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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.

As the NC Ethics of Technology Postdoctoral Fellow, Michal Masny is advancing dialogue, teaching, and research into the social and ethical dimensions of new computing technologies.

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 ...

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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.

A deep neural network can be understood as a geometric system, where each layer reshapes the input space to form increasingly complex decision boundaries. For this to work effectively, layers must preserve meaningful spatial information — particularly how far a data point lies from these boundaries ...

In this tutorial, we explore how to use Google’s LangExtract library to transform unstructured text into structured, machine-readable information. We begin by installing the required dependencies and securely configuring our OpenAI API key to leverage powerful language models for extraction tasks. A...

In this tutorial, we explore ModelScope through a practical, end-to-end workflow that runs smoothly on Colab. We begin by setting up the environment, verifying dependencies, and confirming GPU availability so we can work with the framework reliably from the start. From there, we interact with the Mo...

AWS has an ingrained culture of handling coopetition, he explained, because the cloud giant also competes with its partners.

OpenAI's new Child Safety Blueprint aims to tackle the alarming rise in child sexual exploitation linked to advancements in AI.

Matei Zaharia has won the top honor from the Association for Computing Machinery. Now he's working on AI for research and says AGI is simply misunderstood.

A provocative look at why the “AI replacing jobs” narrative misses the real story. This edition of AI Reality Check reframes automation as transformation — exploring how AI reshapes work, amplifies human capability, and demands a new conversation about value and adaptation.

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In this tutorial, we explore the latest Gemini API tooling updates Google announced in March 2026, specifically the ability to combine built-in tools like Google Search and Google Maps with custom function calls in a single API request. We walk through five hands-on demos that progressively build on...

In this tutorial, we build a complete Open WebUI setup in Colab, in a practical, hands-on way, using Python. We begin by installing the required dependencies, then securely provide our OpenAI API key through terminal-based secret input so that sensitive credentials are not exposed directly in the no...

Startup accelerator program grows to over 30 companies, almost half of them with MIT pedigrees.

The partnership brings semiconductor experience to Musk's latest high-tech project.

The new model will be used by a small number of high-profile companies to engage in defensive cybersecurity work.

Uber is expanding its AWS contract to run more of its ride-sharing features on Amazon's chips. This is a thumb-of-the nose at Oracle and Google.

Gemini can now create captions when users are looking to share a photo or video.

I sat down with Aaron Levie at the O’Reilly AI Codecon two weeks ago. Aaron cofounded Box in 2005, and 20 years later, his company manages content for about two-thirds of the Fortune 500. Aaron is one of the few CEOs of an incumbent enterprise software company thinking deeply in public about what AI...

Rocket's new AI platform combines strategy, product building, and competitive intelligence, aiming to move beyond code generation.

Researchers developed a system that intelligently balances workloads to improve the efficiency of flash storage hardware in a data center.