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As Elon Musk prepares to lead a second trillion-dollar company into the public market, a move that will likely put him in charge of two of the 10 most valuable U.S. enterprises, chatter is building that Musk's ultimate goal is to combine the entities into one. SpaceX is expected

Last week, after Google announced its huge overhaul to Search, I overheard a woman on the phone saying she was switching to DuckDuckGo because you can “opt out of using AI.” “Google just isn’t Google anymore,” she said. It seems that others had the same idea. At I/O, Google’s ann

I’m not suggesting that a man like Pope Leo—the Vicar of Christ, the Bishop of Rome, the Servant of the Servants of God—would stoop to anything quite so base as “trolling” the onetime PayPal co-founder and current Antichrist alarmist Peter Thiel. But I’m also not not suggesting i

NVIDIA CompileIQ tackles one of the hardest problems in performance engineering: finding the compiler options that unlock the best performance for a specific workload. Consider a team that has spent weeks optimizing an LLM inference pipeline on GPUs, tuning batch sizes, quantizin

Developers can now use NVIDIA CUDA Tile programming within large existing C++ GPU codebases to develop highly optimized GPU kernels using tile-based abstractions. NVIDIA CUDA Tile, launched with NVIDIA CUDA 13.1, introduced tile-based programming for GPUs. Designed with a top-lev

NVIDIA CUDA 13.3 brings new capabilities and performance optimizations to developers across the CUDA ecosystem. The launch of NVIDIA CUDA Tile programming in C++, enables high-level, tile-based kernel development that automatically manages complex low-level GPU details for optima

Off the Wire Press Releases PARIS and NEW YORK, May 26, 2026 – Pasqal Holding SAS, a global leader in neutral-atom quantum computing, and Bleichroeder Acquisition Corp. II (NASDAQ: BBCQ), a special purpose acquisition company, today announced the public filing with the U.S. Secur

SpaceX and the Pentagon have been bickering about the price of using Starshield satellite service during the Iran war, according to a Reuters report published today. It appears that SpaceX asked the military for more money after it started using satellite terminals on “kamikaze”

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum opened a new front Tuesday in the Trump administration's public feud with the Vatican, dismissing Pope Leo XIV's warning about artificial intelligence as the White House resists new guardrails on the rapidly evolving technology. "I didn't know that

The shift to agentic AI creates a new CPU requirement for the AI factory: fast cores, massive memory bandwidth and the ability to sustain high performance when all cores are active. Initial benchmark results published by Phoronix today show that the NVIDIA Vera CPU meets this nee

SpaceX’s recent IPO and Starship rocket test flight delivered two big data points that offer a realistic vision for the coming years — and one that may disappoint both the company’s boosters and its critics. Hidden behind the fantastic expectations for AI enterprise profits and p

NASA officials announced contract awards for the initial elements of a lunar base on Tuesday, including two rovers that will provide mobility to astronauts. With the series of announcements, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman sought to maintain momentum around a Moon Base initiati

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It seems fair to say that Apple’s MacBook Neo took the rest of the PC industry by surprise. Companies are used to competing on price and features with $1,000-and-up Apple laptops like the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro, but their $600 and $700 models usually come with cut corners an

Off the Wire Press Releases May 26, 2026 — Have you ever taken a prescribed medicine to resolve a health issue, only for the treatment to fail? Perhaps you’re among the unlucky low percentage of people on weight loss drugs who can’t seem to lose a single pound. The lack of effica

Modine’s $4B Deal Turns Cooling Capacity into Reserved Infrastructure AI infrastructure developers are no longer just buying cooling equipment. They are beginning to reserve industrial production capacity years in advance. Tuesday’s agreement between Modine and an unnamed strateg

Off the Wire Press Releases NEW CASTLE, Del., May 26, 2026 — FS, a global provider of ICT products and solutions, announced 400G High-Speed Interconnect Solution for Cloud Data Centers, designed to help organizations build scalable, low-latency, and highly reliable network fabric

Micron topped a $1 trillion market value for the first time on Tuesday as shares popped 19%, driven by insatiable artificial intelligence demand for its memory chips. The stock surge came as UBS tripled its price target on the stock from $535 to $1,625 a share, citing long-term a

Millions of AI agents and tools around the world have been imperiled by a critical vulnerability that can allow hackers to breach the servers running them and make off with sensitive data and credentials to third-party accounts, a security researcher is warning. The vulnerability

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IBM spins off America's first quantum chip foundry with $2 billion in federal and private funding — newly-minted 'Anderon' foundry to offer 300mm quantum wafer fab and manufacturing services IBM and eight other quantum companies will split the largest U.S. government quantum inve

The ZimaCube 2 Pro is a NAS that checks a lot of boxes. You can add ten drives in addition to the boot drive while still having two PCIe slots to work with. There are Thunderbolt ports and both 2.5GbE and 10GbE networking ports. The processor is well-known and even provides HEVC

American Airlines said Tuesday it plans to install Starlink on more than 500 narrow-body Airbus aircraft beginning early next year, the latest carrier to pick the SpaceX unit for inflight Wi-Fi service. The deal provides more than just financial lift for Starlink, the satellite c

Off the Wire Press Releases Driving performance, scalability, and efficiency for next-generation compute workloads SUNNYVALE, Calif., May 26, 2026 — Advanced Semiconductor Engineering, Inc. (ASE), a member of ASE Technology Holding Co., Ltd. and a leading provider of semiconducto

Popular AI gateway maker OpenRouter, founded in 2023, has raised a hefty $113 million Series B led by CapitalG, the growth venture fund of Google parent company Alphabet. While the startup didn’t disclose its new valuation, The New York Times reports that it landed at about $1.3

Planet Earth has some pretty great qualities going for it. (Negative reviews mostly revolve around the staff and clientele.) Pretty high on the list of positives is a richly oxygenated atmosphere. But that’s something that evolved and built up over a couple billion years, only ev

Off the Wire Press Releases Enhances heat dissipation by integrating ICEs into the HBM package SEOUL, South Korea, May 26, 2026 — SK hynix Inc. has announced the launch of the iHBM solution that embeds integrated cooling elements(ICEs) within the high-bandwidth memory(HBM) packag

Off the Wire Press Releases AUSTIN, Texas and STUTTGART, Germany, May 26, 2026 — Q.ANT has announced a collaboration with IONOS to make Q.ANT’s Native Processing Server (NPS) accessible to commercial customers through IONOS’ cloud infrastructure and customer ecosystem. The agreem

Off the Wire Press Releases Exabase’s new memory engine M-1 reaches 96.4% on LongMemEval with Gemini 3 Flash, outperforming all systems that used the larger Gemini 3 Pro LONDON, May 26, 2026 — As AI agents move from experiments to production systems, long-term memory has emerged

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Artificial Intelligence Technical deep dive: AgentCore payments and innovation in agentic commerce The industry is entering a world where billions of generative AI agents operate autonomously, acting on behalf of humans, making decisions, and completing tasks without human interv

The earliest arrests under the Take It Down Act (TIDA) suggest that cops don’t have to work too hard to identify people illegally posting and selling nonconsensual sexualized deepfakes of women online. Last week, the FBI arrested two men after visiting porn websites and clicking

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