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AI - Frontier AI keeps racing despite calls to slow downAnthropic and OpenAI debut Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Sol and Luna - Windows CLOSEDQUORUM malware uses AI models to autonomo

Dive Brief: - Gap has struck a multiyear partnership with Just Your Type through the boy band’s labels, Wexler Records and Republic Records, according to a press release. It is the first deal to come out of parent Gap Inc.’s ‘fashiontainment’ platform - The collaboration with JYT

The world must build more than 6 terawatts of renewable power in the next five years — more than all previous years combined — to deliver on a goal to triple global renewable energy capacity by 2030, according to a new report. At COP28 in the UAE in 2023, countries agreed to coll

Autopsy shows Hayden Panettiere died from a drug overdose - Published Actress Hayden Panettiere died from the toxic effects of fentanyl, Xanax and several other drugs in her system, according to an autopsy completed by the Greenville County Coroner's Office in South Carolina. The

SereneDB launches superfast S3 data search engine. German startup SereneDB’s Krummelanke is claimed to be the fastest database search engine in the world, with search and analytics in one product. The company says AI agents fire hundreds of hybrid find-and-count queries per secon

Dive Brief: - Toy retailer FAO Schwarz has opened an Amazon storefront just ahead of the holiday shopping season, according to a Friday press release. - The Amazon shop features an edited assortment of branded products sorted by target age group and category, including the compan

The Qatar Investment Authority and JPMorgan’s asset management arm agreed a $20 billion partnership spanning public and private markets, as the Qatari fund keeps dealmaking despite the US-Iran war. The deal includes a $15 billion customized public equities portfolio managed by th

The Maldives is the next coastline for UAE real estate developer Mohamed Alabbar, who signed an agreement with the archipelago’s government for a $12 billion waterfront and marina development near the capital Malé. The project will be run through his Abu Dhabi-based firm Eagle Hi

The News Nigeria is on track to complete a 90,000 km fiber optic cable network in three years, a government minister said, beating an initial timeline for the project backed by the World Bank and the African Development Bank. Digital economy and communications minister Bosun Tija

NVIDIA this week has announced that they are launching a new qualification program for DSX AI factory power and cooling parts. The DSX Ready program will see NVIDIA offer qualification guidelines for both battery energy storage systems (BESS) and cooling distribution units (CDUs)

Get this spiffy, stealthy MSI RTX 5090 for just $4,299 — GeForce Week at Walmart serves up a rare deal on Nvidia's fastest gaming GPU RTX 5090s are getting harder and harder to find at any price, but here's a deal This card is now out of stock, but keep checking back at Tom's Har

AI - Frontier AI keeps racing despite calls to slow downAnthropic and OpenAI debut Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Sol and Luna - Windows CLOSEDQUORUM malware uses AI models to autonomo

AI - Frontier AI keeps racing despite calls to slow downAnthropic and OpenAI debut Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Sol and Luna - Windows CLOSEDQUORUM malware uses AI models to autonomo

Plenty of people want to buy electric vehicles, but not everyone is prepared to shell out for an upgrade to their home’s electrical service just to add an EV charger. The worry is reasonable. One study found that upgrading things like electrical panels (that box in the garage or

Would you trust an AI agent with access to your company’s systems? Put your employees in an autonomous vehicle? Deploy a robot that has to make sense of an unpredictable physical world? These aren’t hypothetical questions for AI founders anymore. As AI moves out of demos and into

Fly to an asteroid, land on it, make no mistakes: If only it were that easy. When NASA sends spacecraft to explore the solar system, they build in redundancy and automation. But much of the work is done by teams of flight controllers communicating with the vehicle from Earth. The

The News The US can still compete with China in markets where Beijing has an established foothold, US International Development Finance Corporation CEO Ben Black said Tuesday, arguing that Washington can take on risky investments abroad while also delivering value to American tax

Man in the Mirror, by Anand Giridharadas. Giridharadas may be best known these days as a progressive political commentator, but his new book, Man in the Mirror, goes back to his early roots as a narrative storyteller. Giridharadas recounts the tale of the subway confrontation bet

The future is looking increasingly bleak for Germany’s automotive industry. Since the turn of the century, car makers have been among the crown jewels of the German economy, punching above their weight in terms of investment and innovation. But those companies are now facing mult

Flight disruptions eased on Tuesday, a day after a fiber cable break cut air traffic controllers off from key radio and radar feeds, snarling air travel in the Philadelphia and New York area and stranding thousands of travelers. As of 7:10 a.m. ET, about 60 flights in and out of

Robots that walk, talk, dance, and perform backflips make great videos. But can they close the blinds? Help someone eat? Scratch an itch? For people with severe mobility impairments, those everyday tasks can mean greater independence. And they’re exactly the kinds of jobs Hello R

Tim Westwood charged with two more sexual offences - Published Former BBC Radio 1 and Capital Xtra DJ Tim Westwood has been charged with two more offences, the Metropolitan Police have said. The charges are an alleged indecent assault against a teenage girl aged 16 to 17 in Hamme

Last week, The New York Times reported that an internal memo had been quietly distributed across US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) field offices, directing staff to radically reinterpret the Endangered Species Act (ESA) in a move that blindsided conservationists. Staffers were e

Student who accidentally overdosed on paracetamol learns to walk and talk again - Published The parents of a student who suffered organ failure and nearly died after accidentally overdosing on paracetamol have spoken of the distress it caused and said they have "no idea how it ha

To address market participants' concerns, Sebi floated a consultation paper earlier this month seeking public comments on the proposed changes to the methodology for determining expiry-day settlement prices of index and single-stock derivatives. The proposals include delinking de

Who will start for England at Euro 2028? BBC Sport's predictions - Published Here we go again. Less than two months after Spain were celebrating their World Cup triumph, the next major tournament cycle begins. From 9 June 2028, the European Championship will be hosted by England,

Listen to this article in summarized format Providing "ample" reserves to the financial system, alongside the Fed’s existing tools for managing short-term interest rates, "has proven to be highly effective at delivering interest rate control and supporting the smooth functioning

Exhibitor bookings are back open, but only through September 30 at 11:59 p.m. PT. If you missed the first deadline, this is your last chance to get your startup on the Expo Hall floor. TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 takes place October 13-15 at Moscone West in San Francisco, bringing to

AI - Frontier AI keeps racing despite calls to slow downAnthropic and OpenAI debut Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Sol and Luna - Windows CLOSEDQUORUM malware uses AI models to autonomo

The other day ServiceTitan shut off Podium’s integration for roughly 1,000 shared customers after a nine-year partnership. The coverage mostly framed it as a breakup. It works better as a case study in what owning the record can and can’t do for you. ServiceTitan delisted a partn

“Several hundred megawatts” of planned onshore wind farms in the US remain on indefinite hold because of opposition from the Trump administration, Miguel Stilwell d’Andrade, CEO of Portuguese developer EDP, told Semafor. Last month, a federal judge ordered the Department of Defen

Tim’s view Clean energy executives are an increasingly nervous bunch. I moderated a lunch discussion under Chatham House rules at New York Climate Week yesterday made up of leaders from large-scale renewables developers, equipment manufacturers, and tech companies, as well as ene

Four days. That’s how long you have left to save up to $200 on your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 pass before prices increase on September 25 at 11:59 p.m. PT. Register here for your ticket savings, plus 50% off a second. We’re on to the second reason not to miss Disrupt, happening at

Eight months after it was spun out of TikTok, the social media platform’s U.S. unit, known as TikTok USDS Joint Venture, is joining Lantern, a cross-platform child safety program launched by the Tech Coalition with support from a large group of tech companies. Lantern, launched i

Tom's Hardware Verdict Great hardware combined with Bambu’s excellent software and smooth user interface puts this laser among the best. The 55W CO2 laser cutter and engraver makes quick work of wood, acrylic, glass, and more. Pros - +Easy to assemble - +Simple to calibrate - +Gr

AI is opening new possibilities for telecom, from optimizing investments to accelerating integration, debugging and validation. Yet the value of an AI system depends heavily on the data behind it. Standards and synthetic datasets can describe how a RAN should function, but they r

Listen to this article in summarized format The index was last up 0.3% at 27,212.68, surpassing its previous intraday high of 27,190.21, set on June 1. Oil prices fell to a two-week low as the prospect of increased supplies from the Gulf eased market concerns. Iran’s indication t

Pollock left money on table to stay at Saints - Hearn - Published Henry Pollock turned down rival offers worth hundreds of thousands of pounds more than his extension to stay at boyhood club Northampton, says Eddie Hearn. Hearn, whose Matchroom promotional empire is centred on bo