Not much has changed in the new MacBook Air for 2026: It now has the M5 chip, Wi-Fi 7, and faster storage starting at 512GB instead of 256GB. It's just as outstanding a computer as last year's model, even if it's a shame it's $100 more expensive. The bigger change has happened to the Air. […]

Pseudonymity has never been perfect for preserving privacy. Soon it may be pointless.

Rolling coverage from San Jose, including NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang’s keynote, news highlights, live demos and on‑the‑ground color through March 19.

DirectorFeng, an expert technician in China has just performed what is likely the first hardware mod of its kind on the new MacBook Neo. He has birthed the world's only MacBook Neo with a terabyte of storage by physically changing the NAND chip on the logic board. Whether this mod is worth the price

Optimizing the cost and latency of your LLM calls with Prompt Caching

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A deep dive into exactly how text-only language models are finetuned to *see* images

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How a lightweight two-tower model improved restaurant discovery when popularity ranking failed

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Understanding default risk through statistical analysis of borrower and loan characteristics.

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Most enterprises start with LLM APIs. OpenAI, Anthropic, Google. It's fast, it works, and someone else handles the infrastructure.

Then reality sets in.

Legal flags the data privacy risks. Finance questions the unpredictable API costs. Engineering wants to fine-tune models on prop

According to Reuters, Meta is looking to offset spending on AI and data centers with a massive round of layoffs. Sources familiar with the matter say the company could lay off as much as 20 percent of its staff, eliminating roughly 15,800 positions. That would be the largest series of layoffs at the

With no enforcement and questionable economics, it may not make a difference.

OpenAI's new GPT‑5.3‑Codex‑Spark is 15 times faster at coding than its predecessor.

The Cat 306 CR mini-excavator weighs just under eight tons and fits inside a standard shipping container. It’s the machine a contractor rents when the job site is tight: a utility trench near a foundation, a basement dig in a dense neighborhood. The cab is roughly the size of a phone booth. The oper

Game development teams are working across larger worlds, more complex pipelines and more distributed teams than ever. At the same time, many studios still rely on fixed, desk-bound GPU hardware for critical production work. At the Game Developers Conference (GDC) this week in San Francisco, NVIDIA i

Railway, a San Francisco-based cloud platform that has quietly amassed two million developers without spending a dollar on marketing, announced Thursday that it raised $100 million in a Series B funding round, as surging demand for artificial intelligence applic

A new LLVM patch has added V_FMA_F32, a 3-operand fused multiply-add (FMA instruction and introduced the VOPD3 instruction format for RDNA 5. Both of these changes should make it easier for compilers to use dual issue execution, working around the strict pairing rules that would otherwise limit max

Meanwhile, the older 7G105 GPU name no longer appears on the site; all four cards now sit under the LX product branding.

After selling his AI startup to AMD for $665 million, Peter Sarlin is back with Qutwo, a new venture building the infrastructure it believes enterprises will need when quantum computing finally arrives.

Imagine you are analyzing a small dataset: You want to calculate some summary statistics to get an idea of the distribution of this data, so you use numpy to calculate the mean and variance. Your output Looks like this: Great! Now you have an idea of the distribution of your data. However, your c

E.SUN Bank is working with IBM to build clearer AI governance rules for how artificial intelligence can be used inside a bank. The effort reflects a wider shift in finance. Many firms already use AI for fraud checks and credit scoring, and some also use it to handle customer service queries. The

A new ABB and NVIDIA partnership shows physical AI simulation is driving real ROI in factory automation and solving production hurdles. Manufacturers have often found it difficult to make intelligent robotics work reliably outside testing environments. The core issue is the gap between digital tr

In September, Donald Trump claimed that "the United States is getting a tremendous fee" for brokering the TikTok deal. Now sources tell the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times that fee is expected to be in the range of $10 billion. The money is supposedly being paid by new investors, includin

That guest network you set up for your neighbors may not be as secure as you think.

Facebook Marketplace is adding a bunch of new AI-powered tools that are supposed to make selling items on the platform a little more efficient. One feature will use Meta AI to automatically respond to those annoying "Is this still available?" messages. You can toggle on the auto-reply option when cr

Microsoft announced on Thursday that it's launching Copilot Health, a "separate, secure space" in Copilot for asking questions about lab results and medical records, searching for providers, analyzing data from wearables, and other health-related chats. The feature will have a phased rollout, so it

Google is continuing to weave Gemini into the firmament of its most-used products. Today, it announced that Google Maps was getting a new AI-powered "Ask Maps" feature that allows for "complex, real-world questions" with highly detailed, personalized responses. In the past, Google Maps would struggl

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Asus launched this motherboard at $310 in late 2024, and since then its MSRP has gone down to $280, but you can score it for 40% less than that on Amazon right now. For that price, nothing really comes close in terms of performance, features, and reliability.

Elon Musk plans to start his 'Terafab Project' semiconductor production venture in a week.

Google and Accel say about 70% of AI startup pitches tied to India were "wrappers" as they reviewed more than 4,000 applications for their Atoms cohort.

The company is reportedly delaying the launch as its engineers and lawyers work to avert further legal issues.

Shardul Shah of Index Ventures walks us through Google's biggest acquisition ever.

The deal comes after Unacademy’s valuation plunged from $3.5B to under $500M, as India’s once-booming edtech sector struggles.

According to Index Ventures Partner Shardul Shah, cybersecurity startup Wiz sits “at the center of three tailwinds: AI, cloud, and security spend.” Those tailwinds powered what just became the largest venture-backed acquisition in history — Google’s $32 billion deal,&#

According to Index Ventures Partner Shardul Shah, cybersecurity startup Wiz sits “at the center of three tailwinds: AI, cloud, and security spend.” Those tailwinds powered what just became the largest venture-backed acquisition in history — Google’s $32 billion deal, finalized after a declined

Europe’s factory floors have a new kind of colleague. BMW Group has deployed humanoid robots in manufacturing in Germany for the first time, launching a pilot project at its Leipzig plant with AEON–a wheeled humanoid built by Hexagon Robotics.  It is the first automotive deploymen

Industrial AI, digital twins, AI physics and accelerated AI infrastructure are empowering companies across industries to accelerate and scale the design, simulation and optimization of products, processes and facilities before building in the real world.

These layoffs could help Facebook's parent company offset its aggressive spending on AI infrastructure, as well as AI-related acquisitions and hiring.

ADLINK Technology has signed a strategic alliance and joint development agreement with Under Control Robotics, the company behind the robotics startup Noble Machines. The two firms will combine ADLINK’s edge AI platforms with Noble Machines’ autonomy software to create a new generation of general

The integration of physical AI into vehicles remains a primary objective for automakers looking to accelerate innovation. A technical collaboration between Qualcomm and Wayve offers a framework for how hardware and software providers can consolidate their efforts to supply production-ready advanc