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IBM announced today that four organizations have been selected for a new cohort of its Impact Accelerator, a program that provides grants of technology and expertise to help nonprofit and government organizations develop education and workforce solutions. The selections come as artificial intelligence and quantum computing are rapidly reshaping the skills employers demand and the … Read more
Fox Corporation announced today that it has completed its acquisition of Roku, combining a traditional media company with one of the largest streaming platforms in the United States. The deal closes a major consolidation in the television industry, merging Fox’s sports, news and entertainment content with Roku’s open platform that reaches over 100 million households … Read more
BioStack, a Y Combinator-backed startup, announced $9.5 million in seed funding to build a data infrastructure network that connects fragmented patient records across hospitals globally. The funding will support the company’s expansion and development of AI training datasets drawn from over 100 million de-identified patient records spanning the United States, India, Brazil and Argentina. The … Read more
Amazon Web Services announced today that it will adopt 3M’s Expanded Beam Optical platform for its data center infrastructure, a collaboration intended to support the increasing power demands of artificial intelligence and large-scale computing. The partnership marks AWS’s first major deployment of 3M’s optical connectivity technology and is expected to create over 500 jobs across … Read more
A study released by Linux Foundation Research found that generative AI cuts the time needed for open source coding tasks roughly in half, yet also creates a rising maintenance burden for project leaders. The research, presented at All Things Open 2026 in Raleigh, North Carolina, estimates that 25 percent of incoming pull requests to open … Read more
AT&T, the NBA and WNBA launched the fourth generation of the High-Speed Arena Network on Sunday, extending a connectivity partnership that began in 2018. The network upgrade will move live game broadcasts, highlights, replays and statistics across more than 68,000 miles of AT&T fiber infrastructure. The new system can support more than 118 concurrent, high-quality, … Read more
Nintendo opened its first dedicated retail space in North America on Saturday, launching a 1,500-square-foot store-within-a-store concept inside EB Games’ flagship location at 267 Yonge Street in Toronto. The space marks a significant expansion of Nintendo’s retail footprint in the region. It features Nintendo Switch 2 hardware and software, playable demo systems, and merchandise including … Read more
BAE Systems has won a contract from the U.S. Space Force Space Systems Command to design and demonstrate ultra-compact radio-frequency terminals for a space-based data layer, a move aimed at strengthening the military’s capacity to operate satellite communications systems in contested and degraded environments. The contract value was not disclosed. BAE will develop software-defined radios … Read more
Internet-facing artificial intelligence systems have exploded in number, with exposed AI infrastructure growing 63% over nine months to nearly 268,000 globally exposed hosts, according to research released by Censys, an Internet infrastructure monitoring company. The rapid proliferation reflects the speed of AI adoption across organizations, but security researchers say the expansion has outpaced defensive measures. … Read more
Performance Drone Works, a defense technology company headquartered in Huntsville, Alabama, said it will integrate Booz Allen’s new mission autonomy software and its secure fleet update product on its AM drones. The autonomy software is powered by Shield AI’s Hivemind. AM is PDW’s multi-mission Group 1 unmanned aircraft system. The company says it can be … Read more
