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Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta Platforms. Artificial intelligence has been an integral focus for the tech giant’s leader amid competition from players like OpenAI, Microsoft and Google.David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesMeta on Wednesday announced it’s rolling out a new AI “world model” that can better understand the 3D environment and movements of physical objects.The tech giant, which owns popular social media apps Facebook and Instagram, said its new open-source AI model V-JEPA 2 can understand, predict and plan in the physical world. Known as a world model, these systems take inspiration from the logic of the physical…

DeepL CEO Jaroslaw “Jarek” Kutylowski.DeepLDeepL on Wednesday said it was deploying one of the latest Nvidia systems that would allow the German startup to translate the whole internet in just 18 days.This is sharply down from 194 days previously., DeepL is a startup that has developed its own AI models for  and competes with Google Translate.Nvidia is meanwhile looking to expand the customer base for its chips — which are designed to power artificial intelligence applications — beyond hyperscalers such as Microsoft and Amazon.It also highlights how startups are using Nvidia’s high-end products to build AI applications, which are viewed as…

Jensen Huang, co-founder and CEO of Nvidia Corp., speaks during a news conference in Taipei on May 21, 2025. Cheng / AFP) (Photo by I-HWA CHENG/AFP via Getty Images) I-hwa Cheng | Afp | Getty ImagesNvidia on Wednesday announced a slew of partnerships with European countries and companies spanning infrastructure to software as it looks to keep itself at the center of the global artificial intelligence story.Chief Executive Jensen Huang on Wednesday continued his tour of Europe with a keynote at Nvidia’s GTC event in Paris, France, where he laid out some key European partnerships.Nvidia has been keen to position…

Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia talks about quantum computing on stage at Nvidia GTC Paris on Wednesday 11 June, 2025.Arjun Kharpal | CNBCNvidia CEO Jensen Huang is growing more bullish about quantum computing — and he expects they’ll start solving real-world problems in the coming years.”Quantum computing is reaching an inflection point,” Jensen declared during his keynote speech at Nvidia’s GTC Paris developer conference Wednesday.Quantum computers are machines that use the laws of quantum mechanics to solve problems too complex for classical computers, which store information in bits (ones and zeroes).Quantum computers use quantum bits, or “qubits,” which can be…

President Donald Trump’s quest to erase his criminal conviction heads to a federal appeals court Wednesday. It’s one way he’s trying to get last year’s hush money verdict overturned.A three-judge panel is set to hear arguments in Trump’s long-running fight to get the New York case moved from state court to federal court, where he could then try to have the verdict thrown out on presidential immunity grounds. Other news we’re following:Musk backs off of feud with Trump: Elon Musk stepped back from his explosive feud with U.S. President Donald Trump, writing on X that he regrets some of his…

AP Mobile App CTA Get the AP News App WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is looking to cancel $9.4 billion in spending already approved by Congress. That’s just a sliver of the $1.7 trillion that lawmakers OK’d for the budget year ending Sept. 30.The package of 21 budget rescissions will have to be approved by both chambers of Congress for the cuts to take place, beginning with a House vote expected Thursday. Otherwise, the spending remains in place.The White House is betting that cutting federal investments in public media and some foreign aid programs will prove politically popular. Republicans…

Nintendo Switch 2 controllers are displayed during at the Nintendo New York store on June 4, 2025, for a launch event ahead of the video game hybrid console’s midnight release. David Dee Delgado | AFP | Getty ImagesNintendo sold more than 3.5 million units of its flagship Switch 2 gaming system in the four days following its launch, a record-breaking start for the company’s first new console in eight years. The sales figures, reported by the Japanese multinational video-game company on Wednesday, put it on the path to realizing its aim of selling 15 million units of the Switch 2 console…

Model Y cars are pictured during the opening ceremony of the new Tesla Gigafactory for electric cars in Gruenheide, Germany, March 22, 2022. Patrick Pleul | Pool | Via ReutersTesla CEO Elon Musk said on Tuesday that his company’s robotaxi service is “tentatively” set to launch in Austin, Texas, on June 22.In a post on X, Musk indicated that he’s flying from Los Angeles to Austin for the kickoff, which he previously said would occur sometime in June. When a commenter asked when public rides will start, Musk said the current plan is for June 22, and that the first driverless…

Mark Zuckerberg arrives before the inauguration of Donald Trump as the 47th president of the United States takes place inside the Capitol Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C., Monday, Jan. 20, 2025.Kenny Holston | Via ReutersMark Zuckerberg is so frustrated with Meta’s standing in artificial intelligence that he’s willing to spend billions of dollars to convince Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang to join his company, people familiar with the matter told CNBC. Meta is finalizing a deal to invest $14 billion into Scale AI, according to a person familiar with the matter who asked not to be named…

(The Center Square) – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins signed three waivers on Tuesday for Arkansas, Idaho and Utah food stamp programs, preventing “sugary drinks” such as sodas and energy drinks from being included in the federally funded food program.The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, which is funded by the federal government and administered by the states, helps low-income individuals and families buy food.“Today is a great day for American taxpayers, and for the people of Indiana, Arkansas, Idaho and Utah,” Rollins said. U.S Department of Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins signs a waiver restricting “sugary drinks” like soda and energy…