Nvidia burns $4B to light up American photonics manufacturing Summary Nvidia has invested $2 billion each in Coherent and Lumentum, accompanied by non‑exclusive multibillion‑dollar purchase commitments, to secure supply of…
AI agents are ‘aeroplanes for the mind’: five ways to ensure that scientists are responsible pilots Article Date: 02 March 2026 Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00665-y Article Image: https://media.nature.com/w767/magazine-assets/d41586-026-00665-y/d41586-026-00665-y_52124288.jpg Summary Dashun Wang…
The Data Centers Have Arrived at the Edge of the Arctic Circle Summary As demand for massive AI compute soars, data-centre developers are racing into the Nordics — even up…
Open source devs consider making hogs pay for every Git pull Summary The Register reports that maintainers of major open source package registries (notably Maven Central) are confronting massive, concentrated…
PCs and phones to get more boring and expensive in 2026 thanks to memory drought Summary Research firms IDC and Gartner warn that an AI-driven surge in demand for DRAM…
EU lawmakers propose that youth under 16 be barred from social media without parental consent Summary European Parliament members approved an opinion calling for youth under 16 to be barred…
Oak Ridge spawns institute to curb AI datacenter power surge Summary Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has launched the Next Generation Data Centers Institute (NGDCI) to tackle the looming electricity…
50 GW of datacenter demand queues up for UK grid access Summary Ofgem and NESO data show roughly 140 datacentre projects in the UK power-connection queue that together account for…
Jack Dorsey’s fintech outfit Block announces 40% layoffs, blames AI, gets 23% stock bump Summary Block, the payments and crypto company co-founded by Jack Dorsey, is cutting roughly 40% of…
ServiceNow boasts its AI bot is resolving 90% of its own help desk tickets Summary ServiceNow says its Autonomous Workforce AI agent is handling over 90% of targeted Level 1…
