Chinese Beverage Chains Spread Across the US, Challenging Starbucks’ Dominance

Starbucks opened its first store in China in 1999, when drinking coffee in a Western-style café was still a novel…

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Inside the Multimillion-Dollar Plan to Make Mobile Voting Happen

Joe Kiniry, a security expert specializing in elections, was attending an annual conference on voting technology in Washington, DC, when…

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You Won’t Be Able to Offload Your Holiday Shopping to AI Agents Anytime Soon

Social commerce—or shopping through platforms like TikTok and Instagram—hasn’t been a smash hit in the US, in part due to…

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OpenAI’s Open-Weight Models Are Coming to the US Military

When OpenAI unveiled its first open-weight models in years this August, it wasn’t just tech companies that were paying attention.…

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Anthropic’s Claude Takes Control of a Robot Dog

As more robots start showing up in warehouses, offices, and even people’s homes, the idea of large language models hacking…

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The AI Boom Is Fueling a Need for Speed in Chip Networking

The new era of Silicon Valley runs on networking—and not the kind you find on LinkedIn. As the tech industry…

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