Technology

As letter volumes plummet, Denmark’s national postal service is phasing out letter delivery in favor of parcel shipments. The BBC’s Adrienne Murray reports on how this decision reflects a broader trend toward digital communication.

Ivan Penn of the New York Times discusses his reporting on how big tech’s AI data centers are raising electricity costs for households and small businesses.

Large language models, or LLMs, are the AI engines behind Google’s Gemini, ChatGPT, Anthropic’s Claude, and the rest. But they have a sibling: VLMs, or vision language models.

From the BBC World Service: Sony is bumping the price of its PlayStation 5 consoles by $50 — but only in the U.S.

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has confirmed that the Trump administration is considering taking a stake in the struggling U.S. chipmaker Intel.

Rya Jetha, tech culture reporter at the San Francisco Standard, explains the new wearable tech trend taking Silicon Valley by storm.

A new report by MIT found that businesses are mostly not replacing humans with AI, although they are using AI to reduce outsourcing. 

From the BBC World Service: Japan’s SoftBank has invested $2 billion in Intel, which has been losing ground lately in the booming AI market.

Esports is a multibillion-dollar industry, but what does an esports player do when they’ve hung up their controller?

Conditions favor Gulf Coast and Midwestern refineries over those based on the East and West coasts.