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Kate Knibbs: So, you went twice?Makena Kelly: Yes, Kate. I went twice.Kate Knibbs: I missed that.Zoë Schiffer: Wait, is the Pentagon Pizza thing a joke about the pizza predicting the war?Makena Kelly: Yeah.Zoë Schiffer: Oh, my God.Makena Kelly: Because they had these Pentagon pizza trackers up. When I returned the second night, yes, I came back the second night. Everything was working for the most part. There were still some screens that were turned off, but I never saw any actual Bloomberg terminals. There were some monitory Bloomberg type terminal things that it looked like Polymarket had developed themselves, but…

Google is sweetening the deal for those who might want to upgrade their plans to use more AI features. The company’s mid-tier AI Pro plan, which costs $20 a month, now includes 5TB of cloud storage that can be used across services, including Gmail, Google Photos and Google Drive. In addition to that, the plan also bundles in Google Home Premium Standard, which costs $10 on its own and adds expanded capabilities to Google Home devices, like a 30-day event history. A one-month free trial is available for the AI Plus plan.  In a post on X, Shimrit Ben-Yair, Google’s…

Google LLC is upping the stakes for open-weights artificial intelligence models with the release of Gemma 4, its most advanced “open” model family so far. Built on the same architectural foundation as Gemini 3, the models are designed to handle complex reasoning tasks and support autonomous AI agents running locally on low-power devices such as workstations and smartphones. With Gemma 4, Google DeepMind researchers Clement Farabet and Olivier Lacombe said, they’ve managed to squeeze out more “intelligence per parameter,” allowing them to punch significantly above their weight class. For instance, the 31B Dense variant currently ranks third in open models…

Imagine never having to click through a software application again. Ever. The days of finding yourself staring blankly at the first screen of a new tool and wondering “What do I do now?” are disappearing.AI is quietly changing the way software is built and it’s a massive deal. Instead of software applications that users must learn to navigate, we are witnessing the birth of applications that users can talk to.Once you notice it, it’s impossible to ignore.  Software applications are moving from dashboards and processes to conversational interfaces. In essence, users don’t want tools, they want results, and AI is…

From retail to finance, operational challenges are cutting across every industry Singapore recorded a notable increase in business closures in 2025, with more than 60,000 companies ceasing operations—the highest figure in the past eight years, according to data from Singapore’s Department of Statistics. Source: Singapore Department of Statistics This comes despite Singapore’s headline GDP growth remaining relatively strong in 2025, with overall economic expansion outpacing expectations, highlighting that even in a growing economy, many firms still faced mounting operational pressures. The surge in closures has been uneven across sectors, with some industries more affected than others. Here is a breakdown…

Most sales teams think they’re doing consultative selling. They’re probably not. And the difference shows up exactly when it matters most. Here’s something that happens in sales kickoffs all the time. A sales leader asks the room who practices consultative selling. Every hand goes up. Then the deal review occurs, and what surfaces is a lot of reps leading with product, matching pain points to features, and calling it a needs assessment. That’s not consultative selling. That’s solution selling with a friendlier tone. And the difference between the two matters a lot more than most teams acknowledge, especially when you…

Artificial intelligence is increasingly being used to help optimize decision-making in high-stakes settings. For instance, an autonomous system can identify a power distribution strategy that minimizes costs while keeping voltages stable.But while these AI-driven outputs may be technically optimal, are they fair? What if a low-cost power distribution strategy leaves disadvantaged neighborhoods more vulnerable to outages than higher-income areas?To help stakeholders quickly pinpoint potential ethical dilemmas before deployment, MIT researchers developed an automated evaluation method that balances the interplay between measurable outcomes, like cost or reliability, and qualitative or subjective values, such as fairness.   The system separates objective evaluations from user-defined…

NASA’s Space Launch System rises from its Florida launch pad, sending the Artemis 2 crew into orbit. (NASA via YouTube) After years of postponements and close to $100 billion in spending, NASA has launched the first mission to send astronauts around the moon since Apollo 17 in 1972. The 10-day Artemis 2 mission began today with the liftoff of NASA’s 322-foot-tall Space Launch System rocket from Launch Complex 39B at Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 6:35 p.m. ET (3:35 p.m. PT). NASA is streaming coverage of the flight via YouTube and Amazon Prime. During the last two hours of…

Switching phones is always a gamble. You expect something new, something exciting – maybe even something better. And to be fair, the Galaxy S26 Ultra delivers on that promise in many ways. It is one of the most technically impressive smartphones available today, packing a 6.85-inch 2K LTPO AMOLED display with a 120Hz refresh rate, peak brightness reaching up to 2,600 nits, and Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chip, which offers roughly a 10–15% performance boost over its predecessor. But after spending time with it, I found myself in a strange position. The more I appreciated what Samsung had…

Editor’s Note, April 1, 5:00 pm ET: The interview in this piece was conducted when NASA first revealed the crew for Artemis II in 2023. With the launch now taking place, Vox is republishing the piece.The crew taking part in the Artemis II launch includes two historic firsts: the first woman, Christina Koch, and the first person of color, Victor Glover, to go on a lunar mission. Hailed by NASA spokespeople as “pioneers” and “explorers,” they have been greeted with fanfare befitting “humanity’s crew.”But behind the Artemis II program are much more corporate goals. It’s not just that private industry…