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Trump’s super PAC drops more than $800K on Graham in South Carolina President Trump’s super PAC MAGA Inc. spent more than $827,000 to support Sen. Darline Graham (R-S.C.) ahead of the state’s Republican Senate primary runoff on Tuesday, marking the group’s most significant spendi

Defense & National Security Newsletter Trump forgoes military strikes, attempts economic chokehold on Iran by Ellen Mitchell - 08/24/26 6:05 PM ET Link copied by Ellen Mitchell - 08/24/26 6:05 PM ET Link copied NOW PLAYING Close Thank you for signing up! Subscribe to more newslet

FDA approves new blood test for Alzheimer’s disease The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted approval for a new test for Alzheimer’s disease, marking the fourth time such a blood test has been approved in less than two years. Roche announced Sunday that the FDA had gran

Kit Harington joins HBO's Harry Potter series as Gilderoy Lockhart - Published Kit Harington has been tapped to join the highly anticipated Harry Potter TV series as the wizarding world's celebrity-turned-Hogwarts instructor Gilderoy Lockhart, HBO confirmed to the BBC. Harington

Palmer impresses as Chelsea edge past Fulham to give Alonso first win This content is not available in your location. There was an error Cole Palmer scores and sets up Joao Pedro as Chelsea give Xabi Alonso a winning start against Alvaro Arbeloa's Fulham at Craven Cottage in the

* Tech investors on edge ahead of Nvidia results * Oil settles down more than $2/barrel despite U.S. sanctions on Iran * Canadian dollar falls as US trade war looms * Investors await Nvidia earnings, Warsh speech at Jackson Hold (Updates prices after U.S. market close) By Sinéad

For years, AI industry watchers of all stripes have been warning of a coming jobs apocalypse driven by ultra-intelligent AI systems that will be able to replicate most human tasks more cheaply. Now, newly updated research from Stanford University economists suggests AI seems to b

AI - SYSTEMS What Nvidia's first Groq 3 LPU benchmarks tell us about its $20B gambleGemma 4 31B performance tests offer a best-case scenario for next-gen dataflow accelerators -

Zelensky says wartime election would ‘destroy’ Ukraine Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Sunday that holding elections amid Russia’s war with Ukraine would “destroy” the country. “I believe that if we want to destroy the country, then we can move towards elections durin

The Supreme Court on Monday sided with President Donald Trump for now in his effort to impose sweeping new restrictions on distributing mail ballots, putting on hold a lower-court ruling that had blocked key parts of the plan ahead of November's midterm elections. The justices, o

Ontario’s Ford warns US power could be cut as he trades insults with Trump Ontario Premier Doug Ford on Monday threatened to cut the province’s power exports to the U.S. as a trade war with President Trump plays out publicly for a second time. Ford told reporters “everything is o

{beacon} Technology Technology The Big Story Trump administration lays out new $103K fee proposal for H-1B visas The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued a new proposed rule for H-1B visas on Monday that would charge a $103,265 fee for all workers seeking to gain employme

Data centers have become the largest driver of surging electricity demand that is straining US power grids. But the AI data center boom has also accelerated investment in a technology that could provide a silver lining for everyone—solid-state power transformers that replace indu

President Donald Trump's oil and gas stock holdings may have gained as much as $15.5 million this year, as energy shares surged amid the Iran war, according to a new report from Democrats on Congress' Joint Economic Committee. Trump reported owning between $12.5 million and $45.6

President Donald Trump bought as much as $50,000 worth of SpaceX shares on June 23, according to a financial disclosure first reported by Reuters, two weeks after the record-setting IPO of Elon Musk’s company. It’s not clear what price Trump paid for the shares, but by that point

Data Center Construction at Midyear: Demand, Friction, and Building Discipline Data center buildouts are booming in 2026, but challenges like power, labor, and community concerns demand innovation and collaboration. August 24, 2026 Data center construction remains the defining in

Hot Chips 2026: Intel Xeon 7 'Diamond Rapids' comes with up to 256 P-cores, 1.28 GB of last-level cache — next-gen 18A-P CPU also brings AVX 10.2 and uses UCIe-S instead of EMIB Maybe a diamond in the rough. This Tom's Hardware Premium article is free to read with a Tom's Hardwar

Under anti-vaccine Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the US health department is considering changing how vaccine recommendations are categorized and described. The move creates the possibility that vaccinations currently considered “routine” or “universal” could be given n

Boy,16, arrested after four viable devices found in security alert - Published A 16-year-old boy has been arrested under the Terrorism Act after a security alert in Omagh, County Tyrone. Police carried out a planned search on Monday at an address in the Gardenville Avenue. Police

Zillow and Redfin have reached a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and five states, ending a legal fight over a 2025 partnership that the FTC claimed hurt competition in the rental-listing market. The settlement was announced on Monday, just as the case was sched

Alongside its Groq 3 LPX news at Hot Chips 2026, NVIDIA announced that SpaceXAI will deploy NVIDIA Vera CPUs to accelerate its next generation of agentic AI applications. The company also plans to expand the infrastructure behind Grok on the Vera Rubin platform as it scales towar

NVIDIA announced the production release of the NVIDIA Groq 3 LPX, a dedicated interactive inference accelerator built to complement the Vera Rubin NVL72 platform. As enterprise AI workloads shift from raw model pre-training toward real-time reasoning and autonomous agent orchestr

Off the Wire Press Releases ARMONK, N.Y., Aug. 24, 2026 — At the annual Hot Chips conference, IBM today is announcing the first dual-architecture mainframe processor, which is being designed to enable enterprises to run operating systems and applications on both the IBM and Arm c

Off the Wire Press Releases Aug. 24, 2026 — The ISC High Performance Conference took place in Hamburg, Germany, June 23-26, 2026, bringing together the European and international high-performance computing, AI and quantum community. EuroTPC took part throughout the week, presenti

Treasury yields were lower on Monday after CNBC reported, citing two Treasury officials, that the department could use its $1 trillion General Account to fund its plans to ramp up government bond purchases. The 10-year Treasury note yield was last down more than 3 basis points to

Ads and tracking have turned TVs into privacy nightmares. Both are so widespread among smart TVs that I’ve written a guide for avoiding them. One recommendation in that guide is to use a computer monitor. But in recent years, monitors have become more capable of pushing ads and t

You don’t need a keynote session to make noise at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Sometimes the best way to meet investors, customers, and partners is by exhibiting directly on the Expo Hall floor at San Francisco’s Moscone West from October 13-15. That’s exactly what our Exhibit Progra

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Bitcoin and crypto stocks extended their rally to start the week after the flagship cryptocurrency broke out of its trading range as investor concern over inflation and the fiscal deficit grew. The price of bitcoin was higher by more than 1% on Monday, trading just under $80,000

Alabama’s attorney general announced Monday that it sent a subpoena to OpenAI as part of an investigation into the company’s alleged “complete lack of oversight and adequate safeguards” in the Hugging Face incident. The investigation comes weeks after OpenAI admitted that one of

At Hot Chips 2026, Intel presented architectural details for three upcoming silicon platforms targeted at enterprise agentic AI workloads spanning data center, inference, and edge tiers. The lineup consists of the next-generation Xeon processor, codenamed Diamond Rapids, for work

Over the weekend, Amazon significantly raised the prices of its hardware devices, jacking them up by as much as 60% in some cases. The price explosion impacted Fire TVs, Echos, Kindles, and Eeros. One egregious example that’s been cited is that of the Echo Dot, one of Amazon’s ch