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Broadcom reports 63% jump in AI revenue as results beat estimates

Broadcom reported fiscal third-quarter earnings that beat expectations and provided robust guidance for the current quarter. The stock was little changed in extended trading. Here's how the chipmaker did versus LSEG consensus estimates: Earnings per share: $1.69, adjusted, versus $1.65 expected $1.69, adjusted, versus $1.65 expected Revenue: $15.96 billion versus $15.83 billion expected Broadcom said it expects $17.4 billion in fourth-quarter revenue, higher than the $17.02 billion expected

16-inch softball

Variant of softball 16-inch softball (sometimes called clincher, mushball,[1] cabbageball,[2][3] puffball, blooperball, smushball,[4] and Chicago ball[5][6]) is a variant of softball, but using a larger ball that gradually becomes softer the more the ball is hit, and played with no gloves or mitts on the fielders. It more closely resembles the original game as developed in Chicago in the 19th century by George Hancock, and today it remains most popular in Chicago,[7] New Orleans, Atlanta, and P

The fastest growing AI chatbot lately? It's not ChatGPT or Gemini

Matthias Balk/picture alliance via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Copilot has been the fastest-growing AI chatbot in recent months. Use of Google Gemini is also surging. ChatGPT still enjoys the greatest number of users. Do you use Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini, or ChatGPT on your PC or mobile device? If so, you're in good company. The number of people who turn to these three AI-powered chatbots grew from March to June this year,

Going to Space Could Make Your Cells Age Faster

Spaceflight pushes the human body to its limits, exposing astronauts to microgravity, high levels of radiation, and extended periods of isolation. These stressors affect their health in various ways, many of which scientists are still working to fully understand. But if we are ever to boldly go where no human has gone before, we need to know all the risks before we take the leap. And now new research published Thursday, September 4 in the journal Cell Stem Cell offers clues to another facet of

Playing Silksong on the ROG Xbox Ally X: I'm Ready for More

The biggest game of the next week, or weeks, is a long-awaited indie sequel you may have heard of: Hollow Knight Silksong. The game, after being expected for years, just suddenly dropped like a magic back-to-school gift. While it's available for a number of platforms including Nintendo Switch, Xbox, PlayStation and PC, I got a chance to play a Silksong for about an hour on the upcoming Asus ROG Xbox Ally X handheld, a Windows-based game handheld that promises better support of Microsoft's game

Fashion retailers partner to offer personalized AI styling tool ‘Ella’

The luxury membership platform Vivrelle, which allows customers to rent high-end goods, announced Thursday the launch of an AI personal styling tool called Ella as part of its partnership with fashion retailers Revolve and FWRD. The launch is an example of how the fashion industry is leveraging AI technology to enhance customer experiences and is one of the first partnerships to see three retailers come together to offer a personalized AI experience. Revolve and FWRD let users shop designer clo

Salesforce slump deepens as stock drops more than 5% on weak guidance

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff attends the 55th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 23, 2025. A bad year just got worse for Salesforce . Following a disappointing revenue forecast in its quarterly earnings report late Wednesday, Salesforce's stock slumped more than 5%, bringing its decline for 2025 to 27%. That's the worst performance in large-cap tech. Revenue increased 10% in the fiscal second quarter from a year earlier, cracking double-digit growth for t

Ex-Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor's Sierra is the latest $10 billion AI startup

Bret Taylor, chairman of the board of directors of OpenAI, attends the annual Allen and Co. Sun Valley Media and Technology Conference at the Sun Valley Resort in Sun Valley, Idaho, on July 8, 2025. Bret Taylor's artificial intelligence startup Sierra has just joined an exclusive club: The company sports a new $10 billion valuation after raising $350 million in fresh capital. Sierra is one of just a handful of AI startups, including OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, Safe Superintelligence and Thinking M

AI Startup Says It Will End Crime by Blanketing the Entire United States in Ever-Watching Spy Cameras

Crime rates in the United States, as a matter of statistical fact, have fallen drastically over the past 30 years — but at the same time, due to a mix of sensational news reporting and irresponsible political rhetoric, the average American mistakenly believes they're increasing. And now, barreling into that reality is a 38-year-old tech bro who says his spying startup can solve it all for good. Garrett Langley is the CEO and cofounder of a surveillance startup called Flock Safety. Valued at $7

Copilot, Gemini, and ChatGPT use surge, but one AI tool is outshining the rest

Microsoft / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Copilot has been the fastest-growing AI chatbot in recent months. Use of Google Gemini is also surging. ChatGPT still enjoys the greatest number of users. Do you use Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini, or ChatGPT on your PC or mobile device? If so, you're in good company. The number of people who turn to these three AI-powered chatbots grew from March to June this year, acco

Got AI skills? You can earn 43% more in your next job - and not just for tech work

Andrii Zastrozhnov/iStock/Getty Images Plus via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Demand for AI skills is on the rise across industries. A single AI skill makes a huge difference in listed salaries. Different industries are looking for different AI skills. As businesses race to adopt AI, they're placing a higher premium on job candidates who know their way around the technology. A recent study from labor market research firm Lightca

Electromechanical reshaping offers safer eye surgery

A new, promising technique has the potential to replace laser surgeries in ophthalmologists’ offices in the future, for a fraction of the cost. Called electromechanical reshaping (EMR), the technique offers a gentler approach to correcting the cornea than Laser-Assisted in Situ Keratomileusis (LASIK), today’s gold standard for treating vision issues including nearsightedness, farsightedness, and astigmatism. The eye develops these and other conditions when the cornea’s curvature is off—too stee

16-Inch Softball

Variant of softball 16-inch softball (sometimes called clincher, mushball,[1] cabbageball,[2][3] puffball, blooperball, smushball,[4] and Chicago ball[5][6]) is a variant of softball, but using a larger ball that gradually becomes softer the more the ball is hit, and played with no gloves or mitts on the fielders. It more closely resembles the original game as developed in Chicago in the 19th century by George Hancock, and today it remains most popular in Chicago,[7] New Orleans, Atlanta, and P

Could We Probe an Interstellar Object Before It Zips Out of the Solar System?

In June, a mysterious object was spotted hurtling through the inner solar system on a hyperbolic path. It was later confirmed as an interstellar object, the third such entity from outside our solar system to be seen in the night skies. The rare discovery has prompted a scientific scramble to understand the object and its origins, including potential probes to study it up close. Scientists at the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) put together a mission study that outlines how a spacecraft coul

Honda combines Type-R handling with hybrid efficiency for 2026 Prelude

At the end of last year, we learned that Honda was bringing back the Prelude. Although Honda has varied the ingredients over the years, the recipe for the Prelude remains the same: a sleek coupe body and some cutting-edge technology under the skin, like four-wheel steering, as rhapsodized by the verbose but usually insightful motoring writer LJK Setright. Today, the new car broke cover ahead of its arrival in showrooms later this fall. It's a handsome shape, though I can't quite get over the re

Stardew Valley’s creator is in Silksong

is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Hollow Knight: Silksong, the sequel to the indie smash hit Hollow Knight, is finally out, and according to Silksong’s credits, the game features the voice of Eric Barone, the creator of another indie smash hit, Stardew Valley. (You may also know Barone by the name ConcernedApe, which h

Why it’s so hard to make a ‘safer’ football helmet

When players take the field at the start of the NFL season, many will be sporting the new, subtly different F7 Pro helmet, which some have speculated might be the safest one football has ever seen. That’s significant for a sport that, over the past two decades, has become as well known for concussions as end zone celebrations. Schutt Sports, which makes the F7 Pro, claims that 35 percent of active NFL athletes have already adopted the helmet. Football is a sport with a traditionalist bent, part

Gamers frustrated as Hollow Knight: Silksong crashes stores on launch

Gamers frustrated as Hollow Knight: Silksong crashes stores on launch 46 minutes ago Share Save Liv McMahon Technology reporter Share Save Team Cherry The biggest video game online stores crashed on Thursday as they struggled to deal with high demand for Hollow Knight: Silksong - one of the most-anticipated games of the year. Thousands of users reported they were unable to buy the game on PC store Steam after its release at 15:00 BST, with errors persisting until around 17:30. Social media us

Want the Galaxy S25 FE? This $6 monthly AT&T offer is too good to ignore

TL;DR AT&T customers can now order the Galaxy S25 FE. Anybody on an unlimited plan can get the phone at $5.99 per month, no trade-in required. The carrier is also offering 50% off Samsung accessories with the purchase of any Samsung connected device. Samsung said it would introduce the latest member of the Galaxy S25 family today and that’s exactly what it did. The Galaxy S25 FE has officially launched and is up for sale right now, starting at $649. If you’re an AT&T customer, you’ll be able

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Apple’s Wallet app just made it easier to ‘pay later’ for purchases

Ever since Apple Pay Later was abruptly discontinued last year, Apple has been steadily adding third-party ‘pay later’ services as alternatives. And now thanks to an Apple Wallet update, those options are easier to find and use than ever before. Apple Wallet now has a ‘Pay Later Options’ menu with streamlined setup Before today Apple Pay already included support for using third-party ‘pay later’ services such as Klarna and Affirm. But the way that’s historically worked has been pretty hidden a

A PM's Guide to AI Agent Architecture

Last week, I was talking to a PM who'd in the recent months shipped their AI agent. The metrics looked great: 89% accuracy, sub-second respond times, positive user feedback in surveys. But users were abandoning the agent after their first real problem, like a user with both a billing dispute and a locked account. "Our agent could handle routine requests perfectly, but when faced with complex issues, users would try once, get frustrated, and immediately ask for a human." This pattern is observe

Commercials Are Coming to NFL RedZone This Season... Sigh

The game of football is perfectly suited for television. Like most sports, football provides a natural break at the end of each quarter or half of play, as well as after a team scores, where the TV broadcast can cut to a commercial. Unlike other sports, a change in possession in football requires a full replacement of every player on the field, giving broadcasters additional opportunities for ad breaks as players run off and on the field. Football fans know this much before sitting down to watc

France slaps Google with €325M fine for violating cookie regulations

The French data protection authority has fined Google €325 million ($378 million) for violating cookie regulations and displaying ads between Gmail users' emails without their consent. During several investigations between 2022 and 2023, the National Commission on Informatics and Liberty (CNIL) found that Google's Gmail email service displayed advertisements in the "Promotions" and "Social" tabs without the consent of Gmail users, thereby breaching Article L. 34-5 of the French Postal and Elect

Browser Company (makers of Arc browser) Acquired By Atlassian for $610M

Roden Crater, James Turrell. Photographed by Agostino De Rosa, 2009. Today, The Browser Company of New York is entering into an agreement to be acquired by Atlassian in an all-cash transaction. We will operate independently, with Dia as our focus. Our objective is to bring Dia to the masses. Now that the headline is out of the way, we have to admit: it’s an odd experience writing an acquisition announcement. How do you fit five years of sweat, risk, and late nights into a few paragraphs? Espec

Pump the Brakes on Your Police Department's Use of Flock Safety

From Pasadena, California to Lexington, Kentucky to Menasha, Wisconsin, to Newark, New Jersey, the surveillance company Flock Safety is blanketing American cities with dangerously powerful and unregulated automatic license plate recognition (ALPR) cameras. While license plate readers have been around for some time, Flock is the first to create a nationwide mass-surveillance system out of its customers’ cameras. Working with police departments, neighborhood watches, and other private customers,

The Hand-Drawn Hits That Hollywood Isn't Making

Detail from a poster for Nobody (2025) by Shanghai Animation Film Studio Welcome! This is a new Sunday edition of the Animation Obsessive newsletter. Our lineup today: 1) Why 2D movies are booming elsewhere. 2) Newsbits. With that, let’s go! 1 – Stories that resonate Folks who follow the animation news have already heard. Right now, hand-drawn features are taking over. It’s happening in Japan, where Infinity Castle (of the Demon Slayer series) just became the third-biggest movie in the co

Tom Holland Has Been Lurking on Your Internet Posts for ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ Inspiration

It’s a month since Tom Holland shared a look at his new Spidey suit and filmed an action scene while swinging through a city street in front of a crowd, but excitement surrounding Spider-Man: Brand New Day remains at an all-time high. Fans have hailed his fourth film as Spider-Man a kind of renaissance for Marvel, with some creating numerous photoshopped edits of Holland that exude aura, as the kids say. Turns out, Holland has been lurking on fans’ internet posts for inspiration in the hopes of

JetBlue will use Amazon’s Project Kuiper satellites for free in-flight internet

In Brief Many major airlines are beefing up their in-flight internet offerings by tapping SpaceX’s Starlink satellites, but JetBlue is going in a different direction. Amazon and JetBlue announced Thursday a partnership under which the airline will instead use Amazon’s Project Kuiper satellites to provide free in-flight connectivity starting in 2027. The Kuiper terminals on JetBlue’s planes will be capable of download speeds of up to 1Gbps from Amazon’s low-Earth orbit satellites. That’s more b

Salesforce slump deepens as stock drops 7% on disappointing guidance

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff attends the 55th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 23, 2025. A bad year just got worse for Salesforce . Following a disappointing revenue forecast in its quarterly earnings report late Wednesday, Salesforce's stock slumped 8%, bringing its decline for 2025 to 28%. That's the worst performance in large-cap tech. Revenue increased 10% in the fiscal second quarter from a year earlier, cracking double-digit growth for the first t

AI Has a Hidden Water Cost—Here’s How to Calculate Yours

Artificial intelligence systems are thirsty, consuming as much as 500 milliliters of water – a single-serving water bottle – for each short conversation a user has with the GPT-3 version of OpenAI’s ChatGPT system. They use roughly the same amount of water to draft a 100-word email message. That figure includes the water used to cool the data center’s servers and the water consumed at the power plants generating the electricity to run them. But the study that calculated those estimates also po