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Joby Aviation says it is doubling production at its air taxi manufacturing hub

cnbc.com Samantha Subin 2026-01-30 20:41:55

JoeBen Bevirt, founder and CEO of Joby Aviation, stands near an electric air taxi by Joby Aviation at the Downtown Manhattan Heliport in Manhattan, New York City, U.S., November 12, 2023. Joby Aviation is ramping up its manufacturing capabilities in the U.S. as it races to roll out air taxi service in 2026. The electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) maker said Tuesday that it's launching production at its remodeled components facility in Dayton, Ohio, and plans to double capacity at its

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Finding value with AI automation

technologyreview.com Lynn Comp 2026-01-30 20:36:36

Today's opportunity: Significant automation gains When leaders respond to immediate panic, new business risks and mitigations often emerge. Two recent examples highlight the consequences of rushing to implement and publish positive results from AI adoption. The Wall Street Journal reported in April 2025 on companies struggling to realize returns on AI. Just weeks later, it covered MIT’s retraction of a technical paper about AI where the results that led to its publication could not be substanti

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Forget passwords often? Android may soon let you disable Failed Authentication Lock (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-30 20:09:36

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR Android 15 and newer devices include a Failed Authentication Lock feature that locks the device screen after detecting multiple failed login attempts in apps or settings. Unlike other theft protection features, this feature is enabled by default on all devices, and there’s currently no way for users to turn it off. Google may soon add a new option to the theft protection settings that will allow users to turn off Failed Authentication Lock. In additio

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The viral Air Purifier Table is my smart home's MVP and it's on sale for under $175

zdnet.com Maria Diaz 2026-01-30 20:00:16

ZDNET's key takeaways The SwitchBot Air Purifier table is available for $258. This large-capacity air purifier has a washable prefilter, a color-changing night light, a wireless charger, and acts as a table. While the air purifier works as intended, the table is small, and the smart capabilities are incompatible with Apple Home. $193.74 at Amazon The SwitchBot 4-in-1 Air Purifier Table is one of my favorite smart home devices ever, and it's on sale for only $174 with an on-page coupon (save $

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60% of managers use AI to make decisions now, including whom to promote and fire - does yours?

zdnet.com Radhika Rajkumar 2026-01-30 20:33:36

Mohamad Faizal Bin Ramli/Getty Images A recent survey from Resume Builder finds that half of managers are using AI to make crucial decisions about their direct reports, including which employees are promoted -- and which are fired. The survey polled 1,342 managers in the US, 60% of whom reported relying on AI to make decisions about their employees: 78% and 77% used the technology to award raises and promotions, respectively, while 66% and 64% used it to determine layoffs and terminations, res

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I replaced my MacBook Pro with the M3 iPad Air - and I might never go back

zdnet.com Maria Diaz 2026-01-30 20:42:37

ZDNET's key takeaways The 2025 iPad Air is available in an 11-inch model starting at $600 and a 13-inch model starting at $800. The latest iPad Air features Apple Intelligence, an M3 processor, and some of the best performance I've seen on an iPad to date. But the iPad Air gets expensive quickly, with the 13-inch model selling for as much as $1,300. View now at Amazon View now at Best Buy more buying choices I've grown rather attached to my work MacBook Pro. I use it every day, take it with m

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Nearly 3 out of 4 Oracle Java users say they've been audited in the past 3 years

news.ycombinator.com Lindsay Clark 2026-01-30 20:00:23

A survey of 500 IT asset managers in organizations that use Oracle Java has found that 73 percent have been audited in the last three years. Deal to 'save' UK colleges £45M in Oracle Java licensing fees followed audit requests READ MORE At the same time, nearly eight out of 10 Oracle Java users said they had migrated, or planned to shift, to open source Java to try to avoid the risk and high costs of the dominant vendor's development and runtime environments. Oracle introduced a paid subscrip

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Why the Real Computer Revolution Never Happened – Alan Kay and Anjan Katta [video]

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-30 18:59:54

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Open-source framework for real-time AI voice

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-30 20:40:18

VideoSDK AI Agents Open-source framework for developing real-time multimodal conversational AI agents. Overview The AI Agent SDK is a Python framework built on top of the VideoSDK Python SDK that enables AI-powered agents to join VideoSDK rooms as participants. This SDK serves as a real-time bridge between AI models (like OpenAI and Gemini) and your users, facilitating seamless voice and media interactions. # Feature Description 1 🎤 Real-time Communication (Audio/Video) Agents can listen, sp

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Reflections on OpenAI

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-30 18:49:06

I left OpenAI three weeks ago. I had joined the company back in May 2024. I wanted to share my reflections because there's a lot of smoke and noise around what OpenAI is doing, but not a lot of first-hand accounts of what the culture of working there actually feels like. Nabeel Quereshi has an amazing post called Reflections on Palantir, where he ruminates on what made Palantir special. I wanted to do the same for OpenAI while it's fresh in my mind. You won't find any trade secrets here, more

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Two People Die After Flash Floods Slam Northeast U.S.

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2026-01-30 20:05:20

At least two people died in New Jersey Monday amid flash floods sparked by extreme rain. The torrential downpour lashed vast swaths of the Northeast U.S. Monday, inundating New York City, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and the Washington, D.C. metro area. Fast-rising waters stranded vehicles, shut down transit lines, and prompted water rescues across the region, just a week after flash floods killed more than 100 people in Texas; as of Monday evening, there were at least 185 reports of flooding acro

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Your Next Car Might Cost More: Industry Insiders Explain Tariff-Driven Price Increases and How to Offset Costs

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-30 20:00:00

It's not just iPhones and TVs. President Donald Trump's tariff policies might be driving up the cost of electric vehicles and combustion cars, too. EVs, in fact, might be especially vulnerable to the new tariffs that target China (a major exporter of critical metals) and the steel industry. China already has a near monopoly on critical minerals and rare earth metals used to manufacture cars, and these tariffs have given China reason to use that as leverage over the United States. That's accordi

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Google Discover adds AI summaries, threatening publishers with further traffic declines

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2026-01-30 20:19:47

As publishers fret about decreased traffic from Google, the search giant has begun rolling out AI summaries in Discover, the main news feed inside Google’s search app on iOS and Android. Now, instead of seeing a headline from a major publication, users will see multiple news publishers’ logos in the top-left corner, followed by an AI-generated summary that cites those sources. The app warns that these summaries are generated with AI, “which can make mistakes.” Image Credits:Google The feature

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Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab is worth $12B in seed round

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2026-01-30 20:59:29

Thinking Machines Lab, the AI startup founded by OpenAI’s former chief technology officer Mira Murati, officially closed a $2 billion seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz on Monday, a company spokesperson told TechCrunch. The deal, which includes participation from NVIDIA, Accel, ServiceNow, CISCO, AMD, and Jane Street, values the startup at $12 billion, the spokesperson said. Several outlets reported in June that Thinking Machines Lab was close to closing this $2B funding round at a $10 bill

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AMD to resume MI308 AI chip exports to China

cnbc.com Samantha Subin 2026-01-31 00:28:28

Lisa Su, chair and CEO of Advanced Micro Devices Inc., during the AMD Advancing AI event in San Jose, California, on Dec. 6, 2023. Advanced Micro Devices said Tuesday that it will soon restart shipments of its MI308 artificial intelligence chips to China. The stock climbed 7% following the news. The company said Tuesday that the U.S. Commerce Department plans to resume reviewing its license applications to send the products to the world's second-largest economy. AMD said it plans to start ship

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Elon Musk Is Moving Money Between His Companies in a Sketchy Way

futurism.com Unknown 2026-01-29 17:12:16

Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced over the weekend that shareholders of his EV maker Tesla will vote on whether to invest in his own artificial intelligence firm xAI. In other words, the mercurial billionaire is orchestrating a potentially massive shift in funds to prop up his cash-burning — and gas-burning — AI startup, the flagship product of which is the troubled chatbot Grok. In March, Musk merged xAI with his social media platform X, which had previously seen an advertiser exodus triggered by

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Users Immediately Find Grok's Anime Waifu Persona Has Hidden "Full Gooner Mode"

futurism.com Unknown 2026-01-30 22:26:45

Elon Musk's hate speech-spewing AI chatbot Grok, which recently gave itself the nickname "MechaHitler," didn't exactly fit into the gender binary — but you have to admit that its edgelord persona had a certain masculine energy. Well, scratch that: Musk has officially swapped Grok's gender into... a goth anime waifu? We wish we were kidding. The mercurial CEO's xAI startup announced that its Nazi-loving assistant will now be able to take on several personas, including a lingerie- and corset-wea

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AirPods Pro 3 are rumored to borrow a new feature from Beats

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2026-01-31 00:04:29

AirPods Pro 3 are one of Apple’s most highly anticipated new products. Even though launch timing for the new AirPods is still uncertain, rumors around features have been a little more solid, including a new feature that’s expected to be borrowed directly from Beats: heart rate monitoring. Heart rate monitoring coming to AirPods Pro 3, following Powerbeats Pro 2 Apple has long offered AirPods integration with health-related software features. For example, the iPhone’s Health app can show you da

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NotebookLM now lets you chat with expert guides from top publishers, and Shakespeare - here's how

zdnet.com Webb Wright 2026-01-31 00:28:09

Google / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Google announced Monday that it is expanding the repertoire of NotebookLM, its AI-powered note-taking and research platform, to include the works of some prominent publishing names. Also: NotebookLM now lets you share your notebooks with anyone with a single link. Here's how The company is collaborating with a cohort of scientists, nonprofits, authors, and news publishers to deliver a series of featured notebooks for NotebookLM users. These notebooks cove

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This handy AI voice recorder has changed the way I work (and it's easy to use)

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2026-01-31 00:36:18

ZDNET's key takeaways Plaud Note is available now on Amazon.com for $159 This device and app combo lifts your note-taking to a new level of efficiency and effectiveness The Plaud Note device does require a paid subscription for the AI features. $159 at Amazon In the world of voice recording apps and devices, it's mostly the same old thing: Click or tap Record, start speaking, stop speaking, and click Save. Some voice recording apps will do basic transcripts (the Pixel Recording app does an im

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Billionaires Convince Themselves AI Chatbots Are Close to Making New Scientific Discoveries

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2026-01-30 23:45:11

Generative artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Grok have exploded in popularity as AI becomes mainstream. These tools don’t have the ability to make new scientific discoveries on their own, but billionaires are convinced that AI is on the cusp of doing just that. And the latest episode of the All-In podcast helps explain why these guys think AI is extremely close to revolutionizing scientific knowledge. Travis Kalanick, the founder of Uber who no longer works at the company,

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Uber is close to completing its quest to become the ultimate robotaxi app

theverge.com Andrew J. Hawkins 2026-01-31 00:55:18

is transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who covers EVs, public transportation, and aviation. His work has appeared in The New York Daily News and City & State. Uber just announced a deal today with the company that runs one of the largest robotaxi fleets in China, as the ridehail giant nears its goal of becoming the world’s ultimate autonomous vehicle clearinghouse. Uber and Baidu said they are teaming up to deploy robotaxis in countries outside the US and China, with an initial

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Research leaders urge tech industry to monitor AI’s ‘thoughts’

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2026-01-31 00:00:00

AI researchers from OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic, as well as a broad coalition of companies and nonprofit groups, are calling for deeper investigation into techniques for monitoring the so-called thoughts of AI reasoning models in a position paper published Tuesday. A key feature of AI reasoning models, such as OpenAI’s o3 and DeepSeek’s R1, are their chains-of-thought or CoTs — an externalized process in which AI models work through problems, similar to how humans use a scratch pad to wo

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Ukrainian hackers claim to have destroyed servers of Russian drone maker

techcrunch.com Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai 2026-01-31 00:30:14

Ukrainian hacktivist group BO Team has claimed to have hacked into the network of Russian drone maker Gaskar Group and disrupted its operations. In a post on its Telegram channel, BO Team announced the breach, saying it carried out the attack along with the Ukrainian Cyber Alliance, another hacktivist group that operates in Ukraine, as well as Ukraine’s military intelligence. The three groups, according to a machine translation of the announcement, “carried out large-scale work to seize the en

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The Hidden Costs of AI: How Small Inefficiencies Stack Up

computer.org Laurel Tweed 2026-01-31 03:00:42

AI is having a major impact on society, from consumer technologies to driving businesses. But among all these large language models and deep neural networks, there are lurking inefficiencies that most people aren’t taking into account. Wasted computational power, hidden costs, the environmental footprint, and more. Whether these inefficiencies are big or small, they all add up. With 58% of companies planning on increasing their investments in AI this year, it’s essential these decision-makers k

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Billionaires Convince Themselves AI Is Close to Making New Scientific Discoveries

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2026-01-31 05:45:11

Generative artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Grok have exploded in popularity as AI becomes mainstream. These tools don’t have the ability to make new scientific discoveries on their own, but billionaires are convinced that AI is on the cusp of doing just that. And the latest episode of the All-In podcast helps explain why these guys think AI is extremely close to revolutionizing scientific knowledge. Travis Kalanick, the founder of Uber who no longer works at the company,

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Uber’s latest robotaxi partner is China’s Baidu

techcrunch.com Sean O'Kane 2026-01-31 05:02:50

Uber has struck another deal with a robotaxi provider, and this time it’s with Chinese tech giant Baidu. The two companies announced Tuesday that they have agreed to a “multi-year strategic partnership to deploy thousands of Baidu’s Apollo Go autonomous vehicles (AVs) on the Uber platform” in multiple markets outside the U.S. and mainland China. Those deployments will start in Asia and the Middle East later this year, the companies said. Uber has been on a tear of AV partnerships lately as it

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Coreweave stock pops after company announces $6 billion AI data center in Pennsylvania

cnbc.com Chris Eudaily 2026-01-31 09:56:06

CoreWeave Inc. signage in Times Square in New York, US, on Friday, May 9, 2025. Coreweave stock climbed more than 9% on Tuesday after the company announced a $6 billion artificial intelligence data center project in Pennsylvania. The commitment includes an initial 100 megawatt data center built in Lancaster, a city about 70 miles west of Philadelphia. The data center will be able to expand to 300 MW. "The demand for high-performance AI compute is relentless," said CoreWeave CEO Michael Intrat

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Google's AI Refuses to Even Play Chess Against 1977 Atari, After Hearing What It Did to Other Cutting-Edge AIs

futurism.com Unknown 2026-01-31 09:12:49

The thing that AI models apparently fear the most? A game console released nearly fifty years ago. We are referring, of course, to the inimitable Atari 2600. Last month, the iconic system embarrassed the AI industry after it absolutely rinsed ChatGPT at a simple game of chess. It was a clash between a machine released in 1977, with 128 bytes of RAM, and a cutting-edge large language model with trillions of parameters, powered by however many thousands of graphics cards and billions of dollars

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Building community and clean air solutions

technologyreview.com Mit Technology Review Insights 2026-01-31 10:00:00

Darren Riley: Hi. Thanks for having me. Megan: Thank you ever so much for being with us. To get us started, let's just talk a bit about JustAir. How did the idea for the company come about, and what does your company do as well? Darren: Yeah, absolutely. The real thesis of JustAir, is really a combination of one, my personal experience but also my professional experience. On the professional side, background in software engineering, graduated from Carnegie Mellon University, but I was always f

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Joby Aviation says it is doubling production at its air taxi manufacturing hub

Finding value with AI automation

Forget passwords often? Android may soon let you disable Failed Authentication Lock (APK teardown)

The viral Air Purifier Table is my smart home's MVP and it's on sale for under $175

60% of managers use AI to make decisions now, including whom to promote and fire - does yours?

I replaced my MacBook Pro with the M3 iPad Air - and I might never go back

Nearly 3 out of 4 Oracle Java users say they've been audited in the past 3 years

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Open-source framework for real-time AI voice

Reflections on OpenAI

Two People Die After Flash Floods Slam Northeast U.S.

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Google Discover adds AI summaries, threatening publishers with further traffic declines

Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab is worth $12B in seed round

AMD to resume MI308 AI chip exports to China

Elon Musk Is Moving Money Between His Companies in a Sketchy Way

Users Immediately Find Grok's Anime Waifu Persona Has Hidden "Full Gooner Mode"

AirPods Pro 3 are rumored to borrow a new feature from Beats

NotebookLM now lets you chat with expert guides from top publishers, and Shakespeare - here's how

This handy AI voice recorder has changed the way I work (and it's easy to use)

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Uber is close to completing its quest to become the ultimate robotaxi app

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The Hidden Costs of AI: How Small Inefficiencies Stack Up

Billionaires Convince Themselves AI Is Close to Making New Scientific Discoveries

Uber’s latest robotaxi partner is China’s Baidu

Coreweave stock pops after company announces $6 billion AI data center in Pennsylvania

Google's AI Refuses to Even Play Chess Against 1977 Atari, After Hearing What It Did to Other Cutting-Edge AIs

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