Cognition CEO Scott Wu made headlines again this week when his two-year-old AI coding agent startup raised $1 billion at a $26 billion valuation. Cognition is the maker of Devin, one of the first and, arguably, most successful AI coding agents. Devin, the CEO says, “naturally owns tasks end to end.”
In fact, in the blog post announcing that raise, Cognition laid out a vision where “we are…
Earlier this month, I got my hands on the Kiwibit Bird Feeder Pro 4K AI Camera, and it has become my favorite backyard accessory.
Setting it up is pretty straightforward. Multiple mounting options allow you to place the feeder on a pole, window ledge, or tree. Its dual seed…
This chip startup just raised $135M on a bet that AI’s biggest bottleneck isn’t compute — it’s memory
June 1, 2026
Every time you ask ChatGPT a question, your request triggers a data relay race. Information leaves memory, passes through a CPU for preprocessing, travels to a GPU for heavy computation, and then makes its way back – and that entire journey repeats for every single word…
Ishiuchi Miyako photographs abandoned buildings. She photographs scars on human skin. She photographs old Kimono fabric. She photographs lipstick. She photographs her own water-damaged prints.
But there’s something that connects all her photography. Something that makes it unmistakably hers. It’s not what she’s photographing; it’s how she photographs. She has an eye for how time leaves…
Although many wildlife photographers work close to home and focus on local species, few can deny the appeal of capturing faraway locations and more exotic creatures. One challenge that nature photographers face is the cost of making trips away, and they often offset this by…
I wonder what Sir Edmund Hillary would make of today’s ‘snap everything’ culture, driven by camera phones and social media.
I’m sure he would be astounded that millions of people now seem to think their dinner is worthy of a quick JPEG, when he didn’t even consider…
As everything gets less affordable, republicans are proposing big new inspection fees for cheap energy projects, trying to protect their fossil fuel masters from the rise of better options.
Wind power is one of the cheapest and most environmentally friendly forms of electricity generation. And offshore wind is great, too, because wind blows more consistently on the ocean, and the land use of…
The Yuan Plus, sold overseas as the Atto 3, is among BYD’s best-selling vehicles. After launching the third-generation model with a longer driving range and Flash Charging, BYD said the new EV received over 30,000 orders in one week.
BYD’s new Yuan Plus receives 30,000…
It’s a truck and SUV. GM said the Hummer X “redefines what a mid-size EV can do off-road,” previewing the new concept for the first time.
Meet the GMC Hummer X, a mid-size EV off-roader
A mid-size Hummer EV? Now, that might just sell. The Hummer EV pickup and SUV are…
With nations such as Iran protecting their arsenals by burying them deep underground, the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is searching for new types of bunker-buster bombs.
The goal is to go beyond the traditional brute-force approach of giant bombs that rely on the force of gravity to smash their way deep into the ground before exploding.
During World War II, the Royal Air…
