North Korea unveiled new suicide attack drones, with leader Kim Jong Un calling for an increase in the use of technology to carry out strikes and incorporating artificial intelligence into the weapons program. “Kim Jong Un said that it is…
Apple is exploring a push into robotics — both to gain a foothold in consumers’ homes and add a new dimension to its product lineup. Also: Meta nears the launch of a cheaper Quest; Apple tries a new Vision Pro sales tactic;…
Edgar Bronfman Jr.’s plans for Paramount Global include partnering with a technology stalwart like Amazon.com Inc. or Apple Inc. to improve its streaming-TV business, according to people familiar with his thinking. The longtime media executive, who put in a last-minute…
At the recent Cloud Next conference in Tokyo, Google announced Spanner Graph, a managed feature that integrates graph, relational, search, and AI capabilities within Spanner. This new database supports a graph query interface compatible with ISO GQL (Graph Query Language)…
Black Myth: Wukong, a Chinese-made video game backed by Tencent Holdings Ltd., took just 83 hours to sell 10 million copies, one of the fastest debuts in industry history. It reached the milestone by Friday evening Beijing time after being…
OpenAI has hired former Meta Platforms Inc. executive Irina Kofman to head up strategic initiatives, continuing to beef up its staff with veterans of big technology companies. Kofman, who recently started at the artificial intelligence startup, is reporting directly to…
AWS engineers published a paper describing the evolution and latest design of resource management and scaling for the Amazon Aurora Serverless platform. Aurora Serverless uses a combination of components at different levels to create a holistic approach for dynamically scaling…
Bain Capital is pressing ahead with its revived plans for an initial public offering of chipmaker Kioxia Holdings Corp. that could raise about $500 million, according to people familiar with the matter. Bain is working with investment banks on the…
Intel Corp. director Lip-Bu Tan, a semiconductor industry veteran brought in two years ago to help with the chipmaker’s comeback effort, is stepping down from the board, according to people familiar with the situation. Tan, a former chief executive officer…
Elon Musk’s X attracted investment from a plethora of big names from Silicon Valley to global finance including Sean “Diddy” Combs and billionaire Larry Ellison, according to a court document unsealed Wednesday. Many of the investors listed, such as Twitter…
As space traffic increases and our reliance on satellites grows, the question of how to manage and predict anomalies in orbital astrodynamics becomes ever more critical. The idea that artificial intelligence (AI) might provide a solution is enticing. However, the…
India’s trade minister Piyush Goyal on Wednesday said the growth of big e-commerce companies such as Amazon.com Inc. risks putting about 100 million small mom-and-pop stores in the country out of business. “I don’t see it as a matter of…