What’s going on with Donut Lab?

In January, a Finnish-Estonian startup proclaimed it had developed a truly solid state battery, a holy grail for the technology industry. Donut Labs’ cell wasn’t just solid state, however. It clai [...]

Donald Trump pardons Silk Road creator Ross Ulbricht

President Donald Trump has pardoned Ross Ulbricht, the founder of Silk Road who was sentenced to life in prison after being found guilty of money laundering, narcotics trafficking and computer hacking [...]

Honda vehicles used to proactively report road safety issues in nation-first pilot

Honda and DriveOhio have teamed up on a new road safety initiative in which Honda vehicles are being used to collect real-time data that can advise about potential issues and road deficiencies before [...]

SpaceX could soon have more control over Texas public road and beach closures

SpaceX could soon have greater control over the recreational activities of South Texas residents. The Houston Chronicle (via Gizmodo) and San Antonio Express-News report that a pair of state senate bi [...]

Open source Mamba 3 arrives to surpass Transformer architecture with nearly 4% improved language modeling, reduced latency

The generative AI era began for most people with the launch of OpenAI's ChatGPT in late 2022, but the underlying technology — the "Transformer" neural network architecture that allows [...]

A 0.12% parameter add-on gives AI agents the working memory RAG can't

AI agents forget. Every time a coding assistant loses track of a debugging thread, or a data analysis agent re-ingests the same context it already processed, the team pays in latency, token costs, and [...]

How to watch PlayStation's hour-long State of Play and what to expect

PlayStation’s first State of Play of the year is shaping up to be quite newsworthy. While Sony hasn’t revealed too much about what it will show off (with one notable exception), the stream is slat [...]

OpenAI report reveals a 6x productivity gap between AI power users and everyone else

The tools are available to everyone. The subscription is company-wide. The training sessions have been held. And yet, in offices from Wall Street to Silicon Valley, a stark divide is opening between w [...]

Rimac introduces its take on solid-state batteries for electric vehicles

Rimac Technology has unveiled a new battery pack platform for electric vehicles that uses only solid-state batteries. The company has been an EV supplier for notable car brands including Aston Martin [...]