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British fabricator Robert Ely built a single-seat, road-legal sports car called the Gasolini AR1 in his home shed for roughly $7,000. The car uses a stripped-down 2017 Honda CBR500 motorcycle engine producing 47 horsepower, Ford Ka wheels, and a fiberglass body designed without complex curves for easier fabrication. Ely says the lightweight design allows about 72 mph top speed and 41 mpg fuel economy.
Calendly has rolled out a new logo, wordmark, color palette, and brand identity designed by studio Smith & Diction, moving away from its image as a simple scheduling calendar. Alongside the visual overhaul, the company announced new AI-powered tools, including an email assistant and a meeting notetaker, aimed at reducing scheduling friction and administrative busywork.
A growing number of US restaurants are eliminating tipping and replacing it with fixed hourly pay or built-in service charges. Workers say tips only cover the hours spent serving customers, leaving unpaid or minimum-wage time for prep and closing duties before and after service.
A joint alert from the US State Department, Japan, Canada and the UK warns that North Korean operatives are using falsified identity documents to get hired as remote IT workers at foreign companies, letting them enter corporate networks with legitimate-looking access. Separately, groups like Scattered Spider have used social engineering against help desks to trick staff into resetting passwords or MFA for accounts they don't own, bypassing strong authentication entirely.
An Android Authority reviewer says his Pixel 11 Pro became unusable just five days after purchase, after a factory reset triggered a shutdown loop during the setup process. The device reportedly went blank mid-reset and later kept powering off every few seconds whenever the user tried to complete initial setup, leaving the phone effectively dead.
Ollobot argues that early companion robots from 2017 relied on simple voice commands and novelty, causing many to be abandoned once their appeal faded and some manufacturers shut down. The company is now framing a new generation of robots built with psychological research and clinical insight, aiming to shift from reactive gadgets to proactive, ever-present companions for isolated groups like elderly adults living alone and children separated from migrant parents.
OpenAI detailed benchmark results for its Jalapeño chip, an inference-focused ASIC built with Broadcom, claiming it outperforms Nvidia's GB200 and GB300 chips on efficiency and response speed. Using its InferenceX benchmark across models like GPT-OSS 120B, DeepSeek R1, and Kimi K2.5, OpenAI reported 1.5-1.9x more work per watt and up to 3.6x lower latency. Small-scale deployment is planned by year-end, with volume scaling into 2027.
Pizza Hut is shortening its name to simply 'Hut' for a limited promotional period tied to the start of the NFL season next month. The move is a marketing stunt rather than a permanent change to the chain's branding.
Federal contractors are moving forward with border wall and road construction across private ranchland in West Texas, threatening thousands of years' worth of Native American artifacts and rock art. While public pressure halted a planned steel bollard wall inside Big Bend National Park, DHS and Customs and Border Protection still intend to build barriers and roads through mountains and canyons on private land nearby. Ranchers like Jeff Fort, whose property hosts ongoing excavations led by archaeologist Bryon Schroeder, worry the construction will split their land and destroy sites that haven't even been fully studied yet.
MIT Technology Review spoke with cognitive scientists comparing how babies and large language models acquire language, finding that infants learn to speak proficiently after hearing only 10 to 30 million words, while LLMs require vastly more data to approach similar fluency. Stanford's Michael C. Frank noted that training a model like GPT-2 on the same word count a toddler hears produces a 'nonsense generator,' not coherent speech.
A small batch of bespoke Swiss watches has been made for Sam Altman and six others connected to OpenAI, turning the timepieces into a rare status marker within tech circles. The watches join a growing trend of tech executives commissioning exclusive, custom horology as a personal signature.
Nvidia has increasingly used investments and financing arrangements with AI companies to help drive demand for its chips, effectively acting as a lender and investor to firms that buy its hardware. This financial engineering supports near-term revenue growth but ties Nvidia's fortunes more closely to the success of the AI startups it backs.