Character.AI turns books into roleplay bots amid ongoing safety concerns

Character.AI’s Books feature turns literature into interactive roleplay, but past safety concerns raise questions about how far AI companionship should go.

Intel Nova Lake leak is all about one thing: absurd amounts of cache

Intel Nova Lake leak reveals up to 288MB cache, 52-core CPUs, and major upgrades aimed at challenging AMD’s gaming and AI performance lead.

Apple’s next wave of Macs might keep you waiting for longer, and you can thank AI for that

Apple’s upcoming Mac Studio and MacBook Pro could be delayed due to global memory shortages driven by rising AI hardware demand.

Robots just ran the Beijing half-marathon faster than the world record holder

A robot built by Honor just ran a Beijing half-marathon in 50 minutes and 26 seconds, beating the human world record of 57 minutes.

Blue Origin successfully reused its New Glenn rocket
Blue Origin successfully reused its New Glenn rocket

Today’s launch of AST SpaceMobile’s BlueBird 7 satellite aboard Blue Origin’s reusable New Glenn rocket was a partial success. The New Glenn touched down on its landing pad without incident, making it the second launch and landing for the first stage booster, and officially giving Jeff Bezos a reusable launch vehicle. Unfortunately for AST SpaceMobile, […]

Cloud development platform Vercel was hacked
Cloud development platform Vercel was hacked

Vercel, a major development platform that hosts and deploys web apps, was compromised, and the hackers are attempting to sell stolen data. A person claiming to be a member of ShinyHunters, which was behind the recent hack of Rockstar Games, posted some data online, including employee names, email addresses, and activity time stamps. Vercel confirmed […]

Survey Sunday: how much pain at the pump will it take to switch to EV?
Survey Sunday: how much pain at the pump will it take to switch to EV?

For the last few weeks, we’ve been running a sidebar survey about how much Electrek readers think gas would need to cost to convince the most dedicated anti-EV hysterics to switch to a plug-in car. After receiving over 2,800 responses, here’s what you …

Tesla’s ‘Robotaxi’ expansion looks like another stock pump before earnings
Tesla’s ‘Robotaxi’ expansion looks like another stock pump before earnings

Tesla launched its “Robotaxi” service in Dallas and Houston yesterday — expanding to two new cities for the first time since Austin. There’s just one problem: there are virtually no cars available.

Data from Robotaxi Tracker shows that Tesla’s new H…

Tesla owner uses emergency solar to trickle charge after running out of battery in desert
Tesla owner uses emergency solar to trickle charge after running out of battery in desert

A YouTuber driving a Tesla Model X the entire length of the Americas ran out of battery in Chile’s Atacama Desert — the driest place on Earth — and had to deploy emergency solar panels on the side of the highway to survive.

The whole ordeal, capture…

Tinder wants to check your humanity by gazing into an orb. Yes, you read that right

Tinder now lets you prove you are human by scanning your irises at a physical orb device made by Sam Altman’s World.