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Google I/O made it official: AI-generated answers are now front and center in search, and most brands have almost no visibility into how AI is describing them to their customers. For anyone who has spent years building a strategy around 10 blue links, the rules just changed in a

There are only 3 days left to save up to $410 on your ticket to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Early Bird pricing ends May 29 at 11:59 p.m. PT, and once the deadline passes, ticket prices increase. If you plan to attend one of the most influential gatherings in tech this year, now is t

Traditionally, sleep earbuds have been designed to mask outside noise and promote sleep with calming sounds. But today, a Boston-based startup called SOND is introducing a new type of earbuds designed to actively intervene to encourage better sleep. Founded by a pair of MIT grads

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Nvidia offers restricted access to Vera CPU in first round of Linux benchmarks - 88-core monster competes with or beats Epyc and Xeon in selected tests It's running very close to AMD's EPYC, which is incredible for a first-generation custom server core from NVIDIA. The very first

Stratos and the New AI Campus Math: Building Around the Grid Utah’s proposed 9 GW Stratos campus reflects a broader evolution toward AI infrastructure built around dedicated energy systems, accelerated permitting, and direct control over power. Stratos, a proposed 9 GW AI and dat

For China’s top AI researchers, the borders are quickly closing. Researchers, startup founders, and executives at private firms are now reportedly subject to travel restrictions, with some of the industry’s most prominent figures required to seek government approval before headin

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Erin Brockovich starts tracking AI data centers, calls on affected communities to submit issues — website shows more than 2,700 reports from across the US raising various concerns Are we going to see another Hollywood movie in the future? Erin Brockovich, famed for her role in th

Amazon has been using homegrown artificial intelligence technology to help users compare products and buy or reorder items on their behalf. Now the company is licensing that technology to other retailers, as it vies to be the backbone of AI shopping across the web. In a blog post

AI/ML Huawei’s full stack AI data platform and agent foundry Huawei announced a full stack of AI model training and inference data storage and pipeline ingest/acceleration systems plus agent runtime frameworks and more at its ID 2026 forum in Paris. It did not mention the AI fact

In the wake of Google expanding its AI verification efforts at I/O, YouTube is now finally going to start taking AI labeling seriously. YouTube has announced that it’s relocating AI disclosures on Shorts and long-form videos to make them easier to spot and will start automaticall

Broadcom and FuriosaAI Bet on Ethernet AI Fabrics Broadcom and FuriosaAI are building a rack-scale inference platform aimed at shifting AI infrastructure toward Ethernet fabrics, chiplets, and power-efficient token generation. Broadcom and South Korean AI infrastructure startup F

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COMPUTE Uncle Sam Awards $2 Billion-Plus To Quantum Companies, But Wants A Cut Governments have long taken an interest in quantum computing as part of the larger picture of high-end computing that over the past several years has included the race to exascale supercomputers and in

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China adds homegrown AI chips to 'secure and reliable' procurement list for the first time — nine options added as move away from Nvidia continues Huawei, Alibaba, and five other domestic vendors make the cut, but Cambricon and Kunlunxin are absent. China's official technology se

This is CNBC's Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox. Happy Wednesday. There was a notable birthday on Wall Street yesterday: The Dow Jones Industrial Average turned 130 years old. Stock futures are higher before the bell. The Dow rung

Veteran programmer finishes retro game sequel and publishes it after 37 years — Colin Porch started Head Over Heels home computer title in 1989, but it was shelved due to console pivot ‘New’ isometric arcade adventure now available for Atari ST and Commodore Amiga platforms, pric

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On Monday, Pope Leo XIV unveiled an encyclical letter addressing the societal implications of artificial intelligence. The letter, titled Magnifica Humanitas, warned that the “use of AI is never a purely technical matter: when it enters processes that affect people’s lives, it to

How newsrooms should use AI — or if they should at all — has been a recurrent debate within the media industry over the last several years. Increasingly, these rules are being hammered out at the bargaining table between unions and publishers. Right now, employees at The New York

Texas May Have Accidentally Built the Perfect Grid for AI Texas built CREZ to move wind power. The same transmission corridors now increasingly attract hyperscale AI infrastructure. Texas did not build the Competitive Renewable Energy Zones, or CREZ, for AI. But the massive trans

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Introducing Google AI Threat Defense to help you outpace the adversary Francis deSouza COO, Google Cloud and President, Security Products AI-powered cyber threats have been receiving a lot of attention lately. AI has changed the threat landscape; cybercriminals are using it to fi

Prototype of the ‘world’s first fluid circuit board’ can be physically rewired in less than a minute, startup claims — could make hardware iteration 1,000 times faster than traditional PCB A startup called Itera has patented a technique to make liquid metal alloys flow and form t

SpaceX admits it can't find enough chips for orbital AI yet, requires 'significantly more than are currently available to us' — firm's risk factors in IPO paperwork also says ambitious TeraFab project may not be successful As Intel and Tesla may abandon TeraFab. Ahead of its hotl

Lenovo says it's digging into allegations that its China-only G10 handheld is being used for piracy — third parties may be including illicit games to inflate prices in the gray market Under normal circumstances, any brand would be delighted to get its product in the spotlight, bu

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Taiwan authorities arrest three on suspicion of smuggling Nvidia chips to China — operation allegedly used Japan as transshipment point before forwarding banned Supermicro servers to Hong Kong The smugglers were routing their illicit goods through Japan, which is known for its ti

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For the last several years, Motorola’s smartphone headliners were the Razr flip phones, but 2026 is different. This time around, Moto’s first tablet-style foldable, the Razr Fold, somewhat overshadows the flip phones, but a bulky $2,000 folding phone that isn’t made by Samsung oc

Samsung chip workers vote to accept $340,000 average bonus, ending months-long strike threat — resentment over deal has slowed down Samsung foundry division But a pay gap between divisions has already disrupted chip packaging. Samsung Electronics' largest union has ratified a com

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In the wake of attacks on CEOs, a nationwide protest movement targeting data centers, and increasing concerns about AI job replacement, federal intelligence agencies and domestic law enforcement are circulating reports with a new domestic target in mind: anti-technology extremist

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Microsoft's GitHub bans security researcher who posted zero-day Windows exploits because company 'ruined their life' — expert claims action is vindictive and promises further retaliation "I will make sure your bones are shattered [on July 14]" There's been some drama unfolding la

Listen to this post: It’s hardly the biggest problem in the world — or perhaps the height of privilege to consider it a problem at all — but one of the most annoying consumer experiences is booking an Uber Black and realizing you got assigned a Tesla Model Y (Uber finally stopped