Tenstorrent Unveils RISC-V AI Workstation with Open-Source Stack
Tenstorrent announced the TT‑QuietBox 2, dubbed Blackhole, a liquid‑cooled AI workstation that runs directly on a desktop. The system can infer models up to 120 billion parameters and delivers teraflop‑class performance using a RISC‑V processor. It ships with a completely open‑source software stack covering compiler, runtime and kernel. Pricing starts at $9,999, making high‑end AI compute accessible at the desk.
NVIDIA Showcases Hybrid AI Driving System at GTC
Gonna get my own ride next week at GTC. My Tesla just drove me for an hour around Silicon Valley. It is eight years old. Just was at a funeral of my son’s friend’s dad who was killed in a car wreck...
Early Adopters Turn AI Craze Into Profit
The AI tool has become the country's latest tech obsession. For savvy early adopters, that's a business opportunity.
New Photonic Device Efficiently Beams Light Into Free Space
Researchers at MIT, MITRE, Sandia and the University of Arizona have unveiled a photonic chip that uses upward‑curving “ski‑jump” structures to broadcast thousands of individually controllable laser beams into free space. The device leverages a bimaterial strain technique—silicon nitride and...
Google Cloud's Vision for AI in the Game Industry
Jack Buser, speaking at GDC’s Luminaries series, outlined Google Cloud’s vision of a “Living Game” where AI augments development, business strategy, and player experiences. He highlighted how AI can streamline pre‑production, unify player data for hyper‑personalized marketing, and power smart...
A Roadmap for Safer Generative AI for Young People
Google outlined a comprehensive roadmap to make generative AI safer for younger users, centering on three pillars: online youth protection, family‑centric technology relationships, and empowered learning. The company embedded strict content policies—blocking child sexual abuse, extremist, self‑harm, and age‑inappropriate material—throughout...
Design the Future of Work Before It Designs You with Tom McCarty
In this episode of the HR Chat Show, host Bill Bannam talks with Tom McCarty, CEO of OrgChart, about the urgent need for organizations to build a solid, centralized people data foundation before attempting AI‑driven workforce redesign. McCarty highlights current...
Connecticut Bill Constraining Use of License Plate Data Gets Broad Support
Connecticut House Bill 5449, backed by immigration advocates and civil‑rights groups, would restrict automatic license‑plate reader (ALPR) data by limiting retention to seven days and banning its use for immigration enforcement, abortion‑related, or transgender‑care investigations. The legislation also confines data...
Ebook Distributor Bookwire and Eleven Labs Partner Up
Bookwire, a leading ebook distributor, has announced a partnership with AI voice pioneer Eleven Labs to launch AI‑narrated audiobooks. The new titles will be streamed through Eleven Labs' Eleven Reader app and will initially support more than a dozen languages....
AI‑driven RAN Delivers 20% Efficiency Boost and Real‑time Gains
20% more spectral efficiency. In #telecom, that’s massive. At #MWC26, I sat down with Joe Constantine from Ericsson broke down how #AI in RAN is driving: → +20% efficiency → +14% energy savings → 5x better positioning The real shift? From offline, file-based management → to...
The Beginner’s Guide to Shipping with Claude Code + 3 Support Prompts
The post demystifies Claude Code for beginners, breaking down the jargon‑filled path from concept to live AI product. It outlines a clear workflow—idea, local development, GitHub repository, hosting, and deployment—while highlighting essential terms like API, webhook, and environment variables. The...
Centralized Power: How TeamCity’s Architecture Solves Jenkins’ Scaling Problem
Jenkins’ controller‑agent model hits performance limits as organizations add pipelines, agents, and plugins, often forcing multi‑controller deployments that increase operational overhead. The article contrasts this with TeamCity’s server‑agent architecture, where a single server centralizes configuration while agents scale horizontally. TeamCity...
The New iPhone 17e Might Look Cute and Compact, but Early Benchmark Tests Suggest that It's a Powerful Gaming Phone
Apple unveiled the iPhone 17e, a $599 mid‑range handset that shares the A19 processor with the flagship iPhone 17. Early Geekbench tests recorded a 9,241 multi‑core score, essentially matching the flagship’s performance, while its four‑core GPU trails the flagship’s five‑core...
From Insights to Impact: Rare Disease Therapies with UCB’s Dr. Kim Moran — Episode 246
UCB’s Senior Vice President Dr. Kim Moran discusses the company’s rare disease pipeline, including therapies for mitochondrial TK2 deficiency, on Xtalks Life Science Podcast episode 246. Moran, who pioneered UCB’s Insights‑to‑Impact function, explains how patient‑derived data informs strategy, digital transformation,...
Spain’s Sánchez Launches AI Tool to Track Hate Speech on Social Media
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez unveiled HODIO, an AI‑driven system that ranks social‑media platforms by the volume of hate speech they host. The tool will scan publicly available posts, apply natural‑language processing, and publish a comparative score for each major...
For ₦1,300 a Month, inDrive Drivers in Nigeria Can Now Access Healthcare Services
InDrive Nigeria has teamed up with health‑tech startup Heala to embed affordable medical coverage into its driver app. Eligible Platinum drivers can subscribe to plans starting at ₦1,300 ($1) per month, granting tele‑consultations, prescriptions, pharmacy pick‑up and diagnostic services without...
Code Concepts: A Large-Scale Synthetic Dataset Generated From Programming Concept Seeds
Researchers introduced a concept‑driven workflow that produces synthetic code data aligned with specific programming skills. Using a taxonomy of 91 Python concepts, they generated roughly 15 million Python problems and incorporated 10 billion tokens into the final 100 billion‑token pretraining of Nemotron‑Nano‑v3. The...
Data Systems at a Crossroads: Official Statistics for a New Era
A new paper by Open Data Watch and Paris 21 warns that deep cuts in development financing, mounting legitimacy concerns, rapid AI advances, and rising expectations for inclusive data are converging into a systemic crisis for national statistical offices, especially in...
Pure Data Centres and AVK Deploy Europe’s First Large-Scale Microgrid
Pure Data Centres Group and AVK have commissioned Europe’s first large‑scale, 110 MW on‑site microgrid at Pure DC’s Dublin campus. The system comprises three 30 MW energy centres that deliver dispatchable power, combined heat‑and‑power capability, and waste‑heat recovery during early‑phase development. Designed...
A More Modern Way to Think About Personal Loans
Traditional banks often make personal loans feel slow and paperwork‑heavy, prompting fintech innovators to reimagine the process. Platforms like Upstart apply machine‑learning models that evaluate a broader set of data points, not just FICO scores, to assess borrower risk. This...
Enterprise AI Cost Control Lies with Platform Engineering
"My original hybrid AI piece argued that developer workflows are the primary control plane for AI cost management. That’s true at the individual or small team level. But at enterprise scale, Layer 2C doesn’t belong to developers. It belongs to...
Maven Clinic Launches Direct-to-Consumer Platform Nationwide Featuring GLP-1 and Hormone Care
Maven Clinic, known for its B2B telehealth services covering 28 million lives, has opened a beta waitlist for a new direct‑to‑consumer platform that will be available to women across the United States. The DTC offering bundles virtual access to more...
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Giftcards.com is running a limited‑time promotion where customers who purchase a $100 virtual Visa or Mastercard gift card receive a $10 Giftcards.com card for free by entering promo code SPDBOGO. The offer is valid online from March 11 to March 13, 2026, or...
NextAud.io Announces Exclusive Agreement with AdsWizz to Sell Streaming and Podcast Inventory in MENA Region
NextAud.io has signed an exclusive agreement with AdsWizz to become the sole sales representative for streaming and podcast inventory across Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt, while also acting as AdsWizz’s preferred reseller in...
Amazon Wants to Be Your First Stop for Health Questions —Here’s What Its New AI Assistant Does
Amazon has launched Health AI, an artificial‑intelligence assistant embedded in its website and mobile app that lets shoppers check symptoms, receive possible causes, and get treatment suggestions. The tool can direct users to telehealth visits or nearby providers, extending Amazon’s...
Tesla Cybertruck With Autopilot Engaged Tries To Drive Off An Overpass In Freaky Video
A Houston driver sued Tesla after her Cybertruck, operating with Autopilot engaged, missed a curve on an overpass and collided with a concrete barrier, sustaining severe neck, back and shoulder injuries. The lawsuit seeks more than $1 million, accusing Tesla of...
FreeWheel Launches AI Agent Infrastructure for Premium Video Ads, Pilots with PMG
FreeWheel unveiled an AI agent infrastructure built on its Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server and a suite of Intelligence tools, embedding artificial intelligence directly into premium video ad transactions. The platform enables real‑time workflow automation, performance monitoring, and decision‑making for...
Stasis Pods and Deep Space Exploration
Stasis research, building on therapeutic hypothermia and animal hibernation, aims to place astronauts in a torpor‑like state for long‑duration spaceflight. NASA’s NIAC program funded SpaceWorks Enterprises, whose 2016 Torpor Inducing Transfer Habitat study suggested a torpor‑based Mars transit could reduce...
Spread Your Brand Story Across Publishers for AI Visibility
Making a strong case for distribution of your company information / news / etc in a GEO world. This part makes me think a lot about the black box of training data and the long horizons of training data...
State Department Shifts StateChat to OpenAI After a Presidential Ban on Anthropic
The U.S. State Department has replaced Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4.5 with OpenAI’s GPT‑4.1 for its internal StateChat platform following a presidential directive that bans Anthropic models from federal use. The switch also rolls the chatbot’s training‑data cutoff back to May 2024, undoing a...
AI Boosts Workload, Not Reduces It
WSJ: "One of the great hopes for AI—at least, among workers—is that it will ease workloads, freeing people up for more high-level, creative pursuits. So far, the opposite is happening, new data show...AI is increasing the speed, density and complexity...
Google Expands Search Console Branded Queries Filter to All Eligible Sites
Google has rolled out its branded queries filter in Search Console to all eligible sites, enabling native separation of branded and non‑branded traffic within the Performance report. The filter automatically classifies queries that contain brand names, variations, misspellings, or related...
Digital Health's New Challenge: Empowering Users without Adding Complexity
At the 2026 HIMSS Global Health Conference, leaders highlighted a growing tension in digital health: rapid innovation can add complexity for clinicians and patients. They showcased Mass General Brigham’s AI‑powered ambient documentation, which after a pilot with 800 clinicians showed...
Finance Leaders Evaluate only Three Vendors Before Demos
The magic number is 3. We asked 100 CFOs and VPs of Finance how many vendors they closely evaluate when buying software. 50% said exactly 3. Median: 3. Mean: 4.1. 53% evaluate 3 or fewer. This is a brutally small window. Think about what this...
OpenAI's New Training Dataset Teaches AI Models Which Instructions to Trust
OpenAI unveiled the IH‑Challenge dataset, a reinforcement‑learning resource that teaches models a four‑level instruction hierarchy—system, developer, user, and tool. The dataset replaces subjective LLM judges with deterministic Python scripts, enabling reliable automated evaluation. Early testing on the internal GPT‑5 Mini‑R...
Anthropic’s Pentagon Showdown Is Drawing Silicon Valley Into a Larger Fight
Anthropic has sued the Pentagon after the Department of Defense labeled the company a "supply chain risk," effectively blacklisting it from government contracts. A coalition of 37 leading AI researchers, including figures from Google, OpenAI and DeepMind, filed an amicus...
Press Release: CLEAR Launches Biometric eGates at San José Mineta
CLEAR introduced biometric eGates in Terminal B’s TSA PreCheck lane at San José Mineta International Airport, allowing CLEAR+ members to verify identity in under five seconds and bypass the traditional security podium. The rollout arrives ahead of the busy Spring Break travel...
Takase Kanageta Selects Plataine to Scale Production Scheduling Across Multi-Plant Operations
Takase Kanagata, a Japanese precision‑manufacturing firm, has chosen Plataine’s AI‑powered Production Scheduler, delivered with Argosy Japan Aerospace Materials, to support its 2030 Digital Factory and Industry 4.0 roadmap. The solution will enable Takase to scale production scheduling across multiple plants while...
AI-Enabled Watch Towers Set to Proliferate Along the Border
The Department of Homeland Security will retrofit 148 uncrewed camera towers along the U.S. border with AI‑enabled sensors this year and add 50 next‑generation towers. GDIT’s Relocatable Autonomous Surveillance Tower brings longer‑range optics, radar, LIDAR and solar power, allowing edge...
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Avatar Leads Street Robotics Lessons for STEM Inclusion
#Noire #Robotics #Engineering #Professor #AI #Avatar teaching robotics to the streets #STEM #STEAM #Robot #Robots #NoireSTEMinist https://t.co/CNWBdQg1uv
AI Session Replay Tool Detects Bugs for Top Teams
Lucent (@lucent_ai) is an AI that automatically watches your session replays and finds bugs and UX issues. They’re already used by top product teams including Reducto, Julius, Finta, and Happenstance. Congrats on the launch, @RaeAlisa_! https://t.co/iSOB8tJgQB https://t.co/Z0oLybMu5r
AI Cuts Chores, Amplifies Mental Overload and Burnout
Will AI give you lots of free time? The opposite is happening: AI allows you to skip unproductive tasks, with the result that you constantly focus on complex topics, risking cognitive overload and burnout. https://t.co/mKYhukwThs
Robots Now Sewing Blue Jeans for Trillion‑Dollar Fashion Industry
#WhosNext? Clothing workers? These #Robots Make Blue Jeans for the Trillion-dollar Clothing Industry. (Thomas net) #Robotics https://t.co/YeWCNIrzXX https://t.co/FNscVLNemn
Companies Crave Fractional Content Ops over Full‑time Hires
Was chatting with another content marketer leaning into fractional content operations, and I keep hearing there is *so much demand* for this type of work. Companies don't need a full-time hire or a high-cost agency. They need someone experienced enough to...
Renewables Deliver Low‑Cost, Reliable Electricity Nationwide
Are wind and solar “expensive and unreliable,” as President Trump claims? https://t.co/UiE5Iz8PY4 Graph: WWS supply as a % of demand vs electricity price, by state https://t.co/Tpm8NCnpHF Table: WWS supply as a % of demand https://t.co/KP3uii4BqI Book https://t.co/irGIq6qRxE https://t.co/cY35RF0Ovo
AI Code Isn’t Reliable, but It Speeds Development
You cannot trust code written by AI. But you can still use it to write code faster.
Education Drives Responsible AI Adoption Across U.S. States
From the state of Washington to New Jersey, new collaborations are demonstrating how education is becoming a central strategy for responsible AI adoption. https://t.co/f85RwbXeho #sustainability #AI #5G #cloud #edge #futureofwork #digitaltransformation https://t.co/hhfahRpr4o
AI Powers Both Cyber Attacks and Defenses
Hackers Are Automating Cyberattacks With AI. Defenders Are Using It to Fight Back. by @EddyTheGent https://t.co/SbgZ2RlWZg https://t.co/Dyw0vcKhD3
AI‑Powered Replit Agent 4 Turns Coding Into Creative Collaboration
Software isn’t merely technical work anymore. It’s creative. Introducing Replit Agent 4. The first AI built for creative collaboration between humans and agents. Design on an infinite canvas, work with your team, run parallel agents, and ship working apps, sites, slides &...
