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Amazon plans to raise at least $25 billion through an eight-part bond sale, as it looks to continue its massive artificial intelligence buildout, sources told CNBC's David Faber. The company has also shared with its underwriters that it won't issue any more debt this year, accord

Dive Brief: - The store remains the dominant channel for aspirational luxury customers to make purchases and have satisfaction with their experience, according to an EY survey of more than 1,600 consumers across 11 markets making $100,000 or more. - Among this aspirational cohort

Sven Semmelmann has been named the head of compute capital markets at generative AI business OpenAI. Semmelmann joins from data center builder and backer Generate Capital, where he spent six years as the head of structured finance. Generate has invested in Soluna, partnered with

PlayStation disc petition approaches 200,000 signatures as backlash grows over Sony's decision to stop producing new physical media — firm still plans to produce optical media for existing titles, but new games will be digital only The Change.org campaign keeps climbing. A Change

VergeIO gets vote of confidence Ex-VMware exec Zia Yusuf has invested in VergeIO and joined its board advise on go-to-market and partner ecosystem strategy. VergeIO is a converged - it says ultraconverged - alternative to VMware’s vSphere, vSAN and NSX products providing a privat

AI law startup Norm on Tuesday said it has raised $120 million in a Series C funding round led by Khosla Ventures, valuing the almost three-year-old startup at $1.2 billion. Norm has built an AI-native law firm, called Norm Law, that uses the company’s own AI agents, employs huma

Ronnie Screwvala-led upGrad has received approval from the Competition Commission of India (CCI) for its proposed acquisition of edtech unicorn Unacademy. According to a release issued by the competition watchdog on Tuesday, the regulator approved the acquisition of certain share

NYDIG, the financial services firm that provides Bitcoin-related services for institutional clients, has begun the local planning review process for the proposed expansion of its data center operations at the Reynolds industrial site in Massena, New York. The Massena Town Plannin

Samsung’s profit gloat Samsung is gloating about its forthcoming profits with an exec saying: “This year’s profit alone will exceed the cumulative profit generated over the 40 years since Samsung entered the semiconductor business.” The exec in question, Kim Yong-kwan, President

Orbital Compute Inc. has filed with US regulators to launch hundreds of thousands of satellites in the coming years. The five-month-old space startup, which emerged from stealth last month with a $5 million pre-seed round, filed with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) fo

Someone on X this week made a claim that has truth in, but also radically overstates things: “I’ve built AI agents that do everything HubSpot would have done for me and more. And I’m not technically inclined.” I believe him. Because we’ve done a version of it ourselves. At SaaStr

Cryptomine and data center firm Galaxy Digital has completed the first phase of pivoting its Texas campus towards AI and HPC use. The company this week announced it has completed delivery of the first phase of power at its Helios data center campus in West Texas, delivering appro

FIFA is printing money on the World Cup, with an expected $10 billion in revenue and profit margins that would make a tech company blush. Host cities are footing the bill, spending hundreds of millions of dollars on security, transit, and infrastructure. Ask Alex Lasry, who heads

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Entering the world of database surreality SurrealDB has implemented a distributed, multi-modal database that provides enormous scale and high-performance, while combining relational, full-text, document, time-series, graph and vector data type access to the same underlying data w

The ‘Ghost’ in the Database: Recovering Active ADFS Signing Keys via Machine DPAPI Mandiant Written by: Shebin Mathew Introduction The "Golden SAML" technique, first described by CyberArk researchers in 2017, and further detailed by Mandiant researchers in 2021, remains one of th

Google Cloud Labs: Accelerate AI with Cloud Run Shir Meir Lador Head of AI Engineering, Google Cloud Developer Relations Moving Beyond the Prototype The AI landscape has shifted. While "vibe coding" with tools like Antigravity and AI Studio lets you build and deploy complex agent

Selling a car is a pain. You can take the easy route and use services like Carvana, but you may wind up with thousands of dollars less than your car is worth. Or, you could hope for more by going to a dealership, but the dealer’s offer can vary wildly depending on what they’re lo

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In a typical year, scientists discover two or three viruses that have never been seen in people before. The number fluctuates, but the trend has been fairly steady since the 1960s. Most of these viruses attract little attention, and my colleagues and I have often had to search th

The U.S. Army has reportedly fixed two of its websites that had been defaced to display pro-Kurdish messages and to call out President Donald Trump, the latest case of hackers compromising systems run by the federal government in recent months. Security researcher Ronald Lovelace

In this age of agentic AI and Arm servers you would not think it, but IBM just had its best year in the last two decades for mainframe sales. Benefitting from a surge in demand and a new hardware platform for IBM’s mainframe lineup – the z17 series and its Telum II processor – 20

Solos announced a new version of its AirGo smart glasses, one that forgoes cameras for a sleeker design and an AI assistant that relies on voice interactions. Last year’s AirGo A5 weighed 36 to 40 grams depending on the frame style, but the new AirGo A6 weigh around 19 grams. Par

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Steam Machines with the ‘Red Line of Death’ get a simple, official cure: Clear the CMOS — clearing the CMOS can revive flat(red)-lining cubes Valve’s official social media team has shared a step-by-step process for reanimating RLOD Steam Machines. Late last week, we reported on a

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UK gives data centers option to apply for 'national importance' status that overrides local regulations, cuts timeline by a year — eligible projects to bypass local councils, save more than a billion dollars in NIMBY fights Local opposition has caused massive delays for data cent

The Abu Dhabi state oil company’s retail arm, ADNOC Distribution, has bought Shell’s downstream business in South Africa for $1 billion, adding to a string of foreign acquisitions in recent months. The deal hands ADNOC 580 gas stations and a 10% market share in Africa’s largest e

Emirates SkyCargo operated the first commercial flight of a Boeing 777-300 passenger-to-freighter conversion, boosting cargo capacity while extending the life of its fleet. The inaugural flight carried more than 100 tons of freight from Hong Kong to Dubai — exceeding the volume o

UAE-based Arada launched a fund management arm, bringing in outside investors for the first time to help finance its real estate developments, with the aim of having $5 billion in assets in four years. Arada Capital will be based in the Abu Dhabi financial center and chaired by P

This is CNBC's Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox. Happy Tuesday. It's also slated to be SpaceX's first day in the Nasdaq-100. Stock futures are mixed after a winning day for Wall Street. Here are five key things investors need to k

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Robots on the factory floor. Self-driving vehicles on the Las Vegas strip. Even a substitute for man's best friend — the robotic dog. They are all part of the physical artificial intelligence buildout that depends on high-tech, low-cost lidar, the critical sensors that allow thes

Robots on the factory floor. Self-driving vehicles on the Las Vegas strip. Even a substitute for man's best friend — the robotic dog. They are all part of the physical artificial intelligence buildout that depends on high-tech, low-cost lidar, the critical sensors that allow thes

Hands-on with Corsair's 2800X RS-R ARGB Micro-ATX PC Case – smaller footprint, roomy internals, includes three fans Show off your MicroATX style with Corsair’s budget-conscious 2800X RS-R PC Case Corsair recently launched the 2800X RS-R ARGB, an all-new chassis that's the first M

Brothers Patrick and Ryan Coughlin, each with impressive careers in the tech industry (Patrick worked in national cyber defense, and at Splunk and Cisco; and Ryan with consumer products at Apple and Spotify), have launched a new kind of security startup. Savi Security seeks to pr

Dev ports Linux to Atari's notorious Jaguar console from 1993 — the first 64-bit console features 2MB of RAM, 13.3 MHz CPU, and Tom and Jerry co-processors; the Jag was notoriously difficult to program and flopped The ill-fated Jag featured a Motorola 68000 CPU, augmented by Tom

Bengaluru-based AI startup Alchemic has raised Rs 2.5 crore in a pre-seed funding round led by AJVC, with participation from angel investors. The fresh capital will be used to enhance its AI platform, expand its engineering and commercial teams, and increase enterprise adoption.

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