Why Is the Sky Blue? The Science of Rayleigh Scattering, Explained Simply
The sky is blue because air molecules scatter short wavelengths of sunlight far more than long ones, and the same…
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Amazon Is Reportedly in Talks to Buy AI Startup Decart for About $7 Billion
Amazon is negotiating to buy Decart, whose software helps AI models run on chips beyond Nvidia's, in what would be…
Epic Games Goes “AI First” and Delays Its Marvel and Star Wars Shooter Indefinitely
Epic is reportedly handing the code and art for its delayed Disney shooter to AI models like Claude, with human…
Meta’s Muse Wonder Is Its First Frontier AI Model, but the Best Version Is Locked Behind a Subscription
Meta's new Muse Wonder models land near the top of independent AI benchmarks, but the stronger Wonder Full is only…
Coinbase Is Betting AI Agents Will Be the Next Big Users of Stablecoins
Coinbase wants AI agents paying each other in stablecoins instead of humans typing card numbers into checkout forms, and the…
Microsoft Hands the Next Halo Game to Activision After Cutting 268 More Xbox Jobs
Xbox just cut another 268 jobs, and the next Halo game is reportedly moving out of its own internal studio…
Google and Unity Will Let You Build a Video Game By Just Typing What You Want
Type what kind of game you want, and Google and Unity's new platform, powered by Unity Spark, will try to…
Nvidia’s $20 Billion Groq Deal Just Got Hit With a Shareholder Lawsuit
Former Groq employees who still hold stock are suing Groq's board in Delaware, claiming the "license and hire" structure let…
The Pentagon Is Throwing $350 Million at Quantum Computing to Keep Up With China
The Pentagon, now rebranding itself the War Department, just put roughly $350 million behind quantum computing, and the subtext is…
Google Loses Its Bid to Dodge a Jury Trial Over $3.2 Billion in Ad Tech Damages
Google tried to kill a $3.2 billion ad tech lawsuit before trial. A federal court said no, and treble damages…