Nvidia debuts Groot N1, a foundation model for humanoid robotics
Nvidia is releasing what it’s calling an AI foundation model for humanoid robotics.
Announced at GTC 2025 in San Jose, the model, dubbed Groot N1, is a “generalist” model, trained on both synthetic and real data. In a video introducing Groot N1, Nvidia says it features a “
Here's why Google pitched its $32B Wiz acquisition as ‘multicloud’
Tuesday’s big news that Google is acquiring security startup Wiz for a record-breaking $32 billion comes with a very big qualifier.
Google says it will position Wiz as a “multicloud” offering, meaning Wiz will not be a Google-only shop.
The reality is that Google had
Blackwell Ultra, Vera Rubin, and Feynman are Nvidia’s next GPUs
Onstage at Nvidia’s GTC 2025 conference in San Jose on Tuesday, CEO Jensen Huang announced a slew of new GPUs coming down the company’s product pipeline over the next few months.
Perhaps the most significant is Vera Rubin. Vera Rubin, which is set to be released in the second half of 2
Tesla and Rivian charging networks have fewest problems by far, according to Consumer Reports
The most problem-free EV charging networks in the U.S. right now are the ones built by Tesla and Rivian, according to a new survey from Consumer Reports.
The publication surveyed 1,230 owners on their EV charging experiences between March 2024 and February 2024, and just 4% of the respondents said
Bolt's former CEO is launching a new e-commerce startup
Maju Kuruvilla, who left the CEO role of controversial one-click checkout startup Bolt last year, is back. He's launching his own startup, focused on a different problem for online shoppers: what he calls “check-in.”
When you click on an ad for something like a T-shirt, the experience afte
Stability AI’s new AI model turns photos into 3D scenes
Stability AI has released a new AI model, Stable Virtual Camera, that the company claims can transform 2D images into “immersive” videos with realistic depth and perspective.
Virtual cameras are tools often used in digital filmmaking and 3D animation to capture and navigate scenes in
How to watch Nvidia GTC 2025, including CEO Jensen Huang’s keynote
GTC, Nvidia’s biggest conference of the year, returns this week, with the biggest announcements probably coming Tuesday. If you can’t make it in person, don’t sweat it. technewss will be on the ground covering the major developments, and we’ve made it easy for you to follow
Google brings a ‘canvas’ feature to Gemini, plus Audio Overview
They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, and Google seems to agree.
On Tuesday, the company added a feature to its AI-powered Gemini chatbot that the company is calling Canvas. Similar in concept to OpenAI’s identically named Canvas tool for ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Artifac
CISA scrambles to contact fired employees after court rules layoffs ‘unlawful’
The U.S. government's cybersecurity agency is scrambling to contact more than 130 former employees after a federal court ruled that the Trump administration must reinstate workers it “unlawfully” fired.
U.S. District Judge James Bredar last week ordered the Trump administration to reinstat
Al Gore's Just Climate fund raises $175M from Microsoft and CalSTRS for nature-based climate investments
When it comes to climate-related investments, the lion's share has gone to companies working in energy and transportation. Most investors overlook actual lions — that is, nature-based solutions like biodiversity tend to get short shrift in the investment world. Just $35 billion was invested i
Arcade raises $12M from Perplexity co-founder's new fund to make AI agents less awful
Arcade, an AI agent infrastructure startup founded by former Okta exec Alex Salazar and former Redis engineer Sam Partee, has raised $12 million from Laude Ventures.
Laude is the new fund launched in 2024 by Perplexity co-founder Andy Konwinski, the UC Berkeley computer scientist who al
Anthropic-backed AI-powered code review platform Graphite raises cash
AI coding assistants are becoming wildly popular, with the vast majority of respondents in GitHub's latest poll saying that they've adopted AI tools in some form. Y Combinator partner Jared Friedman recently claimed that a quarter of YC's W25 startup batch have 95% o
Mark Zuckerberg says that Meta’s Llama models have hit 1B downloads
In a brief message Tuesday morning on Threads, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the company’s “open” AI model family, Llama, hit 1 billion downloads. That’s up from 650 million downloads as of early December 2024 — a ~53% increase over a roughly three-month period.
Llama, wh
Coreshell has a plan to slash the price of American-made batteries
The electric vehicle transition is really a story about China. There, subsidies have helped juice not just automakers, but the entire battery supply chain behind them. Those incentives, plus decades of industrial policy focused on controlled critical mineral supply chains, has left American and Eur