Zoox issued a software recall after one of its robotaxis had trouble navigating a smoke-filled emergency fire scene in June. The Amazon-owned company said Friday that it shipped a software update that should fix the problem in its fleet of 105 vehicles. No one was aboard the vehicle during the June incident, and Zoox told
A new artificial intelligence model from Chinese startup Moonshot AI is making waves in Silicon Valley and intensifying the global AI race. Kimi K3, unveiled Thursday, is an open-weight model that Moonshot AI says rivals some of the best systems from OpenAI and Anthropic, at a lower cost. The company plans to release weights for
Another thing people forget to do until the Internet no longer works? Download emergency phone applications. As of October 2025, FEMA has an application. Your local municipal or state government likely has emergency push notifications enabled as well. Consider signing up. WIRED has also cataloged other personal safety apps, including a subscription service called Rescu
Mark Cuban says one of the best ways to address income inequality is to give workers a stake in the companies they help build. In an episode of Unmoderated News’ “What It Takes” podcast released Thursday, the billionaire businessman said every employee, from the CEO to the janitor, should receive stock in the company. He
General Compute, an AI inference cloud startup, secured a $400 million loan from Upper90, a technology investment firm. It could be the first deal to offer inference-specific chips as collateral: chips built to run already trained AI models quickly and efficiently, rather than the more expensive chips used to build the models in the first
Stop me if you’ve heard this before: An AI-linked company crushed earnings forecasts, but investors weren’t impressed and the stock sank anyway. It turns out that the market was more focused on the company’s extravagant spending plans. A tough shot, right? Well, it’s been happening with some regularity, including twice this month. Taiwanese chipmaker TSMC
