AI & RoboticsNews

India is teaching Google how AI in education can scale

January 30, 2026
As AI races into classrooms worldwide, Google is finding that the toughest lessons on how the tech can actually scale are emerging not from Silicon Valley, but from India’s schools. India has become a proving ground for Google’s education AI amid intensifying competition from rivals, including OpenAI and Microsoft. With more than a billion internet users, the country now accounts for…
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Cleantech & EV'sNews

Tesla invests $2 billion in Elon Musk's xAI cash furnace

January 30, 2026
Tesla disclosed in its Q4 2025 earnings report that it has invested $2 billion in xAI, Elon Musk’s private AI company. The investment comes while Tesla shareholders are actively suing Musk for breach of fiduciary duty over his founding of xAI in the first place. You can’t make this up. The investment Buried in Tesla’s Q4 shareholder update, the company revealed: On January 16, 2026, Tesla…
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DefenseNews

The US Army wants 11 business jets for ISR missions

January 30, 2026
After a half-century of flying turboprop ISR aircraft, the U.S. Army is turning to business jets. The service plans to buy up to 11 customized Bombardier Global 6500 aircraft for its High Accuracy Detection and Exploitation System, or HADES, program, according to the…
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Norway picks Hanwha to supply rocket artillery in $2 billion deal

January 30, 2026
PARIS — Norway picked Hanwha to supply the army with long-range precision artillery in a deal worth 19 billion Norwegian kroner (US$2 billion), preferring the South Korean company’s Chunmoo system over competing offers from KNDS and Rheinmetall as well as the U.S. High Mobility Artillery Rocket System. Norway agreed to buy 16 launch systems as well as a “large number” of missiles…
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DefenseNews

Germany proposes ‘two-speed’ EU to hasten defense buildup

January 30, 2026
PRAGUE — Germany is spearheading an initiative to create a “two-speed” European Union, proposing that a core group of six major economies bypass the bloc’s traditional consensus-based decision-making to accelerate defense cooperation and industrial competitiveness…
ComputersNews

Alliwava GH8 review: Ryzen 9 muscle in a shockingly small PC

January 30, 2026
The Alliwava GH8 aims to provide powerful notebook hardware in a compact mini PC case. It uses the latest high-end AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS processor from AMD’s Hawk Point series, which is specially designed for performance-oriented, space-saving systems. Does the Alliwava GH8…
ComputersNews

Costco reportedly pulls RAM and GPUs from display PCs due to theft

January 30, 2026
You’d think that a big-box store with membership requirements to even enter the building would have fewer problems with shoplifting than, say, Walmart or Target. But according to one Reddit post, at least one Costco store has had to remove the RAM from its display PCs, presumably to prevent shoplifters from exercising their sticky fingers. Reddit user “accent2012” noted the conspicuous…
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