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I tested Panasonic's new affordable LED TV model - here's my brutally honest buying advice

Panasonic W70B ZDNET's key takeaways The Panasonic W70B is available for $549 (65-inch) and six other screen sizes. It's an entry-level LED TV that gets the job done. Slow loading times and subpar images are discouraging. View now at Amazon It's unusual, but for this review, I tested a 50-inch version of Panasonic's 2025 W70B Fire TV. (Usually, I test 65-inch models.) At $349 for this screen size, I spent some time testing the W70B, and here's what I can tell you about it. Also: The best Sam

Tesla plans 'friends and family' car service in California, regulator says

A vehicle Tesla is using for robotaxi testing purposes on Oltorf Street in Austin, Texas, US, on Sunday, June 22, 2025. In an earnings call this week, Tesla CEO Elon Musk teased an expansion of his company's fledgling robotaxi service to the San Francisco Bay Area and other U.S. markets. But California regulators are making clear that Tesla is not authorized to carry passengers on public roads in autonomous vehicles and would require a human driver in control at all times. "Tesla is not allow

Intel is spinning off its Network and Edge group

In Brief Intel continues to streamline its business. The company plans to spin off its Network and Edge group, which is responsible for making chips for the telecom industry, as originally reported by CRN. Intel will be an anchor investor in the stand-alone business and will seek outside capital. Intel was rumored to be looking for a buyer for its Network and Edge group in May. This business produced $5.8 billion in revenue in 2024. This strategy seems similar to the company’s decision to sp

Intel drops 8% as chipmaker's foundry business axes projects, struggles to find customers

Intel 's stock dropped more than 8% after the chipmaker said it would slash foundry costs in its latest attempt to turn around its struggling business. Concerns about where that leaves Intel's chip manufacturing business overshadowed a better-than-expected earnings report late Thursday. Intel beat on revenue and issued a sales forecast for the third quarter that also topped estimates. The company reported adjusted earnings of 10 cents per share, topping the average analyst estimate of a penny,

The Meme Stocks Are Back and May Have Found Their New ‘Roaring Kitty’

It seems meme stocks are back, and this time, the latest craze was sparked—somewhat accidentally—by a Canadian hedge fund manager named Eric Jackson. About three weeks ago, Jackson’s firm, EMJ Capital, bought shares of Opendoor Technologies, a San Francisco–based company that buys and sells homes online, at around $0.70 apiece. Since then, the company’s share price has skyrocketed over 600% to an intraday high of almost $5 on July 21. Today, it’s trading at about $2.40, still a roughly 250% gai

OpenAI’s most capable AI model, GPT-5, may be coming in August

On Thursday, The Verge reported that OpenAI is preparing to launch GPT-5 as early as August, according to sources familiar with the company's plans. The report comes five months after CEO Sam Altman first laid out a roadmap for the next-generation AI model that would unify the company's various AI capabilities. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman revealed in a post on X last week that the company plans to release GPT-5 "soon." According to The Verge's Tom Warren, Microsoft engineers began preparing server ca

Amazon is developing a Wolfenstein TV show

Following the success of Fallout, Amazon is turning its attention to another video game adaptation. The company is reportedly developing a series based on the Wolfenstein franchise with the help of some of the creative team behind Fallout, according to Variety. The details of how the Wolfenstein show will adapt the alternate history action of the games are still under wraps, but the subject matter remains unfortunately timely. The show's logline is "The story of killing Nazis is evergreen," acc

Palantir joins list of 20 most valuable U.S. companies, with stock more than doubling in 2025

Alex Karp, CEO of Palantir Technologies, speaks on a panel titled Power, Purpose, and the New American Century at the Hill and Valley Forum at the U.S. Capitol on April 30, 2025 in Washington, DC. Palantir has hit another major milestone in its meteoric stock rise. It's now one of the 20 most valuable U.S. companies. The provider of software and data analytics technology to defense agencies saw its stock rise about 3% on Friday to another record, lifting the company's market cap to $375 billio

Delta’s AI spying to “jack up” prices must be banned, lawmakers say

One week after Delta announced it is expanding a test using artificial intelligence to charge different prices based on customers' personal data—which critics fear could end cheap flights forever—Democratic lawmakers have moved to ban what they consider predatory surveillance pricing. In a press release, Reps. Greg Casar (D-Texas) and Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) announced the Stop AI Price Gouging and Wage Fixing Act. The law directly bans companies from using "surveillance-based" price or wage set

Tesla Sold Its Bitcoin at Pretty Much the Worst Moment Imaginable

Talk about a missed opportunity. Horrible Timing Tesla massively missed the mark in the second quarter of this year, conceding this week that its automotive revenue fell a whopping 16 percent from last year, on top of last quarter's financial woes. As sales continue to plummet worldwide, the Elon Musk-led EV maker could really use a lifeline in the form of billions of cash. But as CNBC reports, its digital asset investments likely won't be the solution. Tesla boasted in its investor deck th

Intel drops 9% as chipmaker's foundry business axes projects, struggles to find customers

Intel 's stock dropped 9% after the chipmaker said it would slash foundry costs in its latest attempt to turnaround its struggling business. Concerns about where that leaves Intel's chip manufacturing business overshadowed a better-than-expected earnings report late Thursday. Intel beat on revenue and issued a sales forecast for the third quarter that also topped estimates. The company reported adjusted earnings of 10 cents per share, topping the average analyst estimate of a penny, according t

Tesla's Optimus Robots Have Reportedly Run Into Severe Trouble

Elon Musk's Tesla is in deep trouble. This week, the company reported a massive 16 percent decline in automotive revenues, the biggest drop in over a decade. With tax incentives and auto regulatory credits being phased out by president Donald Trump, Musk conceded that the company is facing a "few rough quarters" ahead. While Musk didn't manage to reassure investors about rescuing Tesla's car sales business — the company's shares plummeted following Wednesday's earnings call — the billionaire i

Intel’s Steady Decline Continues With 15% Cut to Staff and Scrapped Factory Plans

Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan told employees in a staff-wide memo yesterday that the company plans to cut its workforce by roughly 15%—more than 25,000 jobs—aiming to end the year with about 75,000 employees worldwide. The cuts are part of the struggling chipmaker’s efforts to turn things around and compete in the booming AI market. Intel isn’t alone among Silicon Valley giants making job cuts as AI becomes a bigger priority. Meta announced it was cutting about 5% of its staff in January. Google is offe

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Computing’s Top 30: Subodha Charles

When launching a company, the decision about whether to go it alone or court investors is pivotal; Subodha Charles has done both and learned the many lessons that each path offers. Going it alone, for example, “teaches discipline like nothing else,” he says, and also underscores the importance of every hire, every decision, every dollar spent. This path’s pay-offs include bolstering creativity, a scrappy mindset, and a “laser focus” on identifying and solving real problems. In partnering with

US sanctions North Korean firm, nationals behind IT worker schemes

The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has sanctioned three North Korean nationals and a company for supporting fraudulent IT worker schemes that generated illicit revenue for the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) government. The sanctioned company is named Korea Sobaeksu Trading Company, and the three North Korean individuals are Kim Se Un, Jo Kyong Hun, and Myong Chol Min. North Korea’s IT worker schemes involve placing skilled tech workers i

Intel confirms it will dramatically cut its workforce by the end of 2025

Intel provided more detail about the scope of its planned job cuts and other business changes while sharing its second-quarter earnings results. Reports in April suggested that Intel could eliminate around 20 percent of its staff in a restructuring plan. Today, the chipmaker said it anticipates having a core workforce of 75,000 employees by the end of 2025. It's a dramatic reduction considering that, at the close of the previous fiscal year, the company employed around 108,900 people. These cut

Intel is laying off 24,000 employees and retreating from some countries

is a senior editor and founding member of The Verge who covers gadgets, games, and toys. He spent 15 years editing the likes of CNET, Gizmodo, and Engadget. In April, Intel attempted to announce layoffs without announcing layoffs. “We have not set any headcount reduction target,” Intel spokesperson Sophie Metzger told The Verge. But the company has laid off thousands of employees since — and today, in the company’s Q2 2025 earnings, it has revealed that Intel will dramatically shrink as a resul

Google is testing a vibe-coding app called Opal

AI-powered coding tools have become so popular over the past few months that almost every major tech company is either using one or making its own. Makers of these so-called “vibe-coding” tools are a hot commodity at the moment, with startups like Lovable and Cursor fending off buyers and investors keen to tap a hot trend. Google’s now become the latest to hop on this bandwagon: the company is testing a vibe-coding tool called Opal, available to users in the U.S. through Google Labs, which the

VC Victor Lazarte is leaving Benchmark to launch his own firm

After two years as a venture capitalist for top shelf firm Benchmark, Victor Lazarte is leaving that company to start his own investing gig, he announced on X on Thursday. Lazarte became known in tech for co-founding mobile gaming company Wildlife Studios, which was last valued at an estimated $3 billion in 2020. Wildlife raised money from a multitude of VCs, including Benchmark. During his two years at Benchmark, Lazarte invested in recruiting and data labeling startup Mercor, AI video intell

Astronomer HR chief Kristin Cabot resigns following Coldplay 'kiss cam' incident

Days after Astronomer CEO Andy Byron resigned from the tech startup, the HR exec who was with him at the infamous Coldplay concert has left as well. "Kristin Cabot is no longer with Astronomer, she has resigned," a company spokesperson wrote in an email to CNBC Thursday. Cabot was the company's chief people officer. Cabot and Byron, who is married with children, were shown in an intimate moment on the 'kiss cam' at a recent Coldplay show in Boston, and immediately hid when they saw their faces

Intel reveals it will shed 24,000 employees this year and retreat in Germany, Poland, and Costa Rica

is a senior editor and founding member of The Verge who covers gadgets, games, and toys. He spent 15 years editing the likes of CNET, Gizmodo, and Engadget. In April, Intel attempted to announce layoffs without announcing layoffs. “We have not set any headcount reduction target,” Intel spokesperson Sophie Metzger told The Verge. But the company has laid off thousands of employees since — and today, in the company’s Q2 2025 earnings, it has revealed that Intel will dramatically shrink as a resul

Intel continues to pull back on its manufacturing projects

Intel CEO Lip-Bau is making progress on his plan for the company to shed its inefficiencies. And that includes spiking several manufacturing projects. The semiconductor giant reported Thursday in its second-quarter earnings report that it will delay, and in some cases, not move forward with multiple manufacturing projects. Specifically, Intel said it was no longer going forward with its previously-announced projects in Germany and Poland. Those projects included an assembly and testing facility

Intel beats on revenue, slashes foundry investments as CEO says 'no more blank checks'

The Intel logo is displayed on a sign in front of Intel headquarters on July 16, 2025 in Santa Clara, California. Intel reported second-quarter results on Thursday that beat Wall Street expectations on revenue, as the company's new CEO Lip-Bu Tan announced significant cuts in chip factory construction. The stock ticked higher in extended trading. Here's how the chipmaker did versus LSEG consensus estimates: Earnings per share : Loss of 10 cents per share, adjusted. : Loss of 10 cents per sha

Intel reveals it will lose 33,000 employees this year and retreat in Germany, Poland, and Costa Rica

is a senior editor and founding member of The Verge who covers gadgets, games, and toys. He spent 15 years editing the likes of CNET, Gizmodo, and Engadget. In April, Intel attempted to announce layoffs without announcing layoffs. “We have not set any headcount reduction target,” Intel spokesperson Sophie Metzger told The Verge. But the company has laid off thousands of employees since — and today, in the company’s Q2 2025 earnings, it has revealed that Intel will dramatically shrink as a resul

Tesla dumped 75% of its bitcoin at one of the worst times, losing out on billions

In this article TSLA BTC.CM= Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT Thiago Prudencio | LightRocket | Getty Images Tesla missed on the top and bottom lines in the second quarter, but another miss was buried in its investor deck The company's digital assets are currently valued at $1.24 billion. That's up substantially from $722 million a year ago. But anyone who's been following the crypto market knows that the figure represents a lost opportunity amounting to billions of dollars in m

UnitedHealth Group Says It Is Cooperating With a DOJ Investigation

UnitedHealth Group, the company that owns healthcare conglomerate UnitedHealth, said on Thursday that it is cooperating with the federal government as it fields criminal and civil requests from authorities. The company announced its cooperation with the feds in a statement published to its website on Thursday. “UnitedHealth Group (the “Company”) proactively reached out to the Department of Justice after reviewing media reports about investigations into certain aspects of the Company’s participa

Microsoft's Satya Nadella says job cuts have been 'weighing heavily' on him

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella talks with Indonesia's Minister of Communication and Information Technology Budi Arie Setiadi, on the day of their meeting with Indonesian President Joko WIdodo, at the Presidential Palace in Jakarta, Indonesia, April 30, 2024. Microsoft has laid off over 15,000 people so far in 2025. The stress of the belt-tightening has gotten to CEO Satya Nadella. "Before anything else, I want to speak to what's been weighing heavily on me, and what I know many of you are thinkin

Nvidia addresses AI chip smuggling, says bootleg data centers are a 'losing proposition'

Nvidia said Thursday that data centers built with smuggled chips are a "losing proposition" and that it does not support unauthorized products. The statement came in response to a Financial Times report that at least $1 billion worth of its artificial intelligence chips illegally entered China. "Trying to cobble together datacenters from smuggled products is a losing proposition, both technically and economically," a spokesperson said in a statement to CNBC. "Datacenters require service and su

There's finally a trailer for Battlefield 6, but no multiplayer details just yet

We knew it was coming and now it's here. EA has officially dropped a trailer for the long-rumored Battlefield 6. The footage is heavy on story, but light on gameplay. As for that story, there's a global war raging with a private military contractor, prompting an explosion-laden presidential address. The trailer certainly suggests that the newest entry in the franchise will have plenty of cinematic set-pieces. EA has confirmed that Battlefield 6 will have both multiplayer and a single player ca

Two narratives about AI

I want to present you with two narratives about AI. Both of them are about using this technology to automate computer programming, but they point toward two very different conclusions. The first narrative notes that Large Language Models (LLMs) are exceptionally well-suited for coding because source code, at its core, is just very well-structured text, which is exactly what these models excel at generating. Because of this tight match between need and capability, the programming industry is ser