Tech Rumors

Duet AI for Developers, the suite of AI-powered code completion and generation tools Google announced earlier this year, is now generally available and will start using Google’s more powerful Gemini model in the coming weeks. GitHub’s Copilot leads in developer mindshare for code completion and generation tools, but Google is …

Following South Asian revenue growth, Foxconn will invest $1.54 billion in India, the latest expansion plan. Foxconn said in a stock exchange filing that the investment will meet “operational needs.” The investment comes two months after the Taiwanese company announced it would double its Indian workforce and investment by next …

Elon Musk’s implantable brain wave reading chip company, Neuralink, has raised $43 million in venture capital, according to an SEC filing. According to this week’s filing, the company increased its early August tranche, which Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund led, from $280 million to $323 million. The filing lists 32 investors. …

Tech companies hoarded high-performance GPUs before Washington banned their exports to China in anticipation of a tech war. In an earnings call this week, Baidu CEO Robin Li said the company has enough AI chips to train Ernie Bot for “next year or two.” “Inference requires less powerful chips, and …

They may look like string, but these tiny objects are much more. Although they lack “brains” or computerized intelligence, these robots can move out of complex spaces. In 2022, North Carolina State University’s rotini-like soft robots navigated mazes without human or computer input. The tech uses physical intelligence. Physical intelligence …

Nvidia’s second-quarter earnings, released Wednesday after markets closed, show that selling generative AI boom picks and shovels can be lucrative. A new computing era has begun. Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang said companies worldwide are moving from general-purpose to accelerated computing and generative AI. Huang is right. Nvidia dominates …

New research published Thursday provides an unprecedented look at political behavior on Facebook and Instagram, two major online platforms where people express and discuss their political views. Four Science and Nature papers by an interdisciplinary team of researchers and Meta internal groups examined behavior on both platforms around the 2020 …

Peacock has lagged behind streaming competitors. On Thursday, the streaming service reported a 9% increase in subscribers to 24 million from 22 million in its second quarter. Peacock trails Netflix, which added 5.9 million subscribers in the same quarter. Disney+ lost four million subscribers in Q2 2023, but its total …

According to a new Reuters report, Tesla overstated its EVs’ range estimates, causing owners to flood its service center. Elon Musk ordered algorithms to boost range numbers, according to anonymous sources and industry experts. Service requests skyrocketed with sales. Tesla created a “diversion team” to handle “range cases”—owners complaining of …

Twitter started paying creators a part of the ad money offered in their answers last week to keep its most prominent tweeters in the face of rising competition from Instagram Threads and others. Despite the program’s large payments, some designers complained to Twitter owner Elon Musk over the weekend. Musk …