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South San Francisco startup Zipline is adding former Tesla and Waymo execs to its C-suite, and bringing on a former Uber executive to lead its commercial expansion, as the company scales its drone delivery service into new U.S. and international markets. Since Zipline started up

South San Francisco startup Zipline is adding former Tesla and Waymo execs to its C-suite, and bringing on a former Uber executive to lead its commercial expansion, as the company scales its drone delivery service into new U.S. and international markets. Since Zipline started up

Consumer prices pulled back in June on the heels of lower energy and gasoline prices, a reversal after moving sharply upward in recent months due to the Iran war. However, inflation risks re-igniting in coming months amid renewed hostilities between the U.S. and Iran, economists

International Business Machines shares plummeted 25% on Tuesday after the hardware, software and consulting provider released preliminary second-quarter results that fell short of expectations. The stock logged its worst day on record, sinking further than its previous worst day

The News As a sprawling cyclospora outbreak spreads across the United States, critics of the Trump administration’s response have placed the blame on cuts to a single program. But public health experts say that misses the deeper problems the outbreak has exposed. FoodNet, a feder

Off the Wire Press Releases July 14, 2026 — As part of its 36th large-scale call, the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS) is now accepting applications for GCS Large-Scale Projects covering the period from November 1, 2026, to October 31, 2027. The three centers that comprise t

What we know about fatal ICE shooting in Maine US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents have been told to immediately halt most vehicle stops nationwide, following two fatal shootings involving ICE. The latest happened in Maine when an ICE agent shot and killed a 26-ye

Meta’s AI-fueled layoffs of 8,000 employees targeted workers with disabilities and those who took protected medical or family leaves, alleged a lawsuit filed by 26 employees who were selected for termination. Meta used internal AI tools to select employees for layoffs, according

Lucid Motor stock fell more than 40% at one point and trading was halted for volatility multiple times Tuesday amid speculation that the company is considering new options. The stock recovered some of its intraday losses and closed the day 16% lower, trading for $4.62 a share. A

American megabanks on Tuesday gave evidence that the global artificial intelligence boom isn't just benefiting tech giants and chip makers. Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase each posted record quarterly revenue hauls, fueled by massive gains in equities trading and investment bank

US gov't allows Chinese telecom giant ZTE to purchase Nvidia H200 AI chips — firm joins Alibaba, Tencent, and ByteDance in access to Hopper tech Still no Blackwell, though, and Beijing gets the final say. The Sino-American chip wars have resulted in many back-and-forth salvos and

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Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett told a House subcommittee on Tuesday that "the threat level" against her and other federal judges "is really high" as she testified about the high court's 2027 budget request. "Those statistics sound abstract, but being on the receiving end

Apple is opening up its biggest-ever Siri overhaul to a broader audience with the release of the iOS 27 public beta, giving everyday users the chance to try out the new AI assistant ahead of its broader launch later this fall. The public beta marks the first time Apple has made i

Anthropic is known for its creative marketing, but the AI company may have been a little bit too creative when it conjured up its most recent advertisement. Titled “There’s hope in hard questions,” the company’s latest ad has been unsettling viewers with its weird imagery and doo

Hinge founder Justin McLeod announced an $18 million fundraise for his new dating company, Overtone. McLeod stepped down from his CEO role at Hinge just last year, and Hinge owner Match Group — which also owns apps like Tinder and OkCupid — is helping to fund his new company, alo

AWS Compute Blog Introducing modularized kernel cryptography in Amazon Linux We are introducing modularized kernel cryptography in Amazon Linux 2023, an approach that separates Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-3 cryptographic components into an independent kerne

A bipartisan group of senators is introducing a bill to initiate action on Social Security reform. The PROMISE Act — which stands for Protecting Retirement Opportunities and Maintaining Income Security for Everyone — would establish a process for enacting changes to Social Securi

Off the Wire Press Releases July 14, 2026 — The Fast Machine Learning (FastML) Foundation will hold the Fast Machine Learning for Science Conference 2026 through the University of California San Diego from Aug. 31 to Sept. 4. FastML will take place at the Halıcıoğlu School of Dat

SpaceXAI’s Grok Build AI coding tool was spotted uploading users’ entire codebases to Google Cloud before it was reported, and the company turned it off. The Register reports that Cereblab published findings on Monday showing how the Grok Build CLI was packaging and uploading ent

Writer E. Jean Carroll has been paid more than $5.6 million that she was owed as part of a federal civil jury verdict holding President Donald Trump liable for sexual abuse and defamation, a court filing showed Tuesday. "The Eagle has landed," Carroll wrote later Tuesday in a soc

US Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh on Tuesday committed to tackling stubborn inflation in hawkish comments that investors took as a signal borrowing costs are likely to stay higher for longer. Warsh sidestepped questions about whether the Fed would raise rates, even though lawm

SK Hynix options debuted Tuesday to less fanfare than one might have expected given the year-long rally in the stock and a 20%-plus surge on Tuesday alone. About 150,000 options traded in SK by midday Tuesday and while more calls traded than puts, the most popular directional tra

Off the Wire Press Releases July 14, 2026 — The U.S. National Science Foundation announced it awarded the newest NSF Regional Innovation Engines (NSF Engines) awards to 12 U.S. teams across 20 states. These NSF Engines will build and scale innovation clusters that aim to accelera

Off the Wire Press Releases SANTA CLARA, Calif., July 14, 2026 — Ultralytics, the company behind the YOLO family of object detection models, today announced collaboration with Intel to bring production-ready YOLO (You Only Look Once) computer vision models to Intel hardware, maki

Off the Wire Press Releases Baya’s WeaveIP fabric and WeaverPro software accelerating architecture development for Kandou’s 448G copper AI connectivity platform SANTA CLARA, Calif. and SAINT-SULPICE, Switzerland, July 14, 2026 — Baya Systems, a leader in software-defined fabric I

Lettuce and salad greens have become the prime suspects in an explosive outbreak of the diarrheal parasite Cyclospora, which is surging nationwide but erupting to extraordinary heights in Michigan. In recent years, Michigan has typically reported around 50 cases of cyclosporiasis

New York State Governor Kathy Hochul on Tuesday signed an executive order barring the construction of new large-scale data centers using 50 megawatts or more of power for up to one year, making the Empire State the first state in the nation to impose such a ban. "We're in the mid

New York State Governor Kathy Hochul on Tuesday signed an executive order barring the construction of new large-scale data centers using 50 megawatts or more of power for up to one year, making the Empire State the first state in the nation to impose such a ban. "We're in the mid

Lucid Motors is denying a report that it’s weighing filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Nick Twork, the company’s chief communications officer, told TechCrunch in a statement that the “rumors are completely false.” “The company has sufficient liquidity to carry its opera

Cooling inflation has also chilled some experts' expectations for the 2027 Social Security cost-of-living adjustment, which may be between 3.7% and 3.8%, according to new estimates. The Social Security COLA may be 3.7% in 2027, estimates Mary Johnson, an independent Social Securi

Artificial Intelligence Multi-agent social intelligence with Strands Agents and Amazon Bedrock Your prospects leave trails across multiple sources: a founder asks “What should I use for X?” in r/SaaS while their product launches on Hacker News. Stack Overflow questions spike. A G

Shein will publicly list in Hong Kong after finally receiving Beijing’s approval, deepening its Chinese roots following global setbacks. The fast-fashion juggernaut is targeting a $40 billion IPO as soon as August, after years of attempting to distance itself from China, where it

Chinese solar companies are rushing to divest from the US as Washington looks to curb China’s influence in the clean energy sector. More than half of Chinese clean-tech investments in the US announced since 2022 have been canceled, paused, or delayed. The sell-off was sparked by

Chinese AI lab Zhipu is bucking a tech-stock rout in Hong Kong and the mainland, thanks to its focus on building AI that rivals human intelligence. China’s AI scene is known for prioritizing widespread adoption over the loftier frontier research often championed by Silicon Valley

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A group of publishers and authors have filed a class action lawsuit against Google, accusing the tech giant of using their copyrighted works to train its AI platform, Gemini. The group of plaintiffs, which includes Hachette, Cengage, Elsevier, author Scott Turow, and S.C.R.I.B.E.