AT&T is raising prices by $5 a month on all AT&T Internet plans, the company confirms to The Verge. That's on top of its $5-a-month increase from November 2024, and, it appears, a $5-a-month increase on some customers in 2023 as well. "To ensure we continue providing the quality service and support you deserve, the price of your home internet plan will increase by $5/month, starting December 1, 2025," reads an email I received Thursday.
In May, after 14 years at Microsoft, Deborah Hendersen began to sense her time at the tech giant might be running out. Several colleagues on partner teams were among the roughly 6,000 employees laid off that month. The news made Hendersen, a user researcher in the company's Xbox division, worry that her group would be next. She said it eventually became the "worst-kept secret" that additional layoffs were coming, and that her team was likely to be affected.
Datacenters are set to standardize on the larger, 21-inch rack format by 2030, according to Omdia, as hyperscalers and server makers fully embrace it, leaving enterprises to the existing 19-inch standard. The analyst biz forecasts that the larger rack format, popularized by the Open Compute Project (OCP), will make up over 70 percent of kit shipped by the end of the decade, as it is increasingly adopted by vendors such as Dell and HPE that have been riding the AI infrastructure wave.
Skills, or Agent Skills for jargon maximalists, offer a way to instill Claude with specific knowledge that it may not possess in its distillation of training data. Anthropic has already deployed a few of them within Claude to handle common tasks like creating spreadsheets or presentations. Now, paying Claude customers - not the freeloader tier - can create Skills that suit their specific needs. Just make sure to subtract the labor that went into creating them when tabulating time saved by AI.
Broadcom's $10 billion-plus agreement with OpenAI is a cornerstone of its AI strategy. Unlike the vendor-financing deals with Nvidia, Advanced Micro Devices ( ), or Oracle ( L) where equity stakes or investments grease the wheels, this is a cash-based supply contract. Broadcom will deliver 10 gigawatts of custom-designed AI accelerators - tailored for OpenAI's training and inference workloads - alongside Ethernet networking and full rack systems, starting in the second half of 2026 through 2029.
"Do you see this as, that you'd be selling these to SFPD?" Benioff said. "And saying look, you're down 500 or 1,000. I can offer you robots to do some of these jobs, even if they're not armed or not militaristic. Is that a role that you see them playing in cities?"
The new change, which Cloudflare calls its Content Signals Policy, happened after publishers and other companies that depend on web traffic have cried foul over Google's AI Overviews and similar AI answer engines, saying they are sharply cutting those companies' path to revenue because they don't send traffic back to the source of the information. There have been lawsuits, efforts to kick-start new marketplaces to ensure compensation, and more-
Google is trying to capitalize on what it calls "frequent and severe" Microsoft 365 outages by offering up services like email, storage, and videoconferencing to businesses in the event of a Microsoft outage. The search giant's new Business Continuity plan runs a Google Workspace in parallel with Microsoft 365, so if there's an outage then businesses just switch over to Gmail and Google Meet instead of Outlook and Microsoft Teams.
Windows 10's free support has shuffled off this mortal coil for most customers - but that's merely the headline act in Microsoft's October support massacre. Older versions of Office and Windows Server have also been shown the door. Support for Office 2019 (including Office 2016) and Exchange Server 2019 flatlined on October 14. While Microsoft will sell orphaned Windows 10 users an extra year or so of life support via its Extended Security Updates (ESU) program,
At the time the company's woes seemed intractable. How could it claw its way back in a world in which it lost out on the internet, social media, and mobile computing? Somehow, Nadella managed to do it. He ended Microsoft's ill-advised foray into building a mobile Windows OS, ended the corporate infighting and sniping, and recognized that Windows was no longer the company's future. Instead, he bet big on cloud computing - and the bet paid off.
Andrej Karpathy, a former OpenAI researcher and Tesla's former director of AI, calls his latest project the "best ChatGPT $100 can buy." Called "nanochat," the open-source project, released yesterday for his AI education startup EurekaAI, shows how anyone with a single GPU server and about $100 can build their own mini-ChatGPT that can answer simple questions and write stories and poems.
U.S. quantum computing firm D-Wave Quantum has struck a deal with a company called Swiss Quantum Technology (SQT) to bring D-Wave's Advantage2 quantum computer to Europe. The deal, which amounts to €10 million ($11.63 million), will see D-Wave's quantum computer deployed in Italy, where it will play a role in supporting the Italians' efforts toward large-scale digital transformation, D-Wave announced on Wednesday. It will be part of a joint effort-collectively called the "Q-Alliance"-between D-Wave and IonQ, another American quantum computing company.
Everyone has had at least one rough morning where they rolled out of bed 10 minutes before taking a virtual meeting, and after rushing to brush your teeth and tame your hair, you didn't have time to put on makeup. To help, Google is rolling out AI-powered makeup looks in Google Meet. According to a blog post, Google's new feature offers 12 makeup looks, ranging from subtle touchups to more expressive looks.
We showed the Multiview magic of our Player to the industry in 2024: This year, we're showing that we're about much more than Multiview," explains Rob Koenen, Tiledmedia Co-founder and Chief Business Officer. "We're showing how our Player's much wider capabilities set can infuse a streaming operation with technical agility, efficiency and resilience, create new revenue opportunities, and loyalty-generating user experiences. We are so excited, and we look forward to welcoming IBC 2025 visitors to our first-ever solo stand," Koenen says.
Air transport industry technology provider Sita has launched a high-speed fibre-optic service that delivers "ultra-reliable", scalable and secure connectivity that could soon bypass copper cables in complex airport environments. The firm believes that to date, bandwidth limitations, high latency and costly maintenance have meant platforms deployed at airports have sometimes fallen short. Technologically, the Sita passive optical network (PON)-enabled fibre infrastructure, optical network terminals and centralised network will collectively deliver "uninterrupted", high-bandwidth connectivity across crowded airports.
Astound invested $4.6 million to complete approximately 55 miles of new fiber infrastructure throughout Newport. Along with all homes in the community, the area's 'anchor institutions,' such as government buildings, schools, fire houses, libraries, and clinics, can also access the network. In addition, Astound has included more than 300 South Beach area homes in the fiber build, upgrading the hybrid fiber-coaxial (HFC) that was previously in-place. Astound engineered the network with a combination of above- and below-ground construction.
Intel reports that the integrated graphics and central processing components in Panther Lake deliver up to 50% faster performance compared with the company's previous Lunar Lake processors. Lunar Lake was primarily manufactured by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Intel's 18A process introduces a new transistor design alongside a more efficient method for delivering energy to the chip. Panther Lake utilizes a system-on-chip architecture, combining multiple components-including graphics and central processing units-on a single circuit.
I'm Not a Robot is a fun spin on the popular CAPTCHA game synonymous with using the internet. Except it's not just one game, but 48 increasingly absurd puzzles designed to help you prove you have a soul-and the patience to parallel park a Waymo using your arrow keys. The game begins as you'd expect. Level 1 asks you to check a box to prove you're not a robot. Level 3 prompts you to decipher text wiggling on the screen.
A lot of cheap dev boards and Qualcomm-flavored software tools will certainly give the company access to entire sectors previously excluded. Qualcomm hitherto only talked to big old companies who'd sign big old contracts with big old secrets. Now Qualcomm silicon and software can get into the hands of individuals, educators and inventive start-ups. That's where the future comes from, especially where the better sort of AI fertilizes the better sort of robotics.
It's important to remember that two decades ago, text messages cost 10 cents. Each. Back when we measured our cell phone plans in minutes, and when even 3G connections felt fast, text messages were a huge business for wireless carriers and a huge expense for anyone whose kids learned to T9-type just a little too quickly. Then BlackBerry, nearing the peak of its powers, did something remarkable: it cut the carriers out entirely.
Qualcomm ( NASDAQ:QCOM) stands out as one of the lesser-appreciated semiconductor names as the AI revolution continues to play out, while other emerging tech trends also start to gain traction among growth and momentum-focused investors. Indeed, the AI race and the road towards AGI (or artificial general intelligence) seems to be on, with many hyperscalers signing deals or taking stakes in the great OpenAI, the firm that kicked off the AI boom when it unleashed ChatGPT to the world.
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