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During a high‑visibility Instagram Ask Me Anything, Meta chief technology officer Andrew Bosworth told college students to “constantly be building.” His advice blends modern AI‑assisted coding with classic hardware tinkering, underscoring Meta’s push to attract the next generation of engineers in a competitive hiring market.
My idea of a good time is working with amazing engineers to create incredible technology 🤩 The Tesla chip research fab will have all the machines needed to do logic, memory, packing & masks in one building for a lightning fast...
Keeper Security announced KeeperDB, a new database‑access capability embedded in its KeeperPAM privileged access management platform. The feature lets developers and DBAs connect to MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, and Microsoft SQL Server directly from the vault, eliminating plaintext credential exposure. KeeperDB...
In his GTC presentation, Yang outlined how Moonshot’s latest flagship model, Kimi K2.5, was trained using Nvidia’s H800 graphics processing units (GPUs), a chip Nvidia customised to comply with US export controls. https://t.co/A2wLRFn2wG
Joy Chik announced her July retirement after nearly 30 years at Microsoft, ending a tenure that spanned from software design engineer to president of identity and network access. The departure coincides with the exit of VP of energy Bobby Hollis...
Meta is establishing a dedicated hardware division inside its Superintelligence Labs, hiring veteran engineer Rui Xu from Dreamer to spearhead the effort. The move signals Meta’s ambition to create AI‑powered gadgets that go beyond its existing smart‑glasses and VR headsets. Xu’s...
Soma Energy, a Vancouver startup founded by former Amazon energy managers, closed a $7 million seed round led by Category Ventures. The funding will accelerate the rollout of its AI‑driven control plane that coordinates renewable assets and data‑center workloads in real...
Andrej Karpathy unveiled an "LLM Knowledge Base" that lets a large language model act as a librarian, continuously compiling, linking, and linting markdown files instead of relying on vector databases and retrieval‑augmented generation. The workflow ingests raw research assets into...
Nvidia unveiled its open‑source Agent Toolkit at GTC 2026, a unified software stack for building autonomous enterprise AI agents. The platform, which includes Nemotron models, the AI‑Q cost‑saving blueprint, OpenShell security runtime and cuOpt optimization libraries, is already pledged by...
Google unveiled Android Automotive OS for Software‑Defined Vehicles (AAOS SDV), an open‑source platform extending Android Auto beyond infotainment. The new OS will handle seat actuators, climate control, lighting, cameras, mirrors, and vehicle telemetry while providing a unified software architecture for automakers....
Commonwealth Fusion Systems announced it will begin selling its high‑temperature superconducting magnets to Realta Fusion, the largest such deal for the company. The move leverages CFS’s multi‑year $3 billion fundraising and a near‑complete Sparc demo reactor to generate cash while the...
AI‑driven data‑center operators are racing to build massive natural‑gas power plants, with Microsoft targeting 5 GW in West Texas, Google 933 MW in North Texas, and Meta adding 7.46 GW in Louisiana. The projects aim to secure "behind‑the‑meter" electricity to meet soaring AI...
Alibaba Cloud unveiled the Qwen3.5‑Omni series, a large‑scale omnimodal language model that natively understands text, images, audio and video. The models support a 256,000‑token context window, can process more than 10 hours of continuous audio or 400 seconds of 720p video at...
Vultr announced an Nvidia‑powered AI infrastructure that it says costs 50% to 90% less than comparable offerings from major hyperscalers. The service lets platform engineering teams train AI agents on internal security, networking and compliance policies, then expose those as...
A recent deep‑dive identifies seven infrastructure blocks that are inflating technical debt for enterprise AI agents, while early deployments show an average 171% return but also integration and security headaches. The findings highlight why scaling agentic SaaS tools is becoming...
