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Off the Wire Press Releases Aug. 27, 2026 — The U.S. National Science Foundation Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering encourages the research community to apply to the NSF Expeditions in Computing program. Expeditions support ambitious, transformative

Off the Wire Press Releases SAN JOSE, Calif., Aug. 27, 2026 — MIPS, by GF, today announced it is now a Premier Member of RISC-V International, with Yankin Tanurhan, SVP & CTO of MIPS, by GF, appointed as Vice Chairman of the RISC-V International Board. The milestone advances GF a

* Warsh speaks at Jackson Hole on Friday as investors watch for policy clues * Investors weigh BOJ comments on possible rate hikes * Fed's Schmid, Goolsbee, Hammack flag inflation concerns * US weekly jobless claims slightly lower than expected (Updates to afternoon trading) By C

Werro edges closer to 800m mark as world records fall in Zurich - Published European champion Audrey Werro came tantalisingly close to downing the oldest outdoor world record in athletics, finishing a little more than four tenths of a second off Jarmila Kratochvilova's 800m mark

Anthropic on Thursday announced a new interface that will make it simpler for AI agents to operate and communicate with machinery, as the artificial intelligence giant pushes into the physical world. The Model Hardware Standard, or MHS, is designed to work with any device that ha

Brian recently caught up with Tim Shedd, an expert in thermal management and a pioneer in liquid cooling technologies. The podcast covers some of the historical aspects of data center liquid cooling, from Tim’s time working with Cray and spraying liquid across tubes to his more r

A version of this article first appeared in CNBC's Inside Wealth newsletter with Robert Frank, a weekly guide to the high-net-worth investor and consumer. Sign up to receive future editions, straight to your inbox. Family offices boosted their stock holdings in the second quarter

Donald Trump may be preparing to announce sweeping new semiconductor tariffs at the absolute worst time, the tech industry fears. On Thursday, Politico reported that a wide range of new semiconductor tariffs, which the tech industry expects will “doom” artificial intelligence inn

(Bloomberg) -- Zinc slipped from the highest level in more than four years, tracking losses in other metals while traders continue to monitor signs of supply tightness on the London Metal Exchange. Futures initially climbed as much as 1% before heading lower on the LME, with all

After an explosive debut and equally impressive crash, SpaceX shares are now, well, hovering in midair. After debuting as the most volatile stock among its large-cap peers, Elon Musk's astronomic equity hasn't moved in three weeks, with shares trading in a $10 range around the $1

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The national median apartment rent in August grew 0.1% from July, moving higher for the seventh straight month, according to Apartment List. While that might seem tiny, it is the first positive rent growth for the month since August 2022. Rents are still 0.8% lower compared with

Off the Wire Press Releases Aug. 27, 2026 — The EuroHPC JU continues to fund two flagship projects, EuroCC and CASTIEL, for a third period, further expanding HPC adoption and capabilities across Europe, while strengthening their collaborative network. EuroCC3: National Competence

Artificial Intelligence Introducing OpenAI models on Amazon Bedrock for in-country inferencing in India Amazon Bedrock now supports the OpenAI GPT-5.6 models, Terra and Luna, in India, with India geographic cross-Region inference. If you have local data processing requirements in

Off the Wire Press Releases SEATTLE and SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug. 27, 2026 — Amazon Web Services (AWS) and NVIDIA have announced a major expansion of their strategic collaboration to meet surging global demand for AI infrastructure as demand continues to accelerate. Building on a

Chelsea agree £7.5m fee for Villa's Martinez - Published Chelsea have agreed a £7.5m fee to sign Aston Villa goalkeeper Emiliano Martinez. The Argentina international, 33, is set to undergo a medical in London and strengthen the goalkeeping group at Stamford Bridge. It follows co

NVIDIA has announced the Jetson Orin Nano 2, an updated system-on-module and developer kit engineered to run compact foundation models and real-time computer vision workloads at the edge. The release targets embedded robotics, unmanned aerial vehicles, and industrial edge devices

OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, Advanced Micro Devices and more than 100 other companies and entities signed a letter on Thursday calling on businesses and policymakers to prioritize cybersecurity and "act decisively" to bolster defenses in the age of artificial intelligence. "We h

OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, Advanced Micro Devices and more than 100 other companies and entities signed a letter on Thursday calling on businesses and policymakers to prioritize cybersecurity and "act decisively" to bolster defenses in the age of artificial intelligence. "We h

Allan Little: I met dangerously fanatical Mladić early in Bosnian war - Published Bosnian Serb commander Ratko Mladić, dubbed the "Butcher of Bosnia" for his actions during the Balkan wars of the 1990s, has died in prison. BBC special correspondent Allan Little was there througho

TerraMaster is expanding its enterprise storage efforts around a group of rackmount and tower NAS systems designed for centralized backup, data protection, video surveillance storage, and other business workloads, a step up in ambition from the consumer NAS and Thunderbolt storag

SK Hynix, the South Korean memory maker that's emerged as one of the biggest winners in the AI boom, is bolstering its U.S. presence, with a new factory in Indiana that CEO Kwak Noh-Jung says will make the state a "key HBM production base in America" by 2030. Speaking at the grou

SK Hynix, the South Korean memory maker that's emerged as one of the biggest winners in the AI boom, is bolstering its U.S. presence, with a new factory in Indiana that CEO Kwak Noh-Jung says will make the state a "key HBM production base in America" by 2030. Speaking at the grou

Smith & Cox help England to 248-9 on truncated day one - Published Second Rothesay Test, Lord's (day one of five) England 248-9: Smith 61, Cox 55; Abbas 4-56 Pakistan: Yet to bat Jamie Smith and Jordan Cox battled difficult conditions and an improved Pakistan performance to take

The U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, or ATF, says a cyberattack on one of its systems has been declared a “major incident,” a formal, legally defined classification that prompts a formal notification to lawmakers in Congress. ATF said in a statement that

POWER POINT What I'm hearing from energy insiders The Great Hormuz Debate. Exactly how many ships - and how much oil - are getting through the Strait of Hormuz? With apologies to Shakespeare's Hamlet, that is the question. Let's start with what we do know. We know that the amount

Over a hundred tech companies — including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Microsoft — have signed an open letter urging both the private and public sectors to work together to defend themselves from AI-related cyber threats. The letter — which was also signed by prominent cyber fi

Man City and Aston Villa to face champions PSG - Published European champions Paris St-Germain will face Premier League duo Manchester City and Aston Villa as well as five-time winners Barcelona in the league phase of this season's Champions League. The back-to-back Champions Lea

Insurance broker Pluto Insurance has appointed Abhishek Singh as CEO, with around 23 years of experience in the insurance industry. Singh joins from Upstox, where he worked on its insurance business, and previously spent over 11 years at OneInsure, according to his LinkedIn post.

For the first time in decades, NASA has rolled out one of its iconic astronaut training aircraft with a bold, new look. The space agency debuted a new livery on one of its T-38 jets in celebration of its program to return astronauts to the Moon. The Artemis design retains nods to

Cloud and data centre company ESDS Software Solution has raised ₹216 Cr from anchor investors ahead of the opening of its ₹720 Cr initial public offering (IPO). In its filings with the BSE, the Nashik-based company said that it allotted 50.3 Lakh equity shares to 19 entities at ₹

Cisco is broadening its Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA initiative by adding Supermicro as a compute partner, incorporating Supermicro’s liquid- and air-cooled systems into Cisco’s full-stack AI infrastructure architecture. The expansion targets enterprise, neocloud, and sovereign

Indian stock market investors are likely to track several companies on Friday, August 28, following key developments and announcements made after market hours. Hero MotoCorp, Tejas Networks, Zee Entertainment, ACME Solar Holdings, NBCC, RailTel, and RPP Infra Projects are among t

Dive Brief: - After not growing its e-commerce business since 2021, Bath & Body Works is seeing clear signs of progress in the channel, executives said on a Wednesday earnings call with analysts. - The retailer’s digital business returned to growth in the second quarter. - “Digit

Google is giving Pokémon fans a new reason to wear a Fitbit. The company announced Thursday a special-edition Fitbit Air that works with Pokémon Sleep, combining Fitbit’s health and fitness tracking and the sleep-focused Pokémon game. The announcement comes as Pokémon celebrates

Weekly quiz: Who is taking over as Gilderoy Lockhart in HBO's Harry Potter series? - Published This week, Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama died, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and US President Donald Trump announced tariffs on each other's countries after trade talks collapsed,

Fashion startup Atorie announced Thursday a $9.5 million seed round with investors, including a16z speedrun, Night Capital, and Lightspeed Ventures’ Jeremy Liew. The company says shoppers can visit the Atorie website and buy handbags or clothes made from the same materials — and