How do you design a $30,000 electric pickup? Inside Ford’s skunkworks.

Inside a bland-looking tilt-up concrete building in a new-ish business park near the Long Beach Airport, Ford is attempting ...

Standard Intelligence raises $75M to develop efficient computer use models

Standard Intelligence Inc., a six-person artificial intelligence startup, today announced that it has raised $75 million in ...
Rochester Institute of Technology

RIT researchers create adaptive computer chip design that saves power in everyday electronic devices

Researchers at RIT have developed a new computer chip design approach that allows electronic systems to automatically adapt to real-world conditions, improving how devices manage power in everyday use ...
JD Supra

USPTO Issues Supplemental Guidance on Design Patents for Computer-Generated Interfaces and Icons

On March 13, 2026, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) published supplemental examination guidance in the Federal Register addressing design patent applications that claim ...
JD Supra

USPTO Expands Design Patent Protection for Computer-Generated Interfaces and Icons

The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) recently issued supplemental examination guidance for design patent applications directed to computer-generated interfaces and icons, expanding flexibility ...
Electronic Design

Test System Architect Streamlines Signal-Path Design

Test System Architect from Pickering Interfaces is a free online graphical toolset that allows developers to design, configure, and visualize complete test architectures before deployment. It was ...
VentureBeat

OpenAI launches GPT-5.4 with native computer use mode, financial plugins for Microsoft Excel, Google Sheets

The AI updates aren't slowing down. Literally two days after OpenAI launched a new underlying AI model for ChatGPT called GPT-5.3 Instant, the company has unveiled another, even more massive upgrade: ...
Forbes

AI Design Copilots Reduce Time-To-Market For Physical Design

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Updated Supersonic, USA, 2007. Aircraft design concept from NASA research partner Lockheed ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Can A Computer Science Student Be Taught To Design Hardware?

New approaches are being devised and tested to address the talent shortage. Leveraging AI in design tools will help engineers become more efficient, and potentially could reduce the time it takes to ...
Reuters

Cadence introduces an AI agent to speed up computer chip design

WASHINGTON, Feb 10 (Reuters) - Cadence Design Systems on Tuesday rolled out a virtual artificial intelligence "agent" to help firms like Nvidia speed up the complex process of designing computer chips ...
WAFB

Man arrested on computer-aided solicitation of a minor charge

LIVINGSTON PARISH, La. (WAFB) - A man has been arrested after he communicated online with someone he thought was a 15-year-old girl, authorities said. According to the Livingston Parish Sheriff’s ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Benchmark For AI-Aided Chip Design That Evaluates LLMs Across 3 Critical Tasks (UCSD, Columbia)

Researchers at UCSD and Columbia University published “ChipBench: A Next-Step Benchmark for Evaluating LLM Performance in AI-Aided Chip Design.” “While Large Language Models (LLMs) show significant ...