The Supreme Court has sided with the Biden Administration on a law that could ban TikTok in the coming days. In a unanimous ruling, the court upheld the law, writing in an unsigned opinion that “TikTok’s scale and susceptibility to foreign adversary control, together with […]
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Amazon suspends U.S. drone deliveries following crash at testing facility
Amazon has paused testing of its delivery drones following a crash involving two of its models, according to Bloomberg. It’s the latest setback for Amazon’s beleaguered Prime Air program, which aims to deliver around 500 million packages a year to customers by the end of […]
Beyond RAG: How cache-augmented generation reduces latency, complexity for smaller workloads
As LLMs become more capable, many RAG applications can be replaced with cache-augmented generation that include documents in the prompt.
The FAA is grounding SpaceX’s Starship after its latest explosion
The Federal Aviation Administration is ordering SpaceX to conduct a mishap investigation into what caused the company’s Starship rocket to explode mid-flight on January 16. Until the FAA approves SpaceX’s investigation reported, the company won’t be allowed to proceed with future Starship missions. SpaceX’s launch […]
AI startup Character AI tests games on the web
Character AI, a startup that lets users chat with different AI-powered characters, is now testing games on its desktop and mobile web apps to increase engagement on its platform. The games are available to Character AI’s paid subscribers and a limited set of users on […]
Nintendo’s Switch 2 is here — sort of
Image: The Verge, Nintendo The Switch 2 exists. We know that for sure. It’s bigger — seems like we know that, too. But what else do we know about the sequel to one of Nintendo’s most innovative and bestselling consoles? Maybe not as much as […]
TikTok CEO responds to Trump, thanks him for trying to solve US ban
TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew responded to comments made by Donald Trump regarding Friday’s Supreme Court ruling to ban the app in the U.S. In a video posted on TikTok, Chew said, “On behalf of TikTok and all our users across the country, I want […]
Bumble founder Whitney Wolfe Herd to reclaim CEO position in March
Bumble announced today that founder Whitney Wolfe Herd is returning as CEO after stepping down from the position in 2023. Wolfe Herd will succeed Lidiane Jones, the company’s current CEO who has left for “personal reasons,” Bumble explained. Jones, the former CEO of Slack, will […]
Ken Howery: the tech mogul at the center of Trump’s Greenland ambition
Surprise! Donald Trump’s big, audacious ambition to buy Greenland from Denmark has a tech angle. Ken Howery, named by U.S. President-elect Trump’s pick to be the next ambassador to the country (and thus chief broker of any deal), is one more part of the rich […]
Google rejects EU fact checking commitments for Search and YouTube
Illustration: The Verge Google has notified the European Union that it won’t integrate work from fact-checking organizations into Search or YouTube, ahead of the bloc’s plans to expand disinformation laws. Google had previously signed a set of voluntary commitments that the EU introduced in 2022 […]