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OpenAI and Microsoft's alliance fractures as cloud exclusivity deal ends — Azure's single-provider monopoly for ChatGPT is officially over OpenAI and Microsoft outline terms. Microsoft and OpenAI have once again renegotiated the terms of their deal with one another, but it might

Users often search for recipes and travel plans on YouTube to find videos related to their queries. Now, the video platform will offer a new tool to cater to those users’ needs with its introduction of an AI-powered interactive search feature that presents step-by-step results al

Qdrant’s AI vector search is faster, auditable and more available Composable vector search and database supplier Qdrant has announced faster indexing, 3-way clusters for instant failover, and audit logging for compliance. The company produces a stand-alone vector database to stor

Sandisk open-sources accelerated SSD pre-conditioning algorithm When an SSD is first made, its IO performance fresh-out-of-the- box (FO) is variable and it has to go through repeated data writes, copies and deletes (block erases) until it reaches a steady state performance level.

Hammerspace bookings accelerate 14x AI-focussed data orchestrator Hammerspace said its bookings so far in 2026 are almost fourteen times greater than in the whole of 2025. And that with new CRO Tony Asaro only in post since late January, having been promoted from Chief Strategy a

Enterprise AI stack lock-in An enterprise AI stack involves far more than coupling stored data with AI large language models via vectorization, and using MCP to hook up to agents. Unless you understand all the AI infrastructure components involved, you can end up locked in to you

Wisconsin’s Data Center Tariff Signals a New Regulatory Baseline PSC’s overhaul of We Energies’ tariff proposal marks a shift to stricter frameworks, ensuring hyperscale growth doesn’t burden existing ratepayers. The Public Service Commission (PSC) of Wisconsin has approved signi

Despite proposed science cuts, NASA boss says 'We haven't canceled anything yet' That 'yet' is sure doing a lot of heavy lifting if the budget for science is slashed NASA administrator Jared Isaacman has appeared before the US House Appropriations Committee to explain the propose

BCI (brain-computer interface) technology — in which neural signals are routed from a person’s head to a computer — was once the stuff of science fiction, but these days the technology represents a competitive corner of the tech industry. One of the companies racing to commercial

Six AI data centers proposed for a small town of 7,000, equal to 51 Walmart Supercenters in 17 square mile area — four out of the seven town council members have resigned from their positions as town fights back Archbald residents are putting up a fight against these massive deve

Editor’s note: This post is part of Into the Omniverse, a series focused on how developers, 3D practitioners, and enterprises can transform their workflows using the latest advances in OpenUSD and NVIDIA Omniverse. Manufacturing’s traditional design-build-test cycle rested on a s

Tenstorrent’s Galaxy Blackhole AI servers escape the event horizon RISC-V-based systems pack 32 Blackhole accelerators in a 6U, $110K chassis Tenstorrent on Tuesday announced the general availability of its Galaxy Blackhole AI compute platform. Each of the startup's 6U systems is

On Tuesday, Red Hat principal software engineer Sally O’Malley released a new open source tool called Tank OS to make it easier to deploy and manage OpenClaw agents more safely. “This was a fun project that I put together on the weekend that I knew would be a really good fit for

Brussels orders Google to share Android's AI sandbox with the other kids DMA enforcers want rival assistants to get same deep device access as Gemini Those pencil pushers at the European Commission are drawing up measures to ensure Google opens up its Android smartphone platform

Tom's Hardware Verdict Like many refresh boards, the X3D AI Top improves upon the original with an increase in M.2 count and improved aesthetics. This top-of-the-line motherboard is one of the best X870E flagships available. Pros - + LCD Edge View display - + Dual 10 GbE - + Robu

UK.gov's DCMS to new CDIO: Migrate from Google to Microsoft, overhaul ERP, build a team £125k and a pension await whoever can herd 6 departments onto single platform without losing will to live Later today, prospective candidates will log onto a UK government call to convince the

The last time tech's hyperscalers addressed Wall Street, three months ago, they announced plans to collectively spend well over half a trillion dollars this year to build out their artificial intelligence infrastructure. That was before the U.S. invaded Iran, causing oil prices t

AI meeting notetaker app companies have realized that transcribing meetings and providing summaries alone is not enough to justify their business models and valuations. They now want the apps to act as a full workspace where users bring in data from different sources, search acro

Save $400 on this 4K-ready MSI gaming PC with an RTX 5070 Ti and 32GB DDR5 — budget-friendly Aegis Z2 rig also ships with eight-core AMD Ryzen CPU and a 2TB SSD, now just $1,849 A bargain deal on a capable rig for gaming at 1440p and 4K If you're looking for a brand new, 4K-capab

This is CNBC's Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox. Happy Tuesday. Shares of key players in the artificial intelligence trade — like Oracle, Nvidia and SoftBank Group — are all falling this morning following a report that OpenAI miss

The GeForce RTX 30-series upgrade matrix — does your Ampere GPU need an upgrade in 2026? Is it finally time to upgrade from Ampere? Nvidia’s RTX 30-series graphics cards made a big splash when they began arriving all the way back in 2020. Those products delivered a huge performan

These days, the hype is all about AI and robots, but almost a decade ago, the tech du jour was self-driving. You couldn’t swing a lanyard at CES for the latter half of the last decade without hitting a robotaxi; post-COVID, the number of startups has shrunk, but the technology ha

Scientists create electronic devices that function reliably at extreme temperatures from 500 degrees Celcuis to absolute zero — advanced semiconductor material unlocks new possibilities in space tech and quantum computing The technology has massive potential in space technology a

Two men charged over series of arson attacks on 5G masts Pair accused of creating literal flame war as bonkers conspiracy theories grow Two men face charges over a series of arson attacks on 5G masts spanning two years following a Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) investi

Google has signed a classified deal that allows the US Department of Defense to use its AI models for “any lawful government purpose,” The Information reports. The agreement was reported less than a day after Google employees demanded CEO Sundar Pichai block the Pentagon from usi

If you look at a Neanderthal skull and a Homo sapiens skull, they’re visibly different: Neanderthal skulls are lower and longer, whereas ours tend to be rounder. However, those differences probably don’t say much about the brains within them, according to a recent study, which co

Decades-old pre-Stuxnet cyber sabotage tool breaks cover, NSA listed it as 'nothing to see here' — fast16 targeted nuclear reactors, dam design, and other high-precision civil engineering software years before Stuxnet broke cover Fast16 appears to be at least half a decade older

Last August, some of the best cybersecurity teams in the business gathered in Las Vegas to demonstrate the strength of their AI bug-finding systems at DARPA’s Artificial Intelligence Cyber Challenge (AIxCC). The tools had scanned 54 million lines of actual software code that DARP

EXPO 1.2 only brings partial CUDIMM support due to lack of native IMC compatibility — Asus also working on updating older B650 and X670 boards with EXPO 1.2 True CUDIMM support is planned for the next-gen Ryzen CPUs. EXPO 1.2 officially released two days ago with Asus' X870 model

Vendor slaps extra 'memory fee' on each tech purchase amid global chip crunch — the more you buy, the more you pay Ubiquiti has recently implemented a new policy requiring customers to pay a "Memory Surcharge" of up to 5.8% on products purchased through its official online store.

Microsoft Outlook for iOS still down and out for many after 'service change' Sign-in failures, unexpected sign-outs... just another day for users Users of Microsoft Outlook on iOS are continuing to experience outages more than 24 hours after glitches first surfaced, despite Micro

News site linked to OpenAI super PAC sent bots posing as journalists to interview real people — site has published nearly 100 articles with real quotes gathered by fake writers The site published 42 articles that its own automated reviewer flagged as not ready. When Nathan Calvin

SUSE's sovereignty pitch meets an inconvenient $6 billion question Linux vendor touts European independence at SUSECON as majority stakeholder quietly explores its options European-based SUSE devoted much of the annual SUSECON event to its sovereignty-focused pitch - even as repo

Denuvo has been cracked in all single-player games it previously protected — 2K Games and Denuvo reportedly retaliate with mandatory 14-day online checks Temporary success for the red team elicits a collective cheer. We've reported previously on the feats of the skull-and-bones c

True Anomaly, a Colorado-based startup building space interceptors for President Donald Trump's sweeping Golden Dome project, raised $650 million, the company said on Tuesday. The four-year-old startup is now valued at $2.2 billion and has raised a total of $1 billion. True Anoma

Locked, stocked, and losing budget: AI vendor lock-in bites back Execs in the C-suite thought they could swap models in a week. They were hallucinating Opinion The days when you could jump from one frontier AI model to another at the drop of a hat are going away as vendor lock-in