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China has blocked US tech giant Meta’s acquisition of the AI company Manus that was founded by Chinese tech entrepreneurs. That development indicates how difficult it has become for US and Chinese tech companies to strike and sustain such deals as government authorities on both s

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The next time you walk into a purportedly “haunted” house and sense a ghostly presence, consider that those feelings might be due to vibrating pipes, mechanical or climate control systems, rumbling from traffic, or wind turbines, rather than anything paranormal. That’s the conclu

Medical and utility tech companies admit digital breakins Itron, Medtronic disclose breaches in Friday filings Digital intruders recently broke into two major tech suppliers - utility-technology firm Itron and medical-device maker Medtronic - according to filings with federal reg

Artificial Intelligence Automate repetitive tasks with Amazon Quick Flows Consider a typical Monday morning: you’re manually copying data from several different systems to create a weekly report, then formatting it for different stakeholders. This single task can consume several

Artificial Intelligence Build and deploy an automatic sync solution for Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases With Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases, you can give foundation models (FMs) and agents contextual information from your organization’s private data sources to deliver more relevan

On Monday, Microsoft and OpenAI announced that they have, once again, renegotiated the deal binding the two companies. Despite some opinions on X that frame it as a victory for the ChatGPT maker over the Windows giant, both sides are walking away winners. Most importantly, the ne

Since time immemorial, serious PC gamers have proselytized about the superiority of mouse and keyboard control schemes over the more input-limited handheld controllers used by most console gamers (and others). In recent years, though, many PC gamers have started keeping a spare X

A former top researcher at Google AI division DeepMind announced Monday a record $1.1 billion seed round for his months-old startup, Ineffable Intelligence. The startup is pursuing superintelligence and was founded in late 2025 by UCL professor and former lead of DeepMind's reinf

You can now 3D print your own Noctua fans and accessories — CAD files available as free downloads for Noctua's top-rated products Don't forget the bespoke beige-and-brown filaments, too. 3D-printin' folks and hobbyists of various stripes can rejoice. The highly-regarded folks at

Ineffable Intelligence, a British AI lab founded a mere few months ago by former DeepMind researcher David Silver, has raised $1.1 billion in funding at a valuation of $5.1 billion to join the race for novel AI models that could outperform large language models. According to its

South Africa yanks AI policy after AI-assisted drafting invents citations Eish shame man! Maybe you shouldn't ask AI to set the rules for AI use? South Africa has pulled its draft national AI policy after discovering that it was citing sources that exist only in the fertile imagi

Inside Google's TPU V8 strategy, delivering two chips for two crucial tasks at incredible scale — network scales up to 1 million TPUs per cluster, an advantage over Nvidia AI accelerators TPU 8t scales to 9,600 chips per superpod; TPU 8i ditches the 3D Torus for a new Boardfly in

A man accused of carrying out cyberattacks on behalf of the Chinese government has been extradited to the United States, and faces over a decade in prison if convicted. Last year, the U.S. Justice Department accused Xu Zewei of working as a contractor for the Chinese Ministry of

Steam Controller developer interview — Valve talks design, the learning curve, and the lack of kernel drivers And yes, they've talked about potentially bringing "Aperture Desk Job" to the Controller. After months of waiting, Valve has released its first piece of hardware since th

Tom's Hardware Verdict The Steam Controller is a fully-featured PC gaming controller that is extremely customizable and lasts long on a charge. But you have to be willing to run all of your gaming life through Steam for it to work. Pros - + Comfortable, if a bit weighty - + Lasts

There’s a land grab underway in the U.S. for perpetual futures, one of the biggest and riskiest parts of the crypto trading world — and prediction markets Kalshi and Polymarket reportedly want a piece of it. Perpetual futures, better known by users as "perps," are futures contrac

Artificial Intelligence Build Strands Agents with SageMaker AI models and MLflow Enterprises building AI agents often require more than what managed foundation model (FM) services can provide. They need precise control over performance tuning, cost optimization at scale, complian

Artificial Intelligence How Popsa used Amazon Nova to inspire customers with personalised title suggestions This post was co-written with Bradley Grantham and Hugo Dugdale from Popsa. Popsa is a technology company that helps users rediscover and relive the meaningful memories hid

Friendster rises from the grave to make social media great again No ads, no algorithm, and you actually have to physically tap phones to add a friend It's been more than a decade since social media platform Friendster went dark, but a new owner has brought it back from the dead -

The GenAI Battle Shifts From Frontier Models To Agentic Platforms AI agents haven’t been around that long – mainstream generative AI itself it less than four years old, as hard as that may seem to believe – but the bulk of the IT world and the organizations big and small that ser

AI reality check: Here's what three companies learned building wallets, homes, and games Executives from Citi, Home Depot, and Capcom describe early work with AI agents While AI agents have moved from experimental tools to customer-facing workers in a matter of months, the next c

OpenAI and Microsoft’s partnership-turned-situationship just got even less committed. And a clause about artificial general intelligence, which has for years dictated the future of their deal, has officially been dropped. Microsoft and OpenAI’s famed AGI agreement is dead The two

Microsoft and OpenAI end exclusivity agreement, opening up potential partnerships with Amazon and Google — Microsoft will continue to receive revenue share through 2030 OpenAI has broken Microsoft's containment. OpenAI and Microsoft are ending their exclusivity agreement, allowin

Skye, an iPhone app still in private testing, wants to change how people interact with AI on their smartphones. And even before it’s launched, it’s already attracted interest online and from investors and “tens of thousands” of users, according to its creator — a sign that consum

How Google’s Virgo Fabric Signals Shift in AI Network Design A flatter topology and higher bandwidth reflect how hyperscalers are reshaping networks for large-scale AI clusters. Google’s new Virgo data center fabric reflects how AI workloads are reshaping network design in hypers

Mapping a smarter future with BigQuery and Google Earth AI models and datasets Greg Leon Group Product Manager Dan Meyer Product Marketing Manager Last year we introduced new geospatial analytics capabilities integrated for BigQuery. Building on this, we announced an expanded sui

Sam Altman and Elon Musk are set to face off in a high-stakes trial that could alter the future of tech’s leading AI startup, OpenAI. The trial begins with jury selection on April 27th, as Musk pushes forward his 2024 lawsuit that accuses OpenAI of abandoning its founding mission

Meta to power its bit barns with energy from space Facebook provider also working with energy storage firm to keep 100 hours of juice on hand With AI demand growing, Facebook parent Meta is looking for new ways to power its datacenters, with one ambitious project pledging to send

Complex that supplies 70% of global critical PCB base targeted in Iranian strike — attack could fracture the already disrupted electronics supply chain A single military strike may increase the cost of your next gadget. Reuters reported today that the effects of the war in Iran a