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AI content creation tools like Google’s new Omni model threaten to make reality even harder to discern from AI fantasy, but YouTube is taking an important step toward verifying video origins. After debuting wishy-washy AI content labeling in 2024, Google will begin using more pro

A Guide to AI Cold Starts on Cloud Run Shir Meir Lador Head of AI Engineering, Google Cloud Developer Relations I saw a developer asking on Reddit if there was any “sane way” to manage Cloud Run cold starts for AI across multiple regions. They were experiencing startup latencies

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Smart lighting manufacturer Govee is apologizing after a pair of books showing only the words “white supremacy” were featured in a marketing image on its website. The books were visible in an image (shown above) on Govee’s US website for bedroom lighting. Disturbingly, the books

NVIDIA RTX provides game developers with direct paths to AI-driven characters, frame generation, and ray-traced rendering. This post walks through a meaningful set of recent updates across the RTX ecosystem. NVIDIA ACE expands its multilingual AI character capabilities, making it

CrowdStrike, working with Google and Shadowserver, a nonprofit organization that scans and monitors the internet for cyberattacks, took down a botnet that cybercriminals used to push malware and steal passwords from open source software developers. The takedown operation had the

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Italian council sets 200% tax on data center development in agricultural zones — aims to spur the use of old industrial areas instead and limit environmental impact No place for data centers in rural areas The region of Lombardy, Italy, which has Milan as its capital, just approv

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AI factories are a new class of infrastructure built to manufacture intelligence that’s always on and in real time. In the industrial age, power plants converted energy into electricity. In the AI age, AI factories convert energy into tokens — the unit of production for reasoning

Cognition, the makers of the autonomous AI software engineer named Devin, has raised more than $1 billion at a $25 billion pre-money valuation ($26 billion post money), the company announced on Wednesday. That’s a major leap from its $10.2 billion post-money valuation when it clo

By the time that the Democratic primary for New York’s 12th congressional district wraps up in June, Anthropic and OpenAI will have spent millions on their battle over the political future of AI: who gets to regulate it, or who will be punished for trying to regulate it. But the

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The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has ordered SpaceX to investigate why its Starship booster failed during the company’s May 22 test flight, according to a statement released to TechCrunch on Wednesday. This means SpaceX will have to pause any further Starship test launch

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Shiny new Nvidia apps like the GeForce Experience and the “Nvidia app” have come and gone, but the old Nvidia Control Panel and its rotating green Nvidia logo have existed as an option for managing basic settings since it was originally introduced in 2006. That’s ending with vers

AWS Compute Blog Migrating your Java applications to AWS Graviton using AWS Transform custom For Java applications, modern JVMs like Amazon Corretto and OpenJDK are highly optimized for Arm64 and modern applications that are pure Java often require zero changes to run on Graviton

Off the Wire Press Releases BOSTON, May 27, 2026 — Zapata Quantum today announced the return of two of its co-founders to the Company’s leadership team: Yudong Cao, Ph.D., former Head of Quantum at BCG X, as Chief Technology Officer (CTO), and Jonathan Olson, Ph.D., J.D., as Vice

Volvo Cars got some welcome news from the US Department of Commerce yesterday. The government has told the Swedish automaker, which is partly owned by China’s Zhejiang Geely Holding, that it may import connected cars into the US, despite a ban on such vehicle software with Chines

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Robinhood is opening its trading platform to AI agents. In an announcement on Wednesday, Robinhood says traders can now create a separate account for an AI agent and add a specific amount of money, allowing the agent to buy and sell stocks across the market. Robinhood will let yo

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Non-volatile memory faster and cooler than DRAM Japanese researchers have shown the Mn₃Sn (Manganese Tin) can switch its persistent magnetic state in 40 picoseconds, five times faster than DDR5 DRAM’s 208.3ps, using less energy and generating less heat than DRAM switching. The 12

Off the Wire Press Releases BEIJING, May 27, 2026 — The 2026 ASC Student Supercomputer Challenge (ASC26) Finals recently concluded in Wuxi, China, after five days of exciting, high-intensity competition. Demonstrating exceptional performance, teamwork, and innovation, the teams f

Today is the final day to apply or nominate a startup for Startup Battlefield 200. Once the clock strikes 11:59 p.m. PT, the window closes on your chance to compete for $100,000 in equity-free funding, gain global visibility, connect directly with investors, and launch on the Tec

Voice AI company ElevenLabs launched a new version of its music-generation model, called Music v2, that can switch genres mid-track. The company said that the model is designed to handle both complexity in vocals and composition. The new release comes nearly 10 months after the s

It’s about to get easier to share your favorite moments from a podcast, with the introduction of Spotify’s new Podcast clips feature, out on Wednesday. In the app, a new scissors icon in the “Now Playing” view will allow you to clip a particular segment of interest from a podcast

ShelterZoom: Blockchain can keep hospitals online during ransomware attacks Blockchain tech company ShelterZoom has a Spare Tire offering that is a zero-downtime continuity layer it says will keep hospital clinical operations running during an active attack. It says this is a far

How a Coal Plant in Buffalo Became TeraWulf’s 500 MW AI Campus Data Center Knowledge toured the TeraWulf and Schneider Electric campus in Buffalo, N.Y., to see what it takes to power – and cool – the data centers of the future. BUFFALO, N.Y. – On the grounds of a retired coal pla

Off the Wire Press Releases May 27, 2026 — The University of California San Diego has received $4.85 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to bolster a platform that makes available large-scale neuroscience data together with high-performance computing (HPC) resour

Since moving to South Carolina’s Lowcountry, I’ve been spellbound by the myriad of beautiful birds that share the coast with us — ospreys raising their babies in towering nests beside the road to my daughter’s school, roseate spoonbills wading in the marsh on my morning walks, ea