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Interview: Unison Energy CEO on Data Centers Turning to On-Site Power Mariko McDonagh Meier says interconnection delays are pushing developers toward gas-based microgrids as primary power – not backup – reshaping how AI infrastructure gets built. Unison Energy, a Connecticut-base

Apple reportedly strikes deal for Intel to make some of its chips — two tech giants reached a preliminary agreement for Intel to make processors for Cupertino We don't know which chips Intel will be making, but it's a good sign for Lip-Bu Tan regardless. Sources close to both App

DDN storage being used in French Pangea supercomputer France’s TotalEnergies is building a Pangea 5 supercomputer using Dell, Nvidia, and DDN technologies. TotalEnergies is the rebranded French Total oil company, one of the top seven global oil suppliers. After expanding into liq

As families across the U.S. prepare to celebrate Mother’s Day this Sunday, Allison Stern is looking beyond the single day of appreciation. Stern just closed $10 million in commitments for her debut early-stage fund, Mother Ventures, which focuses exclusively on the mother as a co

N-able not quite able yet but re-enabling nicely MSP-focussed data protector N-able reported strong results in its first 2026 quarter, with reduced losses but sees growth slowing as a large deal focus lengthens sales cycles. Revenues of $133.7 million beat its $132 million high-e

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has opened an investigation into Avride, a robotaxi company that has partnered with Uber, after identifying more than a dozen crashes and one minor injury. The safety regulator’s Office of Defects Investigation (ODI) said

French prosecutors yesterday opened a criminal investigation into Elon Musk and X, escalating a probe into sexual images of minors and other alleged illegal content on Musk’s social network. The action came three months after French law enforcement authorities raided X’s Paris of

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Are AI Neoclouds Rewiring Data Center Traffic Patterns? Neocloud-driven workloads are shifting data movement toward sustained, high-bandwidth transfers between storage and AI compute, according to a report. New measurements suggest AI workloads are reshaping data center traffic p

Poland’s intelligence service said it detected attacks on five water treatment plants where hackers could have taken control of the industrial equipment inside, including, in the worst case, tampering with the safety of the water supply. The story is relevant beyond Poland’s bord

All of Google’s products have been getting more AI features, including Chrome, which now offers split-screen Gemini chatbot support, the ability to automate web browsing, and more. Some desktop Chrome users have also noted that the browser appears to suddenly want more storage sp

Bash is one of the most flexible and powerful interfaces exposed to AI agents. In the right system, a model that emits grep , curl , tar , or a shell pipeline is producing an executable action that can read files, mutate a workspace, open network connections, and chain tools toge

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Peter Williams, a veteran cybersecurity executive who was the head of the hacking and surveillance tech division of U.S. defense contractor L3Harris, has been ordered to pay $10 million to his former employer. Williams was the central figure in one of the worst leaks of advanced

As part of an earnings presentation on Friday, Sony shared how it’s thinking about AI at the company, including many details about how it’s evaluating AI as part of making PlayStation games. Generative AI has recently been showing up in bigger games — though many indie developers

Sometimes, Air Is The Only Way For AI Systems To Keep Their Cool Not everybody has a datacenter that supports liquid cooling, and not every company, particularly those with datacenters inside of major metropolitan areas who legally or practically need their systems all in one pla

Anthropic’s new compute agreement with SpaceX gives the AI company access to all compute capacity at SpaceX’s Colossus 1 data center, adding more than 300 megawatts of capacity and more than 220,000 NVIDIA GPUs within the month. While the immediate impact is higher capacity for C

With faster node startup for GKE, say goodbye to cold-start latency Eyal Yablonka Product Manager, Google Cloud Karen Aleksanyan Principal Software Engineer, Google Cloud We’ve rolled out a significant update to Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) that solves one of the most annoying

An agentic exchange must preserve a structured interaction: assistant turns interleave reasoning with one or more tool calls, and subsequent user turns return the corresponding tool results to the model context. Reasoning replay is model- and turn-dependent: some reasoning should

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The Trump administration on Friday launched a new website that will house a collection of “new, never-before-seen” files about UFOs, according to the Pentagon. (And yes, we’re apparently okay with calling them UFOs again, as the URL to the new website is war.gov/ufo.) In a public

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Storage News Ticker - 8 May Data source connector Airbyte launched Airbyte Agents, a context layer that gives production-grade agents direct access to a unified, search-optimized index of an organization’s data that is replicated and ready to query before the agents run. It’s bas

A little more than three years since NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter ended its pioneering mission at Mars, engineers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California are designing next-generation Martian rotorcraft to carry heavier payloads longer distances through the planet’s low-den

When OpenAI was busy experimenting with AI-powered gaming bots, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman were in the early days of forming an AI partnership. Court documents from the ongoing Musk v. Altman trial have provided a rare look at the communications between

Archaeologists continue to use DNA analysis to identify the recovered remains of the doomed crew members of Captain Sir John S. Franklin’s 1846 Arctic expedition to cross the Northwest Passage. They can now add four more names to the list of previously identified crew members. Th

Nintendo is raising the price of the Switch 2 by $50 starting in September — Console will soon cost $499, but you can avoid the price hike if you buy now Switch Online is also getting more expensive in two regions. Following industry-wide speculation and murmurs from Nintendo exe

Interconnection Delays Push Texas Data Center Behind the Meter Facing a 2029 grid wait and $35 million in upgrades, a Texas developer is building its own power to launch a 200,000‑square‑foot AI campus. Industrial developer BaRupOn acquired roughly 700 acres in Liberty County, Te

Akamai's stock jumped 20% Friday after it announced a $1.8 billion deal with an AI company and posted first-quarter earnings that were in line with estimates. Shares are up 65% over the past 12 months. A "leading frontier model provider" has committed to $1.8 billion over seven y