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Ways to think about token pricing There are only two things you can say with certainty about token prices: we’re in a supply crunch, and this is unstable. All of the variables are in play, and the market will get shaken out over the next few years to arrive at a new equilibrium.

Off the Wire Press Releases MUNICH, July 9, 2026 — QuantumDiamonds GmbH (QD), one of Europe’s fastest-growing semiconductor equipment companies, today announced the closing of a €91 million funding round to scale production of its quantum-based semiconductor inspection technology

Nvidia shows off GeForce Trading Cards Series 1 — collectible cards show off games, GPUs, and tech demos, and will be available for free at upcoming events A card you can't put in your PC. Nvidia is making a new set of cards, and no, they won't make it among the best graphics car

Gamma is the anti-PowerPoint. Grant Lee and two former Optimizely colleagues set out to kill the blank page problem, and five years later they’re at $100M ARR, 50 million users, and 600,000 paying subscribers. Profitably. With a team of 50. They did the bulk of that with zero sal

Professor suspected AI-powered cheating on take-home midterms, makes finals in-person — only two students scored within 10% of their midterm score Are students outsourcing critical thinking to AI tools? Brown University professor Roberto Serrano suspected that his students were c

Plans for a data center development at the site of a former Walmart in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, have been dropped following significant local opposition. Described as a “computing research facility” by developers and the local Alderman, the proposed development in Midtown would have

Officials in Elk River, Minnesota, have denied a zoning application for a proposed data center project and are considering a year-long moratorium on new developments. Swervo Development Corp. affiliate Elk River Capital was proposing to convert an existing 60,000-square-foot (5,5

A consortium of European companies, Aether Infrastructure, wants to build two data centers in France as part of the European Commission’s AI Gigafactory scheme. Aether brings together “leading European players in energy, construction, cloud computing, semiconductors, high-perform

Three months after unveiling its first artificial intelligence model under the leadership of AI chief Alexandr Wang, Meta is rolling out a major update as it attempts to compete with OpenAI and Anthropic in critical areas of the market. Muse Spark 1.1, which Meta introduced on Th

Three months after unveiling its first artificial intelligence model under the leadership of AI chief Alexandr Wang, Meta is rolling out a major update as it attempts to compete with OpenAI and Anthropic in critical areas of the market. Muse Spark 1.1, which Meta introduced on Th

After reentering the AI race with its first in-house Muse Spark model in April, Meta is now opening up the doors to developers with a new model that can plug into AI coding software with the new Meta Model API. Meta says its new AI model is ready to compete on coding Muse Spark 1

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Australian Internet of Things (IoT) firm X2M Connect Limited is looking to move into the data center space. The ASX-listed firm this week announced its partner, Resi Ventures, has completed settlement for land located approximately 10 kilometres (6.2 miles) from Ballarat's centra

Sega’s $5M investment saved Nvidia in 1996, now Jensen Huang is heading to Tokyo to mark 30 years of partnership — Akihabara event will include a GeForce RTX 5090 FE lottery, an RTX Spark presentation, and more In the mid-90s Sega provided a $5M lifeline to Nvidia before its firs

Robotaxi companies have thrived in California, where the good weather, enthusiasm for technology, and sophisticated labor force have supported their growth for nearly two decades. But a delayed decision from a state regulatory agency is now slowing Alphabet’s subsidiary Waymo, th

Cisco got the nod to supply its network offerings for some of golf’s biggest tournaments. The R&A selected the networking giant to support The Open, the sport’s oldest tournament. The 154th Open, set to be held July 12-19 at Royal Birkdale in North West England, will be supported

The popularity of Spotify Wrapped has kicked off a wide range of year-in-review features, on apps from YouTube to Uber — and now, the lookback trend has come to AI. Anthropic on Thursday announced a “reflect” feature for its Claude chatbot, allowing users to see an analysis of th

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