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The rise of the builder C-suite
Executives are no longer measured by the weight of their title but by the scale of what they create, especially in an era reshaped by AI. The most...
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How to get out of AI pilot purgatory
Every C-suite executive I meet asks the same question: Why is our AI investment stuck in pilot purgatory? After surveying over 200 AI...
How Two Brothers From Chennai Are Making Water Cans Safer With QR Codes & IoT
This article was originally published on the NITI Frontier Tech Respository. Chennai, a city grappling with water scarcity and pollution, has seen...
10 Best Early Black Friday Deals at Best Buy (2025)
The main event hasn’t started, but Best Buy has already rolled out great deals on our favorite tech of the year.
Delhi Trade Fair 2025 now open to public: Dates, timings, ticket price, and other information
The Delhi Trade Fair 2025, running from November 14th to 27th at Pragati Maidan, offers a vibrant showcase of Indian states and international...
AI-powered methane tracking, offshore drones and real-time safety analytics revealed at ADIPEC 2025
ADIPEC 2025 highlighted a major leap in energy innovation, featuring AI-powered emissions detection, offshore drone monitoring and autonomous well...
Kia’s PV5 Wins the “2026 International Van of the Year”
A debut and a win: Kia’s first fully electric van, the PV5, claims the industry’s most prestigious LCV award Unanimously chosen by 26 leading...
AI in Entertainment: How Artificial Intelligence Is Shaping the Future
Discover how AI in entertainment is transforming content creation, music and storytelling. Explore tools, trends and AI’s future in media. The...
Delight in the Color and Symmetry of YoAz’s Kaleidoscopic Digital Illustrations
Animals, architecture, celestial phenomena and more merge with vibrant patterns in kaleidoscopic illustrations. Yohann Azancot, who works as YoAz,...
How to Deactivate Facebook and Vanish Gracefully
If you want to learn how to deactivate Facebook, you're absolutely not alone. Life already feels like a nonstop group chat, and sometimes you just...
Google’s new AI image creator took my shirt off
I gave Google's new Nano Banana Pro a try, and it immediately took my clothes off. I didn't ask it to, but the AI model evidently decided my...
Designing digital resilience in the agentic AI era
Digital resilience—the ability to prevent, withstand, and recover from digital disruptions—has long been a strategic priority for enterprises....
The best guide to spotting AI writing comes from Wikipedia
Wikipedia's guide to “Signs of AI writing” is a great resource for learning to spot LLM-generated prose.
The 6 Best Automatic Litter Boxes (2025) Our Cats Would Recommend
With these high-tech automatic litter boxes, gone are the days of scooping and smells. Welcome to the future.
The Best Online Gift Cards and Digital Gift Ideas (2025)
Forget the wrapping paper and shipping. Go digital this year with subscriptions, ebooks, apps, and more.
How Much Power Should We Give AI In End-Of-Life Decisions?
AI predictions are set to become part of end-of-life care decisions, but what role they’ll play in relation to humans and our values remains a...
Supercomputer creates the most realistic virtual brain ever
Researchers have created one of the most detailed virtual mouse cortex simulations ever achieved by combining massive biological datasets with the...
Realizing value with AI inference at scale and in production
Training an AI model to predict equipment failures is an engineering achievement. But it’s not until prediction meets action—the moment that model...
Tesla’s Core Mission Shifts In The Musk 4.0 Era — Smart Or Not?
On Tuesday, the S&P 500 and Dow were trading lower. It seemed as if Wall Street was in a holding pattern as everyone awaited the earnings report...
Where AI Meets The Humanities: Inside Kenyon College’s Bold Experiment
This is an innovative program at a leading liberal arts college combining AI education and literacy with traditional liberal arts strengths
The Verge’s favorite holiday gifts under $100
Between all the new phones, smartwatches, and laptops we see throughout the year, it often feels like we're constantly being nudged toward...
Would Your Helmet Actually Protect You? VA Tech’s ‘Helmet Lab’ Is Testing Every Sport
In 2011, Steve Rowson and his fellow engineering students at Virginia Tech were asked by the Hokies equipment manager if they could test...
Quantum physicists have shrunk and “de-censored” DeepSeek R1
A group of quantum physicists claims to have created a version of the powerful reasoning AI model DeepSeek R1 that strips out the censorship built...
Secret chemical traces reveal life on Earth 3. 3 billion years ago
Researchers have discovered chemical traces of life in rocks older than 3.3 billion years, offering a rare look at Earth’s earliest biology. By...
New Research Shows Daily AI Users Earn More and Advance Faster
The gulf between workers who use generative AI every day and those who don’t is widening. According to PwC’s newly released 2025 Global Workforce...
Google Unveils Gemini 3, With Improved Coding and Search Abilities
The new artificial intelligence model is the second the company has released this year. OpenAI and Anthropic made similar updates a few months ago.
WIRED Roundup: DHS’s Privacy Breach, AI Romantic Affairs, and Google Sues Text Scammers
In this episode of Uncanny Valley, we discuss our scoop about how the Department of Homeland Security illegally collected Chicago residents’ data...
AWS’s New Microcredentials Help You Prove Real-World AI Expertise
AWS’s new AI microcredentials let you validate real-world skills through hands-on training, simulators and task-based learning. The post AWS’s New...
LGBTQ-owned businesses and spaces are more important than ever. These apps help you find and support them
Everywhere is Queer and Famm Connect are digital hubs for LGBTQ+ business owners and communities.
Grok’s Elon Musk worship is getting weird
It’s no secret that Elon Musk shapes the X social platform and X’s “maximally truth-seeking” Grok AI chatbot to his preferences. But it’s possible...
The Best Google Pixel Phones of 2025, Tested and Reviewed
Here’s a guide to all the models—plus Pixel case recommendations and smart software tricks to try.
How Pixxel is Reimagining Environmental Monitoring from Space
With over 250 spectral bands, Pixxel’s hyperspectral satellites track pollutants, map carbon and water quality, and much more. This is data-driven...
Meta Did Not Violate the Law When It Bought Instagram and WhatsApp, a Judge Rules
Meta’s acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp did not illegally stifle competition in social networking, a judge found, a major win for the tech giant.
AI brings faster, life-saving TB screenings to communities with limited healthcare access
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Tuberculosis, the world’s deadliest infectious disease, still claims more than 1.2 million lives every year....
You can get up to 30 percent off Sonos speakers and soundbars right now
If you’ve been waiting for some relief after Sonos raised its prices earlier this year in response to US tariffs, Black Friday presents a rare...
Nvidia Earnings Show Profit Jumped 65% to $31.9 Billion
The company, which makes the computer chips essential to the artificial intelligence boom, also said revenue in its recent quarter rose to $57 billion.
Meta’s Hyperscape is ready to turn your real living room into a VR hangout
Meta’s impressive, photorealistic digital replicas of real places built using its “Hyperscape” capture tech, which uses the cameras on a Quest 3...
3 Ways to Harness AI for More Effective Marketing
Executives at Akool and Quality Meats shared how they use the technology to make their campaigns more personal and efficient.
Paradromics Gets FDA Approval to Trial Its Brain Implant in People
The Austin-based startup will test its high-bandwidth device to help restore speech in people with extremely limited movement.
Scaling innovation in manufacturing with AI
Manufacturing is getting a major system upgrade. As AI amplifies existing technologies—like digital twins, the cloud, edge computing, and the...
Networking for AI: Building the foundation for real-time intelligence
The Ryder Cup is an almost-century-old tournament pitting Europe against the United States in an elite showcase of golf skill and strategy. At the...
The Egyptian green tech firm looking to cut energy bills
Saving System has developed a device that it says can help firms save electricity.
Mathematicians say Google's AI tools are supercharging their research
AlphaEvolve, an AI system created by Google DeepMind, is helping mathematicians do research at a scale that was previously impossible - even if it...
MIT ultrasonic tech pulls drinking water from air in minutes
MIT engineers have created an ultrasonic device that rapidly frees water from materials designed to absorb moisture from the air. Instead of...
Meta’s Victory Opens the Way for Silicon Valley to Go Deal Shopping
To avoid regulatory scrutiny, big tech companies had steered clear of buying start-ups outright. Meta’s antitrust win may change that thinking.
Jeff Bezos Creates A.I. Start-Up Where He Will Be Co-Chief Executive
Called Project Prometheus, the company is focusing on artificial intelligence for the engineering and manufacturing of computers, automobiles and...
SkyReels, A Generative AI Tool For Creative Marketing
SkyReels launches a multi modal generative AI platform for marketers, with templates for product videos, and a guided creation workflow.
This Khosla-backed startup can track drones, trucks, and robotaxis, inch by inch
Point One Navigation, now valued at $230 million, is building out well beyond automotive.
ChatGPT is huge in India. These locally focused startups found a way to compete
Indian founders are building digital data sets for low-resource languages by involving the community, and count on local relevance to go against...
OpenAI is launching group chats in ChatGPT
OpenAI is widely rolling out group chats inside ChatGPT, allowing you to invite up to 20 other people to your conversation with the AI chatbot....
wearable bandage device around finger lets users feel the digital world
comprising a series of nodes, the stretchable wrap helps create a ‘digital feel’ that replicates real-life human touch. The post wearable bandage...
The Download: de-censoring DeepSeek, and Gemini 3
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Quantum...
New Survey Find a Huge Difference in Profitability for E-Commerce Companies That Embrace AI
Despite tariffs, high prices, and consumer sentiment near a record low, online consumer brands have upped their returns.
Opening the Door to Exploration with Albert Yu-Min Lin’s Resilience
Pioneering National Geographic Explorer Albert Yu-Min Lin is a trailblazing adventurer, scientist, and keynote speaker blending cutting edge tech...
Mixup is a new, Mad Libs-style app for creating AI images from photos, text, and doodles
The new app lets anyone use Google's Nano Banana in a fun new way, with fill-in-the-blank AI "recipes" that users can share.
Got a Pixel 10? Google’s Android Phone Can Now Share Files With Apple’s AirDrop
You can now share deets (and other digital treats) across the mobile divide.
Experts Say 1 Unique Trait Made Larry Ellison 1 of the Richest Men in the World
His company, Oracle, has emerged as a leader in AI.
Trump Takes Aim at State AI Laws in Draft Executive Order
The draft order, obtained by WIRED, instructs the US Justice Department to sue states that pass laws regulating AI.
AI helps build the most detailed Milky Way simulation ever, mapping 100 billion stars
A record-breaking number of stars has been mapped by a new model that speeds up processing time while allowing smaller scale events, such as...
“Hey Google, did you upgrade your AI in my Android Auto?”
Conversational AI from your phone cast to your car should be about to get better.
Shipping has a big carbon footprint. Can this lo-fi solution shrink it?
A British startup claims to have a carbon capture method that sucks up most of a ship’s emissions. The challenge is scaling it The post Shipping...
Good News in History, November 17
55 years ago today, a patent on the first computer mouse was presented to the engineer and inventor Douglas Engelbart. He became an internet and...
Home is where the Hansen is: Poland pays tribute to open form architecture pioneers
Just an hour away from Warsaw, along the River Bug, stands a wooden house, hiding layers of history, complexity and architectural innovation. The...
This Atom-Splitting Startup Just Hit a Critical Milestone
Valar Atomics may not be the first startup to split an atom, but it did achieve cold criticality—a self-sustaining nuclear reaction.
The US Needs an Open Source AI Intervention to Beat China
Depending on foreign-made open models is both a supply chain risk and an innovation problem, experts say.