Jonathan Gavalas, 36, started using Google’s Gemini AI chatbot in August 2025 for shopping help, writing support, and trip planning. On October 2, he died by suicide. At the time of his death, he was convinced that Gemini was his fully…
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Are consumers doomed to pay more for electricity due to data center buildouts?
To avoid political backlash and waits of up to four years for grid connections, tech companies are already building their own power supplies for many new data centers.
Nearly three-quarters of planned generation equipment…
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Google reveals dev-focused Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite, promises ‘best-in-class intelligence for your highest-volume workloads’
- Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite is cheaper (and better) than Gemini 2.5 Flash
- The new Google model beat rivals across numerous benchmarks
- Variable reasoning improves efficiency and speed
Google has lifted the wraps off its new and improved Gemini 3.1 Flash…
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One startup’s pitch to provide more reliable AI answers: Crowdsource the chatbots
John Davie wanted Buyers Edge Platform, the hospitality procurement enterprise he founded and still leads, to benefit from the AI wave. When he looked around, the CEO wasn’t satisfied with the options.
The answer was CollectivIQ, a…
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Who needs data centers in space when they can float offshore?
The power crunch for AI data centers has gotten so severe that people — not just Elon Musk — are talking about launching servers into space so they can access solar power 24/7.
One startup thinks the ocean is a better place for them….
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‘We heard your feedback loud and clear’ — OpenAI introduces new ChatGPT 5.3 Instant to ‘reduce the cringe’ for all users
- ChatGPT’s default model has been upgraded to GPT-5.3 Instant to smooth conversations
- OpenAI promises this will “reduce the cringe” of caveats and refusals
- ChatGPT 5.3 should also have fewer hallucinations
OpenAI has heard the complaints that
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AI adoption is soaring – but many businesses don’t have the infrastructure or governance to support it
- Leaders know that departmental silos are preventing effective AI rollout
- Shadow AI is on the up – a clear indication that demand for AI is there
- Existing infrastructure isn’t AI-ready, leaders admit
New research from Nutanix has revealed the…
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Physical Intelligence Team Unveils MEM for Robots: A Multi-Scale Memory System Giving Gemma 3-4B VLAs 15-Minute Context for Complex Tasks
Current end-to-end robotic policies, specifically Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models, typically operate on a single observation or a very short history. This ‘lack of memory’ makes long-horizon tasks, such as cleaning a kitchen…
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A “ChatGPT for spreadsheets” helps solve difficult engineering challenges faster | MIT News
Many engineering challenges come down to the same headache — too many knobs to turn and too few chances to test them. Whether tuning a power grid or designing a safer vehicle, each evaluation can be costly, and there…
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Multiverse launches compressed OpenAI language model designed to cut memory needs and lower AI infrastructure costs
Spanish AI company Multiverse Computing has released HyperNova 60B 2602, a compressed version of OpenAI’s gpt-oss-120B, and published it for free on Hugging Face.
The new version cuts the original model’s memory needs from 61GB to 32GB, and…
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