Google backs virtual power plants to free data center capacity
A new Google-funded grid project tests whether customers will accept payoffs to cut usage so data centers can keep growing.
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A new Google-funded grid project tests whether customers will accept payoffs to cut usage so data centers can keep growing.

Aura’s move to Google’s new Ambient API keeps shared photo frames auto-updating, preserving a sticky feature that matters for families and the hardware business behind them.

The smarter move for Oura is not just making the ring smaller - it's proving premium hardware can still justify premium pricing in a crowded wearable market.

Rose Wang says Bluesky does not want to be a public square, a signal that the company may be repositioning its product, moderation model, and growth playbook around more contained communities.

A 32-inch all-in-one from Loop blurs the line between monitor and tower, and that changes what upgradeable desktop hardware can look like.

The London AI video company is tightening a screen-at-creation system that could shape how fast AI-generated media gets governed, approved, and shipped.

India, Brazil, the UAE, and Africa are building local AI stacks to work around scarce compute, changing where infrastructure power sits.

Amazon is betting warehouse automation gets easier to scale when workers can talk to robots like teammates, not programmers.

Google DeepMind's CEO says artificial general intelligence may be only a few years away, forcing leaders to prepare for a possible post-scarcity era now.

Amazon is giving its Proteus warehouse robot language skills, a move that could make human-robot handoffs faster while deepening automation pressure on warehouse labor.
The tax collector is keeping its biggest software bets in motion, but shifting the CRM timetable by three months while handing Capgemini a major front-end services contract.

Toronto researchers showed a small open-weight model could autonomously find, exploit, and spread across a 33-host test network, even adapting to newly disclosed flaws at runtime.