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As hyperscale data centers proliferate across America, researchers quantify the environmental burden GPUs exact on nearby neighborhoods - and ask whether the tradeoff is worth it.
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As hyperscale data centers proliferate across America, researchers quantify the environmental burden GPUs exact on nearby neighborhoods - and ask whether the tradeoff is worth it.
Deezer's data reveals a thirteen-month surge from 10% to over half of all daily track submissions, exposing a platform dilemma between openn…
The Singapore-based arm of Ant Group is doubling down on merchant services and digital wallets across emerging markets, signaling a pivot fr…
As chip design hits physical limits, the race for next-generation AI has moved down the stack to polymers, elastomers, and thermal fluids th…
The Ant Group spin-off has secured backing from its parent, Alibaba, and global investors to expand its cross-border payments and fintech in…
As AI engineering demand outstrips supply across the mainland, firms are building recruitment pipelines that reach down into secondary schoo…
Gritt raises $32 million to deploy adaptive robotics on job sites, starting with panels that human crews struggle to keep pace with…
Beijing-based startup's cybersecurity-capable model performs near parity with OpenAI's flagship, raising questions about the cost of caution…
Moonshot's Kimi launch has divided Trump administration officials between protectionism and market principles, exposing deep rifts in US tec…
A young researcher's persistence to build a massive AI model is reshaping ByteDance's position in the generative intelligence race…
Taiwan's semiconductor giant signals cost pressures from overseas expansion and equipment inflation are reshaping foundry economics…
As the Atlanta surveillance firm prepares to defend its AI-powered camera networks, high-profile contract losses signal growing pushback aga…
Project Indigo, launched to mimic SLR aesthetics on iPhone, now doubles as a testbed for third-party generative AI tools - raising questions…
Project Indigo moves beyond prompt-based filters to offer deterministic tools and frame-level critiques, signaling a shift in how computatio…
A protocol update arriving next week promises to make AI agent infrastructure cheaper and easier to run at scale - if you're one of the engi…
The social network's engineering team completed a full rewrite in Kotlin and Jetpack Compose, aiming to close the gap with iOS and reclaim u…
A cyberattack on the U.K.-based software provider underscores how third-party vendors have become the weakest link in protecting patient med…
Industry leaders at WAIC point to a critical bottleneck: embodied AI systems lack the training data and inference sophistication needed to n…
The penalty against AliExpress is among the largest under Europe's new content moderation framework, and Hangzhou says it will fight back.…
The real estate platform's engineering lead argues that credible ROI claims depend on baselines established years before any model goes live…
A federal court in San Francisco finalizes what may be the largest AI training data settlement to date, covering 480,000 written works and e…
The music giant files a second lawsuit after a court blocked expansion of its original complaint, while rivals Universal and Warner have alr…
The commission now targets nine firms suspected of evading drone import bans through cosmetic repackaging, wielding new retroactive enforcem…
The Korean electronics giant has created a dedicated robotics division and plans a $13 billion manufacturing investment as the race for phys…
The ride-hailing giant is pushing for rules that would force autonomous vehicles onto existing platforms, while Waymo stands ready to launch…