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(Bloomberg) -- Mizuho Financial Group Inc. expects the Bank of Japan to pick up the pace of interest-rate hikes, with the next one coming as soon as next month, as the weak yen and inflation prompt the central bank to act more quickly. Kenya Koshimizu, co-head of the global marke

Quantum Startup Qarakal Takes Lessons From Classical Systems With Pangaea Architecture Advancements in quantum computing continue to pile up in areas from error correction and infrastructure to software and algorithms, sharpening the view of what the once-theoretical compute para

Treasury yields are continuing to climb, and at a particularly bad time as higher rates worsen the impact of the nearly $40 trillion government debt load. Longer-dated debt has been hit particularly hard by the recent leg up, pushing the 30-year bond yield close to its highest le

President Donald Trump on Tuesday cut off talks with Iran for the foreseeable future. On Truth Social, Trump wrote that there “are no talks or conversations going on, or scheduled” with Iran. A White House official clarified that the president was announcing an end to talks with

Tracking USS Lincoln's months-long mission as concerns about conditions grow There have been reports of poor conditions on board the USS Abraham Lincoln, which the US Navy says will soon be brought home from the Middle East. The aircraft carrier was originally expected back in Ma

The Trump administration is still eyeing additional economic measures against Iran after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent indicated announcements would come this week, an administration official told Semafor. “There are many levers the president can crank harder in the weeks and

The Justice Department has launched a probe into Andreessen Horowitz regarding the firm’s partners serving on the boards of competing companies, Bloomberg reported. The nearly year-long investigation focuses specifically on the firm’s board seats at Databricks, which is valued at

Treasury yields pulled back slightly on Tuesday after long-dated bonds hit their highest level in almost two decades amid a worsening U.S. fiscal situation and persistently higher inflation. The yield on the U.S. 30-year Treasury bond fell more than 2 basis points to trade at 5.2

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TikTok is developing a feature that would allow users to send each other money via direct messages, according to a new report from Bloomberg. If rolled out, the feature would use the social media service’s TikTok Pay offering, which is already available in Southeast Asia for TikT

Musiala collapses during match for second time - Published Bayern Munich midfielder Jamal Musiala says he is being treated for a "neurological dysfunction" after collapsing during a match for the second time in a four-day period. On Tuesday, Musiala collapsed six minutes after co

Robin Williams’ children are taking over their father’s Instagram account after his daughter spoke out against the use of his AI likeness, as reported earlier by The Wrap. In a post on Tuesday, Zak, Zelda, and Cody Williams write that they want the late actor’s Instagram profile

OpenAI is announcing security updates following the July news that its AI broke out of a sandboxed environment and accidentally hacked Hugging Face, including improvements to its research environments, monitoring, and alignment techniques. The company had already put the brakes o

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Sandisk has taped out the first High Bandwidth Flash memory die. The company put it on a slide at its 2026 Investor Day on August 13, under the header HBF Roadmap, next to what the slide labels an actual die picture. The second half of that slide covers the first HBF inference pr

SpaceX’s most recent Starship test flight may have ended July 24, but its mission isn’t over yet. The spacecraft splashed down in the Indian Ocean intact after flying halfway around the world from SpaceX’s launch base in South Texas. Engineers expected the ship’s life to end with

Enterprise SSD prices increased another 5 percent in July 2026, according to the latest VDURA Flash Volatility Index. While the monthly increase was lower than the extreme fluctuations seen over the past year, flash pricing remains approximately 6.5 times higher than it was in th

Artificial Intelligence Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments is now generally available: Enabling agents to transact safely and autonomously at scale Agents have evolved from simple chat applications to autonomous, long-running systems that dynamically discover and compose dozens of

Off the Wire Press Releases Aug. 18, 2026 — Biology doesn’t happen at one scale. Molecular interactions unfold in milliseconds and nanometers, while disease-associated change such as in Alzheimer’s spreads across millimeters of brain tissue. Understanding complex biological syste

SK hynix and its subsidiary Solidigm are following a two-part manufacturing plan to keep mature flash production separate from next-generation memory. Recent updates show they are expanding older production capacity overseas while also investing heavily at home. These moves will

Off the Wire Press Releases Latest LightBundle eKit delivers terabit-class optical connectivity with up to 335 microLED channels operating at 3 Gbps each SUNNYVALE, Calif., Aug. 18, 2026 — Avicena today announced that it has begun shipping 1 Tbps LightBundle evaluation kits (eKit

AMD said it has achieved an estimated 4x increase in AI energy efficiency from 2024 to mid-2026, exceeding its projected 3x target for the period. It is working toward a 20x improvement in rack-scale AI training and inference efficiency by 2030, a goal it set in June 2025. The co

Off the Wire Press Releases Enables vendors and consumers to test custom workloads and run proprietary models for greater flexibility and security GAINESVILLE, Va., Aug. 18, 2026 — The Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC) today announced the release of the SPECapc f

Disney today sued the Federal Communications Commission and FCC Chairman Brendan Carr in a lawsuit that aims to stop what it called a “campaign of censorship” waged by the Trump administration against ABC. Disney, ABC, and the eight broadcast stations they own filed a complaint i

Off the Wire Press Releases New benchmark categories for generative AI and agentic workflows arrive alongside updated LLM tests, as the industry standard for measuring PC AI performance evolves SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 18, 2026 — MLCommons, an open engineering consortium dedicated to

Off the Wire Press Releases SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug. 18, 2026 — Velaura AI, Inc., an AI compute infrastructure company developing ultra-low-power silicon and software technologies, today announced that it has raised $110 million in Series A financing, bringing its total valuatio

Off the Wire Press Releases SAXONBURG, Pa., Aug. 18, 2026 — Coherent Corp., a global leader in photonics, has announced that it has begun sampling of its 300mm high thermal conductivity silicon carbide (SiC) substrates to leading AI semiconductor partners. The milestone advances

On Tuesday, OpenAI announced a new batch of security policies focused on containing security incidents while models are being tested. The new safeguards include more detailed monitoring of models during the development process, as well as greater emphasis on alignment and securit

Even the Queen could not watch - 10 years since Olympic hockey gold - Published It is getting tense. The date is 19 August 2016, and Great Britain's women hockey players are on the cusp of history. Penalties are under way against the Netherlands in the Olympic final in Rio de Jan

The lowest prices for TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 end in just a few days, this Friday, August 21 at 11:59 p.m. PT. Once that window closes, your chance to save up to $300 on your pass, or get an even larger discount on group pricing, will come to an end. If you’ve been circling aroun

Etched on Tuesday announced that it has raised another $700 million at a $21 billion valuation, led by Jane Street after the famed quant fund tested and bought the startup’s AI hardware. Even by AI standards, this valuation step-up is jaw-droppingly fast. Etched was valued at $5

Apple on Tuesday announced that alternative, third-party app stores in the European Union will be charged a 5% commission on in-app purchases, which the iPhone maker said will "resolve" disagreements with regulators stemming from the implementation of Europe's Digital Markets Act

Apple on Tuesday announced that alternative, third-party app stores in the European Union will be charged a 5% commission on in-app purchases, which the iPhone maker said will "resolve" disagreements with regulators stemming from the implementation of Europe's Digital Markets Act

Shares of Jubilant Ingrevia are expected to attract investor interest in Wednesday’s trade, August 19, after the company announced that it has entered into a binding agreement with Zettaone Technologies India Pvt. Ltd. to acquire a 40% strategic stake for ₹189.2 crore. Following

Artificial Intelligence Customize Amazon Quick embedded chat into your application Amazon Quick embedded chat provides a conversational AI interface that you can integrate directly into your web application. Your users can ask questions, explore data, and get insights without lea

Apple on Tuesday announced a simplified commission structure for apps in the European Union in an effort to resolve its disagreements with the European Commission over the tech giant’s business terms. Under the new model, Apple will replace its per-install Core Technology Fee wit

Artificial Intelligence Implement vector-prompt document classification using Amazon Bedrock Vector-prompt classification on Amazon Bedrock helps insurance companies accurately classify thousands of daily documents: policies, affidavits, endorsements, and regulatory forms, for co

Ubiquiti continues to expand its UniFi power ecosystem with the UPS 2U Pro, a higher-capacity rackmount UPS designed for larger network racks, storage systems, and other infrastructure that needs centralized power protection and management. Following the company’s initial entry i

Artificial Intelligence How Jumio built a real-time feature store on AWS If you’re managing a real-time feature store, you might be facing challenges such as data duplication, feature engineering, feature consistency, manual deployment, and latency. Jumio is an identity verificat

Artificial Intelligence Improve contract search accuracy with auto-generated filters in Amazon Bedrock Enterprises rely on large volumes of complex legal agreements to make critical business decisions — determining rights, renewal options, geographic restrictions, and compliance

Disney's ABC has filed a First Amendment lawsuit against the Federal Communications Commission, calling the government agency's recent investigation into the company a "retaliatory campaign" due to the nature of its programming, which has been critical of President Donald Trump.