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Tower Semiconductor revives shuttered Panasonic-era fab in $3 billion Japan photonics expansion — METI-backed plan targets $3.6 billion revenue by 2028 The Arai fab has been dark since 2022. Tower expects it to be production-ready for 300mm silicon photonics by late 2027. Tower S

Sudo make me a sandwich. The future has arrived! DoorDash just introduced a limited beta of DoorDash CLI, a command-line tool for developers that lets you order DoorDash directly from your AI agent. The tool can be used to search stores, find deals, and check out, the company say

U.K. police said on Thursday that the jailing of two hackers has “severely” hampered the activities of the infamous cybercrime group known as Scattered Spider. Owen Flowers, 18, and Thalha Jubair, 20, pleaded guilty earlier this year to hacking Transport of London (TfL), the gove

NVIDIA has disclosed a comprehensive multi-track strategy to accelerate AI adoption in Japan, combining a new national AI infrastructure buildout with a broad ecosystem of industry-specific models and specialized edge hardware. The strategy moves Japan toward a unified platform a

“Your data is private. Period,” says period tracker Stardust on its website. As new research by Mozilla discovered, some users might find that claim to be a stretch. According to Mozilla’s latest findings examining the privacy practices of period-tracking apps, Stardust was found

You may have heard that OpenAI released its first piece of hardware this week: a $230 mini keyboard. You may not have heard that alongside this “command center for agentic work,” OpenAI also released a ChatGPT basketball. “This basketball comes from the Pause. Play. Prompt. campa

Telcos have an opportunity to turn scam protection into a stronger customer relationship. This eBook shows how embedded digital safety can help operators move beyond connectivity and become trusted partners in customers’ everyday digital lives. Build trust beyond speed, coverage

Dive Brief: - Foot Locker is adding outdoor brand Salomon to its assortment, according to a Wednesday press release from the athletics retailer. - Men’s and women’s styles from the Amer Sports-owned footwear line will be available beginning Sunday, and will include the XT-6, XT-6

The world of economic development is spinning fast in 2026. Companies are pressing some specific demands of the states they are willing to do business in. They want low costs, minimal red tape, and turnkey sites that afford them the greatest speed to market. They want cheap and r

Lenovo announces world's first laptop with inkjet-printed OLED — the Legion R9000P is equipped with a 240 Hz IJP panel from TCL CSOT News of brand-new affordable hardware is a breath of fresh air in a time when the prices for every other technology, from CPUs and GPUs to memory a

Episode details Available for over a year Today, Adam is joined by legendary broadcaster Andrew Marr, who is one of the very few people to have interviewed Andy Burnham before he goes into number 10. As Burnham prepares to take the reins of government, some things remain unclear

Investing in Runta a16z leads Runta's Seed round America | Tech | Opinion | Culture | Charts AI models have required rethinking the GPU stack. And now agents are doing the same thing for CPUs. Ironically, the direction compute has taken over the last decade has made it less suita

Axelera AI has launched Voyager Wingman, an AI-powered assistant designed to accelerate development with its Voyager Toolkit. The tool was first shown at CES in January and has since undergone extensive testing ahead of this broader release. Wingman lets developers use natural la

Andrew Dai left Google DeepMind knowing visual AI was the frontier he wanted to stake his claim in. He pulled off a whirlwind fundraise that resulted in a more aggressive valuation-to-capital ratio than Thinking Machines, which raised one of the largest rounds in U.S. history. In

Dive Brief: - PVH this week named Alexis Rollier, who has served as global CFO and global COO of Sephora since 2018, to be the apparel retailer’s next CFO, according to a company release and securities filing. - Rollier will take the finance reins for the parent of Calvin Klein a

Sheryl Sandberg has led a $10 million investment into Self Inspection, a San Diego-based startup that is also backed by former Tesla president Jon McNeill’s DVx Ventures. The startup, founded in 2021, has spent the last few years trying to disrupt the vehicle inspection process b

Edtech company PhysicsWallah (PW) has approved an investment of Rs 71.8 crore in UPSC coaching platform Sarrthi IAS. The transaction will increase its stake in the company from 40% to 51%, making Sarrthi IAS a subsidiary, according to a stock exchange filing. The investment is pa

On Wednesday, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) released preliminary findings verifying Elon Musk’s and Tesla’s claims that a driver involved in a fatal Texas crash that killed a grandmother overrode Full Self Driving in the moments ahead of impact. Last month, 44-y

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While the rest of the AI industry races to label its work as “AGI” or “superintelligence,” Alexandre LeBrun, the CEO of Yann LeCun’s world model startup, AMI Labs, avoids the terms altogether. Lebrun said in an interview with TechCrunch that the company doesn’t use terms like “AG

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AI in telecom is moving fast — and where it goes next will define the operators who lead. The 2026 State of AI in Telecommunications report from NVIDIA maps out what's coming and what's already working. Inside, you'll find: Where investment is going. 78% of operators are moving t

The Scoop DR Congo’s finance minister ordered the tax authority to remove seals placed on Glencore’s Kamoto Copper Company offices, as talks continue over a multibillion-dollar tax dispute, a government spokesman told Semafor. The move comes days after President Félix Tshisekedi

Three $3B B2B Acquisitions in 30 Days: Intercom/Fin, Cognite, and MaintainX In about a month, three B2B companies recently were acquired for right around $3 billion each. On the surface they have nothing to do with each other: - Salesforce bought Fin (the company formerly known a

“A Philosopher’s One-Word Theory for Why the World Feels So Weird,” from Plain English with Derek Thompson. In this podcast episode, University of Chicago philosophy professor Agnes Callard puts forth what host and Abundance author Thompson calls “one of the most original ideas I

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Reactors Have a Surprising Amount of Detail The more difficult your mission, the more the details are critical to understand America | Tech | Opinion | Culture | Charts To hear more from Tori, President & COO of Radiant, follow her at @torishiv A few years ago, John Salvatier wro

Demystifying AI Exploits: A Blueprint for AI-Assisted Vulnerability Management Mandiant Written by: Jules Czarniak Introduction As highlighted in the Mandiant M-Trends 2026 report, the mean time-to-exploit (TTE) has dropped to -7 days, meaning vulnerabilities are often exploited

Credibility is everything for Kevin Warsh. Congressional hearings this week showed how hard it will be for the new Federal Reserve chairman to keep it. Warsh had few, if any, major slip-ups amid intense questioning from Democrats — and supportive commentary from Republicans — in

Nvidia and Japan unveil world's first national AI infrastructure — Noetra consortium to build a 140MW Rubin AI factory with 27,500 GPUs The state-backed buildout comprises 382 Vera Rubin NVL72 racks. Nvidia today announced that it's working with Japan's Noetra Corp. to build a 14

The Scoop Retirement services provider Voya Financial has fielded takeover interest in recent weeks, according to people familiar with the matter. The outreach is informal, no talks are ongoing, and people close to the $9 billion company say that neither management nor the compan

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