With e-bike manufacturing in China having expanded considerably, the number of companies offering affordable e-bikes over the last five years has exploded. But the market for cycles with an electric assist has existed for considerably longer, and a number of companies predate the recent surge. One of them, Rad Power, has been around long enough

The fictional band Huntr/x, from K-Pop Demon Hunters, has a real-world hit with “Golden.” Netflix has a summer megahit on its hands with its animated musical feature film, K-Pop Demon Hunters. Since its June release, the critically acclaimed film has won fans of all ages, fueled by a killer Korean pop soundtrack featuring one earworm

Tens of thousands of YouTubers are raging against YouTube’s plan to use AI to detect underage users in the US. On Tuesday, a Change.org petition rapidly neared its 50,000-signature goal, with tens of thousands hoping that with enough users protesting, the wide rollout of the AI age checks might be stopped. They fear the age

In the wake of its big antitrust loss, Google could soon find itself forced to sell one of its crown jewels. Among the government’s proposed remedies in the search case is a requirement that Google divest its market-leading Chrome browser, and Perplexity is already throwing its proverbial hat into the ring with a whopping $34.5

When something goes wrong with an AI assistant, our instinct is to ask it directly: “What happened?” or “Why did you do that?” It’s a natural impulse—after all, if a human makes a mistake, we ask them to explain. But with AI models, this approach rarely works, and the urge to ask reveals a fundamental

After more than a decade of development and testing, US military officials are finally ready to entrust United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan rocket to haul a batch of national security satellites into space. An experimental military navigation satellite, also more than 10 years in the making, will ride ULA’s Vulcan rocket into geosynchronous orbit more than

Nimble Gravity, a global consultancy specializing in AI, data, and software engineering, has acquired Fog Solutions, a premier data and AI firm recognized for its expertise in Microsoft Azure and Databricks and its rapid delivery of AI-enabled and cloud data solutions. This acquisition brings 50 additional data and AI experts—primarily based in the U.S.—into Nimble Gravity’s

Garden today announced BLOOM (Branching Lookup Optimized for Organic Molecules), a Markush structure search engine that gives AI drug-design teams near-instant verification of small-molecule IP landscapes, so researchers can iterate on candidates with legal certainty built into the loop. As AI models generate molecules faster than ever, the bottleneck has become diligence: knowing what’s already “covered” before

Strategic partnership brings first-of-its-kind artificial intelligence capabilities to North American inspection services PROtect, LLC, a leader in safety, reliability, and compliance services, today announced a strategic partnership with sentin GmbH to integrate cutting-edge artificial intelligence (AI) into their industrial inspection services. This collaboration makes PROtect the first North American inspection provider to offer comprehensive AI-powered inspections

Talview, headquartered in San Mateo, CA, has been awarded its first U.S. patent — Patent No. US 12,361,115 B1, granted on July 15, 2025, for Alvy, its Agentic AI proctoring solution. This milestone underscores Talview’s commitment to innovation and its impact on corporate hiring, education, and certification. Alvy is designed to both protect and assist, detecting sophisticated cheating tools