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Sometimes, Air Is The Only Way For AI Systems To Keep Their Cool Not everybody has a datacenter that supports liquid cooling, and not every company, particularly those with datacenters inside of major metropolitan areas who legally or practically need their systems all in one pla

Anthropic’s new compute agreement with SpaceX gives the AI company access to all compute capacity at SpaceX’s Colossus 1 data center, adding more than 300 megawatts of capacity and more than 220,000 NVIDIA GPUs within the month. While the immediate impact is higher capacity for C

With faster node startup for GKE, say goodbye to cold-start latency Eyal Yablonka Product Manager, Google Cloud Karen Aleksanyan Principal Software Engineer, Google Cloud We’ve rolled out a significant update to Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) that solves one of the most annoying

An agentic exchange must preserve a structured interaction: assistant turns interleave reasoning with one or more tool calls, and subsequent user turns return the corresponding tool results to the model context. Reasoning replay is model- and turn-dependent: some reasoning should

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The Trump administration on Friday launched a new website that will house a collection of “new, never-before-seen” files about UFOs, according to the Pentagon. (And yes, we’re apparently okay with calling them UFOs again, as the URL to the new website is war.gov/ufo.) In a public

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Storage News Ticker - 8 May Data source connector Airbyte launched Airbyte Agents, a context layer that gives production-grade agents direct access to a unified, search-optimized index of an organization’s data that is replicated and ready to query before the agents run. It’s bas

A little more than three years since NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter ended its pioneering mission at Mars, engineers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California are designing next-generation Martian rotorcraft to carry heavier payloads longer distances through the planet’s low-den

When OpenAI was busy experimenting with AI-powered gaming bots, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman were in the early days of forming an AI partnership. Court documents from the ongoing Musk v. Altman trial have provided a rare look at the communications between

Archaeologists continue to use DNA analysis to identify the recovered remains of the doomed crew members of Captain Sir John S. Franklin’s 1846 Arctic expedition to cross the Northwest Passage. They can now add four more names to the list of previously identified crew members. Th

Nintendo is raising the price of the Switch 2 by $50 starting in September — Console will soon cost $499, but you can avoid the price hike if you buy now Switch Online is also getting more expensive in two regions. Following industry-wide speculation and murmurs from Nintendo exe

Interconnection Delays Push Texas Data Center Behind the Meter Facing a 2029 grid wait and $35 million in upgrades, a Texas developer is building its own power to launch a 200,000‑square‑foot AI campus. Industrial developer BaRupOn acquired roughly 700 acres in Liberty County, Te

Akamai's stock jumped 20% Friday after it announced a $1.8 billion deal with an AI company and posted first-quarter earnings that were in line with estimates. Shares are up 65% over the past 12 months. A "leading frontier model provider" has committed to $1.8 billion over seven y

The Apple Macintosh is more than 40 years old, but it’s still going strong, and its recent success was significant enough that Apple CEO Tim Cook called it out during the company’s earnings call last week. In particular, Cook credited the new low-cost MacBook Neo, which Apple say

Sweden-based caller ID company Truecaller said it will cut 70 jobs, or roughly 15% of its workforce, in the second quarter, as the company posted its Q1 2026 results with a decline in revenue and profits. Truecaller blamed real-money gaming in India, changes in advertising partne

North Korean fake remote worker scam lands two Americans 18-month prison sentences for hosting laptops — US firms unknowingly shipped laptops to “employees” who secretly worked from overseas via remote desktop, generating $1.2 million for Pyongyang Department of Justice records e

If you’re planning to raise a Series A in the next 12 to 24 months, the rules you think you’re playing by may already be outdated. Series A isn’t just harder — it’s slower, more selective, and increasingly unforgiving. The bar has shifted, and many founders are still optimizing f

It’s not in your head. Climate change is contributing to longer and more severe pollen seasons across the Northern Hemisphere. Dr. Neelima Tummala, an ear, nose, and throat doctor at NYU Langone Health, said her patients tell her every year that their allergies are the worst they

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When we reviewed the Switch 2 just after its launch last year, we warned that interested customers might want to buy in early, as the launch price could go up. That potential price hike became a reality today, as Nintendo announced the Switch 2’s MSRP will increase to $499.99 on

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There have been supposed alien sightings for centuries. These observations of “unidentified flying objects,” or UFOs, have periodically surged, such as during the late 1940s and early 1950s as the Cold War began. There have been more sightings since the early 2000s, driven by adv

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Sometimes, companies pick CEOs based on carefully laid succession plans designed to maximize investor confidence and future performance. Other times, apparently, companies pick CEOs based on a bunch of video calls while the current CEO is texting the former CEO about who the new

After years of hints and preparation, the Uber-backed electric bike and scooter rental startup Lime has filed for an initial public offering. The company, which is incorporated as Neutron Holdings, Inc., has eyed the public markets for at least five years. CEO Wayne Ting last spo

Artificial Intelligence Halliburton enhances seismic workflow creation with Amazon Bedrock and Generative AI Seismic data analysis is an essential component of energy exploration, but configuring complex processing workflows has traditionally been a time-consuming and error-prone

Pity the grid operator PJM Interconnection. For decades it worked quietly and in the background, matching electricity demand with supply. Meanwhile, customers enjoyed some of the lowest electricity prices in the United States. No longer. Politicians, businesses, households, and p

Tom's Hardware Verdict The Maingear MG-1 adds more power and airflow in its new case. You get a lovely build with a ton of power, but very few of the frills that boutique systems typically offer. Pros - + Extremely clean build - + Strong performance - + Lots of configuration opti

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Microsoft CTO confesses that 30-year-old code from the mid-90s still forms the bedrock of Windows 11 — ancient Win32 API still the backbone, but CTO says it's 'more relevant than ever in 2026' Instead of 'flying cars and moon stations' in 2026, we still have Windows 11 using '90s

A large part of Airbnb’s Q1 2026 earnings call was dedicated to talking about how the company is using AI tools for coding, customer support, and search. Notably, the company claimed that 60% of the code its engineers produced in the quarter was written by AI — echoing comments b

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AI data center bans are rapidly multiplying across the US — 69 jurisdictions block new builds, with four moves noted as permanent More people are saying no to data centers. The number of bans being enacted against data centers is increasing across the U.S., with one tracker listi

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