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The Army has awarded Boston-based ASI a five-year contract worth up to $99 million to expand its AI forecasting software across the service’s command and control efforts. The contract is an indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract, which means the figure is a ceiling rather than a guaranteed payment. The Army picked ASI after what the … Read more
ICANN has published the applied-for strings for its 2026 round of new generic top-level domains, and the most crowded contest is over .agent. Thirteen applicants are competing for it, more than for any other string on the preliminary list. The applications were submitted between 30 April and 12 August 2026. ICANN counts 1,615 applications in … Read more
Southwest Airlines is becoming the first U.S. airline to launch a dedicated plugin in ChatGPT, allowing customers to search for flights and book travel directly within OpenAI’s chatbot. The plugin, developed in partnership with Amazon Web Services, represents an early bet by a major carrier on AI-powered booking tools in an increasingly crowded space of … Read more
Thirteen educational organizations and experts sent an open letter to the nation’s 150 largest school districts on Monday, urging them to immediately disable YouTube and Google’s Gemini AI on school-issued devices. The groups cite mounting evidence of harm to students and shifting legal liability toward schools themselves. The move comes as over 1,000 school districts … Read more
GIGABYTE has announced a new, more affordable configuration of its desktop AI system, introducing a 64GB unified memory version of the GIGABYTE AI TOP ATOM alongside the existing 128GB model. The new configuration, built on NVIDIA’s DGX Spark platform, becomes available October 23 and targets developers, researchers, and enterprise teams looking to build local AI … Read more
Quizlet is now available as a native app inside ChatGPT, creating a direct bridge between conversational AI help and structured study practice. The company announced the integration as chatbot use for schoolwork continues to grow, presenting it as a way for students to convert AI-generated explanations and documents into flashcards and other active learning materials … Read more
Regal is using MAR10 Day to kick off ticket sales for some of the earliest screenings of The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, giving fans a chance to see the sequel as soon as it opens on April 1. The company announced that more than 250 Regal locations will host showtimes starting at 12:01 a.m. on … Read more
Dictionary.com has rolled out its 2026 Winter Word Drop, adding more than 1,500 new entries that highlight how English continues to absorb scientific advances, online trends and influences from around the world. The company notes that science and technology terms make up the largest share of the update, accounting for 26 percent of additions, while … Read more
Dollar Shave Club is partnering with the Call of Duty franchise on a limited-edition razor handle aimed at gamers who want to bring some of their in-game aesthetic into their daily routines. The collaboration, launched with Target, introduces the Call of Duty: Warzone Handle as a themed starter set positioned as a grooming counterpart to … Read more
Codio has been named the exclusive commercial partner to extend GitHub Classroom benefits onto Codio’s cloud-based teaching platform, creating a new upgrade path for instructors who want more advanced computer science and technical skills tooling without leaving their GitHub workflows. The Cambridge, Massachusetts based company positions its platform as purpose built to scale computer science … Read more
