Tesla Increases Spending Plan to $25 Billion — Here’s Where the Money Is Spending
Tesla CEO Elon Musk began the company’s first-quarter earnings conference with a financial caution, or a warning, depending on how investors feel. Tesla’s capital spending will soar to $25 billion in 2026, according to its first-quarter earnings report, far exceeding its previous annual spending as it seeks to become an AI and robotics company ahead […]
Experience X’s new AI-powered custom feeds
It appears Bluesky isn’t the only company leaning into AI to help build custom feeds. In a spate of recent product releases, X this week announced the release of custom timelines powered by Grok. This allows you to drill down into one of over 75 specific topics through a curated feed that you can pin […]
Archaeologists discover part of ‘Iliad’ in Egyptian mummy’s abdomen
Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered a Roman-era mummy with a copy of Homer’s epic poem “Iliad” in its abdomen. It’s a unique find, which archaeologists call “unusual.” Written in Greek on papyrus, this document records part of the second volume of the Iliad, which details the legendary Trojan War. A statement from the University of […]
Tesla’s Q1 revenue boosted by EV sales and FSD subscriptions
Tesla posted higher sales and profits year-over-year, with numbers supported by higher auto revenue and other services, including 1.28 million active subscriptions for fully self-driving (supervised) advanced driver assistance systems. Tesla shares rose 4% in after-hours trading after the company announced its first-quarter results, mainly due to a surge in free cash flow and year-over-year […]
How SpaceX pre-empted $2 billion in funding with a $60 billion acquisition offer
Hours before SpaceX announced a deal giving it an option to acquire Cursor, a maker of AI-powered coding software, for $60 billion, Cursor was expected to close a $2 billion funding round later this week, according to people familiar with the matter. This round would have valued the company at $50 billion. SpaceX said it […]
Google Cloud launches two new AI chips to compete with Nvidia
Google Cloud announced Wednesday that its 8th generation of custom-built AI chips, or tensor processing units (TPUs), will be split in two. One chip, named TPU 8t, is dedicated to model training, and the other chip, TPU 8i, is intended for inference. Inference is the continued use of the model, what happens after the user […]
Malicious KICS Docker image and VS Code extension impact Checkmarx supply chain
Ravi LakshmananApril 22, 2026Cloud security/software security Cybersecurity researchers have warned about malicious images being pushed to the official “checkmarx/kics” Docker Hub repository. Socket, a software supply chain security company, revealed in an alert published today that an unknown attacker was able to successfully overwrite existing tags, including v2.1.20 and alpine, while simultaneously introducing a new […]
Self-propagating supply chain worm hijacks npm packages and steals developer tokens
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new set of packages that have been compromised by malicious parties to distribute a self-propagating worm that spreads through stolen developer npm tokens. The supply chain worm has been detected by both Socket and StepSecurity, and both companies are tracking the activity under the name CanisterSprawl because it used ICP […]
Google turns Chrome into an AI coworker for the workplace
As part of a series of Google Cloud Next announcements on Wednesday, the company shared enhanced security measures as well as plans to bring an “auto-browse” agent feature to Chrome users in the enterprise. With AutoBrowse, Chrome users can leverage Gemini to understand the live context of open browser tabs and use AI to handle […]
Artemis moon landing could face significant delays while NASA waits for next-generation spacesuit
NASA’s next-generation spacesuit is not yet ready and delays could delay the Artemis moon landing by more than three years, the audit report claims. Due to design and testing delays in line with recent historical averages, demonstrations of the Artemis spacesuit provided by private contractor Axiom Space will not occur until 2031, according to a […]
