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The HPE ProLiant Compute DL394 Gen12, unveiled at Computex in Taiwan, targets agentic AI and data processing workloads
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Space startup founded by SpaceX’s first employee is raising $500 million
The round values Impulse Space at $4.26 billion and brings total capital raised to over $1 billion
Cisco is rolling out new tools to protect company IT systems from AI agents
The networking giant unveiled Cisco Cloud Control at its annual Cisco Live conference, with security features designed to defend infrastructure at machine speed
Anthropic is expanding its restricted cybersecurity AI program to roughly 200 partners
The company said partners using its Claude Mythos Preview model have already found more than 10,000 high or critical security flaws
Amazon Ring sued over facial recognition feature that stored faces without consent
A Virginia man is seeking class-action status and at least $5 million in damages for those whose faces were stored without consent
Google is raising $80 billion to bankroll its AI buildout
Berkshire Hathaway is putting in $10 billion through a private placement, with the rest coming from underwritten offerings and an at-the-market program
Sam Altman is secretly backing a startup building software to speed up robotics R&D
Alfred, founded 9 months ago by former Tesla and Meta employees, is aiming to raise at a $40 million valuation
Meta is expanding Instagram’s teen content restrictions worldwide and testing a tool to broaden what young users see
The rollout comes after two legal losses for Meta in child safety cases, including a $375 million verdict in New Mexico
15 elements from the periodic table and what they actually do in the real world
From the oxygen in your lungs to the indium in your phone screen, the elements that make up the universe have surprisingly specific — and often unexpected — jobs to…
The war on rogue drones is becoming big business. Motorola wants in
The deal gives Motorola Solutions a foothold in a counter-drone market projected to more than triple in size by 2031
Anthropic files for an IPO that could make history
The filing comes as Anthropic, which makes the increasingly popular Claude AI chatbot, has seen a surge in demand for its AI products
Anthropic is giving the E.U.’s cybersecurity agency access to its restricted AI security model
ENISA will join Project Glasswing, Anthropic's program for testing the powerful vulnerability-finding model before a wider release
Nvidia and TSMC are bringing AI inside chip factories
The two companies are using Nvidia's accelerated computing tools across lithography, defect inspection, and factory scheduling
Nvidia is jumping into Windows laptops with a new AI chip built alongside Microsoft
The RTX Spark pairs a Blackwell GPU with an Arm-based CPU and up to 128GB of memory, targeting creators, AI developers, and gamers
SoftBank is committing billions to build AI data centers in France
The Japanese investment giant plans to develop 5 GW of AI data center capacity, with an initial phase focused on the Hauts-de-France region
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Anthropic passes OpenAI to become the biggest AI startup in the world
Anthropic also unveiled Claude Opus 4.8, an upgrade to its Opus class of models with stronger performance across coding, agentic tasks, and professional work
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Anthropic is upgrading its flagship AI model and says a more powerful one is coming soon
Claude Opus 4.8 brings improvements in coding and honesty, while Anthropic says Mythos-class models could reach all customers within weeks
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Samsung is teaming up with Mass General Hospital to study smartwatch monitoring for weight-loss drug patients
The six-month clinical study will enroll 100 adults starting weight-loss drug therapy to test whether smartwatch data can help manage muscle loss
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Marvell stock surges as AI chip demand drives record revenue and a raised outlook
The chipmaker posted record quarterly revenue of $2.42 billion and guided for $2.70 billion next quarter, citing exceptional AI-related bookings
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Meta launches paid tiers for Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp — with AI subscriptions coming
The social media giant is also testing AI subscription tiers under a new brand, Meta One, priced at $7.99 and $19.99 per month
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The legal fight over who owns the data platforms collect about you
Privacy laws give users certain rights over their data, but no jurisdiction has granted them actual ownership of it
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AI training data is becoming a seller’s market. Here’s what it’s worth
From Reddit's $60 million API deal to personal data worth "a few dollars," the new economics of AI training data are taking shape
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Corporate America’s new data gold rush
AI’s next breakthrough won’t come from scraping the web. Companies are racing to unlock new training data, from personal data to drones and corporate archives
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Why your company’s stored data probably isn’t ready for AI
Most AI initiatives fail not because the models are wrong but because the data beneath them was never prepared for the job
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Why Google Earth can’t train the AI models that robots need
The best commercial satellites capture 30 cm per pixel. The AI models powering robots and AR need detail 10 times finer than that.
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Amazon, Google, Meta, and Microsoft are backing a new clean-tech push for AI data centers
Nonprofit investor Elemental Impact will deploy up to $5 million per project in as many as 10 startups through 2027
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YouTube is starting to automatically label AI-generated videos without creator input
The platform will apply labels when its systems detect significant photorealistic AI use, even if creators don't disclose it
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The AI data center race is getting way more complicated
Adjustments by Amazon and Microsoft reflect harsh realities: power grids that take years to expand, land speculators inflating prices, and overwhelmed utilities
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Amazon is licensing its AI shopping technology to other retailers through AWS
The AWS Agentic Shopping Assistant packages the architecture behind Alexa for Shopping, and Kate Spade has already deployed it
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Samsung is building a $1.5 billion memory chip testing plant in Vietnam
The plant, being built north of Hanoi, would test DRAM and NAND memory chips and is scheduled to open in late 2027
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Qualcomm is landing ByteDance as a customer for its new AI data center chips
ByteDance is set to procure millions of Qualcomm ASICs to support its AI agent software, marking a major push into AI infrastructure
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Honeywell’s quantum computing unit is targeting a $12.7 billion valuation in its U.S. IPO
The Broomfield, Colorado-based company plans to sell about 21 million shares at $45 to $50 each, aiming to raise up to $1.05 billion
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Spotify is rolling out narrated magazine articles for audiobook subscribers
More than 650 long-form pieces from Rolling Stone, The Atlantic, Vogue, and others are now available in English in markets where audiobooks are offered
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Huawei is unveiling a new 3D chip design it says can close the gap with global leaders
The Chinese tech giant says its new stacked-chip architecture can deliver transistor density equivalent to 1.4nm processes by 2031, without access to advanced lithography tools
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Uber’s COO says the company’s AI spending is getting harder to justify
Andrew Macdonald said rising token costs from Claude Code aren't translating into more consumer features, while the company has already burned through its 2026 AI budget
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Wall Street is paying $25,000 a day to train AI models
Felipe Sinisterra and Dave Wang, former SoftBank fund managers, founded Wall Street Prompt in July 2025 and are already booked two months out