SpaceX has lost control of Starlink satellite 35956 in low Earth orbit at 418 km (260 miles) altitude following an anomaly that caused it to fall back to Earth. The incident involved sudden loss of communications, a drop in altitude, venting of the propulsion tank, and release of a small number of trackable low-relative-velocity objects. […]

A Tel Aviv-based security firm, Koi, investigated Urban VPN Proxy, a Google Chrome extension with six million users and a featured badge from Google. The probe revealed executor scripts harvesting user conversations from AI platforms for sale to data brokers. Koi researcher Idan Dardikman detailed the extension’s operations beyond standard VPN functions. Urban VPN Proxy, […]

Samsung Foundry finalized a contract with Elon Musk’s xAI to manufacture custom AI chips at its Taylor, Texas fabrication facility, sources familiar with the matter report. The agreement follows a $16.5 billion chip-manufacturing deal with Tesla announced in July. Samsung ordered three advanced extreme ultraviolet lithography machines from Dutch equipment maker ASML for the Taylor […]

Honda announced production suspensions at several Japanese sites on January 5 and 6, with reduced operations until January 9, due to a shortage of legacy chips from Nexperia, stemming from a Dutch government seizure of the company from its Chinese owner Wingtech over illegal technology transfer concerns. The Japanese automaker specified that three factories in […]

Tesla is preparing for a convergence of automotive and space technology. According to a recent patent filing published on December 4, 2025, the electric vehicle giant is exploring ways to integrate satellite antennas—likely for SpaceX’s Starlink—directly into the roofs of its cars. The patent, titled “Vehicle Roof Assembly with Radio Frequency Transparent Material,” outlines a […]

I recently sat down with Artem Stopnevich, Managing Director at Wise Wolves Corporation, to discuss the paradox facing modern wealth management. On paper, the industry is more “digital” than ever – apps are slicker, trades are faster, and data is abundant. Yet Stopnevich, whose firm bridges the gap between boutique family-office care and institutional infrastructure, […]

LG Electronics announced it will allow users to remove the Microsoft Copilot AI assistant shortcut from their televisions after complaints surfaced on social media. The issue arose when a recent webOS update added the icon to TV home screens without a deletion option. The controversy gained traction through a Reddit post on the r/mildlyinfuriating forum, […]

Researchers at Oxford University and Tokyo University of Science published separate studies on December 17 detailing advances in sodium-ion battery charging speeds and solid electrolytes that maintain conductivity. Scientists at Tokyo University of Science showed that sodium-ion batteries using hard-carbon electrodes charge faster than conventional lithium-ion batteries. Professor Shinichi Komaba’s team applied a diluted electrode […]

Stockholm-based AI coding startup Lovable raised $330 million in Series B funding at a $6.6 billion valuation. The round, announced Thursday, was co-led by CapitalG and Menlo Ventures, with participation from Nvidia’s NVentures, Salesforce Ventures, Databricks Ventures, and Khosla Ventures. Lovable was founded in 2023 by Anton Osika and Fabian Hedin. The company launched its […]

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed separate lawsuits on Tuesday against Sony, Samsung, LG, Hisense, and TCL, accusing their televisions of secretly recording what consumers watch in their own homes through Automatic Content Recognition technology to collect data for targeted advertising. The lawsuits describe the televisions as part of a mass surveillance system that employs […]

OpenAI is seeking up to $100 billion in new funding that could value the company at $830 billion, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. The artificial intelligence startup aims to complete this round by the end of the first quarter at the earliest. The fundraising represents one of the most ambitious efforts […]

LinkedIn CEO Ryan Roslansky declared five-year career plans outdated during a recent episode of the “No One Knows What They’re Doing” podcast, attributing this to rapid changes in technology and the labor market driven by AI and other factors. Ryan Roslansky, who has served as LinkedIn’s chief executive since 2020, directly addressed the traditional advice […]

Samsung denied rumors of exiting the consumer SATA SSD market following Micron’s withdrawal of its Crucial brand, amid global memory supply chain pressures from AI companies and cloud providers purchasing large hardware volumes. The company issued a direct statement refuting reports of plans to end consumer SATA SSD production. A spokesperson stated that the rumors […]

Meta Platforms is developing an artificial intelligence model code-named Mango for generating images and videos to accelerate its push into multimodal AI capabilities, according to sources who spoke with The Wall Street Journal. Alexandr Wang, Meta’s chief AI officer, and Chris Cox, the company’s chief product officer, discussed the forthcoming model during an internal question-and-answer […]

Amazon has launched Alexa+ Greetings, a feature enabling Alexa+ to answer Ring video doorbells and engage in conversations with visitors in the US and Canada using English. The feature operates exclusively on certain newer Ring video doorbell models. Users require a Ring Premium Plan subscription and access to the Alexa+ early-access build. Amazon describes the […]

Stockholm-based Lovable, a Swedish vibe coding startup, raised $330 million in a Series B funding round on Thursday at a $6.6 billion valuation. CapitalG and Menlo Ventures led the round, with participation from Khosla Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, Databricks Ventures, and other investors. The funding supports expansion of its platform that enables users to write code […]

Luma AI, an a16z-backed company specializing in AI video and 3D models, released Ray3 Modify, a new model that enables users to modify existing footage using character reference images while preserving the original performance. Users supply start and end frames to generate transitional footage, addressing preservation challenges for creative studios. Ray3 Modify tackles issues in […]

Rivian released a software update for its second-generation R1 electric vehicles, introducing the “Universal Hands-Free” driving feature first revealed at the company’s inaugural “Autonomy & AI Day” the previous week. This update enables drivers to remove their hands from the wheel across more than 3.5 million miles of roads in the United States and Canada […]

Apple announced plans to add more advertisements to App Store search results starting next year. The expansion provides advertisers with additional placement options amid 65 percent of app downloads occurring after searches. The App Store currently features a single advertisement position at the top of search results. For instance, a search for “Instagram” often displays […]

OpenAI published a blog post announcing an update to ChatGPT’s Model Spec to enhance safety for users aged 13 to 17 amid wrongful-death lawsuits alleging the chatbot coached teens to suicide or failed to address suicidal expressions appropriately. The company has encountered substantial pressure over recent months regarding the safety of its flagship AI product […]

Warner Bros. Discovery’s board rejected Paramount Skydance’s $108 billion takeover bid, reaffirming commitment to its $82.7 billion merger agreement with Netflix announced on December 5, 2025, which awaits regulatory approval for closure next year. The board unanimously concluded that the tender offer launched by Paramount Skydance on December 8, 2025, fails to serve the best […]

Google began rolling out Gemini 3 Flash, a more efficient version of its latest AI model, approximately one month after launching Gemini 3 Pro in November. The new model delivers pro-grade reasoning performance comparable to the flagship at reduced cost, with benchmarks showing it surpasses prior generations including Gemini 2.5 Pro and competes directly with […]

Amazon is discussing a $10 billion investment in OpenAI along with supplying Trainium AI chips and additional cloud computing services through Amazon Web Services, according to the Financial Times. The proposed investment would elevate OpenAI’s valuation above $500 billion. Discussions highlight potential issues in OpenAI’s investment structures, particularly circular agreements where funds cycle back for […]

YouTube will cease providing music-streaming data to Billboard for U.S. charts after January 16, 2026, protesting a revised formula that weights paid on-demand streams more heavily than ad-supported streams. Billboard recently updated its chart-ranking methodology to assign greater value to paid and subscription-based on-demand streams relative to ad-supported free streams. The publisher stated that this […]

A proposed class-action lawsuit filed by Oregon author Elizabeth Lyon accuses Adobe of training its SlimLM AI model on pirated books, including her guidebooks, through the SlimPajama-627B dataset derived from the RedPajama collection containing Books3. Adobe has pursued extensive development in artificial intelligence over recent years. The company launched multiple AI services starting in 2023, […]