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Match Group, the dating app behemoth that owns Match, Tinder, OkCupid, and Hinge, says that it has invested $100 million in yet another mobile service designed to bring people together: a Grindr competitor known as Sniffies. The website for Sniffies sports various images of men i

Google has granted the U.S. Department of Defense access to its AI for classified networks, essentially allowing all lawful uses, according to multiple news reports. This deal follows Anthropic’s public stand against the Trump administration after the model maker refused to grant

Trump admin pays wind developers to quit, back fossil fuel projects DoI offers up to $885M if they abandon offshore wind projects As the Iran war pushes up energy prices, the Trump administration is paying offshore wind developers to walk away from projects and invest instead in

Humanoid robots are getting a new gig as baggage handlers and cargo loaders at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport—part of a Japan Airlines experiment to address a human labor shortage as airport visitor numbers have surged in recent years. The demonstration, set to launch in May 2026, could

Vintage chatbot lives in the past like an elderly relative Talkie's training data stops at the end of 1930, and its creators hope it'll help us better understand how AI thinks If you're tired of interacting with a bot that spews Nazi propaganda or refers to itself as MechaHitler,

A day after OpenAI revamped its relationship with Microsoft so that it can run all of its products on any cloud, the artificial intelligence company said its models will be available via Amazon Web Services. AWS customers can experiment with OpenAI's models as well as its Codex a

Artificial Intelligence Migrating a text agent to a voice assistant with Amazon Nova 2 Sonic Migrating a text agent to a voice assistant is increasingly important because users expect faster, more natural interactions. Instead of typing, customers want to speak and understand in

Last year, WhatsApp and Apple notified several people in Italy, including journalists and activists, that they had been targeted with government spyware. In particular, WhatsApp pointed the finger at the Israeli American surveillance tech maker Paragon Solutions as the company th

IBM's AI coding 'partner' Bob hits general availability 80,000 internal guinea pigs, Bobcoins, mainframe dreams and a name that really should have raised more flags IBM has announced global availability of Bob, the AI coding assistant - sorry partner - which it claims has deliver

Amazon unveils a Copilot for all your apps Retailer touts 'teammates' and always-on context as it muscles into an already crowded enterprise market Amazon has announced two AI services pitched with typical techbro hyperbole, aimed at changing the way you work. The first is "a new

50+ fully managed MCP servers now available for Google Cloud services Vidya Nagarajan Director of Product Management, Google Cloud Yubin Gong Principal Engineer, Google Cloud At Google Cloud Next ‘26, we announced that more than 50 Google-managed Model Context Protocol (MCP) serv

Good morning, As I noted yesterday, today’s Stratechery Interview is early in terms of my timing — Tuesday instead of Thursday — and late in terms of delivery — 1pm Eastern instead of 6am — because the topic was embargoed. That embargo created a bit of a weird situation for me ov

New Google Networks Tuned Up For GenAI Inference And Training It is almost certainly not a coincidence that a networking expert at Google has risen to the top to be put in charge of the infrastructure development at the search engine, advertising, and now AI model giant. This is

Anthropic has launched a set of connectors for Claude that allow the AI chatbot to tap into popular creative software, including Adobe’s Creative Cloud apps, Affinity, Blender, Ableton, Autodesk, and more. Claude can now plug directly into Photoshop, Blender, and Ableton Anthropi

Artificial Intelligence NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano Omni model now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart Today, we are excited to announce the day zero availability of NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano Omni on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart. This multimodal model from NVIDIA combines video, audio,

This £8.59 TP-Link gigabit Ethernet switch is the ultimate budget upgrade for lag-free gaming and streaming — ideal solution for ditching laggy Wi-Fi connections unlocks four extra high-speed ports on your network Allow fast gigabit speeds around your home with this TP-Link switc

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday heard arguments in a landmark legal case that could redefine digital privacy rights for people across the United States. The case, Chatrie v. United States, centers on the government’s controversial use of so-called “geofence” search warrants. Law

Australia is getting serious about making Big Tech pay for news. The country’s government unveiled draft legislation on Tuesday that would require companies like Meta, Google, and TikTok to pay for the journalism they aggregate or reshare, or face a levy on their local revenues.

Apple’s recent crackdown on vibe-coding apps hasn’t held up Lovable’s launch of its no-code AI app builder, which is now available as a mobile app on Apple’s and Google’s app stores. The vibe-coding startup’s new mobile app is being pitched to would-be app builders as a way to co

Agentic systems often reason across screens, documents, audio, video, and text within a single perception‑to‑action loop. However, they still rely on fragmented model chains—separate stacks for vision, audio, and text. This increases inference hops and orchestration complexity, d

AI agent systems today juggle separate models for vision, speech and language — losing time and context as they pass data from one model to the other. Unveiled today, NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano Omni is an open multimodal model that brings these capabilities together into one system,

Market slumps as OpenAI reportedly misses internal targets for active users and revenue — Nvidia, Oracle, AMD, and CoreWeave shares all tremble on the news OpenAI's apparent missed targets shake up investor confidence. OpenAI has reportedly missed its internal targets for the num

Sony rolls out 30-day online DRM check-in for PlayStation digital games — players could temporarily lose access if they don't keep their consoles online Silent policy change infuriates PlayStation owners A few days ago, reports of a new DRM policy surrounding PS4 and PS5 consoles

GitHub has announced that it will be shifting to a usage-based billing model for its GitHub Copilot AI service starting on June 1. The move is pitched as a way to “better align pricing with actual usage” and a necessary step to keep Copilot financially sustainable amid surging de

Backblaze’s Q1 2026 Network Stats report shows a slower winter period for neocloud and hyperscaler traffic, with activity beginning to rise again in March. The report examines network-level infrastructure data across Backblaze’s environment, providing context on how data movement

When Chris Gray sold his Shark Tank-backed scholarship search startup Scholly to Sallie Mae in 2023, he thought he had it all. Now he’s suing the student loan giant for wrongful termination and alleging that it’s selling the data his app collected, which includes personal info on

KIOXIA has introduced the BG8 Series, a new client SSD line aimed at PC OEMs that brings the PCIe Gen5 interface into more mainstream systems. The lineup is designed for a broad range of everyday computing hardware, including slim laptops, consumer and commercial notebooks, and d

At Google CloudNext, IBM and Google Cloud announced an expanded collaboration to address a recurring challenge for enterprise customers: modernizing core systems and operationalizing AI across hybrid and multi-cloud environments without increasing complexity. The joint effort foc

China announces CPU-only exascale supercomputer with 47,000 homemade processors, record 2 Exaflops of performance without GPUs — Lingshen super said to use Huawei Kunpeng servers and no foreign-made components Good luck with that. China's National Supercomputing Center in Shenzhe

University of Oregon chemist Christopher Hendon loves his coffee—so much so that studying all the factors that go into creating the perfect cuppa constitutes a significant area of research for him. His latest project: discovering a novel means of measuring the flavor profile of c

The subsurface industry is at a critical point in its digital evolution. For decades, unlocking reservoir potential has relied on experts performing essential and time-intensive manual workflows. As data complexity grows, the gap between machine speed and human bandwidth has beco

Ubuntu's AI roadmap revealed, universal AI 'kill switch' and forced AI integration are not part of the plan — cloud tracking, local inference, and agentic system tools take center stage AI is coming to Ubuntu In a comprehensive post in the Ubuntu community hub on 27th April, Cano

The trial between Elon Musk and OpenAI is officially upon us. And it is going to be a mess. As the two sides fight over the early days of AI, who deserves credit and cash for what, and more, we’re likely to spend the next few weeks hearing a lot of important people’s secrets made

Apple is giving App Store developers a new way to attract subscribers with lower-priced plans tied to a yearlong commitment. The company announced on Monday it will introduce a new subscription option that lets customers pay for their auto-renewing subscriptions on a monthly basi

Legendary ZSNES Nintendo emulator rewritten from scratch with GPU-acceleration, no vibe coding — new Super ZSNES has ‘far more accurate CPU and audio cores than the original’ Super ZSNES turns up the accuracy and optional frills with a GPU-powered recode from two of the original