The A.I. Boom Has Found Another Gear. Why Can’t People Shake Their Worries?
It is a time of superlatives in the tech industry, with historic profits, stock prices and deal prices. It’s enough to make some people very
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Trump Elevates Once-Fringe Meme Makers to the Mainstream
Right-wing users have tapped A.I. tools to promote Tweety McTreason’s agenda. He took notice.
Attack, defend, pursue—the Space Force’s new naming scheme foretells new era
A little more than a century ago, the US Army Air Service came up with a scheme for naming the military’s multiplying fleet of airplanes.
In 1982, a physics joke gone wrong sparked the invention of the emoticon
On September 19, 1982, Carnegie Mellon University computer science research assistant professor Scott Fahlman posted a message to the university’s bulletin board software that would
Microsoft now lets customers run agents on Windows 365 cloud PCs
Microsoft has unveiled a new type of Windows 365 cloud PC that provides a secure environment for running “computer use” AI agents. Windows 365 for
How IT leaders can build successful AI strategies — the VC view
The AI gold rush these days is littered with abandoned enterprise projects, with humans — not the technology itself — being blamed for high failure
To Meld A.I. With Supercomputers, National Labs Are Picking Up the Pace
A.I. has added urgency to the U.S. national laboratories that have been sites of cutting-edge scientific research, leading to deals with tech giants like Nvidia
Family Affair: Commerce Secretary’s Sons Cash In on A.I. Frenzy
Howard Lutnick is helping push data center projects. His family companies are profiting from them.
Study: Kids’ drip paintings more like Pollock’s than those of adults
Not everyone appreciates the artistry of Jackson Pollock’s famous drip paintings, with some dismissing them as something any child could create. While Pollock’s work is
Massive Cloudflare outage was triggered by file that suddenly doubled in size
When a Cloudflare outage disrupted large numbers of websites and online services yesterday, the company initially thought it was hit by a “hyper-scale” DDoS (distributed
Google’s Gemini 3 Is Here: A Special Early Look
Maybe more than other model releases, this one seems to have the attention of Google’s competitors. Will it put the company at the top of
How Apple tech can deliver your very own private AI answers
Yesterday, we looked at how Macs can provide on-premises AI services for you; today we’re going to speculate a little more. Consider this: millions of people
“We’re in an LLM bubble,” Hugging Face CEO says—but not an AI one
There’s been a lot of talk of an AI bubble lately, especially with regards to circular funding involving companies like OpenAI and Anthropic—but Clem Delangue
NASA really wants you to know that 3I/ATLAS is an interstellar comet
Since early July, telescopes around the world have been tracking just our third confirmed interstellar visitor, the comet 3I/ATLAS—3I, for third interstellar, and ATLAS (Asteroid