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The European Union is looking to "intensify" discussions with the U.S. administration on the most advanced AI models, including those with "cyber capabilities," a Commission official told CNBC. Anthropic's powerful Mythos model, announced in April, sent governments and businesses

Off the Wire Press Releases May 29, 2026 — MIT President Sally Kornbluth and Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey announced plans for a new laboratory to accelerate the development of next-generation quantum technologies that will enable Massachusetts to remain a national hub for

Welcome to Edition 8.43 of the Rocket Report! A disclaimer: No one yet fully appreciates the ramifications of Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket explosion Thursday night on its launch pad at Cape Canaveral, Florida. What we know as of this writing is that much of Blue’s sole orbital-

Earlier this month, I got my hands on the Kiwibit Bird Feeder Pro 4K AI Camera, and it has become my favorite backyard accessory. Setting it up is pretty straightforward. Multiple mounting options allow you to place the feeder on a pole, window ledge, or tree. Its dual seed compa

The Breaking Points: Water Is the New Constraint for AI Data Centers As hyperscale AI campuses scale up, water and wastewater capacity are emerging as siting gatekeepers, reshaping cooling choices, municipal planning, and project approvals. This is the latest installment of The B

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Acer cranks its latest Predator gaming monitor up to 1,000 Hz — Model joins lineup with QD-OLED panels and an immersive 3D display The Nitro XV273U F5 is the headline stealer with a maximum refresh rate of 1,000 Hz, albeit at 720p. Another Computex means that Acer is back with ne

Acer unveils its first Ryzen 9 9955X3D gaming laptop — refreshed Nitro 16 joins new Predator Helios 18 AI and streaming-only Nitro Blaze Link handheld Alongside the Helios 18 AI with triple PCIe 5.0 storage and an RTX 5090. Acer is bringing two new gaming laptops, along with a ha

AI and all-flash demand send NetApp revenues to record heights AI demand and raised prices have lifted NetApp revenues to record quarterly and full year levels. The company earned $1.948 billion in revenues in the fourth fiscal 2026 quarter ended April 24, up 12 percent year/year

Off the Wire Press Releases Infleqtion to recruit world-class quantum talent across physics, engineering, software, manufacturing, and systems integration OXFORD, England, May 29, 2026 — Infleqtion has announced a major expansion of its UK quantum operations with the launch of a

Thursday night’s detonation of Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket during a static-fire test produced a spectacular fireball over Florida, sending shards of the rocket flying far and wide, into the sea and across the coastal scrubland nearby. With sunrise on Friday teams from Blue Ori

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This is CNBC's Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox. Happy Friday. I'm CJ, filling in for Alex this morning. You might know me from my coverage of technology stocks on and off since 2024. My co-workers know me as the news associate th

Most people will never own, drive, or even sit inside a Ferrari Luce. (If you can, or do… hit us up.) There’s still no question that Ferrari’s first electric vehicle is one of the most interesting, surprising cars of the year. With a decidedly un-Ferrari look, and lots of new tec

Every time you ask ChatGPT a question, your request triggers a data relay race. Information leaves memory, passes through a CPU for preprocessing, travels to a GPU for heavy computation, and then makes its way back — and that entire journey repeats for every single word the AI ge

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AI training startup Shift wants to clean your home for free. The catch — because, despite what its website says, there’s always a catch — is that it will record cleaners as they scrub, vacuum, dust, tidy, and wash, and use that footage to train robots. This AI startup will clean

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Data And Storage At The Center Of The AI Stack In a Q&A session with journalists and analysts at the recent Dell Technologies World 2026, Jeff Clark, vice chairman and chief operating officer with Dell, said he didn’t feel that executives at enterprise companies yet fully appreci

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Linux prepares to axe legacy x32 hybrid mode — hybrid 32-bit/64-bit mode faces complete removal by 2027 due to low adoption x32 ABI is designed to reduce the memory footprint of 64-bit applications Linux developers are looking into retiring the x32 ABI that was introduced into th

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New Silicon Motion SM2524XT chip brings 14 GB/s to mainstream SSDs — 6nm DRAMless controller boasts heavy AI PC optimization and slashes KV cache latency Fast, furious, inexpensive. While high-end SSDs with eight-channel controllers approached peak read speeds of around 14 GB/s y

Independent cyber audit finds zero malware or backdoors in DJI drones — U.S. firm's hardware analysis challenges FCC ban amid ongoing $1.56 billion legal battle The same firm that inspects TikTok's U.S. platform found zero critical, high, or medium-risk issues across five months

Ambernic's retro gaming handhelds are quietly losing RAM capacity and being downgraded to older LPDDR3 memory — company says 1GB capacity is still the standard, 512MB models 'an unexpected error' Friday 29 May 7am ET: This story has been updated with a statement from Anbernic whi

As the world struggles to contain the rapidly growing Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Ituri Province, a vital network of research centers has been unable to help on the ground. The reason: The Trump administration slashed its funding last year, in part du

Why AI Infrastructure Is Moving Toward 800 VDC Power Hyperscalers are adopting EV-style high-voltage power systems to reduce copper, cooling strain, and conversion losses. As AI rack densities climb, the power architecture inside data centers is starting to borrow from the electr

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IBM ThinkPad T43 enthusiast installs 'almost' every version of Windows on the single-core laptop without using virtual machine — 26 years of Windows running bare metal, from 1996 Windows NT 4.0 to Windows 10 22H2 working on legendary hardware This IBM-made 2005 vintage Pentium M-

Air taxi makers have hyped science fiction-like flying cars for years. But as that dream inches closer to reality, legal squabbles are clouding that momentum. Last year, Joby Aviation sued Archer, accusing the rival air taxi maker of "corporate espionage" and using stolen informa

AI image tools rarely make me feel like I’m part of the creative process. They are, after all, mostly designed so that people with no design experience can type in a few words and get back a usable result. So I was pleasantly surprised by Adobe’s latest take on an AI image assist