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AI - Power approval set to delay Oracle's Wisconsin AI datacenter Grid connection awaits regulatory approval, putting planned 2027 customer delivery at risk - Nvidia debuts $4,999 DGX Spark with half the RAM and storage, amid memory crunch Meanwhile 128 GB version jumps to $6,950

Man City whistleblower to lose witness protection - Published The Portuguese computer hacker who released documents which helped trigger the Premier League investigation into Manchester City is set to lose his witness protection despite his fears he could be assassinated. Footbal

The Group of Seven nations agreed Friday to release 100 million barrels of reserves to address surging diesel fuel prices, after the Trump administration pushed Europe to deploy their stocks. The G7 leaders said the deployment will begin immediately and continue over four months

The Federal Aviation Administration said Friday that it has determined a new software glitch on some Boeing 737 Max aircraft isn't a flight-safety issue. The determination paves the way to certification for the last model in the company's best-selling family of airplanes, the 737

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California’s attorney general and three city attorneys announced a $272.5 million settlement with Lyft after allegations that the company “committed wage theft by misclassifying drivers as independent contractors rather than employees” between 2016 and 2020, according to a Thursd

AI21 achieves an 83% reduction in time-to-start for AI workloads with AI Hypercomputer Barak Peleg VP, Technology and Architecture, AI21 Asaf Ben-Tovim DevOps Engineer, AI21 Editor’s note: AI21 Labs is a leading global AI lab with a long track record of building foundation models

One argument that often comes up about climate change is that fossil fuels are good because they powered economic growth that has left most people better off overall. And, to an extent, that has been true, but it’s also an extremely limited perspective. It’s pretty obvious now th

Before artificial intelligence can take Wall Street jobs, it is first creating them. Posts for AI-related roles at banks including JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup and Capital One surged 49% this year compared with 2025 to 139,819 listings, according to an analysis by enterprise hiring

Before artificial intelligence can take Wall Street jobs, it is first creating them. Posts for AI-related roles at banks including JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup and Capital One surged 49% this year compared with 2025 to 139,819 listings, according to an analysis by enterprise hiring

Commvault looking after Claude agent configs Commvault is enabling IT and Security teams to discover, protect, and recover ChatGPT and agent configurations and other AI data in Anthropic's Claude Cowork and Claude Code, and OpenClaw. This offering is part of AgentRecover, Commvau

India lost $38.149 billion in the past three weeks, after hitting the record high at the end of September 4. The reserves stood at $747.557 billion at the end of the reporting week, RBI data showed. The dip in reserves reflects the size of the central bank's foreign market interv

Alison Hammond has heart check-up in hospital after rushing off This Morning while on air - Published Alison Hammond went to hospital for a heart check-up after leaving ITV's This Morning midway through Friday's show, but has assured followers she is "fine". The presenter, 51, le

The US has arrested another suspect accused of smuggling high-end computer servers containing export-controlled Nvidia chips into China. In a press release on Thursday, the Department of Justice accused 38-year-old Greg Lui of using false paperwork to mask shipments of servers wo

(Updates to afternoon trading) * Nike drops after warning on China demand weakness * Russell 2000 on track for biggest daily gain in a month * Data storage providers slump after report Toshiba to double hard disk production capacity * Indexes up: Dow 0.43%, S&P 0.7%, Nasdaq 1.14%

For months, people have wondered when OpenAI will go public. CEO Sam Altman says it won’t happen until the company can make better promises about model safety, with no firm timeline in sight. “We intend to continue with AI progress … but as the models have had this surge forward

Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison announced Friday that upon closing his company's merger with Warner Bros. Discovery next week, the combined entity will be named Skydance. It's a full-circle moment for a company that has undergone two major acquisitions within the last 18 mon

Fed Vice Chair Philip Jefferson and New York Fed President John Williams have in recent days suggested that policymakers believe the central bank has time to assess the economy before considering another increase. The remarks do not mean the Fed has ruled out further policy tight

Nvidia is about to announce their N1x/Spark consumer devices, but when exactly? Since you asked so nicely, SemiAccurate will tell you the details. A little history about this debacle some are calling a CPU. If you recall, no less then Jensen himself said this chip is in full prod

It’s a regrettable reality that there is never enough time to cover all the interesting scientific stories we come across. So every month, we highlight a handful of the best stories that nearly slipped through the cracks. September’s list includes a tantalizing hint of the elusiv

Days after a journalist claimed that Meta’s Muse app on Mac read their private messages — a claim that Meta disputed — Apple announced that it’s introducing additional controls around a setting called “Full Disk Access” on macOS. The feature was designed to allow backups to funct

The AI bill is coming for governments and businesses, and no one knows whether the money will be there to pay it. Two new reports from consulting giants show how the AI adoption conversation has shifted from whether it works to whether the spending on it is sustainable, as pilot

AI - Power approval set to delay Oracle's Wisconsin AI datacenter Grid connection awaits regulatory approval, putting planned 2027 customer delivery at risk - Nvidia debuts $4,999 DGX Spark with half the RAM and storage, amid memory crunch Meanwhile 128 GB version jumps to $6,950

'Cult' priest guilty of rape and assault of women - Published A former priest who established a "cult" within the Church of England has been found guilty of raping a woman in his congregation. Chris Brain was also convicted of four counts of indecent assault against three other w

The next generation of blockbuster obesity drugs isn't trying to replace GLP-1 medicines. Instead, drugmakers are developing treatments that can complement existing drugs and push weight loss further, or offer new options for potentially millions of people who may not get enough

Amazon today announced new commitments to generate buy-in for US data centers and rebutted criticism about the facilities. The tech giant vowed to publish its energy and water use annually, and spend more than $1 billion over five years on free community college, trades training,

This week, the White House got nearly every major tech CEO in one room — Zuckerberg, Bezos, Musk, and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei among them — to sign an AI safety pledge that President Donald Trump called “morally binding.” Trump also signed an executive order officially rebranding

Woman at centre of Cornell rape inquiry was 'failed' by officials, says New York governor - Published New York Governor Kathy Hochul has said the woman at the centre of the Cornell University rape case was "failed" at "every turn". The woman, known as Jane Doe in legal documents,

Friday's weaker-than-expected jobs report may feel especially lousy for men. Women outnumbered men in the workforce for eight straight months as of September, according to an analysis of government data by Indeed. That's the longest stretch since 2010, the job search platform fou

AI - Power approval set to delay Oracle's Wisconsin AI datacenter Grid connection awaits regulatory approval, putting planned 2027 customer delivery at risk - Nvidia debuts $4,999 DGX Spark with half the RAM and storage, amid memory crunch Meanwhile 128 GB version jumps to $6,950

Daniel Thomas in court accused of entering migrant site - Published Anti-migrant activist Daniel Thomas has appeared in court charged with entering a restricted zone at a migrant processing centre in Dover. The 37-year-old, known to his supporters as Danny Tommo, is accused of co

In late 1970, a Titan IIIC rocket launched from Space Launch Complex 40 at what was then called Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. It carried a top-secret payload for the US military. Much has changed in spaceflight since then. The Titan IIIC would bow out in 1982 after dozens of

AI startups can grow at a speed that would have been difficult to imagine a generation ago. But rapid growth comes with another reality: Scaling AI can require enormous amounts of capital, and founders have to make financing decisions long before they know whether early momentum