world’s…
Elon Musk’s AI company has restricted Grok’s controversial AI image-generation feature to only paying subscribers on X, after the tool invited heavy criticism from across the world for letting users generate sexualized and nude images…
Amazon Pharmacy starts offering Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy weight loss pill
Close-up of a hand holding a cellphone displaying the Amazon Pharmacy system, Lafayette, California, Sept. 15, 2021.Smith Collection | Gado | Getty ImagesAmazon announced Friday it now offers Novo Nordisk's Wegovy weight loss pill…
MiniMax doubles in Hong Kong debut, marking yet another Chinese AI listing
The logo for MiniMax Group Inc. on a smartphone in Shanghai, China.Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesShares of China-based AI startup MiniMax Group doubled on its first day of trading in Hong Kong on Friday, becoming the second major…
CES 2026: Everything revealed, from Nvidia’s debuts to AMD’s new chips to Razer’s AI oddities
CES 2026 is in full swing in Las Vegas, with the show floor open to the public after a packed couple of days occupied by press conferences from the likes of Nvidia, Sony, and AMD and previews from Sunday’s Unveiled event.
As has been…
NASA to bring ISS Crew-11 astronauts back to Earth Saturday
Crew-11 mission astronauts wave as they depart the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building en route to launch complex LC-39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida on August 1, 2025. From L/R are Roscosmos…
Why this VC thinks 2026 will be ‘the year of the consumer’
Investment in consumer tech startups has been in a downturn since 2022, as a turbulent macroeconomic climate and rising inflation have made VCs skittish about consumer spending power. For the past couple of years, most AI…