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The Trump administration yesterday sued Minnesota in an attempt to block the first state law that prohibits prediction markets. While other states imposed restrictions on prediction markets, Minnesota banned them outright in a law signed by Gov. Tim Walz on Monday. The US Commodi

Airbnb’s core business was letting users book a room or a whole property owned by someone else. In most cases, the host would be a house or a property owner, and you would get a stay with basic services such as a bed, a bath, and a kitchen. The company is now introducing hotels t

Artificial Intelligence Multimodal evaluators: MLLM-as-a-judge for image-to-text tasks in Strands Evals If you’re building visual shopping, image or document understanding, or chart analysis, you need a way to verify whether your model’s response is actually grounded in the sourc

Samsung narrowly avoids 18-day chip strike after last-minute wage deal with 48,000-worker union — tentative deal, subject to workers' vote, suspends billions of dollars worth of potential losses Deal struck just hours before planned action Samsung Electronics has narrowly avoided

This earnings season, the cost of AI started showing up in the numbers. Meta, Shopify, Spotify, and Pinterest all flagged rising AI and inference costs as a drag on margins. Shopify said economies of scale were "partially offset by increased LLM costs." This is the bill coming du

“There’s an app for that” was the promise of the App Store from the very beginning. The app that will get your phone to do the thing you want it to? It’s just a few taps away. The tagline wasn’t strictly true — I’m still waiting for that one perfect grocery list app. Still, apps

OpenAI is preparing to confidentially file a draft of its IPO prospectus as soon as Friday, as the company gears up for what could be one of the largest public markets debuts in history, CNBC confirmed on Wednesday. The artificial intelligence company, which is valued at more tha

All that doom and gloom about the state of the electric vehicle market? That’s just an American problem. The rest of the world can’t get enough EVs, according to a new report from the International Energy Agency. EV sales surpassed 20 million units last year, capturing 25% of the

Last year marked the beginning of Google’s explicit focus on AI search, and this year’s I/O solidified that shift. As Google’s search VP Liz Reid said during the keynote, “Google search is AI search.” This change is well underway, and the very reasonable objections to this path w

A day after Elon Musk lost his lawsuit that threatened OpenAI’s structure, leadership, and finances, the AI giant is ready to move forward with its initial public offering, sources told the Wall Street Journal. OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman reportedly hopes that his company w

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Artificial Intelligence Build real-time voice applications with Amazon SageMaker AI and vLLM Voice agents, live captioning, contact center analytics, and accessibility tools all depend on real-time speech-to-text, where your application streams audio in and receives transcription

Memory makers brace for hydrogen fluoride pricing shock as Hormuz blockade impacts supply chain — key etching and cleaning material faces sharp cost increase amid trade disruption Chemical companies have absorbed costs so far this year, but they're about to dump them onto South K

Ryzen 7 5800X3D AM4 10th Anniversary Edition surfaces online for $310 — return of iconic gaming CPU for budget builders seems imminent The Ryzen 7 5800X3D, once regarded as the best CPU for gaming, is making a comeback, but this time in a refreshed packaging to mark the occasion.

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Crypto companies spent years monetizing volatility, but now, they're trying to survive without it. First-quarter earnings underscored that crypto's era of easy moonshots and hype-driven returns is fading. As lower bitcoin and ether prices drained speculative demand – and investor

Google announced a new YouTube Shorts Remix feature that lets users restyle clips or even insert themselves into other people’s videos using Gemini Omni. Now, at the bottom of a YouTube Short, when you click the remix icon, you’ll see an option to “reimagine” it. Here, you can pr

Team Group agrees to $1.1 million DRAM settlement in another false advertising lawsuit — claimed advertised memory speeds required BIOS tweaks and overclocking settings Team Group denies wrongdoing PC memory manufacturer Team Group has agreed to settle a class action lawsuit to t

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This blog post is the third part of a blog series called Azure IaaS which will share best practices and guidance to help you build a trusted infrastructure platform—from performance, resiliency, and security to scalability and cost efficiency. Performance has become one of the mo

Google’s AI-powered Search era apparently also extends to its ads. Now, when you look for a product in Search, Google’s Gemini AI model will surface relevant items and generate a “custom explainer” about why you should purchase a specific one. Google Search’s AI evolution include

Insight and analysis on the data center space from industry thought leaders. The Nuclear Option: Data Centers and the Responsible Provision of Power While nuclear power alone won't resolve all friction points, it emerges as a critical enabler of AI at scale while mitigating envir

Introducing Agent Executor, Google’s distributed Agent Runtime Jaana Dogan Software Engineer Ethan Bao Engineering Director As models and harnesses improve, agents are taking on increasingly complex tasks that can run for hours or even days. But as we push agents to do more, this

Agent Sandbox on GKE is now available for everyone, and a first look at Agent Substrate Brandon Royal Product Manager, GKE Tim Hockin Software Engineer, GKE In just a short time, we’ve seen AI transition from simple chat interfaces to autonomous agents capable of function calling

Benchmark and optimize LLMs on-device with AI Edge Portal Derek Bekebrede Product Manager, Google LLMs have become more powerful at smaller sizes, but deploying them to edge devices like smartphones remains a massive challenge. Today, developers have to optimize across a sprawlin

Urban Outfitters achieves major cost savings by moving Sterling OMS to AlloyDB for PostgreSQL Rob Frieman CIO, Urban Outfitters Raj Pai VP, Product Management, Databases, Google Cloud Editor’s note: Urban Outfitters, Inc. (URBN) recently completed a major infrastructure upgrade,

Agent harnesses like Claude Code, Codex, and LangChain Deep Agents are excellent orchestrators. They manage sessions, chain tools, execute code, and respond to developer intent. But when these harnesses need to do deep research, such as multi-document synthesis, decision briefs b

Mercury, a fintech firm that provides banking services to startups, has raised $200 million in funding at a $5.2 billion valuation, CNBC has learned exclusively. That valuation is 49% higher than the San Francisco-based company's previous funding round just 14 months ago, bucking

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Samsung and SK Hynix employees are reportedly abandoning overseas training programs to nab up to $400,000 performance bonuses — online dating grades rise as female members 'seeking out SK hynix employees' SK Hynix employees are becoming top-tier matches on Korean dating platforms