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Amazon will once again apply higher fulfillment fees during the holiday shipping rush for its Fulfillment by Amazon, Remote Fulfillment with FBA, Multi-Channel Fulfillment and Buy with Prime services, the company announced last week. The holiday fulfillment fees will be active fr

Reflection AI, a U.S. startup vying to develop open models, has signed a $1 billion compute deal with European AI infrastructure company Nebius. Nebius, formerly the international arm of Russian tech giant Yandex, will provide Reflection access to Nvidia’s latest chips. The deal

Amazon plans to build a 248,687-square-foot sorting warehouse in Georgetown, Texas, according to a July 6 Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation filing. The sorting warehouse within Amazon’s fulfillment network will be equipped with robotic systems that bring items to emplo

For several weeks this summer, the AI industry was fixated on Anthropic’s latest frontier models and Washington’s fight to control who was granted access to them. But while everyone was watching the frontier, developers kept building — and they weren’t waiting around for permissi

We use Higgsfield almost every day at SaaStr AI. If you’ve watched any of our short videos, the intro to The Agents with me and Amelia, the event promos, the sponsorship teasers, all of it is built on Higgsfield. We’re also a proud early investor through SaaStr Fund. So when Alex

A domain used by the messaging app Telegram mysteriously dropped offline on Monday, with the app’s founder, Pavel Durov, saying in an X post that t.me links had “stopped working.” The outage prevented users from accessing the t.me domain shortlink, used by the messaging app to al

B2B ecommerce platform Udaan has announced a structured financing transaction worth approximately $160 million, comprising fresh equity, new debt and debt to equity conversion, as the company looks to strengthen its balance sheet and simplify its capital structure ahead of its lo

OpenAI has spent the better part of the year involved in lawsuit after lawsuit, including one from the world’s richest man. But last Friday, the company was hit with one of the highest-profile legal actions yet — from Apple. OpenAI’s expensive hardware bet is what’s on the line.

The chief of Google's AI division has called for the U.S. to spearhead a standards body that will oversee new AI models and assess national security risks including cybersecurity and biological threats. Google DeepMind boss Demis Hassabis, a Nobel laureate, said in an article pos

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Fashion journalist Brooke Bobb will join Nordstrom next month as vice president and fashion director, reporting to chief merchant Jamie Nordstrom, the company said Monday. She will be tasked with setting seasonal fashion direction, serving as a fashion and trend media spokesperso

Off the Wire Press Releases IDAHO FALLS, Idaho, July 14, 2026 — For the first time, researchers from Idaho National Laboratory, the Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and Purdue University used a geographically distributed control syst

Baby boomers are the generation cutting back most on alcohol consumption, outstripping Gen Z’s abstinence, as moderation takes hold at every level of society. Seventy-one percent of boomers, those born between 1946 and 1964, consumed alcohol in the past six months—the lowest drin

Intel invests $5.7 billion in Ireland fab — aims to boost output of Xeon 6, next-gen Xeon products built on Intel 3 process Intel continues to increase investments in capacity. Intel this week announced that it will invest €5 billion ($5.7 billion) to expand and modernize its man

The Scoop Animal health company Zoetis has agreed to make its second data-focused acquisition this year as it looks to build out its animal diagnostics business using AI. On Tuesday, it agreed to acquire Texas-based VitalRADS, which operates a network of specialists that review a

Frontier Airlines and four other budget carriers with more than 1,000 planes between them will debut in-flight Wi-Fi early next year from SpaceX's Starlink, another win for the satellite internet provider. Frontier's first Airbus plane equipped with Starlink internet will roll ou

Tom's Hardware Verdict The Razer Blade 16 can hang with its peers in gaming performance, blows them away in battery life, but comes up short in multi-threaded productivity tasks. Pros - + Phenomenal battery life - + Gorgeous 16-inch, 1200p OLED display - + Elegant design with exc

Saudi Arabia’s economy has held up to the stresses of the Iran war well thanks to a decades-old oil pipeline to the Red Sea and prudent fiscal policy, Tim Callen, former IMF mission chief to the kingdom, writes for Washington-based think tank Arab Gulf States Institute. Aramco’s

LNG demand in Asia — the most important market for Gulf producers — is on track to fall for the second year in a row, according to Wood Mackenzie. Around 83% of the Gulf’s LNG exports head to Asia, but the Iran war is changing the market dynamics, prompting importers to cut deman

OPEC cut its growth forecast for world oil demand this year by 20% — its third straight downward revision. The producer group still sees the Iran war denting consumption less than the International Energy Agency does, and raised its 2027 growth forecast by 12% to 1.94 million bar

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Saudi Arabia’s artificial intelligence champion HUMAIN will supply computing power to Cohere, an Nvidia-backed large language model developer and one of Canada’s biggest startups. Announced during Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s visit to the kingdom last week, the deal foll

Tim’s view The resumption of tit-for-tat strikes between Iran and the US puts President Donald Trump’s goal to slash retail fuel prices ahead of the midterm elections further out of reach. US crude prices ticked to a four-week high above $80 per barrel on Tuesday, after Trump sai

New York enacts one-year data center ban on projects larger than 50 megawatts — first US state to implement moratorium; will also pursue repealing tax exemptions Will other U.S. states follow suit? New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed into law Senate Bill S10642 today, also call

Meta's $900 million investment in CRED represented the fintech unicorn's return to fundraising after nearly four years, valuing the company at $4.54 billion, up from $3.63 billion in its previous round but still well below its peak valuation of around $6.4 billion. While the head

The global market is staring down a glut of natural gas, while the US itself faces a shortfall, according to two new BloombergNEF reports. As more liquefied natural gas import and export terminals come online in the next few years, the world is building up to an LNG oversupply of

So recently we had a B2B buying experience that led to a No that is very common but many don’t realize is there, or at least is there that much: A B2B Pricing Gap We went to buy Riverside, a podcasting tool, after years of being on Zoom. We wanted to move to Riverside, it’s the g

Smartphone shipments dropped 11% year-on-year in Q2 to their lowest level since 2013, as AI-driven memory shortages pushed prices higher. The biggest fall was in China, where three of the biggest five suppliers saw sales slump, the fifth straight quarterly decline. Entry-level sm

China exported a record $412 billion worth of goods last month, blowing past analysts’ forecasts as AI and the green transition continued to drive global demand for its products. Soaring fuel prices, sparked by the Iran war, saw green tech exports surge by a third in the first ha

The University of Oxford began human trials of its Ebola vaccine, raising hopes that the spread of the Bundibugyo strain may be halted before it becomes the biggest-ever outbreak. The virus has spread across much of the Democratic Republic of Congo, with officials there saying it

President Donald Trump said the US was investigating whether Iran is storing drones in Cuba, potentially giving Washington an excuse to attack the island nation after months of impasse. “If they do have that… we’ll take care of it in short order,” Trump said. His comments came sh

Oil prices jumped 10% Monday, the biggest single-day rise since 2020, signaling that markets do not expect a return to pre-war norms as conflict between the US and Iran reignited. US President Donald Trump said he would re-impose a blockade and start charging tolls on the Strait

Demis Hassabis thinks the world needs an AI watchdog with the power to hit the brakes if frontier models become too dangerous. Google’s Demis Hassabis says it’s time for a global AI watchdog — led by the US He reportedly hopes the US-led institution will be up and running before