Customers shops for fruit in a supermarket in New York on Jan. 22, 2026. Charly Triballeau | AFP | Getty Images Wholesale prices rose at a faster-than-expected pace in January, countering hopes that inflation was easing, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday. The core producer price index, which excludes volatile food and energy prices,…
U.S. President Donald J. Trump delivers the first State of the Union address of his second term to a joint session of Congress in the House Chamber of the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C., U.S.,on Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2026. Kenny Holston | The New York Times | Via Reuters Amid tariff uncertainty, President Donald Trump…
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, is pictured on Sept. 25, 2025, in Berlin. Florian Gaertner | Photothek | Getty Images OpenAI has closed a $110 billion funding round, a financing that’s more than double the size of its last raise a year ago, which was a record for a private tech company. Amazon invested $50…
Lying is a common human trait. Most people lie occasionally – maybe due to avoid conflict, protect themselves, or manage how they appear in front of others. While there is no single way of knowing if someone is lying, there are certain patterns that can help one know this. Here we list some such signs…
A supermarket chain’s artificial intelligence assistant has had its digital wings clipped, after leaving some customers deeply uncomfortable by claiming to be human and responding to requests with personal anecdotes. The chatbot, known as Olive, provides a 24-hour service answering phone calls from customers of Woolworths in Australia, helping them with everything from tracking down…
It was a night that saw a serious escalation in violence between Afghanistan and Pakistan, with Pakistan launching airstrikes in Afghanistan – including its capital city, Kabul. Other places struck were in Paktia and Kandahar provinces, the latter a stronghold and the birthplace of the Taliban movement. Source link
In response to the strikes, Zabihullah Mujahid, the Afghan Taliban spokesman, published – then subsequently deleted – a post on X that the group had launched strikes early on Friday on Pakistani military positions in Kandahar and Helmand, two provinces in Afghanistan. Source link
The modern automobile is no longer just a mechanical marvel, it is a distributed computing platform on wheels. Today’s vehicles contain upward of 80 to 150 electronic control units (ECUs), each embedded with hundreds of semiconductor devices. These chips manage everything from braking and steering to infotainment, driver assistance, and battery management. As the industry…
Celine Cremer, 31, disappeared after going on a hike in a rainforest in June 2023. Source link
This report is from this week’s The Tech Download newsletter. Like what you see? You can subscribe here. Back in 2011, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen published the now well-worn words: “software is eating the world.” Now, a debate is raging around how much software AI will eat. Many of the world’s most valuable software stocks have…