The US installed 9.7 GWh of new battery storage in Q1 2026—a 32% year-over-year jump and the highest first quarter ever recorded—as data center expansion and global gas disruptions outweigh federal permitting headwinds.
JetBrains unveiled an official Kotlin extension for VS Code in alpha, previewed Kotlin 2.4-RC feature stabilizations, and published research showing Kotlin development cycles are 15–20% shorter than Java.
Atezolizumab becomes the first therapy cleared for use only in patients whose blood tests reveal molecular residual disease after bladder removal surgery.
VS Code 1.121, released May 20, adds remote agent sessions over SSH and dev tunnels, native Mermaid diagram rendering, HTML file preview, and a new Agent Host Protocol for multi-client agent coordination.
Tim Abbott is donating Kandra Labs to a newly created Zulip Foundation and joining Anthropic, adopting a Mozilla-style nonprofit governance model for the open-source team chat project.
Democratic senators led by Markey and Merkley warn a $7.5M DHS smart glasses proposal would let ICE agents covertly identify people in public using facial recognition.
Temporal unveils Serverless Workers for AWS Lambda at Replay 2026, letting teams run durable workflows on pay-per-invocation compute with no cluster management.
The Esports World Cup will leave Saudi Arabia for the first time, relocating to Paris from July 6 to August 23 with its $75 million prize pool intact.
Google's Threat Intelligence Group says a cybercrime group built a zero-day exploit using AI, marking the first confirmed case of adversaries weaponizing an LLM to discover and exploit a previously unknown vulnerability.
Mercury Research data show AMD's EPYC processors claimed a record 46.2 percent of x86 server CPU revenue in Q1 2026, as AMD's data center segment hit $5.8 billion and overtook Intel's comparable unit.
A new national coalition of robotics and AI companies launched at the SCSP AI+ Expo, organized at the request of the White House and Congress to address the US manufacturing competitiveness gap.
Joby flew JFK-to-Manhattan routes in seven minutes during an April 27–May 1 New York campaign, days before Wisk flew its second Gen 6 autonomous prototype.