Microsoft made $10bn from OpenAI last quarter, 11% of its revenue
Microsoft made $10bn from OpenAI last quarter, 11% of its revenue

Microsoft recorded $10bn of revenue from its business with OpenAI in the three months to September, about 11% of its total revenue. Microsoft disclosed the amount in its quarterly filing on Wednesday, the day it reported its results. It is the first ti…

Virgin Galactic is charging $750,000 for three minutes of weightlessness, and nearly 700 people are already in the queue

Virgin Galactic’s new Apeiron spaceplane promises a few minutes of weightlessness for $750,000, with commercial flights expected to begin in 2027.

Ukraine is getting ground robots to carry out one of the riskiest battlefield tasks — and they’re doing an excellent job
Ukraine is getting ground robots to carry out one of the riskiest battlefield tasks — and they’re doing an excellent job

Ukrainian troops use wheeled robots to lay defensive wire remotely, reducing engineers’ exposure while the machines’ operational capabilities remain undisclosed.

GM to pay $220 million to resolve claims it sold driving habits data
GM to pay $220 million to resolve claims it sold driving habits data

General Motors has agreed to pay $220 million to settle claims that it illegally sold driver and location information to data brokers, as reported earlier by Reuters. The agreement, which resolves a complaint from a coalition of 36 US attorneys general, requires GM to limit the driving data it collects and obtain “express consent” from […]

Consumer Appetite for Personal AI Goes Mainstream
Consumer Appetite for Personal AI Goes Mainstream

This article is brought to you by Qualcomm Technologies.For many consumers, much of the promise and appeal of AI is personal. Consumers are looking past generic tools and want to know how these technologies will help them in their daily lives. These t…

Where was my invite to the — wait, what? Airbnb had a gala?

Airbnb’s nonprofit held its inaugural gala on Wednesday in Los Angeles, and the internet had one reaction — the *what* gala? 

Meta quietly launches an AI fashion app called Style Sketch

The app connects to Instagram to build a virtual closet from photos you’ve already shared, or lets you add items manually by snapping a photo, recording a quick video, or uploading images from your camera roll.

Phantom Blade Zero hands-on: An extraordinary game with unbelievable combat that I can’t get enough of

We have had a considerable number of high-profile game releases this year, but none so far have had as much hype behind them as Phantom Blade Zero. The source of all that hype was a 2023 trailer highlighting its fluid kung-fu-derived sword combat. Cons…

See NASA’s Artemis III astronauts meet Trump at the White House as they train for a critical 2027 moon lander test flight (photos)
See NASA’s Artemis III astronauts meet Trump at the White House as they train for a critical 2027 moon lander test flight (photos)

The astronauts of NASA’s Artemis III mission met with President Trump at the White House on Wednesday (Oct. 28), just as the Artemis II spaceflyers did six months ago.

Baseten’s joey-1 makes AI decisions for a penny per million tokens
Baseten’s joey-1 makes AI decisions for a penny per million tokens

Baseten released joey-1, a 2B open-weights “decision model” that returns an answer and a probability rather than text. It costs $0.01 per million tokens and answers in about 20ms, Baseten says. It joins the larger mammoth-1 and elephant-1 launched last…