Week in Review: Google buys Wiz 

Welcome again a week in review! We have a lot of stories to share this week, like the greatest songs of Nvidia GTC; NASA’s astronauts finally returned home. A lawsuit and bought Google Wiz. Let’s get it!

Google Finally do that: Google achieved the largest acquisition in its history this week when she confirmed that she was buying Wiz for $ 32 billion. Google says it will put Wiz as “Multicloud”, which means Wiz will not only go Google. Last year, Google Wiz presented $ 23 billion for her work. I think it is useful to say not sometimes.

Talking about acquisitions: XAI, Elon Musk’s Ai, has bought Hotshot, an emerging company that works on behalf of the acting video. The acquisition can indicate that Xai plans to create its video style models to compete with the likes of Openai’s Sora and Google’s Veo 2 and others.

Nvidia GTC: The largest conference in Nafidia ended in the year on Thursday, and we were on the ground bringing you the latest of the chips maker. The company announced two highly intelligent computers. Groot N1, a basic model for human robots; New graphics processing units, called Blackwell Ultra, Vera Rubin, and Feynman; And much more.

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Gloves parked: The Human Resources Company crowned a lawsuit against Del, another player in space, claiming blackmail, embezzlement of commercial secrets, arbitrary intervention, and unfair competition, assistance and incitement of credit duty breach. Del denies these allegations.

Welcome again to the ground: The NASA astronauts have recently returned to more than nine months at the International Space Station. Sonita “Sony” Williams and Barry “Poach” We Wilmor retreated in the Gulf of Mexico in the Dragon Spacex capsule on Tuesday after a 17 -hour return trip from ISS.

Pixel’s modernity: Google has released this week a new laziness, called 9A. The $ 499 smartphone is 6.3 inches, which Google says is 35 % more brighter than Pixel 8A. But the real update here is the design: it gives up its camera bar on the back side.

Hate: The government education association in Pennsylvania (PSEA), the largest teacher organization in Pennsylvania, says that the infiltrators stole sensitive personal information for more than half a million of its members. Psea said that the numbers of member accounts, pins, passwords, and safety symbols were reached during the breach, according to a message sent to affected individuals.

salary! A twelfth grade student built a web site called Minecraft Bench (MC-Betic) that motivates AIS against each other to find out which builds better creations in Minecraft. MC-BECK is technically a criterion for programming, as models are required to write code to create the subsidized construction.

In fact, very useful: Google changes how to find an email in your inbox. Instead of displaying everything chronologically, artificial intelligence will now use to consider factors such as modernity, emails that click on it, repeated contacts when flattening emails based on your search query. Switching for people will allow the switching between the most relevant or “newer” emails on the search results page.

Humanoids at home: The noise around the human robots of the house seems to have reached new horizons. The Norwegian robotics company takes advantage of this, declaring that it will test its human robot, New Gamma, in “a few hundred to a few thousand” at the end of the year.

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Nvidia at the top: NVIDIA sits at the head of the artificial intelligence world, but it faces customs tariffs, Deepseek, and transform priorities from the best artificial intelligence customers. In the GTC for this year, the company sought to confirm the attendees – and the rest of the world that is watched – which is demanding its chips will not slow down any time soon.

Wife rides the wave: Wayve, which was launched in 2017 and raised more than $ 1.3 billion over the past two years, plans to license its self -driving programs for car and fleet partners, such as Uber. Alex Kendall, co -founder of Wayve CEO, sees a promise to provide the starting technology of his independent car to the market.