FCC weighs cutting subsidy that lowers school internet bills

These may be the last days of Amazon’s Mechanical Turk. An announcement on the Mechanical Turk website says that on July 30, 2026, the crowdsourcing service will close to new customers. Amazon Web Services says the decision was made after “careful consideration,” adding, “Existing customers can continue to use the service as normal. AWS continues…

Controversy due to AI data center buildouts generally centers around their massive power usage and draining of local water reserves, but noise is a third torment to nearby residents, and one that is arguably much harder to correct. Residents of Sturtevant, slightly south of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, filed a class-action lawsuit against Microsoft due to the…

For nearly a decade, enterprise IT leaders have followed a cloud-focused approach, leaning on massive public cloud infrastructure to power their workloads. However, as the tech industry matures, the problems with cloud infrastructure not only become more apparent but also more expensive. As a result, IT leaders are looking beyond these traditional set-ups for more…

GPT-5.6 Sol just joined the Pareto frontier on open source benchmark Senior SWE-bench, and there's a clear trend towards efficiency. Quick TL:DR GPT-5.6 Sol: Opus 4.8 perf @ 40% of the cost Grok 4.5: GPT-5.5 perf @ 25% of the cost Grok 4.5 climbed to #2 on senior-level bug solving but for just ~$1 /…

Shares of XPeng (XPEV) jumped 1.5% on Friday after the company announced that it had begun employee testing of its robotaxi service in Guangzhou. Internal Testing Underway The Chinese electric vehicle maker started closed testing of its robotaxi platform just eight months after unveiling the project at its 2025 AI Day. Chairman and CEO He…

Adrienne Murray meets the team using technology to preserve a historic warship in Sweden.