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The Chevron Microsoft gas deal hands the oil major a 20-year contract to power a giant West Texas data centre. For a company that built its AI plans on renewables and nuclear, that is a sharp turn. Chevron will power one of the largest data centres in the United States by burning natural gas. The […
In a blunt interview, Satya Nadella warned that the AI giants cannot keep promising mass job losses while demanding the power to build whatever they want. Microsoft’s answer: cheaper models, more control for customers, and a pitch for the public’s trust. Satya Nadella helped start the AI boom. Now h
Huntress, HackerOne, Jamf, Recorded Future, and Tanium are among the cybersecurity companies that had data stolen following an earlier breach at market research firm Klue.
Most of what makes American healthcare expensive happens before a doctor is ever in the room, and after. Someone schedules the appointment, confirms the insurance, works out what the patient owes, and chases the payer when a claim stalls. It is slow, fragmented work, and by most estimates it wastes
China’s new trade curbs target 56 US companies, from rare-earth miners to drone makers. It is direct retaliation for Washington adding Chinese firms to its military blacklist. China has answered the Pentagon’s blacklist with one of its own. On Monday, Beijing aimed trade curbs at 56 American compani
After 18 years of focusing on Europe, early-stage investor Seedcamp said that it has raised $320 million for its latest fund which will see it expanding its presence in the United States.
The Lime IPO has a price and an anchor investor: Uber, the ride-hailing giant that already owns a chunk of the scooter firm and is now backing its market debut. Lime is going public, and an old backer is helping carry it across the line: Uber. The scooter and bike-rental firm, formally Neutron Holdi
The company is also eliminating a production shift at its Arizona factory to align "production plans with anticipated demand."
JD.com robots will eventually replace the company’s 700,000 couriers, its founder says. It is a rare admission that automation is coming for blue-collar jobs. Most tech bosses hedge when asked whether machines will take people’s jobs. Richard Liu just said it plainly. He chairs JD.com, one of China’
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Ireland takes over the rotating presidency of the Council of the EU on 1 July, inheriting a legislative agenda that includes proposals to curb Europe’s reliance on American tech, simplify the bloc’s digital rulebook, decide whether to ban children from social media, and overhaul telecom regulations.
Instagram is coming for streaming services like Netflix and Amazon Prime Video as it sets its ambitions for living room viewing.
Will Cathcart, who led WhatsApp for the past seven years, is stepping down from his role as Meta appoints a new leader. On Monday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on Facebook that Kunal Shah, the founder of an Indian fintech startup called Cred, is taking over as the head of WhatsApp. Cred is an
Multiple reports had earlier suggested that the iPhone Ultra (or iPhone Fold) launch could be delayed until later in the year or even early 2027. However, supply chain sources have now backed more recent reports that Apple’s most expensive ever iPhone will be launched in September alongside the iPho
iPhone 18 Pro is rumored to offer an especially big leap in camera improvements, and a new leak points to the Main camera being a key highlight this year.
Noticing anything weird on X this morning? It’s not just you. Parts of the service are experiencing downtime this morning, it appears.
Recently, prominent tipster Digital Chat Station claimed that Samsung is testing its Privacy Display feature for the rumored Galaxy S27 Pro. Now, the tipster says that a similar hardware-level privacy screen feature will be offered on the upcoming Xiaomi 18 Pro series. According to the tipster, Xiao
INTRODUCTION In the hype-fueled world of tech, data science is often painted as a futuristic playground of complex machine learning models, autonomous AI agents, and massive neural networks. It’s easy to get swept up in the glamour of writing three lines of Python code to deploy a predictive model.
After writing about metadata in object storage systems, I kept coming back to the same question: If metadata is distributed across multiple machines, how do those machines agree on what is true? This is where consistency enters the picture. The problem is that consistency is often explained through
Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv, cappuccinos, and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this, please subscribe. Subscribe now AI can decisively out-persuade humans:…“AI systems were reliably more persuasive than expert humans”…Researchers with
