The Chinese AI startup MiniMax saw its shares jump as much as 90% on its first day of trading in Hong Kong on Friday, March 28. The company raised $620 million, significantly outpacing the debut of its rival Zhipu AI just one day earlier.
New York’s Attorney General is investigating Instacart over its algorithmic pricing practices. The probe follows a December study that found the company showed different shoppers different prices for the same items.
A new image-editing feature on xAI’s Grok chatbot has been used to create nonconsensual sexualized imagery, including of minors. The scandal has triggered investigations worldwide and exposed deep internal tensions over the platform’s lax safety guardrails.
Meta has hired Bill McGinley, a lawyer who served as top counsel for Elon Musk’s DOGE and worked on Trump’s “election integrity” team. The $120,000 lobbying hire is the latest move in Meta’s full-scale political realignment towards Trump’s Washington.
Raspberry Pi Connect is the new official way to access your Pi desktop, but it’s not the only game in town. For users who want more control, better performance, or a simpler local setup, several mature alternatives exist. This guide breaks down five powerful options, including WayVNC, xrdp, RustDesk
Major U.S. tech giants like Google and Meta won’t face heavy-handed new telecom rules under Europe’s upcoming Digital Networks Act, according to a Reuters exclusive. Instead, they’ll be invited into a voluntary “best practices” framework. The draft rules aim to harmonize spectrum licensing and could
Snowflake is making its largest acquisition ever, agreeing to buy observability platform Observe for around $1 billion. The deal, announced January 8th, aims to integrate monitoring tools directly into Snowflake’s data cloud as AI workloads explode.
Intel’s open-source graphics stack is getting significant upgrades. The new Mesa 26.0 release enables GPU hardware replay for debugging, and the kernel driver is adding Transparent Hugepage support for a major performance lift in shared virtual memory workloads.
Microsoft is putting buy buttons directly inside its Copilot AI chatbot. The feature, rolling out now in the US, lets you purchase items from select retailers without ever visiting their websites. It’s the latest move in the race to turn AI assistants into shopping agents.
Chipmaker Qualcomm and Google are deepening their collaboration to build smarter, software-defined vehicles. The partnership aims to fuse Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Digital Chassis with Google’s Android Automotive OS and Gemini AI to create a unified development platform. This move is set to accelerate h
