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Elon Musk had a head-spinning week in AI. After agreeing with bitter rivals Dario Amodei and Sam Altman in their call for foundation model labs to slow the pace of development, Musk was contradicted by President Donald Trump and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, who said AI companies actu

Elon Musk had a head-spinning week in AI. After agreeing with bitter rivals Dario Amodei and Sam Altman in their call for foundation model labs to slow the pace of development, Musk was contradicted by President Donald Trump and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, who said AI companies actu

* Yen drops after BOJ votes 7-2 to hike by 25 bps * Traders doubt BOJ commitment to further increases * Japan conducted rate checks in the FX market, Nikkei reports * Bitcoin jumps 6% to $81,000 (Updates to US afternoon) By Saqib Iqbal Ahmed and Harry Robertson NEW YORK, Sept 18

(Bloomberg) -- Europe’s oil refiners are paying eyewatering premiums for cargoes, as the shutdown of Saudi Arabia’s East-West pipeline forces the region’s buyers to scramble for alternatives with fuel prices soaring. Saudi Aramco has responded to the attack on its pipeline to the

McIlroy in mix heading into weekend at Wentworth - Published BMW PGA Championship - round two -12 R Gerard (US); -10 A Scott (Aus), F Celli (Ita); -9 M Elvira (Spa), A Rai (Eng) Selected others: -8 R Fox (NZ), R Fisher (Eng), R McIlroy (NI), I Elvira (Spa), JJ Spaun (US); -7 M Wa

You’re deploying a model on a system. It starts up, prompts are getting responses. Now the hard question: Is this fast? Your instincts might lead you to send curl commands, hand-roll an asyncio script, or vibe code yet another one-off load generator. All of these paths have the s

Mini PCs have become one of the more important segments of the client computing market. They anchor fleets of clutter-free office desks, drive digital signage and kiosks, and increasingly sit at the edge running inference close to cameras and sensors where cloud round-trips are t

QNAP has introduced the TS-h966TX, a compact 9-bay NAS that pairs five 3.5-inch SATA bays with four 2.5-inch U.2 NVMe bays and puts dual Thunderbolt 4 ports, 10GbE, and 2.5GbE on the back of a tower that QNAP says is 36% smaller than its previous HDD-based 6-bay Thunderbolt 4 NAS

ChatGPT broke Diogo Almeida’s heart. Almeida was an OpenAI researcher who helped build the chatbot and then invent reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF), the model-training technique perhaps most responsible for our current age of AI. But despite its capabilities, he

More than half of investors (53.3%) responding to the latest survey from AAII, released Friday, said they were bearish. Just 28.8% of investors are bullish, the lowest reading in a year. All told, the spread between the number of bulls and bears in the market has fallen to -24.5%

Investors pulled about $1.8 billion out of the municipal bond market this week with returns for state and local government debt on track to tumble for the third consecutive month. The outflows for the week ending Wednesday are the largest since April 2025 and breaking a 21-week s

California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday issued an executive order aimed at addressing the potential dangers related to artificial intelligence. Newsom is part of a group of potential 2028 Democratic presidential hopefuls who have urged a more aggressive regulatory approach to the

California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday issued an executive order aimed at addressing the potential dangers related to artificial intelligence. Newsom is part of a group of potential 2028 Democratic presidential hopefuls who have urged a more aggressive regulatory approach to the

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An outside review of the Federal Reserve's oversight of the failure of Silicon Valley Bank in 2023 has found the Fed's staff "knew, or should have known," that the bank was vulnerable prior to the crisis, Fed Vice Chair for Supervision Michelle Bowman said Friday. Bowman's announ

By Noel John Sept 18 - Gold prices rose to a one-week high on Friday, and were on track for their first weekly gain in four, as lower oil prices eased concerns about prolonged inflationary pressures. Spot gold was up 1.2% at $4,390.11 per ounce by 2:14 p.m. EDT , after hitting it

Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger ordered the state government to take steps that could empower local communities to have a larger say in data center development and slow down approvals in a state that is already home to the data center capital of the world. Virginia governor crea

With a few carefully chosen words, Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh both explained this week's decision to hike interest rates and raised vexing questions about what comes next. Warsh described Wednesday's decision to lift the central bank's benchmark rate by a quarter percen

"A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore," said the late Yankee great, Yogi Berra, referring to persistent inflation. Fast forward 50 years, and the same might be said of fast food value menus. McDonald's announced this week that it is revising its U.S. value strategy after recording

Russian hybrid attacks against Europe intensifying, says Macron - Published French President Emmanuel Macron has warned that the threat of hybrid attacks by Russia against Europe and France has intensified. In a news conference at the Elysee Palace, Macron said he had ordered a p

Macklemore's removal from Ed Sheeran's tour is having ripple effects on the ticket market. Ticket prices for an upcoming Macklemore performance are climbing after the rapper was dropped from the remainder of Sheeran's Loop tour for making pro-Palestine comments onstage earlier th

The Scoop The top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, New Hampshire’s Jeanne Shaheen, has blocked an arms sale to Israel since July and continues to withhold consent for advancing the $2.8 billion transaction, a person familiar with the matter told Semafor. Shahee

Disney has hired its first-ever chief technology officer and in a curious twist, the new executive hails from an AI startup that the Magic Kingdom previously accused of infringing on its IP. Karandeep Anand is the former CEO of Character.AI, a company that has weathered numerous

The Federal Communications Commission yesterday approved Paramount Skydance’s plan to sell large equity stakes to the sovereign wealth funds of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Qatar. Under US law, companies with licenses to run broadcast stations need FCC approval to

For a long time, sleep research has treated the cerebral cortex as a passive follower reacting to signals from the deep brain. “Usually, sleep is associated with being controlled by subcortical regions,” said Geoffrey Terral, a neuroscientist at the Albert Einstein College of Med

For some iPhone buyers in India, getting Apple’s brand-new iPhone 18 Pro or iPhone 18 Pro Max did not require lining up outside a store or waiting days for delivery. They needed only a few taps on a quick-commerce app to get one delivered to their doorstep in about 10 minutes. Bl

SpaceX has expanded its contract with NASA and will conduct an additional three crewed Dragon flights to the International Space Station through 2030, netting Elon Musk's company up to $946 million upon completion. The award for flight support brings SpaceX's total missions under

SpaceX has expanded its contract with NASA and will conduct an additional three crewed Dragon flights to the International Space Station through 2030, netting Elon Musk's company up to $946 million upon completion. The award for flight support brings SpaceX's total missions under

While geopolitical tensions, elevated crude oil prices, and persistent foreign investor selling kept the Indian stock market under pressure, the weakness in the secondary market did little to dent activity in the primary market. As many as 19 companies across the mainboard and SM

JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon and Citigroup chief Jane Fraser are set to attend President Donald Trump's state dinner for Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Washington next week, sources familiar with the matter told CNBC on Friday. The White House did not immediately respond to CNBC'

Google is testing a new product designed to help families coordinate with the support of an AI agent. This week, the search giant introduced a new version of CC, an AI agent designed to work across email, calendar, chats, and tasks. With the update, CC now focuses on keeping fami

On Wednesday, US government officials removed a Chinese AI search tool that was briefly deployed on the Federal Register website, Reuters reported. The change came after social media users noticed an apparent contradiction: The National Archives was using one of Alibaba’s Qwen AI

An aircraft equipped with Joby Aviation’s autonomy technology flew more than 3,100 miles across the United States without a human pilot taking control at any point, the company said Friday. The flight not only demonstrated the capabilities of Joby’s autonomy tech, but also showed

The transition comes nine months after Warren Buffett handed over the CEO role to longtime Berkshire executive Greg Abel. Howard's appointment continues a succession plan that has been in place for years, with his role focused on preserving the company's culture rather than runni

AI - Microsoft agentically ports Copilot runtime to Rust for $120KThe Rust compiler remains unperturbed by the antics of the LLM - Virginia governor wakes up to fact datace

The American automotive industry wants President Donald Trump to maintain policies that make it difficult for Chinese automakers to operate in the U.S. — or even ban them altogether. In a letter to Trump dated Thursday and viewed by CNBC, groups representing major facets of the U

Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary apologises over 'high-fare rapists' remarks - Published Ryanair chief executive Michael O'Leary has said he is "truly sorry" for describing rival airlines as "high-fare rapists". He had previously refused to apologise to a rape crisis centre which cri

A week after an Anthropic researcher’s doomsday warning rattled the AI world, the company’s CEO Dario Amodei has outlined his plan to “pace the frontier” of AI development. The proposal leans on independent safety evaluators and coordination between AI labs in democratic countrie

Storage News Ticker - 18 September Alation announced six new products for its enterprise AI operating system AIOS, including a first-of-its-kind product to enable real-time monitoring of enterprise AI agent compliance that helps solve one of the biggest roadblocks to AI agent per

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) is positioning the state to take the lead on AI oversight, including the potential to mandate a “kill switch” for frontier models, with a new executive order issued Friday. Gavin Newsom is pushing for an AI kill switch With Congress unlikely to ac

Over 100 artificial intelligence experts and evaluators are banding together to warn they won't have the necessary resources and protections to test the safety of AI technology, which is facing heightened scrutiny due to concerns from insiders about the potential dangers of front

Over 100 artificial intelligence experts and evaluators are banding together to warn they won't have the necessary resources and protections to test the safety of AI technology, which is facing heightened scrutiny due to concerns from insiders about the potential dangers of front

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AI - Microsoft agentically ports Copilot runtime to Rust for $120KThe Rust compiler remains unperturbed by the antics of the LLM - Virginia governor wakes up to fact datace

Friends, Dave Thomas had a confession to make: He was just fourteen. Two years earlier, Thomas had come to Regas Restaurant in Knoxville, Tennessee, asking for a job at the counter. He’d told the owner he was sixteen. He was, in fact, twelve. Money hadn’t been the only thing that