Nuro has been granted a permit to begin driverless testing of Lucid Gravity SUVs equipped with its autonomous tech on California public roads — vehicles that will eventually be used in Uber’s premium robotaxi service. But the Silicon Valley-based startup, backed by Nvidia and Uber, says it isn’t quite ready to begin. The California Department…
Most security teams have more data than they know what to do with. Alerts, dashboards, telemetry feeds—all of it pointing at things that need attention. The problem isn’t that they can’t see the risks. It’s that seeing them and actually fixing them are two completely different things. Known vulnerabilities sit unresolved for months. Orphaned accounts…
In August 2017, Greg Brockman and Ilya Sutskever gathered at Elon Musk’s self-described “haunted mansion,” a 47-acre, $23 million estate in Hillsborough, south of San Francisco, to discuss the future of OpenAI. Actor Amber Heard, Musk’s then-girlfriend, had served the group whiskey and then dashed off with a friend, Brockman, OpenAI’s cofounder and president, testified…
Voice AI has a dirty secret: most of it was never designed for conversation. The dominant paradigm — feed text in, get audio out — traces its lineage to audiobook narration and voiceover production, where the model never hears the person on the other end. That’s fine when you’re generating a podcast intro. It’s not…
Ninety-nine percent is not a statistic you expect to see in a security report. But that’s the finding from a new survey of 500 U.S. CISOs: 99.4% of organizations experienced at least one security incident tied to their SaaS or AI ecosystem in 2025. Only three respondents reported zero incidents. Three. The survey, conducted by…
As Bumble gets ready for a big overhaul meant to win back Gen Z users (who are pretty over dating apps right now), its latest earnings still reports that paying users are declining. In the first quarter of 2026, total paying users fell 21.1% to 3.2 million, down from 4 million a year ago. This…
Lucid Motors said Tuesday that it’s no longer sure how many EVs it will build or sell this year, as it navigates a transition to a new CEO and a company-wide cost-cutting push. The company said in February that it planned to build between 25,000 and 27,000 vehicles this year. That’s far from the hundreds…
Voice AI has a dirty secret. Most text-to-speech systems sound fine — until they don’t. They can read a sentence. What they cannot do is mean it. The rhythm is off. The emotion is flat. The speaker sounds like themselves for two seconds, then drifts into generic synthetic territory. That gap between intelligible audio and…
Every time you use AI, you are, in some small way, depending on a 42-year-old, 44,000-person Dutch company that spends €4.5 billion each year to advance its technology. ASML, headquartered in the Netherlands, makes the machines that make the chips that make AI possible. More specifically, it makes the only machines in the world capable…
Airbnb billionaire co-founder Joe Gebbia is growing his team at the U.S. National Design Studio, the Trump initiative focused on improving the government’s online presence. On Monday, Gebbia announced that American designer Peter Arnell joined the team to become the first U.S. chief brand architect. Gebbia shared the news of Arnell’s hire during the The…
