Facebook and Instagram’s parent company, Meta, has quit RE100, the global corporate initiative whose members commit to using 100% renewable electricity. That’s because Meta is bankrolling a fleet of new gas-fired power plants to fuel its expanding AI data centers.
Author: Ewang Johnson
As China deals with the fallout of Typhoon Noul that made landfall over the weekend, officials will be painfully aware that they will likely have an additional challenge to deal with: dangerously misleading videos created with Artificial Intelligence (AI).
Apple just snatched back its throne. The Cupertino giant closed Monday as the world’s most valuable company, dethroning Nvidia after the chipmaker’s 13-month run at the top. The shift marks a pivotal moment in markets that have been obsessed with AI infrastructure plays, signaling investors might be rotating back toward diversified tech giants with proven…
Global technology, cybersecurity and artificial intelligence firms are stepping up their push for the U.S. government to embrace open AI systems, touting their security benefits and warning against efforts to block them amid an AI arms race with China.
You’re probably familiar with the idea that in the world of big tech, “we” are the product.
U.S. stocks closed mixed as memory and chip sectors declined following competition from Chinese manufacturers and Nvidia’s AI infrastructure news. The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index fell 2.23%, with significant drops in SanDisk and ASML. Conversely, major cloud and software stocks demonstrated resilience. CME Group launched near-24-hour single-stock futures to capture retail volume, while Amazon expanded its…
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has launched a new Artificial Intelligence Technology Evaluation (AITE) program that will provide researchers and developers with a sequestered testing environment to evaluate artificial intelligence (AI) models on blind datasets across multiple domains.
Microsoft on Monday launched its first cybersecurity-specialized model alongside a new AI cybersecurity platform at a small event in San Francisco, taking a big swipe at major players in the space — namely Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI.
According to Gartner’s forecast, spending on data centre systems is expected to increase from $506 billion in 2025 to $822 billion in 2026
The tech world has been consumed recently by the debate over open-weight and closed AI models, but it doesn’t have to be a zero-sum game.