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Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt delivered the commencement address at the University of Arizona on Friday. And, as his speech veered into talk of AI, he was repeatedly drowned out by boos. AI is already a contentious topic, and it’s not surprising that those about to enter a ravag

Samsung 990 Pro gets discount of over $200 from recent highs — grab the 2TB model for $429.99 The storage market is finally healing. SSD prices have been on the higher side for a while now, thanks to the ongoing AI boom and global NAND flash memory shortages. However, the past co

Commencement season has come around again — and this year, a couple speakers have discovered that it’s tough to get graduating students excited about a future shaped by artificial intelligence. Last week, Gloria Caulfield, an executive at real estate firm Tavistock Development Co

Japan can’t make robot wolves fast enough to counter the rise in bear attacks that have killed 13 humans this year — $4,000+ animatronic Monster Wolf features intense LEDs and makes loud noises Producer has already sold more Monster Wolves this year than it usually does in a whol

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. To get this in your inbox, sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility! There is a bit of a theme emerging in transportation — and really every industry: AI is

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ASML to equip India’s first commercial chip fab — $11 billion Dholera project targets 50,000 wafers a month The new Dholera facility will produce chips for automotive, mobile, and AI. ASML and Tata Electronics have signed a memorandum of understanding to deploy ASML's lithography

When Lior Susan started Eclipse Ventures in 2015, the firm’s thesis of digitizing the physical world wasn’t particularly popular in Silicon Valley. “It was the era of enterprise software and SaaS, and it felt fairly lonely the first couple of years,” Susan said on stage at a rece

LinkedIn user hides AI prompt injection in bio to force recruitment spam to be sent in Olde English prose — bots also manipulated to address user as ‘My Lord’ This tale is also a warning that your AI agents can be manipulated in wholly unintended ways. If you’ve spent any amount

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Russia’s Mikron is selling framed test wafers with up to 120,000 processors as souvenirs — 12 designs, priced around $170 each, sold alongside $2 vials of cleanroom air These are 200mm wafers, packing between 30 to 120,000 chips, depending on the product. Russia’s Mikron is earni

Jay Forrester filed the first practical computer RAM patent 75 years ago this week — his Magnetic Core Memory patent would be granted five years later The patent sparked the largest settlement in history at the time. 75 years ago this week, on May 11th, 1951, MIT electrical engin

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Forza Horizon 6 boots up in just 4 seconds instead of 90 with new Advanced Shader Delivery tech and AMD GPUs — Microsoft claims 95% reduction in gaming load times Only available with games downloaded via the Xbox PC app. Microsoft announced Advanced Shader Delivery (ASD) for Xbox

US FTC reportedly launches antitrust probe into Arm following its launch of its own AGI CPU — regulators investigate if chip designer is restricting architecture access to rivals The company's expansion from design to manufacturing has got some of its customers worried. Arm Holdi

Josef Prusa says Bambu Lab allegedly violates AGPL license with an un-auditable network 'black box' — warns Chinese 3D printing software poses massive security risks Bambu Labs continues to draw fire. While the internet is up in arms over Bambu Lab threatening legal action agains

At age 49, Jan Janisch-Hanzlik’s multiple sclerosis was destroying her freedom to live the life she wanted. She gave up her active nursing job for a desk role. Frequent falls made her afraid to carry her grandchildren. She had to move to a bigger house to make room for the wheelc

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China bypasses US GPU bans with 1.54-exaflops 'LineShine' supercomputer — CPU-only monster packs 2.4 million Huawei-designed Armv9 cores CPUs can successfully do GPU jobs, but there is one important caveat. The vast majority of leading supercomputers and AI clusters today use CPU

OpenClaw creator burned through $1.3 million in OpenAI API tokens in a single month — bill covered 603 billion tokens across 7.6 million requests and 100 coding agents Peter Steinberger's three-person team runs 100 AI coding agents on OpenAI's tab. Peter Steinberger, the Austrian

Taiwan declares itself 'sovereign and independent' after Trump questions US defense commitment — comments come after Trump said he opposes Taiwan independence The president repeated his demand to move chip production to the U.S. Taiwan's foreign ministry declared the island a "so

Jensen Huang slams 'stupid' analogy comparing GPUs to nuclear weapons — Nvidia CEO says government should allow selling GPUs to 'adversarial countries' Are AI GPUs as powerful as nukes? Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang served as a guest speaker at Stanford’s CS 153 Frontier Systems course

Maker packs an opinionated, googly-eyed AI chatbot into a mobile suitcase, powered by an Nvidia Jetson — entirely local machine entity runs Gemma 4 E4B and can respond in 200ms This offline Nvidia Jetson Orin NX Super 16GB-based suitcase robot is called Sparky. If you would like

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We purchased the BZIZU Realtek RTL8127 PCIe 10GbE network adapter for $46, and it looks very familiar. This appears to be another brand label on the same basic RTL8127 PCIe Gen4 x1 card we covered in our original RTL8127 review. That matters because the earlier cards often came t

The vibes around the current AI boom aren’t great, even in the tech industry, according to a lengthy social media post from Menlo Ventures partner Deedy Das. Das described San Francisco as “pretty frenetic right now,” as “the divide in outcomes is the worst I’ve ever seen.” Using

AI-powered marketing platform Nectar Social announced Thursday that it raised a $30 million Series A round led by Menlo Ventures and its Anthology Fund, which was created alongside Anthropic. The company, which officially exited stealth last year, is an agentic operating system f

ArXiv, a widely used open repository for preprint research, is doing more to crack down on the careless use of large language models in scientific papers. Although papers are posted to the site before they are peer-reviewed, arXiv (pronounced “archive”) has become one of the main