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Global AI infrastructure spending could exceed $31 trillion through 2050, PwC analysts projected, as firms forge ahead with a flurry of data center deals. US chipmaker Qualcomm on Tuesday announced a massive AI chip deal with Amazon, while TikTok is expanding its data center capa

OpenAI announced the proof to one of math’s great outstanding questions — although not without drama. The Navier-Stokes equations describe fluid flow, from “your bathtub’s drain to… El Niño,” Scientific American wrote, but two centuries on, scientists don’t know whether they alwa

A US startup used AI models to identify a potentially devastating bug in Chinese super-app WeChat, in the latest sign of the cyber capabilities — and risks — of advanced AI tech. The attack tool, known as a worm, could allow someone to hijack WeChat accounts and spread automatica

One of Beijing’s top America experts wrote that the upcoming US-China summit offers a “rare opportunity” to put a floor under the countries’ relations, potentially signaling Beijing’s mindset ahead of the Washington meeting. Whereas Beijing once rejected Washington’s framing of “

CNBC's Jim Cramer said Tuesday that investors need to expand their horizons beyond the artificial intelligence trade. "There's more to life — and investing — than the data center," the "Mad Money" host said. "The endless focus on the data center, and the anti-data center backlash

CNBC's Jim Cramer said Tuesday that investors need to expand their horizons beyond the artificial intelligence trade. "There's more to life — and investing — than the data center," the "Mad Money" host said. "The endless focus on the data center, and the anti-data center backlash

France and Canada joined the UK in announcing trade sanctions on Israel’s West Bank settlements Tuesday, as rising settler violence in the occupied territory widened a geopolitical rift between Israel and its allies. They are among 12 nations that signed a letter condemning Israe

Click in for more news from The Hill{beacon} Healthcare Healthcare The Big Story Federal court to hear arguments on abortion pill access A three-judge panel on the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans will hear arguments Wednesday in a case that could eventually restr

Bouaddi impresses on first start - have Man City found 'a gem'? - Published Ayyoub Bouaddi belied his age with a mature Champions League performance on his first Manchester City start to showcase why the club were so intent on signing the 18-year-old. The midfielder took centre s

Corning and Qualcomm rallied on Tuesday and brought a host of AI-related stocks along with them, as a pair of infrastructure deals lifted Wall Street's confidence that data center spending will remain strong. Chipmakers Intel and Advanced Micro Devices gained 9% and 6% respective

Corning and Qualcomm rallied on Tuesday and brought a host of AI-related stocks along with them, as a pair of infrastructure deals lifted Wall Street's confidence that data center spending will remain strong. Chipmakers Intel and Advanced Micro Devices gained 9% and 6% respective

Hedge-fund manager Brian Kelly has his staff working 24/7, yet his payroll costs are a fraction of what they once were. That's because Kelly — who previously ran a cryptocurrency hedge fund — created his new trading firm, Bracket22, to be powered entirely by agentic artificial in

Live updates: Supreme Court denies GOP on Missouri map suit; Canadian tariffs, Trump threats grow trade war Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh on Tuesday denied a request to lift a block on Missouri’s new congressional map, which was poised to give Republicans a pickup opportu

LG TVs are facing scrutiny due to a video seemingly showing the devices’ capability to track users when the TVs are off. YouTube channel Gamers Nexus worked with Level1Techs, a technology-focused YouTube channel, and security researchers to analyze LG TVs’ tracking capabilities.

Off the Wire Press Releases Sept. 8, 2026 — Agentic AI is reshaping the demands on AI infrastructure. As AI moves from inference to action, agents reason, retrieve data, call tools, and interact with databases and other agents, driving significantly more CPU-based computation acr

Canada tariffs on US goods take effect amid trade war: What to know Canada’s retaliatory tariffs on an array of U.S. goods went into effect on Tuesday, marking the latest chapter of a weeks-long trade war between the two countries. The “dollar for dollar” levies — ranging from 15

US military destroys 5 Iranian oil tankers The U.S. military destroyed five Iranian oil tankers linked to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Tuesday in response to attempted Iranian missile launches at U.S. Navy warships, the U.S. Central Command (Centcom) announced. Th

AWS Compute Blog Bring your own client certificate for backend mTLS in Amazon API Gateway Enterprises that use Amazon API Gateway in front of internal or partner backends often want to bring their own client certificate for backend mutual TLS (mTLS) authentication. During mTLS, t

Paul Adams: British-Israeli relations at lowest ebb in decades - Published Israel's furious response to the British government's decision to ban trade with Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank testifies to just how important this moment is. Britain took the brunt of Isra

LIV Golf has filed for bankruptcy protection as the upstart golf league faces a Saudi funding cliff and searches for new investment. The golf venture — initially backed by Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, or PIF — said Tuesday it has entered into a restructuring support agr

The Trump administration expressed "profound concern" Tuesday about Ford Motor's ties to Chinese companies that it believes could be detrimental to the Detroit carmaker and U.S. automotive industry. In a letter addressed to Ford CEO Jim Farley, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy

Those who remember PC gaming in the days before Steam may have fond memories of the “big box” packaging that made those games stand out as shelf eye candy and sought-after in-home collectibles. Today, PC gaming platform GOG is hoping to reignite some of the nostalgia for those da

LIV files for bankruptcy protection with over $45m owed to players - Published LIV Golf has filed for bankruptcy protection with at least $45m (£33m) owed to players, who will now have the option to leave. A Chapter 11 petition, which LIV says is to "preserve the company's busine

AI - AI+ML Google DeepMind rises above the AI scrum with genome atlasSee, AI can be used for good ... or at the very least, a useful distraction from the bad - AI and ML Am

Microsoft’s patch for September is a doozy, with a record number of roughly 972 vulnerabilities fixed and 112 of them meeting the high critical-severity threshold. It was only two months ago that Microsoft patched a then-record 570 vulnerabilities. Then, last month, Microsoft pat

On August 4, Grant De Swardt, an independent AI consultant in East Sussex, U.K., noticed something strange going on with his Claude Max 20x account. He hadn’t been working that day, yet his token usage was climbing. The next day, he disabled everything he had attached to Claude a

Cognition, the startup developing coding assistant Devin, announced it raised $2 billion at a $48 billion valuation. The round, which comes just four months after Cognition’s previous fundraise at a $26 billion valuation, was led by Andreessen Horowitz, Accel, Founders Fund, Gene

OpenAI says it found a solution to a major math problem that has remained unsolved for around 90 years, as reported earlier by The New York Times and Wired. In a blog post on Tuesday, OpenAI announced that it discovered a solution to the Navier-Stokes problem — which relates to t

The queue to send objects into orbit is growing, but space infrastructure isn’t keeping up with demand. As the realization sinks in that Elon Musk’s SpaceX can’t be the sole answer, other companies are raising their hand — and money. These include The Exploration Company (TEC), w

AI agents can use Quill to talk direct to enterprise SQL databases RavenDB says its Quill AI context software means AI agents can access existing SQL databases without migrating the data to a new repository or building a custom AI software stack. RavenDB is an Israeli company shi

RNLI volunteers facing 'unacceptable' abuse, chief says - Published RNLI staff have faced "unacceptable" online and physical abuse since anti-migrant protests at the weekend, the charity's chief executive has said. On Sunday, police faced off with demonstrators who blocked roads