Tuesday 21 - 13:20
NEURA Robotics and Amazon Web Services have announced a strategic partnership to accelerate the development and deployment of physical artificial intelligence, combining NEURA’s cognitive robotics platform with AWS cloud and AI infrastructure. The agreement, unveiled on April 21 at NEURA’s headquarters in Metzingen, aims to address......
Alphabet is assembling a diversified custom chip supply chain involving four design partners as it seeks to reduce reliance on Nvidia and strengthen its position in artificial intelligence infrastructure. The effort spans current inference chips to future processors based on 2-nanometer manufacturing expected by late 2027, with production......
US stock index futures moved higher on Tuesday as renewed optimism around artificial intelligence helped offset investor concerns linked to ongoing geopolitical tensions in the Middle East. Market sentiment was supported by strong signals from major technology players, reinforcing expectations that AI-driven innovation will continue to fuel......
NASA said its Curiosity rover has detected more than 20 organic molecules in Martian clay-rich rocks, including compounds never before observed on the planet. The findings, published on April 21 in Nature Communications, add new evidence to the long-running search for signs of ancient life beyond Earth. The discovery comes from a carefully......
Apple announced that John Ternus will become chief executive officer on September 1, replacing Tim Cook, who will transition to executive chairman of the board. The decision, approved unanimously by the board, ends months of succession speculation and marks only the third leadership transition in the company’s five-decade history. Cook......
FBI Director Kash Patel has filed a defamation lawsuit against The Atlantic, following a recent investigative report by the American magazine that raised concerns about his conduct and leadership. The lawsuit, filed on Monday, seeks $250 million in damages from the publication and journalist Sarah Fitzpatrick. Patel claims that the article......
A U.S.-linked company involved in a strategic minerals agreement in Democratic Republic of the Congo overstated its mining experience, according to documents and multiple sources reviewed by Reuters, raising fresh concerns over transparency in deals tied to critical resources. The company, Virtus, recently acquired copper and cobalt assets......
The conflict involving the United States, Israel and Iran has accelerated global investment in battery storage, intensifying a shift already underway in power systems worldwide. Falling battery costs and rising electricity demand, driven in part by data centers, had set the stage for rapid expansion. The war has amplified this trend by pushing......
Moonshot AI has launched Kimi K2.6, an open-weight model designed to compete directly with leading systems developed by OpenAI and Anthropic. The Beijing-based firm made the model weights freely available on Hugging Face, positioning the release as a challenge to proprietary approaches that dominate the current artificial intelligence landscape. Benchmark......
GitHub, owned by Microsoft, has frozen new subscriptions to its Copilot Pro, Pro+ and Student plans starting April 20, citing unsustainable computing demands driven by AI coding agents. The move follows internal concerns that resource consumption has outpaced the service’s pricing structure, with some individual requests now costing......
A fungus discovered in ultra-clean assembly facilities used by NASA could withstand the extreme conditions of a journey to Mars and persist on the planet’s surface, according to new research that raises concerns about biological contamination beyond Earth. The findings, published in Applied and Environmental Microbiology, provide the......
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have identified the molecular signals that allow gut neurons to distinguish between beneficial and harmful bacteria. The work reveals a chemical communication system between microbes and the nervous system that may also exist in humans. The findings, published in Current Biology in April......
The White House said the United States is prepared to provide financial support to the United Arab Emirates if the ongoing war with Iran worsens the country’s economic outlook. National Economic Council director Kevin Hassett stated that such assistance remains a contingency measure and is not expected to be required under current conditions. The......
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