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Wall Street analysts estimate total AI capital expenditures could now climb above $1 trillion in 2027, following even bigger spending plans unveiled by the hyperscalers during Wednesday's tech earnings. Both Evercore and Bank of America placed 2027 capex in excess of a $1 trillio

OpenAI is getting serious about account security. The company on Thursday launched Advanced Account Security (AAS), a set of opt-in protections for ChatGPT users designed for high-value individuals — but available to anyone who wants them. As part of that new program, digital sec

Bandwidth hogs rejoice, Celestica's latest switch is bristling with 64 ports of 1.6 Tbps Ethernet Networking kit arrives just in time for Nvidia's 1.6 Tbps ConnectX-9 NICs If you thought 800 Gbps Ethernet was fast, just wait. Celestica's latest switches cram 64 1.6 Tbps ports int

In a federal courtroom in California on Thursday, Elon Musk testified that his own AI startup, xAI, has used OpenAI’s models to improve its own. Elon Musk confirms xAI used OpenAI’s models to train Grok He said it was “partly” true that the company had used model distillation to

OpenAI and Anthropic have been on the warpath lately against third-party efforts to train new AI models by prompting their publicly accessible chatbots and APIs, a process known as “distillation.” That conversation has focused on Chinese firms using distillation to create open-we

Founders building in the healthcare space can’t just build fast and break things. Timelines stretch longer, stakes are higher, and success depends on navigating systems that reward rigor over speed. That’s exactly the reality Robhy Bustami, co-founder and CEO of BioticsAI, has be

China’s new clampdown on drone sales and even the storage of drone components within the capital of Beijing stands out in a country that effectively built the global market for affordable commercial drones. The unprecedented citywide rules taking effect on May 1 come as authoriti

Google announced on Thursday that it will begin rolling out Gemini to cars with Google built-in, marking a significant upgrade from the current Google Assistant. The move signals Google’s push to bring more advanced, conversational AI into the driving experience. The announcement

Prelim Samsung Memory results exceeded by even bigger actuals Samsung’s confirmed first quarter results exceeded its preliminary results as memory pricing punched revenue and profit higher. The initial overall revenues of ₩133 trillion ($88.5 billion) rose to a record high ₩133.9

Druva brings its SaaS protection to Power BI Druva is providing cyber-resilience for Microsoft Power BI with support for Power Apps and Power Automate coming later this year, The no-code, low-code Microsoft Power Platform enables non-programmers to develop applications, websites,

TikTok is launching a new “Campus Hub,” the company told TechCrunch in an email on Thursday. The new hub features dedicated college group chats and personalized feeds designed to help students stay connected with their campus communities, even while they’re away for the summer. T

Shade’s single source of file system truth for creatives Startup Shade has raised $14 million to dominate entertainment and media file sharing, streaming and search Its software lets entertainment and media (E&M) creative workers access all multi-source files in one place with pa

Financial services platform Stripe is introducing a digital wallet specifically built for the AI era, where autonomous agents can perform tasks that include shopping, paying for reservations, buying tickets, and more. At its annual conference this week, the company introduced Lin

Google's fix for critical Gemini CLI bug might break your CI/CD pipelines This CVSS 10.0 RCE vuln has been patched, automatically for some, so better check those workflows If you use Gemini CLI, watch out: Google has patched a CVSS 10.0 vulnerability in its command-line AI tool a

Artificial Intelligence AWS Generative AI Model Agility Solution: A comprehensive guide to migrating LLMs for generative AI production Maintaining model agility is crucial for organizations to adapt to technological advancements and optimize their artificial intelligence (AI) sol

Artificial Intelligence Sun Finance automates ID extraction and fraud detection with generative AI on AWS This post was co-authored with Krišjānis Kočāns, Kaspars Magaznieks, Sergei Kiriasov from Sun Finance Group If you process identity documents at scale—loan applications, acco

Today, game developers can begin integrating NVIDIA DLSS 4.5 with Dynamic Multi Frame Generation, Multi Frame Generation 6X, and the second-generation transformer model for NVIDIA Super Resolution. In this post, we’ll go over new technologies and resources to share with our game-

Neural network techniques are increasingly used in computer graphics to boost image quality, improve performance, and streamline content creation. Approaches like super resolution, denoising, and neural rendering help real-time engines work more efficiently, offering new creative

Artificial Intelligence Unleashing Agentic AI Analytics on Amazon SageMaker with Amazon Athena and Amazon Quick Modern enterprises face mounting challenges in extracting actionable insights from vast data lakes and lakehouses spanning petabytes of structured and unstructured data

Manus, an AI company Meta acquired for $2 billion last year is running ads promising quick, easy money with AI: Find local businesses without websites or with bad websites, have AI build them one, then call them up and sell it to them. Meta is running get-rich-quick ads for its A

Talent over tokens: AI models are becoming more expensive to run, and productivity gains are limited — efficient workers might be the solution to strained budgets Token costs rise as the industry reckons with AI's impact on the workforce. Earlier this month, it was reported that

French prosecutors link 15-year-old to mega-breach at state’s secure document agency Two computer crime allegations follow up to 18M lines of data surfacing online French prosecutors say police detained a 15-year-old on April 25 over the alleged theft of millions of records from

Artificial Intelligence Configuring Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway for secure access to private resources AI agents in production environments often need to reach internal APIs, databases, and private resources that sit behind Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) boundarie

After some uncertainty—and a little drama—the Trump administration is appealing a ruling by a judge last month that temporarily halted anti-vaccine changes Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy had implemented at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Those changes include

Zed team releases version 1.0 of Rust-built editor: Traditional editor and AI tool Team wins praise for adding 'disable all AI features' setting for devs who want a code editor to be only a code editor The Rust-built Zed editor has reached version 1.0, released yesterday, with de

Creative and visualization teams today produce more assets, in more formats, with leaner teams. Generative AI can accelerate that work – compressing tasks that once took hours of manual effort into automated, repeatable pipelines. ComfyUI is an open-source, node-based creative to

Pirate RPG game is secretly looting your SSD lifespan — new Windrose patch promises smoother sailing and addresses excessive disk writing Update ASAP so your SSD has some room to breathe. Windrose, an early access PvE survival game made by Kraken Express, has come under scrutiny

Artificial intelligence continues to advance at a dizzying clip, forcing enterprises to develop and release new products quicker than ever or risk becoming irrelevant to a faster-moving competitor. Salesforce believes it has found a strategy that allows it to keep up even if it i

Gemini Space Station won approval from the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission to operate its own regulated derivatives clearinghouse, a move that gives the crypto exchange a deeper foothold in prediction markets and sets up a potential expansion into perpetual futures trad

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Microsoft’s relationship with OpenAI has always been complicated, so I expected the close partnership-turned-situationship to end in tears. After all, executive disagreements, rearranged contracts, and frustrations over AI infrastructure have all regularly been part of the partne

Google is preparing to update vehicles that have Google built-in with its Gemini AI assistant. This will be an upgrade from the current Google Assistant according to Google’s announcement, and promises to provide an improved experience for natural conversations, fetching vehicle-

Cloud CISO Perspectives: At Next ‘26, why we’re multicloud and multi-AI Francis deSouza COO, Google Cloud and President, Security Products Get original CISO insights in your inbox The latest on security from Google Cloud's Office of the CISO, twice a month. SubscribeWelcome to th

What Google Cloud announced in AI this month Andrea Sanin AI Editor, Google Cloud Editor’s note: Want to keep up with the latest from Google Cloud? Check back here for a monthly recap of our latest updates, announcements, resources, events, learning opportunities, and more. We ho

AWS Compute Blog Serverless ICYMI Q1 2026 Stay current with the latest serverless innovations that can improve your applications. In this 32nd quarterly recap, discover the most impactful AWS serverless launches, features, and resources from Q1 2026 that you might have missed. In

Uber’s forthcoming luxury robotaxi service with Lucid Motors and Nuro is getting a fourth partner: Hertz. The companies announced Thursday that Hertz will provide “day-to-day vehicle asset management, including charging, maintenance, repairs, cleaning, and depot staffing.” The se

NVIDIA CUDA Tile (cuTile) is a tile-based programming model that enables developers to write GPU kernels in terms of tile-level operations—loads, stores, and matrix multiply-accumulate—rather than manually coordinating threads, warps, and shared memory. cuTile.jl brings the same

Since the introduction of wings to racing cars halfway through the 1960s, airflow has been everything in racing. Until that point, the focus was on making a car as slippery as possible; less drag meant more top speed on the straights. Then designers like Jim Hall at Chaparral and

Crucial Taiwan undersea cable severed by old shipwreck — backup microwave communications activated to keep population connected An errant shipwreck cut a crucial link between the strategic Dongyin and Beigan islands. Dongyin island, the northernmost part of Taiwan and located bar