Jan 29 (Reuters) - The U.S. government is considering selecting fintech Robinhood Markets for a key role in overseeing "Trump accounts" it is creating for millions of children, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter. Read full story

WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 29 (Reuters) - The Pentagon and artificial- intelligence developer Anthropic are at odds over potentiallyeliminating safeguards that might allow the government to use its technology to target weapons autonomously and conduct U.S. domestic surveillance, three people familiar with the matter told Reuters. Read full story

Jan 29 (Reuters) - Amazon is in talks to invest dozens of billions in OpenAI and the figure could be as high as $50 billion, a source told Reuters on Thursday. Read full story

Apple shared its latest quarterly financial results today and the news is once again very, very good for the Cupertino company. The quarter ending December 27, 2025 marked "the best-ever quarter" for iPhones, which generated a record high revenue of nearly $85.27 billion for the business. Apple doesn't disclose the number of devices sold any more, but even with the prices for many of its latest generation of smartphones surpassing $1,000 a pop, that's still got to be a heck of a lot of iPhones. ..

EFF launches new campaign to force default encryption across major platforms.

Jan 29 (Reuters) - Big Tech earnings so far this week have sent a clear warning: investors are willing to overlook soaring spending on artificial intelligence if it fuels strong growth, but are quick to punish companies that fall short. Read full story

A WIRED analysis of nearly 1,400 Friday showtimes of Melania found only two with no tickets available. Both are before 3 pm.

If you were planning on buying a Motorola Signature, you may want to try to do that right now the phone was originally slated to cost 1,000 in the EU, but its price in Finland unexpectedly shot up to 1,300 just before launch. Its not quite clear what happened Motorola contacted local publication SuomiMobiili to notify them of the price hike but offered no reasons as to why this last- minute change was necessary. The launch package includes a free Moto Watch and Moto Buds Loop, which are valued ..

With ACA tax credits gone, more people are turning to high-deductible plans.

Domain name registrar unveils some interesting stats on the most popular TLDs of 2025.

Google is letting outsiders experiment with DeepMind's Genie 3 "world model" via Project Genie, a tool for generating short, interactive AI worlds. The caveat: it requires a $250/month AI Ultra subscription, is U.S.-only, and has tight limits that make it more of a tech demo than a game engine. Engadget reports: At launch, Project Genie offers three different modes of interaction: World Sketching, exploration and remixing. The first sees Google's Nano Banana Pro model generating the source ..

The call is coming from inside the house opinion Maybe everything is all about timing, like the time (this week) America's lead cyber-defense agency sounded the alarm on insider threats after it came to light that its senior official uploaded sensitive documents to ChatGPT.

NEW YORK, Jan 29 (Reuters) - Elon Musk's SpaceX and xAI are in discussions to merge ahead of a blockbuster public offering planned for later this year. The combination would bring Musk's rockets, Starlink satellites, the X social media platform and Grok AI chatbot under one roof, according to a person briefed on the matter and two recent company filings seen by Reuters. Read full story

The company's revenue was boosted by iPhone sales, but sales of its wearable tech and Mac computers dipped.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Amazon CEO Andy Jassy have been speaking directly, according to a source familiar with the discussions.

Jan 29 (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate Agriculture Committee, which oversees commodities trading, advanced a bill on Thursday that would establish a federal regulatory framework for cryptocurrencies on a party-line vote, an indication that the legislation likely lacks enough support to be passed by the full Senate. Read full story

Apple reported fiscal first-quarter earnings on Thursdaythatsurpassedexpectations, with revenue soaring16% on an annual basis.

The JUMPSEAT satellites loitered over the North Pole to spy on the Soviet Union.

Tesla expects to more than double capital spending in 2026 as it invests heavily in robotics and driverless technology.

The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children said it received more than 1 million reports of AI-related child sexual abuse material (CSAM) in 2025. The "vast majority" of that content was reported by Amazon, which found the material in its training data, according to an investigation by Bloomberg . In addition, Amazon said only that it obtained the inappropriate content from external sources used to train its AI services and claimed it could not provide any further details about where ..

GPT4o is beloved by some users because of its warm conversational style

Windows 11 clears a milestone as Windows 10 continues its slow fade.

NVIDIA has officially launched a native GeForce NOW client for Linux as a Flatpak, giving Linux gamers access to cloud-rendered RTX gaming. Phoronix reports: While confined to a Flatpak, for now NVIDIA is just "officially" supporting it on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and later. Granted, thanks to Flatpak it should run on other non-Ubuntu distributions too but in terms of the official support and where they are qualifying their builds they are limiting it just to Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and later. [...] At launch ..

Nvidia expands its CoreWeave partnership with capital investment, early access to Vera Rubin, and deeper coordination on large-scale AI factory construction.

Google is bringing a new auto browse feature to Chrome powered by Gemini.

On this episode of Uncanny Valley, we dive into the news that's held our attention this week: ICE activity as it's been unfolding in Minnesota.

The FCC approval allows higher power and outdoor use in the 6 GHz band, setting the stage for better future devices.

Over the past few months, multiple leaked renders have offered a glimpse at the design of Samsungs upcoming Galaxy S26 lineup. Even protective cases have surfaced, further confirming the look of the devices. Now, a fresh leak highlights UAG magnetic cases for the Galaxy S26 series. Well-known leaker Evan Blass has shared official-looking renders of UAG magnetic cases made for the entire Galaxy S26 lineup. The images reveal the rear designs of the Galaxy S26, Galaxy S26+, and Galaxy S26 Ultra. ..

Anthropic's latest paper on "user disempowerment" has some troubling findings.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica, written by Dan Goodin: Two security professionals who were arrested in 2019 after performing an authorized security assessment of a county courthouse in Iowa will receive $600,000 to settle a lawsuit they brought alleging wrongful arrest and defamation. The case was brought by Gary DeMercurio and Justin Wynn, two penetration testers who at the time were employed by Colorado-based security firm Coalfire Labs. The men had written ..

Make your computer feel brand new for just $19.97 with this Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2019 for Windows license.

As investors sold shares of Microsoft on Thursday, the $3.22 trillion company dragged down the software complex and the S&P; 500 index.

Microns $24 billion Singapore expansion aims to boost NAND supply, though long lead times will limit near-term impact on shortages.

Meta jumped, while Microsoft plunged post-earnings as investors hunt for signs that big AI investments are paying off.

To what end? Who knows? Tesla isn't even using them in its own factories yet Elon Musk's car company is getting ready to be Skynet. Tesla, facing an 11 percent decline in automotive revenue in Q4 2025, has committed to $20 billion in capex spending this year on manufacturing and compute infrastructure. The goal: build lots of humanoid robots.

A Labs prototype turns prompts into short, explorable 3D worlds Google has put the video gaming industry on notice with the rollout of Project Genie, an experimental AI world-model prototype that generates explorable 3D environments from text or image prompts.

The preprint repository arXiv will require all submissions to be written in English or accompanied by a full English translation starting February 11, a policy change that explicitly permits the use of AI translators even as research suggests large language models remain inconsistent at the task. Until now, authors only needed to submit an abstract in English. ArXiv hosts nearly 3 million preprints and receives more than 20,000 submissions monthly, though just 1% are in languages other than ..