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Marc Raibert, the founder and chairman of Boston Dynamics, gave the world a menagerie of two- and four-legged machines capable of jaw-dropping parkour, infectious dance routines, and industrious shelf stacking. Raibert is now looking to lead a revolution in robot intelligence as well as acrobatics. And he says that recent advances in machine learning have accelerated his robots’ ability to …

As my family’s “CFO,” I meticulously scanned my utility bills late one night. As I went through them, line by line, I was confused and frustrated – I couldn’t understand the jump in costs and what was driving them. It was a confusing mix of kilowatt hours, supply and transmission costs, and local fees. I’m seeing a very similar phenomenon …

The company, whose services were once popular among students, said its “strategic” options could include a sale. Chegg blamed Google’s AI summaries for taking away traffic.

Shares of Tesla had been on a tear since Donald J. Trump won the presidential election. Investors were betting that the carmaker would benefit from the more than $250 million that its chief executive, Elon Musk, spent to support the Trump campaign. But an 8 percent decline in Tesla’s stock on Tuesday all but wiped out what was left of …

Hadlee Simons / Android Authority TL;DR DH, one of the founders of the PS3 emulator RPCS3, is now working on an Android port. Interest in PS3 emulation on Android has been on the rise due to aPS3e, a legally dubious RPCS3 port using stolen code. DH hasn’t been actively involved in updating RPCS3 since 2016, when he shifted focus to …

Bloomberg: DeepSeek reopens API top-ups after suspending them on February 6 due to demand, as Alibaba previews its QwQ-Max model and the Chinese AI rivalry escalates  —  – It resumed service the same day Alibaba previewed a new model  — AI development has quickened since DeepSeek’s emergence

Major wireless carriers: A necessary evil if you travel a lot, have a family, or are just interested in coverage that’s reliably consistent and widespread. AT&T is the third-largest provider in the US (first for 5G), with the largest coverage map. I’ve had various AT&T plans for more than a decade, first for just myself and now for my whole …

Following the revelation Friday from cryptocurrency exchange firm Bybit that hackers stole digital tokens worth about $1.5 billion – in what may be the biggest crypto heist of all time – CEO Ben Zhou wrote on X Sunday that it has replenished its reserves. Bybit was able to do this through a mix of emergency loans and large deposits. Zhou …

Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service is implementing a burn-and-rebuild strategy the billionaire honed in his business empire.

Elon Musk’s role as President Trump’s cost-cutting czar and his immersion in right-wing politics appear to be diverting his attention from Tesla at a perilous moment for the electric car company. Tesla’s car sales fell 1 percent last year even as the global market for electric vehicles grew 25 percent. Mr. Musk has not addressed that underperformance, and he has …