A new AI system can identify individual brown bears by their facial features and posture, a task even experts struggle with. Trained on over 72,000 photos, it’s a breakthrough for non-invasive wildlife monitoring and could be adapted for other species.
The Internet Archive, a vital tool for research, is getting blocked by major news publishers. They’re worried AI firms are using its vast, structured database as a backdoor to scrape articles for AI training without permission.
A startup called Synapse Data Center wants to build a staggering 1-gigawatt data center campus in Olds, Alberta. The off-grid, gas-powered project represents a $10 billion bet on AI’s insatiable power demand. But can a brand-new company pull it off?
The explosive growth of data centers is directly driving a massive expansion of natural gas power plants in the US. This new infrastructure could increase the national gas fleet by nearly 50%, with major implications for greenhouse gas emissions.
Microsoft’s latest earnings reveal a staggering acceleration in infrastructure spending. The company brought a massive 1GW of data center capacity online in just Q2 of FY2026 and set a new quarterly capex record of $37.5 billion. This spending surge comes as Azure revenue growth shows slight signs o
In a radical physical migration, Russian logistics firm CDEK flew 300TB of data on hard drives from Novosibirsk to Moscow. The move, covering 95% of its operations, aims to boost application speed and security after a major 2024 hack.
According to Circana analyst Mat Piscatella, over 3,500 different games sold at least one new physical unit at US retail in 2025. His “sickos” lists highlight titles, like an Xbox 360 Burnout Paradise, that moved just a single copy, uncovering a strange retail archaeology.
A new blueprint reveals the massive gap between AI hype and reality in banking. While adoption jumped to 58%, progress is stalling because of fragmented data and poor governance. Here’s what needs to change.
YouTube has added a dedicated Shorts filter to its search results on mobile and web. The update also renames the “Sort by” menu to “Prioritize” and removes some less-used filter options.
In a major move for AI infrastructure, power firm Babcock & Wilcox is teaming up with Siemens Energy to supply steam turbine generators. The goal is to deliver a whopping 1 gigawatt of power for an Applied Digital AI data center by the end of 2028. It’s a sign of how traditional energy giants are pi
