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Palantir CEO Alex Karp claims AI companies are stealing customers' data while charging them for unproductive tokens — says 'livid' businesses 'are paying for tokens that create no value' Tokenmaxxing might have quite the backfire potential. Alex Karp, CEO of well-known AI data an

King Charles takes part in historic Borders hand ba' game - Published King Charles has played a part in a historic hand ba' game in the Scottish Borders - despite some concern from his security guards. Historians believe the high energy street sport has been played in Jedburgh fo

Understanding the origin of life requires addressing a collection of overlapping scientific questions. We’ve made a lot of progress toward explaining how simple chemicals present on an early Earth built the complex molecules used by life and how some of those chemicals built the

Google has announced plans for four "connectivity hubs" in Africa during the company's Cloud Summit in Africa. As part of the company's "Building for Africa" effort, Google is establishing what it calls Digital Exchange Ports on the continent, the first of which will be located i

Mitsubishi has acquired ground station as a service (GSaaS) provider Infostellar. Mitsubishi Electric acquired all shares of Infostellar on July 1, making Infostellar a wholly owned subsidiary. Terms of the deal were not shared. Infostellar provides ground segment as a service (G

Qolab, a quantum computing startup founded by former Google execs, has announced the closing of its Series B Preferred Stock financing round, totaling $54.2 million. The round, which was led by UC Investments, also comprised $12.6 million in convertible securities and a commitmen

SoftBank Corp. and SoftBank Group Corp. are launching a new business unit - SB Neo - that will offer AI cloud services in the US. SB Neo will be established this month and will be 51 percent owned by SoftBank Corp and 49 percent by SoftBank Group Corp. It will operate as a consol

Back in 2018, Google was handed a record-setting 4.34 billion-euro ($4.9 billion) fine in Europe for abusing its monopoly on Android. The company has spent the intervening years challenging that decision, but the continent’s highest court has put a stop to that. The Court of Just

OpenAI is debating whether to offer a five percent stake in its near-trillion-dollar business to the US government. As part of the proposed arrangement, reported by the Financial Times, rival AI labs would also be expected to give a similar stake. It is not known if Anthropic, Go

Contributions to Trump Accounts will be invested in exchange-traded funds from State Street, BlackRock and Vanguard, the U.S. Department of the Treasury said Wednesday. The State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 500 ETF (SPYM), which tracks the performance of the S&P 500, will be the de

MOST POPULAR AI - AI and ML Nvidia floats double-dipping datacenter financing scheme What's better than getting paid once? Getting paid twice of course - AI and ML Companies that add more AI also add more people But doing so doesn't necessarily meet business needs - ai and ml Sof

UK data center company Kao Data has gained a new investor and renewed a power deal. Siemens Financial Services has taken an undisclosed stake in the business, joining existing backers Goldacre, Legal & General, and Infratil. Siemens Financial Services (SFS) is the B2B financing a

Texas Tests New Rules for AI Campuses Behind Existing Power Plants PUCT staff backs ERCOT’s proposed operating conditions in an early test of Texas’ new framework for colocated data centers. Texas regulators are weighing whether to require full emergency curtailment for an expand

Dive Brief: - After teaming up last year, Target and home goods brand Parachute introduced another capsule collection online and in select stores on Monday, according to details emailed to Retail Dive. - Priced between $12 and $169, the collection features sheets, blankets, towel

Nvidia offers to take a cut of AI cloud revenue on top of hardware sales in new optional financing vehicle — trades tokens for revenue cut Sharon AI and Firmus are the first partners, with a combined total of up to 210,000 GPUs. Nvidia has announced a new business model under whi

Data center developer Karis Critical has withdrawn its rezoning request for a data center in Hoffman Estates, Illinois. Hoffman Estates Holdings (H.E. Holdings), the owner of an 186-acre land parcel at 4800 W. Higgins Road, told the Village of Hoffman Estates on June 30 that it w

U.S PC shipments drop 7%, market isn't expected to bounce back until 2029 — price hikes and component shortages take hold as PC market declines, Omdia report suggests The budget sector is being squeezed the most, helping Dell emerge as the top PC vendor. New research data from Om

MOST POPULAR AI - AI and ML Nvidia floats double-dipping datacenter financing scheme What's better than getting paid once? Getting paid twice of course - AI and ML Companies that add more AI also add more people But doing so doesn't necessarily meet business needs - ai and ml Sof

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Early-stage firm Magnify Ventures has raised $46.6 million for its second fund from LPs, including Melinda French Gates’ Pivotal Ventures. Founded in 2021 by Joanna Drake and Julie Wroblewski, Magnify invests in companies that target the care economy, such as those building assis

Target has expanded its third-party marketplace with the addition of Forever 21, Clarks, JanSport and more. The retailer’s invite-only marketplace growth also includes new beauty offerings from LovelySkin, as well as home and entertainment merchandise from Serta, JLab and Hisense

Electric vehicle makers Rivian Automotive and Lucid Group reported second-quarter delivery results Thursday with mixed results. Rivian raised its 2026 delivery guidance range after seeing stronger-than-expected demand for its electric vehicles during the second quarter, while Luc

Electric vehicle makers Rivian Automotive and Lucid Group reported second-quarter delivery results Thursday with mixed results. Rivian raised its 2026 delivery guidance range after seeing stronger-than-expected demand for its electric vehicles during the second quarter, while Luc

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has proposed giving 5% of the company’s equity to a U.S. sovereign wealth fund, the Financial Times reported on Thursday, citing two people familiar with the matter. Under the proposal, other AI companies would donate similar stakes, although significant que

EchoStar’s AT&T-linked financial morass collected a new layer as its Dish subsidiary filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, a move EchoStar linked to a still outstanding financial windfall from selling most of its wireless spectrum assets to AT&T and SpaceX. EchoStar describ

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DETROIT — Ford Motor on Thursday reported a 10.3% decline in its second-quarter U.S. new vehicle sales as the company battled a supplier issue for its F-Series pickup trucks and a significant drop in all-electric vehicles. The Detroit automaker said its pure EV sales fell by 40.7

TV Time, a popular app for tracking the shows you’re watching and engaging in community discussions, is shutting down. The company announced via in-app messages that TV Time’s app will be discontinued, no longer offering service after July 15, 2026. The company blamed the expense

Autonomous defense startup Quantum Systems raised $1.2 billion in a Series D funding round, the company announced on Thursday, giving it a valuation of around $8 billion on a post-money basis. It comes amid a flurry of activity in the defense sector as investors race to throw cas

Autonomous defense startup Quantum Systems raised $1.2 billion in a Series D funding round, the company announced on Thursday, giving it a valuation of around $8 billion on a post-money basis. It comes amid a flurry of activity in the defense sector as investors race to throw cas

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is reportedly in active talks with the Trump administration about the US potentially acquiring a 5 percent stake in the leading AI firm. Insider sources told the Financial Times that these talks are in “early stages,” but Altman “has argued that giving the p

Developer Twenty20 Energy has announced its intention to construct two data centers in the Pomeranian Voivodeship in northern Poland. Named the Gryfin Project, construction of the facilities planned for the towns of Słupsk and Redzikowo will begin this year and proceed in stages,

Verizon has put five copper Central Offices in Massachusetts up for sale on a sale-leaseback basis. 51 Chestnut Street in Duxbury, 1212 Mammoth Road in Dracut, 1139 Route 6A in Dennis, 630 Washington Street in Whitman, and 580 State Road in Chilmark are all being listed by Newmar

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Nvidia is supporting neocloud customers in purchasing its AI chips. The chip designer is acting as a financial backstop for companies in exchange for a share in their revenue. The backstop sees Nvidia agreeing to rent back unused GPUs at a fixed rate. Firmus and Sharon AI are amo

Malaysian conglomerate Kuok Group is considering investing up to €5.3 billion ($6bn) in a hyperscale data center campus on the southern outskirts of Milan, Teleborsa has reported. Italy's industry minister, Adolfo Urso, met with a delegation from K2 Strategic, Kuok Group’s digita

Amazon has detailed its efforts to reduce power and water consumption in its annual sustainability report. Technical upgrades were touted for the cloud division Amazon Web Services (AWS), with the company claiming that it has helped cut water usage. The company last month reveale

Supermicro has published an open letter seeking to clarify reports from earlier this week that claimed the company’s Taiwanese office was raided as part of an ongoing probe into the alleged smuggling of Nvidia AI chips to China. In a statement, the company said the authorities ha

When backups aren't enough: the case for real disaster recovery Partner Content Ask most IT teams whether they're protected against a major outage or ransomware attack, and the answer will almost certainly be yes, because the backups are in place and the box marked 'disaster reco

Omnichannel multi-brand sports retail platform PlayBlue has raised $2.7 million in a seed funding round co-led by Centre Court Capital and MIXI Global, with participation from WEH Ventures. The proceeds will be used to launch its first set of flagship stores and its pan-India e-c

The new CEO of Lucid Motors is continuing to restructure the company after announcing hundreds of job cuts last month: The EV maker on Thursday said its chief financial officer, Taoufiq Boussaid, will be leaving the company. Boussaid’s pending departure comes amid a flurry of new

Raveheart, by Graeme Armstrong. When an ultranationalist British party sweeps to power in this dystopian Scottish political satire, the ensuing crackdown targets drug use, youth culture, and electronic music — the last of which prompts veteran raver William Patterson (or “DJ Turb