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OpenAI is rolling out its latest advanced LLM, Sol, for wide public access. Sol is considered to be at least on par with Anthropic’s Fable, a model whose capabilities (or ownership) stressed out the White House enough that it was briefly banned from public access. So how did thes

Kevin and Janeen Seguin decided it was time for a change of scene. And as fully remote workers for Utah-based Intermountain Health, they had every option in the world. "We both lived in Utah our entire lives," Kevin said. "I'm nearing retirement, and so we just started exploring

Buying dips and selling rips has been the name of the game in the S&P 500 all summer. Options action suggests that it can continue, with VIX at recent lows and a slowdown in the wild speculative call-buying in tech that was pulling the market quickly in both directions. To an ext

On Tuesday, Meta launched “Muse Image,” a new AI image-generation feature that allows users to create original images, edit existing photos, and even generate custom ads directly within its apps. But one capability has quickly become the center of controversy. Muse Image allows u

Three-time U.S. Olympic canoeist David Hearn pleaded not guilty on Thursday to a felony charge for allegedly ripping up sealant in the National Mall's Reflecting Pool in Washington. Hearn's attorney afterward blasted prosecutors for obtaining an indictment against the 67-year-old

Dive Brief: - Meta AI is allowing brands to create AI-generated room visualizations using the company’s Muse Image tool, the social media titan said in a company blog post Tuesday. - When shoppers upload images of their spaces, Meta AI can integrate products from companies’ catal

An SDNY judge dealt a blow to Kalshi and Polymarket this week, ruling that New York’s gambling regulations do apply to Kalshi’s sports-event contracts, and making it all but inevitable that the states will be squaring off against prediction markets operators at the Supreme Court

Anthropic on Thursday announced that it has appointed Ben Bernanke, the former chair of the Federal Reserve, to its Long-Term Benefit Trust, the company's independent governance structure that advises the company and appoints its board members. Bernanke served as Federal Reserve

Anthropic on Thursday announced that it has appointed Ben Bernanke, the former chair of the Federal Reserve, to its Long-Term Benefit Trust, the company's independent governance structure that advises the company and appoints its board members. Bernanke served as Federal Reserve

Tom's Hardware Verdict The TeamGroup G70 Pro is a high-end drive without a high-end price. It has good performance, but poor power efficiency keeps it out of laptops. Pros - + Excellent random read latency - + Good all-around and sustained performance - + Wide capacity range - +

In a bid to lower its GPU costs amid an unprecedented component shortage, Meta is on track to start making the latest versions of its AI-specific chip in September, Reuters reported, citing an internal memo. At least one chip sailed through its testing phase in about six weeks, t

Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations are among the most demanding workloads in computational science. Using them, researchers can observe atomic behavior in extraordinary detail, from protein folding to drug and materials discovery. But they come at a steep cost. Simulations model

Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos’ space startup, is seeking to raise $10 billion at a $130 billion valuation, Semafor confirms, hoping to play catch-up with Elon Musk in the space race. Given SpaceX’s head start, record of smooth launches (something Blue Origin has struggled with lately),

One of the biggest things going for Salesforce, Workday, and the other SaaS companies threatened by AI has simply been inertia. Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi told us in May that the market was overreacting, at least in the short term, to the SaaSpocalypse. “It’s easy for me to vibe

A chart this week from Bank of America ricocheted around Wall Street and Silicon Valley, capturing the “generational transfer” of profits in the AI ecosystem. Huge capital expenditures are collapsing big tech companies’ free cash flow, a metric prized by shareholders. Meanwhile,

Liz’s view A few weeks ago, an Anthropic executive was asked a question on every CEO’s mind: Why should we trust that you won’t steal our business? “It’s a fair question,” Syed Mohiuddin, Anthropic’s head of healthcare, said at Lion Forum, a venture-capital event I attended last

About two weeks after OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 was caught up in regulatory drama — rolled out only to government-approved organizations during a “limited preview” period — the company has received the Trump administration’s greenlight for a public rollout of the model. OpenAI CEO Sam Alt

Windows 11 updates could soon include fixes for more security issues at once. Microsoft said in a blog post on Thursday that it’s now using AI to “identify potential issues earlier,” which means “customers will see a higher volume of security updates included in each security rel

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told CNBC on Thursday that GPT-5.6 Sol, the company's latest artificial intelligence model, is 54% more token efficient on agentic coding tasks, and that it's "as good or better" than competing models on the market. "Every enterprise now is thinking about sp

In a revealing interview with Peter Kafka this week, New York Times Executive Editor Joe Kahn said the paper is pouring resources into visual content, prompting comparisons to the media industry’s ill-fated “pivot to video” in the 2010s. But there are crucial differences. Back th

Dive Brief: - Chief executives are optimistic about AI’s potential, with almost two-thirds now worrying they’re underinvesting in the technology, according to Cisco's survey of 2,500 CEOs across 23 countries. - Infrastructure modernization ranks as CEOs’ top technology priority f

At the end of last year, Albertsons launched an agentic shopping assistant that can take shoppers from a vague query — “I’m in the mood for something spicy” — to an online basket full of products along with the recipes they need to prepare everything. Five months later, the groce

Weekly quiz: Why did Australia's PM apologise to Kylie Minogue? - Published This week, Prince Harry lost his privacy case against the Daily Mail's publisher, bleary-eyed football fans in England stayed up to see the Three Lions win in Mexico, and the United States celebrated its

Artificial Intelligence MCP tool design: Practical approaches and tradeoffs When Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools underperform, the cause is rarely the protocol itself but the tool design. Many teams start by exposing an existing API as-is and trusting the agent to figure out t

Artificial Intelligence Enhancing enterprise inference on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod with data capture, Hugging Face, NVMe, and Route 53 integration As enterprises scale their generative AI workloads, the demand for faster, more observable, and more flexible inference infrastructu

We recently visited Cosm Los Angeles in Inglewood, California, for an exclusive behind-the-scenes tour of the technology powering one of the most immersive live sports and entertainment experiences available today. If you have never been, the highlight of Cosm is a 27-meter LED d

Permitting — more than access to capital — is the main obstacle to building out the global energy system, the heads of the natural resources group at JP Morgan’s investment bank write today. The issue is “most acute” in the US, they argue in an op-ed shared first with Semafor, bu

Dive Brief: - Levi Strauss & Co. beat its own expectations in Q2 on the top and bottom lines. Net revenues rose 8% year on year to $1.6 billion, while net income rose by nearly a third to over $87 million. - Direct-to-consumer sales grew 11% in the period, with comps up 6%, and a

Safely run AI-generated code in Cloud Run sandboxes Ryan Pei Product Manager Greg Block Software Engineer Here’s a question we hear often at Google Cloud: How do you safely run AI-generated code or untrusted binaries without putting your host application, data, and cloud credenti

Meta’s First Canadian AI Campus Was Planned Around the Grid Meta’s 1 GW Alberta campus reveals how hyperscalers now secure power and transmission years before announcing AI campuses. Meta’s first Canadian data center will rise in Sturgeon County, Alberta, marking a more than US$9

Dive Brief: - Hasbro announced the launch of Blooms by Play-Doh, a Play-Doh line for adults. The products mark the company’s entry into adult crafting and home decor, according to a Thursday press release. - Users will be able to craft floral arrangements with a kit that includes

Destination XL Group’s board of directors has again recommended shareholders reject an updated acquisition offer from Zodiac Partners II. The apparel company’s board first recommended the rejection of a Zodiac Partners offer in May priced at 82 cents per share, which valued the c

Say what you will about whether artificial intelligence is good for humanity. It is undoubtedly worth billions of dollars — and then some — to the states that can attract AI business. AI is a massive consumer of electricity, water, computing power, and land. That puts some states

Redditor buys suspicious drives on eBay just to report the scamming sellers if they get a fake SSD or HDD — latest '16TB' find has weights and microSD card hot-glued inside the enclosure to make it feel legit Unfortunately, this age-old scam still works. A Reddit user shared the

Dutch data center developer Volt is working with Dell and NorthC to launch an AI cloud. Volt claims the platform represents “the first operational step toward an AI gigafactory,” which the company hopes to develop in Rotterdam as part of the European Commission’s €20 billion ($23

Leadership Updates: Key Data Center & Cloud Appointments (Q3 2026) New executive moves at Colt, Stream, and Vantage are among the latest leadership changes shaping the data center and cloud industries. July 9, 2026 This quarter, major players including Colt, Stream, and Vantage D