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Tech companies, including Microsoft and Meta, have been falling in love with natural gas lately, rushing to build power plants fed by the fossil fuel to drive their data centers. But their embrace might be a little too tight — the cost to build one of the facilities has spiked 66

Claude-powered AI coding agent deletes entire company database in 9 seconds — backups zapped, after Cursor tool powered by Anthropic's Claude goes rogue PocketOS founder blames ‘Cursor running Anthropic's flagship Claude Opus 4.6’ plus Railway’s infrastructure for data disaster.

Microsoft and OpenAI's open relationship is now official No. More. Exclusivity. Redmond keeps the ring until 2032, but OpenAI is free to see other clouds Once tied tightly together, Microsoft and OpenAI have amended their agreement, making the Windows giant's license non-exclusiv

All 22 members of the National Science Board were terminated by the Trump administration via a terse email on Friday. The administration has provided no explanation for purging the board, which helps steer the National Science Foundation and acts as an independent advisory body f

New AI data center in Utah will generate and consume more than twice the amount of power the entire state uses — Kevin O'Leary's 9 Gigawatt Utah data center campus approved The 40,000-acre project will run entirely off-grid using natural gas. Utah's Military Installation Developm

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One of Canva’s new AI features has been caught replacing the word “Palestine” in designs. The Magic Layers feature — which is designed to break flat images out into separate editable components — isn’t supposed to make visible alterations to user designs, but it was found by X us

WD and multi-tiered disk drive arrays A blog by WD’s Chief Product Officer Ahmed Shihab implied several roadmap possibilities which we explored with him via an email interview. He made an initial statement: “Before getting into the specifics, I’d underscore that the core point of

Verda Bets $117M on AI Cloud as Workloads Fragment Across Platforms Verda’s latest funding round targets AI workload fragmentation, focusing on optimized infrastructure for training and inference. Finland-based AI infrastructure provider Verda has raised $117 million in a combine

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is far less vocal about his worldviews than Palantir’s Alex Karp. And yet, France is taking steps to reduce its reliance on Windows, while its domestic intelligence agency recently renewed its contract with the increasingly controversial data analytics

The Pacific Ocean is a giant climate cauldron, with a powerful heat engine that affects storms, fisheries, and rainfall patterns half a world away, and scientists are watching closely to see if it’s about to boil over. Their projections suggest the tropical Pacific is simmering t

One of the more intriguing space stories in a while broke last week when NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said during a congressional hearing that the two habitation modules built for the Lunar Gateway had been corroded. The immediate response to these comments on Wednesday befo

SpaceX dusts off Falcon Heavy for first flight in 18 months Side boosters to make simultaneous touchdown while center core takes one for the team Updated SpaceX is preparing to launch its Falcon Heavy rocket for the first time in more than 18 months, kicking off what could be a b

NEO Semiconductor’s POC says 3D DRAM is good to go Taiwan-based 3D X-DRAM developer NEO Semiconductor has had a successful proof of concept for its chips with strategic funding led by Acer founder and former CEO Stan Shih. 3D X-RAM builds layers of DRAM on a chip, like 3D NAND, c

Qualcomm shares rose on Monday following reports that it's partnering with OpenAI to create smartphone processing chips to advance the AI firm's hardware ambitions. The U.S. smartphone chipmaker is set to work alongside Taiwanese semiconductor firm MediaTek to develop the chip fo

China’s top economic planner, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), said on Monday it has blocked Meta’s $2 billion acquisition of Manus, an agentic AI startup founded by Chinese engineers that relocated to Singapore before Mark Zuckerberg scooped it up late last

There have been plenty of rumors about OpenAI’s hardware plans, which involve launching a pair of earbuds. A new note from industry analyst Ming-Chi Kuo suggests that the AI company might be working on a phone in collaboration with MediaTek, Qualcomm, and Luxshare. Kuo, who has r

Spotify is increasing its push beyond music and podcasts as the company on Monday announced a new fitness category partnership with Peloton Interactive. The deal will make more than 1,400 Peloton classes available to Spotify Premium subscribers across most of its global markets,

American energy technology company Itron has confirmed it was hit by a cyberattack in mid-April and that hackers had gained access to some of its systems. In a legally required filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission late on Friday, Itron said it was “notified” th

Trump's Golden Dome gets $3.2B of contractors and an AI sprinkle Space Force awards 11 firms prototype deals to build orbital interceptors The United States Space Force (USSF) has awarded eleven companies contracts to develop space-based interceptors for President Trump's Golden

Anthropic’s Managed Agents with Memory Are Reshaping AI Workloads Persistent memory shifts AI performance toward storage, networking, and data movement, not just GPU throughput. Anthropic is positioning managed agents with memory as a developer-facing infrastructure layer for bui

This is CNBC's Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox. Good morning. We have a big week ahead of us: In addition to earnings reports from key automakers and five of the "Magnificent Seven," the Federal Reserve will make its next monetar

Hacktivists share a guide on making working electronics PCBs made from natural clay with prehistoric technique — ethical hardware tutorial explains how to find clay, stamp 3D printed circuits, paint traces, and fire tablets The method shared is open source, avoids plastics and co

Cybersec is a thankless job: expanding workload and shrinking pay packet Global recruitment giant says 71% of human firewalls saw wages stagnate last year as threats and responsibilities grew Cybersecurity professionals were the most overlooked workers in IT when it came to pay r

After expanding into podcasts, audiobooks, video, and even physical books, Spotify on Monday announced its next big category: fitness content. The company is building on its reputation as a hub for energizing playlists for your workout to actually become the home to your workout

TSMC's details next-gen CoWoS roadmap: over 14-reticle packages and 48x leap in compute power expected by 2029 — massive size enables 24 HBM5E stacks and additional memory bandwidth jump Packaging is now the scaling engine. At the North American Technology Symposium 2026, TSMC re

Save a colossal $1,184 on a 9950X3D2, 64GB DDR5, and a 4TB Samsung SSD for a powerhouse gaming PC build — epic Newegg deal comes with AMD's first dual X3D chip and a flagship Asus ROG board for $2,899 Save nearly $1,200 on a new gaming PC build with this kit combo There's a deal

Burglar alarm biz burgled: ADT confirms cyber intrusion after ShinyHunters extortion attempt Security giant says attackers grabbed 'limited set' of data. Crooks claim 10 million records A home security biz getting digitally burgled is not a great look - but that's exactly where A

Microsoft updates the Windows Update Experience: You can hit pause now Keep the patches away for as long as you like Microsoft has devised a solution to the problem of Windows Updates that break customer devices – users are now able to pause them for as long as they like. In a po

The auto design world is full of advanced 3D visualization tools and VR sculpting platforms, but your average new car still enters the world as a sketch. The AI-designed car is taking shape Amidst a global maelstrom of trade wars and uncertain demand, automakers are leaning on AI

This week, players are being asked to pay $25 for early access to Masters of Albion, a god game throwback that legendary designer Peter Molyneux (Populous, Dungeon Keeper, Black and White) says will be the last game he ever works on. But the players who poured roughly $54 million

3D printing community organizes against California law that would restrict sales to state-approved models to prevent printing gun parts Experts warn that "safety algorithms" are a death sentence for makerspaces, schools, and innovation. David Tobin, the Executive Director of the

Developer creates a basic first person shooter game using Gaussian splats, and you can play it for free in your browser It's not much of a game, but it's an impressive proof of concept for the novel technology. It's true: London-based developer Iakov Sumygin has created a minimal

In the beginning was the Bork: 'Heart of the Earth' exhibit reveals Raspberry Pi in existential crisis Dynamic Earth's ancient rock holds not primordial crystal, but a tiny Linux box having a bad day Bork!Bork!Bork! From the beginning of time, there has always been Bork. Lurking