Just 4% of service firms have laid off workers in the past six months due to AI “Existing workers are much more likely to be retrained than replaced” Some companies are still hiring fewer employees than they would have Just a few years ago, multiple companies every day were announcing AI-related layoffs amid purported efficiency…
The Lloyds Tour of Britain has been shortened in 2026 to achieve parity with the women’s race and will pack its men’s action into five pulsating stages between Lincoln and the Scottish Borders. Stage one takes the riders out into Lincolnshire before finishing with laps of Lincoln city center including five ascents of the infamous…
Can you believe that the Dyson Supersonic turned 10 in April this year? When it arrived back in 2016 we were all amazed at its feat of engineering, with Dyson using its expertise in airflow to create a hair dryer that styles and dries hair quickly, efficiently and with minimal heat damage. Since then, though,…
Five companies will build microreactors across five separate Army installations nationwide Antares Nuclear takes on construction duties at Fort Bragg, North Carolina The total contract value reaches up to $2.2 billion The U.S. Army has selected 5 companies to construct small nuclear power units across a handful of domestic installations. This initiative, called Project Janus,…
Sonos, a name synonymous with effortless home audio, has had a somewhat spotty track record in recent years. The audio quality has been unfailingly excellent, but Sonos software efforts have been an enervating mix of doing too much and too little, leaving customers not just cold but actively frustrated. Its latest updates and innovations are…
Chris Malone, OpenAI’s head of data centers, has left after seventeen months, with the company confirming the exit but giving no reason His responsibilities had already been split before he went, with his reporting line moved to VP Sachin Katti and the job now spread across three executives plus an unnamed CTO for computing capacity…
Supermicro’s new workstation costs nearly $93,000 before any tax or shipping It carries 748GB of memory split across CPU and GPU pools The system delivers up to 20 PFLOPS of FP4 performance overall Supermicro has begun selling a workstation built around Nvidia’s GB300 Grace Blackwell Ultra superchip, priced at $92,887.47 before tax and shipping costs….
TANK 5 Pro covers a 95-degree field with its thermal sensor The battery holds 17,600mAh and recharges fully within 90 minutes Dimensity 9400e reportedly outscores Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 on AnTuTu benchmarks 8849, a Chinese company known for producing rugged smartphones, has introduced the TANK 5 Pro, a device engineered for outdoor and industrial use…
A group of developers reportedly lost their jobs during what their employer called an “AI Transformation.” Their response was unusually literal. They built OpenExecutive, an open-source system designed to perform work associated with a CEO and the rest of the executive suite. The employer and CEO have not been named in the online discussion, and…
Anthropic wants AI agents to control programmable machines through common software rules Model Hardware Standard (MHS) can connect microscopes, robotic arms, and liquid handling equipment MHS allows different laboratory devices to communicate through standardized software drivers Anthropic opened a preview of its Model Hardware Standard (MHS), designed to let AI agents control programmable machines through…