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I built an unofficial CLI and MCP server for Lambda cloud GPU instances. The main idea: your AI agents can now spin up and manage Lambda GPUs for you. The MCP server exposes tools to find, launch, and...
Google Gemini hopes to help students study for the SAT with AI. Alex Brandon/AP Google released new SAT practice exams in Gemini, with questions reviewed by the Princeton Review. It's yet another AI e...
AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton warned that rapid advances could upend jobs, power, and humanity itself. JORGE UZON/AFP via Getty Images Geoffrey Hinton said he's very sad that the AI he helped create has ...
Due to increased demand for hardware from AI data centers, 2026 was already going to suck for anyone looking to upgrade or build a gaming PC. Now it looks like things are getting even worse, as the RT...
Sam Altman says OpenAI's API business pulled in more than $1 billion in annual recurring revenue in the past month. Kyle Grillot/Bloomberg—Getty Images/Reuters OpenAI has made more than $1 billi...
Companies rushing to adopt the same AI tools risk losing their competitive edge, independence, and long-term resilience, a think tank CEO says. APHOTOGRAFIA/Getty Images The CEO of a digital economy t...
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Markus Schreiber/AP Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang pushed back on criticism of the chipmaker's investment structures. Huang said its latest investment in CoreWeave was not a circular ...
Developer Embark Studios says Arc Raiders update 1.12.0 patched some infamous out-of-bounds exploits – but players say "rats" still live in the walls of Stella Montis. Community lead Ossen took to the...
Raspberry Pi is launching a new add-on board capable of running generative AI models locally on the Raspberry Pi 5. Announced on Thursday , the $130 AI HAT+ 2 is an upgraded - and more expensive - ver...
Milrem Robotics is among the companies making its weapons so they can be upgraded as easily as possible. Christophe Morin/IP3/Getty Images The battlefield in Ukraine is changing constantly, and weapon...
Tyler Butterworth (left) and John Howell (right) have built a following on social media as military influencers. Jake Gabbard / Business Insider Army soldiers Tyler Butterworth and John Howell use soc...
If you were to purchase a standalone Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card today, you'd be paying $3,000 or more. Why not just get a complete RTX 5090 prebuilt gaming PC for a similar price? HP is cur...
If you're a Windows user who's looking for a PC version of the Apple Mac Mini, then this deal might be right up your alley. Amazon is currently offering Amazon Prime members the Kamrui Hyper H1 AMD Ry...
On my family's recent visit to Disney, we used our phones more than I expected. Chris Mott There's no way to properly visit Disneyland or Disney World without a smartphone anymore. Disney's app can be...
Wolfbox "Mega Flow" series electric air dusters feature good build quality and sustained, powerful cfm output at an affordable price. For a limited time, the most popular model - the Wolfbox Mega Flow...
Elon Musk (L) and Sam Altman Getty/BI composite A trial date has been set in Elon Musk's fraud case against Sam Altman. The case is set to go before an Oakland federal jury in April and is expected to...
The Alienware Area-51 is Dell's highest-end gaming laptop and the only model that can be equipped with the super powerful GeForce RTX 5090 mobile GPU. Prices have gone way up for the new year, but for...
Dell Outlet just restocked its inventory of refurbished Alienware Aurora R16 RTX 5070 Ti gaming PCs. Currently you can get one for just $1575 with free delivery. Dell Outlet systems have the same 1 ye...
Economists and technologists say AI hype obscures displacement, infrastructure costs, and uneven gains....