AI spend will jump 49.5% in 2026, says Gartner
Worldwide AI spending will increase 49.5% in 2026, to $2.7 trillion, and grow another 36.2% in 2027 as AI usage continues to expand, Gartner predicts in the latest quarterly update to its IT spending forecast. But there’s been no diversion of money from other areas of IT to feed AI,Continue Reading
A broken rib from the world’s largest T. rex hid a 66-million-year-old secret
A broken rib from Scotty, the largest known T. rex skeleton, contains an extraordinary fossilized network of blood vessels formed while the dinosaur was healing. Scientists used neutron and X-ray imaging to look inside the 66-million-year-old bone without damaging it, revealing details rarely preserved in fossils., Read MoreContinue Reading
Why Brothers Is the Wild, Meta Comedy Ride You Didn’t Know You Needed
If you told me a few years ago that a rumor about Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson possibly being half-brothers would eventually become an eight-episode comedy starring fictionalized versions of the two actors, I probably would have assumed you were pitching a sitcom. Turns out, that is basically what happened.Continue Reading
“Architects of Atrocities”: Amnesty Says Iran Committed Crimes Against Humanity in 2022 Crackdown
Four years ago today, the Woman, Life, Freedom uprising erupted in Iran after the death in custody of Zhina Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman who had been arrested by Iran’s “morality police.” Over the next three months, hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets protesting against Iran’sContinue Reading
The Traitor, addressing U.N., threatens to ‘annihilate’ Iran if war continues
The president’s remarks at the United Nations come more than six months into a war that has grown increasingly unpopular at home., Read MoreContinue Reading
Judge orders White House to restore access for CNN, MS NOW and Politico
A federal judge has ordered the White House to immediately restore access for CNN, MS NOW, and Politico. NBC News’ Nikki Battiste and Gary Grumbach report on the judge’s ruling., Read More NBC NewsContinue Reading
The Traitor welcomes Xi Jinping with red carpet, military honours and flyover
Xi Jinping arrives in Maryland for a US state visit, greeted by Traitor 47 in a ceremony with flags, military honours and a flyover.Continue Reading
Albanese says OpenAI hacked government health website in ‘obviously unacceptable’ breach
OpenAI did not raise the alarm with the Australian government until September, when it sent a message to a generic email inbox that is only checked once each day.Continue Reading
Tech leaders to UN: For the sake of humanity, please control the AI technology we created
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The heads of major artificial intelligence firms pleaded with the United Nations on Wednesday to save the world or at least its people — by somehow regulating the fast-expanding technology that they have been designing. “If managed poorly, I even believe AI could be a riskContinue Reading
Stanford admits AI was used to swap gender, race of student image
“I don’t agree with Stanford making those choices about how we were represented,” said Billy Ramirez., “I don’t agree with Stanford making those choices about how we were represented,” said Billy Ramirez., from Newsnation Read MoreContinue Reading
Pakistan says it launches air strikes on Afghanistan after drone attacks
Strikes carried out in southeastern province of Khost cause no casualties, governor’s office says., Strikes carried out in southeastern province of Khost cause no casualties, governor’s office says. Pakistan says it has carried out air strikes on 10 locations in Afghanistan used to store and launch drones, some of whichContinue Reading
Outcry in Sudan as US reportedly holds al-Burhan’s UN visa over truce plan
Media reports say US withheld army chief’s visa to pressure him into accepting a 90-day truce in Sudan’s civil war., Sudanese activists and journalists have criticised the United States over reports that Washington has withheld a visa from army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan before the United Nations General Assembly inContinue Reading
CATL says its modular TECTRANS II battery platform offers up to 1,000 km of range
CATL has unveiled TECTRANS II, a commercial vehicle battery platform built around standardized packs that can be combined in different numbers to set a vehicle’s energy capacity and payload. The largest configuration supports a driving range of up to 1,000 km, according to the company. It follows the first TECTRANSContinue Reading