Google owner Alphabet is in advanced discussions to buy fast-growing cybersecurity startup Wiz for roughly $23 billion, a person familiar with the matter confirmed to CNN.

Google is close to making its biggest acquisition ever

Nvidia is investing in an intriguing array of smaller AI companies. Arm and SoundHound AI are the more established of these businesses. Nano-X, Recursion, and TuSimple are the more speculative plays. SoundHound AI, Arm, Nano-X, Recursion, and TuSimple are all in Nvidia's portfolio. Nvidia (NVDA 2.69%) is one of the...

Nvidia Is Buying Shares of These 5 AI Companies. Should You Do the Same?

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These companies' businesses are expanding quickly, with the brand power to outperform the competition.

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I love a scheduled social media post right in the middle of a major PC outage. IT admins certainly aren’t enjoying the CrowdStrike 2024 PC era.

Not now, Intel.

(Reuters) - ChatGPT maker OpenAI is in discussion with chip designers, including Broadcom (NASDAQ:AVGO), about developing a new artificial intelligence chip, the Information reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter. OpenAI is exploring the idea of making AI chips on its own to overcome the shortage of expensive...

OpenAI holds talks with Broadcom about developing new AI chip, the Information reports

And having previously purchased one I can confirm that it isn’t half bad! Is the metal sort of cheap and the adhesive backing pitiful? Yes. But it also includes screws to mount it directly into the wall, and having all my Airwrap accessories on the wall makes me feel fancy. At $32.45, it’s 19 percent cheaper than when I bought it.

There’s a wall mount for the Dyson Airwrap,

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The company is opening a new kind of EV charging station in Groveland, CA, just outside of Yosemite National Park. In addition to five charging plugs, the site will also serve as place to get snacks, learn more about EV ownership, and even drop off recyclables in an effort to keep the park clean. The plugs are only available to Rivian owners for now, but the company plans on accommodating non-Rivian EVs eventually.

Rivian brings EV charging to Yosemite.

In our review of the LG StanbyME TV (the stick one, not the suitcase one) we called it “a so-so TV on a stellar stand.” And you can get a better TV for less, but not with that sleek, wheeled stand. It even has a battery. It’s on...

LG’s “calming beige” TV on a stick is $200 off.

Despite recent layoffs in its Reality Labs division, Meta is still barreling ahead with plans for a Quest 4 in 2026 and a higher-end headset in 2027, The Information reports. While the report didn’t reveal much about hardware, this is the first time we’ve heard about specific timelines for the devices. The Quest 4 will purportedly have a standard and premium version, referred to internally as “Pismo Low” and “Pismo High.” Meanwhile, a higher-end version codenamed “La Jolla” is set for 2027 and is meant to compete with the Apple Vision Pro. Unmentioned in the report is Ventura, a more affordable headset that The Verge previously reported may come out later this year.

We now have dates for Meta’s forthcoming Quest headsets

According to reports from the Financial Times and Wall Street Journal on Thursday, Facebook owner Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META) is assessing a potential multibillion-euro investment in eyewear group EssilorLuxottica. Citing people with knowledge of the matter, the WSJ said the social media platform is in talks to purchase around a 5%...

Meta Platforms exploring stake in Ray-Ban maker EssilorLuxottica - reports

Look, in the grand scheme of the global outage that’s wreaking havoc across airlines, banks, supermarkets, TV stations, and countless businesses, being unable to order a Trenta iced coffee from Starbucks with my smartphone is a minor inconvenience. But you can add the company’s mobile ordering system to the list of casualties from this CrowdStrike BSOD situation.

Starbucks mobile ordering falls victim to the CrowdStrike BSOD outage

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The CEO wrote in an email that it "significantly raised the bar" on expectations. The company says it will hire "approximately 1,800" in other areas.

Read Intuit CEO's message announcing over 1,000 layoffs due to performance — but the company is hiring 1,800 in areas like AI

Industries ranging from healthcare to banking, air travel, and others are struggling with a global IT outage that hit Microsoft Windows PCs and servers connected to the CrowdStrike security platform early Friday morning. It could take a while to fully resolve these Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) errors, with the standard fix requiring a trip into Safe Mode, but Microsoft is now advising that rebooting systems affected by the CrowdStrike glitch up to 15 times could get them back up and running.

CrowdStrike and Microsoft: all the latest news on the global IT outage

Four months after releasing its first sub-$400 smartphone, Nothing is teasing a new addition to its A-series lineup. On Monday the company posted just a single plus sign on X, and today added an event page to its website revealing a July 31st at 5AM ET announcement for the new Phone 2A Plus. Expect more teases from Nothing over the next two weeks.

Nothing teases a bigger version of its budget Phone 2A.

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(Reuters) - Companies across several industries including airlines, banking and media were hit on Friday by a global tech outage tied to Microsoft's Azure cloud platform and a software issue at cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike.

Factbox-What is CrowdStrike, the cybersecurity firm behind a global tech outage?

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Yesterday was the third time this year that an ad stating Chelsea Clinton lives in a beautiful Virginia home popped up on my laptop. My computer did not warn me this was a dangerous site, so this time, I clicked on the link.

Chelsea Clinton is rumored to be living in Virginia but probably still in NYC

Frontier says that if your flight was impacted, you can request a refund. The Federal Aviation Administration had to ground Frontier flights, but that ground stop was lifted after 10PM ET. Microsoft services had been subject to a few problems Thursday evening, that got even worse on Friday after a...

A Microsoft outage affected Frontier’s systems.

It’s AI party time, and we’re just tapping the second keg. That’s the message from Dan Ives, an analyst with Wedbush Securities whose focus is on the tech industry. “I believe it’s 9pm in an AI party that goes to 4am,” Ives said. “Many investors have sat on the sidelines and fretted about valuation and some other doomsday scenarios and missed this historic tech run. But we don’t believe it’s over.”

AI party still going, analyst says

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CALIFORNIA – Starting July 1, landlords will only be allowed to collect one month’s rent for the security deposit on a rental property. Assembly Bill 12, signed into law last October, says regardless of whether the residential property is unfurnished or furnished, only one month’s rent can be charged in addition to any rent for the first month paid on or before initial occupancy.

Law limiting security deposits goes into effect July 1

In a long post on X, the former OpenAI and Tesla employee discussed Eureka Labs and his vision of how AI could help with education. Sounds interesting, but maybe his post shouldn’t have featured art where the people have extra arms and legs?

Andrej Karpathy’s next venture: “a new kind of school that is AI native.”

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OpenAI wants in on the AI chip business.

According to The Information, OpenAI is in discussion with Broadcom and other semiconductor designers about...

OpenAI wants in on the AI chip business.

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