BMW just built the first i3 Neue Klasse EV, its most important electric sedan
BMW just built the first i3 Neue Klasse EV, its most important electric sedan

The new i3 is a drastic improvement over the outgoing model as BMW’s first Neue Klasse electric sedan. After the first pre-series models rolled off the production line, BMW is preparing to begin mass production by the end of 2026.

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Two Tesla board members are all over the Epstein files: what happens next?
Two Tesla board members are all over the Epstein files: what happens next?

How far are you willing to go to make a buck? For Tesla shareholders, looking the other way when two board members had close relationships with the head of a sex trafficking organization, and lied about it, is evidently on the table.

The newly relea…

Roblox calls its take on AI world models ‘real-time dreaming’
Roblox calls its take on AI world models ‘real-time dreaming’

Less than a week after Google showed off Project Genie, a tool powered by an AI world model that lets users generate interactive 3D experiences from prompts, Roblox is sharing some early ideas about how it wants to use AI world models and prompts to let creators generate experiences and change them in real time […]

GitHub adds Claude and Codex AI coding agents
GitHub adds Claude and Codex AI coding agents

GitHub is making Claude by Anthropic and OpenAI’s Codex AI coding agents directly available inside GitHub today. A new public preview adds Claude and Codex to GitHub, GitHub Mobile, and Visual Studio Code, for users with a Copilot Pro Plus or Copilot Enterprise subscription. The move is part of Agent HQ, GitHub’s vision to make […]

‘Incognito’ operator sentenced to 30 years for running a dark web drug market
‘Incognito’ operator sentenced to 30 years for running a dark web drug market

On Tuesday, Rui-Siang Lin was sentenced to 30 years in prison for running “Incognito Market,” a dark web platform that prosecutors say “sold more than $105 million of narcotics-including more than 1,000 kilograms of cocaine, over 1,000 kilograms of methamphetamines, hundreds of kilograms of other narcotics, and more than 4 kilograms of purported ‘oxycodone’,” between […]

We put Lucid’s Air Pure, Air Sapphire, and Gravity SUV through brutal winter testing in Northern Minnesota [Video]
We put Lucid’s Air Pure, Air Sapphire, and Gravity SUV through brutal winter testing in Northern Minnesota [Video]

I recently put my cold-weather threshold to the test in Baudette, Minnesota, about as close to the US/Canada border as you can get with Lucid Motors, where we performed some awesome winter testing in a slew of EVs, including the Air Pure, Sapphire, and…

Intel chief says the company is going to make GPUs at scale

Intel’s CEO says the company is serious about GPUs again, betting on new leadership and AI demand to challenge Nvidia and AMD’s long-held dominance.
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Ford has a new plan to compete with Chinese EVs: If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em
Ford has a new plan to compete with Chinese EVs: If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em

For months, Ford and Geely have been discussing a potential partnership that would allow the Chinese automaker to use underutilized plant capacity in Europe. The two appear to be closing in on a deal that would involve more than just sharing manufactur…

Tesla UK sales plunge 57% in January as BYD races ahead
Tesla UK sales plunge 57% in January as BYD races ahead

Tesla’s struggles in Europe have reached the UK, with January 2026 registrations plunging more than 57% year-over-year to just 647 vehicles, according to new data.

The decline was the steepest among major automakers and far exceeded the 6.4% drop in…

Spotify launches offline lyrics, translations, and lyric previews
Spotify launches offline lyrics, translations, and lyric previews

On Wednesday, Spotify announced a few new lyrics features aiming to make it easier to understand and access song lyrics, including translations, previews, and offline lyrics. Lyric translations were originally introduced in 2022, but have only been available in specific markets so far. Now, they’re rolling out worldwide to both free and premium Spotify users, […]