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Image model releases are driving growth for AI mobile apps, generating 6.5x more downloads than traditional model updates, according to a new report from app intelligence provider Appfigures. This marks a shift from earlier days, when the release of new models powering the conver

Former Andreessen Horowitz investor Katie Haun announced on Monday in a press release that her firm has raised $1 billion across new funds to continue its thesis of backing crypto and blockchain. The capital will be spread across startups at early and later stages, Bloomberg repo

Hobbyist xenomorphs Raspberry Pi into Alien-themed DIY laptop Everything you need to build the PS-85 is available from its designer's website, even if you can't get to space We've all been there: You're doing maintenance on a Weyland-Yutani hauler dragging mineral ore back toward

A study that claimed OpenAI’s ChatGPT can positively impact student learning has been retracted nearly one year after publication. The journal publisher, Springer Nature, cited “discrepancies” in the analysis and a lack of confidence in the conclusions—but not before the paper ra

Looking at the state of the NVIDIA GB10 ecosystem several months down the line, there are a couple of things that have continued to surprise us. The first has been the sheer popularity of the small-form-factor systems, which have seen GB10 boxes from multiple vendors sell almost

Anthropic said Monday it is partnering with private equity giants Goldman Sachs and Blackstone to launch a $1.5 billion firm aimed at speeding the adoption of artificial intelligence across hundreds of companies. The new entity, formed alongside the San Francisco-based PE firm He

IBM and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have launched the MIT-IBM Computing Research Lab, a new joint research organization intended to advance foundational work in artificial intelligence, algorithms, and quantum computing, with an emphasis on computing methods t

Scality has announced ARTESCA+ Veeam HA, an updated version of its unified software appliance that combines the Veeam Data Platform with Scality ARTESCA object storage on a single system. The release extends the original single-node design into a multi-node, highly available arch

Data Center Humidifiers: What They Do and How to Choose The choice of humidification system – whether isothermal, ultrasonic, high-pressure nozzle, or adiabatic – depends primarily on the facility's humidity gap and available power budget. If you live in a warm climate, you proba

Nearly a week after the makers of the popular web server management software cPanel and WebHost Manager (WHM) alerted users of a critical flaw in its software, hackers are now mass-compromising thousands of websites that rely on the vulnerable software. As of Monday, there are mo

Get a DDR5 starter build with a Ryzen 5 7600X and ASRock B650M Pro motherboard for 23% off — $430 bundle helps avoid inflated RAM prices This latest deal is one of the best ways to start a DDR5 PC build The AI industry continues to gobble up the DRAM industry, keeping memory pric

Scaling data and AI with Managed Service for Apache Airflow Piotr Wieczorek Senior Product Manager, Google Rafal Biegacz Lead Engineering Manager Orchestration is no longer just about moving data; it is about governing enterprise intelligence. To reflect our deep commitment to an

GameStop yesterday made an unsolicited offer to buy eBay for $55.5 billion. GameStop claims that eBay has underperformed and spends too much on sales and marketing and argues that it would become a stronger company if it cuts costs and is combined with GameStop’s physical retail

Secretlab launches Mandalorian Titan Evo gaming chair in Star Wars collection for May the 4th — collab builds with a new high-end themed chair Chrome leatherette mimics Beskar armor ahead of The Mandalorian & Grogu's May 22 premiere. Secretlab dropped a Mandalorian Edition to its

After an unanticipated five-week break in the season, Formula One resumed action this past weekend in Miami. Held at a temporary circuit around Hard Rock Stadium, the event is emblematic of the Liberty era of F1: a turbocharged marketing extravaganza crammed full of hospitality s

Artificial Intelligence Beyond BI: How the Dataset Q&A feature of Amazon Quick powers the next generation of data decisions Business leaders across industries rely on operational dashboards as the shared source of truth that their teams execute against daily. But dashboards are b

Artificial Intelligence Introducing the agent quality loop: AgentCore Optimization now in preview Generate recommendations from production traces, validate them with batch evaluation and A/B testing, and ship with confidence. AI agents that perform well at launch don’t stay that

Artificial Intelligence Agent-guided workflows to accelerate model customization in Amazon SageMaker AI Every organization has access to the same foundation models. The real competitive advantage comes from customizing them with your proprietary data and domain expertise. But get

When do we take AI doomers seriously? That’s a key subtext of Elon Musk’s attempt to shut down OpenAI’s for-profit AI business. His attorneys argue that the organization was set up as a charity focused on AI safety and lost its way in pursuit of lucre. To prove that, they cite ol

Tom's Hardware Verdict The Alienware 16 Area-51, even with a new processor, is effectively the same laptop as last year, with the exception of a new anti-glare OLED display panel. Pros - + Strong gaming performance - + $50 mechanical keyboard is definitely worth it - + Plenty of

AMD Ryzen AI 5 435G APU breaks cover in early benchmarks — six-core Zen 5 chip goes head-to-head with the Ryzen 5 8600G for budget PC builders AMD has already unveiled its latest Ryzen AI 400 desktop processors. These new Zen 5 chips are available exclusively to OEMs, but they st

Colin Angle, the maker of the Roomba and the man who helped put 50 million household robots into people’s homes, is back with a new robot. But this one is designed as a companion, not a cleaner. The creator of Roomba is back with a furry robot companion Colin Angle revealed his l

Artificial Intelligence Generate dashboards from natural language prompts in Amazon Quick Building meaningful dashboards demands hours of manual setup, even for experienced BI professionals. Amazon Quick now generates complete multi-sheet dashboards from natural language prompts,

Bret Taylor’s AI startup Sierra is raising a $950 million funding round led by Tiger Global and GV, the company announced Monday, pushing its post-money valuation above $15 billion. The raise gives Sierra more than $1 billion to work with — capital the company says it will use to

Two days before the Elon Musk vs. OpenAI trial began last week, Musk texted the model maker’s president and co-founder Greg Brockman. Musk suggested to Brockman that OpenAI settle the suit. After Brockman replied by suggesting both sides drop their suits, the exchange went off th

Hands off my trademark! Notepad++ dev threatens legal action against macOS port It's not the fork that's the problem, it's the attempt to make it look official, says original Notepad++ dev Don Ho Notepad++ remains a Windows-only app, at least under that name. The beloved develope

Last year, we noted how the long-standing vagaries of HDMI licensing and open source AMD driver development combined to prevent the upcoming Steam Machine from receiving official support for the HDMI 2.1 display standard. Now, though, it seems that AMD is making real progress on

Artificial Intelligence From data lake to AI-ready analytics: Introducing new data source with S3 Tables in Amazon Quick Organizations today are increasingly looking to combine analytics and AI to accelerate insights and decision-making. Amazon Quick, a unified agentic AI-powered

Artificial Intelligence Introducing Dataset Q&A: Expanding natural language querying for structured datasets in Amazon Quick Every BI team knows this bottleneck: a business user has a question that falls outside existing dashboards, so they file a ticket. An analyst writes the qu

Artificial Intelligence Capacity-aware inference: Automatic instance fallback for SageMaker AI endpoints As organizations scale generative AI workloads in production, securing reliable GPU compute has become one of the most persistent operational challenges. Large language models

Firestore at Next '26: Unlock agentic development, search and MongoDB compatibility Minh Nguyen Group Product Manager, Google Cloud Patrick Costello Engineering Manager, Google Cloud In the era of AI agents, the distance between a big idea and a working application has never been

On Monday, Anthropic announced a joint venture focusing on deploying enterprise AI services. Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, and Goldman Sachs will be founding partners in the new venture, which is backed by a group of VCs, hedge funds, and private equity firms, including Apollo

Inside Amazon Web Services' plan to make networking disappear The Register gets a look inside AWS' networking lab in Cupertino FEATURE In an unassuming three-story office building in Cupertino, California, engineers from Amazon Web Services are busy trying to make networking inco

A new project called Acorn has launched a way for organizations and creators to build their own online communities as an alternative to centralized social media platforms like Instagram, X, and Threads. It uses the same underlying technology that powers the decentralized social m

AI Data Center Boom Rewires US Power Supply Chain Rising demand for electrical equipment drives supply growth, but hyperscale construction accelerates and infrastructure challenges persist. The US data center electrical equipment market is projected to grow to $65 billion by 2030

Just days before the trial started, Elon Musk tried to settle his lawsuit, which alleges that under Sam Altman’s direction, OpenAI abandoned its mission to serve as a nonprofit making AI to benefit humanity. According to a Sunday court filing from OpenAI, Musk messaged OpenAI Pre

Shadow IT has given way to shadow AI. Enter AI-BOMs 'If you don't have visibility, you can't understand what to protect' When it comes to securing enterprise supply chains, now heavily infused with AI applications and agents, a software bill of materials (SBOM) no longer provides