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Hot Chips 2026: Nvidia presents Groq 3 LPX architecture and unveils its first third-party inference benchmark — LP30-based rack already in production, company says The inference rack built from Nvidia's $20 billion Groq acquisition claims a four-times long-context decode lead. Th

Shares of Aastha Spintex, the Gujarat-based integrated cotton yarn manufacturer, were locked in a 10% upper circuit during Wednesday's trade, August 26, hitting ₹80 apiece. The rally came after the company announced that its Board of Directors would consider the declaration of a

AI - AI and ML Debian polls its developers on whether to burn the bots, tame the bots, or let 'em looseEight-way ballot on AI code puts the distro's fractious democracy through its paces -

Agentic AI startup Runable has raised $21 million in a Series A funding round co-led by Susquehanna Venture Capital and Nexus Venture Partners, with participation from existing investors Together Fund and Array VC. The company plans to use the fresh capital to expand its growth c

Dive Brief: - Kohl’s Wednesday reported progress in its turnaround, as Q2 net sales fell less than 1% year on year to $3.3 billion, with comps also down less than 1%. Sephora at Kohl’s sales fell 4%, after dropping in Q1. - Gross margin expanded by 305 basis points to 43%, helped

VC firm Lightspeed Venture Partners has exited edtech major PhysicsWallah (PW), minting ₹549.7 Cr from the sale of 4.67 Cr shares via block and bulk deals today. According to market data, the firm, via its holding entity Lightspeed Opportunity Fund II sold the shares at weighted

The Scoop The Trump administration is unveiling a new proposal aimed at turning the nation’s highway and rail lines into “multi-use” utility corridors that could hold critical infrastructure like transmission wires, fiber optic lines, and water pipelines. The plan, dubbed “Americ

Under the terms of its $18 billion settlement to resolve claims brought by 29 U.S. states over children’s safety, Meta on Wednesday agreed to sweeping changes designed to restrict minors’ access to Instagram and Facebook. The changes include a daily time limit, a restrictive “Nig

This blog post is the second of a four-part series called The Economics of Agent Optimization which shares the strategies, capabilities, and proof points to help you optimize agent costs and run AI as a managed investment system on Microsoft Foundry. The first post set out the th

Vibe-coding darling Lovable just raised $400 million at a $13.3 billion valuation, roughly doubling its worth in eight months. But Lovable isn’t the only Stockholm startup putting up huge numbers lately — legal AI company Legora and health tech startup Neko Health are right there

Off the Wire Press Releases CAMBRIDGE, England and LOS ANGELES, Aug. 26, 2026 — The second international Quantum Datacenter Alliance (QDA) Forum will be held on October 1, 2026, at Battersea Power Station in London. This exclusive-access event brings together technical and busine

Off the Wire Press Releases Five-year investments in UChicago-led QuBBE and UIUC-led HQAN advance quantum sensing for biology, industry-ready quantum computing, and workforce development Aug. 26, 2026 — The U.S. National Science Foundation has renewed two NSF Quantum Leap Challen

North American non-commenced leases reached 25.5 GW in the second quarter of 2026, up 32% quarter over quarter and 346% year over year, Jefferies said in its report, “Race for Capacity is Driving Leased Volumes to Record Levels.” While leased facilities account for only about 21%

Sensex lost 183 points to close at around 77,473 while Nifty 50 dropped 127 points or more than half a percent to end the session below 24,208. Broader markets ended mixed, with Nifty Smallcap 100 rising 0.8% while Nifty Midcap slipped into the red. Here's how analysts read the m

Barnes & Noble is ready to keep Windy City readers stocked with their favorite books, most recently with the opening of a store on State Street in Chicago’s Loop on Aug. 19. And customers are seemingly ready, too — a line formed down the block on opening day so shoppers could get

Listen to this article in summarized format However, these gains were largely offset by weakness in IT stocks after the US paused visa appointments amid an immigration crackdown which rekindled margin pressure concerns. Here are two stock recommendations for Thursday. Ashok Leyla

Dive Brief: - Bath & Body Works Q2 earnings exceeded the company’s expectations, with net sales down 2.3% year over year to $1.5 billion, according to a Wednesday press release. Direct to consumer saw positive growth for the first time since 2021. - The company narrowed its full-

US Justice Department seizes domains it says Chinese state-sponsored hackers used to infiltrate systems at NASA, Senate, Federal Reserve, and more — FBI moves forward with domain seizures The group has apparently been operating since 2018. The U.S. Department of Justice and FBI r

Artificial Intelligence Connect Amazon Bedrock AgentCore to cross-account knowledge bases Organizations often deploy agents using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, a platform to build, connect, and optimize agents at scale, with any framework or model. These agents may access governed kn

Particle, the AI newsreader startup founded by former Twitter engineers, is shifting its focus to a potentially more lucrative idea: indexing the spoken conversations buried in podcasts and making them discoverable. On Wednesday, the company introduced Radar, a podcast search eng

Off the Wire Press Releases Aug. 26, 2026 — The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded the National Data Platform (NDP) a five-year, $24.5 million Cooperative Agreement to build a federated, AI-ready national data ecosystem, making it easier to discover, access and an

A federal appeals court yesterday blocked a Trump administration decision that could have resulted in even more political advertisements appearing on broadcast television during the upcoming elections. The Federal Communications Commission recently ordered broadcasters to offer t

AI - AI and ML Debian polls its developers on whether to burn the bots, tame the bots, or let 'em looseEight-way ballot on AI code puts the distro's fractious democracy through its paces -

Trump officials threaten Kennedy Center demolition if court blocks renovations - Published The Trump administration has threatened to demolish the Kennedy Center if planned renovations for the performing arts venue are not allowed to be carried out, court documents show. Attorney

Liverpool eye Sarr after Brighton reject Minteh bids - Published Liverpool are exploring a move for Crystal Palace's Ismaila Sarr after Brighton rejected their two bids for Yankuba Minteh. The Anfield club had offers of £50m and £60m for Minteh, 22, turned down by Brighton and ha

We saw signs of domestic abuse, but we didn't know how to protect Stacy - Published Stacy Hunter's family saw clear signs that she was being manipulated, controlled and abused by her estranged husband Jim Mair long before he murdered her. Mair "dictated" what was happening in Sta

Xbox boss 'thinking about affordability' of next-gen console - Published Xbox chief executive Asha Sharma says the gaming giant needs to be "thinking about" affordability for its next-generation console, amid a "crisis" in computing prices. In an interview with the BBC, she said

Gap Inc. in recent years has turned around its namesake brand through more culturally relevant marketing, delivering 10 consecutive quarters of comparable sales growth and shoring up appeal with young shoppers. The company is now trying to translate some of that revamp magic to A

Stourbridge fires that razed 19 homes accidental - Published Two fires that destroyed 19 homes in Stourbridge were started accidentally in fields where farming machinery was in use, according to West Midlands Fire Service. Investigators established agricultural equipment was bein

Groww’s early backer Ribbit Capital has offloaded a cumulative 11.31 Cr shares via two bulk deals today, as per NSE market data. Ribbit Capital V sold 6.3 Cr shares at ₹196 apiece while Ribbit Cayman GW Holdings V sold nearly 5 Cr shares at ₹196.06 apiece. Both transactions were

Anthropic is preparing for a potential Wall Street debut within weeks, in what could become one of the biggest tech listings yet. The OpenAI rival has built its business around computer coding, a strategy that has helped it rapidly scale revenue even as the company faces politica

Target will launch its Beauty Studio concept in about 600 locations on Sept. 10, about a month after its Ulta Beauty partnership ended. The spaces will feature over 1,600 products from 90 brands. More than two-thirds of the brands are new to Target, according to a company announc

Shares of Meta Platforms rebounded on Wednesday, 26 August, rising 4% to $593 apiece on the Nasdaq after the social media giant settled a major federal case and agreed to make significant changes to Facebook and Instagram. Meta has agreed to pay $16.68 billion and introduce addit

Maura Higgins to fill Cilla Black's shoes as host of Blind Date reboot - Published Maura Higgins is set to follow in the footsteps of the late Cilla Black as presenter of Blind Date in a reboot of the popular TV show. The Irish TV personality rose to fame in 2019 as a finalist on

Rupert Grint to return to Harry Potter in Broadway play - Published Harry Potter star Rupert Grint is to return to the role of Ron Weasley - playing the character as an adult in the spin-off play in New York. Grint was first cast to play Ron in the original films at the age of 11

AI - AI and ML Debian polls its developers on whether to burn the bots, tame the bots, or let 'em looseEight-way ballot on AI code puts the distro's fractious democracy through its paces -

Off the Wire Press Releases Aug. 26, 2026 — Sparrow Quantum has announced that the company is one of 13 selected for funding under the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking’s Quantum Grand Challenge, an EU program created to accelerate the development of market-ready quantum-computing platfo

Off the Wire Press Releases The combined $75 million in grants aims to overcome critical barriers between today’s quantum systems and practical computing Aug. 26, 2026 — Two computer scientists from the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering have been selected as co-principal investi