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“Data centers are today’s gold rush,” Kevin O’Leary stated during his keynote at Data Center World 2025.
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SecurityDevelopers Beware: Slopsquatting & Vibe Coding Can Increase Risk of AI-Powered Attacks
Slopsquatting and vibe coding are fueling a new wave of AI-driven cyberattacks, exposing developers to hidden risks through fake, hallucinated packages.
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Artificial IntelligenceUS Officials Claim DeepSeek AI App Is ‘Designed To Spy on Americans’
NVIDIA’s ties to DeepSeek are also being called into question by some US government officials.
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Artificial IntelligenceSpotlight on AI This Earth Day: ‘AI Is Fundamentally Incompatible With Environmental Sustainability’
Inference, training, and everyday operations all contribute to the considerable water and power consumption required to run generative AI.
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Artificial IntelligenceMicrosoft Releases Largest 1-Bit LLM, Letting Powerful AI Run on Some Older Hardware
Microsoft’s model BitNet b1.58 2B4T is available on Hugging Face but doesn’t run on GPU and requires a proprietary framework.
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Artificial Intelligence$6.4B OpenAI Deal Brings Onboard ‘Greatest Designer’ & Apple Icon Jony Ive
OpenAI forms a new hardware division with the io team, led by Jony Ive, to develop AI-native devices, possibly launching a voice-first product as early as 2026.
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InnovationMeta vs. FTC: WhatsApp Co-Founder Says Ads Were Never Part of the Plan
The FTC wants to prove Meta has a monopoly over personal social networking, so it wouldn’t view video app TikTok as a competitor.
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai speaks at Google I/O on May 20, 2025 in Mountain View, California. Image: Google Innovation
GoogleNew Google Search AI Mode is ‘Total Reimagining,’ Says CEO Sundar Pichai
At Google’s annual I/O presentation, the company revealed AI assistants of all kinds, smart glasses and headsets, and state-of-the-art AI filmmaking tools.
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MicrosoftAfter 9 Years, Microsoft Fulfills This Windows Feature Request
Developers can now look under the hood at the component that allows a Linux environment to run within Windows.
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GoogleGoogle DeepMind’s AlphaEvolve Trains Itself to Create Advanced Algorithms
AlphaEvolve combines Google’s Gemini Flash, Gemini Pro, and automated evaluation metrics.
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Artificial IntelligenceInnovations in AI Reasoning Models Will Slow Within 1 Year, Warns Analyst
As AI labs scale reasoning models in secret, an analyst warns of looming compute bottlenecks that could slow future breakthroughs across the industry.
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Artificial IntelligenceSales Teams Struggle With Using AI – A CEO Tells Us Why
Many sales personnel struggle with applying generative AI to specific tasks or have to prompt repeatedly to generate a useful answer, according to a report from Breakthrough.
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NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang speaks during a press Q&A during NVIDIA GTC in San Jose, California on March 19. Image: Megan Crouse/TechRepublic Innovation
Artificial IntelligenceNVIDIA to Sell Saudi Arabia 18,000 AI Chips For ‘New Industrial Revolution’
The partnership was announced as part of a White House tour to Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates.
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InnovationUS & China Slash Tariffs in ‘Very Good Deal,’ Markets Soar
US-China tariff truce lifts tech stocks as Apple, Tesla, and Amazon surge. A 90-day pause could reshape global supply chains and boost innovation.
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Artificial Intelligence$100B Stargate AI Project From OpenAI and SoftBank Stalls – Here’s Why
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman confirmed he visited Stargate’s first data center site in Abilene, Texas, which is still moving forward and under development by Oracle.
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Artificial IntelligenceForrester’s Top 10 Emerging Tech for 2025: Which 3 are Standouts?
A Forrester VP explains to TechRepublic readers why three of these 10 emerging technologies for the year should be on managers' radar now.
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Artificial IntelligenceEthical AI ‘Begins With Responsible Innovators and AI Governance,’ Says SAS Exec
During the SAS Innovate event, the company highlighted how it’s bringing AI governance features to healthcare and other industries.
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Artificial IntelligenceAlibaba’s ZeroSearch Cuts AI Training Costs by 88% — No Googling Needed
Alibaba's ZeroSearch trains AI to search without real search engines and outperforms Google in some tasks.
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AppleiPhones Could Be Unnecessary in 10 Years, Apple Exec Suggests
Apple’s Eddy Cue hints at a future without the iPhone, as AI search engines reshape Safari and challenge Google’s long-standing dominance.
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Data CentersAI Data Centers Boom is Draining Water From Drought-Prone Areas – Sustainability Tipping Point?
AI data centers are rapidly expanding in water-stressed regions, raising concerns over their massive water use and impact on local communities.