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Preparing skeletal specimens for display in museums or for forensic studies requires the bones to be thoroughly cleaned to remove any remaining flesh or soft tissue. However, the need for thorough cleaning must be balanced against the risk of damaging the actual bones. According

The Trump administration has decided not to renew its trilateral trade pact with Canada and Mexico, instead opting to conduct annual reviews of the treaty that President Donald Trump once called "the best agreement we've ever made." The widely anticipated decision on the United S

Elon Musk’s SpaceX has shown investors a prototype of a “handset-like” AI device, reports The Wall Street Journal. The prototype is reportedly sleeker and slimmer than an iPhone, making us wonder if it’s something between a small touchscreen phone and a Rabbit R1. SpaceX reported

Ashton Kutcher is stepping away from Sound Ventures — the firm he co-founded with Guy Oseary 11 years ago — to start a separate VC fund, the Wall Street Journal reported. The actor and investor’s new firm is being co-founded with Morgan Beller, who until recently was a general pa

It turns out that while companies are trying to be the biggest and the fastest in AI, selling the leftovers is where a lot of the money is. Meta is building a cloud computing business and plans to sell excess compute to its competitors, Bloomberg reported Wednesday. The move is a

President Donald Trump on Wednesday brushed off questions about the staggering amount of money reported in his sprawling 2025 financial disclosure, saying his investment decisions are made by outside parties and he's only profiting because the stock market is up. "I don't get inv

Some gamers are concerned about the future of game ownership after Sony’s announcement today that it won’t produce physical discs for PlayStation games as of January 2028. On that date, “new games will be available on PlayStation Store and at retailers in digital formats only,” S

Off the Wire Press Releases Start tuning and serving AI models on a single DGX Spark with ready-made templates, then scale the same workflows to thousands of GPUs without a rebuild RENO, Nev., July 1, 2026 — CIQ, the enterprise software company behind Rocky Linux and the Fuzzball

Off the Wire Press Releases Powered by Broadcom’s Tomahawk 6 ASIC, the new 1.6 Tbps platforms maximize the performance of very large AI clusters with hundreds of thousands of XPUs RA’ANANA, Israel, July 1, 2026 — DriveNets, a leader in large-scale networking, today announced the

Together AI — an AI neocloud that rents out Nvidia GPU clusters and other AI-specific infrastructure — has raised an $800 million Series C at an $8.3 billion valuation, the company announced on Wednesday. The company was founded in 2022. The round was led by Aramco Ventures, with

Did you know the average new vehicle in the US grew an inch (25 mm) wider and 22 inches (558 mm) longer between 2013 and 2023? That’s probably obvious to anyone who steps foot outside these days, and it’s a trend that we ought to reverse. Bigger cars might make their occupants fe

Micromobility company Lime has raised $167 million in its IPO, ending an almost decade-long run as a private company that saw wild valuation swings as it navigated multiple major hype cycles and a global pandemic. The nine-year-old scooter and bike company, which is backed by Ube

The KYY X90G “Quad” portable monitor is a somewhat misleading label for a surprisingly useful tool. We have looked at a few portable monitors before, like the KYY K3 15.6in Portable Monitor, and they share a similar format. You just pop the stand, connect a USB Type-C cable to a

Artificial Intelligence Run NVIDIA Nemotron and OpenAI GPT OSS models on Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US) Government agencies running workloads in AWS GovCloud (US) need AI capabilities that keep pace with the commercial sector. At the same time, they can’t compromise the secu

MOST POPULAR AI - ai and ml UN warns of need for global governance to avoid an AI-pocalypse Capabilities are racing ahead of rules to ensure tech is used safely and responsibly, Scientific Panel argues - ai and ml Oracle outlines all the ways it could lose the farm it bet on AI R

Artificial Intelligence Building a serverless A2A gateway for agent discovery, routing, and access control As enterprises deploy AI agents across teams, vendors, and infrastructure, managing agent-to-agent communication becomes a growing operational burden. Without a centralized

Artificial Intelligence Structured memory filtering with metadata in AgentCore Memory Let’s say your customer support agent asks for “billing issues”, and gets back technical support tickets, sales conversations with receipt issues, and billing disputes all mixed. This is the ret

Artificial Intelligence HippoRAG: Neurobiologically inspired RAG using Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Neptune, and personalized PageRank Large language models (LLMs) have transformed how we process and generate information, but they still struggle with effectively integrating knowledge a

AlloyDB AI Functions - now with revolutionary performance boosts and cost savings Darshana Sivakumar Group Product Manager Pushkar Khaldikar Software Engineer AlloyDB is an AI-native database—it isn’t just a passive data store, it intelligently understands and processes your data

Artificial Intelligence How Inscribe uses Amazon Bedrock to stop document fraud in seconds This post is co-written with Conor Burke, CTO and Co-Founder at Inscribe Fraud now appears in 1 of every 16 documents, and AI-generated forgeries grew 5x from April to December 2025 (Inscri

Cloudflare has just issued the AI industry a new deadline to separate the web crawlers used for traditional search purposes, like Google Search, from those used for AI agents and training. Starting on September 15, 2026, Cloudflare’s default settings will block “mixed-use” crawle

Artificial Intelligence Simplify model selection in Amazon Bedrock with the open source Model Profiler Generative AI adoption is accelerating across industries, and Amazon Bedrock provides a managed service for building production-ready AI applications. With access to more than 1

Artificial Intelligence Accelerate protein design with BoltzGen on Amazon SageMaker AI BoltzGen on Amazon SageMaker AI accelerates protein binder design by managing GPU compute infrastructure end to end. BoltzGen is a diffusion-based generative model that designs proteins and pep

Student loan borrowers don't need to worry about losing eligibility for Public Service Loan Forgiveness based on their employer, after two federal judges blocked a Trump administration rule. On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Amir Ali struck down the regulation adding new restrictio

Tom’s view There are apocalyptic scenarios, and there are apocalyptic scenarios. Right now, Europe has just one AI firm, Mistral, anywhere near the frontier — and only a fraction of the 25 gigawatts of AI compute that the US has. If Europe doesn’t change course, it risks becoming

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Honda this week began production of batteries destined for energy storage systems, according to a report from Nikkei Asia. The milestone makes Honda the latest car company to dive into the red-hot energy market. The automaker’s shift toward energy storage comes three months after

Reinforcement learning (RL) is central to aligning language models, from reinforcement learning with human feedback (RLHF) within AI assistants to newer reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) workflows for reasoning and agent tasks. RL is now becoming a practical t

David’s view Last month, Colorado Democratic Rep. Diana DeGette sat next to her challengers and explained why she deserved a 16th term in Washington. “Who is going to be the best choice to stand up to Donald Trump and the real threat he poses to our democracy?” DeGette asked at t

MOST POPULAR AI - ai and ml UN warns of need for global governance to avoid an AI-pocalypse Capabilities are racing ahead of rules to ensure tech is used safely and responsibly, Scientific Panel argues - ai and ml Oracle outlines all the ways it could lose the farm it bet on AI R

We’re counting down the days until the release of Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, and Universal Pictures has released one last trailer to keep anticipation high. Most of us read some version of The Odyssey in high school, so we’re familiar with the story: Odysseus, legendary Gre

The autonomous vehicle space is starting to feel like a repeat of the 2016 hype cycle. Travis Kalanick is back building a robotics company, and the talent wars and capital are heating up the same way they did the first time around. The money’s flowing back, and it’s the people wh

The US has lifted export curbs on Anthropic’s newest Claude models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, about three weeks after the Trump administration flagged the models as national security risks. As of today, Anthropic confirmed in a blog post, Fable 5 will be available globally, and US or

As California Governor Gavin Newsom inks a deal with Anthropic to expand the use of its chatbot Claude across state agencies, he’s also rolling out a plan to start tracking AI-related job losses. The dichotomy points to a political conundrum sweeping state capitols: As politician

Off the Wire Press Releases July 1, 2026 — Registration is now open for the 2026 Real-World Quantum Computing workshop, jointly hosted by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and San Jose State University (SJSU). The two-day workshop is designed for upper-level undergrad

Dive Brief: - Lululemon has officially appointed Laura Gentile and Marc Maurer to its board of directors, according to a June 24 filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. - The two new members joined following the annual stockholders’ meeting on Thursday, expanding the

NASA’s inspector general released an audit Tuesday of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program, and it looks increasingly likely that Boeing’s Starliner crew capsule won’t be certified for operational flights to the International Space Station until next year. That’s just three years