The price tag for General Motors’ electric vehicle reboot has soared to nearly $11 billion. During the automaker’s Tuesday earnings update, executives said GM recorded an electric vehicle-related charge of nearly $2.3 billion in the most recent quarter. That brings the automaker’s total related costs to $10.9 billion from the second half of 2025, as
Every once in a while, a Chinese company releases a new AI model and Americans freak out. That’s what happened last week when China’s Moonshot AI unveiled the Kimi K3, which surpassed a number of notable benchmarks. By most accounts, the Kimi K3 rivals some leading US models for a fraction of the cost. The
a decade ago, Uber’s then-CEO Travis Kalanick said he viewed autonomous vehicles as an existential threat to the transportation company’s business model. “What if we weren’t part of that future? If we weren’t part of autonomy? Then the future passes us by,” Kalanick told Business Insider. In the years since then, Uber has opted for
Meta’s AI glasses have a growing reputation as creepy technology. The company hopes to change that opinion by announcing an update that will disable the camera if the LED light that indicates the glasses are recording has been tampered with. The move is apparently a concession to consumer sentiment that glasses are not just fun,
Anime is no longer a niche import. It’s pop culture’s new center of gravity, and no one is moving faster to take advantage of that advantage than the studio behind “Demon Slayer.” Nishimoto Shu, named president of Aniplex earlier this year, has outlined a plan to deepen Sony Music Entertainment’s Japanese subsidiary’s presence in international
The Colonel is staying put. Almost everything else at KFC is changing. The 74-year-old fried chicken chain is rolling out one of the biggest global brand overhauls in its history, betting that new sauces, specialty beverages, redesigned restaurants, and a refreshed logo and packaging can help it define what executives call the “next chapter of