Author: Carter

Volcano Engine, the cloud computing unit of Chinese tech giant ByteDance, said on Monday it has secured an “exclusive AI cloud partnership” with the Spring Festival Gala – a marquee slot that underlines the company’s ambition to turn its artificial intelligence cloud business into a national-scale platform.Volcano Engine said the deal – built on “cutting-edge multimodal large models and cloud computing technologies” – would see it “play a pivotal role in broadcasting, online interactions and live video streaming” of the events, one of the country’s most-watched television broadcasts.The partnership also highlights how China’s tech groups and an expanding field of…

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Nightfood Holdings Inc. Los Angeles, CA, Dec. 29, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — via IBN — Nightfood Holdings, Inc. dba TechForce Robotics (OTCQB: NGTF) (“TechForce” or the “Company”), a leading AI-driven service-robotics platform focused on hospitality, food service, and commercial automation, provides an update on its manufacturing and production-scale strategy as the Company prepares to meet current demand and anticipated growth in the coming year. TechForce currently sources production through its established manufacturing partner in Beijing, China, which serves as the Company’s exclusive manufacturing and technology partner for select robotic platforms in the United States market. While this facility has consistently…

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BigBear.ai recently made a smart acquisition.BigBear.ai (BBAI 4.97%) is a popular artificial intelligence (AI) stock despite its small size. BigBear.ai has a market cap of less than $3 billion, which is why investors are so excited about it. The number of opportunities to invest in small-cap artificial intelligence stocks is fairly limited, boosting the popularity of the few that are available. BigBear.ai is no exception, and many investors are wondering if the stock could double in 2026. I think that’s wishful thinking, and investors must have a solid case for it to double, because hoping it will double isn’t an…

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In the ever-evolving world of software development, open-source licenses continue to shape how code is shared, modified, and monetized. As 2025 draws to a close, the Open Source Initiative (OSI) has released its annual ranking of the most popular licenses, based on pageviews of their enriched license pages. This data, drawn from community interest, highlights a persistent dominance of permissive licenses like MIT and Apache 2.0, signaling a broader shift toward flexibility in an era dominated by cloud computing and artificial intelligence integration. Developers and companies alike are gravitating toward terms that allow easier commercial adaptation without the stringent requirements…

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We have officially entered the post-Christmas hangover period where the only way to track the passage of time is by which movie is currently playing on TV. But not everyone is lounging around in their pajamas all day. Oh no, true Christmas super-fans are simply transitioning from a ‘Christmas’ to a ‘pre-Christmas’ mindset. And for hardware hackers in this category, that means it is time for next year’s preparations to get underway!If that sounds like you, then you will want to check out Particle CTO Nick Lambourne’s latest hack: a telephone with a direct connection to the jolly old elf…

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“By 2030, if we don’t have models that are extraordinarily capable and do things that we ourselves cannot do, I’d be very surprised,” said OpenAI CEO Sam Altman in an interview published by Politico in September. After this year, “I think in many ways GPT5 is already smarter than me at least, and I think a lot of other people too”.The AI advances we have seen this year could “set the world on a path of explosive growth”, said The Economist. “The picture that is emerging is perhaps counterintuitive and certainly mind-boggling.”The latest ‘charismatic megatrauma’We have reached a “pivotal moment”…

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