DOD's New CIO Headlines Our First Power Breakfast of 2026
The Department of Defense introduced its new chief information officer, Kirsten Davies, at the inaugural Power Breakfast of 2026. Davies outlined a roadmap for IT transformation, cyber resilience, and aligning the CIO office with the Pentagon’s “Arsenal of Freedom” strategy, emphasizing supply‑chain security and the defense industrial base. The event also addressed upcoming changes to the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification, noting ISACA’s new role as lead assessor organization. Industry leaders were invited to discuss how they can support these initiatives.
Congress Reauthorized the Technology Modernization Fund Through the Fiscal Year. Why that Matters and What’s Next
Congress reauthorized the Technology Modernization Fund (TMF) through September 30, 2026, allowing the board to keep selecting high‑impact federal IT projects. The fund operates as a revolving vehicle, requiring agencies to repay investments so the same dollars can finance future...
What Is A Training Module? A Guide For Instructional Designers And L&D Teams
Training modules are self‑contained learning units that focus on a single skill or competency, allowing organizations to deliver scalable, repeatable education. By structuring content around clear objectives, assessments, and interactive activities, L&D teams can create flexible programs that support onboarding,...
Chinese Space Station Astronauts Harvest Space Tomatoes
Chinese astronauts aboard the Tiangong space station have harvested a bumper crop of cherry tomatoes grown in a small aeroponic cultivation system. The system uses a nutrient mist and full‑spectrum LEDs, enabling water‑efficient plant growth in micro‑gravity. This marks the...
AI Token Pricing Will Tier With Premium Groq Power
Jensen brings in the Groq acquisition related to higher priced tokens. Says the economics of generating tokens is not a race to the bottom. He argues it’s a race to the top, the smartest models users will pay the most...
Florida Lawmakers Target ADS-B Use For Landing Fees
Florida lawmakers approved CS/CS/SB 422, prohibiting airports from using ADS‑B surveillance data to calculate landing fees or related charges for Part 91 aircraft weighing 12,499 pounds or less. The bill, cleared by both chambers, heads to Governor Ron DeSantis and would...
HotelTechReport Releases the 2026 HotelTechIndex™ Market Leaders Report, the Industry's Most Comprehensive Technology Ranking
HotelTechReport unveiled its 2026 HotelTechIndex Market Leaders Report, the most comprehensive hospitality‑technology ranking built on 80,921 verified reviews from hoteliers in 152 countries. The study introduces the inaugural Shift Index™ that isolates ten macro trends reshaping hotel‑tech adoption, alongside the...
Rubin+Groq Shows Custom Accelerators Becoming Unnecessary
The Rubin + Groq narrative is the best case $NVDA has made to date about less real need for custom accelerators. I don't think it changes the calculus for certain hyperscalers, but as it comes to silvering for training and...
DLSS 5 Rewrites Graphics, Not Just Upscales
DLSS 5 is legitimately one of the wildest things I've ever seen in graphics. It's not upscaling it's...totally reworking the image to look photorealistic(ish).
One Big Beautiful Bill (“OB3”) And FEOC: Current Considerations for Debt Financings
The One Big Beautiful Bill (OB3), enacted in July 2024, reshapes renewable energy tax credit eligibility by adding prohibited foreign entity (PFE) and foreign entity of concern (FEOC) restrictions. Treasury’s interim guidance (Notice 2026‑15) introduces a material‑assistance cost ratio (MACR) for...
Nvidia Forecasts $1 Trillion AI Spend by 2027
In October, Jensen Huang said he saw $500 billion in spending on the company's Blackwell and Rubin systems over five fiscal quarters through the end of 2026. Nvidia now says the opportunity will reach $1 trillion between 2025 and 2027,...
NVIDIA's Vera Rubin Platform Now Mass‑Producing Seven‑Chip AI Supercomputer
NVIDIA Vera Rubin is opening the next frontier of AI. #NVIDIAGTC news: The Vera Rubin platform’s seven chips are now in full production to scale the world’s largest AI factories. Vera CPU, Rubin GPU, NVLink 6, ConnectX-9, BlueField-4, Spectrum-6 and Groq 3...
Augustus v0.0.9: Multi-Turn Attacks for LLMs That Fight Back
Augustus v0.0.9 adds a unified engine for multi‑turn LLM attacks, offering four distinct strategies—Crescendo, GOAT, Hydra, and Mischievous User. The tool demonstrates that conversational context can bypass modern guardrails, extracting step‑by‑step instructions from GPT‑4o‑mini in as few as two turns. Hydra’s back‑tracking...
AI Video Tools Blur Creator Lines, Upending IP Rules
Seedance 2.0 and Google's Veo 3 now produce video so good you cannot tell whether it was made by a fan messing around or a creator building a business. That is the real problem. No platform — not ByteDance, not Google, not...
Free Datasets + LLM Queries on Snowflake, BigQuery
Snowflake and BigQuery have free datasets you can use to practice SQL with real data. Even better: LLMs are integrated, so you can query in natural language.
Quickly Go From Exploration to Action with New One-Click Integrations in Grafana Drilldown
Grafana has introduced one‑click integrations for its Drilldown apps, enabling users to add panels to dashboards, create alerts, and save searches without leaving the exploration view. The updates also bring an enhanced OpenTelemetry log display that surfaces key metadata inline,...
I Found a Better Way to Give My Guests Temporary Access to Home Assistant
Home Assistant power users can now grant visitors limited control through HA‑Pass, an add‑on that creates temporary, scoped access links. The tool lets owners pick exact entities—lights, locks, thermostats—and generates a QR‑code or URL that expires after a set period....
RheEnergise’s Fluid‑Based Pumped Storage Hits 500 kW
RheEnergise is storing electricity generated by renewables by pumping High-Density Fluid to a high reservoir, then releasing it to generate energy later. Their pilot project has reached a peak power production of 500 kilowatts. https://spectrum.ieee.org/pumped-hydro-storage-rheenergise
SEO/AI Case Study Drives Explosive 2024 Organic Traffic
Dear lord, just found another SEO/AI case study about how the company exploded this site's organic traffic in early 2024... ...when do we get the follow-up case study? 😅 https://t.co/O5fQZBGYsg
Coder Cannibalism
Amazon recently laid off a group of developers whose primary product was an AI‑driven automation platform, illustrating that technical certifications no longer guarantee job security. The layoffs underscore how large language models can outperform humans at structured knowledge retrieval, rendering...
Nvidia Nails Heterogeneous Computing Showcase at GTC
$NVDA was going to make its best case yet for heterogenous computing at GTC. Mission accomplished today. What I told @cvpayne today as the keynote kicked off. 👏🏻💪🏻🚀 https://t.co/Jxor9SWxXD
Paid Influencer Clips Masquerade as Genuine Traction
Learned about a new trend: Some marketing agencies are partnering with hundreds of "influencers" and distribute (paid, undisclosed) videos to them (eg podcasts) to clip and repost, making it look like organic interest Apparently inspired by Cluely What is real traction anymore
Ultrasound-Activated Nanoparticles Breach Bacterial Biofilms
Scientists have engineered silica‑based nanoparticles that encapsulate rifampicin and release it only when exposed to low‑frequency ultrasound. The ultrasound both propels the particles through the protective matrix of bacterial biofilms and triggers cavitation that opens the particles, delivering the antibiotic...
CudaJet Unveils High‑Performance Underwater Jetpack
CudaJet: A High-Performance Underwater Jetpack Redefining Aquatic Mobility via @WevolverApp #Innovation #EmergingTech #Technology #Tech https://t.co/cF5kNZliKd
AI Email Triage Cuts Hours of Inbox Management
Experimented with using the email triage skill with Antigravity + the Google Workspace CLI. I am impressed. Now I can just say "Triage my emails" and it gives me a list of everything it wants to keep, archive and trash...
Sonoma Valley Schools Approve Specific Rules for AI Use
The Sonoma Valley Unified School District Board unanimously approved a comprehensive artificial‑intelligence policy that outlines expectations, guardrails, and nine guiding principles for students, staff, vendors and volunteers. The policy emphasizes ethical, transparent use, equitable access, and the need for security,...
NVIDIA's BlueField-4 STX Redefines Storage for Agentic AI
NVIDIA Launches BlueField-4 STX Storage Architecture With Broad Industry Adoption With agentic AI, storage must evolve to meet the demands of real-time responsiveness and longer context windows. #NVIDIAGTC @nvidianewsroom @NVIDIAGTC https://t.co/RWwx1pijbv
Integrating Groq Keeps In‑House, Not Outsourced
Jensen is articulating what my main concern with Groq was in that as an independent solution why would I outsource all my inference. By integrating it as a part of the solution, it's just disaggregated but not 100% outsourced,...
Navigating AI Adoption on the Trading Desk
FactSet outlines how AI is reshaping trading‑desk workflows by accelerating decision‑making, cutting manual steps, and leveraging historical context. It stresses moving from pull‑based queries to proactive push models that surface insights directly within the trade execution flow. The article also...
Historic Solar Thermal Plant Seeks Heritage Listing
“Arguably a world first:” Historic solar thermal plant lines up for heritage listing #energysky -- via Renew Economy: https://t.co/gV4sHAz34z https://t.co/AuGPz9qbo9
Satellite Show's Shortlist Overlooks Key Industry Leader Charlie Ergen
This shortlist for Satellite Executive of the Year makes me feel that SatShow no longer has its finger on the pulse of the most significant industry developments... (yes the SES-Intelsat merger is a big deal but shouldn't Charlie Ergen be...
DHS Chooses Small Biz for $178M Enterprise IT Contract
The Department of Homeland Security awarded a potential ten‑year, $178.6 million task order to Netizen, a service‑disabled veteran‑owned small business, for enterprise IT delivery and operations support to the Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers. The contract covers service‑desk functions, Microsoft 365 deployment,...
Real‑time Video‑to‑video AI Bridges Games’ Uncanny Valley
Big moment. You can cross the uncanny valley in video games by using real-time video-to-video AI. You get the best of coherence & control from classical 3d engines, then use generative AI to take it all the way.
Medicine Needs Blended Intelligence, Not AI vs Doctors
AI can read the chart. But it can’t read the room. Today a patient’s story revealed something the algorithm didn’t flag. The future of medicine isn’t AI vs doctors. It’s Blended Intelligence, or “BI.” We need both. More in the video below 👇 https://t.co/7iwPleaAJD
RBI Fines Cashfree For Flouting Payment Aggregator Norms
India’s central bank has fined fintech payments platform Cashfree Payments ₹3.1 lakh for breaching payment aggregator and gateway regulations. The RBI’s inspection of Cashfree’s activities from April 2024 to June 2025 uncovered an impermissible debit from the company’s escrow account, prompting a show‑cause...
Nvidia's CPU Renaissance: Multi‑Billion Dollar Standalone Business
Jensen just said 'CPU will be a standalone multi-billion business for $NVDA' Agents on agents on agents. The CPU renaissance is among us.
NVIDIA's Co-Designed System Delivers 35× Efficiency Boost
The new system of compute from NVIDIA. Extreme co-design = 35X more throughput per MW. https://t.co/Z6JtDKckOh
Target’s Tech Chief Has a Central Role in the Retailer’s Turnaround Plan
Target’s chief information and product officer, Prat Vemana, is steering a $6 billion technology push aimed at reversing a multi‑quarter sales slump. The retailer is deploying AI‑driven tools such as Trend Brain to accelerate design cycles and new demand‑forecasting models for...
DLSS 5 Transforms Gaming with AI‑Powered Visuals
DLSS 5 looks like gen AI for video games. Grace looks totally different with DLSS 5 https://t.co/OiLQDfMaoO
AI Adoption Demands Stronger, More Responsive Data Foundations
As AI moves to core operations, pressure on the data layer also intensifies. I canvassed leaders on the work required to build a well-functioning data environment responsive to today’s AI initiatives. (My latest in Database Trends) https://t.co/X8ar2pKnTZ @BigDataQtrly
AI Is Now a Competitive Edge in Federal Capture and Small Firms Need to Adjust Fast
Former VA small‑business director Desmond Brown warns that AI is becoming a decisive advantage in federal contracting and has unveiled an AI‑driven framework that reverse‑engineers RFPs to surface evaluator priorities. He stresses that AI should act as a co‑collaborator, augmenting—not...
AI's Limited Impact on Cancer Explained
F Cancer Why has AI had so little impact on Cancer? New essay, link below. https://t.co/cLsoh7c7do
NVDA's Compute Still Cheapest, Investors Await Shift
Jensen reminds investors that the cost of $NVDA compute is still the lowest when you consider price and output. My take: True and investor are still waiting for the day when that changes. Part of the wall of worry.
AI Chips Beat Moore's Law: 35× Cheaper, 50× Efficient
In one generation, Moore’s law would have made AI chips 50% faster. Instead, it was 35 times lower cost and 50 times higher perf per watt https://t.co/FFdwHr0nXk
Semaglutide Boosts Metabolism, Reduces Anxiety in Obese Mice
Beyond the Weight Loss: The Effects of Semaglutide on Standard and Diet-Induced Obese Mice 🤔"..semaglutide improved glucose metabolic health inboth diet groups..while chronic semaglutide treatment appeared to exertanxiolytic effects in obese mice, opposit[e] effects were observed in lean animals.." https://t.co/doU6EkwT7z
Tokens per Watt Determine AI Factory Revenue
Jensen Huang says tokens per watt drives AI factory revenue. Performance drives token cost. https://t.co/CiZp1BSyyL
Z80-MBC2 SBC Runs CP/M
The Z80-MBC2 is a Z80 Single Board Computer. It uses SD as 'disk emulator' and a 128KB banked RAM for CP/M 3. It can also run CP/M 2.2, QP/M 2.71, UCSD Pascal, Collapse OS and Fuzix. 🔗https://t.co/mJFq6SDNY3 https://t.co/mz5BcTfw1X
AI Market Projected to Hit $1 Trillion by 2027
Jensen Huang said AI demand is heading for $1 trillion through 2027, up $500 million. https://t.co/qwzGBX3pAo
Batching Content Shields You From Life's Surprises
A tree hit our house and I still did not have to scramble for content. I had content batched and scheduled because life happens.
Offtake Deal Secures Australia’s Largest Solar‑Battery Hybrid
“Brilliant economics”: Offtake deal seals delivery of Australia’s biggest solar-battery hybrid project #energysky -- via Renew Economy: https://t.co/hURGK7srcY https://t.co/QoJiVH90r5
