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Nvidia-backed British AI infrastructure startup Nscale has raised another megaround of $2 billion.

VisualVault, a leading provider of digital information and patient data management solutions, will be exhibiting at the HIMSS Global Health Conference & Exposition, March 9-12 at the Venetian Expo Center in Las Vegas, NV. VisualVault’s presence will be based within the Carahsoft Pavilion, booth 6424...

NetSPI®, the global leader in modern penetration testing, today announced it has been recognized in the 2026 GigaOm Radar Report for Attack Surface Management (ASM). GigaOm analysts Chris Ray and Whit Walters’ forward-looking report evaluates 32 ASM solutions based on their feature capabilities and ...

SolarWinds, a leading provider of simple, powerful, secure observability and IT management software has been honored by CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, with inclusion in the prestigious 2026 CRN Partner Program Guide. This annual guide is an essential resource for solution providers seeking ve...

DeepSeas today announced the appointment of Lewie Dunsworth as Chief Executive Officer. As an industry visionary, Dunsworth will lead the company into its next level of growth and innovation, further strengthening DeepSeas’ position as a trusted cybersecurity partner for mid-sized organizations and ...

Large Language Models (LLMs) are the world’s best mimics, but when it comes to the cold, hard logic of updating beliefs based on new evidence, they are surprisingly stubborn. A team of researchers from Google argue that the current crop of AI agents falls far short of ‘probabilistic reasoning’—the a...

Successful AI initiatives and business operations require reliable data foundations — and as more organizations turned to Tamr for master data management, the company’s direct SaaS revenue more than doubled year-over-year Tamr, the only AI-native master data management (MDM) solution, today announce...

Manifest, the leading platform for software and AI supply chain security, today released new research exposing a significant AI readiness gap inside enterprise security teams. In its report, Beyond the Black Box: How AI Is Forcing a Rethink of the Software Supply Chain, executives report confidence ...

In this tutorial, we build a complete pipeline for single-cell RNA sequencing analysis using Scanpy. We start by installing the required libraries and loading the PBMC 3k dataset, then perform quality control, filtering, and normalization to prepare the data for downstream analysis. We then identify...

The facial recognition question is where things get more tangled.

AI data center developers are increasingly relying on a style of camp popularized as housing for men working in remote oil fields.

The Pro-Human Declaration was finalized before last week's Pentagon-Anthropic standoff, but the collision of the two events wasn’t lost on anyone involved.

In this tutorial, we explore tqdm in depth and demonstrate how we build powerful, real-time progress tracking into modern Python workflows. We begin with nested progress bars and manual progress control, then move into practical scenarios such as streaming downloads, pandas data processing, parallel...

What if the AI industry is optimizing for a goal that cannot be clearly defined or reliably measured? That is the central argument of a new paper by Yann LeCun, and his team, which claims that Artificial General Intelligence has become an overloaded term used in inconsistent ways across academia and...

Most of it is tied to performance, including new stock incentives linked to Waymo and Wing, its drone delivery venture.

A recently-added feature in Grammarly purports to improve users’ writing with help from the world's great writers and thinkers — and some tech journalists, too.

There’s something of a sea change underway in the global AI debate, and it’s taking place in the UK of all places. But not in a subtle way, by any stretch. Members of Parliament are finally pushing back on one of the tech industry’s most beloved pastimes: running AI algorithms on huge swaths of onli...

When chatting with the AI models in VirtualGF Chat, the interaction unfolds as a steady exchange rather than a rigid back-and-forth. This approach makes it possible to stay with a topic, explore it from different angles, or shift tone naturally without breaking conversational momentum. How it works ...

The feature, which will give verified adult users access to erotica and other adult content, had already been delayed from December.

A vibrant three‑panel conceptual illustration depicting the stages of innovation: creative constraints represented through cosmic baking metaphors, collaborative iteration shown through two figures interacting with a glowing interface, and a radiant “Aha!” breakthrough moment. Futuristic, whimsical,...

In this tutorial, we implement a production-grade, large-scale graph analytics pipeline in NetworKit, focusing on speed, memory efficiency, and version-safe APIs in NetworKit 11.2.1. We generate a large-scale free network, extract the largest connected component, and then compute structural backbone...

OpenAI has introduced Codex Security, an application security agent that analyzes a codebase, validates likely vulnerabilities, and proposes fixes that developers can review before patching. The product is now rolling out in research preview to ChatGPT Enterprise, Business, and Edu customers through...

The ongoing public feud between the Department of Defense and AI company Anthropic over its technology has raised a deep open question: does the law actually allow the US government to conduct mass surveillance on Americans? Surprisingly, the answer is not straightforward. More than a decade after E...

Trump's Department of War feud with Anthropic won't impact other companies that are using Claude via Microsoft products.