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Presto is an open source, distributed SQL engine for running fast, interactive queries on very large datasets. On NVIDIA GPUs, Presto delivers peak performance for analytical query workloads and provides low latency for users and agents. GPU-accelerated Presto brings low latency

Malaysia's Global Telecommunications Group has bought a 36-acre parcel in Kota Seri Langat, Selangor, to build a potential 210MW data center. Kota Seri Langat is a 2,890-acre planned development in the town of Banting, southern Selangor, that will house residential and industrial

The Scoop A company headed by the brother of the Ghanaian president has refused to hand back a $100 million gold mine at the center of an ownership row, defying a ruling by an international court, documents seen by Semafor show. A 2023 earn-in agreement, which would enable the Gh

New ways to keep Google Cloud certifications current and boost your career Gary Eimerman Managing Director, Google Cloud Learning If you’re reading this, you’ve likely already done the hard work to prove your qualifications with a Google Cloud certification. And good for you — re

Google Cloud named Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for AI Infrastructure Mark Lohmeyer VP and GM, AI and Computing Infrastructure In the agentic era, AI is evolving from answering questions to reasoning and taking action. Companies who want to lead in this next phase

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin is raising about $10 billion, in its first outside funding round that will value the rocket company at $130 billion, sources told CNBC's Andrew Ross Sorkin. Bezos is set to contribute $2 billion into the round, along with about $4 billion from hedge fund C

Data center firm Edged is looking to develop a campus outside Allentown, Pennsylvania. Edged is looking to develop on some 410 acres of underdeveloped farmland at 2493 N. Cedar Crest Boulevard in South Whitehall Township. The campus is known as Project Atlas. Via its CDE Acquisit

MOST POPULAR AI - AI and ML OpenAI makes ChatGPT better at banter With GPT-Live, talking, listening, and formulating answers all happen at once - ai and ml The AI that spawned MechaHitler and deepfake porn puts on a suit to become legal advisor and Excel jockey The newly renamed

Artificial Intelligence Securing Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime with AWS WAF When you deploy generative AI agents with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore as production API endpoints, you might want to enforce web application firewall policies, rate limiting, protection against common web

MOST POPULAR AI - AI and ML OpenAI makes ChatGPT better at banter With GPT-Live, talking, listening, and formulating answers all happen at once - ai and ml The AI that spawned MechaHitler and deepfake porn puts on a suit to become legal advisor and Excel jockey The newly renamed

China alleges that Claude Code contains backdoors, calls mechanism 'a serious threat' — Gov't claims Claude sends sensitive information to remote servers without consent Claude Code is essentially banned in China, though. China’s National Vulnerability Database (NVDB) said in a s

Dive Brief: - More than half (52%) of retailers are pouring $50 million or more into digital technology annually, according to KPMG’s recent survey of 250 retail executives across sectors. That includes 28% who are allocating between $100 million and $250 million. - Nearly half (

Artificial Intelligence Manage AI applications on Mac with Jamf’s AI Governance and Amazon Bedrock As organizations expand AI adoption across their workforce, IT administrators need a scalable way to manage how AI applications are configured and used on employee devices. These ap

Waymo will begin rolling out its driverless vehicles in four new cities in the coming weeks, furthering its U.S. expansion and building on its lead over domestic rivals Tesla and Zoox, which is owned by Amazon. Alphabet's robotaxi division will soon start offering fully autonomou

Waymo will begin rolling out its driverless vehicles in four new cities in the coming weeks, furthering its U.S. expansion and building on its lead over domestic rivals Tesla and Zoox, which is owned by Amazon. Alphabet's robotaxi division will soon start offering fully autonomou

Plans have been filed for a new data center outside Dallas, Texas. BT Gateway Data Center LLC has filed with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation to develop the BT Gateway Data Center at 4989 County Road 2656 outside Royse City. The company aims to develop a 100,000 s

As telecom operators continue to invest heavily in 5G and broadband infrastructure, the pressure to generate return on those assets is intensifying. The industry’s focus is shifting beyond connectivity toward monetization—and network APIs are emerging as a key lever. In a recent

Open RAN deployments increasingly depend on whether multi-vendor systems can operate seamlessly across a shared environment. As operators adopt disaggregated architectures, interoperability has emerged as a primary constraint, requiring coordination across radios, software platfo

As companies old and new rush to capitalize on AI, many AI startups say that their revenue is not just growing, but also rapidly accelerating, hitting their next milestones in shorter timeframes. The following list of startups have reported a pattern of such flywheel growth. One

Two California teens have learned that Waymo’s robotaxis can and will enforce their rider rules on misbehaving passengers. It probably seemed like a marvelous jape—ride around in the back of a robotaxi getting drunk and doing drive-bys, shooting stuff with gel beads. And perhaps

Google-linked affiliate Housebound Group LLC has filed for two data center projects in Haskell, Texas, with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation (TDLR). Both data centers are planned for 1362 Red Creek Road in Haskell and will each see $400 million invested. Journey 1

Bowen: For all his bluster, Trump has no better option than talks with Iran - Published Donald Trump's latest pronouncements on Iran and the chances of a negotiated agreement have to be taken seriously, as he is after all the president of the United States. This is what he said a

US operator Sabey Data Centers has secured a new investor. Sabey Corporation and National Real Estate Advisors this week announced that Ares Management Corporation’s Secondaries funds have made a minority equity investment in Sabey Data Center Properties (SDCP). Terms of the inve

MOST POPULAR AI - AI and ML OpenAI makes ChatGPT better at banter With GPT-Live, talking, listening, and formulating answers all happen at once - ai and ml The AI that spawned MechaHitler and deepfake porn puts on a suit to become legal advisor and Excel jockey The newly renamed

Free People's activewear brand, FP Movement, launched its first-ever footwear collaboration with Asics. The limited-edition collection features an exclusive tennis shoe style and running sneaker, per a Tuesday press release. The styles are available on FP Movement’s website and i

Nexus Data Centers has filed to develop a second planned data center in Texas. The company recently filed with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation to develop a second data center building at 357 HCR 3372 in Hubbard in Hill County. Nexus Apex HB2 is set to span 491,38

South Korean memory chip giant SK Hynix has announced plans to sell 17.8 million shares in a US IPO, a move that is expected to net the company around $28 billion. In an SEC filing dated July 6, SK Hynix said it would be offering American depositary receipts (ADRs), with each ADR

MTN Uganda has blamed Sunday's outage on power disruption at one of the company's data centers. The carrier's CEO Sylvia Mulinge apologized for the major network outage which impacted millions of customers. The major network outage impacted voice, data, and mobile money services

Hidden backdoor in Tenda routers goes unpatched as company ignores warnings from cybersecurity researchers — Chinese company's firmware allows admin access without a password Firmware vulnerability affects several router models The CERT Coordination Center (CERT/CC), a U.S. gover

Budget smartphone market collapses under the weight of memory shortages, sales expected to drop 22% — memory alone now comprises up to 64% of the total cost of lower-tier smartphones The global AI memory squeeze is pricing cheap phones out of existence. After ravaging the PC mark

Gemini Enterprise for Education named a Commander in Tambellini StarChart™: 2026 AI Agents for Administrative Efficiency—Agent Platforms Chris Hein Technical Director/Field CTO, Google Public Sector Jesus Trujillo Gomez Strategic Business Executive, Google Cloud Google AI for Pub

One of the central features of plate tectonics is the formation of new crust at mid-ocean ridges. Part of the spreading process that drives continents apart, it was arguably the discovery of these ridges that drove widespread acceptance of plate tectonics as a theory. Thanks to d

The Securities and Exchange Commission’s proposal to allow companies to choose to file financial reports semiannually drew a groundswell of public letters in the 60-day comment period that ended Monday. Of the 8,011 letters submitted through July 3, a large majority (7,925 or 99%

Delta Air Lines is dividing up the front of the plane into even smaller groups, offering a new "basic" fare for business and first classes that comes without perks like free seat selection and airport lounge access. The carrier is following United Airlines, which made a similar c

JEDEC releases new SPHBM4 standard to slash AI memory costs — Narrow 512-bit interface enables dropping expensive interposers for organic substrates Cheaper HBM-class memory. JEDEC has released its new specification that aims to push down the pricing of the ultra-expensive HBM th

The Lumi ‘AI Factory’ in Espoo, southern Finland, has announced plans to deploy an IQM quantum computer. Delivery of the Halocene H4 system is expected in 2027, with a series of upgrades to be delivered in multiple phases over an unspecified timeline in order to increase the numb

NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra is offering leading performance at lower cost than top closed models with the largest and most widely adopted AI agent orchestration platform. LangChain tuned its Deep Agents harness for NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra, achieving the highest accuracy among open mo

Vermilion Cliffs Ventures announced Wednesday the close of a $25 million Fund II. The firm was founded in 2023 by operator-turned-investor Ashley Smith, who runs it as one of the few solo women GPs in venture capital. Speaking to TechCrunch, Smith said this fund will continue the

Agentic systems often face a trade-off between accuracy and cost. The highest-performing proprietary frontier models and harnesses provide top accuracy but are expensive. Fine-tuning offers one way to address this problem. Smaller or more efficient open models starting with lower

Global consumer Wi-Fi router shipments fell 6% in Q1 2026, down 34% from 2021 peak — mesh systems and gaming routers still prove popular Amazon and Google mesh routers, along with gaming routers, bucked the declines of the broader market The Wi-Fi router market is facing headwind

AI compute platform provider SambaNova has raised $1 billion in a Series F round, led by General Atlantic. The company was valued at $11bn with significant investment from Seligman Ventures, T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc., and Capital Group. New and existing investors include A&E

SiPearl's long-awaited Rhea CPU finally gets in the lab, opening the door for Europe's first sovereign HPC CPU — 'availability of Rhea1 is scheduled for end of 2026' SiPearl VP says, following long development process A giant step forward for the whole HPC industry in Europe. Sip

Uneasy Streets: How Chinese Money Is Remaking Urban Britain by Caroline Knowles. China is planning a gigantic embassy in London, which will include secret rooms buried next to sensitive communications cables. It’s just one of many huge Chinese investment projects in Britain. Know