Microsoft has retired its Mesh 3D collaboration platform as it continues to scale back its metaverse ambitions in the workplace.  The company unveiled Mesh during the Covid-19 pandemic amid widespread interest in the potential of virtual reality and immersive environments for workplace collaboration. Mesh was available as a Unity-based platform for creating 3D environments and as an

Chip stacking strategy is emerging as China’s innovative response to US semiconductor restrictions, but can this approach truly close the performance gap with Nvidia’s advanced GPUs? As Washington tightens export controls on cutting-edge chipmaking technology, Chinese researchers are proposing a bold workaround: stack older, domestically-producible chips together to match the performance of chips they can

As AI adoption has continued to surge over the last couple of months, one thing has become abundantly clear, i.e. there isn’t enough computational horsepower to go around (something that has become painfully obvious as cloud providers have accrued months-long waitlists for high-end GPU instances). And, unlike the brief crypto-mining GPU craze from just a

For years, cybersecurity experts debated when – not if – artificial intelligence would cross the threshold from advisor to autonomous attacker. That theoretical milestone has arrived. Anthropic’s recent investigation into a Chinese state-sponsored operation has documented the first case of AI-orchestrated cyber attacks executing at scale with minimal human oversight, altering what enterprises must

AI is moving deeper into the physical world, and EY is laying out a more structured way for companies to work with robots, drones, and other smart devices. The organisation is introducing a physical AI platform built with NVIDIA tools, opening a new EY.ai Lab in Georgia, and adding new leadership to guide its work

The cybersecurity training provider Hack The Box (HTB) has launched the HTB AI Range, designed to let organisations test autonomous AI security agents under realistic conditions, albeit with oversight from human cybersecurity professionals. Its goal is to help users assess how well AI, and mixed human–AI teams might defend infrastructure. Vulnerabilities in AI models add

Manufacturing executives are wagering nearly half their modernisation budgets on AI, betting these systems will boost profit within two years. This aggressive capital allocation marks a definitive pivot. AI is now seen as the primary engine for financial performance. According to the Future-Ready Manufacturing Study 2025 by Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) and AWS, 88 percent

There’s a race in China among several companies vying to become the next to launch and land an orbital-class rocket, and the starting gun could go off as soon as tonight. LandSpace, one of several maturing Chinese rocket startups, is about to launch the first flight of its medium-lift Zhuque-3 rocket. Liftoff could happen around

The top drug regulator at the Food and Drug Administration, Richard Pazdur, has decided to retire from the agency just three weeks after taking the leading position, according to multiple media outlets. Pazdur, an oncologist who has worked at the FDA since 1999, was seen as a stabilizing force for an agency that has been

It’s an incredible time to be a guitarist who doesn’t want to own a bunch of $2,000 amps and an expensive pedalboard of gear. Amp and pedal simulators, which have been around for decades, have in the last few years finally come into their own as nearly indistinguishable sonic replacements. Even John Mayer is now