Fermi, the AI nuclear power firm, has named a new CEO more than three months after firing co-founder Toby Neugebauer from the top executive post. Fermi said Wednesday it has hired Lee McIntire, an independent member of the company’s board who has held chief executive positions at CH2M Hill and TerraPower, the nuclear power startup
Lovable has raised $400 million at a $13.3 billion valuation, more than doubling its value in eight months as investors place another large bet on software built through natural-language prompts. The Stockholm-based company is nearing a $600 million annual revenue run rate and plans to expand its workforce by 50% to about 450 employees this
Today’s NYT Strands hints are easy if you’re really passionate about something. Strands, the New York Times‘ elevated word-search game, requires the player to perform a twist on the classic word search. Words can be made from linked letters — up, down, left, right, or diagonal, but words can also change direction, resulting in quirky
Regions such as Galicia, Asturias, Castile and León, Madrid, Aragon, Catalonia, the Valencian Community, and the Balearic Islands experienced the path of totality, while the rest of the country saw a partial eclipse. The solar corona glows as the moon completely blocks the sun during the totality phase, as seen from San Asensio in the
Anthropic recently made the decision to watermark Claude’s outputs — inserting invisible code into the chatbot’s editorial text that marks it as AI-generated. Anthropic rolled out this new policy to satisfy the EU AI Act’s Transparency Code, which now requires tech companies to label content that has been AI-generated or edited in a manner identifiable
South Korea has unveiled a seven-part technology strategy spanning nuclear energy, quantum computing, space, biotechnology, renewable energy, and critical minerals as President Lee Jae Myung looks beyond semiconductors and AI for the country’s next growth engines. The Seven Major SEED initiative sets deadlines extending into 2035, including a Moon landing in 2030, a domestic 100-qubit
Facebook wants to help creators spend less time deciphering analytics and more time making content. Its solution is, naturally, another app. On Aug. 12, the company officially rolled out its revamped Creator Studio, a stand-alone app that uses AI to help creators understand their performance, plan their next posts, and respond to followers. The launch
Google’s first smartwatch debuted just four years ago, and at the time, the company went to great lengths to stress the accuracy of the Pixel Watch’s heart rate sensor. Even if Google was late to the wearable party compared to peers like Apple and Samsung, that focus on heart rate seems to be paying off
Europe’s favorite vibe-coding startup Lovable has confirmed previously reported whispers that it was raising another mega round at a $13.3 billion valuation. Lovable said on Wednesday that it has raised $400 million in a Series C round led by Menlo Ventures and the Scaleup Europe Fund, with more than a dozen other investors participating. This
Google Drive has stopped automatically sending photos from desktop folders to Google Photos, so new files added to previously backed-up folders will no longer appear there unless users change their setup. As of Aug. 10, Google Drive for desktop no longer supports automatic backups from computer folders to Google Photos, ending a feature many users