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Agent Sandbox on GKE is now available for everyone, and a first look at Agent Substrate Brandon Royal Product Manager, GKE Tim Hockin Software Engineer, GKE In just a short time, we’ve seen AI transition from simple chat interfaces to autonomous agents capable of function calling

Benchmark and optimize LLMs on-device with AI Edge Portal Derek Bekebrede Product Manager, Google LLMs have become more powerful at smaller sizes, but deploying them to edge devices like smartphones remains a massive challenge. Today, developers have to optimize across a sprawlin

Urban Outfitters achieves major cost savings by moving Sterling OMS to AlloyDB for PostgreSQL Rob Frieman CIO, Urban Outfitters Raj Pai VP, Product Management, Databases, Google Cloud Editor’s note: Urban Outfitters, Inc. (URBN) recently completed a major infrastructure upgrade,

Agent harnesses like Claude Code, Codex, and LangChain Deep Agents are excellent orchestrators. They manage sessions, chain tools, execute code, and respond to developer intent. But when these harnesses need to do deep research, such as multi-document synthesis, decision briefs b

Mercury, a fintech firm that provides banking services to startups, has raised $200 million in funding at a $5.2 billion valuation, CNBC has learned exclusively. That valuation is 49% higher than the San Francisco-based company's previous funding round just 14 months ago, bucking

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Samsung and SK Hynix employees are reportedly abandoning overseas training programs to nab up to $400,000 performance bonuses — online dating grades rise as female members 'seeking out SK hynix employees' SK Hynix employees are becoming top-tier matches on Korean dating platforms

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos shrugged off concerns of a looming artificial intelligence bubble on Wednesday, telling CNBC that the massive investments will ultimately help push the technology forward in the long run. "Even if it does turn out to be a bubble, you shouldn't worry abou

Larry Bushart, a retired Tennessee cop who was jailed for 37 days for posting a Trump meme on Facebook, won an $835,000 settlement Wednesday after suing the county and sheriff that he said jailed him in order to censor him. In a press release, Bushart’s legal team at the Foundati

It’s difficult to know the true state of the Russian economy, both because the country’s financial reporting is sparse and because official figures are unreliable. But things probably aren’t great. This week, Sweden’s minister of foreign affairs, Maria Malmer Stenergard, shared h

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos said bringing data centers into space is a "very realistic" outcome, but could take longer than expected to pan out as enthusiasm for the sector builds ahead of SpaceX's upcoming IPO. "Some of the timelines we hear are very short," he told CNBC's Andrew

Russia's Sberbank wants Chinese chips for its GigaChat AI in the face of Western sanctions — faces a long wait behind ByteDance and Alibaba Huawei can barely meet domestic Chinese demand. Sberbank CEO German Gref said on Wednesday that Russia's largest bank hopes to use Chinese-m

We’re about to find out if the systems designed to make deepfakes and AI-generated content easy to spot are actually up to snuff. SynthID and C2PA Content Credentials, two distinct technologies for invisibly tagging image, video, and audio files with information about their origi

Tom's Hardware Verdict The FlipCast is a good option if you need both connections — but if you don't, it's probably not worth it. Pros - + USB-C and XLR connectivity - + Tap-to-mute and on-mic controls - + Good AI noise reduction Cons - - Expensive - - Does not come with a stand

security Commvault sees ResOps as a business model, not malware prevention/recovery mechanics Resilience Operations is a board-level sponsored IT and security operating model for enterprises and not specific and separate IT (CIO) and security (CISO) prevention and restoration ope

For years, owners of Vizio smart TVs have had little control over the software running on their sets—software that can track viewing habits, push ads, and generally shape the experience of using the device. The Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC), a US nonprofit that promotes and

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For years, tech companies have promised AI will give everyone a capable personal assistant but delivered something more like a clueless intern. Over the past six months, that has started to change, thanks largely to the viral open-source AI agent platform OpenClaw. And among the

The days of going to college to secure a lucrative career are over, as skilled trade workers have seen a 30% wage bump in the past few years, the CEO of the world's largest recruitment firm told CNBC. Sander van't Noordende, CEO of Dutch staffing giant Randstad, recommended the s

Beijing banned an Nvidia gaming chip while the company’s chief executive, Jensen Huang, was visiting China with Donald Trump last week, the latest salvo in the superpowers’ battle to dominate AI. The chip was added to a list of banned goods at China’s customs checkpoints last Fri

Utah may host one of the world’s most colossal data centers, despite stark warnings from experts and fierce public backlash. Earlier this month, commissioners in Box Elder County signed off on the Stratos Project: a 40,000-acre data center stretching across the county’s Hansel Va

Tom's Hardware Verdict Although color performance, versatility, and build quality are top-notch, a street price of $500 is a tough pill to swallow. Pros - + Solid build quality - + Colorful screens - + Dual-screen flexibility in a compact form factor Cons - - -Pricey - - -No inte

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Intel kicks off development on next-decade 10A and 7A process technologies — 14A node remains on track for critical October PDK release Technologies from the 2030s. Lip-Bu Tan, chief executive of Intel, this week confirmed that the company had already begun to work on its 10A and

Why FAST-41 Now Covers AI Data Centers and Copper Federal permitting now covers hyperscale campuses, critical minerals, and transmission in a single framework. The federal government is increasingly treating AI growth as an industrial infrastructure problem rather than simply a t

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China banned Nvidia 5090D V2 while CEO Jensen Huang was in town, report claims — move comes as Beijing pushes its AI tech companies to use homegrown chips Beijing says no. China reportedly banned Nvidia's RTX 5090D V2, an export-friendly version of its top-end RTX 5090 GPU, while

This is CNBC's Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox. Happy Wednesday. CNBC's Andrew Ross Sorkin will sit down with Amazon's Jeff Bezos at the Blue Origin Rocket Factory in Florida this morning. Watch the exclusive interview live at 8

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Grab the RX 9070 XT for just $504, $95 below its MSRP, in this Newegg combo deal with the 9850X3D — epic discount on high spec AMD parts for a 4K gaming PC saves you nearly $200 in total A massive bargain on a GPU and CPU upgrade for your rig Newegg is, yet again, delivering the

Hacker group hits 3,800 internal GitHub repositories via poisoned developer plugin — TeamPCP claims source code theft and attempts $50,000 sale, employee installed malicious VS Code extension GitHub says it has already rotated critical secrets and credentials following the breach

SpaceX, which is getting set to publicly disclose its IPO prospectus, has picked Goldman Sachs to lead what's likely to be a record offering, according to people familiar with the matter. Goldman will have the lead left position on the prospectus, followed by Morgan Stanley, and

$300 slashed from Apple's M4 MacBook Air with 24GB of RAM — get a premium laptop for just $1,099 M4 and M5 MacBook Air deals at Best Buy Great news for Apple MacBook lovers, as Best Buy has two fantastic Apple MacBook deals going on at the same time during its Memorial Day sales

The robotics startup Figure AI has been livestreaming humanoid robots placing thousands of packages onto a conveyor belt for nearly a week—a spectacle that included a robot competing against a human intern at one point. The promotional robot demo has become a viral sensation amon

Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan stamps out chip bugs with aggressive new quality standards, says major validation errors can result in termination — 'B0, you keep your job. Anything above that, you are fired' Make B0 revision work perfectly, or lose your job. When Lip-Bu Tan became the CEO

You can save up to 72% in HP's Memorial Day sale — grab your next gaming PC, laptop, monitor, or peripheral for less Save big on prebuilt gaming PCs, laptops, and more Memorial Day 2026 sales have already kicked off ahead of the weekend, with HP leading the charge with massive de