The machine that could change the world will be housed in a room that looks like a data center crossed with an ice cream factory. Inside will be some 100 stainless-steel cabinets, each about six feet tall and connected to a supply of liquid helium that keeps them only a few degrees above absolute zero.…
The White House is preparing an event, expected within weeks, at which electric utilities, the companies that build and run data centres for Big Tech, and governors of the states hosting the biggest buildouts will be asked to promise that none of this …
The meeting was a technology all-hands, held on Monday, and the phrase the company used afterwards was “a small number of roles”. The number an employee who attended gave to Reuters was up to 500. Thomson Reuters, the Canadian content and technology gr…
Prolo, an AI-powered procurement platform helpingsmall and medium-sized construction firms source materials, equipment andlabour at competitive market rates, has secured £4.2 million in seed funding. …
Amsterdam-basedPromptwatch, an AI Search Optimisation (GEO) platform, has raised €6 million inseed funding. The round was led by seed + speed Ventures, with participationfrom Blum Ventures, while Arch…
Google has given Waze a batch of new features, most of them powered by Gemini. The headline additions are a motorcycle mode, personalised routing, conversational map editing, and Gemini-powered destination search, The Verge reports. The most interestin…
Intel is committing 5 billion euros, around $5.7bn, to expand its campus at Leixlip in Ireland. The money is aimed at data-centre processors for AI and high-performance computing, Bloomberg reports. It is a serious share of the company’s budget. The su…
Microsoft’s Satya Nadella says every firm using AI is paying for it twice, once in cash, and once in the secrets it hands over to make the thing useful. He calls it the Reverse Information Paradox. He also runs the company that helped build the trap. S…
The debate about AI and jobs has focused on graduates. New research suggests it should also be looking at people in their late fifties, CNBC reports. Workers aged 55 and over in AI-exposed occupations are now exiting work at higher rates than before Ch…
For the first time, bots generate more than half of all web traffic. Cloudflare Precursor, the company’s new tool, stops checking IDs at the door and starts watching how visitors behave once they are inside. The internet just passed a strange milestone…