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NEW YORK (AP) — The end of 2025 is almost upon us. And it’s time to unpack Spotify Wrapped.On Wednesday, the music streaming giant delivered its annual recap — giving its hundreds of millions of users worldwide a look at the top songs, artists, podcasts and other audio that filled their ears over the past year (give or take a month and some change).Spotify isn’t the only platform — or music streamer — to roll out a yearly glimpse of data collected from consumers’ online lives. But since its launch about a decade ago, Wrapped has become one of the…

AI is moving deeper into the physical world, and EY is laying out a more structured way for companies to work with robots, drones, and other smart devices. The organisation is introducing a physical AI platform built with NVIDIA tools, opening a new EY.ai Lab in Georgia, and adding new leadership to guide its work in this field.The platform uses NVIDIA Omniverse libraries, NVIDIA Isaac, and NVIDIA AI Enterprise software. EY says the setup gives organisations a clearer way to plan, test, and manage AI systems that operate in real environments, from factory robots to drones and edge devices.Omniverse libraries…

Waymo partners with Uber to bring robotaxi service to Atlanta and Austin.Uber Technologies Inc.Waymo on Wednesday said humans will begin test driving the Alphabet-owned company’s robotaxi vehicles in Baltimore, Pittsburgh and St. Louis. The three cities represent the latest additions to Waymo’s quickly growing list of cities where the Google sister company is either operating its robotaxis, planning to launch service or starting to test its vehicles. That list now stands at 26 markets. Waymo will begin manual drives in the trio of new cities this week with hopes to eventually begin serving fully-autonomous rides there, spokesperson Ethan Teicher told…

Bending Spoons, a company that buys and revitalizes stagnating tech companies, has agreed to purchase Eventbrite for about $500 million, a far cry from the $1.76 billion the company was worth when it went public in 2018. Just like many of Bending Spoons’ previous acquisitions, including Evernote, Meetup, Vimeo, and AOL, Eventbrite has a strong brand, but the company’s business has stopped growing, according to audited financials.   The events marketplace and ticketing company was co-founded in 2006 by the husband-and-wife team Julia and Kevin Hartz, and Renaud Visage. During its 12 years as a private business, the one-time tech…

NEW YORK (AP) — The holiday season is here, and with it, a present for fans of end of year data and marketing: Spotify Wrapped is here! And Puerto Rican superstar Bad Bunny has been named its most-played artist for a fourth time, dethroning Taylor Swift.On Wednesday, the streaming giant unveiled its annual overview of individual listening trends as well as trends from around the world. Users can now access their top artists, songs, genres, albums and podcasts, as well as uncover which artists had the biggest year on the platform.Here’s what you need to know. Chart-topping performers continue to…

Traffic on Interstate 80 in San Pablo, California, US, on Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2025. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesThe White House will announce new fuel economy standards on Wednesday, according to administration sources. The Trump administration will propose rolling back the standards implemented by former President Joe Biden last year, sources told Reuters. Biden required passenger cars and light trucks to have a fuel efficiency of about 50 miles per gallon by 2031. President Donald Trump is scheduled to make an announcement at 2:30 p.m. ET from the Oval Office. Executives from Ford, General Motors and Stellantis…

Filip Kaliszan, CEO of Verkada.Courtesy: VerkadaSecurity technology startup Verkada has reached a $5.8 billion valuation after a new funding round led by CapitalG, Alphabet’s venture capital arm, announced Wednesday.”I think Google saw the opportunity with us in the application of AI and everything we’re driving to apply AI to the physical security industry,” CEO Filip Kaliszan told CNBC’s Deirdre Bosa.The company said in a release that the investment will be used to bolster its artificial intelligence capabilities and provide liquidity.The financing totaled $100 million, a person familiar with the terms of the round told CNBC, raising the company’s valuation by…

Amazon announced a new product Tuesday called “AI Factories” that allows big corporations and governments to run its AI systems in their own data centers. Or as AWS puts it: Customers supply the power and the data center, and AWS plunks in the AI system, manages it, and can tie it into other AWS cloud services. The idea is to cater to companies and governments concerned with data sovereignty, or absolute control over their data so it can’t wind up in a competitor’s or foreign adversary’s hands. An on-prem AI Factory means not sending their data to a model maker…

For years, cybersecurity experts debated when – not if – artificial intelligence would cross the threshold from advisor to autonomous attacker. That theoretical milestone has arrived.Anthropic’s recent investigation into a Chinese state-sponsored operation has documented [PDF] the first case of AI-orchestrated cyber attacks executing at scale with minimal human oversight, altering what enterprises must prepare for in the threat landscape ahead.The campaign, attributed to a group Anthropic designates as GTG-1002, represents what security researchers have long warned about but never actually witnessed in the wild: an AI system autonomously conducting nearly every phase of cyber intrusion – from initial reconnaissance…

Amazon Web Services’ annual tech conference AWS re:Invent has wrapped up its first official day of programming and has already delivered an endless stream of product news. The unsurprising theme is AI for the enterprise, although this year it’s all about upgrades that give its customers greater control to customize AI agents — including one that AWS claims can learn from you and then work independently for days. AWS re:Invent 2025, which runs through December 5, started with a keynote from AWS CEO Matt Garman, who leaned into the idea that AI agents can unlock the “true value” of AI.…