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Mobileye made its name and money by supplying automakers with millions of computer vision chips designed to support vehicle safety features and advanced driver-assistance systems. The publicly traded subsidiary of Intel has since expanded its self-driving efforts through its chips and software. Now, co-founder and president Amnon Shashua is moving the company into what he calls Mobileye 3.0. That means robotics and big acquisitions. The Israeli company announced Tuesday during CES in Las Vegas that it has reached a deal to acquire Mentee Robotics, a startup co-founded by Shashua, for $900 million in 2022. Under the agreement, Mobileye will acquire…
Elon Musk’s AI company xAI (which also owns X), which created the Grok chatbot, announced it has raised $20 billion in a Series E funding round. The company said in a blog post that its investors include Valor Equity Partners, Fidelity, Qatar Investment Authority, and other companies including Nvidia and Cisco as “strategic investors.” xAI has not disclosed whether these investments will be made in the form of equity or debt. According to xAI, X and Grok have approximately 600 million monthly active users and will use the new funding to continue expanding its data centers and Grok model. However,…
Sen. Steve Padilla (D-Calif.) introduced a bill Monday that would ban the sale and manufacture of toys with AI chatbot functionality for children under 18 for four years. The aim is to give safety regulators time to develop regulations to protect children from “dangerous interactions with AI.” “Chatbots and other AI tools may become an essential part of our lives in the future, but given the risks they pose, we need to take bold action to protect our children,” Sen. Padilla said in a statement. “Our safety regulations for this type of technology are still in their infancy and need…
CES 2026 is packed with tech giants unveiling their latest innovations, but the real excitement comes from discovering the unexpected and quirky gadgets that will make you wonder, “Who thought of this?” We’re here to spotlight the wildest products we’ve spotted so far at CES 2026, from a touch-sensitive AI-powered panda to Razer’s holographic animated assistant to weirdness that’ll make you do a double-take. An AI anime companion watching over you from your desk Originally introduced last year as an esports AI coach, Razer’s Project AVA has evolved into something new: a 5.5-inch animated holographic desk companion that can help…
Intel is looking to enhance its gaming hardware with new chips and platforms for portable gaming devices. The platform includes hardware and software, Intel Vice President and General Manager of PC Products Daniel Rogers announced Monday at CES. It will be built on the company’s Intel Core Series 3 processors, known as Panther Lake, which were announced last year and are currently being rolled out in a variety of PCs. According to a report from IGN, seen by TechCrunch, the future platform will include a chip specifically for handheld gaming. These Panther Lake chips are built on the company’s first…
The founder of a U.S.-based spyware company whose surveillance products allowed customers to spy on the phones and computers of unsuspecting victims has pleaded guilty to federal charges related to his company’s long-running operations. pcTattletale founder Brian Fleming entered a guilty plea Tuesday in San Diego federal court to charges of computer hacking, selling and promoting surveillance software for illegal use, and conspiracy. The plea comes after a multi-year investigation by investigators from Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), a division within U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. HSI began investigating pcTattletale in mid-2021 as part of a broader investigation into the consumer…
Advanced alien civilizations could communicate via series of flashing lights, much like fireflies do, a new paper suggests. This could make finding extraterrestrial life much more difficult if we continue to rely on current observational techniques, researchers argue.However, while this thought experiment raises interesting questions about alien intelligence, it provides no evidence that these signals actually exist.So far, the quest to uncover alien intelligence has focused on finding evidence of distant human-like civilizations. For example, the Exploration of Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute, the world’s leading organization dedicated to the search for extraterrestrial life, spends most of its time searching for…
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered two new malicious extensions in the Chrome Web Store designed to leak OpenAI ChatGPT and DeepSeek conversations along with browsing data to servers under attacker control. Extensions with over 900,000 total users are named below. Chat GPT with GPT-5, Claude Sonnet, DeepSeek AI for Chrome (ID: fnmihdojmnkclgjpcoonokmkhjpjechg, 600,000 users) AI sidebar with Deepseek, ChatGPT, Claude, and more. (ID: inhcgfpbfdjbjogdfjbclgolkmhnooop, 300,000 users) The findings come weeks after Urban VPN Proxy, another extension with millions of installations on Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge, was caught using an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot to spy on users’ chats. This tactic…
The moon has been quietly absorbing tiny bits of Earth’s atmosphere for billions of years, a new study reveals. This amazing incident of space cannibalism is thanks to the supercharged solar wind and, more importantly, to our planet’s magnetic field.The discovery overturns a two-decade-old theory about how certain charged particles, known as ions, reach the moon’s surface, and could have major implications for future lunar missions, researchers said.Ever since NASA’s Apollo mission first brought lunar samples back to Earth in the early 1970s, scientists have been puzzled by the traces of volatile substances (substances that evaporate at relatively low temperatures,…
Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) announced Tuesday at CES 2026 that it has installed the first magnet in its demonstration Sparc fusion reactor, which is scheduled to go online next year. The magnet is the first of 18 that will generate a powerful magnetic field to create a donut-like shape that confines and compresses superheated plasma when the reactor is completed. If all goes well, the plasma releases more energy than is needed for heating and compression. After decades of promises and delays, fusion power appears to be just around the corner. CFS and its competitors are in a race to…