In its earnings guidance for FY27, Micron stated that it expects physical AI and humanoid robots to become even bigger drivers of memory and storage demand than AI data centers. According to CEO Sanjay Mehrotra, each humanoid robot would need at least around 200GB of DRAM and several terabytes of......
HP joins the MacBook Neo fight with colorful OmniBook 5 laptops starting at $699
The new HP OmniBook 5 is described as a premium consumer Windows laptop for those who "want more" from their everyday device. The base model features a 14-inch, 1,920 x 1,200 OLED multi-touch display coated in Gorilla Glass 3 that covers 100% of the DCI-P3 color space. It is driven......
A court just ruled that training an AI on someone else’s editorial work isn’t fair use
Ross developed an AI-based legal research platform that allowed lawyers to submit legal questions and receive relevant passages from court opinions. To train the system, the company worked with a third party, LegalEase Solutions, to create training materials that connected legal questions with passages from judicial opinions. Read Entire Article
AOC Agon Pro AGP257FT hits 1,000Hz, overclocks to 1,050Hz, launches next year
AOC introduced the AGP257FT monitor earlier this year. Now, the Taiwanese manufacturer is announcing that its first foray into the extremely high-refresh-rate market will arrive in stores starting next year. AOC monitors are usually cheaper than the competition, but we bet a 1,000Hz display is still going to cost a......
Fed watchdog finds no crimes in $2.4B building renovation, only mismanagement
The Federal Reserve’s internal watchdog says that the central bank has broadly mismanaged an expansive building renovation project but did not find any criminal violations, as alleged by Trump administration prosecutors
Police say parents to face charges after a Michigan toddler displayed a gun at daycare
Police say the parents of a Detroit-area toddler who pulled a loaded pistol out of his backpack at a daycare will face charges
UK says there are strong indications Iran played a part in a security incident at a US-run air base
British Prime Minister Andy Burnham says the U.K. has “strong indications” that Iran played a part in an incident involving five men arrested near a U.S.-run air base in England
A timeline of developments in AI safety since the attack on Hugging Face
Since OpenAI disclosed this summer that its artificial intelligence system hacked into another AI company in what is now referred to as the Hugging Face incident, other AI companies have jumped on the bandwagon with their own concerning events, such as...
Nebraskans couldn’t escape the heat this summer — not even at night
In Omaha, Nebraska, during the recent early September heat wave when temps hit the mid-90s Fahrenheit and lows stayed in the 70s, Pat Wilson-Johnson came to the Salvation Army’s North Corps Community Center for lunch. The location functions as a cooling center during high heat days. From growing up in...
States want to make Big Oil pay for climate harm. Now, courts are weighing in.
Last week, another federal judge blocked New York’s so-called “climate superfund law,” the state’s attempt to make fossil fuel companies pay for climate-related damages linked to their activities. Signed in 2024, the legislation inspired other states to start drumming up their own ways to hold Big Oil financially accountable for...