E-Cigarettes Can Help You Quit Smoking Says New Study

E-cigarettes containing nicotine can help people quit smoking according to a new study and may be more helpful for some smokers than other nicotine products like patches.

How 24/7 Renewables Are Ending Fossil Fuel Reliability

IRENA analysis shows solar and wind paired with storage now deliver 24/7 power cheaper than coal and gas. As battery costs drop, renewables are replacing fossil fuels.

Lambda wins a cloud deal with Hudson River Trading to supply access to NVIDIA chips
Lambda wins a cloud deal with Hudson River Trading to supply access to NVIDIA chips

The IPO-bound GPU-cloud start-up adds one of the largest US quantitative trading firms to a customer list that already includes Microsoft and NVIDIA itself. Lambda has signed a cloud-infrastructure deal with Hudson River Trading, one of the largest US …

China Has Outspent The U.S. On Research For The First Time. 3,375 American Scientists Are Telling Congress To Pay Attention

China outspent the U.S. on R&D for the first time in 2024. 3,375 scientists, including 48 Nobel laureates, just filed formal testimony with the Senate.

Samsung has a tentative deal with workers to avoid a memory chip strike
Samsung has a tentative deal with workers to avoid a memory chip strike

More than 47,000 Samsung Electronics workers were gearing up for an 18-day strike after bonus payment negotiations between the company and its union collapsed. The strike was set to start on Thursday at Samsung’s domestic chipmaking plants, raising concerns around the already constrained production of memory chips amid the ongoing shortage. Later on Wednesday, both […]

People Are Really Angry At AI Content Even If It Turns Out That AI Didn’t Produce It And The Content Was Actually Human Made

People are angry about AI. This spills over into believing they can discern AI content versus human content. Their anger deludes them. An AI Insider analysis and scoop.

When Is The Next UFC? Date, Start Times, Full Schedule, Card Ratings

The next UFC event is Song vs. Figueiredo on May 30. Here’s the full schedule through UFC 329: dates, start times, full cards and star ratings for each event.

Analog Devices snaps up Empower Semiconductor for $1.5bn to tackle AI’s power problem
Analog Devices snaps up Empower Semiconductor for $1.5bn to tackle AI’s power problem

Analog Devices has agreed to buy Empower Semiconductor for $1.5 billion in cash, placing a major bet that the insatiable energy demands of AI data centres will keep chipmakers scrambling for better power-delivery technology. The deal, announced on Mond…

SpaceX plans to buy Cursor for $60 billion once its record IPO wraps
SpaceX plans to buy Cursor for $60 billion once its record IPO wraps

SpaceX expects to complete its $60 billion acquisition of AI coding startup Cursor roughly 30 days after it begins trading publicly, according to Bloomberg, a timeline that would place the deal in July if the company’s blockbuster IPO proceeds on sched…

H2O.ai launches tabH2O, a foundation model that makes predictions from tabular data without any training
H2O.ai launches tabH2O, a foundation model that makes predictions from tabular data without any training

H2O.ai has unveiled tabH2O, a foundation model purpose-built for tabular data that can generate high-accuracy predictions from structured datasets using a single API call, with no model training required. The company announced the product at Dell Techn…