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Windows 11 updates could soon include fixes for more security issues at once. Microsoft said in a blog post on Thursday that it’s now using AI to “identify potential issues earlier,” which means “customers will see a higher volume of security updates included in each security rel

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told CNBC on Thursday that GPT-5.6 Sol, the company's latest artificial intelligence model, is 54% more token efficient on agentic coding tasks, and that it's "as good or better" than competing models on the market. "Every enterprise now is thinking about sp

In a revealing interview with Peter Kafka this week, New York Times Executive Editor Joe Kahn said the paper is pouring resources into visual content, prompting comparisons to the media industry’s ill-fated “pivot to video” in the 2010s. But there are crucial differences. Back th

Dive Brief: - Chief executives are optimistic about AI’s potential, with almost two-thirds now worrying they’re underinvesting in the technology, according to Cisco's survey of 2,500 CEOs across 23 countries. - Infrastructure modernization ranks as CEOs’ top technology priority f

At the end of last year, Albertsons launched an agentic shopping assistant that can take shoppers from a vague query — “I’m in the mood for something spicy” — to an online basket full of products along with the recipes they need to prepare everything. Five months later, the groce

Weekly quiz: Why did Australia's PM apologise to Kylie Minogue? - Published This week, Prince Harry lost his privacy case against the Daily Mail's publisher, bleary-eyed football fans in England stayed up to see the Three Lions win in Mexico, and the United States celebrated its

Artificial Intelligence MCP tool design: Practical approaches and tradeoffs When Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools underperform, the cause is rarely the protocol itself but the tool design. Many teams start by exposing an existing API as-is and trusting the agent to figure out t

Artificial Intelligence Enhancing enterprise inference on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod with data capture, Hugging Face, NVMe, and Route 53 integration As enterprises scale their generative AI workloads, the demand for faster, more observable, and more flexible inference infrastructu

We recently visited Cosm Los Angeles in Inglewood, California, for an exclusive behind-the-scenes tour of the technology powering one of the most immersive live sports and entertainment experiences available today. If you have never been, the highlight of Cosm is a 27-meter LED d

Permitting — more than access to capital — is the main obstacle to building out the global energy system, the heads of the natural resources group at JP Morgan’s investment bank write today. The issue is “most acute” in the US, they argue in an op-ed shared first with Semafor, bu

Dive Brief: - Levi Strauss & Co. beat its own expectations in Q2 on the top and bottom lines. Net revenues rose 8% year on year to $1.6 billion, while net income rose by nearly a third to over $87 million. - Direct-to-consumer sales grew 11% in the period, with comps up 6%, and a

Safely run AI-generated code in Cloud Run sandboxes Ryan Pei Product Manager Greg Block Software Engineer Here’s a question we hear often at Google Cloud: How do you safely run AI-generated code or untrusted binaries without putting your host application, data, and cloud credenti

Meta’s First Canadian AI Campus Was Planned Around the Grid Meta’s 1 GW Alberta campus reveals how hyperscalers now secure power and transmission years before announcing AI campuses. Meta’s first Canadian data center will rise in Sturgeon County, Alberta, marking a more than US$9

Dive Brief: - Hasbro announced the launch of Blooms by Play-Doh, a Play-Doh line for adults. The products mark the company’s entry into adult crafting and home decor, according to a Thursday press release. - Users will be able to craft floral arrangements with a kit that includes

Destination XL Group’s board of directors has again recommended shareholders reject an updated acquisition offer from Zodiac Partners II. The apparel company’s board first recommended the rejection of a Zodiac Partners offer in May priced at 82 cents per share, which valued the c

Say what you will about whether artificial intelligence is good for humanity. It is undoubtedly worth billions of dollars — and then some — to the states that can attract AI business. AI is a massive consumer of electricity, water, computing power, and land. That puts some states

Redditor buys suspicious drives on eBay just to report the scamming sellers if they get a fake SSD or HDD — latest '16TB' find has weights and microSD card hot-glued inside the enclosure to make it feel legit Unfortunately, this age-old scam still works. A Reddit user shared the

Dutch data center developer Volt is working with Dell and NorthC to launch an AI cloud. Volt claims the platform represents “the first operational step toward an AI gigafactory,” which the company hopes to develop in Rotterdam as part of the European Commission’s €20 billion ($23

Leadership Updates: Key Data Center & Cloud Appointments (Q3 2026) New executive moves at Colt, Stream, and Vantage are among the latest leadership changes shaping the data center and cloud industries. July 9, 2026 This quarter, major players including Colt, Stream, and Vantage D

Solve harder problems with AlphaEvolve, now available to everyone on Google Cloud Anant Nawalgaria Group AI Product Manager & Engineer, Google Laurynas Tamulevičius Staff AI Software Engineer, Google Many of the most challenging and valuable problems in the world are related to o

Dive Brief: - Back-to-school spending is expected to stay flat this year as parents of K-12 students look for value and approach the season with a mixture of caution and intention, according to a new 2026 survey from Deloitte. Parents are expected to spend $557 per child, down $1

Ingenious father fixes dead RTX 3070 with a jerry-rigged capacitor from an old radio — Saves worried son $120 in repair costs, GPU 'works better than before' now Simple fix for an expensive issue. We've seen a lot of dead GPUs around here, some of which have been brought back to

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When surgeons dug into a man’s groin to repair a painless bulge, they made the unexpected discovery of a living, 10-inch-long (26 cm) worm snug in his abdomen. Adding to the oddity, the man told the surgeons that this had actually happened to him before, according to a case repor

While the U.S. flip-flops on chip sanctions, China is building its own chip supply market — export controls are creating conditions for a Sino-Russian chip trade alliance Donald Trump can’t seem to decide whether or not he wants China to have access to chip supplies – but in the

- Data Center Site Selection - Data Center Construction - Next-Gen Data Centers - AI Data Centers - Industry Trends Can Growing Community Backlash Quiet the AI Data Center Boom? Local opposition groups surged to 430 from 76 since 2025, while recent Virginia project failures sugge

U.S. investors are getting a new way to buy into the memory boom. SK Hynix, the second most valuable company in South Korea, behind only Samsung, is slated to begin trading on the Nasdaq on Friday. The market debut, coinciding with the company's hefty expansion plans for the U.S.

It was 2007. George W. Bush was president. The U.S. economy was expanding, but there were growing signs that the explosive growth in the housing market — and maybe the entire boom of the past five or six years — was a giant bubble. As gains became ever more elusive, states got mo

Real estate giant Prologis is looking to build a data center in San Jose, California. As reported by NBC and Mercury News, the company is looking to develop a three-story facility totaling 516,000 sq ft (47,935 sqm) on around 15 acres at 5977 Silver Creek Valley Road. The facilit

A developer has filed an interconnect application for a 250MW data center in Greater Napanee, Canada, but local officials have said that no application for the campus has been received. In 2025, Napanee Environmental Complex, Inc. filed an application with the Independent Electri

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We haven’t seen much footage to date for Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part Three, other than the broody and haunting extended teaser Warner Bros. dropped in March. But now we’ve got a shiny new trailer jam-packed with tantalizing hints of what to expect, and plenty of Easter eggs to

High mortgage rates coupled with record-high prices are causing homebuyers to pull back. Sales of previously owned homes in June dropped 2.4% from May to 4.09 million units on a seasonally adjusted, annualized basis, according to the National Association of Realtors. Housing anal

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Thrift stores are a first line of defense against textile waste, and changing attitudes about thrifting and resale could help shape recycling systems and divert more material from landfills in the coming years, said speakers at the Northeast Recycling Council’s material reuse for

NVIDIA has introduced a new business model to accelerate the deployment of AI infrastructure by combining revenue sharing with credit support for AI cloud providers. Announced July 1 in a blog post co-authored by CFO Colette Kress, the initiative is designed to expand access to a

Twilight of the Dons: British Intellectuals from World War II to Thatcherism, by Colin Kidd. Focusing on the unworldly academic class of senior tutors and lecturers that haunted the colleges of Oxford and Cambridge, Kidd writes that the dons were not simply “a set of quirky and e

Ruf has come quite a long way from its roots as a tuner of Porsches. The German company (no doubt familiar to those of us in the PlayStation generation as Gran Turismo 2‘s workaround because someone else owned the video game rights to the real 911) has evolved past that stage and

AI inference cloud DeepInfra has launched a data center location in Toronto, Canada. According to the company, the facility offers 1.7MW of capacity and will host more than 1,000 Nvidia Blackwell B300 GPUs. This is the company's ninth data center location and its first outside of

AMD revives aging Zen 2 processor for budget PCs — Ryzen 7 4700LE resurfaces in a new $800 RTX 3050 prebuilt AM4 is alive and kicking. AMD continues to squeeze more life out of its AM4 platform as a newly listed prebuilt gaming PC has been spotted powered by the Ryzen 7 4700LE. T

Intel preps 28-core Nova Lake-S CPUs for Dunlow workstation platform — Entry-level Xeon chip features LGA1954 socket For entry-level servers and workstations in LGA1954 packaging. Intel is working on a version of its Nova Lake-S processor platform codenamed Dunlow that will offer