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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said Saturday that recent reports about friction between the company and OpenAI are “nonsense.” Huang’s comments came after the Wall Street Journal published an article late Friday claiming that Nvidia was looking to scale back its investment in OpenAI. The companies announced in September that NVIDIA plans to invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI and build 10 gigawatts of computing infrastructure for the AI company. But the Journal reported that Huang has begun to stress that the deal is not binding, and has also privately criticized OpenAI’s business strategy and expressed concerns about competitors such…
A few years ago, Selina Tobaccowala’s daughter started leaving sticky notes around the house telling people to “turn off the lights.” Tobaccowala had just sold his last startup, Gixo, to OpenFit and was looking for a new challenge. “I looked at my kids and thought, ‘Let’s see if there’s something there in terms of sustainability and climate change,'” she told TechCrunch. “I needed something more than just turning off the lights.” Without a background in climate science or hardware engineering, she didn’t know where to start. So Tobaccowara turned to a survey he was familiar with. “We surveyed a ton…
Two incredibly rare supernovae that exploded billions of years ago offer a unique opportunity to explain one of the biggest mysteries in cosmology: how fast the universe is expanding.But there’s a twist. Astronomers have already observed these exploding stars, but we have to wait up to 60 years for their light to reach us again.A phenomenon called gravitational lensing splits the light from these extinct stars into multiple images, each taking a different path through space and time to reach us. As a result, researchers may one day be able to measure the delay between these ghostly images and provide…
Researchers have found that new species may have evolved surprisingly quickly after the asteroid impact that wiped out the Nonabia dinosaur.New species of plankton may have emerged less than 2,000 years after the Chicxulub impact, which occurred about 66 million years ago, further fueling debate about how quickly new species emerged after the impact. This suggests that life recovered much more quickly than scientists previously thought, researchers report in a study published in the journal Geology on January 21.”This is an incredible rate,” study co-author Chris Lowery, a paleoceanographer at the University of Texas Geophysical Institute, said in a statement.…
In 2024, there will be more than 8 billion artificial intelligence (AI) voice assistants worldwide, or more than one per person on the planet. These assistants are kind and courteous, and are almost always women by default.Their names also have gender connotations. For example, Apple’s Siri (a Scandinavian female name) means “a beautiful woman who leads to victory.”Meanwhile, men’s input was included when IBM’s Watson for Oncology, which helps doctors process medical data, was launched in 2015. The message is clear. Women serve and men lead. you may like This is not a harmless branding, but a design choice that…
Farsi-speaking attackers aligned with Iran’s national interests are suspected of being behind a new campaign targeting non-governmental organizations and individuals involved in a recent record of human rights abuses. This activity, observed by HarfangLab in January 2026, is codenamed RedKitten. This is said to coincide with unrest that began across Iran towards the end of 2025 in protest against soaring inflation, rising food prices and a weak currency. The ensuing crackdown resulted in numerous casualties and an internet blackout. “The malware relies on GitHub and Google Drive for configuration and modular payload retrieval, and uses Telegram for command and control,”…
This week’s Science News chronicled the good, the bad, and the ugly of technological advances, with a study warning of the next generation of AI “swarms” that could soon invade social media.The signs of bots on social media are already evident, with more than half of the text written online by 2025 being churned out by large-scale language models. What scientists are warning about this next generation of bots is different. Bots trained to impersonate real humans and swarm as if they were part of an organic movement will adaptively target human users, spread false narratives, and influence public opinion.But…
Astronomers have solved the mystery of how some stars remain young, bright and blue despite being almost as old as the universe itself. In other words, stars cannibalize their sibling stars.These timeless objects, known as blue stragglers, have puzzled astronomers for more than 70 years. “Blue stragglers are hydrogen-burning stars with unusually heavy cores that, according to single-star evolution theory, should not exist,” the researchers said in a paper published in the journal Nature Communications on January 3.To investigate these mysterious stars, researchers used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to analyze 48 galactic globular clusters and more than 3,400…
Many objects in space rotate. While Earth completes its rotation in about 24 hours, Venus takes a whopping 243 Earth days. The moon’s rotation period is approximately 27 days. It turns out that the sun also rotates. So, how long does it take for the sun to go around once?The answer depends on your cosmic perspective and the part of the sun you’re measuring.In 1612, Galileo Galilei observed the Sun through a telescope, drew what he saw, and observed that sunspots (dark areas near the Sun’s surface) moved across the Sun’s surface over time. “Galileo tracked a lot of information…
Ravi LakshmananJanuary 31, 2026Social Engineering/SaaS Security Mandiant, a Google company, said Friday that it has seen “expanded threat activity” using tradecraft consistent with extortion-themed attacks organized by a group of financially motivated hackers known as Shiny Hunters. This attack utilizes sophisticated voice phishing (also known as vishing) and a fake credential aggregator site that imitates the targeted company to gain unauthorized access to the victim’s environment by harvesting sign-on (SSO) credentials and multi-factor authentication (MFA) codes. The ultimate goal of the attack is to target cloud-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications, siphon sensitive data and internal communications, and extort victims. The tech…