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The smartwatch market isn't slowing down. Standalone cellular smartwatches already account for over 45% of total revenue, and OEMs like Apple, Samsung, Google and Huawei keep raising the bar on what "connected" means to consumers. But here's the catch: none of it works at scale

Character.AI’s plan to become more than just an LLM-powered chatbot platform is going beyond interactive books, comics, and audio dramas. Today, the company announced the debut of c.ai Series — short-form, episodic videos designed to be watched and interacted with — on your phone

This week the US Space Force brought two more companies into the pool of bidders eligible to compete for its launch contracts—Impulse Space and Relativity Space. For a rocket company, cracking into the lucrative US military launch market is both a sign of maturity, as well as an

This GFN Thursday brings more games, more power and more ways to play on GeForce NOW. The cloud gaming service is expanding with a new GeForce RTX 5080-powered server in Toronto, bringing dedicated high performance in the cloud closer to members across the region. NTE: Neverness

Hussein Shell has moved from Amazon Web Services (AWS) energy team to head up Google Cloud’s oil and gas unit. Shell had spent just under four years at AWS as its chief technologist, where he led cloud migration and technology innovation initiatives for leading energy and utility

County officials in Georgia have denied an application for a large data center campus. Local press, including Fox and WSB-TV, reports the Douglas County commissioners this week voted 4-1 against a rezoning request for a large campus outside Villa Rica, some 30 miles west of Atlan

Last year, Image Line introduced Gopher for FL Studio, an AI chatbot that was basically a glorified instruction manual. You asked it how to do something, and it would serve up the relevant instructions. It’s the kind of thing I actually use AI for on a semi-regular basis. But in

Tom's Hardware Verdict The Alienware AW3426DW is a solid value in the 34-inch curved ultra-wide genre with premium imagery and performance. Its size and shape strike a good balance between gaming immersion and workday utility. Pros - + Bright, sharp, and colorful image - + Bright

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AMD's upcoming Zen 6 Medusa Point 10-core APU pops up on Geekbench — chip is faster than Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 & even Ryzen AI Max+ 395 Medusa Point looks to be promising. AMD is expected to announce its next-gen mobile CPUs at CES 2027, but leaks have already started to pour in, giv

Elon Musk receives FTC greenlight to buy Mesh Optical as interconnects emerge as AI's tightest bottleneck — the move will expand Musk's growing stack of critical AI infrastructure Optical networking is the missing piece in Musk's Space data center ambitions Elon Musk has received

To rank America's Top States for Business in 2026, CNBC scored all 50 states on 138 metrics in 10 broad categories of competitiveness. The fundamentals of the study, now in its 20th year, remain the same: identifying the factors companies consider when making site selection decis

South Korean AI chip firm FuriosaAI has expanded its footprint in Europe with a deployment of its custom AI inference accelerators. The company has deployed RNGD servers at Equinix's LS2 data center in Lisbon, Portugal. The RNGD accelerators are built on a 5nm Tensor Contraction

This is CNBC's Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox. Happy Thursday. We're releasing our exclusive America's Top States for Business study this morning. Fun fact: It's the 20th year of the study. S&P 500 futures are higher this mornin

Series B focused investment firm The Fundamentum Partnership has launched Fundamentum Fund III with a target corpus of Rs 2,200 crore, including a Rs 400 crore greenshoe option. The firm said cofounder Nandan Nilekani has made his largest investment in any venture capital firm as

The News The Gulf stood out in attracting foreign direct investment in 2025, led by record inflows into the UAE. FDI into West Asia — a region tracked by the UN that includes the Gulf — rose 20% year-on-year to nearly $111 billion, compared with 2% growth across developing econom

Luxembourg telecoms company Post Luxembourg has permanently retired ts analog fixed-line network. The company finalized the decommissioning of its legacy copper network last week as part of Post's transition towards a network based entirely on Internet technologies (100 percent A

The News Firms moving goods across the border from the UAE into Saudi Arabia are complaining of delays lasting up to several days in some instances, in a sign of the simmering tensions between the Gulf’s largest economies. Delays at the border have been getting worse in recent mo

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The Quebec government in Canada has announced plans to invest around CA$27.7 million ($19.5m) in the construction of 17 new cell sites in ten regions. As reported by Radio Canada (translated from French), the cell tower construction plans were confirmed by the Minister of Cyberse

The UN said actions carried out by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces in Sudan’s civil war amounted to a genocide, with experts warning of further mass atrocities. Human rights investigators said the RSF encircled El Fasher in an attempt to starve its population, while survivo

New hack exploits AI hallucinations to trick agents into running malicious code — 'HalluSquatting' attack exploits a fundamental weakness in every available model Today, a tale from the book of We Told You So. Ever since the advent of agentic AI, security researchers have been ye

Nurix AI, an enterprise AI company building autonomous AI software and agents for complex business workflows, has acquired enterprise conversational AI company Verloop.io. The acquisition builds on NuPlay, Nurix's flagship voice AI platform for customer engagement, and adds Verlo

AI executives and companies are betting that spending millions in the 2026 midterm elections will allow them to influence AI bills being developed in Congress. As of the end of June, the two biggest artificial intelligence political action committees have dropped at least $44 mil

Argentina announced the construction of a new nuclear reactor and the UK extended the life of one of its existing ones, part of a worldwide revival of atomic energy. The Buenos Aires project is backed by $1.2 billion in US money; Britain’s Sizewell B will now run until 2055 rathe

Future Nostalgia Project asks retro hoarders to ‘Copy That Floppy!’ — flips the early 1990s anti-piracy campaign on its head to encourage budding archivists Copy your floppies before bit rot gets them. Flipping the infamous early 1990s anti-piracy campaign messaging on its head,

Russia banned the export of diesel following Ukrainian strikes on refineries that have led to the worst fuel shortages since the fall of the Soviet Union. Kyiv’s increased offensive capabilities — some refineries as deep as Siberia have been struck — have forced Russia, the world

The first shipment of Mexican natural gas to Asia is en route, evidence of the reshaping of global energy markets. Mexico’s new LNG export terminal is one of several developments on the Pacific coast of the Americas, with confidence in traditional export avenues waning. Five year

Cloud Capital-linked Lohrasp Enterprise II LLC has secured $520 million in commercial mortgage-backed securities backed by a data center in Loudoun County, Virginia. Global investment management firm and data center developer and operator, Cloud Capital, serves as manager for the

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) $10 million in funding for Bridges-3, the next generation of the center’s flagship supercomputer. According to PSC, Bridges-3 will be built by HPE and comprise Nvidia B200 GPUs alongside

It wasn’t easy to find anyone outside of SpaceX clamoring for a rocket like Starship just 10 years ago. Today, the space industry can’t wait for Starship to finally deliver. With a payload capacity of more than 100 metric tons (220,000 pounds) to low-Earth orbit, SpaceX’s new roc

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