Nvidia just became the world’s largest company amid AI boom
Nvidia on Tuesday exceeded Apple’s market capitalization to become the world’s largest company, on the strength of a global AI push. As Bloomberg notes, the chipmaker has experienced an astronomical 850% growth since the tail end of 2022. Nvidia was valued at $3.43 trillion at the close of market, topping
Read moreCanoo’s CFO and top lawyer are the latest executives to leave
EV startup Canoo has lost its chief financial officer and its head lawyer, the latest in a string of executive departures as the company continues to struggle to find mass adoption of its electric work vans. CFO Greg Ethridge and general counsel Hector Ruiz both resigned from Canoo on October
Read moreX reinstates SwapYourVote’s account after suspending it as spam
In the final days leading up to the U.S. presidential election, Elon Musk’s X suspended the official account of a progressive-donor-backed ballot initiative called SwapYourVote. The volunteer-run website tries to get third-party voters in swing states to cast their ballots for Kamala Harris, matching them with Democrats in solidly blue
Read moreGoogle ‘fixes’ issues with voting search results that weren’t actually broken
Google says it has addressed an issue with its search engine that saw it displaying a “where to vote” panel, which includes a map of polling places, for some specific voting-related searches but not for others. The tech giant even used the word “fixed” to respond to the matter, despite
Read moreMaybe Copernicus isn’t coming
Before Copernicus promoted the heliocentric model of the solar system, astronomers added epicycle on top of epicycle, creating ever more complex models of the solar system. The term epicycle is often used derisively to mean something ad hoc and unnecessarily complex. Copernicus’ model was simpler, but it was less accurate.
Read moreThis Google election conspiracy theory doesn’t add up
Illustration: The Verge There’s no evidence Google is hiding a map of polling places from Trump voters, despite the suggestions of a video reposted by Elon Musk. In the video, originally shared by X user DogeDesigner, a user searches Google for “where can I vote for Harris” and “where can
Read moreThe FBI says Russian emails are sending fake bomb threats to polling stations
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The Federal Bureau of Investigation has issued a warning that fake bomb threats are being emailed to US polling locations in multiple states that “appear to originate from Russian email domains.” “None of the threats have been determined to be credible thus far,”
Read moreGoogle is opening an AI hub in oil-rich Saudi Arabia
The new AI hub will support research into Arab language AI models and “Saudi-specific AI applications.” © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read moreElon Musk’s ‘top 20’ Diablo IV claim is as real as his self-driving cars
Illustration: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Photo: Getty Images Elon Musk is a busy man right now. He’s supposedly running X, SpaceX, Tesla, and Neuralink, all while actively campaigning for Trump. But despite those myriad concerns, Musk still finds the time to play Diablo 4. He’s even said he’s pretty
Read moreNodal connects hopeful parents with surrogates as reproductive freedom hangs in limbo
Many people who want to have children can’t, or shouldn’t, carry a pregnancy for a variety of reasons. Gestational surrogacy can be a great option for those individuals — if they can endure the lengthy wait times and afford to pay for the costly service. New York-based Nodal looks to
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