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On Tuesday, Vice President J. D. Vance said that the Trump administration’s support of AI and tech innovations should benefit both populists and those investing and leading tech companies.  “I think there’s too much fear that AI will simply replace jobs rather than augmenting so many of the things that we do now,” said Vance at the Andreessen Horowitz American Dynamism Summit in Washington, D.C. While Vance acknowledged that new technologies could lead to a displacement of certain jobs, as was the case with bank tellers when the ATM was invented, he said that history shows that innovation ultimately helps…

Tesla received a permit Tuesday from the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) to operate a transportation service in the state, the beginning of a long regulatory road that could eventually lead to the company getting the OK to operate a robotaxi service there. The permit, which Tesla applied for in November 2024, doesn’t cover autonomous vehicle testing or deployment. And it’s technically different than the permits that ride-hailing companies Lyft and Uber possess. Tesla was granted a transportation charter permit, or TCP. A TCP means the company — in this case Tesla — owns the vehicles and uses employees as…

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s keynote Tuesday at the company’s GTC 2025 conference stuck with tradition and was chock-full of announcements. But the company also snuck in a little history lesson. During the automotive portion of his speech, Huang referred to AlexNet, a neural network architecture that gained widespread attention in 2012 when it won a computer image-recognition contest. Designed by computer scientist Alex Krizhevsky in collaboration with Ilya Sutskever (who’d go on to found OpenAI) and AI researcher Geoffrey Hinton, AlexNet achieved 84.7% accuracy in an academic competition called ImageNET. The breakthrough result led to a resurgence of interest in deep learning, a subset of machine…

Nvidia at GTC 2025 announced a new lineup of “AI personal supercomputers” powered by the company’s Grace Blackwell chip platform. Jensen Huang, the semiconductor company’s founder and CEO, unveiled the two new machines, DGX Spark (previously called Project Digits) and DGX Station, during his keynote on Tuesday. The computers will allow users to prototype, fine-tune, and run AI models in a range of sizes at the edge. “This is the computer of the age of AI,” Huang said during the presentation. “This is what computers should look like, and this is what computers will run in the future. And we…

At this year’s HP Amplify printer conference, the firm announced ‘the world’s first business printers to protect against quantum computer attacks’. The printers incorporate the Leighton-Micali Signature (LMS) which is a stateful hash-based signature (HBS) scheme. LMS was approved by NIST for post quantum use in 2020 and is described in Special Publication 800-208. NIST describes the use case profile as, “The authentication of firmware updates for constrained devices. Some constrained devices that will be deployed in the near future will be in use for decades. These devices will need to have a secure mechanism for receiving firmware updates, and…

The European Union’s law enforcement agency cautioned Tuesday that artificial intelligence is turbocharging organized crime that is eroding the foundations of societies across the 27-nation bloc as it becomes intertwined with state-sponsored destabilization campaigns. The grim warning came at the launch of the latest edition of a report on organized crime published every four years by Europol that is compiled using data from police across the EU and will help shape law enforcement policy in the bloc in coming years. “Cybercrime is evolving into a digital arms race targeting governments, businesses and individuals. AI-driven attacks are becoming more precise and…

The EV maker has been the single biggest part of his ever expanding fortune for years. No more, as Tesla’s stock comes crashing down. By Matt Durot, Forbes Staff Elon Musk paid out more than $200 million to help get Donald Trump reelected in November. In the weeks following Trump’s victory, Musk more than made that back. In fact, he became the first person ever worth $400 billion in December, after private investors valued his startup xAI at $50 billion (up from $24 billion in May) and Musk’s rocket maker SpaceX at $350 billion (up from $210 billion in June).…

General Motors is turning to Nvidia to help bring AI to the physical world in an expanded collaboration designed to touch every aspect of the automaker’s business, including factories, robots, and self-driving cars.  Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang, who announced the partnership Tuesday during his keynote at the company’s GTC conference in San Jose, said the time for autonomous vehicles has arrived. “We’re looking forward to building with GM AI in all three areas,” he said on stage. “AI for manufacturing, so they can revolutionize the way they manufacture; AI for enterprise, so they can revolutionize the way they…

Nvidia is releasing what it’s calling an AI foundation model for humanoid robotics. Announced at GTC 2025 in San Jose, the model, dubbed Groot N1, is a “generalist” model, trained on both synthetic and real data. Nvidia claims that Groot N1 features a “dual system architecture” for “thinking fast and slow,” inspired by human cognitive processes. Groot N1 is an evolution of Nvidia’s Project Groot, which the company launched at its GTC conference last year. Project Groot was geared toward on industrial use cases, but Groot N1 broadens the focus to humanoid robots in a range of different form factors.…

Tuesday’s big news that Google is acquiring security startup Wiz for a record-breaking $32 billion comes with a very big qualifier. Google says it will position Wiz as a “multicloud” offering, meaning Wiz will not be a Google-only shop.  The reality is that Google had no choice but to do this, and a closer look at the reasons behind the decision also highlights Google’s weak spots in the months ahead. Customer retention Wiz brings a massive customer list to Google. As of today, the startup has already reached an annual revenue rate of $700 million. Before the news broke on…