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Dive Brief: - Lululemon has officially appointed Laura Gentile and Marc Maurer to its board of directors, according to a June 24 filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. - The two new members joined following the annual stockholders’ meeting on Thursday, expanding the

NASA’s inspector general released an audit Tuesday of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program, and it looks increasingly likely that Boeing’s Starliner crew capsule won’t be certified for operational flights to the International Space Station until next year. That’s just three years

Controversial bishops ordained as Pope warns of 'schism' in Catholic Church - Published Thousands of people have gathered in a tiny village in Switzerland to witness the ordination of four new Catholic bishops, in defiance of an appeal by Pope Leo XIV. The four, one from the Unit

Lands’ End appointed Charlie Cole, whose executive experience has been dominated by technology-focused roles, as CEO. He takes the post July 13, the apparel brand said Tuesday. Cole's most recent stint was six months as interim chief digital officer at direct-to-consumer bedding

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Cloud Capital and Realty Income have formed a new joint venture to invest in data centers, seeded with three facilities in Virginia. Announced this week, the companies and an unnamed global institutional investor are investing in a portfolio of stabilized hyperscale assets leased

Over the past several years, model capabilities and training dataset sizes have experienced exponential growth. During the past year or so, the time between new-frontier-model releases has gone down from months to weeks. Reliable and fast access to storage is important to both th

A 150MW data center announced for Schleswig-Holstein in northern Germany has met with local opposition. The facility proposed by developers Uniq Land would be built on a 592,015 sq ft (55,000 sqm) site outside the village of Langenhorn in North Frisia, with an option to expand it

The Scoop Amazon’s carbon footprint is rising because of its data center buildout, and will continue to do so for years to come, the company’s sustainability chief told Semafor. The tech giant’s global greenhouse gas emissions increased in 2025 for the second consecutive year, fr

Dive Brief: - Under Armour unveiled a new partnership with fashion brand Feng Chen Wang during the label’s spring-summer 2027 show at Paris Fashion Week on Thursday. - The long-term creative relationship with the label’s creative director Fengchen Wang is tied to the company’s Re

Google Cloud confirmed to offer a safer choice for EU public sector organizations with Dutch DPIA approval Marc Crandall Global Head of Privacy, Google Cloud Joost Smit Country Lead BeNeLux, Google Cloud At Google Cloud, we are committed to providing public sector organizations a

New IDC study: The business value of Mandiant Consulting Jurgen Kutscher VP, Mandiant Consulting, Google Cloud Security leaders are now expected to protect business growth and clearly articulate security value to their board of directors, in addition to managing risk. While trans

Google named a Leader in 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms for third year in a row Sean Zinsmeister Director of Product Management, Data Cloud Karthik Ramakrishnan Vice President of Engineering, Google Cloud For the third consecutive

Get started with the Claude apps gateway for Google Cloud Roy Arsan Applied AI Engineer, Anthropic Ivan Nardini AI Engineer, Google Cloud Anthropic's agentic coding tool Claude Code has worked with Google Cloud for a while now. An individual developer could easily point CLAUDE_CO

Dive Brief: - Nike Inc. posted more “kernels of progress” in Q4, per Jefferies, but revenues continued to fall and executives flagged decelerating consumer trends starting in mid-April. Two major drags on the business, China and Converse, recorded double-digit declines in the qua

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched the AWS Secret Cloud for Industry (ASCI) to enable contractor-owned classified workloads to run on AWS. The ASCI is designed for cleared US defense contractors, research institutions, and other organizations in the National Industrial Securi

AI Interconnect Delays Spur $1.75B National Grid-Joulent Deal The utility’s planned $1.75 billion investment in Joulent illustrates how dedicated power infrastructure is becoming central to AI data center growth. UK-based National Grid on Tuesday unveiled a $1.75 billion strategi

Michael Collins looked down at his watch. The Apollo 11 astronaut had already beaten the original schedule for the opening of the National Air and Space Museum by three days, but no one would remember that if these final 36 minutes didn’t go perfectly. President Gerald Ford and V

Egypt’s National Telecommunications Regulatory Authority has awarded a license to the new digital arm of construction group Hassan Allam to operate data centers and provide cloud computing services. Hassan Allam Digital Infrastructure said it plans to back the move with an initia

Everyone keeps telling you the future is 100 specialized agents. In our stack, the opposite is happening. On the latest episode of The Agents, Amelia and I walked through the newest addition to our stack: an AI VP of Finance that went into production this week. The part that surp

Tiisetso’s view South Africa’s political class will spend the week congratulating itself for a peaceful protest: The country’s major cities saw anti-migrant demonstrations that were largely devoid of violence. The government shifted millions of dollars into the police budget, dep

The Centre is reviewing WhatsApp's upcoming usernames feature and exploring legal options to regulate or restrict its rollout in India over concerns that it could facilitate impersonation and online fraud, PTI reported, citing government sources. According to the report, the gove

South Korean president Lee Jae Myung announced on Monday that the country would invest more than 1.43 quadrillion won ($919bn) into chip manufacturing, AI powered robotics, and data centers in order to “win the AI race.” The government said that it was aiming to build 18.4GW of d

Tata Communications will invest in two key subsea cable systems between India and Singapore as part of a plan to strengthen connectivity for AI. These investments will consist of a new subsea cable system between Mumbai and Singapore, as well as investments as a consortium member

Dive Brief: - Dick’s is joining the paid loyalty fray with ScoreCard+, an annual rewards program that offers free shipping, access to exclusive promotions, a 20% discount on in-store services and experiences, and more benefits for an annual fee of $99. - The sporting goods retail

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Taiwanese authorities raided Supermicro’s office in Taiwan on Monday (June 29) as part of an ongoing probe into the alleged smuggling of Nvidia AI chips to China. According to reports from Bloomberg and the FT, Taiwan's Keelung District Prosecutors' Office also searched the homes

A gigawatt-scale behind-the-meter data center campus has been proposed outside Darwin, Australia. Energy North has announced plans for Project Ares, a 1GW hyperscale AI data center campus with integrated renewable energy generation. The site would include up to 3GW of solar gener

Aussie AI cloud provider Firmus has signed a 600MW energy supply agreement with Gunvor Group in South Australia. Set to run for 12 years, under the agreement, Gunvor will support the development of 1.2GW of new renewable generation and 1.5GWh of new battery storage by 2032 to sup

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The News Democrat Will Lawrence faces a familiar challenge in Michigan. Like other progressives this cycle, including Darializa Avila Chevalier and Graham Platner, Lawrence has deleted controversial social media posts that have since been resurfaced. Now, he’s trying to put dista

The News ALLEN PARK, Mich. — The scale of recent left-wing victories in New York brightened the spotlight on progressive Democrats everywhere, especially in politically competitive states. Abdul El-Sayed is ready for it. The 41-year old public health expert, who ran for governor

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Private hiring in the US expanded at a steady pace in June, according to payment firm ADP. Employers added 98,000 jobs last month, down from 122,000 added in May, and short of the 118,000 private payrolls economists surveyed by Reuters anticipated. The education and health servic

Inference chip startup Etched had launched from stealth with $800 million in funding. The company also announced it had developed a working chip and already signed more than $1 billion in customer contracts. The funding was raised over multiple rounds, the company said, the lates

Concerns over the impact of AI chatbots on mental health, personal safety, harassment, and disinformation have forced AI developers to implement safeguards to better control how and what their AI models are allowed to respond or do. But concerns and worries can’t erode demand. AI