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A Japanese certificate authority force-revoked security certificates for an estimated 15,000–20,000 Russian domains starting June 13, after new rules made sanctions screening mandatory for the companies that issue browser padlocks.
Lawrence Livermore's Project ARMOR — a robotics and AI platform for materials research — turns the bench into a 24/7 loop. The question is whether the loop can stay closed.
Fort Irwin's NOMAD ground-robot test is the cleanest read yet on military ground autonomy: the dangerous part of the supply run goes to a machine, and the work around it lands back on a person.
Cheaper per-token pricing from NVIDIA, AMD, and AWS can't offset how many tokens AI agents burn through per business task.
The operator behind the wires for 67 million people in 13 states is asking the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to approve up to $20 billion for pre-2027 data centers, and to require anything built after 2027 to bring its own power or be cut
Havoc's collaborative-autonomy software will be integrated into Blue Ops' Variant 7 uncrewed surface vessel, with live test fleets planned in Rhode Island and Florida.
An engineer raised the quantization precision on the small speculative drafter (the model that proposes tokens for the larger model to verify) to make it the individually best choice on its own, and throughput fell from 50 to 37 tokens a second.
Gartner says per-workflow cost for AI agents, systems that act on tools rather than just chat, will more than quintuple by 2028, because each task absorbs many times more tokens — the small text chunks models price per call — than a chatbot does.
Uber and Zipline will start drone deliveries for Uber Eats later this year, with a stated goal of 1 million daily flights by end of 2029 — but DoorDash and Wing are already flying in Atlanta, giving the target a competitor problem.
The in-cell AI formula was a Microsoft 365 Insider / Frontier early-access preview that never reached general availability; the Copilot side pane, Copilot agents, and the broader Microsoft 365 Copilot subscription remain available.
Microsoft Azure is the enterprise cloud platform that large companies rent. Four outlets trace the alleged haul to compromised customer credentials, not a flaw in Microsoft itself.
Speko's pitch: voice AI is fragmented the way text models are, and the right product is no longer a model — it is the layer that picks the model on every call.