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As artificial intelligence drives demand for more data centres, some of the world's biggest technology companies are joining forces with environmental groups to address concerns over their impact on local communities in the United States.

With smartphone sales tanking by around 20 percent compared to 2025, Qualcomm is looking to data centers to help boost its bottom line. During its Q4 2026 earnings call, the company laid out its plans to make a splash in the AI data center business, through partnerships with companies like Amazon and Meta announced earlier […]

This week on “Uncanny Valley,” we discuss the historic blue wave that swept the midterms and delivered a rebuke to the Trump administration, Big Tech, and data centers.

Tesla will stop making most Cybertrucks at its Texas factory around the middle of next year, chief executive Elon Musk said on Friday. The space will instead be used to build more Cybercabs, the company’s two-seat robotaxis. Musk announced the plan in a post on X, but he did not say whether production would end […] This story continues at The Next Web

A robotic truss builder that was conceived, designed and built by Caltech researchers has successfully built a structure in space—without the help of astronauts—for the first time. The truss builder, part of DARPA's Novel Orbital and Moon Manufacturing, Materials, and Mass-efficient Design (NOM4D) program, consists of an autonomous manipulator that picks up struts and joints held in nearby dispensers to repeatedly assemble identical sections, or bays, of a perimeter truss.

Smartwatches may be able to detect hypertension (high blood pressure) with the help of an artificial intelligence (AI) system that interprets sensor readings, a paper in Nature reports. Tests of the system, trialed using a consumer smartwatch, show that it can detect hypertension at similar sensitivities to traditional office-based blood pressure screening methods.

A longstanding hypothesis held that some problems would always be hard for computers to solve quickly. But OpenAI disproved it — raising the possibility of radical new efficiencies.

CEO took a particular interest in sharp-edged vehicle – but it faced criticism over its safety, difficulties with recalls and ultimately failed to sell in good numbers

Google made Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash, its AI video model, generally available. It makes 15-second clips, up from 10, lets users edit them over several chat turns and costs 30% less, at about $0.07 a second for 720p video. Google has made Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash, the latest version of its AI video model, generally […] This story continues at The Next Web

Prospect to hold workplace sessions and recruit members under agreement with tech company Trade unions are expected to make further inroads into big tech companies in the UK after new rights for unions to access workplaces came into force, with Google UK signing an agreement on Monday. The Prospect union has reached an agreement with Google to begin organising among about 7,000 workers across its UK operations, including YouTube but excluding DeepMind. Continue reading...

At more than 400 sites, the FAA still uses floppy disks in four systems to upload data to aging information displays that controllers consult for weather conditions, airport status, and Notices to Airmen (NOTAMs). Read Entire Article

It’s hard to tell exactly when AI slop stopped being just a punchline involving Will Smith eating spaghetti and started feeling dangerous. That’s actually part of the problem. This year, many of the popular AI tools that used to struggle with the number of fingers on a human hand gained the ability to generate photorealistic […]

The tech industry spent big on the midterms, but it turned out to be a poor investment. Elon Musk poured a staggering $446m dollars into Republican-aligned political action committees (Pacs) and groups since last year, but his efforts didn’t pay off. Democrats won every one of the five Senate races where Musk’s America Pac spent the most money backing Republican candidates. Carter Sherman and Kai Wright are joined by the Guardian’s US tech editor, Blake Montgomery, to ask what the ‘blue tsunami’ will mean for Musk and the wider tech industry. Will this spell the end of AI datacenters? And if so, what could this mean for the US economy? Continue reading...

Russia plans to build own version of US billionaire’s satellite communications to help attack Ukraine Vladimir Putin praised Elon Musk’s genius and said he was in touch with Starlink’s controlling shareholder as Russia develops its own satellite communications for its military to use against Ukraine. The Russian president, speaking at a summit with African leaders in Moscow, was comparing the Earth-orbiting network built by Musk’s SpaceX with Russia’s gradual efforts to build its own Rassvet constellation. Continue reading...

Protesters are demanding a pause in data center construction in Europe. Campaigners planning protests in 16 countries say the AI building boom threatens water supplies, power grids and climate goals.

Flashback to 1977. Jimmy Carter was U.S. president, Star Wars was a box office hit, and the two Voyager spacecraft departed on an historic Grand Tour of the solar system. Now, teams at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory are working to keep the missions active, as they push the boundaries of interstellar space beyond the solar system.

Someone at the White House appears to be running software that could enable outsiders to rent access on the presidential network for just "a few dollars," as reported by Krebs on Security and The Register. That's according to findings from the security firms Layer3 Intel and Synthient, which discovered residential proxy activity on the White […]

Neither Charlie Collier, who had a four-year run leading Roku’s ad and platform business, nor Tubi CEO Anjali Sud will join Fox Corp. after its acquisition of Roku. The exec departures were among several organizational updates shared by Anthony Wood and Paul Cheesebrough, Co-Chairs of Fox Digital Platforms. After Friday morning’s close of Fox’s $22 […]