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3 best practices for cloud security monitoring

As powerful as the cloud may be, it’s not magic. If you have a problem before you transition to the cloud, it won’t… just go away once you make the switch. Cloud... Read more »

How to conduct proper AWS vulnerability scanning in 3 steps

AWS provides a set of security controls to protect its own infrastructure, but it’s important to be aware that… the security of the individual servers is the responsibility of the client —... Read more »

Enhancing agent experience with AI contact centers

Thank you for joining us on “The cloud hub: From cloud chaos to clarity.” Contact centers hold significant value for businesses, but they often have to deal with a disengaged workforce and... Read more »

Crypto is weathering a bitter storm. Some still hold on for dear life.

Algorithmic stablecoins, however, are different. They are a DeFi experiment that aren’t pegged to fiat money and don’t hold collateral assets to stabilize their value. Instead, they are usually supported by a... Read more »

The backlash about data centers might really just be about electricity

Driving through it is surreal. Concrete monolithic buildings loom along every major road, with names like Skybox and CloudHQ. It’s accepted wisdom in Big Tech that the war against data centers must... Read more »

Nancy Pelosi’s replacement is ready to regulate AI

“It’s very concerning,” Wiener said, citing the report as evidence that we are quickly running out of time to regulate AI. “It was my hope that Congress would take decisive action before... Read more »

The Download: empty AI climate claims, and an Nvidia investigation

The must-reads I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 Nvidia is investigating its own bossJensen Huang has admitted to intimacy with a suspected Chinese spy.... Read more »

Innovating with AI in the special chemicals industry

Scientists, data scientists, and IT teams approach problems from different perspectives, prioritizing experimental validity, model performance, and platform security and scalability, respectively. By bringing these groups together in “fusion teams,” Lubrizol aligns... Read more »

The climate case for AI has not been made

In 2024, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman declared that AI would unleash “astounding triumphs,” including “fixing the climate.” The year before, in a 2023 op-ed, the head of sustainability at Google and her... Read more »

The Download: a humanoid cleans house and Samsung builds for the AI boom

When I saw an X post about a new humanoid-robot cleaning service in San Francisco, I immediately signed up for the waitlist. I wanted my apartment to feel like The Jetsons, even... Read more »

I watched a humanoid robot clean my apartment. It felt like a taste of the future.

The cleaning robot that came to my building last month was already a bit of a spectacle. It arrived in a blue minivan, out of which it was helped by Weinzierl and... Read more »

The Download: Texas’s fragile AI boom and energy policy shifts

10 A NASA telescope has plunged to earth after 22 years in spaceIts bristles produce charges that kill bacteria. (NBC News) Quote of the day “The revolt against data centers was one... Read more »

A new bill could change how the US builds energy infrastructure 

A few early analyses have tried to quantify just what BAAJA would mean for emissions in the US. One, from the think tank Rhodium Group, found that in the best-case scenario, the... Read more »

Texas was the new epicenter of the AI data center buildout. That might be kaput.

Even before the polls closed, insiders in the data center industry noticed that the times were changing. At the industry’s DCD conference in Ashburn, Virginia, on Tuesday, panelists lamented that Texas had... Read more »