New York-based AI detection startup Pangram is on a mission to combat the AI slop infestation spreading across the internet, and it just raised $9 million on a bet that demand for tools that distinguish human-generated content from AI-generated text will only grow.
Pangram’s fundraise – led by Menlo Ventures, with participation from Haystack, ScOp, Script Capital, and Cadenza – comes as the…
In 1936, Dorothea Lange approached Florence Owens Thompson – a 32-year-old sheltering with her children at a California pea-pickers’ camp – and took one of the most recognizable photographs in history.
Migrant Mother portrays her with two children pressed against her…
I have photographed solar eclipses seven times over the last 47 years, and in the first part of this series I described my first efforts in the pre-internet era – and the hard lessons that you learn when chasing the shadow of an eclipse. The most important one is that even…
The Racco went on sale as the “world’s first SDV-based” light EV, BYD said, with a low starting price of around $13,000.
BYD Racco debuts as a new type of kei EV
BYD held a launch event for the Racco on Tuesday, its first electric kei car aimed at Japan’s light vehicle market,
The market has been historically dominated by domestic brands like Honda, Suzuki, and Nissan, but BYD believes…
Mitsubishi is bringing a fully electric vehicle back to North America for the first time in over a decade, and it’s calling the 2027 Eclipse Sportback EV “all-new.”
It isn’t. The Eclipse Sportback is a rebadged next-generation Nissan Leaf, sourced from Mitsubishi’s…
Tesla has signed a long-term power purchase agreement to buy the entire output of a 140-MWac solar farm being built in northeast Texas.
The plant, called Lumen Farm, is being developed by Zelestra, an EQT-backed renewable developer. Construction is expected to start in 2027…
The U.S. Army has pitted three manufacturers against each other to build competing prototypes of its future infantry squad vehicle. The service on June 30 awarded firm-fixed-price Other Transaction Agreements to Ford, GM Defense and BC Customs, the Army confirmed Tuesday. Each company will deliver three Infantry Squad Vehicle-Heavy, or ISV-H, models, with the first expected by March 30, 2027. The…
The House of Representatives passed its version of the NDAA last week, leaving in place a controversial provision that would encourage co-development and co-production between the U.S. and Israeli defense industrial bases.
The House’s version of this provision, known as…
WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Tuesday discussed reviving peace talks with Russia and plans for Ukraine to produce Patriot missile interceptors, then attended the funeral of a U.S. senator who had been one of…
China’s RAM boom is here. Your cheap PC is not
July 30, 2026
The hottest company on the planet right now is a memory supplier called CXMT, a name barely anyone outside of China had even heard a year ago. It’s making headlines in financial markets on a massive stock debut, predicated on the idea that it’s going to fill the hole in the DRAM market (the kind of memory that goes into consumer PCs) as the big three make bank on “AI.”
Well bully for CXMT…
