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Intel addresses Arrow Lake blunder: 'We needed to build back our reputation' — says Arrow Lake Refresh's low price a key first step, laying the groundwork for Nova Lake Arrow Lake stung. Arrow Lake Refresh is laying the foundation for Nova Lake. Intel knows that Arrow Lake dealt

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Off the Wire Press Releases MALTA, N.Y., June 2, 2026 — GlobalFoundries (GF) today announced the completion of its previously-announced acquisition of Synopsys’ ARC Processor IP Solutions business. Combined with MIPS, by GF, the acquisition establishes GF as a technology partner

Microsoft announces Majorana 2 quantum computing chip — claims a practical machine will come in 2029 With new materials, Microsoft is accelerating its quantum roadmap. Microsoft announced its next-generation quantum computing chip, Majorana 2, to an audience of developers at its

Microsoft just kicked off Build 2026 with a keynote from CEO Satya Nadella and other company leaders. As expected, it was filled with announcements, ranging from new Surface hardware to an always-on personal assistant and updates across Microsoft’s in-house AI models. Microsoft B

Micron’s 6600 ION NVMe SSD has reached 245.76TB, pushing the company’s capacity-focused PCIe Gen5 QLC line into quarter-petabyte territory. Micron began shipping the 245TB model on May 5, 2026, and is positioning it as the highest-capacity commercially available SSD. The drive si

AI is getting expensive, and some companies are cutting back on usage in an attempt to moderate costs. That cohort includes Uber, which recently instituted internal usage caps as a way to cut down on its exorbitant AI spend. Bloomberg reports that the company has instituted a new

Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon said Tuesday that investors have shifted decisively into "greed" mode as markets are poised to test an unprecedented fundraising wave for giant artificial intelligence firms. Asked by CNBC's Leslie Picker whether markets could support a string of m

AI researchers and labs have advanced by leaps and bounds in evaluating AI models for everything from safety and compliance to sycophancy and alignment. But it appears companies and developers are faced with a new, specific need: making sure their AI system behaves as intended fo

The agentic AI moment has arrived, but delivering on its promise requires more than good models. It also takes fast hardware, secure runtimes, a responsive data layer and models tuned for long-running reasoning. NVIDIA and Microsoft are bringing that full stack to developers acro

AI agents are changing how you interact with your PC. Creators, developers, and AI enthusiasts are already using these agents extensively to assist with day-to-day tasks such as coding, video editing, and content management. NVIDIA and Microsoft are teaming up to enable the next

Asus unveils its first Wi-Fi 8 router — ROG Rapture GT-BN98 Pro offers up to 2x real-world throughput uplift over Wi-Fi 7 Asus’ first Wi-Fi 8 looks very familiar Now that Wi-Fi 7 has been on the market for a few years and has matured, Wi-Fi 8 is the next logical step in the quest

President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order asking artificial intelligence companies to provide models to the federal government to assess their capabilities ahead of a full release. The order asks companies, on a voluntary basis, to participate in a benchmarking

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President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday creating a “voluntary framework” for AI companies to share their frontier models with the federal government before they’re released “to promote secure innovation and strengthen the cybersecurity of critical infrastructure.

Audiobook, e-book, or both? Now, you won’t have to choose. The Scribd-owned reading subscription service Everand wants to make the choice unnecessary. On Tuesday, the company took the wraps off a combined subscription that brings together Everand’s catalog of over 1.5 million aud

Off the Wire Press Releases DENVER, June 2, 2026 — QStar Technologies today announced integration between QStar Network Migrator and the BeeGFS parallel file system, enabling organizations to reduce primary storage costs through intelligent policy-based archiving for HPC, AI, ana

Off the Wire Press Releases Chip to Rackscale AI Solutions Delivered to Customers with the Help of Strategic Industry Partners TAIPEI, Taiwan, June 2, 2026 — Today at Computex 2026, Intel unveiled new innovations that address customers’ chip-to-systems-level AI needs with solutio

Martin Scorsese has signed on as a partner and adviser to AI image-generation startup Black Forest Labs, The New York Times reported on Tuesday. The caveat is that one of the world’s most famous living directors is using the tech solely for storyboarding. “For 70 years, I’ve been

Microsoft announced a bunch of new in-house AI models at Build 2026, including a new “flagship” model: MAI-Thinking-1. It’s an ambitious step into model development for Microsoft, which introduced its initial in-house models last year — before then, it had relied on OpenAI’s mode

Off the Wire Press Releases RA’ANANA, Israel, June 2, 2026 — DriveNets, a leader in large-scale networking solutions, has announced it has completed a $410 million Series D financing round, reaching $1 billion total capital raised. With more than $1B in secured business and havin

In the first weeks of 2026, OpenClaw spread through the AI world like a sonic boom, introducing many of the industry’s most ambitious technologists to the joy and chaos of an unrestrained AI agent. The project’s momentum tailed off after OpenAI scooped up its founder, but the inf

Google is launching a new feature for its Phone app that aims to protect you from AI impersonation scams. Now, when you receive a call from a scammer that appears to be coming from the same number as one of your contacts, Phone by Google will flag the call as suspicious so you ca

Much like Google, Microsoft is launching its own version of OpenClaw. Microsoft Scout is an always-on assistant that integrates into Microsoft 365 apps like Outlook, OneDrive, and Microsoft Teams, allowing businesses to assign a virtual assistant to employees to help with organiz

As AI agents grow ever more capable, enterprises racing to put them to work across applications, workflows, and products face a new challenge: ensuring an agent does what it’s supposed to do when it’s deployed across different environments. Microsoft is trying to solve this probl

Google announced on Tuesday that Android is launching fake call detection to protect against AI deepfake impersonation scams. The feature is rolling out globally in Phone by Google to Android 12+ devices this month, starting with Pixel devices. As people increasingly refuse to an

Before Zack Eakin sold investors on his new startup, he practiced on Palmer Luckey. When Eakin left Luckey’s defense startup, Anduril, in 2024 to start a new composites company called Layup Parts, Luckey — along with Anduril co-founders Brian Schimpf and Matt Grimm — let him work

JetCool has launched its SmartPlate System for Dell PowerEdge R770 and R7725 servers, expanding its direct-to-chip liquid cooling portfolio to align with next-generation server platforms based on 5th Gen AMD EPYC and Intel Xeon 6 processors. The company originally announced the D

Amazon was sued on Monday over alleged privacy violations from its Ring doorbell cameras. The class action lawsuit, filed in Seattle by Virginia resident Charles Sigwalt, claims that Ring’s Familiar Faces feature stores images of passersby without consent. Ring announced the Fami

Artificial Intelligence The art and science of hyperparameter optimization on Amazon Nova Forge Large language models (LLMs) deliver strong results on general tasks, but they often struggle with specialized work that requires understanding proprietary data, internal processes, or

Off the Wire Press Releases FOSTER CITY, Calif., June 2, 2026 – ZutaCore, a leader in waterless, direct-to-chip, two-phase liquid cooling, today announced its $100 million Series C funding round. The round includes investment from Mitsubishi Electric, Carrier Ventures, and Samsun

Intel’s next-gen LGA1954 socket will support Nova Lake, Razor Lake, and beyond — finally an Intel socket that outlives its CPUs If you ask a computer enthusiast, particularly an Intel one, what they hate most, it’s having to upgrade to a new motherboard to take advantage of the b

Artificial Intelligence Object detection with Amazon Nova 2 Lite Traditional computer vision solutions can require significant upfront investment. Setting up data pipelines, model training infrastructure, compute resources, and a dedicated data science team is often prohibitive f

Microsoft just announced “Project Solara,” a new OS designed for gadgets that run AI agents, at Build 2026. The company is calling it “a new platform built from the ground up to power agent-driven experiences.” It’s built on Android, not Windows. Microsoft’s Project Solara is an

The chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission said it's correcting a flawed enforcement action against Gemini Space Station, the crypto exchange run by the Winklevoss brothers, alleging it was caught up in a broader campaign against the crypto industry under the Biden

Focused Energy recently raised an oversubscribed $240 million Series A round, one of the largest early-stage rounds for a fusion power startup. The new round, announced last week, brings the company’s total private capital raised to $300 million, the company told TechCrunch. The

Connecting AI agents with unstructured data using Google Cloud Storage MCP Servers Himanshu Kohli Product Manager, Google Cloud Manjul Sahay Product Manager, Google Cloud Google Cloud Storage (GCS) is a foundational component of the modern agentic tech stack and the preferred hom

Microsoft debuts Surface RTX Spark Dev Box — Nvidia-powered mini-PC helps devs get ready for an agentic Windows It will have Visual Studio Code and GitHub Copilot preinstalled. ,Following the announcement of Microsoft's Surface Laptop Ultra ahead of Computex, the company is annou