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Tesla slashes Cybertruck prices as it tries to move (unpainted) metal

The stainless steel pickup truck is Tesla’s first real flop.

An AI coding bot took down Amazon Web Services

Blames “user error, not AI error” for incident in December involving its Kiro tool.

The agent web is being built this month

Last Tuesday, Coinbase, Cloudflare, and OpenAI all shipped major agent infrastructure — wallets, content protocols, execution environments — within hours of each other. No coordination. Just convergence. The web is forking into two parallel layers: one for humans, one for software that transacts autonomously.

OpenAI says 18 to 24-year-olds account for nearly 50% of ChatGPT usage in India

The company said on Friday that users between 18 and 24 years of age account for nearly 50% of all messages sent by Indians to ChatGPT, and users under 30 accounted for 80% of usage in the country.

How Microsoft, IBM and Huawei Use AI to Make Cities Smarter

Microsoft, IBM and Huawei are deploying AI to enhance urban infrastructure, from flood prediction to heat management, to make cities safer and smarter

Samsung's new Bixby hits beta.

The “conversational” assistant was announced for phones last month, after a rollout on TVs, and is now available in the One UI 8.5 beta in the US and a few other countries. Expect to hear more about it, and its full release plans, at next week’s Unpacked.

DeepMind CEO: Why AGI Remains No Match for Human Reasoning

Speaking at the AI Impact Summit in Delhi, Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis said AI falls short on continual learning, long‑term planning and consistency

Inside the Huge NVIDIA Deal to Make India an AI Powerhouse

Larsen & Toubro and NVIDIA have joined forces to build sovereign AI factory infrastructure as part of the IndiaAI Mission to democratise technology

General Catalyst commits $5B to India over five years

The pledge marks a sharp jump from General Catalyst's earlier $500 million–$1 billion India earmark.

Nvidia and OpenAI might be getting close to a new, major investment deal.

After a previously-announced $100 billion deal went “on ice,” as The Wall Street Journal reported, Nvidia is nearing a $30 billion equity investment as part of a larger funding round, the Financial Times reports. The investment might be tied up as soon as this weekend.

Google's New Gemini Pro Model Has Record Benchmark Scores — Again

Gemini 3.1 Pro promises a Google LLM capable of handling more complex forms of work.

How Luxury Handbags Can Help Solve AI's Context Problem

Go from knowing everything about a customer to knowing the one thing that moves them