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The top of a Google search page is prime real estate, but it has primarily been the domain of AI Overviews for the past two years. Websites that spent years optimizing for Google search haven’t exactly loved being pushed down the page by a chatbot and may blame AI Overviews for r

Wearable fitness tracker Whoop announced on Friday it will introduce in-app access to on-demand licensed clinicians for users in the United States. The new feature comes alongside a suite of health and artificial intelligence-driven features launching globally that will allow use

The day after the Supreme Court struck down a set of Donald Trump’s emergency tariffs, the president quickly imposed another, using a never-before-invoked provision of a decades-old trade law to order a global 10 percent tariff on most imports. Now, that second set of tariffs has

Ship code within minutes with the Gemini CLI DevOps Extension Karl Weinmeister Director, Developer Relations With AI coding tools like Antigravity and Claude Code, I can build a working web app in record time. But deploying it? That's where I'd historically lose the rest of the a

Massive new data centers are the physical foundation for tech companies’ hopes and dreams for AI. But the rush to expand warehouses full of energy-hungry servers has also kicked up fights across the world over their impact on power grids, utility bills, nearby communities, and th

Chaos erupted at schools and colleges throughout the US on Thursday as a cyberattack disrupted online learning platform Canvas just as students were due to take final exams. Canvas parent company Instructure said that as of Friday morning, the platform was back online. Instructur

Cloudflare on Thursday joined a growing list of tech companies — including Meta, Microsoft, and Amazon — that have reported increased revenue alongside massive layoffs, attributing both trends to their use of AI. Cloudflare, which provides internet security and performance servic

Porsche is closing three of its subsidiaries as it copes with falling sales and declining profits, the German automaker announced Friday. The automaker’s battery subsidiary, Cellforce Group, is perhaps the highest-profile casualty. The division had already been through a “realign

Interview: Unison Energy CEO on Data Centers Turning to On-Site Power Mariko McDonagh Meier says interconnection delays are pushing developers toward gas-based microgrids as primary power – not backup – reshaping how AI infrastructure gets built. Unison Energy, a Connecticut-base

Apple reportedly strikes deal for Intel to make some of its chips — two tech giants reached a preliminary agreement for Intel to make processors for Cupertino We don't know which chips Intel will be making, but it's a good sign for Lip-Bu Tan regardless. Sources close to both App

DDN storage being used in French Pangea supercomputer France’s TotalEnergies is building a Pangea 5 supercomputer using Dell, Nvidia, and DDN technologies. TotalEnergies is the rebranded French Total oil company, one of the top seven global oil suppliers. After expanding into liq

As families across the U.S. prepare to celebrate Mother’s Day this Sunday, Allison Stern is looking beyond the single day of appreciation. Stern just closed $10 million in commitments for her debut early-stage fund, Mother Ventures, which focuses exclusively on the mother as a co

N-able not quite able yet but re-enabling nicely MSP-focussed data protector N-able reported strong results in its first 2026 quarter, with reduced losses but sees growth slowing as a large deal focus lengthens sales cycles. Revenues of $133.7 million beat its $132 million high-e

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has opened an investigation into Avride, a robotaxi company that has partnered with Uber, after identifying more than a dozen crashes and one minor injury. The safety regulator’s Office of Defects Investigation (ODI) said

French prosecutors yesterday opened a criminal investigation into Elon Musk and X, escalating a probe into sexual images of minors and other alleged illegal content on Musk’s social network. The action came three months after French law enforcement authorities raided X’s Paris of

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Are AI Neoclouds Rewiring Data Center Traffic Patterns? Neocloud-driven workloads are shifting data movement toward sustained, high-bandwidth transfers between storage and AI compute, according to a report. New measurements suggest AI workloads are reshaping data center traffic p

Poland’s intelligence service said it detected attacks on five water treatment plants where hackers could have taken control of the industrial equipment inside, including, in the worst case, tampering with the safety of the water supply. The story is relevant beyond Poland’s bord

All of Google’s products have been getting more AI features, including Chrome, which now offers split-screen Gemini chatbot support, the ability to automate web browsing, and more. Some desktop Chrome users have also noted that the browser appears to suddenly want more storage sp

Bash is one of the most flexible and powerful interfaces exposed to AI agents. In the right system, a model that emits grep , curl , tar , or a shell pipeline is producing an executable action that can read files, mutate a workspace, open network connections, and chain tools toge

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Peter Williams, a veteran cybersecurity executive who was the head of the hacking and surveillance tech division of U.S. defense contractor L3Harris, has been ordered to pay $10 million to his former employer. Williams was the central figure in one of the worst leaks of advanced

As part of an earnings presentation on Friday, Sony shared how it’s thinking about AI at the company, including many details about how it’s evaluating AI as part of making PlayStation games. Generative AI has recently been showing up in bigger games — though many indie developers