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Off the Wire Press Releases RENO, Nev., July 9, 2026 — CIQ, the founding commercial sponsor of Rocky Linux and the company behind the Ascender Pro automation platform, today announced that Ascender Pro now closes the loop between detection and remediation across an entire Enterpr

OpenAI is sunsetting Atlas, the AI-powered browser it launched in October with ChatGPT at its core. But it’s not giving up on the idea that AI should help people browse the web. Instead, it’s taking some of the agentic browsing features it tested in Atlas and redistributing them

Norway's Haaland says pressure is all on England - Published Norway striker Erling Haaland says all the pressure is on England leading into their World Cup quarter-final meeting on Saturday - and with a smile, called on the media to put as much pressure on Thomas Tuchel's side as

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Micron shares rose almost 5% on Thursday after the company announced a new round of investments aimed at boosting the U.S. semiconductor supply chain, and said it plans to accelerate its spending in the country through 2035. The new strategic investment of up to $3 billion includ

Should Anthropic trust Elon Musk to host its models? After users on X implied that Musk could wake up one day and simply boot the AI lab from SpaceX’s servers as a way to kneecap a rival, Musk replied with glowing praise for the AI lab. He said that such a trick was “not my style

Cases of an explosive diarrheal parasite continue to skyrocket in Michigan, which is reporting 1,251 cases as of July 9. Of those, 44 were hospitalized. Meanwhile, across the border in Ohio, cases are also quickly rising, with news reports of a case total over 500. The outbreak i

Three years ago, Sequoia partner David Cahn was one of the first people to do the math and put a number on the implications of Silicon Valley’s titanic spend on AI infrastructure. In 2023, he was reacting to Nvidia’s reported annual GPU revenue of $50 billion. Starting with that

Last year, when we tested out the “Agent Mode” in OpenAI’s Atlas web browser, we complained that any automated tasks tended to stop after a few minutes, limiting its usefulness for ongoing or complex tasks. With today’s release of ChatGPT Work, OpenAI says it has solved that prob

Palestinians mourn Gaza World Cup screenings organiser killed in Israeli strike - Published The killing of Palestinian aid worker Mohammed al-Wahidi in an Israeli air strike in Gaza City on Tuesday has triggered an outpouring of grief across the Gaza Strip, where for many people

The News President Donald Trump is asking the Supreme Court to reconsider two recent defeats — requests the court grants, at most, “once in a blue moon,” according to one legal expert. Trump announced on Wednesday that he would seek a rehearing “IMMEDIATELY” of the court’s birthr

The airport in West Palm Beach, Florida, has officially been renamed after President Donald Trump, the first time an airport has been named after a sitting U.S. president. Effective Thursday, the facility will be called President Donald J. Trump International Airport, the Federal

A patch Microsoft released on Wednesday to fix a zero-day vulnerability in its Defender security engine may cause Windows machines to write files large enough to completely consume available disk space, the researcher who discovered the flaw said. RoguePlanet, tracked as CVE-2026

Anduril CEO Brian Schimpf said the defense tech company is in no hurry to go public given the current market conditions. "We define a successful IPO as our investors got a good return three years from actually going out," Schimpf told CNBC's Julia Boorstin at the Allen & Co. Sun

Anduril CEO Brian Schimpf said the defense tech company is in no hurry to go public given the current market conditions. "We define a successful IPO as our investors got a good return three years from actually going out," Schimpf told CNBC's Julia Boorstin at the Allen & Co. Sun

OpenAI is already shutting down ChatGPT Atlas, its browser that could do tasks for you on your behalf, less than a year after launching it. Atlas was announced in October, but as part of its wave of news about ChatGPT Work today, the company confirmed that it will be “sunsetting”

Meghan will not appear at public events during Harry UK trip - Published The Duchess of Sussex is no longer expected to appear at any of the public events this week, during her husband the Duke of Sussex's visit to the UK, it has been confirmed. It had already been announced that

Allstate Insurance Company has accused Broadcom of haphazardly issuing audits against it because the insurance firm decided not to renew its contracts with VMware and CA Technologies. The allegations were made in relation to a lawsuit that VMware filed against Allstate in Decembe

Off the Wire Press Releases BOISE, Idaho, July 9, 2026 — Micron Technology, Inc. today announced plans to invest up to $3 billion to strengthen the U.S. semiconductor supply-chain ecosystem and enable the critical semiconductor manufacturing footprint needed for future technology

With Harry Stebbings, Jason Lemkin, and Rory O’Driscoll We’re back in the studio. Or at least the Riverside. On the docket this week: - Washington lifting the 19-day Fable 5 ban and what a structured pre-approval process means for shipping models going forward. - OpenAI floating

Humanoid robots have surgically removed the gallbladders from living animals in an unprecedented medical experiment—but not as autonomous machines capable of replacing human doctors. Instead, skilled human surgeons remotely controlled the robots’ movements in a new example of hum

You can see if ads on Google Search, Google Discover, and YouTube were made or edited using AI from a new section in Google’s “My Ad Center,” as reported earlier by TechCrunch. The update, announced on Thursday, adds a “created or edited with AI” label under the “how this ad was

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Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh on Thursday released names of the experts who will comprise five task forces to examine the institution's operations — a list that includes several prominent Wall Street names, business leaders and a wide expanse of academicians and former Fed

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With the U.S. and Iran exchanging strikes once again — and the return of normal traffic flows in the Strait of Hormuz in doubt — traders on prediction market platform Kalshi think gas prices will likely still be elevated for longer now. Speculators think there's a 75% chance that

Meta publicly launched a new version of Muse Spark on Thursday, a multimodal AI model designed for agentic coding that aims to compete with similar products offered by OpenAI and Anthropic. Spark 1.1, the first version of which was announced in April, can engage in multistep reas