Nvidia is in talks to guarantee billions in debt financing for AI cloud provider Nscale’s planned Anthropic data center in West Virginia, The Information reported Thursday. Bloomberg later corroborated the report. Anthropic has signed a $44.6 billion contract for the project’s first building alone, according to Nscale’s IPO filing. In essence, the chipmaker would be
General Motors has agreed to pay $220 million to 35 states and the District of Columbia to settle a major privacy lawsuit over the company’s sale of driver data from its Smart Driver program, which dealerships offered to drivers from 2016 to 2024. In 2024, The New York Times published a damning investigation into the
Apple will launch Apple Intelligence in China with iOS 27.3, the company announced on its Chinese newsroom website, as reported by MacRumors. The Apple Intelligence features will be available first in an iOS 27.3 beta that’s set to launch on November 4th, with a full iOS 27.3 release scheduled for December. This launch doesn’t bring
If you’ve been waiting for a good deal on Google’s latest smartwatch before you commit, you’re in luck. The Google Pixel Watch 5 (the 41-mm model with Wi-Fi) is currently $300, down from $400, marking its lowest price yet. (The larger 45-mm model is also discounted, from $430 to $330.) This early Black Friday sale
It happens to the best of us — you’ve completely dropped the ball on figuring out a Halloween costume. Naturally, you’ve decided to solve this problem by turning to… TechCrunch? Yeah, sure, why not. I’ve got some ideas. Here are some last-minute techy Halloween costumes. Effort levels vary. Recursive self-improvement AI leaders like Dario Amodei
Space is vast, with trillions of objects in it, so it’s not necessarily a surprise when scientists find new objects there, even if it’s sometimes entirely by accident. Some objects are scarcer than others, and dwarf planets in our solar system are among the rarest, with only five recognized examples. A group of researchers from
