Alibaba’s stock climbed as much as 4.8% in Hong Kong, its biggest gain since November 24. The rally follows reports that China plans to approve imports of Nvidia’s H200 AI chips as soon as this quarter, with Alibaba privately expressing interest in over 200,000 units.
Microsoft Edge is doubling down on its efforts to pull users away from Google Chrome. The browser now surfaces its import tool in several key settings areas, not just during initial setup.
Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, recently detailed its use of AI to modernize its legacy error tracker. The experiment produced some code that was, in their own words, “plain wrong.” This highlights the double-edged sword of AI-assisted development.
New research reveals superionic water, the hot conductive ice inside planets like Neptune, doesn’t follow normal rules. Under extreme pressure, multiple atomic packing structures can coexist, which may finally explain the planets’ chaotic magnetic fields.
Archaeologists have uncovered a deep sequence of human occupation in a Sulawesi cave, with evidence stretching back over a million years. The findings suggest a dramatic cultural shift around 40,000 years ago, possibly marking when our species arrived and replaced an earlier hominin population.
At CES, Digital Storm showed off two new high-end PC lines. The slim Vector and massive Aventum 5 can both be configured with NVIDIA’s new professional-grade RTX 6000 Pro Blackwell graphics.
Google is rolling out deeper Gemini AI integration for Gmail’s over 3 billion users. The new features focus on hyper-personalized email writing and summarization, with 85% of users saying tailored AI is most helpful.
Google announced a new AI Inbox tab for Gmail that reads your messages and suggests action items. The company is also making several Gemini AI features free for all users. This follows a rocky start for its earlier AI tools in Gmail.
According to HotHardware, Intel’s upcoming Panther Lake processors with the Arc B390 integrated GPU are posting gaming performance that rivals older discrete graphics cards. In tests, it nearly matched a mobile GeForce RTX 3060 in *Shadow of the Tomb Raider* and came close to a Radeon RX 6800S in ot
Micron has announced a new line of affordable PCIe 5 SSDs aimed at OEMs building budget gaming systems. The DRAM-less 3610 drives promise speeds up to 11,000MB/s and will come in 1TB to 4TB capacities. They mark the first consumer-adjacent drives since the Crucial brand was shuttered.
