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AMD's Frank Azor pushes back against claim that FSR 4.1 won't be ported to RDNA 3.5 GPUs — says 'no such decision' has been made Azor posted about reports on X. During Computex, multiple reports cited that AMD was potentially skipping FSR 4.1 integration on RDNA 3.5 iGPUs, leavin

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Helion, the fusion startup backed by Sam Altman, announced on Thursday that it had raised $465 million in a new funding round that values the company at $15.5 billion. The cash infusion lands as Helion is racing to complete Orion, its first power plant. The startup has set an agg

Corporate America is trying to figure out how to rein in rising artificial intelligence spending. That's helping payment software giant Ramp. The spend-management company announced a $750 million funding round at a $44 billion valuation on Thursday. The round was led by ICONIQ, G

Kevin O’Leary agreed to halve the size of his planned 40,000-acre data center in Utah amid mounting pressure from residents and activists, as reported earlier by local affiliate ABC4. The Shark Tank star sent a letter to Utah Senate President J. Stuart Adams on Thursday, saying t

The cable industry’s primary lobby group is seeking a waiver of the Federal Communications Commission ban on foreign routers, warning of potential chaos if cable Internet service providers can’t change some of the components in routers they offer to home broadband users. In March

Despite having tiny brains, bumblebees have demonstrated a remarkable ability to socially learn how to use tools, solve simple puzzles, and cooperate to achieve a goal. It seems they can also solve object-manipulation tasks without any previous training, according to a new paper

ZutaCore has secured $100 million in Series C funding, with participation from Mitsubishi Electric, Carrier Ventures, Samsung Electronics, and others through its corporate venture arm, Samsung Ventures. The investment is aimed at accelerating global commercialization, expanding d

Vibe coding needs infrastructure. Supabase is trying to provide it. The startup, which makes back-end tools for building artificial intelligence apps, said on Thursday that it raised $500 million at a valuation of $10.5 billion, the latest sign that venture investors are seeking

Artificial Intelligence NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart Today, we are excited to announce the day-zero availability of NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart. With this launch, you can now deploy the Nemotron 3 Ultra model using

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Meta’s Oversight Board, the independent governing body that makes policy recommendations to the tech company, said Thursday that Meta’s account deactivations lack due process, violations are doled out without clarity, and there’s little customer support for appeals. The board, wh

Off the Wire Press Releases June 4, 2026 — When most people picture a supercomputer, they imagine endless rows of compute and storage racks, blinking lights and machines thinking faster than humans can conceive. What they don’t visualize is the system quietly working underneath i

Off the Wire Press Releases ENSCHEDE, Netherlands, June 4, 2026 — QuiX Quantum has announced the first installation of its Feed-Forward Control Unit (FFCU), a high-performance hardware component developed for the company’s universal photonic quantum computing architecture. The FF

8GB of RAM is back on laptops — companies are lowering memory offerings to make affordable notebooks during component crisis Dell, Acer, Microsoft, and Chuwi are among those who have eschewed the short-lived 16GB standard before and at Computex. For a brief time from 2024 through

Meta announced on Thursday that it’s introducing a new AI creator assistant on Facebook that will give creators personalized recommendations based on their content style, performance, community, and goals. Creators often have to parse through charts and dashboards to understand t

As Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference, WWDC 2026, approaches, the excitement is building around what Apple has in store for us this year. From Siri’s overhaul to new Apple Intelligence updates, there’s a lot to look forward to. The annual Worldwide Developers Conference kick

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NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft was in excellent shape when it disappeared behind Mars on December 6 of last year. The routine passage, called an occultation, was supposed to last less than an hour, but ground teams didn’t hear from the spacecraft when it was supposed to regain contact w

TSMC CEO C.C. Wei says, ‘It will be a long time before we can meet customer demand’ — tells shareholders that he will keep prices stable, refrain from implementing price hikes All this demand for AI chips is just too much for one company. TSMC CEO C.C. Wei has told company shareh

A burglar used a Waymo while stealing yoga clothes in San Francisco this past January, and police have still not caught them. That may sound counterintuitive given the widespread concern that Waymo vehicles and other robotaxis are rolling surveillance machines. But this curious c

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PEAK:AIO’s Lattice open-source pNFS metadata server speeds AI data feeds PEAK:AIO and Los Alamos national Laboratory (LANL) have developed a dynamically scalable, open-source metadata server for parallel NFS, permitting up to 1,000 metadata servers and enabling higher-speed file

Digital wallet app Cash App is launching a new gadget on Thursday, seemingly inspired by the social media trend that involves paying for items in the real world with a tap of a homemade magic wand, which hides a tap-and-pay credit card. Now, there’s a real wand you can buy to tak

What's new for Managed Service for Apache Spark clusters Qiqi Wu Senior Product Manager, Google Cloud At Google Cloud, our goal is to let you run large-scale analytical and data science workloads with maximum efficiency so you can process big data pipelines, machine learning, and

Qualcomm Roundtable Interview transcript — SVP of Compute and Gaming talks Snapdragon C, RTX Spark, and the agentic AI future We sat down with Qualcomm at Computex 2026. Qualcomm's Snapdragon C is making a major play for the hottest laptop market in 2026: The ultra budget segment

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This RTX 5070 Ti gaming laptop is just $1,499 — Walmart fights AI price crisis with $500 discount Get an MSI Vector A16 with a potent GPU for gaming As PC gaming costs continue to rise thanks to the AI crunch, pre-built PCs and gaming laptops continue to be a rare source of solac

Nintendo Switch 2 with user-replaceable batteries coming to the EU — console maker confirms it will comply with regulations set to take effect from 2027 Joy-Cons and Pro Controllers might also be revised. Nintendo has officially disclosed that it's planning on releasing a new ver

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Waymo announced a deal with an energy storage company called B2U to use retired robotaxi batteries to serve electricity grids in California and Texas. The deal helps answer the question of how Waymo is thinking about the end-of-life treatment of the thousands of robotaxis it has

After a slow start, Subaru’s electrification journey picked up a bit this year with the debut of a pair of new electric vehicles, the Uncharted and the Trailseeker. Neither is truly an in-house Subaru—like the Solterra EV before them, they use Toyota’s e-TNGA platform. The Solter

Off the Wire Press Releases June 4, 2026 — Scientists envision batteries will play a central role in improving the security and cost-effectiveness of America’s energy systems. But achieving this requires solving numerous technical challenges, such as designing high-performance ba

CoolIT Systems has announced the development of what it describes as the first 15kW direct liquid cooling (DLC) coldplate design, positioning single-phase liquid cooling as a viable path for AI infrastructure well beyond 2030. The company reports that the design delivers nearly f

From Data Centers to Models: White House Targets AI Risks at the Source New White House guidance expands federal scrutiny beyond AI campuses and power demand to the frontier models running inside them. The White House wants a closer look at the most powerful AI systems before the

Off the Wire Press Releases CALGARY, Alberta, June 4, 2026 — CoolIT Systems (CoolIT) has announced that it developed the first 15kW coldplate design. Delivering nearly four times the performance of earlier single-phase direct liquid cooling (DLC) coldplate designs, this breakthro

Corporate expense management platform Ramp on Thursday said it has raised $750 million at a valuation of $44 billion, nearly tripling its valuation within just a year as investors scramble to grab a part of the fast-growing startup. The funding round was led by ICONIQ, GIC, and O

Martinez, California, is about as far as you can get from Silicon Valley and still be in the San Francisco Bay Area. Perched on the northeast edge of the bay, the small city is home to Hello Robot, a startup that itself is about as far as one can get from the maximalist promises

Between the Computex and Microsoft Build conferences this week, Microsoft and NVIDIA have been spending a fair bit of time promoting NVIDIA’s RTX Spark SoC. With NVIDIA becoming the second Arm chip vendor to join the Windows 11 ecosystem, the two companies have been eager to prom

Spies working for Chinese intelligence are using job search and recruitment websites, including LinkedIn, to lure Western workers into sharing sensitive information, according to a joint advisory by the FBI, the U.K.’s security service MI5, and the governments of Australia, Canad

Elon Musk's SpaceX secures 100% property tax exemption for planned $55 billion Terafab semiconductor factory in Texas — county approves 35-year deal worth hundreds of millions despite resident backlash The majority of residents oppose the agreement SpaceX has won a 100% property