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Near-packaged optics (NPO) gains ground as the industry hedges against CPO's growing pains — analysts say volume for NPO silicon photonics products will extend until the end of the decade SemiAnalysis calls NPO the interim step between pluggable transceivers and true CPO. SemiAna

Off the Wire Press Releases NEW YORK, Aug. 13, 2026 — For decades, the distribution of quantum information has been confined to laboratory demonstrations because of the fragile nature of maintaining the fidelity of quantum entanglement across today’s deployed telecommunications f

Updated August 13, 2026: Initial publication. On the roadmap as hardware lands: GB300-class systems. Pick order is provisional pending final composite scoring. Every system ranked on this page has been through the StorageReview lab. We benchmark local AI performance directly: vLL

Updated August 13, 2026: The Laptop Battery Life Leaderboard is live with 27 lab-tested systems, joining Best Desktops for Local AI and the Storage Leaderboard. Workstation and business laptop leaderboards are in testing now. StorageReview Best is our family of living leaderboard

The War Between Open Source, Open Weight, And Closed AI Models Ask yourself these questions, assuming you have a serious medical condition and your doctors are going to be using GenAI to scan your images and test results to discover the breadth and depth of your condition and to

Weekly quiz: What was used to smuggle Donald Trump off Air Force One? - Published This week, millions of people across Europe gathered to watch the eclipse, an ancient Roman shipwreck was discovered off the coast of Sicily, and Cristiano Ronaldo married his long-time partner. But

Iran is set to join the BRICS New Development Bank, the country's central bank chief said Thursday, as Tehran seeks to shore up its economic alliances almost six months into its war with the U.S. and Israel. The BRICS alliance was set up in 2006 by founding members Brazil, Russia

Ford made a $2 billion bet two years ago when it closed its Louisville Assembly Plant in Kentucky and scrapped the assembly line system it had used for more than a century. Its goal was to transform the factory into one capable of making a new generation of affordable EVs. The au

LIV set to cancel season-ending Team Championship - Published LIV Golf players have been warned that the season-ending Team Championship later this month is set to be cancelled, BBC Sport has been told. Tickets for the event in Michigan cannot now be purchased online, with LIV's

Saplings: Unstable Ground Part II, a study of founders’ home lives and parental patterns. José Ferrera wanted his money. A week earlier, the farmhand had labored in the orchards of Luigi Giannini, picking fruit. Though he’d received some payment, he’d been stiffed by a dollar. Or

Databricks on Thursday said it closed a $5 billion funding round at a $190 billion valuation to invest in enterprise AI capabilities. The company said that it crossed $7 billion in revenue run rate and grew more than 80% year-over-year in its second quarter. CEO Ali Ghodsi told C

Databricks on Thursday said it closed a $5 billion funding round at a $190 billion valuation to invest in enterprise AI capabilities. The company said that it crossed $7 billion in revenue run rate and grew more than 80% year-over-year in its second quarter. CEO Ali Ghodsi told C

Dive Brief: - About four in ten (42%) of U.S. consumers say that AI tools extend the time it takes them to decide what to buy because AI displays more options to consider, according to a survey of over 1,800 customers in the U.S., U.K., Japan and France by performance marketing f

RAVEL and Strata Expanse have named RT-One as the first commercial customer of the AMPHIX AI Infrastructure Platform, a deployment model designed to validate enterprise AI infrastructure before permanent production sites are completed. AMPHIX combines site-ready land, resilient p

A Texas-based company with links to President Donald Trump has delayed plans to drill for oil in Greenland, after the Arctic island's government issued a "strong warning" to its joint venture partner for bringing equipment ashore without permission. Greenland Energy Co., a Nasdaq

Dive Brief: - Academy Sports and Outdoors is partnering with Instacart to offer same-day delivery of products across camping, fishing, team sports and other categories, Instacart said in a press release on Monday. - The sporting goods retailer is integrating more than 300 stores

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X is significantly expanding its open source codebase, which includes the app’s “For You” algorithm and its core ranking engine, and adding a feature that will let users see if their account or posts have been impacted by any of its ranking systems, the social network said on Thu

Suno is releasing Studio 2.0 with significant upgrades that push it closer to an actual digital audio workstation (DAW), rather than a bare-bones audio editor with generative AI features. The biggest addition is undoubtedly MIDI support. Suno says that MIDI was its most requested

Artificial Intelligence Automate legacy web applications with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Browser Tool Enterprises across healthcare, manufacturing, retail, and financial services struggle to automate legacy web applications that demand human-like interaction beyond what standard Ro

At FMS 2026, Silicon Motion introduced the MonTitan SSD Reference Design Kit (RDK), a platform built around the company’s next-generation PerformaShape technology. The design targets Agentic AI infrastructure, where enterprise SSDs can provide a persistent memory layer for KV cac

Artificial Intelligence Accelerating M&A due diligence with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) teams face a persistent challenge: conducting thorough due diligence on multiple acquisition targets while maintaining speed and analytical rigor. Teams often spend

Off the Wire Press Releases KIHEI, Hawaii, Aug. 13, 2026 — Members of the U.S. Space Force’s Maui High Performance Computing Center (MHPCC) officially unveiled the newest premier research asset in Hawaii: the Makau High-Performance Computer, during a ribbon-cutting ceremony Aug.

E-commerce enablement SaaS platform Unicommerce continued its growth trajectory in the latest quarter, reporting a 14.3% year-on-year increase in revenue and a 20.3% rise in profit during Q1 FY27 . The company’s revenue from operations rose to Rs 51.37 crore in Q1 FY27 from Rs 44

Artificial Intelligence Amazon Quick for Microsoft 365: Agentic AI where you work Your enterprise data lives in dozens of systems, but often the work happens in Microsoft 365. Amazon Quick bridges that gap as an AI assistant grounded in your data, now available directly inside Mi

Instagram on Thursday introduced a new wordmark, which is the text-only logo that spells out the company’s name. The social media giant’s logic was that the older version of its logo felt dated after a decade in use. The change was announced by Instagram head Adam Mosseri on both

Dive Brief: - Fabletics plans to triple its international footprint and open as many as 20 new stores worldwide over the next year, according to a Wednesday press release from the company. - Throughout 2026 and 2027, the athleticwear brand expects to expand into new markets, incl

Dive Brief: - Dillard’s Q2 retail sales (excluding its construction business) rose less than 1% year on year to $1.5 billion, with comps up 1%, the company said Thursday. - Women’s accessories and lingerie sales rose significantly; home rose moderately; and shoes, beauty and me

The News A fresh cash injection from the World Bank’s private investment arm will help Africa’s largest ecommerce vendor absorb shocks spurred by ongoing geopolitical crises in the Middle East and meet profit targets over the next year, the company’s chief executive told Semafor.

Two years ago, Microsoft described AI as a “generational shift” in technology that it wanted to lead. Today, the company is merging its Copilot-branded consumer and business apps, and ditching a number of unsuccessful AI features. As initially reported by GeekWire and detailed in

Bed Bath & Beyond, Inc. named Jill Windrum as its chief accounting officer and deputy chief financial officer. The executive will lead the accounting and financial reporting organization “while partnering across the enterprise on financial planning, controls, integration, process

Imagine a trio of bumbling, English lads who fantasize about becoming megastars while knocking back a few pints in a grimy pub somewhere in London. Picture the guys chortling and trying to one-up each other’s idealized visions of the future with a series of increasingly glitzy fa

A History of the Novel in Britain by Philip Hensher. In this historical telling of an art form that’s seen a slow decline in popularity, Hensher details the evolutionary scramble that motivated writers and publishers to do justice to the medium’s name: find something novel. Hensh

Off the Wire Press Releases Cascadia is a new open source runtime which pools the resources of Intel-powered machines, allowing them to run models larger than any single machine could. JERSEY CITY, N.J., Aug. 13, 2026 — Today, Community Labs is launching Cascadia, a distributed A

Off the Wire Press Releases LONDON, Aug. 13, 2026 — AMD has announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the University of Oxford to support open academic frontier artificial intelligence research conducted by the British Open-ended Learning and Discovery Lab

Off the Wire Press Releases AUSTIN, Texas, Aug. 13, 2026 — Oracle today announced the general availability of Oracle Exadata Database Service on Exascale Infrastructure on Oracle AI Database@AWS, bringing Exadata-class performance and pay-per-use economics to Oracle AI Database w

Steve Eisman is warning that the artificial intelligence boom has become increasingly dependent on the fortunes of just two companies: OpenAI and Anthropic. The investor, best known for his bet against the housing market ahead of the global financial crisis, said the two AI start