Kai-Fu Lee's brutal assessment: America is already losing the AI hardware war to China

China is on track to dominate consumer artificial intelligence applications and robotics manufacturing within years, but the United States will maintain its substantial lead in enterprise AI adoption [...]

The 5 hottest scaleups in Southern Europe enter TECH5’s ‘Champions League of Tech’

Five standout scaleups from Southern Europe have reached the finals of TECH5 — the “Champions League of Technology.” They’ll now face off with rivals from across Europe to be crowned the conti [...]

Can a Hydroelectric Dam Really Make the Days Longer?

By shifting water to a higher elevation, the giant Three Gorges Dam caused the Earth to spin more slowly. [...]

'Unprecedented drought conditions': More than 500 data centers across Nevada, California, and Arizona could feel the pinch as the iconic Hoover Dam potentially loses 40% of its power output because of poor rainfall and abnormally low snowpack numbers

Drought driven water cuts are set to reduce Hoover Dam output significantly, forcing utilities to find replacement power amid raising regional costs. [...]

US and China agree to one-year pause on punitive tariffs

Donald Trump and China’s leader, Xi Jinping, have agreed to a one-year pause on the punitive Trump-instated tariffs that are at the heart of the ongoing trade war between the two superpowers. Among [...]

NVIDIA can now sell its high-end AI chips to 'approved customers in China,' Trump says

NVIDIA is now allowed to sell its second-best H200 processors to China, rather than just the sanction-approved H20 model that China had previously declined to buy, President Trump wrote on Truth Socia [...]

Meta confirms Instagram issue that's flooding users with violent and sexual Reels

Meta has admitted to CNBC that Instagram is experiencing an error that's flooding users' accounts with Reels videos that aren't typically surfaced by its algorithms. "We are fixing [...]

Australia's financial regulator warns banks against flooding it with AI-generated suspicious activity reports

The Australian financial regulator Austrac warns banks against the excessive use of AI in the creation of SARs.<br /> The article Australia's financial regulator warns banks against floodin [...]

Panasonic S1 II review: A near-perfect creator's camera if money is no object

After a six-year wait, Panasonic's S1 II is finally here and there's a lot to unpack. As you’d expect from this company, it’s creator-centric with up to 5.8K ProRes RAW internal video re [...]