The CPU's growing role in agentic AI infrastructure
PARTNER CONTENT: As agentic AI systems scale across cloud and datacenter environments, CPUs remain the control plane coordinating performance and efficiency.
PARTNER CONTENT: As agentic AI systems scale across cloud and datacenter environments, CPUs remain the control plane coordinating performance and efficiency.
Despite warnings of revenue deflation, chairman predicts AI will make more work, not less, for services orgs
OpenAI has rolled out an upgrade for the free model you interact with the most on ChatGPT.

Here's how the new Google Home Speaker has fared against the likes of my Apple HomePod Mini and Echo Dot Max so far.
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Most AI pilots focus on capability and speed - and skip the hard work of earning trust from the business.
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93% of organizations report infrastructure incidents attributable to AI
Oh, Snap(dragon): DC chief says the mobile-chip giant sees bit barns as its next growth market
It's a spicy start for the AI company's collaboration with the chip maker.

Prompting less and automating more comes with a price
Outcome-based resolution pricing means companies pay only when the AI agent resolves an issue autonomously, without human intervention.
Jalapeño is the latest announcement that attempts to portray OpenAI as more than a race-to-the-bottom model maker
Meanwhile, AI data centers will mop up 70% of all memory chips produced this year.
The tech giant has consistently stood by its Majorana chip research despite scepticism from some experts in the field.

Consumption-based pricing and scant cost controls are sending monthly bills into five figures, Gartner warns
Google's new speaker is a modest update, but the question is whether Gemini is a good smart home assistant.

The Apple 2026 MacBook Pro with M5 Pro chip is $199 off at Amazon dropping from $2,599 to $2,399.99.

The Acer Aspire 14 AI laptop is down to $479.99 at Amazon, saving you $103 on a laptop with 16GB RAM and 512GB storage.

Pinecone and Tiger Data say smarter data plumbing can cut token use and tame agentic workloads
A prominent AI expert says that forward-deployed engineers are limited, and that the broader emerging category of AI engineers has the greatest career potential. Is he right?
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THE REGISTER EXPLAINER: GPUs idle? Blame your outdated storage, not the silicon sprinters.
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With Google now a cesspool of AI-generated answers, here's how to work smarter: DuckDuckGo and Perplexity are the best one-two punch in search today.
It's an odd-seeming move for a company selling an AI writing assistant.

Clumsy logging implementation squirrels away data without regard for cost
The Claude in Slack app is dead, long live Claude in Slack
The company had started just two months ago tracking workers’ computer usage for AI training data.

SpaceX and other tech stocks continued to drop on Tuesday. Are investors starting to rethink their AI investments?

Anthropic has introduced @Claude for Slack.

How do the new smart glasses compare to the industry standard? Here's what I found, based on specs and experience.
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Alternatively, you can install SteamOS 3.8 on your own AMD-powered hardware
Annual report reveals workforce fell from 162,000 to 141,000 in a year as company pours billions into datacenter expansion
Ahem. National effort required to kick-start the era of quantum-enabled scientific discovery and keep America ahead of the game
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Suitable for running untrusted code, AI agents, or any long-running task