Nvidia announces new open AI models and tools for autonomous driving research: Nvidia continues its push into physical AI with the release of a new reasoning world model and other tools for physical AI. Read More |
MKBHD's wallpaper app Panels is shutting down: From the time Brownlee launched Panels in September 2024, the app struggled to find an audience of its own. "We knew it was niche … and ultimately, we weren't able to turn it into the vision I had," Marques Brownlee said. Read More |
Construction workers are cashing in on the AI boom: "I pinch myself going to work every day," one 51-year-old says of his new supervisor role overseeing 200 workers at a data center site. Read More |
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At least 80 new tech unicorns were minted in 2025 so far: Using data from Crunchbase and PitchBook, TechCrunch tracked down the VC-backed startups that became unicorns so far this year. Read More |
Black Forest Labs raises $300M at $3.25B valuation: The round was co-led by Salesforce Ventures and Anjney Midha (AMP), and saw participation from a16z, NVIDIA, Northzone, Creandum, Earlybird VC, BroadLight Capital, General Catalyst, Temasek, Bain Capital Ventures, Air Street Capital, Visionaries Club, Canva and Figma Ventures. Read More |
Shopify resolves outage disrupting merchants on Cyber Monday: Shopify was down for many merchants this morning, preventing them from processing transactions. It appears to be fixed now. Read More |
Nvidia's $2B Synopsys bet tightens its grip on the chip-design stack: The $2 billion investment in Synopsys, which makes software and components for designing semiconductor chips, deepens their existing partnership at a time when analysts scrutinize circular AI-industry deals and warn of a potential bubble. Read More |
Amazon's AI chatbot Rufus drove sales on Black Friday: On Black Friday, Amazon sessions that resulted in a sale were up 100% in the U.S. when the AI chatbot Rufus was used. They only increased by 20% when Rufus wasn't used. Read More |
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European cops shut down crypto mixing website that helped launder 1.3B euros: Europol announced the seizure of Cryptomixer's official website, as well as 25 million euros and 12 terabytes of data from the mixer's service. Read More |
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