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Lean, a programming language created in 2013 by Leonardo de Moura, has grown into shared infrastructure for mathematics, with its community-built Mathlib library now exceeding two million lines of mac…

A May Gallup poll found seven in 10 Americans oppose data center construction in their communities, and California lawmakers are advancing seven bills to regulate the facilities amid a lobbying push l…

Stanford HAI proposed on August 25, 2026 that AI agent developers and deployers be held to a fiduciary duty of loyalty, moving beyond transparency to prevent deceptive steering in high-stakes domains …

SpaceX will build its own gas turbine blades and vanes to accelerate natural gas power generation for AI data centers, Elon Musk said on Saturday, citing that solar alone cannot meet surging electrici…

Amazon is rolling out Alexa+ to compatible Fire TV devices across the U.S. at no additional cost, with no Prime membership or app download required, automatically upgrading eligible devices. Amazon sa…

A GitHub project by mpcsb demonstrates that after distilling a large language model's labels into a smaller student model, the next labeling budget should target weak class boundaries identified by st…

Amazon's HR lead, who last coded 25 years ago, has written over 100,000 lines of code using Amazon's AI-powered coding tool Kiro, according to an Amazon News blog post. The HR leader, who also announc…

Warren Pandiscia, a Connecticut streamer with more than 900 followers, filed a proposed class action on August 20, 2026, against Twitch and Amazon in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District …

Amazon Mechanical Turk will shut down on September 30, 2026, after 21 years of operation, according to Amazon. The platform, which Jeff Bezos called 'artificial artificial intelligence,' will cease al…

Nvidia forecast 70% fiscal 2028 growth and $673 billion in sales, while US data centers used an estimated 17 billion gallons of water in 2023, highlighting the physical and financial costs of the comp…

Amazon has open-sourced Kiro Crew, a system for running asynchronous coding agents, which was developed internally as MeshClaw and adopted by more than 39,000 developers. The system, now available on …

OpenRelay, a Seattle-based startup in Y Combinator's Summer 2026 batch, launched a hardware-agnostic inference network that routes AI workloads across GPUs, TPUs, and Trainium through a single API, cl…

Big Tech companies including Amazon and Anthropic are spending heavily in Sacramento to oppose or weaken seven California bills that would regulate data center construction, as the measures head towar…

Amazon will permanently close Mechanical Turk on September 30, 2026, ending a 21-year run for the crowdsourcing service that connected more than 500,000 paid human workers with businesses needing smal…

Maneshwar, the developer behind LiveReview, an AI code review tool, outlines seven key principles for building reliable distributed systems, drawing on examples from Amazon and Google. The article exp…

Meta Platforms is testing robots from Watney Robotics, Kinova, and ABB in its data centers to perform tasks like swapping networking cables and power-cycling servers, a move that could replace up to 8…

Nvidia's advantage in AI is expanding beyond GPUs into the surrounding systems that orchestrate data in gigawatt-scale data centers, according to the company's earnings and interviews with executives.…

Amazon's Ring announced on August 26 that it is rolling out TAKE (Throw Away the Key Encryption), a new default encryption system that deletes Amazon's copy of camera keys within 24 hours, with the ph…

PyTorch Conference North America 2026, held October 20–21 in San Jose, CA, will feature vLLM across multiple sessions on KV cache management, disaggregated serving, hardware portability, kernel optimi…

Agility Robotics CTO Pras Velagapudi said the company is betting on factory floors as the proving ground for humanoid robots, citing a massive labor shortage and repetitive, dangerous tasks. Agility h…