On Tuesday, Amazon announced that Uber was expanding its contract for AWS cloud services to run more of its ride-sharing features on Amazon’s chips. Uber will particularly expand its use of AWS’s Graviton (a low-power, ARM-based server CPU) and start a new trial testing Trainium3, AWS’s Nvidia competitor AI chip.
This deal is a bit less about a long-term threat to Nvidia than it…
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For decades, buying stock in a hot startup meant being allowed to invest in the funds run by the top VCs. But with the AI boom causing an investment frenzy, more family offices and private wealth are skipping the VC middlemen to get directly onto…
Indian startup Rocket is betting that the next big opportunity is the part before vibe coding: having AI help people decide what to build. It has launched a platform that produces consulting-style product strategies.
The startup, based in Surat, India, on Tuesday launched…
BYD expects soaring oil prices to drive overseas sales to “another level” as EV orders are already surging across several markets.
BYD raises 2026 overseas sales goal as EV orders soar
After it decided to stop making vehicles powered entirely by internal combustion engines in 2022, China’s BYD is reaping the benefits.
Last year, BYD sold more vehicles than Ford for the first time, ranking…
Electric scooters aren’t usually the first thing that comes to mind when you think of front-line military equipment. But in Ukraine, a unique class of rugged, high-powered electric scooters is quietly carving out a role in modern warfare.
Developed by Latvian company…
NHTSA has closed its investigation into Tesla’s “Actually Smart Summon” feature after documenting 159 incidents, all involving minor property damage.
The agency found zero injuries and zero fatalities linked to the feature, and determined that Tesla’s six…
BERLIN — Iranian facilities affiliated with chemical and biological weapons research have been hit by the United States and Israel without much fanfare, satellite imagery and the analysis of images shared on social media show.
Among the sites destroyed in recent weeks are key sites operated by the Iranian Ministry of Defense, the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps and hybrid entities that…
Iran showed no sign of accepting Donald Trump’s ultimatum to open the Strait of Hormuz by the end of Tuesday, while the U.S. president threatened that “a whole civilization will die tonight” unless Tehran reached a last-minute deal.
Trump has given Iran until 8 p.m. in…
NEW TAIPEI CITY, Taiwan — The Chinese navy is enhancing its guided-missile frigate, the Qinzhou, with an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm designed to illuminate blind spots during air defense engagements, an official military website said.
The website cited a…
A casual glance at the Asus TUF Gaming A14 might have you think it’s a mid-range gaming laptop built for gamers on a budget. That’s not quite right. In fact, the laptop doesn’t even have Nvidia discrete graphics and instead relies on AMD’s Radeon 8060S, a powerful IGP provided by AMD’s APU. These design choices have consequences for its performance, which may look more or less alluring…
