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Off the Wire Press Releases EDISON, N.J., Aug. 26, 2026 — Maxis AI has introduced MaxisAI Holarchy, its Verticalized Context Layer, a governed institutional memory that gives life sciences enterprises the trusted organizational context AI agents need to support clinical execution

Xbox announces new disc-to-digital feature for physical media — lets players claim digital versions of their games, with support for Play Anywhere and Cloud Gaming "Our goal is to make it easier for those libraries to move forward with players." Xbox has unveiled its long-rumored

Silicon Valley-based Lightspeed Venture Partners has exited edtech company PhysicsWallah’s shareholding through a Rs 550 crore block deal on the NSE on Wednesday. According to exchange data, Lightspeed, through Lightspeed Opportunity Fund II, sold its entire holding of 4,66,98,12

Kansas town drops charges against teacher arrested for clapping during public hearings on data centers — says that ‘case has been dismissed without prejudice’ It seems that the city is washing its hands off the case and passing the burden on the county. Lux Claridge, the teacher

The genetic code is what life everywhere uses to convert the information contained in DNA into specific protein sequences. With minor variations, the same genetic code is used by every living thing on Earth, suggesting it was already present in the last common ancestor of all of

AI is transforming everything around us but, thus far, it has largely remained contained to the digital realm. Increasingly, however, startups are looking to take it into the real world. Perceptron, a startup started by two former Meta research scientists, is one such company. Fo

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 -

When I heard that Dolly Parton had died on Tuesday, my first thought wasn't about her music. It was about a child opening a book. For the past four years, I've had the privilege of managing Parton's Imagination Library in Cincinnati. The book-gifting program, part of the nonprofi

Boston Scientific said Wednesday it was hit with a cyberattack this week that is affecting its operations. The disclosure sent shares of the $72 billion medical device maker lower. The attack is disrupting Boston Scientific's access to company information systems and applications

The stock, however, pared its gains shortly after. At 10:15 a.m. ET, Meta shares were trading at $568.245, down 0.32% on the Nasdaq. Under the settlement, Meta will also make major changes to Facebook and Instagram to resolve claims by states across the US that the company design

Amazon’s smart home division, Ring, said on Wednesday that it is adopting a new encryption standard called TAKE (Throw Away the Key Encryption) as the default setting for video encryption and user control. The company says this standard lets it protect user privacy without relyin

Hot Chips 2026: Nvidia touts benefits of its DSX MaxLPS site power management approach — tech allows for more compute from fixed data center power budgets Real-time monitoring, dynamic allocation, and smarter planning are all needed for maximum performance from a Rubin installati

Door was locked at Pakistan hospital where fire killed 14 babies, witnesses say - Published It was just after dawn on Wednesday morning at a maternity ward in the Pakistani capital when a horrific blaze erupted. It would go on to kill 14 infants as parents say they waited hours f

Bill Gates posted a long essay to his Gates Notes site today, showing just how much the Microsoft co-founder has been thinking about the social impacts of AI. Gates is mostly in the Responsible AI camp, arguing that Pacing the Frontier, the open letter published by AI employees p

Dolly Parton’s America. If, unlike US President Donald Trump, you don’t have the power to lower flags across your country to half-mast for a week, we suggest instead marking the passing of American national treasure Dolly Parton by listening to WNYC’s podcast series Dolly Parton’

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 -

Warner Bros. Discovery is feeling whiplash. It was only last summer that the company said it would split itself in two and began the process of creating separate, publicly traded entities: Warner Bros., which would have housed the streaming and film units, and Discovery Global, w

U.S. cybersecurity agency CISA said it has observed cyberattacks targeting over 100 internet-exposed systems across the U.S. water and wastewater sector, amid a wave of hacks targeting American critical infrastructure. The number of affected systems provides new context to the sc

US-based Capital Group, through its affiliate American Funds Insurance Series Global Growth and Income Fund, sold 67,64,623 equity shares, representing a 1.04 per cent stake in Mumbai-based Avenue Supermarts, as per bulk deal data on the BSE. The shares were offloaded at an avera

TAPE Folio Photonics optical archive tech is heading to Brazil Folio Photonics optical disk tech is being used by Savartus and OAIS Cloud to provide Archive-as-a-Service in Brazil. OAIS Cloud is a Brazilian digital storage cloud provider and will act as the strategic partner resp

Listen to this article in summarized format The personal consumption expenditures price index, the Fed's preferred inflation gauge, rose 3.7% in July from a year earlier, accelerating from a 3.6% increase in June, according to government data. The reading adds to the policy dilem

Over the weekend, the nerds were buzzing with speculation over which AI lab was behind Ox Alpha, the mysterious new open-weight AI model launched onto OpenRouter anonymously and already topping benchmarks and leaderboards against the best models. As many had expected, Ox Alpha wa

Shares of Navratna defence PSU Bharat Electronics Ltd. (BEL) are likely to remain on investors' radar on Thursday, August 27, after the company announced a sizeable order win in post-market hours on Wednesday. In a regulatory filing, the company said it had secured additional ord

As part of its nuclear fusion processes, the Sun produces a particularly interesting isotope of helium, known as helium-3. Some of this helium-3 escapes the Sun’s gravitational pull as part of the solar wind, a stream of charged particles that emanates out across the Solar System

King and Queen to visit the Caribbean in autumn tour - Published King Charles III and Queen Camilla will travel to the Caribbean later this year, Buckingham Palace has announced. The royal pair will travel to Antigua and Barbuda for the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting, w

The CEOs I have the most respect for today? The ones truly rebuilding their companies for the Age of AI. Not just sort of, kind of, doing so. Not the ones who shipped AI features and put them on the pricing page. I mean the ones tearing up how the product works, how it’s priced,

America | Tech | Opinion | Culture | Charts Most forms of theft take something from you. You notice the car is gone, the account is drained, the files are locked. Brand impersonation is a strange one. Nothing of yours ever leaves. A copy of you, your company, your logo, your logi

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The “bible” of clinical psychiatry—the DSM, short for the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders—is one of the most popular psychiatry reference books around the world. Clinicians use it to diagnose patients and scientists use it to guide research. Despite its wide

Electric mobility startup Hala Mobility’s operating revenue jumped 4.4X to ₹97 Cr in FY26 from ₹22 Cr in FY25, while its profit after tax (PAT) increased ninefold to ₹3.6 Cr from around ₹40 Lakh. The startup now expects its revenue to reach ₹250 Cr to ₹260 Cr in FY27, with its PA

Bengaluru-based Curaa has raised ₹40 Cr ($4.2 Mn) in a Series A funding round led by 3one4 Capital, with existing investors Kae Capital, Lumikai Fund and Better Capital doubling down on the D2C kitchenware startup as well. The two-year old startup intends to utilise the fresh cap

Chipmaking giant and ‘Magnificent Seven’ favourite Nvidia is scheduled to announce its financial performance for the June-ending quarter today, 26 August, with the earnings coming at a time when the company's share price has faced pressure on Wall Street. The chip giant is set to

Meta has agreed to pay up to $18 billion to settle claims from 29 U.S. states over children’s safety. The lawsuit alleged that the social media giant knowingly designed platforms like Instagram and Facebook to addict children, despite knowing about the harms the platforms could p

Zerodha posted a net profit of Rs 4,283 crore in FY26, up around 1.2% from Rs 4,231 crore in the previous fiscal, even as its revenue remained around the same level, co-founder and CEO Nithin Kamath said in the company's latest update. Kamath said Zerodha's revenue has not grown

Listen to this article in summarized format The S&P 500 was little changed, holding near its record high reached earlier this month. As of 11 a.m. ET, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 113 points, or 0.2%, while the Nasdaq Composite slipped 0.2%. The latest inflation data

Prices consumers pay for a variety of goods and services rose slightly in July, according to the Federal Reserve's main inflation gauge. The personal consumption expenditures price index, which the Fed uses as its preferred forecasting tool, increased a seasonally adjusted 0.2% f

Central bankers, policymakers and economists will gather in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, on Thursday for the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City's annual economic policy symposium. Markets are closely monitoring the event for Fed Chair Kevin Warsh's keynote speech after long-term borro

Alexis’s view The most significant impact of record-breaking IPOs by Anthropic and OpenAI may be felt thousands of miles from Silicon Valley, in towns and cities across Africa — cementing a link that has been years in the making. Anthropic’s IPO looks set to value the AI company

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Physical AI is one of the hottest sectors in venture investing, with companies raising billions to apply the tools that gave large language models to robotics. That excitement helped deliver a big IPO for Unitree, China’s leading robot maker, which saw the company valued at $66 b

Hot Chips 2026: Fujitsu's Monaka CPU stacks its entire cache on a separate 5nm die and narrows to 256-bit SVE2 — 350W and 500W SKUs due in 2027 Fujitsu details its Monaka server CPU This Tom's Hardware Premium article is free to read with a Tom's Hardware account; no payment nece

Crypto bro faces 280 years in prison for defrauding investors with promises of an 'AI supercomputer' for mining — jury convicts businessman of running $24-million Ponzi scheme, claimed up to 30% APR and a 100% money-back guarantee He told investors that he’s using an AI supercomp