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Nvidia's blockbuster second-quarter numbers, along with its upbeat outlook, not only ignited a chip rally on Wall Street but also lifted global markets, including Taiwan, which has been a key beneficiary of the ongoing AI boom. The TAIEX, Taiwan’s benchmark stock index, closed Fr

Apple increased the price for a monthly subscription to Apple TV by $2, to $15, today. Annual prices increased by 20 percent from $99 to $119. Current subscribers will receive one month’s notice before paying the new prices, Apple said, per Variety. Apple’s most recent price hike

The stock was last trading 15% higher at $23.95, which would add about $1.14 billion to Gap's market value if the gains hold. The sharp rally came despite continued weakness at Old Navy, suggesting investors were encouraged by Gap's higher annual profit forecast and the prospect

Sweden is perhaps one of the world’s hottest tech hubs right now. It has long been home to Spotify and Klarna, but this latest wave of companies — from legal AI startup Legora to vibe-coding tool company Lovable — has left everyone wondering what’s going on in one of the world’s

The Scene If you can’t beat ’em, hook up your data to a chatbot. Salesforce this week announced “Claudeforce,” a partnership with Anthropic that lets salespeople look up customer records and check on deals by typing requests to Claude, instead of clicking through a Salesforce das

Open AI models are evolving faster than ever, but bringing them into native applications can still require model-specific conversion, preprocessing, post-processing, and runtime code. NVIDIA TensorRT Model Connect open collection of reference implementations helps to address this

The regulator is also mulling raising the limit on the size of companies that can list on platforms dedicated to small firms and mandating larger operating profit requirements before listing, the sources, who did not want to be named as the discussions are private, said. The pote

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Trump Targets Foreign Grid Equipment as Data Centers Expand A new Executive Order targets foreign grid equipment as utilities and data center developers contend with tight supplies and long lead times. President Donald Trump has declared a national emergency over the US bulk powe

The Scoop Google and Microsoft were both in talks with Nscale to rent AI computing capacity from the company’s massive data center project in West Virginia — a lease that ultimately went to Anthropic, a person familiar with the matter told Semafor. The AI startup will pay $45 bil

The News JACKSON HOLE, Wyo. — Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh made his debut Friday on one of the global economy’s biggest stages, where he appeared to play the hawk. But looks can be deceiving. Warsh used his first speech at the Kansas City Fed’s storied economic policy sympos

Gold prices reversed their gains and fell by more than 1% on Friday, 28 August, following United States Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh's speech and amid small downward revision in the US nonfarm payrolls numbers, according to reports. Warsh in his speech hinted that the centra

I’m on record declaring James Cameron’s Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) to be The Best Damn Sequel of All Time, and I stand by that assessment. August 29, the fictional date (in 1997) of the franchise’s original nuclear holocaust, is fast approaching, and Judgment Day is celebr

Just as new data centers face growing backlash from neighboring communities, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is about to make it harder for people to weigh in on any pollution those centers create. Trump’s EPA wants to let data centers hide their air pollution The Tr

Voice AI startup Gnani.ai has unveiled Artha, an end-to-end sovereign AI stack aimed at Indian enterprises and public institutions. The platform was unveiled by India’s vice president CP Radhakrishnan in New Delhi today. Artha combines two of Gnani.ai’s core offerings – Evon v3.3

Artificial Intelligence How Decathlon runs demand forecasting at scale with Chronos-2 This post is co-written with Vianney Bruned, Filippo Giruzzi, Belkiss Saidi, and Carlos Ramirez from Decathlon. Decathlon is one of the world’s largest sporting goods retailers, with more than 1

Artificial Intelligence Spreading the load: How Salesforce met Multi-AZ HA with SageMaker Inference Components When Salesforce set out to make Agentforce (Salesforce’s AI foundation for agents) highly available (HA) across multiple Availability Zones (AZs), the team faced a gap.

Sports betting has become fairly ubiquitous in the U.S. since the Supreme Court lifted a federal ban on the practice in 2018. More than a quarter (27%) of Americans and over half (52%) of men aged 18 to 49 say they have an active online sportsbook account, according to a Siena Po

Kioxia and Sandisk outlined a joint capital investment plan totaling over $31 billion (approximately 5 trillion yen) through 2032 to expand advanced 3D NAND flash memory production in Japan. The planned deployment of capital is contingent on Japanese government subsidies and buil

The growing backlash against surveillance companies like Flock may have reached a tipping point. A new survey has found that more Americans oppose these surveillance cameras than support them. According to a new YouGov survey of 20,000 people across the U.S. that was shared exclu

MSI brings DDR4 back to gaming laptops amidst DRAM crisis — Katana 15 HX C14 available with up to Core i9-14900HX and RTX 5070 MSI turns to cheaper DDR4 amid the DRAM crisis. The ongoing DRAM crisis has led to a sharp increase in laptop prices, with manufacturers facing exponenti

Dive Brief: - Nike said Thursday that Walmart vet Jane Ewing will become chief commercial officer on Sept. 7, according to a memo to employees from CEO Elliott Hill. Ewing, who will report to Hill and be a member of the senior leadership team, takes on a position that was just el

The deal involved 1.18 crore shares of Ather Energy. The transaction came a day after Hero MotoCorp said it would invest up to Rs 1,758 crore to acquire additional shares in Ather Energy from an existing shareholder. Reuters reported that the purchase would raise Hero MotoCorp's

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New US export controls reportedly target Chinese access to remote AI servers — Trump admin's cut-down AI diffusion rule could be shared with industry as soon as September Questions remain about the Commerce Department's authority to implement the rule. The Trump administration is

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Purple Style Labs has allotted 5,321,739 equity shares to 10 anchor investors and raised ₹306 crore at the anchor investor allocation price of ₹575 per equity share ahead of the listing. The shares have a face value of ₹10 each, including a share premium of ₹565 per equity share,

Meta is rolling out an obvious fix to make its AI glasses less creepy amid backlash over the glasses’ non-consensual recordings that have flooded the Internet. On Friday, The Verge reported that Meta closed a loophole that made it easy for smart glasses users to cover up an LED l

Listen to this article in summarized format Warsh said inflation numbers in the US were more concerning and added that he would be hard pressed to describe broad financial conditions as restrictive, remarks that markets could read as a signal that the Fed may not be done fighting

Hero MotoCorp has increased its stake in electric two-wheeler maker Ather Energy to around 32.8% by acquiring shares from GIC, the sovereign wealth fund of Singapore. As per bulk deal data, Hero MotoCorp acquired 1.19 crore Ather shares from Government of Singapore (GIC) at Rs 1,

The offer is being undertaken to achieve the minimum public unitholding of the Trust prescribed under Regulation 14(2A) of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Real Estate Investment Trusts) Regulations, 2014, as amended, according to the filing. The sale comprises a base

Off the Wire Press Releases PARIS, Aug. 28, 2026 — Pasqal, a global leader in neutral-atom quantum computing, has announced the composition of the Board of Directors of Pasqal Holding SA (the combined company), following the completion of its business combination with Bleichroede

Retro, the friend-focused photo-sharing app built by former Instagram product engineers Nathan Sharp and Ryan Olson, has raised north of $21 million in Series A funding, according to an SEC filing. The fundraise is a testament to the enduring need for social apps that connect peo

Andreessen Horowitz has launched a new “Machine Age” fund with $1.1 billion raised. The firm’s aim with the new fund is to “open the throttle and accelerate the physical buildout of AI.” The fund will focus on hardware, bucking the firm’s typical focus on the scaling power of sof

America | Tech | Opinion | Culture | Charts To hear more about Machine Age Fund, watch the companion podcast on the A16Z Show. We’ve raised $1.1B for a16z’s newest fund: the Machine Age Fund. It’s time to open the throttle and accelerate the physical buildout of AI: the strongest

Off the Wire Press Releases An AI agent, Anthropic’s Claude, developed and validated the control logic for the laser system in a QuEra quantum computer, recovering it in seconds versus an expert needing minutes, and holding it steadier than a specialist’s manual tune. QuEra plans