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Microsoft is making a Surface AI dev desktop for people who don't want a laptop.

Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft announces the new Surface RTX Spark Dev Box for local AI development, powered by Nvidia's new Arm-based RTX Spark chips and 128GB of unified memory  —  The Surface RTX Spark Dev Box is designed for local-first AI development. … Microsoft only just announced a new Surface Laptop Ultra …

Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: Microsoft unveils Microsoft Execution Containers for Windows, an OS-level sandbox for AI agents, with OpenAI, Nvidia, Manus, and Nous Research as partners  —  For the past two years, the technology industry has raced to make AI agents more capable — teaching them to write code …

The Trump administration has fast-tracked research into psychedelics, and experts say it is likely a matter of time before the drugs are used to treat minors

Nvidia's supply chain is looking relatively strong, despite constrained supply and pressure from Vera Rubin, RTX Spark

Microsoft’s annual developer conference is kicking off on June 2nd in San Francisco with the keynote presentation streaming live at 12:30PM ET / 9:30AM PT, and we will be following along here with everything as it’s announced.  The Verge’s Tom Warren reports that we can expect to hear about new AI models and agentic OpenClaw-like tools, plus a Copilot “super app” to go along with some of the major changes to Windows 11 that have already started appearing. Microsoft just announced the new Surface Laptop Ultra, powered by Nvidia’s RTX Spark, so there could be more Windows on ARM news in store.  Follow along here for the latest news and updates. Microsoft Build 2026 is about to begin. How to watch Microsoft’s Build 2026 conference Microsoft to unveil new AI

Researchers have developed a fish-like robot that shows how some species of modern fish are able to walk on land, and could help unravel how early vertebrates evolved similar abilities hundreds of millions of years ago.

Not even Alphabet has enough cash to meet its AI goals.

Berkshire Hathaway invests £7.4B in Alphabet's £59B equity raise to boost AI infrastructure, marking a major tech investment under Greg Abel's leadership.

SAN FRANCISCO — Micron Technology's march toward a $1 trillion valuation is nothing if not dramatic: a year ago it was a little over $100 billion. That surge, though, was not built on its famed frugality, but on a nearly too-late push from Nvidia that pulled the U.S. memory chipmaker into the center of the AI boom. For decades, the Idaho-based company survived by building factories on a shoestring budget, adopting used equipment and avoiding cutting-edge bets. That discipline helped it endure brutal boom-bust cycles in memory chips and outlast rivals, leaving it one of three global suppliers alongside Korea’s Samsung Electronics and SK hynix. But that approach of treating memory chips as a commodity clashed with Nvidia’s vision for AI. Three years ago, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang met Micron boss Sanjay Mehrotra and outlined how he expected the memory market to evolve, Huang said in a media interview last month. Huang had long bet early that memory, and not just processors, would become a

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The Alphabet CEO on what he saw coming 10 years ago

Tesla has been granted a new patent for a miniature camera cleaning system with a built-in wiper designed to keep vehicle cameras clear for autonomous driving. The patent addresses one of the most frustrating and well-known issues with Tesla’s “Full Self-Driving” system — dirty cameras that constantly trigger alerts telling drivers to clean them. But Tesla’s Robotaxi fleet in Austin already has its own camera washer hardware that consumer vehicles don’t get. more…

Spinal cord injuries can have devastating consequences for those affected. Nerve cells in the spinal cord rarely regenerate naturally, while scarring often prevents the regrowth of nerve fibers. Modern therapies attempt to influence implanted stem cells using electrical stimulation to promote the growth of new nerve cells. This approach has several drawbacks: it requires implanted electrodes, and the transplanted cells do not always survive or integrate properly into the existing tissue.

Hackers exploited a flaw in Meta's AI support bot to hijack high-profile Instagram accounts by requesting email changes, sparking debate over AI's role in account security.

Tests to determine whether Google’s agentic AI system Gemini Spark can deliver on the promises made on stage at last month’s I/O event shows that, for the most part, it can. Since this is the model Apple will be using to power the new Siri, that’s equally good news for the Cupertino company and its customers … more…

Lung cancer remains one of the world's deadliest cancers, yet despite decades of effort to develop new drugs, many fail because they don't stay in the body long enough to be effective or because they damage healthy organs. Now, Adelaide University researchers have developed a novel nanoparticle "delivery vehicle" that precisely targets cancer drugs to the lungs while helping to limit harmful side effects—a breakthrough that could reshape how the disease is treated.

Astronomers monitoring a nearby active galaxy for six years have watched its supermassive black hole dramatically wake up, brightening by a factor of 10 across ultraviolet and X-ray wavelengths. The paper outlining the study was posted to the preprint server arXiv on May 18.

A military research institute demonstrated three versions of a four-legged robot, one of them armed, for possible duty on remote outposts the coast guard struggles to staff. Taiwan’s main weapons-development institute put three robot dogs through their paces on Monday, presenting them as a possible answer to a hard problem: how to keep watch over […] This story continues at The Next Web

SAN FRANCISCO — Micron Technology's march toward a $1 trillion valuation is nothing if not dramatic: a year ago it was a little over $100 billion. That surge, though, was not built on its famed frugality, but on a nearly too-late push from Nvidia that pulled the U.S. memory chipmaker into the center of the AI boom. For decades, the Idaho-based company survived by building factories on a shoestring budget, adopting used equipment and avoiding cutting-edge bets. That discipline helped it endure brutal boom-bust cycles in memory chips and outlast rivals, leaving it one of three global suppliers alongside Korea’s Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix. But that approach of treating memory chips as a commodity clashed with Nvidia’s vision for AI. Three years ago, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang met Micron boss Sanjay Mehrotra and outlined how he expected the memory market to evolve, Huang said in a media interview last month. Huang had long bet early that memory, and not just processors, would become a

PI, a global leader in precision motion control and air bearing positioning systems, offers the A-123 air bearing linear slide, a high-performance air bearing linear translation stage designed for ultra-precise scanning, metrology, inspection, and nanopositioning applications.

The scope of the ‘K-Alliance’ envisioned by Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is expanding in all directions. He appears to be broadening the company’s contact points with South Korea by extending the existing semiconductor-centric cooperation network into the robotics and cloud ecosystems, while simultaneous

Nvidia's announced entry into the PC chip market sent shares of AMD, Intel and Qualcomm lower as Wall Street recognized the threat.

Nvidia's announced entry into the PC chip market sent shares of AMD, Intel and Qualcomm lower as Wall Street recognized the threat.

IBM CEO Arvind Krishna discusses the financial implications of AI investments, cautioning that while AI is booming, returns may take years, with only a few companies likely to succeed.

Hackers managed to trick Meta’s AI-powered support bot into allowing them to take over a number of Instagram accounts, including some high-profile ones. This included accounts belonging to the White House, US Space Force, and security researcher Jane Wong. On a more positive note, the social network is experimenting with a way of blocking teenage users from repeated exposure to content likely to impact their mental health … more…

SAN FRANCISCO — Microsoft will hold its annual software developer conference on Tuesday, where the company is expected to showcase new tools for developers building AI software for PCs and the cloud. In a keynote address in San Francisco, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is expected to outline how the technology company plans to compete both in the cloud, where it is both an investor and a rival to firms such as OpenAI, and increasingly on PCs. Those laptop and desktop computers are becoming home to tools such as OpenClaw, a piece of open-source software that can direct groups of AI bots called agents to carry out everyday tasks for users. But OpenClaw, which has gained popularity in China and helped Microsoft's longtime rival Apple sell Mac computers, and other such tools are also risky for most businesses to use. Analysts expect Microsoft to work on making such agentic AI tools safer for businesses and the world's 1 billion users of its Windows operating system to use on a regular basis.

Having trouble getting the right image out of ChatGPT, Gemini, or another AI tool? Try this foolproof prompt.

The company’s developer conference opens in San Francisco with another round of AI tooling expected, against the awkward backdrop of how few people pay for Copilot. Microsoft opened its annual Build developer conference in San Francisco on Tuesday, with Satya Nadella due to take the stage at 9:30am Pacific for a keynote that, by every […] This story continues at The Next Web

Despite praising Nvidia's "monster quarter," billionaire Dan Loeb's Q1 13F reveals Third Point dumped nearly 90% of its NVDA stock. Importance Rank:  1 read more

In a press Q&A held at Computex 2026, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang discussed why the company is entering the PC market now and its ambitions for the future of computing.

Scientists have created a tiny chip that can generate, steer, and read light-based information all in one device, marking a major leap toward ultra-fast, energy-efficient computing. The breakthrough uses atomically thin materials and nanoscale structures to control a unique quantum property of light called the “valley” degree of freedom, allowing information to be encoded in new ways.

The Instagram Account Takeover Crisis: A Cautionary Tale of AI-Powered Support Gone Wrong In what can only be described as one of the most embarrassing security failures in recent memory, Meta's AI-powered support system became the unwitting accomplice in a massive wave of Instagram account takeovers. High-profile accounts including the Obama White House account and numerous celebrity profiles fell victim to an exploit so simple, so absurdly easy to execute, that it raises serious questions abou...

SoftBank, it seems, is not done buying robots. The Japanese group is in early talks to back a new funding round of around $800m (€700m) for Agile Robots, the Munich startup that builds robot arms, warehouse machines, and humanoids, according to Bloomberg. SoftBank would contribute more than $300m of that total, people familiar with the […] This story continues at The Next Web

Image credit: HIMS / Nature Synthesis. In a paper published in Nature Synthesis, researchers led by Professor Timothy Noël of the University of Amsterdam’s Van ’t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences present an advance in autonomous laboratory systems for synthesis optimisation. A versatile, modular design and the option for “human-in-the-loop” analytics, RoboChem Flex caters to […]

We talked with the Zero Zero Robotics co-founder and CEO about the challenges of building a truly groundbreaking flying camera.

The FX40 IR enhances AFM capabilities with integrated nanoscale IR spectroscopy, achieving sub-5 nm resolution for detailed chemical and topographical mapping.

A business-intelligence researcher said that the Chinese military has been actively acquiring Nvidia AI chips, even after the U.S. put export controls on them. Public documents show that some institutions ask for these chips either through the specifications they demand or by directly asking for Nvidia chips by name.

Jensen Huang, chief executive officer of U.S. chip giant Nvidia Corp., met with SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won in Taipei to discuss the future of cooperation in artificial intelligence (AI) memory, SK Group said Tuesday. The meeting took place in Taipei on Monday, according to a post on SK Group's Facebook account. Both executives were in the Taiwanese capital to attend Computex, one of Asia's largest technology trade shows. "With SK hynix reaching a market capitalization of $1 trillion, the executives of both companies met to share the significance of the milestone," the post said. The gathering also provided an opportunity to reflect on the achievements the two companies have made together in AI memory and reaffirm their commitment to opening a new chapter in AI infrastructure, the post added. Huang earlier cited robotics as a potential area for investment in South Korea ahead of his visit to the country later this week. His trip to Seoul is expected to begin Thursday night,

Jensen Huang met top South Korean tech leaders in Taipei to deepen AI partnerships as demand for AI infrastructure accelerates. Importance Rank:  1 read more

Instagram has patched a serious security flaw that let hackers use Meta's own AI support chatbot to take over accounts without ever needing the victim's password or email.

Author(s): Vaibhav Sharma and Erich J. MuellerThe authors show that quantum entanglement can organize into fractal geometric patterns due to repeated random measurements. They mapped the geometry of clusters of entangled qubits, finding that the largest cluster is riddled with holes at different scales, like the irregular self-repeating structure of coastlines or snowflakes. [Phys. Rev. A 113, L060402] Published Mon Jun 01, 2026

Author(s): Nicolas Dirnegger, Marie Wesson, Arpit Arora, Ioannis Petrides, Jonathan B. Curtis, Emily M. Been, Amir Yacoby, and Prineha NarangThe authors suggest a way to detect time-reversal-symmetry breaking using a driven-dissipative superconducting ring resonator. In particular, nonlinear interactions can enforce symmetric steady-state photon populations, which become asymmetric when even weak symmetry breaking is present, allowing for a sensitive probe of time-reversal-symmetry-breaking effects in quantum materials and providing an interesting use case for superconducting microwave resonators outside of quantum information processing. [Phys. Rev. A 113, 062402] Published Mon Jun 01, 2026

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Hyundai Motor Group is expected to expand its artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics partnership with Nvidia, as the heads of the two tech firms are highly likely to meet in Seoul later this week — a move that will strengthen growth momentum for the carmaker’s autonomous driving and humanoid robotics. The high-profile meeting would focus on deepening collaboration in the two key technology areas. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is scheduled to visit Seoul in the coming days. Boston Dynamics, the maker of the Atlas humanoid robot, is at the center of the anticipated collaboration. The company is a major robotics affiliate of Hyundai Motor Group. The carmaker has been advancing Atlas as an industrial-grade humanoid platform, as part of its efforts to become one of the world’s most aggressive manufacturing players in the emerging physical AI field, which combines AI with robots designed to operate in real-world environments. The two companies formalized their cooperation at the Asia-Pacific

arXiv:2606.01615v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Video-language models are pivotal for tasks such as moment retrieval and highlight detection, yet they often struggle to capture the dynamic, non-linear interactions between temporal video sequences and textual semantics. Existing approaches, relying on static cross-attention or prompt-tuning mechanisms, fail to adaptively model the evolving relationships between modalities, leading to suboptimal alignment and limited generalization. Inspired by systems biology, we propose \textbf{Reaction-Diffusion Multimodal Fusion (RDMF)}, a novel framework that reimagines video-language alignment as a reaction-diffusion (RD) process, drawing on the principles of pattern formation introduced by Alan Turing. In RDMF, video features diffuse across time to capture temporal context, while text-video interactions are modeled as non-linear reactions that amplify relevant features and suppress noise, forming emergent patterns akin to biological systems.

Researchers developed a Janus nanofiber “bionic cooling skin” that combines solvent-welded PVDF nanofibers with visible light-responsive Fe-ZIF8 metal-organic frameworks for infected wound care. In preclinical Staphylococcus aureus-infected mouse wounds, the nanofiber dressing improved antibacterial activity, passive cooling, breathability, and wound-healing-associated gene responses.

Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: Sources: Google DeepMind, Anthropic, and Meta have recently hired experts in psychology, ethics, and philosophy as they expand machine consciousness research  —  Google DeepMind, Anthropic and Meta study whether AI could become conscious — and what follows for humans if it does.

Jeonbuk National University is trying to reverse a pattern that has long defined regional higher education in Korea: training talented students who leave for the capital. The university in Jeonju, North Jeolla Province, is positioning itself as a regional innovation hub, banking on physical artificial intelligence (AI), future mobility and industry-academia collaboration to attract talent, researchers and businesses into the region rather than losing them to opportunities in the capital. University President Yang O-bong said the effort reflects the government's initiative to strengthen regional flagship universities — commonly known as the "making 10 Seoul National Universities" plan. Under this plan, the Ministry of Education will select three universities in the second half of this year and provide each with 100 billion won ($66.5 million) annually for five years. Yang argued the program should be seen as more than just another higher education funding — it is a national strategy for

The cloud subsidiary of Naver will join hands with Nvidia to build an artificial intelligence (AI) factory, the chief of the South Korean company said Tuesday. Kim Yu-won, the chief executive officer (CEO) of Naver Cloud, made the remarks at the Nvidia Cloud Partners Summit ongoing in Taipei as the U.S. chip giant's chief Jensen Huang is set to visit Seoul later this week. Huang is expected to meet with executives of major South Korean companies, including SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won, LG Group Chairman Koo Kwang-mo and Lee Hae-jin, founder and board chair of Naver, among others, according to industry sources. "Naver Cloud holds 'full-stack' technical capabilities encompassing all areas spanning from AI infrastructure to services," Kim said at the event. "We are a partner that fits with Nvidia's AI factory platform strategy, which includes energy, chips, infrastructure, application and models." An AI factory refers to next-generation AI infrastructure designed to train and run

NAVER Cloud has partnered with NVIDIA to fully launch its ‘AI Factory’ development business targeting the global AI market.Kim Yuwon, CEO of NAVER Cloud, attended the ‘NVIDIA Cloud Partner Summit’ held in Taiwan on June 2 and shared this strategic business direction. The core driving force behind th

SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won and NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang held a surprise meeting in Taipei, Taiwan, comprehensively reaffirming the artificial intelligence (AI) partnership between the two companies. Following the meeting with Chairman Chey, CEO Jensen Huang met with Korean reporters and expressed

PromptSE uses structured LLM prompting to generate pharmacologically relevant side-effect representations, then feeds them into deep learning models to predict drug-side effect associations. In benchmark testing, PromptSE improved prediction performance, while PromptSE+ further boosted results by adding multi-modal drug information and graph-based refinement for sparse data.

The "soil" blanketing the moon's surface isn't actually soil. It's a fine, lethal, abrasive powder of shattered rock and jagged glass that shreds gaskets, chews through seals, and hangs in an airless environment blasted by unfiltered radiation and temperature swings that can warp steel. Scientists call it lunar regolith.

In a groundbreaking advancement poised to reshape the future of biosensing technology, researchers have unveiled a novel directional nanoantenna design crafted on a hybrid plasmonic waveguide platform. This latest theoretical exploration, led by AzimBeik, Moradi, and Abdipour, introduces a cutting-edge approach to nanoantenna architecture that uniquely integrates hybrid plasmonic waveguides, promising enhanced sensitivity and specificity […]

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Reservoir's Danny Bernstein discusses the evolution of farm robotics to multi-task, multi-crop machines and the role of VC in this space. The post Reservoir’s Danny Bernstein says we’re ‘entering the golden age of robotics’ in agriculture appeared first on AgFunderNews.

Pricey Instagram handles were stolen and resold before Meta patched the exploit.

Cell function is determined by how DNA is expressed into proteins. That process includes two main steps—transcription, when messenger RNA (mRNA) makes copies of active genes; and translation, when mRNA guides protein assembly.

Even while listening, the brain attempts to anticipate the next words. This is the conclusion reached by a current study conducted by an interdisciplinary team of researchers led by PD Dr. Patrick Krauss, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), and PD Dr. Achim Schilling, Heidelberg University. The researchers combined three methods: a natural listening situation, high resolution measurements of brain activity, and an AI language model as reference.

A father is worried about his toddler, who has been running a fever for two days and pulling at one ear. A 65-year-old woman has been getting winded on her morning walks and feeling more fatigued than usual. Both reach for their phones and type their symptoms into an AI chatbot.

Meta plans to test the device within the next year, according to an internal memo.

The JWST found an abundance of overmassive black holes at high redshifts, pushing the limits of black hole (BH) science in the early Universe. Results have claimed that these BHs are significantly more massive than expected from the BH mass-host galaxy stellar mass relation derived from the local Universe. But new research shows they were just outliers in the normal range of masses that don't require any special causes.

A flaw in Meta's AI-powered Instagram recovery tool allowed attackers to hijack accounts by redirecting password reset links, bypassing traditional security measures. Meta quickly patched the vulnerability.

Coding tools are becoming an increasingly big target for Google and Microsoft as they try to catch up to Anthropic and OpenAI.

Coding tools are becoming an increasingly big target for Google and Microsoft as they try to catch up to Anthropic and OpenAI.

Michelle Ma / Bloomberg: Gigascale Capital, a climate tech VC firm co-founded by former Meta CTO Mike Schroepfer, closed a $250M fund to back early-stage startups supporting the AI boom  —  Gigascale Capital closed a $250 million fund for early-stage startups.  —  Climate tech venture capital firm Gigascale Capital …

Google's new "24/7" AI agent, Gemini Spark, can be shockingly good at doing things on your behalf. But I'm not sure it's worth the financial cost and potential privacy tradeoffs. The company gave me access to Spark last week. Google advertises Spark as an AI agent that can take on tasks and work on them in the background - even tasks that have multiple steps - allowing you to put your phone down or walk away from your computer. It also advertises at the very top of the Spark website that it's "always under your direction," that "you choose to turn it on," and that "it's designed to check with you before taking major actions." Given the moun … Read the full story at The Verge.

A new lab experiment is testing plasma jets as a water-free solution for "space laundry" on future missions to the moon and Mars.

Quantum entanglement is a state in which particles are entwined with each other. In this entwined state, the properties of one particle influence the other, even when they aren't physically close to each other. This phenomenon has often been observed in small quantum systems with only a few particles in them, where researchers can use it to store and process quantum information. Rice University professor Qimiao Si is interested in understanding and applying quantum entanglement to macroscopic systems with vast numbers of particles.

Gigascale Capital, the venture firm led by former Meta chief technology officer Mike Schroepfer, has raised a $250 million fund to invest in energy, grid infrastructure, and critical minerals startups. The fund, announced on Monday, is Gigascale’s second and its first to include institutional investors. It arrives as most of the venture capital industry has pivoted […] This story continues at The Next Web

Hackers hijacked Instagram accounts over the weekend by tricking Meta’s own AI-powered support chatbot into granting them access. The attack required no access to the victim’s email, no phishing link, and no malware. The hacker simply asked the chatbot to add a new email address to someone else’s account. A video posted on X showed […] This story continues at The Next Web

Meta says it's working on securing accounts that were affected by a hack.

Lawsuit seeks $12,000 from startup that allegedly damaged home in robot tests.

Meta's AI support chatbot helped hackers hijack Instagram accounts, as reported earlier by 404 Media. In a video shared on Telegram, a hacker shows how they could take over an account by asking Meta's chatbot to switch the email associated with someone else's profile and then reset the password. The issue, which Meta says has since been patched, cropped up around the same time Barack Obama's White House account on Instagram was hacked. On Sunday, users noticed that the @obamawhitehouse account began posting images containing Iranian propaganda. Hackers appeared to have hijacked the Instagram accounts belonging to the US Space Force Chief Ma … Read the full story at The Verge.

Nvidia and Microsoft unveiled RTX Spark Windows PCs built for local AI agents, with systems expected from major PC makers this fall. The post Nvidia, Microsoft Launch RTX Spark PCs for AI Agents appeared first on TechRepublic.

Meta is reportedly developing an AI pendant as part of a broader wearable hardware push that includes smart glasses and workplace tools. The post Meta Plans AI Pendant, New Smart Glasses in ‘Wearables for Work’ Expansion appeared first on TechRepublic.

It's easier than you think to create AI Omni videos featuring your favorite characters, but be warned that Google probably won't protect you

Researchers at Osaka Metropolitan University have developed a method for creating realistic virtual tomato farms that automatically generate data for training agricultural AI systems. Their approach offers a way to overcome one of the most labor-intensive tasks in farming: harvesting the crops.

Jason Koebler / 404 Media: Hackers say they used Meta's AI support chatbot to change emails tied to Instagram accounts amid a wave of high-profile account takeovers; Meta fixed the issue  —  The exploit shows the extreme risk of offloading technical support to AI.  —  Hackers say that they used Meta's AI support chatbot …

A small team claims AI helped them exploit Apple's newest M5 chip defenses in days, signaling a shift in how fast vulnerabilities can be found.

Have you ever thought about how we might change the game for green hydrogen production? This summer, a crew from…

BYD is giving its self-driving tech a big vote of confidence.

Microsoft, Nvidia, and MediaTek are working together on “RTX Spark,” a new chip for Windows PCs that’s all about AI, but if you look beyond that, it sounds like it might still be a good chip in general. more…

Ben Weiss / Fortune: New York City-based Mecka AI, which trains robots with human data sourced from body sensors and iPhones, raised $60M, including a $25M Series A  —  Data is the oil of the AI boom—and the startup Mecka AI hopes to tap the vast reservoir of hand gestures, walking gaits, and immense collection …

TAIPEI — Nvidia on Monday unveiled a new chip that puts artificial intelligence capabilities directly into laptops and desktop computers, pitting it against the likes of Advanced Micro Devices, Intel and Apple. CEO Jensen Huang, who is in Taiwan for the Computex conference, said the RTX Spark PC chip is part of Nvidia's effort with Microsoft to "reinvent the PC" for the AI era after three years of collaboration between the companies. The chip, developed with Taiwan's MediaTek, will debut this fall in laptops and compact desktops from Dell , HP, Lenovo, ASUS, Microsoft Surface and MSI, with models from Acer and GIGABYTE to follow. Industry experts said the processor would overhaul engagement with AI as it is designed to run autonomous AI agents locally rather than relying solely on cloud computing. After dominating chips that train AI models, Nvidia is now pushing to capture an expected surge in demand for inference processors, chips that power AI responses to user queries and the

Microsoft is heading to San Francisco this week in a bid to win back developers at its Build conference. I've been attending Build since the days when Microsoft called it the Professional Developers Conference, and I can't remember a more pivotal moment. As Microsoft continues to reshuffle its entire business around AI, it's moving Build into a smaller, more intimate venue. Trust in Windows and GitHub is at an all-time low, and this is Microsoft's chance to reconnect with developers and outline the future. Sources tell me that we'll hear about new AI models in Windows, a new reasoning model from Microsoft AI, and a Copilot "super app." But … Read the full story at The Verge.

Tom Warren / The Verge: Sources: at Build, Microsoft plans to unveil a Copilot “super app”, a new reasoning AI model developed by Microsoft AI, and lots of Windows developer features  —  Build will include a Copilot super app, a new reasoning AI model, and lots of Windows improvements.

Microsoft shares rose after NVIDIA unveiled RTX Spark, a superchip designed for AI-powered Windows PCs and agentic computing. Importance Rank:  1 read more

Crescent Island is an air-cooled chip that uses LPDDR5 memory.

Julian E. Barnes / New York Times: Internal documents: Chinese company Geedge is working to build AI tools to predict those who could pose a political risk, but US chip controls hampered its work  —  New research examines how a Chinese company struggled to develop its predictive surveillance technology while U.S. restrictions were in place.

The focus of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is an active spiral galaxy on a journey lasting hundreds of millions of years. The galaxy Messier 88 (M88), also known as NGC 4501, is located about 63 million light-years away in the constellation Coma Berenices (Berenice's Hair).

Lung cancer remains one of the world’s deadliest cancers, yet despite decades of effort to develop new drugs, many fail because they don’t stay in the body long enough to be effective or because they damage healthy organs.

Google adjusted Gemini usage limits after complaints, adding Pro quota caps, free Flash-Lite prompts, and clearer usage reporting. The post Google Eases Gemini Usage Limits After Complaints appeared first on TechRepublic.