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Cisco Wins Over AI Customers With Merchant Silicon And Optics We are all full aware of what the hyperscalers, cloud builders, and AI model builders are all doing to build out their datacenter infrastructure to support their AI aspirations. But it is hard to get a sense of what re

The Ebola outbreak first reported in the Democratic Republic of the Congo on Friday has seemingly escalated quickly into a large, uncontrolled multinational outbreak. As of May 17, there were 10 confirmed cases, 336 suspected cases, and 88 deaths in the DRC, as well as two confir

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An attempt to pressure Meta into removing a critical post from a Chicago Facebook group called “Are We Dating the Same Guy” may end in sanctions for lawyers whose takedown arguments appeared to rely on fake AI citations to support doxing claims. The case had already been dismisse

Shares of memory chip maker Seagate closed down more than 6% Monday, leading a group-wide sell-off, after comments from CEO Dave Mosley raised concerns that it won't be able to meet the soaring demand fueled by the artificial intelligence buildout. Mosley was asked at a JPMorgan

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NASA released a much-anticipated contract solicitation for a Mars-orbiting spacecraft late last week, kicking off what is sure to be a hotly contested and potentially controversial procurement. At issue is $700 million, already appropriated by Congress, to build a spacecraft, lau

Jury throws out Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI after less than two hours of deliberation — Unanimous vote that Musk filed the lawsuit too late All claims dismissed on statute of limitations grounds, clearing a major obstacle for OpenAI's planned IPO. A federal jury in Oakland

Anthropic announced Monday it has acquired Stainless, a startup founded by former Stripe engineer Alex Rattray whose software is widely used by rival AI labs, including OpenAI and Google. Anthropic didn’t disclose terms of the deal. However, The Information reported last week tha

The tech trial of the year, Musk v. Altman, was ultimately a fight for control. Elon Musk argued that Sam Altman, with whom he helped found the now-massive company OpenAI, shouldn’t direct the future of AI. Altman’s lawyers, in turn, poked at Musk’s own credibility. A jury came t

Artificial Intelligence Prompting Amazon Nova 2 for content moderation If you moderate user-generated content at scale, you need a system that catches policy violations accurately without over-flagging legitimate posts. A moderation system that misses harmful content puts you at

A thousand years ago, the ancestors of today’s Barkindji people carefully buried a dingo (or garli, in the Barkindji language) in a mound of shells. Archaeologists recently studied the burial in what’s now New South Wales, Australia. They found that the Barkindji ancestors had bu