Week in the review: Google Buys Wiz

Welcome again a week in the review! We have tons of stories to share this week, as the best hits of Nvidia GTC; NASA astronauts finally arrived home; Rippleing demand; And Google bought Wiz. Let's do it!

Google finally does: Google made its greatest acquisition in its history this week when it confirmed that Wiz was buying for $ 32 billion. Google says he will position Wiz as an offer of “Multicloud”, which means that Wiz will not be a Google store. Last year, Google offered Wiz $ 23 billion for its business. I guess it is worth saying not sometimes.

Talking about acquisitions: XAI, Elon Musk's company, bought Hotshot, a startup that works on video tools with ai. The acquisition could indicate that XAI plans to build its own video generation models to compete with OpenAi's Sora Sora, Google's I see 2 and others.

NVIDIA GTC: The largest conference of the year in Nvidia ended on Thursday, and we were in the field that brought you the last of the chips manufacturer. The company announced two personal ai supercomputers; Groot N1, a fundamental model for humanoid robots; New GPU, called Blackwell Ultra, Vera Rubin and Feynman; And much more.

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News

The gloves are turned off: The Rippleing Human Resources Company sued Deel, another player in space, claiming extortion, improper appropriation of commercial secrets, tortuous interference, unfair competition and helping and inciting a violation of fiduciary duty. Deel denies the accusations.

Welcome back to Earth: The two NASA astronauts who were stranded for more than nine months at the International Space Station finally returned to Earth. Sunita “Suni” Williams and Barry “Butch” Wilmore splashed in the Gulf of Mexico in a Spacex dragon capsule on Tuesday after a 17 -hour return trip from the ISS.

Pixel novelty: Google threw this week a new pixel, called 9a. The $ 499 smartphone has an updated 6.3 -inch screen, which Google says it is 35% brighter than the 8A Pixel. But the real update here is for the design: it is abandoning its camera bar in the rear.

Pirateado: The Education Association of the State of Pennsylvania (PSEA), the largest organization for educators in Pennsylvania, says that computer pirates stole the confidential personal information of more than half a million of its members. PSEA said that the account numbers of members, pins, passwords and security codes were also accessed during the violation, according to a letter sent to the affected people.

Clean! A 12th grade student built a website called Minecraft Bench (MC Bench) who faces two AIS to see which builds better creations in Minecraft. MC-BENCH is technically a programming reference point, since the models that write code are asked to create the requested compilation.

Really super useful: Google is changing how email finds in its entrance tray. Instead of showing everything chronologically, it will now use ai to consider factors such as reconstance, the most click emails and frequent contacts to surfacting electronic emails based on your search query. A lever will allow people to change between “more relevant” or “more recent” emails on a search results page.

Humanoids at home: The exaggeration around humanoid robots for the home seems to have reached new heights. The Norwegian robotics company 1x is capitalizing this, announcing that it will test its humanoid robot, Neo Gamma, in “a few hundred to a few thousand homes for the end of the year.

Analysis

Nvidia at the top: Nvidia is sitting at the top of the world of ai, but confronts us with tariffs, deep and changing priorities of the best customers of ai. In this year's GTC, the company sought to ensure attendees, and the rest of the world that observes, that the demand for their chips will not be reduced in the short term.

Wayve rid the wave: Wayve, which was launched in 2017 and has raised more than $ 1.3 billion in the last two years, plans to license its autonomous software to automotive and fleet partners, such as Uber. The co -founder and CEO of Wayve, Alex Kendall, considers promising when carrying the technology of his startup of autonomous vehicles to the market.