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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

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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Just $1,399 for this potent RTX 5060 Ti 16GB-powered gaming PC — 32GB of DDR5 RAM and AMD's 7800X3D to help you crush the competition A potent gaming PC at a respectable price Prebuilt gaming PCs are looking like better and better value as the price of individual components rises

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

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

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