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Wall Street Is Growing Skeptical of the Data Center Boom

Several companies tied to the data center industry have delayed their initial public offerings amid the increasing public backlash to these energy guzzling facilities.

Are A.I. Models Being Misled to Act Too Human?

A corporate spat between two tech giants last week was just the latest volley in a conflict over whether dangerous mistakes are being made in A.I. training.

U.N. Seeks Relevance on A.I. as the U.S. and China Race Ahead

Artificial intelligence is a race solely between two rival powers with the rest of the world largely on the sidelines, foreign policy experts said.

Airlines criticise air traffic control as second glitch causes more disruption

Prime Minister Andy Burnham said further issues today "cause even greater concern" about the UK's air traffic control and the head of the organisation that runs it.

UK to provide Saudi Arabia with 'defensive' military support, says Burnham

The prime minister says "defensive air-to-air refuelling" is to be provided following a request from Saudi Arabia, after it faced attacks from the Houthis in Yemen.

Yemenis flee across Red Sea as Houthis and Saudi-backed forces escalate war

The BBC's Frank Gardner speaks to some of those who have fled the war by crossing the Red Sea to Djibouti.

Some on-air claims about Dominion Voting Systems were false, Fox News acknowledges in statement after deal is announced

Dominion still has pending lawsuits against election deniers such as Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell

Here are the 20 specific Fox broadcasts and tweets Dominion says were defamatory

• Fox-Dominion trial delay 'is not unusual,' judge says • Fox News' defamation battle isn't stopping Trump's election lies

Introducing Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking

AlphaGenome Atlas: A predictive map of every possible DNA letter change in the human genome

AlphaGenome Atlas maps the molecular effects of 9 billion single-letter DNA variants across the human genome.

Introducing WeatherNext 3, our most advanced and accurate global weather AI model

RBS-Attention: Radius-Bounded Sparse Prefill for Long-Context Large Language Models

arXiv:2609.20971v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-context large language model inference is increasingly limited by prefill, where dense self-attention processes the entire prompt before generatio

Attention-Aware Routing: Coupling Routing and Attention in MoEs

arXiv:2609.20974v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In Mixture-of-Experts language models, the router typically selects and weights experts based on the token's hidden state, utilizing limited contextual

CaLR: Causal Latent Revision for Robust Diffusion Reasoning

arXiv:2609.20981v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autoregressive (AR) models suffer from local greediness, while diffusion language models (DLMs) often lack the strict causal structure required for rea

Sparse Priors for Efficient Distribution Learning

arXiv:2609.20883v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Despite the widespread use and success of generative AI techniques today, theoretical guarantees on learning a distribution supported in $d$ dimensions

BI-Agent and BI-Bench: Towards Automating End-to-End Business Intelligence

arXiv:2609.20886v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Business intelligence (BI) is a cornerstone of enterprise decision-making and is widely used by enterprise users in software such as Power BI and Table

Elastic Threshold Attention: Learned Contextual Sparsity for Long-Context Decoding

arXiv:2609.20888v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Massive KV caches can cause severe memory-bandwidth bottlenecks during long-context decoding. Sparse attention methods mitigate this via selective load

As AI safety concerns mount, three pioneers make the case for staying open

At Ai4, three of the world's most respected AI experts — Geoffrey Hinton, Fei-Fei Li, and Andrew Ng — debated regulation, open source access, and how America can compete as China advances in Asia.

Data center demand drives 66% surge in natural gas power plant costs

Natural gas power plant costs have nearly doubled in two years and take 23% longer to build as data center electricity demand skyrockets.

Converge Bio raises $25M, backed by Bessemer and execs from Meta, OpenAI, Wiz

AI drug discovery startup Converge Bio raised $25 million in a Series A led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with additional backing from executives at Meta, OpenAI, and Wiz.

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AI, Tariffs, Rare Minerals: What to Expect From Trump’s Upcoming Summit With Xi Jinping

Washington and Beijing have grown ever more linked in the AI boom, making hardware exports and technological restrictions hefty bargaining chips in negotiations.

Dyson Won’t Say What’s Wrong With Its CameraJet Toothbrush

Despite admitting to a “component issue,” the company refuses to say what went wrong, how many units are affected in how many countries, and why it won’t recall its $500 AI toothbrush.

Here’s the iFixit Repairability Rating for the iPhone 18 Pro

It’s actually pretty good for an iPhone, given Apple’s long-standing reticence to make its products repairable.

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以人为本还是脱离实际？GNOME 桌面环境的演进及争议

反复失败的预言1999年，时任SUSE首席技术官的DirkHohndel大概不会想到，自己口中的「Linux桌面元年」此后会被反复提起，成为圈内一个著名的迷因。每年都有人扮演先知，然后看着统计报告上的 ...

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Much of Trump’s promised midterm election spending has yet to surface, new filing shows

MAGA Inc. entered September with $415.8 million as much of Trump’s promised midterm spending had yet to surface publicly.

Hundreds of flights into Newark, New York, Philadelphia disrupted after Verizon fiber line cut

An FAA equipment problem snarled air travel at Newark Liberty International Airport and Philadelphia International Airport Monday.

Stocks had a great day on the surface. But something alarming occurred not seen since 1999

The market just posted major gains, but the latest performance is not as strong as it may seem.

Hitachi: Still Positive With Data Center Opportunity And Capacity Expansion Plans

Constellation Software: Great Buying Opportunity

Nutanix: Profit Taking Is Appropriate Here (Downgrade)

Nasdaq Increases Bullish Tone; Stock Market Shows Penchant Again For This Growth Sector

A fresh test of resistance at the 50-day line for this tech is nigh.

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Dow Jones Futures: Falling Oil Prices, Yields Spark Market Rally; AMD, Intel, Micron, Nvidia, Sandisk Are Key Movers

Dow Jones Futures: Falling oil prices and yields sparked a stock market rally. AMD, Intel, Micron, Nvidia and Sandisk are key movers.

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Summer's Hottest Stocks: These Winners Rose 50% Or More In A Lackluster Stock Market

This summer was lackluster for the stock market. Still, for many stocks, summer was the season of bliss.

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See Trump's first public liftoff from the $6 million Lockheed-funded helipad built to protect the White House lawn

President Donald Trump said the granite helipad will prevent the new fleet of Sikorsky Marine One helicopters from damaging the South Lawn.

'It's such a slap in the face': Job seekers in their 50s share the unique challenges they face

Job seekers in their 50s share how ageism, AI, and ghosting have shaped their job searches and career pivots in today's market.

What we know about the FAA outage disrupting thousands of flights across the Northeast

Airports across the Northeast are experiencing flight delays after the FAA ordered a ground stop due to a construction mishap.

Federal Reserve Board announces termination of enforcement action with SNB Bancshares and Bank of Eufaula

Federal Reserve Board announces termination of enforcement action with SNB Bancshares and Bank of Eufaula

Federal Reserve Board issues enforcement actions with former employee of Northstar Bank, former employee of American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc., and former employee of Regions Bank

Federal Reserve Board issues enforcement actions with former employee of Northstar Bank, former employee of American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc., and former employee of Regions Bank

Federal Reserve issues FOMC statement

Federal Reserve issues FOMC statement

MiniMax H3 开源后，本地 AIGC 走到了哪里？

70强项目观察之具身未来：机器人走进现实世界，关���不只是完成动作

70强项目观察之前沿探索：AI进入科学发现，答案之外还要验证什么

安德利跨界并购：7.93亿现金接盘“失意标的”，三月两收监管函隐现风险丨并购一线

前次收购夭折仅一月即火速对接，业绩对赌与估值反差引监管关注。

对话芯展速李蓁：内存墙下，存储不再是算力的附属品

下一个十年，算力的差距会缩小，存力的差距才会决定谁跑在前面。

OpenAI自曝6起事故：AI安全的第一份"审计报告"由谁签字？

当安全事件变成定期披露，AI公司就从"出了大事再解释"转向"持续被审计"。

Import AI 473: The US's superintelligence strategy; human brain in a mouse skull; and machine hermeneutics

Is the wall AI is hitting in the room with us right now?

Import AI 472: DeepMind's cheating math agents; populist AI policies; and Forethought theorizes a nightwatchman

Plus, a machine hermeneutics story

Import AI 471: Why Hugging Face worries me; space mining; FIve Eyes on AI

Plus, a live event with Robin Sloan!

AI Weekly Issue #530: Applied AI This Week

Companies are giving AI specific jobs: checking security cameras, helping farmers understand their records, searching satellite images, and preparing sales quotes. This edition explains how those tool

AI Weekly Issue #529: OpenAI faces 50-plus lawsuits over alleged ChatGPT harm

Thirty new complaints come from survivors of a Canadian school shooting. They accuse OpenAI of failing to warn police; the company disputes key claims.

AI Weekly Issue #528: What are companies building with AI? An Applied AI Deep Dive

We went looking for what companies are actually building with AI. The answer was not more chatbots. It was drones carrying diagnostic samples, driverless Frito-Lay trucks, AI-guided flight paths, repa

OpenAI forms math advisory group as its AI resolves more than 100 open problems

The group won't be given leeway to slow down or redirect OpenAI's ongoing mathematical research.

Discover what’s next: 5 days left to save up to $200 on your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 ticket

Five days left to save up to $200 on your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 pass + 50% off a second one. Join 10,000+ founders, investors, and operators at San Francisco’s Moscone West, October 13-15. Grab your

Meta’s Muse is outpacing ChatGPT’s early mobile launch

Meta’s new AI agent Muse has racked up more downloads and daily active users in the U.S. and Canada than ChatGPT did over the same period after its mobile debut, according to new estimates from Appfig

Introducing Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking

AlphaGenome Atlas: A predictive map of every possible DNA letter change in the human genome

AlphaGenome Atlas maps the molecular effects of 9 billion single-letter DNA variants across the human genome.

Introducing WeatherNext 3, our most advanced and accurate global weather AI model