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Roblox announced Thursday a new feature called “Build,” allowing users to design games from their mobile devices using AI. The Build feature lets anyone turn simple text prompts into a basic game without any programming experience. For example, if a user types, “Let’s make a cozy

Short sellers are rapidly increasing their bets against SpaceX, driving bearish positioning to nearly one-third of the company's public float as the struggling stock hovers below its IPO offering price. About 185 million SpaceX shares are now sold short, representing roughly 29%

Off the Wire Press Releases New EuroTPC Office at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center- Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS) coordinates the participation of European researchers, HPC centers, AI Factories, and industry players in the Trillion Parameter Consortium’s globa

Off the Wire Press Releases July 16, 2026 — Europe has strong research capabilities in neuromorphic computing, but until now there has been a lack of close coordination. The COST Action EuroNMC aims to change that. The initiative, spearheaded by Forschungszentrum Jülich, brings t

From Southgate to Tuchel - has anything changed? - Published It all felt rather familiar as England exited the World Cup with a 2-1 semi-final defeat by Argentina. Too pragmatic, poor use of substitutes, sitting back too deep and when faced with their first real big opponent of t

Most of the gas in the Universe is a mixture of hydrogen and helium. It’s thought that the initial atmospheres of most planets also start out that way. However, over billions of years, as planets evolve, the composition of their atmospheres may shift. Hydrogen can react with othe

Robotics data startup Microagi closed a $55 million seed funding round, the largest ever in Germany, the company said Thursday. Microagi made headlines in May when it rolled out a service in New York offering free apartment cleanings, so long as customers let the company record e

New York Governor Kathy Hochul might have just signed a moratorium on new AI data centers in the state, but she’s not against using the technology herself. During an interview with Bloomberg’s Odd Lots podcast, Hochul said that her team is using “AI to analyze every single rule,

Netflix Inc. shares rose marginaly on Thursday as investors awaited the streaming giant's second-quarter earnings report, scheduled to be released after the closing bell. The results are expected to provide fresh clues on subscriber growth, user engagement and the company's abili

BP has had an on-again, off-again relationship with climate tech. Now it’s definitely “off.” On top of pivoting away from clean energy earlier this year, the oil giant announced today that it was selling the majority of its venture portfolio — more than 10 companies, according to

After weeks of speculation, Uber officially agreed to acquire Delivery Hero, a purchase that will take the ride-hailing and delivery giant’s status to new heights, and to nearly 100 markets across Europe, the Middle East, Latin America, and Asia. German-based Delivery Hero also m

Managed office space provider WeWork India has announced its financial results for the quarter ended June 2026 (Q1 FY27). The company posted around 28% year-on-year growth in operating revenue during the period, while EBITDA rose more than 30% to Rs 438 crore. WeWork India’s reve

NVIDIA this week announced it will expand its Jetson Thor lineup of robotics and edge AI boards with a pair of new mid-grade models. Coming to the Jetson lineup at the start of 2027 will be the Jetson Thor T3000 and T2000, which will join the existing Jetson Thor boards as lower-

Newsletter platform Beehiiv is expanding into new avenues of engagement by launching a feature called Community, which lets subscribers of a creator chat with each other. The company also launched a new AI Copilot that helps creators manage and grow their audience. The updates co

Linus Torvalds rebukes anti-AI stances in the Linux kernel code review process, says 'Linux is not one of those anti-AI projects' — creator embraces AI as just a tool and 'clearly a useful one' The flashpoint was the Sashiko code review tools. AI-generated slop code has been a pl

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has been the lead regulator on event contract exchanges for over 30 years after it issued a 1992 ruling on the Iowa Electronic Markets, widely recognized as the first prediction market. Now, as prediction markets are booming, legal experts

This is CNBC's Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox. Happy Thursday. Planning a road trip this summer? If Kalshi traders are right, you could once again be shelling out $4 a gallon for gas. Stock futures are mixed this morning as semi

Liz’s view Ted Pick is dropping breadcrumbs. Morgan Stanley’s CEO plopped a telling line into Wednesday’s earnings call: “We are, as a discipline, constantly evaluating potential inorganic opportunities to expand in attractive geographies, bolt on new capabilities, add new client

Neural atom quantum computing roadmap — how laser-cooled trapped atoms could pave the path beyond physical qubit counts A look at the players and roadmaps around neutral atom quantum computing In this installment of our ongoing quantum computing roadmaps, we turn to the area that

AMD Ryzen 7 7700X3D is exclusive to Newegg in North America — $329 CPU won't be available at other vendors until at least Q4 Not exactly the best value. Last month, at Computex 2026, AMD unveiled the Ryzen 7 7700X3D — its brand-new 3D V-Cache chip meant to slot in between the 760

Free alpha alert: Betting on who’s going to win World Cup games isn’t the only way to bet on the tournament. Stock-market volatility in country-specific indexes tends to spike after their national teams play, according to a new analysis from data-modeling firm Polybridge. A count

X is taking a tougher stance against people who try to abuse its creator revenue-sharing program by soliciting engagement and stealing content from others. It’s common for viral content to be recirculated, especially on platforms like X, where that content can be rewarded with li

Kalshi continues its push onto Wall Street. The prediction market platform on Thursday launched 13 contracts that let users bet on the outcome of clinical drug trials, distilling the biggest milestones for biotech stocks into a simple yes or no. In recent days, it has also expand

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., said Thursday that the Trump administration's overhaul of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has cost Americans up to $26.5 billion so far, the latest Democratic critique of sweeping changes made to the agency. In a report shared first with C

A large portion of U.S. adults are making ends meet with help from their parents. Forty-two percent of Americans say they rely on the previous generation for financial support, according to Northwestern Mutual's 2026 Planning & Progress Study. That figure includes 72% of Gen Zers

OnePlus arrived on the scene in 2014 with brash marketing and a compelling pitch: What if your phone was cheaper and faster? More than a decade later, the market is much different, and so is OnePlus. Confirming months of rumors and speculation, OnePlus has confirmed it’s ending p

Weekly quiz: What name did scientists give this $50m dinosaur? - Published This week, Sir Keir Starmer took part in his last Prime Minister's Questions as he prepared to hand over the keys to 10 Downing Street, the US and Iran continued to trade both barbs and bombs, and film cri

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One week ago, three widely respected European news outlets published the results of an investigation into what they described as a “joint plan” by China and Russia to “defeat Elon Musk’s Starlink.” The story was the product of a long-running inquiry by The Insider, Der Spiegel, a

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Travel agency Fora announced a $60 million Series D round led by Forerunner and Tactile Ventures, valuing the company at $1 billion. Fora, founded in 2021, is a two-part platform: It lets people easily become travel agents by providing the infrastructure to support client communi

Nvidia unveiled a new artificial intelligence model for robots and vision AI agents on Wednesday, deepening its push into the physical AI market in Japan. The company's new model, Cosmos 3 Edge, is a so-called world model, designed to help systems perceive and navigate physical e

Nvidia unveiled a new artificial intelligence model for robots and vision AI agents on Wednesday, deepening its push into the physical AI market in Japan. The company's new model, Cosmos 3 Edge, is a so-called world model, designed to help systems perceive and navigate physical e

QVC Group, owner of HSN and QVC, has received approval on its prepackaged financial restructuring plan from the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas. That plan was supported by a majority of the company’s lenders and noteholders, according to a Wednesday annou

A video analytics AI agent that can perceive, reason, and act based on massive amounts of video footage must be integrated with existing workflows and applications to be useful. These include content management systems, messaging platforms, databases, ticket queue, and escalation

Bridging the gap between SQL and Python with BigQuery and the %%bqsql magic Tim Swena TL for BigQuery DataFrames Data scientists and data engineers often find themselves caught between two worlds: SQL and Python. Some find SQL more intuitive, especially when combined with a power

Google announced on Thursday that it now allows users to link and interact with some of their go-to apps right in AI Mode, the tech giant’s conversational search experience. At launch, supported apps include Instacart, Canva, and YouTube. With this new update, Google is expanding

Google is giving its AI note-taking app a new name. The company announced on Thursday that NotebookLM is becoming Gemini Notebook, but will remain a standalone app even as it integrates more deeply across Gemini and Google Search. Google is renaming NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook

Three lessons in accelerating foundation model upgrades Radhika Mani Senior PM Agentic AI, AI and Infrastructure Ting Liu VP Cloud AI Platform, AI and Infrastructure Have you run into problems migrating your products from one model to the next? Upgrading to the latest AI models i

Agentic AI changes the infrastructure pattern for AI factories. One request can trigger many model calls, tool calls, memory lookups, policy checks, storage accesses, and network transfers before a final answer is produced. As more agents run at once and carry context across step