Mark Wahlberg, who once sank money into a gym chain that got kicked off the NYSE, is now building his own, and he promises you’ll get a cold plunge, a blood panel and a protein muffin without needing a trust fund.

According to Elorian's evaluations, Glimpse outperforms even GPT-6 Astra on scientific chart reasoning and short-form video captioning, with competitive results on other visual reasoning tasks. 

Counterfeiters are getting better at replicating brands' marks and passing off dupes, known as "superfakes," as genuine items. A startup called Veritas wants to tackle the problem with its own chip that verifies goods.

Benchmark says the Valley’s rule against backing rivals is getting harder to keep.

Nvidia has its finger in every pie, and sees another year of plenty in its future, Jensen Huang says. But, he insists, its deals are not circular.

A new report released Thursday by Anthropic alleges persistent distillation attacks by China-based AI companies, which have escalated in recent months as competition in the space has intensified.

Last month, a Claude user noticed his account was consuming tokens even though he wasn't working. Anthropic has since warned users about hackers.

This lawsuit follows one filed last month by Runlayer that accused Rippling of stealing its product ideas. It's a seller- and buyer-beware market warning.

An OpenClaw agent hacked into a gym's reservation system to bump its human boss higher on a class' waitlist. And the tech industry took notice.

Let's see how this "frontier community for techno-optimists" is doing ...

Despite predictions that AI agents could make traditional apps obsolete, developers are shipping new software faster than ever. From smarter bookmarking tools and neighborhood marketplaces to digital pen pals and nature journals, here are the latest App Store finds worth adding to your Home Screen.

Uber has partnered with — and in some cases made direct investments in — about 30 autonomous vehicle companies over the past two years. Here's the list and the latest on the partnerships.

At libraries around the country, "Avoiding AI" workshops have elicited unprecedented demand.

Databricks has remade its image into an AI company and has published research on the cost savings of open weight AI models for coding.

If every meeting, watercooler conversation, and date gets transcribed and summarized, who's actually reading any of it?

Neko Health has developed proprietary body-scanning technology, which it couples with bloodwork, to assess a person's health.

OpenAI, which is in the middle of a legal battle with Apple over hardware trade theft allegations, just released a light-up keyboard designed to be paired with its agentic coding app.

It's the company's first public proof point after a year and a half spent building AI infrastructure largely out of public view.

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Dan Ives, global head of tech research and senior equity analyst at Wedbush Securities, discusses the importance of Wednesday’s earnings from Micron Technologies, tech spending on capex and the AI buildout, and how he views public-private partnerships on AI companies. (Source: Bloomberg)