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AI has always been a bit of a runaway train. It’s exciting. It’s cool. It’s a bit irresponsible. But the train is finally starting to hit the brakes. And depending on which side of the tracks you are on, that is either a good thing… or a very bad thing. So let’s start with regulation. The government...

Something strange is happening in Washington. And no, it is not a new scandal. Government officials are in a frantic rush to deal with the unknown and unpredictable, not the economy, but artificially intelligent computer programs that might be getting a little too good. If you skim through today’s n...

In this tutorial, we build and operate a fully local, schema-valid OpenClaw runtime. We configure the OpenClaw gateway with strict loopback binding, set up authenticated model access through environment variables, and define a secure execution environment using the built-in exec tool. We then create...

This ban took place after Claude's pricing changed for OpenClaw users last week.

In this tutorial, we build and run a complete Pose2Sim pipeline on Colab to understand how markerless 3D kinematics works in practice. We begin with environment setup, configure the project for Colab’s headless runtime, and then walk through calibration, 2D pose estimation, synchronization, person a...

AI Quantum Intelligence’s “AI Pic of the Week” presents “Ascent Beyond Limits,” a powerful, artistically rendered reflection on perseverance—capturing the human spirit’s ability to rise above illness, disability, and adversity. Through evocative, AI-assisted visual storytelling, this piece explores ...

Gartner recognizes Semarchy for Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute. Semarchy announced today that it has been recognized as a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Master Data Management. We believe this recognition reflects the innovation Semarchy has achieved and the impact of...

Recognitions from Cyber Defense Magazine and the Cybersecurity Excellence Awards highlight MDR leadership and team performance  TekStream, a digital resilience company that helps organizations modernize, secure and optimize their technology environments, has been recognized with four top cybersecuri...

Veteran security executive brings more than two decades of enterprise, SaaS, and national defense cybersecurity leadership to Black Duck Black Duck®, the leader in AI-powered application security, today announced the appointment of Dom Glavach as Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). In this ro...

Cloud security teams are expected to protect everything—but not every asset carries the same risk. A misconfigured storage account holding test logs is a very different problem than one holding millions of customer records. Without data context, every alert looks equally urgent. That’s why imPAC Lab...

C3 Code automates the entire application lifecycle — turning enterprise data and domain-specific knowledge into governed, deployed AI applications in hours C3 AI (NYSE: AI), the Enterprise AI application software company, today announced the general availability of C3 Code, a new paradigm in Enterpr...

New AI-powered recommendations enable enterprises to train fraud scoring on their own data for more accurate detection Fingerprint, a leader in device intelligence for fraud prevention, today announced the addition of AI-powered recommendations to its Suspect Score solution.The enhancement gives Fin...

Veteran CIO, four-time CISO, and cloud security leader brings decades of enterprise expertise to support next phase of growth and continuous offensive security innovation Cobalt, the pioneer of penetration testing as a service (PTaaS) and a leading provider of human-led, AI-powered offensive securit...

The multi-year collaboration aims to scale molecular data storage infrastructure and unlock breakthrough cost efficiencies by 2030. GenScript Biotech Corporation, the world’s leading provider of CMOS-based DNA synthesis technologies, and Mimulus Corp, the pioneer in Molecular Archive Technology™, to...

Modern AI is no longer powered by a single type of processor—it runs on a diverse ecosystem of specialized compute architectures, each making deliberate tradeoffs between flexibility, parallelism, and memory efficiency. While traditional systems relied heavily on CPUs, today’s AI workloads are distr...

In this tutorial, we take a detailed, practical approach to exploring NVIDIA’s KVPress and understanding how it can make long-context language model inference more efficient. We begin by setting up the full environment, installing the required libraries, loading a compact Instruct model, and prepari...

OpenAI announced on Thursday something that power users have been asking for: a $100/month plan. Previously subscriptions jumped from $20 to $200 per month.

ChatGPT had reportedly been used to plan the attack that killed two and injured five at Florida State University last April. The family of one victim has said that they plan to sue OpenAI over the incident.

Are real cybersecurity concerns a cover for a bigger problem at the frontier lab?

The two tech giants are looking to co-develop custom chips, at a time where demand for CPUs is high due to a growing global shortage.

New brand reflects belief that technology can do more than just work, it can elevate anything SoftServe, a digital engineering and technology services company specializing in AI, data, and cloud solutions, today announced the launch of its new brand, “Technology Elevated,” reflecting SoftServe’s tra...

-New integration approach simplifies multi-vendor instrument connectivity and strengthens data integrity in regulated environments- LabWare, a global provider of laboratory informatics, and Phizzle, an innovator in laboratory data integration, today announced a partnership to simplify how regulated ...

Andy Jassy's annual shareholder letter reads something like a diss track to a wide range of competitors as he defends spending $200 billion in capex.