Cruise lays off half its staff after GM sunsets robotaxi program

Autonomous vehicle company Cruise is laying off around half of its workforce, according to reporting by TechCrunch. The cuts even extend to the CEO and other top executives. This is part of a major re [...]

Most companies think they're building a software factory. They're actually just shipping bugs faster.

Industrialized factories changed how the world produced physical goods: more output, lower costs, faster than anything that came before. Now a similar shift is happening with software. LLMs have lowe [...]

Ukraine allows allies to train AI models on its battlefield data

Ukraine's four-year war with Russia has made it the world leader in battlefield drone technology. One byproduct of that is that the data it collects has become one of the country's most valu [...]

Russia's recent blocking of Telegram is reportedly disrupting its military operations in Ukraine

A decision to ban Telegram on home soil may have backfired on the Kremlin. Last week, Russia went on a blocking spree, banning a number of Western apps in an effort to push domestic users towards Max, [...]

Destinus is raising €200M ahead of an IPO. The cruise missile maker wants a €5B valuation.

Destinus, the Netherlands-headquartered defence startup that manufactures cruise missiles and autonomous drones, is in talks to raise approximately €200 million ahead of a planned initial public off [...]

Russian regulators are trying to seize assets from the developers of World of Tanks

Top executives from Wargaming and Lesta Games, the joint developers of World of Tanks, could have their stakes in their respective companies seized by the Russian government, according to reports from [...]

Ukraine captures a Russian position using only drones and ground robots

President Zelenskyy announces a historic first: a Russian position taken entirely by unmanned systems. A CSIS report details how AI is already changing Ukraine's battlefield and where the limits [...]

The Morning After: Google gives Android its own show

Google I/O is usually where the company reveals what’s happening with its smartphone OS for the next 12 months, but this year, Android is getting its own thing. A week ahead of I/O, Google will deep [...]

Mission: Impossible should never have gone full sci-fi

The Mission: Impossible film franchise has always dabbled in the, well, impossible. We've seen Tom Cruise's Ethan Hunt climb his way up the Burj Khalifa, have a motorcycle joust to prevent t [...]