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While we make batteries based on many different chemistries, nothing has approached the massive scale at which we can produce lithium batteries. That scale makes the economics of lithium-ion batteries hard to compete with. Even if we develop a superior battery technology, it’s un

Elon Musk’s X lets you write long-form content on the platform through its Articles feature, but only if you’re a paid subscriber or business. The decentralized social networking startup Bluesky has a different idea. On Thursday, Bluesky rolled out a new version of its app that i

Hackers are targeting Signal users in an attempt to steal their chat backups as part of a new hacking campaign, TechCrunch has learned. On Wednesday, Washington Post analyst Josh Rogin posted a screenshot of a new kind of attack against Signal users, where hackers pretend to be t

The US charged a Google software engineer with insider trading after he allegedly made a profit of $1.2 million on Polymarket bets related to which public figures would top Google’s rankings for the most searched names in 2025. Michele Spagnuolo, an Italian citizen who lives in S

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How the University of Central Oklahoma is using AI to streamline analysis of complex criminal cases Karteek Kotamsetty Lead Customer Engineer, Google Public Sector In the high-stakes world of forensic science, time is the enemy of justice. The University of Central Oklahoma (UCO)

Anthropic has snagged $65 billion in funding at a $965 billion post-money valuation in its latest funding round, marking what could be the AI startup’s last private fundraising before debuting on the public markets. The Series H round was co-led by Altimeter Capital, Dragoneer, G

International Business Machines CEO Arvind Krishna said Anthropic's Mythos was pivotal in driving the company's $5 billion investment into a new cybersecurity offering announced Thursday to address vulnerabilities in open-source software. "Mythos was the critical triggering facto

Off the Wire Press Releases GAINESVILLE, Fla., May 28, 2026 — A new University of Florida case study examines how a major investment in artificial intelligence infrastructure grew into a university-wide initiative spanning teaching, research, workforce development and statewide a

Despite all the graphics capabilities of modern Macs, being a Mac gamer is generally a thankless existence. Every once in a while, though, Mac gamers get a bone thrown to them that is substantial enough that they think, for a brief moment, everything might be OK. One such bone ha

The most important market of the future could be in LLM tokens — and financial groups are rushing to build new infrastructure for them. China’s Shanghai Futures Exchange is currently designing a derivatives market for AI tokens, Reuters reports. The news comes as major derivative

It’s impossible to totally avoid generative AI when interacting with technology anymore, but Apple has a bit less of it. That’s not entirely by choice, though. The iPhone maker has delayed the AI-enhanced Siri multiple times since first promising it in 2024, but a deal with Googl

Denmark Rations Grid Access as AI Buildout Floods Nordic Systems Denmark halted new large-load grid agreements as AI, Power-to-X, and electrification demand overwhelm capacity, forcing power-access triage. Denmark’s national transmission operator Energinet said this week that it

Off the Wire Press Releases As costs rise and local resources reach their limits, OSC provides a scalable path forward COLUMBUS, Ohio, May 28, 2026 — At Ohio University, students and researchers are using the Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC) to take on increasingly complex, data-i

It was less than two months ago that the third flight of Blue Origin’s heavy-lift New Glenn rocket left a customer’s payload in an unusable orbit. Investigators have now identified the cause of the failure, and Blue Origin is preparing to launch the next New Glenn mission as soon

Proxmox has released Proxmox Datacenter Manager 1.1, a new update to its centralized management platform for overseeing distributed Proxmox environments. The release adds automated installation workflows, centralized subscription management, unified Ceph monitoring, and broader g

Artificial Intelligence Build a test suite that grows with your agent with dataset management in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Agent evaluation is most powerful when you combine fast-moving online signals with stable offline baselines. To understand whether your agent is truly improvi

It’s no secret that pre-AI era startups are generally getting little love from investors now. Ariel Katz, co-founder and CEO of a nine-year-old healthcare data platform H1, argues that not all SaaS companies should be painted with the same broad brush. “If you’re a workflow SaaS

Off the Wire Press Releases Inventor of NVMe/TCP & KV Cache accelerator Validates Initial Connectivity to Bring High-Performance Block Storage to Windows Server Environments SAN JOSE, Calif., May 28, 2026 — Lightbits Labs today announced the initial interoperability with the new

Scientists have long known that migrating birds and homing pigeons navigate in part by sensing the Earth’s magnetic fields, especially at night or in overcast conditions when visual landmarks or sunshine are in short supply. But exactly where this magneto-sensing occurs in the bo

Prison calling service Pay Tel has secured a publicly exposed cloud server storing hundreds of thousands of driver’s licenses and other sensitive information about people who used its services, according to a cybersecurity firm that alerted the company to the security lapse. Secu

Artificial Intelligence Claude Opus 4.8 is now available on AWS Today, we’re excited to announce the availability of Anthropic’s most advanced Opus model, Claude Opus 4.8, on Amazon Bedrock and the Claude Platform on AWS. Claude Opus 4.8 represents a meaningful step forward, deli

For decades, the geography of the tech industry has felt largely fixed, with Silicon Valley dominating the global startup economy. While cities like London, Beijing, and Tel Aviv have competed for secondary influence, one of the most important conversations in artificial intellig

Supermicro says it assisted Taiwanese authorities in server smuggling bust that led to three arrests — company issues statement on working with US, Taiwan to block illicit diversion of servers to China Supermicro says it wants to help curb illicit sales. A day after Taiwanese aut

Join us for StrictlyVC Los Angeles 2026, an intimate evening bringing together leading investors and entrepreneurs for high-signal conversations from the front lines of venture capital and frontier technology. Taking place Thursday, June 18, at The Aerospace Corporation Campus in

'Call of Duty Modern Warfare 4' developer promises PC focus — Infinity Ward promises extensive optimization and is dropping older consoles Free from the technical shackles fo the Xbox One and PlayStation 4. Call of Duty has a massive gravitational pull. With Modern Warfare 4, dev

Founders, the battlefield is still open, but not for much longer. After overwhelming demand from founders around the world, TechCrunch has extended the Startup Battlefield 200 application deadline to June 8. If you thought you missed your opportunity to pitch live on the Disrupt

Insurance tech Corgi on Thursday announced a $106 million Series B1 raise, valuing the company at $2.6 billion, just three weeks after announcing a $160 million Series B at a $1.3 billion valuation and four months after its $108 million Series A. The company offers insurance, wor

Most of the Steam Deck imitators on the market right now use AMD silicon, specifically the Ryzen Z-series chips. These are the same chips AMD makes for regular laptops, but with different power settings better suited to a compact handheld system. There are handhelds based on Inte

A few days after President Donald Trump abruptly canceled a plan that would have given the federal government power to vet frontier AI models over fears that it might hobble innovation, Illinois lawmakers passed the nation’s strongest AI safety law. On Wednesday, the Illinois leg

On Thursday, Anthropic released Opus 4.8, the newest version of its most advanced publicly available model. The model is available everywhere, with standard pricing at the same level as the previous Opus release. The new model comes just 41 days after Opus 4.7 was released, a muc

Anthropic is releasing Claude Opus 4.8 on Thursday, and the company is touting the model’s “honesty.” Claude’s new model is more ‘honest’ when it messes up Opus 4.8 is launching on Thursday. Opus 4.8 is launching on Thursday. According to Anthropic, it trains “all [its] models to

Off the Wire Press Releases May 28, 2026 — The Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) is contributing to the development of quantum computing technologies to help solve grand challenges in energy, physics, chemistry, and beyond. A big part of

Waymo has started giving select riders in Los Angeles, Phoenix, and San Francisco access to its newest robotaxi: an all-electric, minivan-like vehicle that is designed to lower costs and handle the use and abuse of hundreds of thousands of riders. Waymo said Thursday it will even

Snowflake’s $6B AWS Bet Signals New Era of Enterprise AI Infrastructure Enterprise AI workloads are moving from experimental pilots into persistent operational infrastructure, reshaping hyperscale compute demand. Snowflake and Amazon Web Services this week unveiled a multi-year a

Artificial Intelligence Automate AML alert triage with Amazon Quick and Snowflake Cortex AI Financial institutions running on AWS and Snowflake benefit from a deeply integrated framework that combines Snowflake’s AI Data Cloud with AWS cloud infrastructure, including integrations

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Off the Wire Press Releases AI-powered infrastructure software is key to unlocking the potential of quantum computers, enabling impact for military operations in 2027. LOS ANGELES, May 28, 2026 — Q-CTRL today released a white paper demonstrating the near-term capability for quant

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The U.S. Department of Defense has confirmed that adversaries have targeted and surveilled serving military personnel on the battlefield using commercial location data, the latest demonstration of how information collected from phones and computers can be abused to track and targ

Trailing-edge foundry roadmaps for GlobalFoundries, UMC, and SMIC — mature node chipmakers each pursue differing strategies and IP While TSMC and Samsung chase 2nm, the three largest mature-node foundries are spending billions to expand capacity at 22nm and above. The global foun

TP-Link announces its first consumer Wi-Fi 8 roadmap — Archer 8 routers scheduled to arrive in October 2026, pending FCC approval TP-Link announces a roadmap for its Wi-Fi 8 network families, but it has yet to secure FCC approval for their release in the United States Wi-Fi 8 is