Jeff Bezos’ space company Blue Origin is finally ready to try a second launch of its super heavy-lift rocket New Glenn. The company announced on Wednesday that it will attempt the launch as early as Sunday, November 9, from Launch Complex 36 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. New Glenn’s first flight took place back in January,…
Amazon Web Services (AWS) and OpenAI have officially entered into a massive $38 billion, multi-year strategic partnership to power and scale OpenAI’s next generation of artificial intelligence (AI) workloads. The collaboration will see AWS providing its extensive cloud and GPU infrastructure to accelerate OpenAI’s research and product development. Under the seven-year agreement, OpenAI will gain…
Lucid Motors’ chief engineer Eric Bach is leaving the company after more than a decade, the company has announced. Bach, who also served as Lucid Motors’ Senior Vice President of Product, has been with the company since 2015. He joined Lucid after spending three years as Tesla’s Director of Engineering, where he worked alongside Lucid…
MecTURING has unveiled its latest innovation in home automation – the MecTURING Laseron Q10 robotic vacuum cleaner, developed through in-house R&D and proudly made in India. The Laseron Q10 aims to redefine cleaning efficiency for Indian homes, combining powerful 13,500 Pa suction, advanced navigation, and 3-in-1 cleaning functionality in one intelligent device. The Laseron Q10…
While Roy Lee, the founder of Cluely, argues that startups should be thinking harder about social media virality, he also admits that brand awareness alone won’t lead to sustained growth. “I can’t say if it’s a mistake, but maybe we launched too early,” Lee said on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 last week. “The whole…
WhatsApp has officially launched its dedicated app for Apple Watch, delivering a complete messaging experience right on the wrist. The new app allows users to read, reply, and manage chats without relying on their iPhone – a major leap in bringing full WhatsApp functionality to Apple’s wearable ecosystem. This rollout marks a significant step for…
Apple is nearing a deal with Google that would see the iPhone maker pay the tech giant roughly $1 billion a year for a custom version of Google’s Gemini AI model to power its overhaul of Siri, according to a new report from Bloomberg. The move is a big one for Apple, which has traditionally…
On an earnings call on Tuesday, Pinterest CEO Bill Ready highlighted the promise of open source AI models in helping the company keep its costs down as it expands the use cases for visual AI. The image pinboarding site, which often serves as consumers’ first step in their shopping journey, leverages AI technology to power…
How can we reliably test whether large language models actually understand Indian languages and culture in real world contexts? OpenAI has released IndQA, a benchmark that evaluates how well AI models understand and reason about questions that matter in Indian languages across cultural domains. Why IndQA? OpenAI states that about 80 percent of people worldwide…
For years, Australians have been been installing solar panels at a rapid clip. Now, that investment is paying off. The Australian government announced this week that electricity customers in three states will get free electricity for up to three hours per day starting in July 2026. Solar power has boomed in Australia in recent years….
