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Bitcoin's more than 20% rally this week has sent the cryptocurrency to heights it hasn't seen since May, but traders on prediction market platform Kalshi see it ending 2026 near current levels. Speculators estimate that bitcoin's price at the end of 2026 will be around $75,000, b

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It’s Scott Bessent’s birthday today. He’s sixty four. Rather than doing the garden, though, digging the weeds, the US Treasury Secretary has been intervening in bond markets. In an effort to stem rising yields, Bessent announced that his department would ramp up purchases of long

Waymo is opening up for the first time about the brain that powers its driverless car tech. In a blog post Thursday, the Alphabet-owned company revealed that it designed its own custom computer chip that can quickly crunch raw data coming from a car’s cameras, lidar, and radar, a

At a reported $8 billion, Stripe is planning to pay a hefty price for OpenRouter. The aggregator and distributor of AI models raised money just a few months ago at a $1.3 billion valuation. With a deal, OpenRouter’s business could be destined for commoditization, and that’s actua

Come for the funny videos, stay for the insight into the future of automation. While it’s only in its second year, China’s World Humanoid Robot Games are quickly becoming one of my favorite global tech events. Sure, the clips of robots running into walls are incredible content, b

The Dell Pro Precision 5 16s AMD brings the Ryzen AI 9 HX PRO 475 into Dell’s larger 16-inch mobile workstation chassis, pairing 12 cores and 24 threads with Radeon 890M graphics and a 60 TOPS NPU. Our review unit adds 64GB of LPDDR5x memory, a 1 TB PCIe Gen4 SSD, and a 2560 x 16

Prince Harry and six others face privacy case legal bill of up to £34.5m - Published Prince Harry and six other public figures face paying up to £34.5m to the publisher of the Daily Mail after a High Court judge imposed an exceptional order for legal costs over their failed priva

Across several hardware generations, memory and networking vendors have identified different choke points in high-performance computing clusters. Memory manufacturers focused on in-package memory bandwidth, while network fabric providers addressed inter-chassis and cross-rack thr

The News Economic historian Phillip Magness wasn’t expecting to go viral last week when he posted a clip of Vice President JD Vance criticizing the US dollar’s status as global reserve currency. While researching tariffs, Magness unearthed 2023 footage of Vance telling the populi

Artificial Intelligence Agentic Data Operations Platform (ADOP): Data engineering into hours Data engineering teams routinely spend weeks standing up a single new data source: writing ETL, hand-writing quality checks, updating semantic models, and validating compliance. The Agent

Zayo Locks Up Corning Fiber Capacity for AI Network Buildout The agreement secures a material portion of the fiber Zayo needs for its 15,000 route-mile network expansion through 2030. Telecommunications firm Zayo is reserving manufacturing capacity with Corning for a material por

Artificial Intelligence Govern AI agent tool access with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway In our conversations with customers over the past months, one pattern keeps recurring. Whether they work with coding agents, autonomous agents, or human-interactive ones, and regardless of w

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Artificial Intelligence Reduce RAG costs on Amazon Bedrock with query-aware compression Input tokens sent to the foundation model (FM) on every call are often a meaningful part of the cost of running Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) at scale. Query-aware compression offers on

Artificial Intelligence Accelerating aircraft IFEC diagnostics with agentic AI on AWS Panasonic Avionics Corporation provides in-flight entertainment and connectivity (IFEC) systems across a large global fleet serving hundreds of airlines and billions of passengers annually. When

Andreessen Horowitz has two partners sitting on the boards of companies that now compete with each other: Ben Horowitz at Databricks and Martin Casado at Fivetran. Nothing too scandalous on the surface, except the Department of Justice has reportedly been investigating the arrang

This week, Romania accused Russia of sending a drone boat loaded with explosives to a vital European natural gas platform in the Black Sea. A Romanian F-16 fighter jet used its cannons to disable the surface drone so that explosive ordnance experts could blow it up safely. On Aug

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Some Americans worry that the Federal Trade Commission’s rush to limit personalized pricing in the name of consumer protection could end up killing discounts they depend on or, counterintuitively, raising prices. The FTC has no power to ban personalized pricing, in which a busine

POWER POINT What I'm hearing from energy insiders Greetings from Colorado, where I had the opportunity to do a nearly hour-long chat with the Chair of the Federal Trade Commission. While most of the conversation with Andrew Ferguson was about A.I. and Big Tech, we did venture a l

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Today we are looking at the Bosgame M5. This is an AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 system with 128GB of memory. You may have seen that we have been reviewing a number of these platforms, and so we see things. Let us start with the key value proposition: this is between $500 and $1,100 less

Off the Wire Press Releases New framework lays the groundwork for secure scientific AI. Aug. 21, 2026 — Large language models (LLMs) are rapidly becoming capable of acting as “AI scientists,” helping manage many stages of the research process — from experiment design and data ana

Use AdaptGrow, a GPU-accelerated matrix factorization algorithm, to turn rolling correlation and tail-dependence matrices into hard clusters, soft factor loadings, and structural-break signals at single-GPU and multi-node scale Quant strategies routinely group instruments for por

Dive Brief: - Ross Stores Inc. on Thursday reported that customer traffic spiked Q2 comparable sales by 10% compared to last year, its second straight quarter with double-digit comp growth. Store visits in the period rose more than 16%, according to data from Placer.ai. - The i

Venture capital (VC) firms Accel and AVP (formerly AXA Venture Partners) sold over 1 Cr shares of listed media SaaS startup Amagi in block deals worth cumulatively ₹587.3 Cr. As per NSE data, the shares changed hands at ₹560 apiece, a 3% discount to the stock’s closing price on T

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Off the Wire Press Releases Aug. 21, 2026 — On June 2, 2026, the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ) in Garching, Germany, hosted the TPC26 Satellite Event, bringing the Trillion Parameter Consortium (TPC) annual conference closer to the European AI for science community. The eve

Crude oil prices are on track to post a second consecutive weekly gain as hopes for a diplomatic breakthrough in the Middle East faded after the US announced plans to impose sweeping sanctions on Iran, seeking to economically isolate Tehran and pressure it to accept Washington's

A Department of Energy lab is investigating whether Chinese lidar sensors might pose a security risk if they become widely used on vehicles in the United States, TechCrunch has learned. The review is being performed by the Idaho National Laboratory, according to two people famili

How agents can delegate better Nenad Tomasev Research Scientist, Google DeepMind Reshu Yadav Applied AI Blackbelt, Google Cloud In any organizational behavior class, students will learn that effective delegation is among the most important skills for a seasoned leader. Getting me

Cloud CISO Perspectives: Sticking to security fundamentals in the AI era Chris Betz CISO, Google Cloud Get original CISO insights in your inbox The latest on security from Google Cloud's Office of the CISO, twice a month. Subscribe Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for

Broadcom is in talks to raise upwards of $70 billion to $80 billion in debt for a chip financing deal aimed at supporting artificial intelligence companies including Anthropic, CNBC's David Faber confirmed Thursday morning. The senior tranche of financing, which would get paid ba

Broadcom is in talks to raise upwards of $70 billion to $80 billion in debt for a chip financing deal aimed at supporting artificial intelligence companies including Anthropic, CNBC's David Faber confirmed Thursday morning. The senior tranche of financing, which would get paid ba

Goldman said stronger demand from Western investors, together with continued robust central bank purchases, could lift bullion toward important option strike prices. At those levels, dealer hedging could automatically accelerate market moves. "Gold call option demand has risen sh

The company said it has finalised the allocation of 53,25,909 equity shares to anchor investors at an anchor investor allocation price of Rs 988 per share, including a share premium of Rs 986 per share, aggregating to Rs 526.20 crore. Of the total anchor investor portion, 40% was

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