NVIDIA released the Omniverse DSX Blueprint at GTC 2026, a framework for building physically accurate digital twins of AI factories that unifies power, cooling, and network simulation.
New York startup Augmented Intelligence Inc. begins general availability of Apollo-1, a foundation model that fuses neural language generation with symbolic reasoning to deliver deterministic, policy-compliant conversational agents already deployed at Fortune 500 companies.
Executive Order N-5-26 requires AI vendors seeking California state contracts to certify safeguards against illegal content, bias, and civil rights violations within 120 days.
A three-part Netflix Tech Blog series and subsequent InfoQ coverage reveal how the streaming company built a custom graph platform atop Apache Cassandra and EVCache, bypassing traditional graph databases to serve social graphs, service topology, and real-time distributed graphs at internet scale.
A Conservation Letters study finds that current biodiversity indicators cannot detect changes in insect populations, calling for AI-powered camera traps, weather radar, and automated identification systems to track whether 2030 conservation targets are protecting the planet's most numerous animals.
Berkeley-based Deep Isolation has confirmed that high-level waste from spent fuel electrorefining is compatible with deep borehole disposal, completing a multi-year ARPA-E ONWARDS project led by Oklo that could reshape the back end of the advanced reactor fuel cycle.
A DOJ final rule requires state and local governments serving 50,000-plus residents to make all digital services WCAG 2.1 AA compliant by April 24, 2026.
The open-source runtime executes Node.js v24 applications inside a WASIX sandbox without Docker, passing 99 percent of the Node.js test suite while trading 5 to 30 percent of native performance for process-level isolation.
A federal judge in Manhattan has ordered OpenAI to hand over more than 100 million de-identified ChatGPT conversation logs to copyright plaintiffs, marking the most aggressive discovery ruling yet in the sprawling litigation over AI training on copyrighted material.
The FDA has cleared Butterfly Network's Gestational Age Tool, the first blind-sweep ultrasound AI authorized for U.S. marketing, letting any healthcare worker estimate fetal age in under two minutes.
Test pilot Paul Stone flew Vertical Aerospace's VX4 prototype through a vertical takeoff-to-wingborne flight transition at Cotswold Airport on April 2, marking a first for a piloted, full-scale eVTOL under UK Civil Aviation Authority oversight.
Water treatment giant Ecolab is buying CoolIT Systems from KKR in an all-cash deal that values the Calgary-based liquid cooling company at roughly 18 times its price just three years ago, reflecting the explosive demand for direct-to-chip cooling in AI data centers.