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The company wants to give decommissioned nuclear reactors from the US Navy a second life as an energy source for large-scale AI infrastructure. As reported by SiliconANGLE , the plan comes from HGP Intelligent Energy, which is seeking financial support from the US Department of Energy through a loan guarantee. With this support, the company wants to launch a project aimed at providing continuous, sustainable power to data centers running heavy AI workloads.

It may have been a wilder ride for the semiconductor stocks and the broader AI trade in 2025. But for the many brave investors who stayed the course, it's been a rewarding year, with the VanEck Semiconductor ETF ( NASDAQ:SMH), my favorite "thermometer" to gauge the heat of the semiconductor stocks, gaining close to 50% on the year. Undoubtedly, with Dr. Michael Burry of The Big Short fame, likely sticking with his bearish bets (and views) of AI for the new year,

Clearly, AI will play a larger role in Linux and open source next year, but that's true of pretty much all technology. However, while AI will be used to help develop the Linux kernel, no one is predicting, a la Windows, that AI will be used to rewrite the entire codebase by 2030. That said, open source will remain at the heart of AI.

At the time, Bezos had interviewed virtually every one of Amazon's circa 200 employees; Hart was one of the few the tech entrepreneur hadn't personally appointed. Over the next 23 years at the online giant, Hart reported directly to Bezos as technical advisor to the CEO, and to Amazon's current CEO, Andy Jassy.The lessons Hart learned at one of the world's most famous businesses have stayed with him to this day, where he leads $1.35 billion online learning giant, Coursera.

For the chronically online, 2025 was the year of "brain rot", AI slop, and " rage bait," a time of consuming Labubu matcha Dubai chocolate to the sound of "nothing beats a Jet2 holiday" and "six-seven," on repeat, as a form of torture. Here, ​​we take a look back at the biggest internet-culture moments that brought us all together even as the country is more divided than ever.

Currently in preview, the solution combines AWS Interconnect - Multicloud with Google Cloud's Cross-Cloud Interconnect and defines an open interoperability specification that other cloud providers can also adopt. Designed to avoid managing circuits, routers, and routing configurations, the new option is intended to simplify the deployment of secure multicloud workloads, enabling customers to establish private, high-speed connectivity between Google Cloud and AWS.

Concluding a strong year for the Elon Musk-led satellite operator, recently authorised Starlink global reseller Sama X has secured licensing from Jordan's Telecommunications Regulatory Commission (TRC) to resell the Space X firm's satellite internet services across the Kingdom, in a bid to simplify access to high-speed internet. Launched earlier in 2025 and backed by Kuwaiti conglomerate Alghanim, the reseller's stated mission is to bring "innovative" satellite connectivity solutions to businesses "right where they are" across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).

Tech visionary, Kremlin dissident, FSB agent, free speech absolutist, health guru. These are just some of the labels admirers and critics have attached to Pavel Durov over the past decade. The Russian-born tech entrepreneur founded Russia's version of Facebook before going on to create the messaging app Telegram, launch a cryptocurrency ecosystem and amass a multibillion-dollar fortune, all while clashing repeatedly with authorities in Russia and beyond.

This summer, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg moved heaven and earth to recharge his company's lagging AI division, spending billions of dollars to poach top talent across the industry. But it sounds like he's already falling out with the man he hired to spearhead Meta's renewed AI efforts, Alexandr Wang. According to new reporting from the Financial Times, things are tense between the duo.

Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, Nvidia, Meta, and Tesla, known as the Magnificent Seven, now have a combined market value of over $20 trillion, making them among the most powerful companies in history. Who is handling their financial records? Another numerically-termed group of powerhouses. The Big Four professional services firms - PwC, Deloitte, EY, and KPMG - are the industry-leading consulting and accounting firms that audit the Magnificent Seven.

The company told staff in a December newsletter that employees eligible for PERM would hear from its outside lawyers in Q1, according to a copy of the memo seen by Business Insider. PERM allows employees to move from working on a visa to securing a green card. Tech companies commonly use it to transition staff from H-1 B status to a green card, which allows them to live and work permanently in the US.

In late 2025, Mark Karpelès, ex CEO of Mt. Gox, lives a quieter life in Japan, building a VPN and an AI automation platform. As Chief Protocol Officer at vp.net-a VPN that uses Intel's SGX technology to let users verify exactly what code runs on servers-he works alongside Roger Ver and Andrew Lee, the founder of Private Internet Access. "It's the only VPN that you can trust basically. You don't need to trust it, actually, you can verify".

The NCMEC's CyberTipline is a Congressionally authorized clearinghouse for reporting child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and other forms of child exploitation. Companies are required by law to report apparent child exploitation to the CyberTipline. When a company sends a report, NCMEC reviews it and then forwards it to the appropriate law enforcement agency for investigation. Statistics related to NCMEC reports can be nuanced.

Uber outright rejects applicants convicted of murder, sexual assault, kidnapping and terrorism. However, in 22 states, the Times found Uber can approve applicants convicted of many other offenses including child abuse, assault and stalking, if the convictions are at least seven years old. The extensive investigation also found that in 35 states, these checks are based largely on where someone has lived in those seven years, meaning convictions from other locations could be missed.

The goal, of course, is to avoid the abuses that can happen in monopolies and with the goal of protecting consumer choice and protecting innovation. What happened was that iRobot and Amazon came together for the expressed purpose of creating more innovation, more consumer choice, at a time when iRobot's trajectory was honestly different from where it was several years earlier.

"One day I was sent to a school to carry out some work on the head teacher's laptop, which wasn't connecting to the network," he told On Call. When Mike arrived, he plugged in an Ethernet cable and quickly realized the network port in the head teacher's office wasn't live. "He walked in as I was about to leave, and insisted that the point was indeed live, which he proceeded to demonstrate by showing that he could check for new email," Mike told On Call.

As 2025 comes to an end, it seems fitting to look at how Microsoft's Azure hyperscale cloud is planning to address the second half of the decade. As has become traditional, Azure CTO Mark Russinovich gave his usual look at that future in his presentations at Ignite, this time split into two separate talks on infrastructure and software. The first presentation looked at how the underlying infrastructure of Azure is developing and how the software you use is adapting to use the new hardware.