Crystal ball: Are you concerned about the increasing likelihood of an AI going rogue and killing us all? It’s a depressing thought, but an AI security expert sees the positive: His concern that the technology will lead to mass extinctions in the next decade has led him to stop saving for retirement. Nate Soares, president … Read more
Military systems take years to build, cost a lot and are difficult to replace once deployed. It is characterized by slow procurement cycles, strict restrictions and tough trade-offs between performance, cost and reliability. This category examines how modern militaries actually develop, acquire, and use technology and what this reveals about the conflicts they prepare for. … Read more
After OpenClaw caused a sensation – or triggered a tidal wave, depending on who you ask — In the artificial intelligence community, security became the top priority. Ahead of the upcoming KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA event, Red Hat LLC executives shared further insight into OpenShell, a secure, open agent runtime designed to keep OpenClaw deployments … Read more
The big picture: The NBA is the third major U.S. sports league, following Major League Baseball and the National Hockey League, to sign commercial partnerships with Kalshi and Polymarket, calling them its “Preferred Prediction Market Exchanges.” MLS also has an exclusive partnership with Polymarket through its commercial arm Soccer United Marketing. The NBA said the … Read more
Researchers in the US have developed a modeling approach that could allow nuclear power plants to adjust electricity production to changing grid demand without repeatedly reducing reactor output. The system combines molten salt reactors with thermal energy storage, allowing excess heat to be stored when power needs are low and used to generate additional energy … Read more
Google LLC today previewed Genie 4, an artificial intelligence model that can create realistic three-dimensional environments. The algorithm is the latest addition to a series of world models that the company launched in 2024. Compared to its predecessor, Genie 4 is better able to display fluid movements and other complex details. In addition, it can … Read more
So much internet p0rn: The demand for data processing is increasing rapidly and traditional communication standards are no longer up to the task. Thanks to a novel engineering approach, a Chinese team is developing fiber optic technology that could potentially solve the data speed problem for a while and more. A joint initiative by Chinese … Read more
Researchers have developed a low-cost catalyst for the production of green hydrogen that operates within 50 millivolts of a ruthenium-based benchmark during oxygen evolution, providing a potential alternative to catalysts made from rare and expensive precious metals. The team developed catalysts using nickel and iron oxides anchored to carbon nanofibers grown on a conductive two-dimensional … Read more
Short: DoorDash is reportedly in late-stage talks with Instacart to acquire the popular grocery delivery service in a deal worth around $17 billion. An announcement could come as early as midweek, sources said, who also warned that nothing had been finalized and the deal could still fall apart. Instacart was also recently linked to rumors … Read more
Faster chips alone no longer determine AI expansion. Hundreds of thousands of processors now work together as one machine, so the AI infrastructure hardware is designed and evaluated as a complete system. This system extends from the optical connections between racks to the memory, storage, and power that employ the GPUs. The next phase is … Read more