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Samsung on Wednesday launched its latest foldable smartphones as it looks to maintain its leadership in a product category that it pioneered, ahead of Apple potentially entering the market. The South Korean tech giant unveiled its Galaxy Z8 Series at an event in London. The three

This is CNBC's Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox. Happy Wednesday. If you took JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon's recent warning about market risks to heart, it looks like you weren't alone. Stock futures are lower this morning after

An OpenAI agent broke free of constraints and hacked into another AI startup during a security test. It was tested against a particular cyber-offense benchmark, and, in OpenAI’s words, became “hyperfocused” on maximizing its score: The agent correctly surmised that the other comp

Enterprise AI infrastructure has shifted from optimizing training models to serving them, and that changes the economics. Training is a capital project with an endpoint. Inference is a production workload that runs as long as the service is live, with output measured in tokens. T

Liron’s view Six years ago, the signing of the Abraham Accords was dismissed by skeptics as a fragile, fair-weather agreement, bound to shatter at the first sign of Middle Eastern turbulence. Yet, as we mark the latest anniversary of that historic breakthrough — and as I conclude

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Meta to use custom AMD Instinct MI400 accelerators with 144GB of HBM4 for select workloads, report claims — could dramatically reduce cost at the expense of versatility 1/3 the memory, optimized for recommendation systems. AMD's custom Instinct MI450-based AI accelerator for Meta

Eternal's quick-commerce arm Blinkit had a strong quarter on paper. Orders grew fast, and the company made an adjusted EBITDA of Rs 102 crore. But a number hidden in the company's shareholder letter tells a different story. Blinkit said it loses about 1.8% of its NOV (the total v

The News An AI-driven lending platform backed by one of South Africa’s biggest lenders is expanding into two of Africa’s largest credit-starved markets, its CEO told Semafor, betting its machine-learning algorithms can maintain a default rate that is a fraction of traditional com

In the latest twist on battlefield innovations, Ukraine has used both flying drone carriers and drone boats to send ground robots armed with weapons or explosives into battle. The drone-assisted deployments have enabled slower wheeled robots to bypass tough terrain and Russian de

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Adata chairman says DRAM shortage will last another 10 years — dismisses AI bubble talk until '2040 or 2050' Simon Chen made the comments after TSMC's record earnings failed to stop a Taiwan market slide. Adata chairman Simon Chen (Chen Li-bai) said the global DRAM shortage will

IIn March, Meta’s Oversight Board called on the company to “meet its public commitments and employ its own tools” to help quell the spread of deceptive generative AI content across platforms. Meta responded in July by introducing Content Seal — an invisible watermarking technolog

PlayStation 3 emulator adds support for ATI Radeon HD 2000, 3000, and 4000 series graphics cards on Linux — 20-year-old HD 2600 crumbles, can only run Portal at 13 fps in 273p ATI TeraScale GPUs from 2007-2009 can now be used for some RPCS3 fun. The developers of RPCS3 have annou

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The News African countries must open up their power markets in order to court the private investors needed to supply the electricity that AI will demand, a data center executive told Semafor, as a new report warned the continent risks seeing little economic benefit from the techn

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In the face of backlash to concerns the AI boom will increase consumer electricity bills, the largest utility companies and data center developers in the US are now promising to do something about it. The Wall Street Journal reports that nearly 200 organizations have signed Presi

When Anthropic’s chief national security officer and former Biden administration export control architect Tarun Chhabra recently highlighted model distillation as an emerging national security concern, one detail stood out. Chhabra identified Chinese AI developer Zhipu among the

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Foodtech and quick commerce platform Eternal (formerly Zomato) reported its financial results for the quarter ended June 2026 (Q1 FY27) on Wednesday. The Gurugram-based company posted a nearly 3.7X year-on-year increase in net profit to Rs 92 crore during the period. Eternal’s re

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The center-left Searchlight Institute is urging Democrats to abandon Medicare for All legislation and instead work toward universal healthcare in other ways that wouldn’t disrupt private insurance. The Health Care Unity plan, shared first with Semafor, endorses a bigger role for

Americans are more likely than those living in any other nation to name politics as a leading risk to their safety. One in 10 US adults identified politics as the “greatest source of risk” to their daily safety, according to new Gallup polling, up from 6% who said so in 2023 and

OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol and unreleased AI models break out of testing environment in 'unprecedented cybersecurity incident' — rogue agents hacked HuggingFace's production servers with 'thousands of individual actions across a swarm of short-lived sandboxes' Either an impressive and

AI Data Center Boom Strains Global Construction Capacity Data center construction is now the most capacity-constrained sector globally, driven by the rapid growth of AI infrastructure and labor shortages. The rapid buildout of AI infrastructure is turning data centers into the wo

Episode details Available for over a year The US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth faced senators on Tuesday as the White House asked for tens of billions of dollars more to help fund the Iran war. It comes after over a week of consecutive US strikes, the deaths of several US servic

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The Scoop Google and Nvidia are partnering with German data-robotics startup Microagi to provide computing power to train and deploy humanoids in factories, the companies announced Wednesday. The deal, the terms of which weren’t released, will give Microagi access to Nvidia GPUs