The biggest innovation over the last year is that inference-time scaling techniques that have been pioneered in natural language models have now come to visual language models,” said Eric Heim, chief ...

Rob Williams knows how to pitch Jeff Bezos: You write a press release as if your product has already been built. Bezos reads it and gives a thumbs up or down. Williams went through this process a lot ...

The generative AI boom has driven the cost of memory into the stratosphere, and Google is a key part of that trend. So it’s only fitting that Google should offer some less RAM-hungry local AI models.

A sprawling, 40,000-acre data center planned for northern Utah has stirred up controversy across the state over the past month, partly because of the pollution it’s expected to contribute to a region ...

Microsoft today confirmed that customers will be able to run cloud workloads from its Saudi Arabia East datacenter region from Q4 2026, marking a major milestone in the company’s long-term investment ...

The sub-three-hour marathon is one of running’s most coveted milestones. It means averaging 6:52 per mile for 26.2 miles, a pace that demands not just fitness but—for many runners—a near-perfect ...

If Google’s AI researchers had a sense of humor, they would have called TurboQuant, the new, ultra-efficient AI memory compression algorithm announced Tuesday, “Pied Piper” — or, at least that’s what ...

John Steinbach was shocked to receive a $281 electricity bill in January 2026—a huge spike from the roughly $100 he’d paid the previous month. “It’s just so far beyond any bill that I’ve ever had,” he ...

Cross Plains votes to deactivate police department amid state compliance issues Cross Plains no longer has an active city police department after city leaders voted Thursday night to deactivate the ...

Although fans of The Beatles will have to wait until 2028 to take in their lives through the lens of Sam Mendes' Four-Film Cinematic Event, one member of the legendary English rock group is about to ...

Jeramie Bizzle is a web producer for CBS Chicago. Jeramie began working with CBS Chicago as an intern in 2017 and returned as a full-time Web Producer in 2021. He has previously written for the Austin ...

Electricity prices jumped 6.9% in 2025 year over year, more than double the headline inflation rate of 2.9%, according to Goldman Sachs. Prices will continue to rise through the end of the decade as ...