On Wednesday morning, local time, over one million Australian children discovered their social media accounts had vanished. And it may not be long before kids in other countries find themselves in a similar predicament. Under the new law, which was approved late last year, no one under the age of 16 in Australia will be…
It’s been quite the year for Coreweave. In March, the AI cloud infrastructure provider went public in one of the biggest and most anticipated IPOs of the year that didn’t live up to its hype. Another setback took place in October, when a planned acquisition of the cloud provider’s business partner, Core Scientific, faltered due…
We love a little nostalgia mixed in with our cozy gaming, and ReStory looks like a perfect blend of those two. In this upcoming indie game, you play the owner of a Tokyo electronics repair shop in the mid 2000s. The trailer that dropped today shows you tinkering with some very familiar gadgets from the…
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Presented by SAP When SAP ran a quiet internal experiment to gauge consultant attitudes toward AI, the results were striking. Five teams were asked to validate answers to more than 1,000 business requirements completed by SAP’s AI co-pilot, Joule for Consultants — a workload that would normally take several weeks. Four teams were told the…
PepsiCo plans to cut prices and eliminate some of its products under a deal with an activist investor announced Monday. The Purchase, New York-based company, which makes Cheetos, Tostitos, and other Frito-Lay products as well as beverages, said it will cut nearly 20% of its product offerings by early next year. PepsiCo said it will use the…
OpenAI is hiring Slack CEO Denise Dresser as its new chief revenue officer. The news was first reported by Wired, then confirmed by OpenAI in a blog post. Dresser’s new role comes after more than 14 years at Salesforce, Slack’s parent company. While at Slack, Dresser oversaw the introduction of several AI features. OpenAI says…
You can add the Switch 2 to the (long) list of platforms where you can play The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. The bad news: It costs $60 to play the 2011 game optimized for Nintendo’s 2025 hardware. The good news: It costs less (or nothing) if you own one of the versions for the original…
More than 230 groups including Food & Water Watch, Physicians for Social Responsibility, and Greenpeace are demanding a pause on the construction of any new data centers in the US until stronger regulations are in place to prevent soaring electricity rates, water use, and pollution. “The rapid, largely unregulated rise of data centers to fuel…
There is no shortage of AI benchmarks in the market today, with popular options like Humanity’s Last Exam (HLE), ARC-AGI-2 and GDPval, among numerous others. AI agents excel at solving abstract math problems and passing PhD-level exams that most benchmarks are based on, but Databricks has a question for the enterprise: Can they actually handle…
