Nvidia’s AI empire: See the top startup investments
No company has harnessed the AI revolution more dramatically than Nvidia. Revenue, profits, and cash reserves have grown since ChatGPT's introduction more than two years ago - and many competitive generative AI services have launched. And the share price has increased by more than eightfold. During this period, the world's high-performance GPU manufacturers have used their ballooning fortunes to...
Apple’s board opposed the proposal to eliminate the DEI program
Apple's board of directors has opposed a proposal to end the company's Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) program. In a proxy filing, the company said the National Center for Public Policy Research (a conservative think tank) submitted a proposal for Apple to "consider eliminating Inclusion & Diversity programs, policies, departments and goals." The think tank's proposal argued that DEI...
Matt Mullenweg disabled the WordPress account of a contributor he said planned to create the project
Automattic CEO and WordPress co-creator Matt Mullenweg has disabled the accounts of several members of the WordPress.org community, both of whom suggested plans to spearhead the push to create a new fork of the open source WordPress project. While public criticism of WordPress governance is not new, the latest brouhaha began in September when Mullenweg publicly condemned WP Engine,...
Researchers open source Sky-T1, a ‘reasonable’ AI model that can be trained for less than $450
So-called reasoning AI models are becoming easier – and cheaper – to develop. On Friday, NovaSky, a team of researchers from UC Berkeley's Sky Computing Lab, released Sky-T1-32B-Preview, a reasoning model that is competitive with the previous version of OpenAI's o1 in several key benchmarks. Sky-T1 appears to be the first open-source reasoning model in the sense that it...
Everything you missed at CES 2025
Welcome to the Week in Review. I miss you! This week, we dive into all the gadgets and announcements coming out of this year's CES, Meta's decision to bring back its fact-checking program, TikTok's response to employees affected by the California wildfires, and more! Let's do this. CES 2025 came and went this week. The event features keynotes from...
What’s behind the balloon video game budget?
Why do some companies need hundreds of millions of dollars to develop popular video games? A few weeks ago, The New York Times blamed the endless effort to deliver photo-realistic graphics - and suggested that the industry was beginning to see diminishing returns, leading to layoffs and studio closures. However, Bloomberg's Jason Schreier said this analysis was "a little...
Latin American Fact Checkers Prepare for Meta’s Next Movement
This 180-degree change is a response to the second term of the presidency of Donald Trump and the way of competition, such as Community Notes X. Meta decided not to invest any more money in the program. Now, it is expected that the users of Facebook and Instagram themselves will decide whether the content is disinformation or not. In...
I did not get wet driving the Arc Sport electric boat
I didn't go to CES 2025 with the intention of getting wet on a cold January lake in Lake Mead. But when I discovered Los Angeles-based boat startup Arc has brought a new sports boat to Las Vegas, I figured it was worth the risk. That. The Arc Sport is a joy to drive, even after 30 minutes out...
A Ring of Shining Metal Crashes on Earth. No One Knows Where It Came From
It's been more than a week since reports first emerged of a "glowing ring of metal" falling from the sky and crashing near a remote village in Kenya. According to the Kenyan Space Agency, the object weighed 1,100 kilograms and was more than 8 feet in diameter when measured after landing in December 30. A few days later, the...
8 Favorite Indoor Air Quality Monitors We’ve Tried (2025)
Until I wrote about my quest for good air in my Brooklyn apartment, I had no idea that air quality monitors existed. Now I can't live without him. To find out the indoor air quality index you have to go into the invisible area to be something you can't see. We humans evolved to respond to changes in temperature,...
