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Amazon just scored a major coup with Meta thanks, once again, to Amazon’s own homegrown chips. Meta has signed a deal to use millions of AWS Graviton chips to power its growing AI needs, Amazon announced Friday. Note that the AWS Graviton is an ARM-based CPU, (a central processing unit, the chip that handles general computing tasks) not a GPU (a graphical processing unit). While GPUs remain the chip of choice for training large models, once those models are trained, AI agents built on top of them are causing a shift in the type of chip is needed. Agents create…
The vacuum connects to Dyson’s app, where you’ll find resources such as how to empty the dustbin and wash the filter, but not much else. It can tell you how long your last vacuuming session was, but no other details, so it’s not as interesting or as informative as the data you’d get from a robot vacuum.Fluffy FacePhotograph: Nena FarrellPhotograph: Nena FarrellThis vacuum’s full name is the Dyson PencilVac Fluffycones, aptly named for the four fluffy cones inside the vacuum head. Dyson’s previous recent stick vacuums all have the Fluffy Optic cleaner head for vacuuming hard floors. While both have…
Possible, the buzzy marketing and media conference owned by ShopTalk parent Hyve Group, kicks off its fourth annual event in Miami Beach on Monday. The gathering, which gained early hype thanks to A-list appearances from the likes of Elon Musk, Martha Stewart, and Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian, and is leveling up this year, expecting 6,800 attendees, up some 25% from last year’s count of 5,441, and three-quarters more commercial partners, with 292 compared to 165.But Possible is evolving in other meaningful ways—in service of a vision spelled out by its leader Christian Muche to cast the event as a Davos-like meeting…
StrictlyVC’s first San Francisco event of the year is nearly here, and with just a week to go, now’s the time to grab yourself a ticket. The venture and founder communities will be gathering at the Sentro Filipino Cultural Center on April 30 for an evening packed with what StrictlyVC does best: engaging in enlightening conversations with excellent speakers, with ample opportunity for networking that drives outcomes. And we’re excited to announce one more speaker is joining our lineup: Eclipse founder and CEO Lior Susan, who has recently raised $1.3 billion to solely back “physical AI” startups. That extensive investment…
The New VX4 arrives in Eco mode, which has a top speed of 15 miles per hour. That’ll get you where you’re going, but it’s not going to give you goose bumps. Curiously, Sport mode also tops out at 15 miles per hour, but it gets you there fast. The torque is so powerful in sport mode that it took most of my first ride to learn to brace myself against the rapid acceleration.In addition to the speed modes, you can also control the start settings (roll or throttle), top speeds, password settings, and more on the app, which is…
This week’s selection includes a marauding pack of puppet dogs for Publix, Serena Williams serving up a padel match for Heineken 0.0, and the latest K-pop Beats collab.Rachel Sennott has starring roles in campaigns for both Marc Jacobs and Venmo, while Ikea brings order to your snack chaos, and Powerade gets ready for the World Cup.Our Most Effective Ad of the Week, in partnership with EDO, tugs at the Mother’s Day heartstrings.Keep scrolling for the week’s most notable ads.Goop Kitchen | “Made for New York”Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop offshoot food delivery brand landed in New York this week with a launch…
The Philippines has millions of unbanked adults, and its consumer lending market is starting to catch up. Salmon, a Manila-based consumer finance app, just raised $60 million in equity and $40 million in debt to bring digital banking to Filipinos. Salmon was founded by Pavel Fedorov, George Chesakov, and Raffy Montemayor, all of whom previously worked at Russian digital bank Tinkoff. Montemayor was, in fact, Tinkoff’s first employee in the Philippines, and led the company’s expansion in the country since 2016. In March 2022, the three parted ways with Tinkoff, and launched Salmon. “We saw that the Philippines and broader…
The Federal Trade Commission appears to be targeting transgender rights, going beyond its usual ways of operating to do so, according to experts and federal employees who spoke to WIRED.Since July 2025, the agency has been gearing up to frame gender-affirming care for minors as a consumer-protection issue, in a move that a former FTC employee, who spoke to WIRED on the condition of anonymity due to fear of retaliation, described as “very strange.”“I think their end goal here is to be on the front page, being warriors for the Trump anti-trans agenda,” they claim.In January, the agency began requesting…
Earlier in April, the startup Era held a gathering in New York for artists who had received its developer kit. The artists showed off the various mini gadgets they had built, like a souvenir that tells you facts and jokes about France, a phone-like device that looks at your stocks and tells if today is the day you can quit your job, or a gadget that tells you about air quality. While all these devices are experimental, the common thread is Era’s platform, which allows hardware makers to create AI agents and orchestrations for AI devices. The company doesn’t want…
The Iran war has spiked gas prices. The RAM crisis has spiked prices on electronics. A wide swath of imported goods costs more than before due to Trump’s tariffs. Right now, your wallet is likely feeling the squeeze.It’s a tumultuous time, and the constant media barrage of doom and gloom doesn’t help ease anxieties. It’s also hard to figure out when things will get better, so you’re stuck in a rut of worrying about finances. It’s OK. Take a breath. The first thing to remember, according to “The Budgetnista” Tiffany Aliche, is that the economy is cyclical.“I’ve lived long enough…
Meta announced on Thursday an improved Meta Account system designed to make it easier for users to sign in and manage their Meta accounts and devices. Today, the Meta ecosystem has become so expansive that it almost feels unwieldy — users might have various different accounts and log-ins for Facebook, WhatsApp, Meta AI glasses, and more. While the Accounts Center already serves to streamline this experience, the Meta Account system aims to simplify it further. The company says this new system will roll out over the next year. With a Meta Account, users can choose to set up a single…
Microsoft is offering voluntary retirement buyouts for the first time in its 51-year history, per reports from CNBC and Bloomberg. According to an internal memo, employees will be eligible if their years of work at Microsoft plus their age totals 70 or more, with some exceptions. So if someone who is 52 years old has 18 years of service at Microsoft, they could qualify for the buyout. This move gives Microsoft an opportunity to reduce its headcount in a manner less abrasive than mass layoffs. Over the last few years, Microsoft has weathered several rounds of layoffs, affecting thousands of…
OpenAI on Thursday released GPT-5.5, its newest AI model, which the company calls its “smartest and most intuitive to use model” yet. The algorithm comes with increased capabilities in a multitude of areas, with OpenAI co-founder and president Greg Brockman claiming that it also brings the company one step closer to the creation of OpenAI’s “super app.” On a call with journalists, Brockman said that the new model was a big advancement “towards more agentic and intuitive computing.” “This model is a real step forward towards the kind of computing that we expect in the future — but it is…
Sam’s Club is a warehouse club owned by the same parent company as Walmart. You can expect the same advantages you get from buying in bulk in a no-frills retailer like Costco, but Sam’s Club is also leveraging Walmart’s market power and vast network of suppliers. While there is a membership fee to join, it’s easy to earn it back in a single trip, given the savings you get when buying in bulk. Sam’s Club is a great option for large families or homes with shared resources, because Sam’s Club not only carries items in larger quantities, but also offers…
Porsche will start selling an all-electric Cayenne coupe in late summer, the latest signal from the German automaker that it still sees market demand for EVs. The Cayenne coupe EV — which has four doors, unlike a traditional coupe — will join several other all-electric variants of the SUV when it comes to market later this year, including the base Cayenne Electric, Cayenne S Electric, and Cayenne Turbo Electric. Porsche does, after all, love its variants. And it could be its most successful. When Porsche introduced a coupe version of its gas-powered Cayenne in 2019, it took just a year…
Trump’s twice-chosen pick to run the U.S. federal cybersecurity agency CISA has requested to withdraw from the position, leaving the agency without any clear person to lead it on a permanent basis. In a letter to the White House on Wednesday, Sean Plankey requested that the Trump administration withdraw his nomination, citing a holdup in the Senate, which is required to hold a vote to approve his appointment. Plankey said it has “become clear” that the Senate will not confirm him, more than a year after he was first nominated to lead CISA. The New York Times published a copy…