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Last year Ruxandra Teslo, a policy analyst who focuses on clinical trials, posted an idea for supercharging medical AI systems: Use data from failed biotech companies. By bidding at their bankruptcy proceedings, she proposed, it might be possible to obtain detailed regulatory filings, manufacturing strategies, and safety data—types of information usually considered trade secrets. She…
When Jessica Wachter, a finance professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, wanted to assess AI’s impact on the economy over the next few years, she faced a long list of business and technical uncertainties. So she started with what she calls a “remarkable fact” that is not in question: A handful of so-called…
Voicemod announced a new mobile device that expands the capabilities of the Voicemod Key dongle it launched in late 2024 as a way to bring the company’s real-time voice changing tech to consoles. While the older Voicemod Key only used a smartphone as an interface between the company’s mobile app and the Xbox, PlayStation, and…
General Motors is polishing up the software experience in its bestselling trucks in an effort to reduce the amount of dangerous tapping and swiping that’s required to access the most-used controls. It’s also giving Apple CarPlay and Android Auto spiffy new picture-in-picture displays – which is notable given GM’s previously stated hostility to phone mirroring…
Black Ops Cold War has just joined Game Pass, and a long-standing graphics issue has come back to light. It’s unlikely to ever get fixed, but you can work around it.
Fujitsu announced on September 14, 2026, from Kawasaki, Japan, that it will begin global sales of FUJITSU-MONAKA, a next-generation CPU designed and built entirely in Japan, starting in November 2026. Alongside the chip, the company is launching the Fujitsu MONAKA Server, a made-in-Japan system the company is positioning as sovereign AI infrastructure for data center…
Every distributed database vendor now claims to offer global scale with strong consistency, but the three products actually shipping that promise in production take wildly different paths to get there. Amazon Aurora DSQL bills by the Distributed Processing Unit and forces you to give up foreign keys. CockroachDB runs anywhere you can run a container…
AWS and Google Cloud are no longer fighting for the same growth curve. Amazon still runs the biggest cloud on the planet by a wide margin, but Google Cloud posted 82% year-over-year revenue growth in its most recent quarter against AWS’s 37%, according to earnings breakdowns reported by The Motley Fool on September 9, 2026.…
As local models become more capable, AI agents can handle more work directly on a PC while keeping sensitive information on the device. Portable Computer is a local version of the agent Perplexity Computer that plans and carries out multistep tasks. Accelerated by NVIDIA GPUs, it uses local models to analyze data, bring together information…
Christina Koch sits down with James Manyika, Google’s Senior Vice President of Research, Labs, Technology & Society.
