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Not a German cop show, but a pair of engineering firms aiming to feed 800 VDC to next-gen kit Siemens and fellow German engineering biz Reinhausen are developing a solid-state transformer (SST) to deliver 800-volt DC power directly to increasingly dense AI datacenter racks. As AI hardware grows hotter and
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Payments biz Stripe has reportedly finalized an agreement to acquire OpenRouter for at least $7 billion, signaling a shift in focus for the AI industry. OpenRouter provides a way for customers to integrate multiple AI models into their workflow and infrastructure and is, by Ramp's measure, the most
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Demand for artificially generated smut is surging. But the quality of the visual content being created and shared—like on companion apps, where adult performers are selling their likeness to give fans a 24/7 experience, WIRED reported in March—isn’t exactly movie-level caliber. Rogue Studio, a cinematic AI-generator
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Save $70: The Ring Doorbell 4K Pro is down to $180 on Amazon, and that’s the lowest price yet for both the wired and battery-powered versions. This exclusive price is only for Prime members, though. Non-prime members will still pay $250. With a spot on CNET’s list of
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The lowest prices for TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 end this Friday, August 21 at 11:59 p.m. PT. Once that window closes, your chance to save up to $300 on your pass, or get an even larger discount on group pricing, will come to an end. If you’ve been
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Kevin Carter/Getty Images ByKatie Arrington, Former official performing the duties of the Pentagon CIO August 17, 2026 03:19 PM ET COMMENTARY | This is not the moment to loosen the standard. The Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement requirements behind CMMC should not change. * CMMC I built the Cybersecurity Maturity
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It would have been easy to crop this out, if you were okay with losing some of the lake.Credit: Google Google has started rolling out a setting that lets some Gemini users turn off visible watermarks on AI-generated images, videos, and music. The controversial change means these users can
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Like many of us, Sam Rosenthal plays games like Wordle every day, chasing after good scores and sharing the results with friends and family. But he’s also a game designer, the creative director at Blaseball developer The Game Band, and so this regular habit got him thinking about what
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As someone who writes about tech deals for a living, I was amazed to see a deal on TikTok that claimed you could get a MacBook Neo for only $119.99. That's a shocking discount, so much so that I thought there had to be strings attached, or
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Higgsfield announced Monday that it has raised a $400 million Series B at a $5.4 billion valuation. This new round is just eight months after nabbing a $1.3 billion valuation. Higgsfield, founded by former Snap exec Alex Mashrabov in 2023, lets users create AI images and videos. It
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Word on the grapevine points toward the possibility of an entry-level Intel Panther Lake chip specifically targeted at handheld gaming devices. These new handhelds would be cut down to just 4 Performance Cores, 4 Low Power Efficiency (LPE) Cores, and 4 Xe3 GPU cores. Thanks to Intel's advancements
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Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways * The number of active AI agents in organizations has tripled in the last year. * AI agents have improved their capabilities by 350% and can now handle complex tasks. * Employee use of AI agents has increased
