The billion-dollar infrastructure deals powering the AI boom It takes a lot of computing power to run an AI product — and as the tech industry races to tap the power of AI models, there’s a parallel race underway to build the infrastructure that will power them. On a recent earnings call, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang estimated that between $3 trillion and $4 trillion will be spent on AI...

Smartphone Owners Aren't Convinced to Upgrade for Foldable Designs and AI Integrations, CNET FindsFlip phones are making a comeback, but most US adults aren't convinced enough to upgrade. Smartphone brands are trying new phone concepts, like flip and foldable phones, to give us a bigger screen when we want it, while still maintaining the same functionality as the smartphones...

Is xAI a neocloud now? On Wednesday, xAI and Anthropic announced a surprise partnership that has the Claude-maker buying out “all of the compute capacity at [xAI’s] Colossus 1 data center,” roughly 300MW that allowed Anthropic to immediately raise its usage limits. It’s a huge deal for xAI, likely worth billions of dollars. More importantly, it immediately monetized one of the company’s most...

Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for March 5, #528Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles.Today's Connections: Sports Edition offers some tricky red herrings. Arsenal is a famous...

Most organizations still operate on a hidden constraint: human cognitive bandwidth. Decisions wait in inboxes. Approvals stall workflows. Analysis lags behind reality. Even in highly digitized enterprises, human review remains the slowest layer of execution. In 2026, that bottleneck is being systematically removed. Cognitive automation is emerging as the new operating layer of the enterprise....