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Storage news ticker - 17 July Databricks, announced strategic funding at a $188 billion valuation, with a signed a term sheet for the round, which it expects to close later this summer, led by existing investor Coatue. The round will include additional new and existing investors.

The Dyson Hot+Cool HF1 is a sleek 2-in-1 smart appliance that provides heating in the winter and cooling in the summer. Designed for year-round comfort, the $499 unit combines quiet operation and smart controls with Dyson’s signature bladeless design. I typically use a ceiling fa

Apple filed a trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI last Friday, and it’s not messing around. The complaint alleges a pattern of misconduct reaching all the way up to OpenAI’s chief hardware officer and claims more than 400 former Apple employees now work at the company. OpenAI’s

Iran on Friday claimed it had targeted U.S. military forces in Syria and Bahrain, widening its attacks in the region as the U.S. completed its sixth consecutive night of strikes on the Islamic Republic. The escalating standoff comes as the fragile truce signed by the U.S. and Ira

Apple is suing OpenAI. The complaint is readable and intense, as these things often are, though many experts seem to think many of the allegations are just the ways things are done. So what does Apple really want here, and why is it picking such a public fight with OpenAI? Apple’

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MOST POPULAR AI - AI and ML OpenAI admits GPT-5.6 occasionally deletes files – but it's an 'honest mistake' Data purges deemed an example of 'misaligned behavior' that upstart is working to avoid - AI and ML Researcher poisons open-weight AI model for under $100 Models demand tru

Qumulo pals up with Databricks Qumulo has integrated its NeuralSearch capability with Databricks OpenSharing so that Databricks users and agents get access to Qumulo's stores when searching the Databrick's repository. Databricks launched OpenSharing in June, saying it was an open

Good times for SpaceX are proving short-lived as Elon Musk's intergalactic IPO is now giving fodder to bears who said the U.S. stock market wasn't ready for a $2 trillion market-cap injection. Shares of the satellite and exploration business dropped 5.5% on Friday, extending a 10

AI agents have made inroads in businesses and government. Now they’re hitting the pageant stage. Samantha Smitte, 37, who worked at IBM for a decade, spent about $150 on AI agents to train for the Miss New York USA pageant next week, she told Semafor. They run practice interviews

Frontier AI labs don’t want to be known for helping teens commit harm against themselves or others. “The principle here is to avoid the mistakes that were made before us,” Lauren Jonas, OpenAI’s head of youth well-being, told Semafor. “AI is not social media,” she said, arguing t

The AI world is going nuts over the Kimi K3 AI model, the latest open-weight offering from Chinese startup Moonshot. While the new model is a big deal, the concern is somewhat misguided. For instance, Nvidia’s stock (and American markets broadly) took a hit over fears that China

Artificial Intelligence Introducing Mobile Layout for Amazon Quick dashboards Teams that rely on dashboards for daily decisions often must pinch and zoom to interact with controls originally designed for larger displays. Checking revenue during a morning standup, reviewing pipeli

Last month, we reported on a troubling incident at the annual meeting of the American Diabetes Association (ADA) in New Orleans. On June 5, five leading scientists were ousted for handing out copies of an editorial, published in the journal Diabetes Care (an ADA journal) in April

Reed’s view Over the last decade, experts in artificial intelligence learned a “bitter lesson”: Their own knowledge was getting in the way of progress. “The actual contents of minds are tremendously, irredeemably complex,” computer scientist Richard Sutton wrote in 2019. The most

Off the Wire Press Releases July 17, 2026 — Digital Catapult has welcomed eleven leading organizations to the third cohort of its Quantum Technology Access Programme (QTAP), delivered in collaboration with the National Quantum Computing Centre’s (NQCC) SparQ program. Designed to

The AMD Instinct MI350P has been all over trade shows over the past two months. If you saw our recent AMD Intros Instinct MI350P Accelerator: CDNA 4 Comes to PCIe Cards piece, that was extremely popular. Now we are seeing them at Dell Tech World, HPE Discover, Computex 2026, and

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MOST POPULAR AI - AI and ML OpenAI admits GPT-5.6 occasionally deletes files – but it's an 'honest mistake' Data purges deemed an example of 'misaligned behavior' that upstart is working to avoid - AI and ML Researcher poisons open-weight AI model for under $100 Models demand tru

Reliance Consumer Products (RCPL), which houses the group's FMCG business, more than doubled gross revenue to Rs 8,600 crore during the quarter, although it did not disclose EBITDA or profit. Addressing analysts in the earnings announcement, the management said daily essentials u

Everyone seems to be launching and landing rockets these days. Last week, China joined the club of countries that have launched an orbital mission and brought its booster safely back to Earth, which is just the beginning of public and private ventures in that country aggressively

More voters would be more likely to support a democratic socialist candidate than a Make America Great Again supporter or a candidate endorsed by President Donald Trump, the CNBC All-America Economic Survey released Friday found. The survey's findings come as democratic socialist

MOST POPULAR AI - AI and ML OpenAI admits GPT-5.6 occasionally deletes files – but it's an 'honest mistake' Data purges deemed an example of 'misaligned behavior' that upstart is working to avoid - AI and ML Researcher poisons open-weight AI model for under $100 Models demand tru

Artificial Intelligence How Smartsheet built a remote MCP server on AWS Smartsheet is an enterprise work management platform that hundreds of thousands of organizations rely on. As enterprise teams adopt AI agents, those agents need structured access to the data inside systems li

After a nearly 30-year career with the company, Kieran Shanahan is stepping down as chief operating officer for Walmart’s U.S. business. The executive will stay on through the end of the fiscal year in an advisory role to Walmart U.S. CEO David Guggina, according to an internal c

Shares of Netflix came under heavy selling pressure in Friday's trading session, 17 July, plunging 12.6% to a 22-month low of $65 after the streaming giant issued another muted revenue outlook, even as its second-quarter results broadly met Wall Street expectations. If the losses

Fubo prices are going up by $15 per month because it will have some NBCUniversal channels again. For years, Fubo, a sports-centric vMVPD (virtual multichannel video programming distributor, which lets subscribers watch traditional TV channels live over the Internet), offered NBCU

Listen to this article in summarized format The country’s largest producer of steel reported its earnings during market hours on Friday, and its shares climbed 1.4% on the BSE at Rs 1,238.35. While higher compared to the previous year, the bottomline was 75% lower sequentially as

U.S. prosecutors have accused a Florida man of uploading fake video games that contained malware to Steam, the popular PC games platform. Once victims downloaded and installed the games, the malware was designed to infect their computers, steal their passwords and other data, and

MOST POPULAR AI - AI and ML OpenAI admits GPT-5.6 occasionally deletes files – but it's an 'honest mistake' Data purges deemed an example of 'misaligned behavior' that upstart is working to avoid - AI and ML Researcher poisons open-weight AI model for under $100 Models demand tru

As parents become increasingly concerned about the potential dangers of unrestricted smartphone access for children, a growing number of companies are developing devices specifically designed for kids. Today’s kid-friendly phones typically feature touchscreens, cameras, and commu

This week, San Francisco’s attorney general, David Chiu, sent cease-and-desist letters, demanding that Apple and Google remove 13 so-called nudification apps from their app stores, Wired reported. Nudification apps can make it trivially easy to transform ordinary photos of real p

Microsoft and 3M have announced a strategic partnership covering both data center optical connectivity and enterprise AI adoption. Under the July 15 agreement, Azure becomes the first announced hyperscale cloud provider to deploy 3M’s Expanded Beam Optical (EBO) technology across

The stock was close to a two-year low in early trading, with the decline set to wipe out $35 billion from Netflix's market value of about $313 billion, if losses hold. In its latest disclosure pullback, the streaming giant cut the frequency of its viewing-hours report to once a y

"Inflation is too high," Cleveland Fed President Beth Hammack wrote in a social media post, in a signal that she could back higher interest rates at future policy meetings. Hammack, who is a voting member of the Fed's rate-setting committee this year, said her conversations with

Listen to this article in summarized format The jitters in semiconductor stocks were felt from Seoul to Europe as investors pulled back from AI-exposed stocks that had powered portfolio returns through much of this year. The Philadelphia SE Semiconductor Index is down 11% this we

13 hands-on demos to build on Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform Shubham Saboo Senior AI Product Manager, Google Cloud AI Earlier this year, we introduced Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, where you can build, scale, govern, and optimize agents. Today, we’re sharing 13 demos that w

Level Up Your Column-level Security: Using IAM Data Governance Tags in BigQuery Vignesh Rajamani Product Manager Pramod Busam Software Engineer Many BigQuery customers rely on policy tags for protecting their sensitive information in BigQuery. Policy tags were the go-to solution

ASML's planned Low-NA EUV machine price hikes reportedly frustrate TSMC — lithography machine maker comes knocking to make bank on TSMC's profitable fabs, potentially costing the Taiwanese chipmaker billions Low-NA, high stakes ASML is reportedly considering increasing prices of

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Gulf states, already among the world’s biggest spenders on defense, have been rearming rapidly since March as they seek to deter future attacks. This week, the US approved a $2 billion Saudi order for weapons guidance systems, launchers, warheads, and other equipment, as well as

It’s been another week with far more retail news than there is time in the day. Below, we break down some things you may have missed during the week and what we’re still thinking about. From Lush’s early Halloween launch to the sectors that helped boost June sales, here’s our clo

The US-Iran conflict has become a testbed for the future of warfare, from missile defenses to cyber operations and autonomous drones. The US this week said it had carried out its first offensive combat mission using unmanned surface vessels, sending drone boats to strike Iran’s B