Archive: February 2023

Lobbyists for Microsoft and other data center companies are reportedly attempting to prevent a U.S. import ban on new models of optical transceivers from the People’s Republic of China. The country dominates the global market for such devices, which enable data transfers with terabit bandwidth within data centers. The theoretically independent regulatory body FCC (Federal Communications Commission) is reportedly preparing the import ban at the request of U

Anthropic's Fable 5.2 completes 41 percent of real freelance jobs, up from 2.5 percent a year ago View the LinkedIn Profile of Maximilian Schreiner Nov 10, 2026 Nano Banana Pro prompted by THE DECODER AI News Without the Hype – Curated by Humans Subscribe to THE DECODER for ad-free reading, a weekly AI newsletter, our exclusive "AI Radar" frontier report six times a year, full archive access, and access to our comment section. Subscribe now

The new rules follow other changes the company has made to better protect minors, which include the rollout of its age assurance technology globally and more parental controls and child safety features. While most major dating services typically restrict their platform to adults, Apple’s new policy will require all apps offering dating or romantic relationship features to carry an 18+ rating. Starting November 16, developers will be required to include new

At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, Ben Longmier, CEO of Ambrosia Energy, and Bill Thayer, SVP and Head of Datacenter Solutions at Bloom Energy, come together on the Smart Systems Stage for a conversation on “Where the AI Infrastructure Boom Is Creating Winners.” Image Credits:TechCrunch This industry stage session will examine which constraints are creating durable business opportunities, where new categories are beginning to emerge, and what founders can build a

“Even though they have tons of money, there’s all these different recycling bins that just end up in the same place,” Ma told TechCrunch. The more she dug into the problem, the deeper it seemed to go. It wasn’t just her building. The economics of recycling as a whole often boil down to human beings sorting by hand through streams of waste to pull out different kinds of recyclable material. “I saw the technology and thought, we can do so much better,” Ma re

New open-source benchmark reveals reasoning as the biggest bottleneck for AI in cloud operations Maximilian Schreiner View the LinkedIn Profile of Maximilian Schreiner Nov 4, 2026 CloudOpsBench is a new open-source benchmark that measures how well AI agents handle typical DevOps tasks in the cloud, from fixing services and removing resources to restricting access rights, rolling out updates, and decommissioning projects. Version 1.0 includes 45 tasks on AW

41.3% of design items clear the safety threshold, yet complex engineering projects remain bogged down by tightly coupled constraints. Authors | Zheng Jiamei Cen Feng Editor | Cen Feng In engineering, 91% correctness can sometimes be indistinguishable from zero ability to deliver.A cable tray crossing fire-protection piping at the top of a server room can render dozens of pages of correct calculations worthless as a deliverable. The current-carrying capacit