Corsair is halting Drop sales after March 25th

The Drop Mythic Journey keyboard from 2022. | Photo by Jon Porter / The Verge The Drop store, which was acquired by gaming gear giant Corsair in 2023, was a haven for mechanical keyboard enthusiasts and audiophiles to discover and buy hard-to-find gear – sometimes at surprisingly good prices. The company will cease sales after … Read more

Efficiently serve dozens of fine-tuned models with vLLM on Amazon SageMaker AI and Amazon Bedrock

Organizations and individuals running multiple custom AI models, especially recent Mixture of Experts (MoE) model families, can face the challenge of paying for idle GPU capacity when the individual models don’t receive enough traffic to saturate a dedicated compute endpoint. To solve this problem, we have partnered with the vLLM community and developed an efficient … Read more

The Peace Corps is recruiting volunteers to sell AI to developing nations

For more than six decades, the Peace Corps has represented itself as an agency focused on helping underserved communities around the globe. But a new initiative, called the “Tech Corps,” threatens to unravel the agency’s original mission by recruiting de facto Silicon Valley salespeople to promote the biggest names in AI – many of which … Read more

Trump claims he’ll make data centers pay for their own power supply

President Donald Trump tried to quell Americans’ concerns about rising electricity costs during his State of the Union speech by claiming that he’s negotiated a “rate payer protection pledge” with major tech companies, which would see them build out or pay for new electricity generation for their data centers. Leaders from Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, … Read more

Welcome to the post-hype crypto market

Crypto is creeping back into the startup conversation, but at ETHDenver last week, the buzz was as much about Washington as it was about tokens. Policy shifts are rippling through the market as Tether and stablecoins face scrutiny, players like Stripe re-enter the conversation, and startups either find traction or flame out. The hype cycle is over, or at least taking a break. So what comes next?  On … Read more

Building intelligent event agents using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases

Large conferences and events generate overwhelming amounts of information—from hundreds of sessions and workshops to speaker profiles, venue maps, and constantly updating schedules. While basic AI assistants can answer simple questions about event logistics, most fail to deliver the personalized guidance and contextual awareness that attendees need to navigate complex, multi-day conferences effectively. More importantly, … Read more