Technology

Nvidia earnings: AI chip leader shows no signs of stopping mammoth growth

The AI chipmaker Nvidia, the world’s most valuable company and the engine of the artificial-intelligence boom, rolled out another set of quarterly results on Wednesday to investors’ delight.The company,...

What is Bluesky and why are so many people suddenly leaving X for the platform?

The great X-odus is under way. More than 1 million new users have joined the social media platform...

Elon Musk is not America’s new king. But he might be its new Thomas Cromwell | John Naughton

Picture, if you will, the scene in Mar-a-Lago on election night at the moment when it’s become clear...

Elon Musk targets Microsoft in expanded OpenAI lawsuit

Elon Musk has expanded his lawsuit against the ChatGPT maker OpenAI, adding federal antitrust and other claims and...

UK flying taxi firm pins hopes on investors as cash runs short

On a dreary November day in the Cotswolds, England, the VX4 – a cross between a plane and...

The Case for Abandoning X

On Wednesday, The Guardian announced that it will no longer be posting to X.com, the website that murdered Twitter, cut off its face and placed...

New York City police will send drones to locations of reported robberies and gunshots

The New York police department (NYPD) announced it will begin using drones to respond to reports of robberies and alerts from a city-wide gunshot...

A Moment for Determination, Not Fatalism

When some leading thinkers at the London School of Economics saw fascism take hold in the 1930s, Oxford history professor Ben Jackson said in a recent...

South Korean police arrest 215 people in suspected $228m crypto scam

South Korean police have arrested 215 people on suspicion of stealing 320 billion won ($228.4m) in the biggest cryptocurrency investment scam in the country.Gyeonggi...

Trump selects Elon Musk to lead government efficiency department

Elon Musk and former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy will lead the Department of Government Efficiency, Donald Trump said on Tuesday.Trump said in a...

The images of Spain’s floods weren’t created by AI. The trouble is, people think they were

My eye was caught by a striking photograph in the most recent edition of Charles Arthur’s Substack newsletter Social Warming. It shows a narrow...