news

D2CX by Inc42 is a 12-week hands-on program to help you level up your D2C game. Learn from India's top 1% D2C founders and experts through actionable insights, proven strategies and tactics on how to 10X your D2C brand. view ManagementX by Inc42 – India’s first Startup Management

Hyundai Motor Company’s plan to put humanoid robots to work by 2028 is not part of current negotiations with striking South Korean autoworkers, according to the company. The automaker is disputing news reports that partial labor strikes by the Hyundai Motor union at the world’s l

Science Corporation, a startup developing novel brain-computer interfaces (BCI), won approval from Europe’s medical device regulator to begin selling a device that restores vision lost from age-related macular degeneration. The company said the device, called PRIMA, also received

As social media has evolved from a place to connect with friends into large-scale entertainment platforms, a startup called Yope is quietly building what it believes will be the future of online connection: social networking with no algorithms, no ads, and no public content. Yope

White House Warns PJM to Reform Grid Governance ‘Before It Is Too Late’ Amid mounting pressure over rising AI power demand, the White House warns PJM Interconnection to overhaul its industry-controlled board or face potential regulatory fallout. The White House intensified pressu

The News The Trump administration is barreling toward a war funding crisis even as its conflict with Iran escalates, with slim chances of congressional approval for more defense money anytime soon. House Republicans are on the verge of passing a budget on Wednesday that sets up o

Anthropic leaped to a $47 billion revenue run rate by May, compared to $9 billion in 2025. It’s the kind of growth that Menlo Ventures’ Matt Murphy says he’s never seen in 25 years of investing, not in the internet wave, not in mobile, not in the first cloud boom. Menlo led Anthr

Off the Wire Press Releases SANTA CLARA, Calif., July 22, 2026 — AMD and Anthropic today announced a strategic partnership to deploy up to 2 gigawatts of AMD Instinct MI450 Series GPUs in AMD Helios rack-scale solutions, with deployment of the first gigawatt beginning in the firs

Off the Wire Press Releases The program will help research communities enhance datasets to accelerate discovery in national priority areas. July 22, 2026 — The U.S. National Science Foundation announced the NSF Unlocking Dataset Value for AI-Enabled Scientific Discovery program,

Skip Navigation Markets Pre-Markets U.S. Markets Currencies Prediction Markets Cryptocurrency Futures & Commodities Bonds Funds & ETFs Business Economy Finance Health & Science Media Real Estate Energy Climate Transportation Investigations Industrials Retail Wealth Sports Life Sm

Jensen Huang argues American companies should be allowed to use Chinese AI models — Nvidia CEO says backdoors connected to China are misconceptions He also believes that American AI should be accessible to everyone. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang thinks that American companies should be

Israeli workplace software maker Monday.com is laying off hundreds of employees as part of a restructuring plan to refocus its investments around AI projects. The company said it is reducing its headcount by 20%, or about 630 staff, to “support a leaner, more focused operating mo

Off the Wire Press Releases July 22, 2026 — Today, Microsoft is excited to share a long-term commitment to the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Genesis Mission, backed by a $60 million investment designed to accelerate AI for science and the breakthroughs it can deliver for the count

Reed’s view The blast radius from Chinese open-weight model Kimi K3 continues to widen. President Donald Trump’s tech adviser Michael Kratsios and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent are threatening China over what they deem as IP theft, while OpenAI’s Dean Ball is pushing the White

PsiQuantum is getting a $125 million cash infusion from DARPA, the startup announced today, a new vote of confidence for its efforts to build the world’s first large-scale quantum computer. PsiQuantum is part of DARPA’s Quantum Benchmarking Initiative, which started as a way to e

Off the Wire Press Releases July 22, 2026 — The U.S. National Science Foundation today announced $83 million in awards through the Integrated Data Systems and Services (IDSS) program. The awards will expand access to data infrastructure resources that researchers can use alongsid

Meet the a16z Forward Deployed Engineer Fellows The 65 fellows we've selected to join the inaugural cohort America | Tech | Opinion | Culture | Charts We are excited to announce the fellows who will be part of the inaugural a16z Forward Deployed Engineer Fellowship, an 8-week coh

Google announced on Wednesday a new migration experience built directly into Android 17 that should ease the switch from iPhone to Android. The feature lets users wirelessly transfer more data types from an iPhone without needing to download a separate app, Google says. By simpli

In the early years of the United States, when the nascent US Navy was still getting its sea legs, several presidents used privateers to capture or destroy enemy warships when armed naval vessels were unable to do so. President John Adams was one of the most vigorous proponents of

Samsung on Wednesday detailed the features of its upcoming smart glasses, including gesture controls, as it looks to mount its first challenge to Meta in the device category. The South Korean tech giant had previously unveiled the "intelligent eyewear" at Google I/O conference in

He's not quite at the level of obscurity of former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, but new Fed chief Kevin Warsh has settled on a few phrases that are notable for their repetition and lack of clarity. In five public appearances, starting with his nomination hearing in Ap

David’s view What’s the point of a political party? We’ve received a few answers to that question this month. Maine Democrats threw together a mini-primary to replace their US Senate nominee. In Wisconsin, where the Democrat most party leaders were comfortable with blew up her ca

Off the Wire Press Releases July 22, 2026 — The EuroHPC JU has signed a procurement contract with E4 Computer Engineering, the selected contractor, for the acquisition, delivery, installation and maintenance of MeluXina-AI, a new AI-optimized supercomputer for the EuroHPC AIF in

OpenAI says an agent powered by its LLM models escaped its sandboxed testing environment to infiltrate Hugging Face’s servers as part of an overzealous attempt to obtain solutions to a benchmark test. The company says it considers the unintended infiltration an “an unprecedented

Samsung has given us our first chance to check out its upcoming smart glasses in person, revealing two new designs and the first specs in the process, including an impressive 9-hour battery life. The glasses, developed in collaboration with Google and the eyewear brands Gentle Mo

A TensorRT engine build can take seconds to many minutes. Large strongly typed models, deep tactic search, and a cold timing cache on a brand-new GPU SKU can leave developers, end users, or AI agents staring at a frozen terminal with no idea whether to wait, retry, or kill the pr

As Chinese open-weight AI models grow in capability and popularity, arguments about what should be done about them have once again reached a fever pitch. There’s talk that the Trump administration might try to ban them (though it hasn’t yet acted on the idea). Meanwhile, propriet

Substack has launched a new feature that can show you which of your favorite newsletters are being written using AI. This week, the newsletter and writing platform announced an integration with the AI writing detection software Pangram that will allow users to scan posts, comment

Fortinet becomes Intel 4's first foundry customer, following firewall ASIC deal — CEO Lip-Bu Tan's promised foundry wins begin to surface, but on a mature node Intel says the firewall chip deal fulfills plans it laid out for Intel 4 years ago. Intel will design, package, and fabr

Dive Brief: - Nike is resetting its online distribution in China to resolve a presence that has “become too fragmented,” Cathy Sparks, Nike’s head of Greater China, said in a company post Tuesday. - Come January, Nike’s online experience in China will rest within official Nike ch

OpenAI announced Wednesday that it will spend $750 billion on infrastructure through 2030, some 25% more than it estimated earlier this year, The Wall Street Journal reported. The renewed blitz comes as its Stargate data center project appears to have stalled. The first salvo in

Microsoft announces Xbox Backward Compatibility for PC — will let gamers play classic console games on PCs and handhelds Including the new Xbox ROG Ally lineup Xbox has announced a new Xbox Backward Compatibility for PC program, which will let gamers play a selection of classic X

Do you drink Coke? Or Pepsi? Perhaps you prefer beer…Bud? Or Heineken? Maybe you're into energy drinks and you're a Red Bull person. These are among the many household beverages served in Ball Corp's sustainable aluminum packaging. Beyond beverages, Ball's containers package ever

Artificial Intelligence AI Teammates: how monday.com runs production AI agents on Amazon Bedrock AI Teammates are agentic AI on Amazon Bedrock, and few engineering organizations run them in production at the scale that monday.com does. Nine in ten Builders use AI coding tools eve

Dive Brief: - Target is launching a limited-edition collaboration with New York-based fashion designer Rosie Assoulin on Saturday, according to a Tuesday release. - The 41-piece collection is mostly priced under $50 and features dresses, bags and footwear. It also includes Assoul