YouTube is experiencing an outage across the United States, with users in other countries like Canada, India, the Philippines, Australia and Russia also having problems with accessing the website. The issue seems to have started at around 8 PM Eastern time and reached 338,000 reports on Downdetector before starting to taper down. More users reported having issues accessing the app, but I
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- Peter Steinberger is joining OpenAI, moving from Europe to the US for tech opportunities.
- He cited strict European regulations as a challenge for tech company growth in the region.
- Europe lags behind the US in tech innovation, as highlighted by an EU report.
In Europe, there's been a lot of handwringing over why there are very few large, successful tech
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- Perplexity is the latest AI startup to move away from ads, while OpenAI goes all-in.
- Instead, Perplexity says it's doubling down on its paying users, such as businesses and CEOs.
- Perplexity says it will take monetization more seriously than it did in the past.
Perplexity is going full steam ahead with subscriptions and
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- Nevada regulators sued Kalshi, saying its markets are actually illegal sports gambling.
- The suit was filed just as the Trump administration sided with prediction markets.
- Other states have also sued Kalshi, and many legal observers expect the Supreme Court to weigh in.
Nevada gambling regulators sued the prediction markets company Kalshi on
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- Tesla is building a fully autonomous car, called Cybercab, for its robotaxi service.
- Tesla CEO Elon Musk has said that people will be able to buy the car.
- The Cybercab still needs regulatory approval in order to be street legal.
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Meta has struck a multiyear deal to expand its data centers with millions of Nvidia's Grace and Vera CPUs and Blackwell and Rubin GPUs. While Meta has long been using Nvidia's hardware for its AI products, this deal "represents the first large-scale Nvidia Grace-only deployment," which Nvidia says will deliver "significant performance-per-watt improvements in [Meta's] data centers." The
Anyone who's been paying even a little bit of attention to tech news lately could have made a reasonable guess that AI will be a big topic at Samsung's Unpacked next week. Ahead of the event, Samsung teased some of what's to come for AI in terms of the Galaxy S26 smartphone lineup's photography tools.
The S26 phones will feature a new camera system using Galaxy AI that combines capturing, editing