The U.S. Navy and Palantir Technologies on Tuesday announced "ShipOS," software they said will initially help build and maintain American submarines but could soon be used for aircraft carriers and jets.
Why it matters: The Trump administration, which Palantir CEO Alex Karp vocally supports, has zeroed in on shipbuilding as a must-fix. U.S. shipyards produce just a fraction of China's output.
A bill from Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) to ban AI companions for minors is gaining momentum, adding seven new bipartisan cosponsors, his office tells Axios exclusively.
Why it matters: AI companies have a lot to lose if they are forbidden from offering services to users under 18, and the popularity across the aisle shows the issue isn't going away.
The Department of Defense tapped Google's Gemini for the first major deployment of its new generative AI platform, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said Tuesday.
Why it matters: The rollout appears to be one of the first mass deployments of a commercially created generative AI tool across the entire Pentagon.
For the first time since 2017, pay-TV subscriptions actually grew quarter over quarter, adding 303,000 net new subscribers in the most recent period, according to new data from equity research firm MoffettNathanson.
Why it matters: It offers hope that the live video subscription business can survive longer than expected, but only if video providers are willing to offer streaming bundles with their cable and satellite packages.
The age of AI is ushering in the golden age of American energy.
Why it matters: Long prized for being boring — cheap, reliable, predictable — American power is exploding with new growth, new wild ideas and new sci-fi level possibilities.
A magnitude 7.5 earthquake struck near northeastern Japan on Monday night, injuring multiple people and triggering tsunami alerts and evacuation orders for thousands of residents.
The big picture: The quake that the Japan Meteorological Agency noted happened around 23:15pm local time at a depth of 31 miles some 50 miles off the coast of Aomori Prefecture on Japan's main island, Honshu, caused "blackouts and fires" in some areas, a government official said at a briefing.
Mastercard VP Amber Dawkins was minutes into her presentation about Mastercard's Small Business Community at their Empowering Small Business event when entrepreneur Ruby Ghosh raised her hand to ask about the cost of the program.
"Zero, it's free," Dawkins, Mastercard's VP of North America Product Management, said. "At Mastercard, we firmly believe in doing well by doing good, so we created this as a resource."
South Carolina's small businesses are booming, driving 70.9% of the state's new job growth in the past year.
What you need to know: Recently Mastercard hosted a Empowering Small Business: Strategies for Success event in Greenville, where local business owners, policymakers and industry leaders came together to discuss the realities of running a business today, the challenges they face and the opportunities they see for growth.
