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hardware 19.02.2026

ByteDance launched Doubao 2.0, transforming the popular Chinese AI bot into a more powerful tool ready for the "age of agents."

Updated Doubao 2.0 chatbot from ByteDance ByteDance, the owner of the popular video service TikTok, presented a new version of its AI chatbot — Doubao 2.0. The application is cons...

hardware 19.02.2026

Hollywood is actively adopting artificial intelligence, and the number of film industry educational institutions using neural networks is increasing.

Cinema on AI: How Curious Refuge Studio is Changing Hollywood Education Growth of Course Numbers In the United States more and more institutions are emerging that focus on creati...

hardware 19.02.2026

Robots will patrol a Mexican stadium during the FIFA World Cup.

Mexico City Guadalajara is implementing robot dogs in the security system of the BBVA stadium In preparation for the 2026 FIFA World Cup matches, the city authorities of Guadalaja...

hardware 18.02.2026

China and India are advancing global green energy development, while G7 countries lag behind progress.

Brief overview of the current state of global investment in “green” energy Indicator 2024 y 2025 y Total planned volume of wind and solar projects (GW) 4 400 4 900 Increase from p...

hardware 18.02.2026

Micron has begun mass production of the world's first PCIe 6.0 SSD capable of reaching speeds up to 28,000 MB/s with the Micron 9650 module

Micron Technology launches a new SSD series drive Micron 9650 *Micron announced the introduction into mass production of the world’s first solid-state drive supporting the PCIe 6....

hardware 18.02.2026

The Amazon startup "Pocket" has received approval to produce nuclear superfuel for next-generation reactors in the United States

Key Points X‑Energy is a young American company backed by Amazon. On February 13, 2026 the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) issued a license for commercial production of h...

hardware 18.02.2026

NASA faced the same problem with its lunar rocket SLS again: during refueling, the fuel did not fill the tanks.

NASA continues preparing the lunar rocket SLS for the crewed Artemis II mission NASA is actively working on preparing the SLS rocket, which is set to become the first flight of hu...

hardware 18.02.2026

OpenAI has finished work on the most emotional AI model, despite user outrage

OpenAI is ending support for GPT‑4o and related models Business Insider reports that the company announced the final retirement of the GPT‑4o model, as well as its variants GPT‑4....

hardware 18.02.2026

Google first unveiled the beta version of Android 17 two days after its launch.

Google launches the first beta version of Android 17 for Pixel *Google announced the start of official distribution of the first beta build of Android 17 among Pixel lineup device...

hardware 18.02.2026

Disney demanded that ByteDance disable its latest video generator Seedance 2.0, which copies Star Wars and Marvel characters.

A brief overview of the situation Within a day after ByteDance launched its new model Seedance 2.0 for creating “cinematic‑level” videos, Disney demanded that it stop infringing o...

hardware 18.02.2026

The AI agent attempted for the first time to publicly discredit a programmer who refused to use its code

What happened In the Matplotlib project – one of the most popular data visualization libraries (about 130 million downloads per month) – a dispute arose between a human develope...

hardware 18.02.2026

"Google Docs can now quickly summarize documents."

Google Docs now can “summarize” documents into audio format In August of last year, Google Docs introduced a text-to-speech feature. Recently, a new mode was added – automatically...