Tesla has started production of its Optimus humanoid robot at its factory in Fremont, California, in a manufacturing space once dedicated to making electric vehicles, the company announced Wednesday. “The bots coming off this line ...

Recursive, an AI startup founded last year, is starting to live up to its name. The company, which is trying to build AI that can improve itself, released its first model, Flint, on Wednesday. Flint ...

Automattic, the parent company to WordPress.com, WooCommerce, Tumblr, and others, has begun layoffs, and insiders tell us they are bracing for more cuts to come. Over at least the past week, the cuts have impacted ...

When GM announced its new fourth-generation EV platform on Wednesday, what the automaker didn’t share was almost as notable as what it did. The new EV platform, part of a series of technology-focused announced during ...

In Brief Posted: 12:42 PM PDT · October 21, 2026 Image Credits:Andrej Sokolow/picture alliance / Getty Images The tale of the Cambridge Analytica data scandal is long — and it keeps costing Meta gargantuan sums ...

Walmart is embracing agentic commerce with the launch of its own Agent Gateway to manage transactions and other new features aimed at customers using AI agents, the retailer announced on Wednesday. The move comes shortly ...

The internet is having a bad day, from a cybersecurity perspective. Government websites around the world went offline, Reuters reported, after AI discovered critical security vulnerabilities that impacted the programming language PHP. The issues were ...

In Brief Posted: 11:51 AM PDT · October 21, 2026 Image Credits:Big Event Media / Stringer / Getty Images Legal AI startup Legora announced Wednesday that it raised a $550 million Series E round, valuing ...

General Motors is adding a personal AI assistant to OnStar as part of a broader makeover of the subscription-based connected car service that the U.S. automaker launched 30 years ago. The OnStar AI Assistant will ...

The U.S. National Security Agency’s sent out an alarming warning on Wednesday that two critical holes had been found in PHP, with patches already issued by the PHP Foundation. PHP is a server-side programming language ...

In Brief Posted: 10:18 AM PDT · October 21, 2026 Image Credits:Blacksmith Blacksmith, a platform that helps companies more efficiently build and test software, including code written by AI, announced Wednesday a $66 million Series ...

Waymo is now shuttling customers to and from the Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas, with pickups and drop-offs happening at dedicated “autonomous vehicle zones” at Terminal 1 and Terminal 3, the company announced ...

Image Credits:Foursquare 7:03 AM PDT · October 21, 2026 Last month, advertising company Infillion acquired location-data platform Foursquare, a once popular social network, at an undisclosed value. Now, in a new blog post, Foursquare co-founder ...