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The future of USB connectivity (2026) — How USB4 Version 2 and Thunderbolt 5 are bringing copper to its physical limits USB4 v2 and Thunderbolt 5 reshape universal connectivity. The USB ecosystem is in the midst of another transition that will affect how laptops, desktops, storag

AMD to supply Anthropic with 2 gigawatts of Instinct MI450 GPUs — will invest up to $5 billion in the Claude developer, which is already using MI355X GPUs The first gigawatt is due to arrive in the first half of 2027. AMD will deploy up to 2 gigawatts of Instinct MI450 Series GPU

Governments have long warned not to pay a hacker’s ransom demands, arguing that doing so only lets criminals profit from their cyberattacks and funds the next one. There’s also another reason: The hackers are unlikely to leave you alone if you pay up once, and many will come back

Jonathan Saunders — who has worked with labels including Diane von Furstenburg, Calvin Klein, Tiffany & Co., Pucci and Alexander McQueen — is back from his stint in fast fashion. On Aug. 26, the designer will join Kate Spade New York as executive creative director. For the past y

The News Sen. Angela Alsobrooks, D-Md., on Wednesday vowed to oppose the Senate’s cryptocurrency regulation bill unless Republicans strengthen its ethics provisions, arguing the latest GOP proposal relies too heavily on the Justice Department. Speaking at Semafor’s World of Work

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The News Americans are “on fire” against artificial intelligence data centers, Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., said of his constituents at Semafor’s World of Work event on Wednesday, offering support for the growing number of local moratoriums in the state. “Several dozen counties h

AMD says it’s going to invest up to $5 billion in Anthropic, while helping to expand the AI company’s computing power, according to an announcement on Wednesday. As part of the new partnership, Anthropic will deploy up to 2 gigawatts of AMD’s Instinct MI450 AI GPUs using the chip

Trash!: A Garbageman’s Story by Simon Paré-Poupart. This Montrealer and former journalist’s memoir of two decades in the bin collection business provides an intimate and unflinching look at a profession that many would care not to dwell on, but which nonetheless offers one of the

Angola signed a $900 million deal with two private Chinese investors to help develop its free trade zone, part of Luanda’s efforts to diversify its oil-dominant economy. Half of the sum will go toward building a port terminal outside the capital, while the other half will be spen

South Africa’s finance minister said he was preparing to oust his deputy and fire the remaining board of Africa’s largest fund manager, escalating an ongoing governance battle over its suspended CEO. The shake-up at the $200 billion-plus state-owned Public Investment Corporation

Target is adding former 7-Eleven President and CEO Joe DePinto to its board of directors effective Aug. 1. He’ll serve on the board’s infrastructure and finance committee as well as audit and risk committee, Target announced Wednesday. DePinto led 7-Eleven starting in 2005 and re

Data centers forecast to use 20% of US power by 2035 — analysts estimate usage will rocket to 194 gigawatts, 83% more than forecast seven months ago The research firm's 2035 projection has risen roughly 2.5 times in 15 months. U.S. data centers are on track to consume about 20% o

A photon is a single particle of light, and under normal circumstances, it can’t be divided. But a photon is also not a particle, in the sense that it does not have a specific location. Instead, it is an extended object. So if a photon is only partway through the process of refle

American Eagle on Wednesday began rolling out its campaign for the crucial back-to-school season, per details shared with sister publication Marketing Dive. The effort will span social programming, experiential activations and brand advertising, including a 30-second ad running o

Living costs in sub-Saharan Africa’s two largest economies are moving in opposite directions, with Nigeria’s consumer price increases cooling off while South Africa’s inflation rate jumped to levels last seen two years ago. Nigeria’s central bank kept its policy rate unchanged th

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A vendor reached out to me last week for fund administration for SaaStr Fund. We are genuinely in the market for a vendor and it’s a $100k+ a year potential client. This should have been a real shot for them. It started on LinkedIn, where they reached out. I said I wasn’t sure we

From maintenance to innovation: Checking in on Checkout.com’s Cloud Composer 3 migration Piotr Wieczorek Product Manager, Cloud Composer Michelle Liu Customer Engineer Data engineering teams often face a “Day 2” operational reality after building a data platform: the ongoing work

The rumors haven’t left much to the imagination, but Samsung has unfurled its 2026 foldable lineup today. There are three models for the first time in Samsung’s eight-gen foldable family, including the top-of-the-line Z Fold 8 Ultra. That phone is the successor to last year’s Gal

Advanced Micro Devices on Wednesday announced a strategic partnership with Anthropic and said it will invest up to $5 billion in the artificial intelligence company "in the future." As part of the deal, the chipmaker said Anthropic will deploy 2 gigawatts of its AMD Instinct MI45

A little over a month after the Department of Defense (DOD) bragged that nearly half of its 3.5 million employees were using AI at work, members of the Army’s Combat Capabilities Development Command (DEVCOM) received an email informing them that they were burning through tokens,

Apple reportedly working on Mac leasing program in partnership with Klarna to fight RAM price increases — 'Apple Upgrade' would let users finance hardware over 36 months, budget models excluded At the end of the agreement, you can keep the device. Following unprecedented price hi

Accelerating the frontiers of scientific discovery: Google’s $40M commitment to the Genesis Mission Pushmeet Kohli VP for Science and Strategic Initiatives, Google DeepMind, and Chief Scientist, Google Cloud Karthik Narain Chief Product and Business Officer, Google Cloud Google A

Cascade, a startup building a platform to help architecture, engineering, and construction firms find and win projects, has raised a $3.5 million seed round from Andreessen Horowitz Speedrun, Ada Ventures, and Snowball VC. Launched in 2025, Cascade is a result of its founders, Ha

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AI tech companies have ‘hidden debt’ worth around $1.65 trillion, report claims — amount is 122% of debt reflected on the balance sheets of Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and Oracle Mostly data center investments Five U.S. tech giants heavily invested in AI and its related in

Lawsuit Tests Water Strategy Behind California’s Lithium Valley The case serves as a critical early test for Imperial County’s Lithium Valley development strategy, which envisions shifting agricultural water to support decades of industrial growth, including lithium processing an

The browser wars have entered a new phase this year: The fight isn’t just over search results anymore — it’s over which company’s AI gets to act on your behalf inside the browser. Google Chrome and Apple’s Safari still dominate the market overall, with Chrome’s edge coming largel

Chinese modder gets GeForce RTX 4060 working in Windows 11 on Huawei Arm workstation — uses modified driver borrowed from an Nvidia RTX Spark A janky first attempt at using an RTX GPU with Windows on Arm When Microsoft and Qualcomm launched the first Copilot+ PCs sporting Snapdra

Private-sector hiring in the UAE shrank in the second quarter — the first fall in more than four years, according to recruitment consultancy Cooper Fitch. The decline comes after months of reported layoffs and economic uncertainty stemming from the Iran war. New hiring fell 4% in

US President Donald Trump has reportedly approved allowing Saudi Arabia to build a civil nuclear program, potentially letting the kingdom develop its own enrichment facilities. The 30-year deal, first reported by The Wall Street Journal, could be worth tens of billions of dollars

Senior Saudi and UAE officials praised their countries’ shared history, “wise leadership,” and “brotherly relations,” signaling that both sides are trying to move beyond tensions that spilled into public view last year. The online posts followed the release of a photo showing the

Before a healthcare robot can be useful in the real world, it has to learn how the physical world pushes back. Anatomy varies. Instruments bend, press, slip and interact with tissue. Imaging can be noisy or incomplete. And the rare, edge scenarios developers most need to understa