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Meta’s attempt to pioneer a metaverse and make VR cool totally flopped, except for one shining diamond in the rough: Supernatural, a VR fitness game that made working out feel fun and accessible. Now, users can rejoice that Supernatural isn’t shutting down after all. Meta went th

The generative AI boom has driven the cost of memory into the stratosphere, and Google is a key part of that trend. So it’s only fitting that Google should offer some less RAM-hungry local AI models. The company has announced the release of a new Gemma 4 model that fills a gap in

Substack announced on Wednesday a new feature called “Reply Rules,” designed to give creators greater control over how their audiences are able to respond. With the feature, creators can establish specific guidelines for comments on their posts, in Notes, or in Chat. These guidel

Google Labs, the tech giant’s team devoted to experimental product design, has launched a new AI-fueled app for iOS and Android that will quite literally animate your life. Behold, Dreambeans. Why is it called that? We’ll get to that later. First, what is it? Gozde Oznur, the pro

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Off the Wire Press Releases Funding through the latest NCRIS rounds will support Pawsey’s ongoing operations and include $1.5 million for its quantum computing program. June 3, 2026 — The Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre has welcomed continued investment from the Australian

Uber is slashing 23% of jobs in its people division as it seeks to streamline operations under the direction of new president Jill Hazelbaker. CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said in a memo that the "changes are necessary to maximize the effectiveness of the People team and the enormous po

On Tuesday, Donald Trump finally signed his executive order expanding the government’s efforts to conduct voluntary safety testing of frontier AI models. Now, critics are warning that the order may be short-sighted, offering only performative reassurances that the government is a

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Off the Wire Press Releases COLUMBUS, Ohio, June 3, 2026 — CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society specializing in scientific knowledge management, today announced CAS Connections, a new integration framework that embeds the CAS Content Collection and CAS Newton, a recen

IBM and Red Hat have expanded their enterprise security strategy with two announcements in quick succession: joining Anthropic’s Project Glasswing on May 19 and introducing Project Lightwell on May 28, aligning large-scale engineering investment with industry collaboration to add

Artificial Intelligence Fundamental’s Large Tabular Model NEXUS is now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart Today, we’re announcing support for Fundamental’s NEXUS model on Amazon SageMaker AI. With this launch, you can deploy a foundation model (FM) purpose-built for tabular

Off the Wire Press Releases June 3, 2026 — The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) has launched EuroIHPCSS, a new project supporting Europe’s continued participation in the International HPC Summer School (IHPCSS). From 2026 to 2029, the project will coordinate the European co

This week we’ve got tandem hands-ons with Google’s new Gemini AI agent — Spark — from my colleagues David Pierce and Jay Peters. Their takeaways are similar: It’s so effective that it’s scary. Spark knew that David’s dog is named Frida and knew the first name of Jay’s wife, even

Plex is adding new social features to the platform. As of today, users can make and share “personalized lists on Plex of any movie, show or episode,” the company said in an announcement. Later this year, users will be able to import lists from other streaming services and react t

Wearable health tech startup Ultrahuman said hackers gained unauthorized access to customers’ wellness data after stealing an employee’s credentials through malware. On Wednesday, the India-based startup informed affected customers of the incident via email, stating that the brea

Carvana has been granted the option to invest in Slate Auto, the electric vehicle startup backed by Jeff Bezos, according to documents obtained by TechCrunch. Paperwork filed with Delaware’s division of corporations shows that the online used car retailer was given a warrant to b

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MSI Claw 8 EX AI+ brings Intel Arc G3 Extreme to handhelds — 8-inch, 120 Hz display and new ergonomic grips Any color you want, as long as it's 'Void Purple' MSI has long been a partner of Intel's with its Claw handheld, but at Computex, the company's Claw 8 EX AI+ looked like th

PJM Monitor: AI Data Center Growth Reshaping Power Markets AI-driven load growth is colliding with queue delays, supply shortages, and outdated power market assumptions, warn PJM and Pennsylvania regulators. Hyperscale data center growth has become a dominant force reshaping the

Save $1,280 on this 4K-ready Alienware Aurora desktop PC with RTX 5080 — high-performance gaming at your fingertips for $2,919 Massive discount on this Alienware gaming rig at Best Buy There's a resurgence in prebuilt desktop gaming PCs as of late, due to the exceptional inflatio

Artificial Intelligence Reducing container cold start times using SOCI index on DLAMI and DLC Deep Learning AMI and AWS Deep Learning Containers are now enabled with support for SOCI snapshotter and index. Seekable OCI (SOCI) is a technology that enables efficient container image

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The widespread hacking campaign that relied on simply asking Meta AI’s chatbot to take over a victim’s Instagram account appears to have continued even after the company said the issue had been resolved. Meanwhile, the company has been scrambling to secure the targeted accounts a

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Lian Li's Edge Platinum V2 PSUs have an LED dust indicator, magnetic filter, and a snap-on fan and USB header hub — Edge line's trademark 90-degree power connector also returns They should arrive in September, at up to 1350 watts. Beyond using GaN tech to shrink their size and in

Amazon’s updated search bar will now show you AI-generated images of products as you describe them. For now, the in-app feature only surfaces AI images of clothing and home goods, allowing you to tap on the image that best matches what you’re looking for and search for similar-lo

Data Centers Become Largest Segment of US Office Construction New Census data showed that data center construction reached an annualized rate of $50.7 billion in April, surpassing general office construction. Data centers have become the largest segment within US private office c

What’s new in serverless Managed Service for Apache Spark Vinay Londhe Software Engineering Manager Bhooshan Mogal Senior Product Manager Whether you use it for data preparation, real-time interactive queries, AI model training, or something entirely different, running Apache Spa

ASRock shows off a slew of new AIOs, Power Supplies, and 10th Anniversary hardware — a monster 3KW Taichi power supply for AI and hybrid Taichi Aqua AIO/custom loop stand out in the crowd No new CPUs or GPUs, so it’s down to power supplies, cooling, and AI machines Tom's Hardware

Artificial Intelligence Improve your agent’s tool-calling accuracy with SFT and DPO on Amazon SageMaker AI AI agents can autonomously handle complex, multi-step tasks, but their effectiveness depends on calling the right tools to retrieve information or take action. When an agent

In what may be one of the more questionable uses of AI to date, Amazon announced on Wednesday that it will display AI-generated images of products within its shopping app based on users’ search queries. That’s right — a retailer where people shop for real-world products thinks th

Morgan Stanley will soon open a key wealth management funnel to artificial intelligence agents from thousands of corporations, CNBC has learned exclusively. It's one of the earliest instances of a major Wall Street bank opening its platforms to external AI tools. The move will al