AI & RoboticsNews

Sequen snags $16M to bring TikTok-style personalization tech to any consumer company

At Etsy, Zoë Weil helped to drive a billion-dollar increase in gross merchandise volume within a single year by improving the online marketplace’s AI ranking systems. With her new startup, Sequen, she aims to bring her and her co-founders’ years of AI research and product development to other businesses in the consumer space. The company, which just closed on $16 million in Series A funding…
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Cleantech & EV'sNews

Elon Musk claims Tesla Roadster 'unveil' is coming next month — sure

Elon Musk is once again promising the long-delayed next-generation Tesla Roadster is just around the corner. This time, he says an “unveil” is coming next month — April 2026. The Tesla CEO made the claim on X today while quote-tweeting a post about the anniversary of the original Roadster’s production start in 2008. He wrote: “New Roadster unveil hopefully next month. It will be a banger…
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DefenseNews

US assesses China not planning to invade Taiwan in 2027

WASHINGTON, March 18 (Reuters) — China does not currently plan to invade Taiwan in 2027 and seeks to control the island without the use of force, the U.S. intelligence community said on Wednesday, striking a measured tone on one of the world’s biggest potential…
DefenseNews

The Pentagon wants to field laser weapons at scale within 3 years

Editor’s note: This story originally appeared on Laser Wars, a newsletter about military laser weapons and other futuristic defense technology. Subscribe here. For decades, the U.S. military’s dream of high-energy laser weapons has been perpetually “five years away.” Now, the Pentagon says it wants to finally make them an operational reality within the next three. Speaking on a panel at…
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ComputersNews

My most useful Chrome extension was stealing my data for years

As someone who works with images for almost every part of my job, I really don’t like Google’s WebP format. It’s fine for what it does, but loading it up in an image editor can often be a headache. So, I use a browser extension to download WebP files as JPEG and PNG—or, at least, I’ve been doing so for a few years. Turns out it was the latest Chrome extension to be sold off and turned…
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