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Tech giants are increasingly eyeing nuclear reactors to power their energy-hungry data centers. Amazon and Microsoft each inked major deals this year with nuclear power plants in the US. And both Microsoft and Google have shown interest in next-generation small modular reactors that are still in development. New AI data centers need a lot of … Read more

Welcome back to Week in Review. This week, we’re diving into OpenAI’s $6.6 billion fundraising round, the fifth Cybertruck recall in less than a year, and a neat project that’s Shazam-ing songs heard on a San Francisco street. Let’s get into it. OpenAI closed the largest VC round of all time this week. The startup … Read more

When Google introduced the Pixel Watch 3, one of the features that first jumped at me was the new automatic bedtime mode setting. It seemed like such a trivial feature on paper, but I knew it would make a big difference for me and the way I use my smartwatch. With the previous Pixel Watch … Read more

This week the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York unsealed charges over a “scheme to commit fraud” in carbon markets, which they say fraudulently netted one company “tens of millions of dollars” worth of credits — which led to “securing an investment of over $100 million.” MarketWatch reports: Ken Newcombe had … Read more

Spotify has announced a new feature called Offline Backup, designed to give Premium subscribers an additional way to listen to music offline without manually downloading playlists. Rolling out globally this week, the feature aims to address situations where users find themselves without an internet connection and haven’t prepared their offline music library in advance. Offline … Read more

The successor to the 2023 Google Pixel Fold is the Google Pixel 9 Pro Fold, which has a lot to offer over its predecessor other than just a longer name. If you have the first version, you might wonder if there are enough differences between the two phones to warrant an update. In this post, … Read more

Key Takeaways Claude projects allow for customized AI workspaces with specific instructions and project knowledge. Claude projects have a 200k tokens context window for efficient data referencing. Projects are intuitive, efficient, and ideal for personal text-based workloads. Ever found yourself repeatedly uploading the same documents or using similar prompts when using AI chatbots? If so, … Read more

A school in Sheffield has banned the use of smart devices including phones and watches. Forge Valley School no longer allows the use of smartphones, watches or headphones on its premises. Any student found to be using them has to hand them in, with the gadgets not returned for 24 hours. Head teacher Dale Barrowclough … Read more

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Less frightened. More fatigued. That’s where many of us reside with AI. Yet, I am in awe of AI. Despite the plethora and platitudes of AI promising to reshape industry, intellect and how we live, it’s vital to approach the … Read more

Adam Breeden/ZDNET What’s the deal? While we’re waiting for Amazon’s Prime Big Deal Days sale, Best Buy is offering the 65-inch TCL QM8 for $900, letting you save $300 on one of the best QLED TVs on the market for streaming movies and shows as well as console gaming. What makes this deal ZDNET recommended: … Read more