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To power its new West Texas data center, Amazon is investing in the construction of a new power plant that could be one of the largest single producers of greenhouse gases in the US, according to the New York Times.

The Korea Aerospace Research Institute shared images that show the gash on the surface. It's pretty small.

Open source WeatherNext model can make accurate predictions with lower-resolution weather data.

The global buildout of AI infrastructure reached a new milestone today - Firebird, an emerging AI cloud, launched the CIS region's largest AI factory in.

Two security researchers bought cheap domains-including noreply.net and deleteduser.com-and set up email listening services.

OpenAI said this model, which is still in development, reached its "critical cybersecurity threshold," meaning it could independently identify and carry out.

Restart, a games media website launched in late 2024 that was sponsored by Walmart, has laid off its "entire editorial team," according to a Friday post from Brandy Berthelson, the site's former editor-in-chief. Other staffers have also posted about being laid off.

As enterprise codebases grow, AI agent tasked with analyzing them are buckling under the weight of long-horizon tasks that require multiple interactions and.

After its own AI usage wake-up call, Rippling this week unveiled AI Spend Console, a product that tracks individual and team employee AI spending.

It took long enough, but now LA rapper Fenix Flexin appears to have admitted using AI for the 80s synth pop-themed song "Rubberz." His comments follow the producer Medasin's videos claiming that an AI tool called Treblo (formerly Sonauto) was used to make the song, and the company releasing an AI.

Startups raised funding rounds with a lot of zeroes at the end this week, with three companies securing financings of $1 billion or more.

The appeal of free ad-supported streaming television (FAST) channels has always been the way they make it easier to (re)discover classic films and series.

OpenAI says it is pausing "internal activities" around an in-development AI model, Astra, because it doesn't yet meet new security standards the company is putting in place. The announcement follows its recent disclosure that OpenAI models accidentally hacked Hugging Face.

There's something magical about using instant cameras that smartphones can't match. You can capture a moment, print it out, and then give the photo as a gift or hold onto it. Image quality won't be all that good, but imperfections are part of the allure.

19 new maps continue the story from MachineGames' other campaign additions.

Disney is testing a new AI-powered tool for Disney Plus that uses a natural language search, a voice query, or a suggested prompt to create a customized row of show and movie recommendations.

Gurman report claims OpenAI confirmed the speaker is not an Apple ripoff.

Some of the biggest names on Google's AI team got new jobs this week. In some cases, including for legendary Googler Jeff Dean, those jobs are no longer at Google.

For developers, the operating assumption has been one engineer, one agent - the model Claude Code and similar tools.

A VB Pulse survey this June found that 57% of enterprises had traced a confidently wrong agent answer back to missing or inconsistent context - the latest.

In this post, you learn how Cohere Health built a multi-tenant agentic architecture on AgentCore using AgentCore Runtime's secure MicroVM isolation, unified.

TReNDS, a research center at Georgia State University, built an agentic AI pipeline on Amazon Bedrock and the open-source Strands Agents SDK that.

Kitesurf is a cloud-hosted browser designed for AI agent instead of people.

The Birdfy Feeder Rookie is a good option if you're new to birdwatching or simply don't want to spend a lot on a smart feeder, and several configurations are on sale. The standard model is down to $59.99 ($60 off) at Amazon, which is close to its lowest price.

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OpenAI is sharing preliminary cybersecurity evaluations for Astra and the steps we're taking to strengthen safeguards and security controls.

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Airbnb will debut a new AI-powered search experience with a toggle.

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The use of AI systems to create viruses opens up new possibilities for combating bacterial resistance.

Historian Jill Lepore has a theory about why tech companies often use soaring language to describe their products - almost as if they're forming a new.

Clinicians and researchers say AI companies need to open up their safety data.

TikTok owner training a model with 10 trillion parameters.

Cloudflare is shifting bot mitigation from point-in-time Risk assessment to continuous Trust evaluation.

We are launching updated community programs, including Cloudflare Ambassadors and Community Engineers, backed by $1M in open-source funding.

Cloudflare is unifying AI Gateway and Workers AI into a single control plane, giving developers observability, billing, and dynamic routing across both.

TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 is built around one question: How do you build an enduring company in the AI era? Our programming and speaker lineup reflect that.

AI coding tools deliver immense value: at Databricks, agentic coding has measurably.

AI assistants use language models, data retrieval, and reasoning to understand requests.

Projects that want to share a GPU on Kubernetes have to work around an API instead of with it. The device plugin interface could count devices, and that was the whole vocabulary: nvidia.com/gpu: 1.