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Tesla Robotaxis have crashed at least twice since July 2025 while a teleoperator was remotely driving the vehicles, according to newly unredacted information submitted to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). Both crashes happened in Austin, Texas, and occur

Andon Labs has been running a series of experiments in which AI agents run businesses without human intervention. Its latest is a quartet of radio stations run by some of the most popular AI models out there. “Thinking Frequencies” is run by Claude, “OpenAIR” by ChatGPT, “Backlin

Cement production alone currently accounts for about 8 percent of global CO2 emissions, so considerable effort is going into lowering that number. Efficiency can be increased, and energy sources can be swapped for cleaner ones, but a stubborn reality remains: The byproduct of tur

The Roundhill Memory ETF (DRAM) just hit $9.8 billion in assets under management in 43 days— the fastest pace ever for an exchange-traded fund, according to TMX VettaFi. Ahead of Thursday's milestone, the CEO of Roundhill Investments told CNBC's "ETF Edge" the rapid growth is tie

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Where’s the Trump phone? We’re going to keep talking about it every week. We’ve reached out, as usual, to ask about the Trump phone’s whereabouts. This week, despite our best hopes, we still don’t have our phone — but we do have some fresh doubts about the company’s patriotic cre

Google updated its spam policy to mark attempts to “manipulate” its AI model in search results as spam, including results in AI Overview or AI Mode in Search, as Search Engine Land reports: Google updates its spam rules to include attempts to ‘manipulate’ AI Trying to influence A

A bill focused on maintaining long-term playable access to online games has passed out of the California Assembly’s appropriations committee, setting up a floor vote by the full legislative body. The advancement is a major win for Stop Killing Games‘ grassroots game preservation

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MOST POPULAR EVENTS - The Hardware Crunch: How Supply Chain Turbulence Is Forcing a New IT Playbook Infrastructure teams are facing a perfect storm: extended hardware lead times, rising costs driven by AI demand, and accelerated platform timelines. - From Prompt to Exploit: How L

Your trust in AI is about to be put to the test: OpenAI will soon let you give the chatbot direct access to your bank accounts. The new feature announced in preview today will allow users to “securely connect” ChatGPT with Plaid — the bank-to-app bridging platform used by 12,000

On Friday, OpenAI launched a new set of personal finance tools in preview for ChatGPT Pro subscribers in the U.S., letting them connect their accounts and ask questions ranging from spending analysis to future financial planning. OpenAI has partnered with the financial connection

Gemini Live Agent Challenge: Announcing the winners and highlights Dilasha Panigrahi Product Marketing Manager, Google Cloud The Gemini Live Agent Challenge is officially in the books! We challenged developers worldwide to break out of the traditional 'text box' paradigm by build

After US government policies wrecked the country’s electric vehicle market, automakers have been scrambling to adapt. The loss of federal clean vehicle tax incentives and funding for charging infrastructure, combined with capricious tariffs, has resulted in a 28 percent drop in E

Storage news ticker - 15 May Alation introduced Alation AI Governance to give enterprises a system of record they are missing for AI compliance. It registers every AI model, agent, and tool into a single inventory, maps each to applicable regulations, generates evidence-backed mo

The largest electrical grid in the U.S., the PJM Interconnection, saw prices nearly double over the last year, according to a report published yesterday by Monitoring Analytics, an independent market monitor that serves as a sort of watchdog for the PJM grid. The culprit? Data ce

President Trump and a delegation of U.S. officials left Beijing on Friday after two days of high-level talks with the Chinese government, led by President Xi Jinping. Before boarding Air Force One, White House staffers and reporters had to surrender various items collected during

Artificial Intelligence Restrict access to sensitive documents in your Amazon Quick knowledge bases for Amazon S3 Organizations that must restrict access to sensitive documents increasingly rely on AI-driven search and chat to help employees find answers across large repositories

FLASH Scality says Samsung is developing nearline SSDs up to 1 PB A briefing with Scality has revealed that Samsung is developing a nearline SSD. The session was about Scality's Autonomous Data Infrastructure (ADI) and one slide showed four object storage performance tiers. There

Google floats reduced initial 5GB free cloud storage limit, users claim — 15GB to require extra security measures, company confirms it is 'testing a new storage policy for new accounts' New accounts in select regions are reportedly being limited to 5GB by default. Google is repor

This week, a company called Casimir Inc. emerged from “stealth mode” to announce that it had raised significant funding from venture capitalists willing to roll the dice on free energy. That’s right: a startup has gotten serious backing to develop sources of perpetual free energy

Pennsylvania residents complain they are being 'bulldozed' over AI data center concerns — lambast Gov. Shapiro in two-hour town hall, say he is losing support base People are blaming the governor for welcoming data centers into the state. A group of Pennsylvania residents spent a

With Its IPO Done, Cerebras Can Get Back To Pushing The AI Envelope There will probably never be a better time for any AI-related company to go public than between right now and next summer. The GenAI frenzy is at a fever pitch, and the big four hyperscalers and cloud builders al

AWS Pushes Graviton into Redshift Analytics Stack New Redshift instances combine warehouse and data lake analytics as AWS pushes custom silicon higher into AI-era data infrastructure. Amazon Web Services this week launched new AWS Graviton-powered RG instances for Amazon Redshift