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Improvements to roads, bridges, and other infrastructure could take a hit as data center construction accelerates,according to Bloomberg. In 2025, state and local governments reportedly sold a record amount of debt for the second year in a row, with strategists predicting another $600 billion in sales next year. Most of that money is expected to […]

One day in November, a product strategist we’ll call Michelle (not her real name), logged into her LinkedIn account and switched her gender to male. She also changed her name to Michael, she told TechCrunch.  She was partaking in an experiment called #WearthePants wherewomen testedthe hypothesis that LinkedIn’s new algorithm was biased against women.  For

President Donald Trump signed anexecutive orderThursday evening that directs federal agencies to take aim at state AI laws, arguing startups need relief from a “patchwork” of rules. But legal experts and startups say the order could prolong uncertainty, sparking court battles that leave young companies navigating shifting state requirements while waiting to see if Congress

Google is rolling out a beta experience that lets you hear real-time translations in your headphones, the companyannouncedon Friday. The tech giant is also bringing advanced Gemini capabilities to Google Translate and expanding its language learning tools in the Translate app. The new real-time headphone translations experience keeps each speaker’s tone, emphasis, and cadence intact,

The Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) recently released what it calls its most powerful family of models yet, Olmo 3. But the company kept iterating on the models, expanding its reinforcement learning (RL) runs, to create Olmo 3.1. The new Olmo 3.1 models focus on efficiency, transparency, and control for enterprises.  Ai2 updated two of

Googlereleasedon Thursday a “reimagined” version of its research agent Gemini Deep Research based on itsmuch-ballyhooed state-of-the-art foundation model, Gemini 3 Pro.   This new agent isn’t just designed to produce research reports — although it can still do that. It now allows developers to embed Google’s SATA-model research capabilities into their own apps. That capability is

In a new paper that studies tool-use in large language model (LLM) agents, researchers at Google and UC Santa Barbara have developed a framework that enables agents to make more efficient use of tool and compute budgets. The researchers introduce two new techniques: a simple "Budget Tracker" and a more comprehensive framework called "Budget Aware

OpenAI has officially released GPT-5.2, and the reactions from early testers — among whom OpenAI seeded the model several days prior to public release, in some cases weeks ago — paints a two toned picture: it is a monumental leap forward for deep, autonomous reasoning and coding, yet potentially an underwhelming "incremental" update for casual

1X found some big potential buyers for its humanoid robots designed for consumers — the portfolio companies of one of its investors. The robotics company announced a strategic partnership to makethousands of its humanoid robotsavailable for EQT’s portfolio companies on Thursday. EQT is a large Swedish multi-asset investor, and its venture fund EQT Ventures, is

Disney sent a cease-and-desist letter to Google on Wednesday, alleging that the tech giant has infringed on its copyrights,Varietyreports. Disney is accusing the tech giant of copyright infringement on a “massive scale,” claiming it has used AI models and services to commercially distribute unauthorized images and videos, according to the letter seen by Variety. “Google