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A multiyear co-innovation lab ties Eli Lilly’s drug pipeline to Nvidia’s next hardware cycle, betting faster discovery comes from tighter loops
As Grok keeps pilling up scandals inside X — from deepfakes to hate speech — Elon Musk’s xAI keeps scaling like credibility is a downstream problem
Nvidia wants cash before shipping H200s. China wants a say in Meta’s Manus deal. The AI race is still on — it’s just running through regulators now
Meta’s $2-3B Manus buy was meant to be a shortcut to shippable agents. Now, China’s commerce ministry is looking at whether the deal exports tech...
Beijing has reportedly asked tech companies to pause H200 buying plans — right as Nvidia says demand is “quite high” and is ramping supply for China
The Nvidia–Mercedes pilot handled San Francisco streets with zero drama, underscoring a bigger bet: autonomy as a scalable stack, not a robotaxi...
Nvidia is betting it can turn autonomy into a product cycle — not a moonshot — and that its stack can welcome every automaker that wants in
At CES, Nvidia is looking to settle the question of whether AI is still worth its price — with new platforms, more open tooling, and a march toward...
McDonald’s says the McRib is 100% pork. A class-action lawsuit says the rib name and silhouette sold rib meat — and priced it that way
The Oracle of Omaha's last day as CEO is here. Berkshire will keep humming — but the market must finally price the premium he carried
Tesla’s Q4 delivery outlook is down — and it's circulating the estimate, trying to nudge the headline from “slump” to “beat,” before the print arrives
The company that made AI mainstream is now hiring someone to lose sleep over it — a head of 'preparedness' — but the insomnia comes with equity
Intel confirms Nvidia’s $5B stake is done — 214.8 million shares at $23.28 — as the companies sell an x86-friendly path into Nvidia’s AI...
Holiday magic is getting a user interface. Pay-per-minute Santa calls, emoji-made videos, and AI elves caught on camera — all wrapped in tinsel
Instacart says it’s done testing grocery prices after criticism that shoppers were unknowingly charged different amounts for the same items
I tried using AI to shop for Christmas gifts, and it kept mistaking intimacy for inventory — right up to the “smart” jump rope it wanted my mom...
The billionaire who launches rockets can't launch a Texas school. State records show it operates as child care and doesn't serve school-age children
After years of self-driving bravado, Tesla now has 60 days to prove Autopilot is actually autonomous in California or admit it's just driver assist...
OpenAI just upgraded ChatGPT Images with GPT Image 1.5, a faster, cheaper image push that reads like a direct response to Google’s Nano Banana moment
Susie Wiles described the whiplash of working around someone who runs on impulse and expects everyone else to call it innovation
Merriam-Webster crowned “slop” word of the year — just as AI junk overwhelms feeds, and platforms offer ways for users to turn the noise down
Tesla froze director pay in 2021 after a lawsuit, but earlier option grants kept compounding, turning board service into a $3 billion windfall
Oracle stock fell as much as 16% as earnings made it painfully clear that the AI grid is wired to a very nervous bond market
Musk's company is reportedly working on a mid- to late-2026 IPO that could raise more than $30 billion and give SpaceX the biggest market debut ever
State AGs pushed Google into a $700 million Play Store settlement. Millions of US customers will get refunds — of at least $2 via PayPal or Venmo
A few giants finance each other's buildouts, pre-sell years of infrastructure to each other, and then point to those contracts as proof it can’t...
Policy experts say Trump’s Nvidia plan weakens America’s only clear advantage in AI compute — even as Beijing limits H200 access and backs local chips
Nvidia’s year at 0% in China may shift as Washington reportedly moves to license H200s, offering a narrow reopening of a crucial market
Starbucks teased a second wave of its Bearista cup, telling fans that their “chance” at the sold-out glass bear is in the app today
After a $140 million fine over X’s blue checks, ads, and research access, Elon Musk is campaigning against the E.U. itself
Elon Musk's space company is sketching out a late-2026 IPO — while also testing an $800 billion valuation, according to The Information
The e-commerce giant could walk away from a $6 billion postal pipeline, putting the USPS’ balance sheet — and rural delivery — on a collision course
Years after Meta renamed itself for the metaverse, the company is reportedly rethinking the cash-burning boondoggle
A November hasn't seen this many job cuts since 2022. And hiring continues to lag, hitting its lowest point in 15 years
OpenAI's “confessions” experiment forces ChatGPT to file a second answer, listing the rules it heard, the shortcuts it took, and why it bent the rules
Salesforce showed up to earnings priced like a SaaS relic and left with numbers that finally backed the AI pitch, sending the stock up after hours
Investors aren't sold on Salesforce AI. Shares are low, growth is slowing, and bubble fears are turning a cloud giant into a value stock
Slop Evader rewires searches to ignore anything written before November 2022, pulling users back into the gloriously unvarnished — and human — web
As the AI boom overwhelms grids, Google is sketching a 10-year shift toward space-based data centers, starting with hardware racks launching in 2027
Apple has a new AI boss, a delayed Siri reboot, and edgy investors. Now, Gemini veteran Amar Subramanya must turn invisible AI into visible upside
Burry cast Tesla as a giant on stilts, with Elon Musk’s trillion-dollar prize and rolling AI storylines turning investors into a subsidy for the myth
Shoppers are increasingly using bots, not browsers, for their holiday shopping, as AI agents quietly start steering what shows up — and sells out
Google’s TPU push and Meta’s interest rattled Nvidia stock, but Wedbush says the AI race still runs through Jensen Huang’s corner of the ring
Burry is stitching together familiar red flags — circular money loops, stretched depreciation — and he doesn’t like the shape they make around Nvidia
Nvidia chief Jensen Huang wants employees to treat AI as the starting point for every task, saying it’s “insane” not to use the tools
The Bearista Cold Cup was meant to spread holiday cheer. Instead, it sold out in hours, sparked fights, and turned a $30 cup into a speculative asset
Siddhant Awasthi, the engineer who turned Elon Musk’s stainless-steel fantasy into a street-legal pickup, is leaving as the Cybertruck faces its...
Shareholders at the electric-vehicle maker seem ready to approve the richest CEO pay package in history
As the U.S. and China try to resolve tensions, the minerals that power EVs and smartphones are increasingly under lock and key. China holds most of...
Being nice to your AI chatbot requires computational power that raises electricity and water costs