Senate Democrats, holding out for health care, ready to reject government funding bill for 10th time

WASHINGTON — WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democrats are poised for the 10th time Thursday to reject a stopgap spending bill that would reopen the government, insisting they won’t back away from demands that Congress take up health care benefits. The repetition of votes on the funding bill has become a daily drumbeat in Congress, underscoring … Read more

Meta taps Arm Holdings to power AI recommendations across Facebook, Instagram | Technology News

Meta Platforms said it is partnering with chip tech provider Arm Holdings to power the systems that drive personalization across its apps, including Facebook and Instagram, as companies rush to upgrade the chip technology underpinning their services. The social media giant will use Arm-based data center platforms to power its AI ranking and recommendation systems, … Read more

Honor teases new smartphone featuring pop-up ‘robotic’ camera, more details expected in 2026 | Technology News

In a 2-minute, 40-second video uploaded to its YouTube channel on Thursday, Honor teased what appears to be a smartphone with a DJI Osmo-like gimbal camera on the back. The phone looks like a regular smartphone at first, but on the back, it features a pop-up camera mounted on a gimbal-like robotic arm that swings … Read more

This former Apple CEO believes OpenAI could be Cupertino’s ‘first real competitor’ in decades | Technology News

Not Google, Nvidia, Microsoft, or Samsung, but OpenAI represents the first real competitor Apple has faced in many decades. That’s according to former Apple CEO John Sculley, who believes OpenAI may become the Cupertino tech giant’s biggest challenger yet. Sculley, the former CEO of Pepsi who led Apple from 1983 to 1993, said AI hasn’t … Read more

Broadcom to launch new networking chip, as battle with Nvidia intensifies | Technology News

Broadcom is launching a new networking chip on Tuesday that will help companies build artificial intelligence computing systems by stringing together hundreds of thousands of chips that crunch data, deepening its rivalry with Nvidia. The chip, called the Thor Ultra, enables computing infrastructure operators to deploy far more chips than they otherwise could, allowing them … Read more

Faulty engineering led to implosion of Titan submersible headed to Titanic wreckage, NTSB finds

PORTLAND, Maine — PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Faulty engineering led to the implosion of an experimental submersible that killed five people on the way to the wreck of the Titanic, the National Transportation Safety Board concluded in a report Wednesday. The NTSB made the statement in its final report on the hull failure and implosion … Read more