Author: Andry

Legacy modernization requires understanding how an application’s code, data and business rules fit together before rebuilding it. BotMan AI uses an AI-powered migration pipeline that maps an application’s dependencies, business logic and data models in a knowledge graph. That context helps agents interpret the system they are rebuilding, according to Alejandro D’Andrea (pictured), founder and chief technology officer of BotMan. “Intelligence is not the problem anymore,” he said. “The problem is context. You have to explain to the agent everything it needs to understand [how] to do a particular task. What if you didn’t have to explain that? What if…

There’s something oddly thrilling (and a little terrifying) about steering a 6,000-pound trailer around a parking lot with nothing more than touchscreen controls on an iPad. It’s also the perfect encapsulation of what makes the Pebble Flow electric trailer unlike any other RV out there. With integrated solar panels, electric motors and automated hitching, the tech-forward trailer is meant to simplify many of the complexities and annoyances that often come with RV ownership. That’s Pebble’s promise, anyway. I’ve been intrigued by the Pebble Flow since my colleagues first saw it on the CES showfloor in 2024. The futuristic-looking RV has…

Citroën has unveiled a concept electric version of its classic 2CV, aiming to bring the vehicle to market in 2028 for just €15,000. For the entire second half of the 20th century, the Citroën 2CV (“Deux Chevaux,” French for “two horses”) held a special place in Europe’s automotive landscape. The affordable, comfortable, yet underpowered vehicle had enormous popularity, selling millions of units over its production run. Its cute, quirky look was unique and eye-catching, with its tall, rounded, cartoon-like passenger cabin, jaunty circular headlights, and pop-up windows. Advertisement – scroll for more content It was a small vehicle, yet still…

Power plants have largely optimized individual assets. The next opportunity lies in how assets, resources, and operating decisions work together. Power producers are experts at optimizing equipment. Decades of advancement in engineering and operating practices have improved the performance of gas turbines, pumps, steam systems and other critical assets. Operators can measure unit-level performance in extraordinary detail and continuously improve. COMMENTARY However, there is a limit to what asset-by-asset optimization has limits. Even a plant where every major piece of equipment is performing exactly as intended can still be leaving value on the table because the best operating point for…

The company claims that the model exhibits the first signs of compositional generalization, a term for AI systems’ ability to perform skills they’ve never been exposed to by recombining ones learned in their training data. One test involved asking a model to “load a sweet potato into the air fryer”—a task it had never previously encountered. In a demonstration video, the machine futzes around a little, makes a few false starts, and eventually manages a reasonable effort, though it doesn’t finish the task completely. Sergey Levine, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and a cofounder of PI, is…

The artificial intelligence infrastructure race is no longer just about building faster chips. AI infrastructure bottlenecks are shifting attention to a bigger challenge: keeping those chips supplied with data, connected through high-speed networks and operating within increasingly demanding power and cooling limits.. The discussion comes as AI infrastructure design shifts away from optimizing individual components toward coordinating entire systems. As data centers become increasingly interconnected, the movement of data across compute, storage and networking infrastructure is emerging as a defining architectural challenge. That transition is creating new demands for storage, memory, networking and physical infrastructure. ScaleFlux Inc., which develops storage…

The BYD Q3 battery-electric semi truck shown here marked a major production milestone this week, becoming the 150,000th new energy commercial vehicle to roll off the assembly line at BYD’s truck plant in Huai’an, Jiangsu province. Global EV leader BYD has spent years growing its passenger car and battery businesses, and now it’s looking to put that growth mindset to work in the commercial vehicle space, too. Heavy trucks are a critical piece of that puzzle, with HDEVs offering fleet operators a way to dramatically cut diesel consumption and emissions without sacrificing the performance needed to move heavy loads across…

Hyperscaler Google and Constellation Energy, the largest nuclear operator in the U.S., have signed a 20-year power purchase agreement (PPA) designed to support $4.3 billion of upgrades at 11 nuclear units across the PJM Interconnection, which is slated to add 890 MW of generating capacity from Constellation’s existing reactors by the end of 2032. The companies announced the agreement Oct. 6 as part of a broader strategic energy collaboration that also includes a separate 15-year supply agreement covering 2,700 MW from Constellation’s existing PJM fleet. Constellation said the 890 MW of incremental capacity will come from equipment and technology upgrades…

The result is that AI safety remains, for many, a game of chance. McBain, the psychologist, has found in his latest experiments that if you repeatedly ask any of the major models the exact same risky questions about how to commit suicide, they will generally refuse to answer. But every so often, they won’t. Elstner says that eventually probes, the fMRI-like classifiers, could learn to recognize the totality of the indescribable activations in all their infinitude and, thus, perfectly detect every time the model is, or ought to be, refusing a request. At that point, AI safety would rest on…

Data center hardware startup Oxide Computer Inc. today announced that it has raised $445 million in funding. Returning backer Eclipse Capital led the Series D round. It was joined by AMD Ventures, Riot Ventures, Jane Street, Atreides Management and USIT, which led Oxide’s previous $200 million raise in February. Oxide sells a data center rack that combines computing, storage and network equipment in a pre-integrated package. It contains 24 hardware modules dubbed sleds. Each sled hosts an up to 144-core central processing unit from Advanced Micro Devices Inc. The CPU has access to about 1.64 terabytes of memory and up…