JioHotstar, the streaming platform controlled by Indian conglomerate Reliance Industries, is taking its brand outside India for the first time and will replace Hotstar in the U.K., Canada, and Singapore as it begins a wider global push. The streaming service will launch with more than 160,000 hours of entertainment content but without the live sports…
Anthropic is locking up another giant block of AI computing power. The Claude maker has reportedly agreed to spend $35 billion on cloud-computing capacity from Lambda, an Nvidia-backed cloud provider, at a data center being developed by Hut 8 in Nueces County, Texas, according to The Wall Street Journal. The roughly 350-megawatt facility will use…
Table of Contents Table of Contents Table of ContentsHighlights of the Bluetti Elite 100 miniHow to buy the Bluetti Elite 100 mini As tech does, almost every new model builds improvements to the previous iteration. While that’s not an absolute truth, Bluetti is out to make portable power stations have more capacity, weigh less, and…
OpenAI announced Tuesday that its forthcoming AI model, Astra, is its first to reach the company’s threshold for what it calls “critical” cyber capabilities. OpenAI says it plans to publicly release a version of Astra “soon,” but will make the model’s advanced cyber capabilities available only to select partners in its Daybreak Blue early-access program…
The CEO of a flying car company backed by Larry Page has left the company. Ken Karklin, who was Pivotal’s CEO for more than four years, left the role this week, according to a press release. Pivotal said Karklin is “pursuing new endeavors” but didn’t offer any other information about the executive’s departure from the…
YouTube has signed Amazon as an affiliate partner for its shopping program, marking a major deal between the two tech giants. Eligible YouTube creators will be able to natively tag Amazon products in Shorts, regular videos, and livestreams, earning commissions on qualifying purchases made within Amazon’s attribution window. Previously, creators generally had to place Amazon…
For anyone who remembers printing MapQuest directions before a road trip, the navigation service may feel like something that belongs in the glove compartment of internet history. Apparently, all it took for a comeback was President Donald Trump starting yet another dispute over what to call a body of water. Lake Ontario, which sits between…
It feels like we have been waiting an age for the Range Rover Electric. First announced back in December 2023, JLR’s luxury EV SUV was meant to hit the road in 2024, but extended development testing forced the carmaker to push its arrival back. Now it’s finally here—one of WIRED’s most anticipated rides—the first fully…
OpenAI shared new details on its forthcoming Astra model, which the company said is the first large language model to meet its “critical cybersecurity threshold,” in preparation for its imminent release. “We plan to make Astra available soon,” OpenAI’s blog post reads, “but access to its most advanced cybersecurity capabilities will be more limited.” The…
A social media account affiliated with Chinese state broadcaster CCTV has accused US AI labs of applying a double standard to monitoring and data collection, singling out Anthropic for criticism. The critique comes amid reports that the two countries could hold talks on AI governance and deployment before Xi Jinping’s planned US visit on Sept….
