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LG is reportedly pulling a McAfee pop-up ad from a controversial app that some of its monitors have stealthily installed on connected computers. The app, LG Monitor App Installer, installs itself through a Windows Update alongside monitor driver updates. LG Monitor App Installer

How volatile are fuel markets this year? Southwest Airlines hired a ship this spring to send jet fuel from Texas to California, where prices are much higher and concerns had grown about supply, Chief Financial Officer Tom Doxey told CNBC. It was a first for the Dallas airline. "I

Cerebras shares gained about 5% on Thursday after the company forged an agreement with Advanced Micro Devices that involves the two chipmakers to work together on artificial intelligence systems. Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman said at AMD's AI conference in San Francisco that his co

Cerebras shares gained about 5% on Thursday after the company forged an agreement with Advanced Micro Devices that involves the two chipmakers to work together on artificial intelligence systems. Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman said at AMD's AI conference in San Francisco that his co

Chipmaker AMD is taking aim at competitor Nvidia with its latest hardware release: a rack-scale system designed to power computing needs of the world’s largest AI labs. At the company’s sold-out Advancing AI conference in San Francisco on Thursday, AMD Chair and CEO Dr. Lisa Su p

U.S. Treasury yields advanced on Thursday as Brent crude oil's climb above $100 per barrel raised inflation fears, and as weekly claims for unemployment insurance tumbled below 200,000. The yield on the 10-year U.S. Treasury note — the key benchmark for mortgage and auto loans an

Patreon is laying off 20% of its workforce, or 93 people, CEO Jack Conte told employees on Thursday. In a memo to staff that was shared online by the company, Conte said Patreon’s core business is strong but that the platform has to respond to market changes and adjust its cost s

Shares of Alphabet and Tesla fell on Thursday after both companies signaled increased AI spending, unnerving investors worried about the mounting costs of the artificial intelligence boom. Tesla stock closed 14.5% lower while Alphabet lost 7.1%. Elon Musk's EV maker posted its wo

Shares of Alphabet and Tesla fell on Thursday after both companies signaled increased AI spending, unnerving investors worried about the mounting costs of the artificial intelligence boom. Tesla stock closed 14.5% lower while Alphabet lost 7.1%. Elon Musk's EV maker posted its wo

Investors are increasingly preparing for the Federal Reserve to hike interest rates as oil prices climb. Fed funds futures are pricing in a roughly 82% likelihood that the central bank lifts borrowing costs at its September policy meeting, according to CME's FedWatch tool. A week

Crude oil is rallying, bonds are selling off, and the stock market is under pressure. Investors sold Big Tech stocks after earnings and the 10-year Treasury yield just touched 4.7%, the highest since January 2025. In many ways it looks like the setup from March that presaged a mo

Off the Wire Press Releases Planette AI, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, and the University of Wyoming Launch Genesis Mission Project to Improve Weeks-Ahead Forecasting of Dangerous U.S. Storm Systems SEATTLE, July 23, 2026 — Large thunderstorm clusters cause billions in d

Off the Wire Press Releases New GPU portfolio combines leadership performance, HBM4 memory, advanced security and open software to accelerate AI and HPC at every scale. July 23, 2026 — Today at Advancing AI 2026, AMD launched AMD Instinct MI400 Series GPUs, the next generation of

Insurance tech, data room software, and coffee-shop startup Corgi is reportedly raising yet another round that closely follows its last raise and would double its valuation, sources have told Forbes. The round is said to be a second extension of its Series B round and has already

Off the Wire Press Releases July 23, 2026 — The Department of Energy has announced the list of projects that will receive funding through the Genesis Mission: Transforming Science and Energy with AI. Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory was selected for a portfolio of initiative

Amazon and Microsoft have devised new ways to get people playing video games in the cloud. Microsoft's Xbox division said Thursday that it will test an advertising-supported way of letting people stream video games. Amazon, meanwhile, announced plans to add the Luna cloud gaming

Amazon and Microsoft have devised new ways to get people playing video games in the cloud. Microsoft's Xbox division said Thursday that it will test an advertising-supported way of letting people stream video games. Amazon, meanwhile, announced plans to add the Luna cloud gaming

U.S. regulators will look into developing new requirements for automakers to ensure drivers and passengers can safely exit their vehicles. The new rule-making process, outlined in a regulatory filing and first reported by Bloomberg, follows a series of incidents, including fatal

Off the Wire Press Releases Selected from the largest field of applicants in DOE history, Rescale joins Lawrence Berkeley, Lawrence Livermore, and Oak Ridge National Laboratories to apply agentic AI on national laboratory codes for U.S. industry SAN FRANCISCO, July 23, 2026 — Res

The News Iran might not be the only military operation about which the Trump administration has shared limited information with Congress. New reports that US President Donald Trump is considering military intervention in Mali caught senators from both parties by surprise when ask

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Over the past year, Meta has funded the construction of at least a dozen natural gas power plants, including one project that alone will burn enough natural gas to generate as much electricity as the entire state of South Dakota uses. Now Meta is no longer part of the RE100, a co

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The Food and Drug Administration announced on Wednesday that it’s investigating yet another outbreak of Cyclospora, the unicellular foodborne parasite behind a nationwide surge in explosive watery diarrhea illnesses. The FDA said 72 cases have been identified in this outbreak, bu

Major U.S. stock indexes tumbled on Thursday as investors began to price in the consequences of a renewed and prolonged conflict in the Middle East. While the U.S. has conducted strikes against Iran 12 nights in a row — sending both oil prices and Treasury yields higher — domesti

Getting locked out of an account is no fun. Google has a few ways to help you regain access if you happen to forget your password or lose an authenticator, including recovery contacts and backup codes. Now, Google has a completely new option: your face. You can now give Google a

A proposed law called the AI Kill Switch Act would let US government officials order the shutdown of AI systems “that can cause catastrophic harm,” the bill’s sponsors said today. If approved by Congress, the bill would let the Trump administration and future administrations deci

Off the Wire Press Releases July 23, 2026 — Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) scientists and engineers have been selected to lead 10 Phase I projects under the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Genesis Mission, applying AI to challenges spanning high-performance com

Until now, voice mode has only been available on Claude Haiku, Anthropic’s faster but less powerful model. Now the company is making its Opus and Sonnet models available in voice mode, and extending its reach into apps like Gmail, Slack, and Canva. Claude’s voice mode is now avai

Weeks after OpenAI rolled out a new family of conversational models and updated ChatGPT’s voice mode, rival Anthropic is making its move to make Claude more voice-friendly with a new update. The company said Thursday that users can choose between Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku models. C

Off the Wire Press Releases SAN JOSE, Calif., July 23, 2026 — Etched today announced $300M in new financing at a $10.3B valuation less than one month after emerging from stealth. The latest round was led by Sequoia, with participation from a16z, Jane Street, Diffusion, and SK Hyn

Liz’s view IBM’s big earnings miss, previewed last week but somehow coming in even worse than suggested, boiled down to their customers buying less of their AI-adjacent stuff so they could buy more of other people’s AI-critical stuff. The episode, in addition to being a black eye

Weekly quiz: What creepy-crawly cuisine could land a Michelin-starred restaurateur in jail? - Published This week, Ukraine continued to target Russia's largest online retailer as the war between the two countries showed no sign of ending, the world of sport mourned two legends -

Congress on Thursday split on advancing a pair of war powers resolutions aimed at forcing President Donald Trump to abandon his war with Iran, as the conflict escalates into a deadly new phase and oil tops $100 a barrel. The moves were the first vote since Trump informed Congress

Hackers are increasingly using AI to launch attacks on a massive scale, with email emerging as a primary target. AI can quickly aggregate personal information — such as information about co-workers, active projects, and recent travel itineraries — allowing bad actors to instantly

AI and advanced analytics firm Fractal has announced its financial results for the first quarter of the fiscal year ending March 2027. The company reported a 20% year on year increase in revenue, crossing the Rs 900 crore mark, while its profit surged 90% to Rs 72 crore during th

Advancing AI 2026 was AMD’s biggest launch event yet, big enough that we split our coverage in two. Our first article covered the Instinct MI455X and the 72-GPU Helios rack; this sister piece covers what could not comfortably fit alongside them: the 6th Gen EPYC server CPUs, code

AMD hosted its largest Advancing AI event to date, emphasizing scale as a central theme. The company introduced the Instinct MI455X GPU, the 72-GPU Helios rack, and the 6th Generation EPYC Venice CPUs. The MI455X features 432GB of HBM4, a 50% increase over NVIDIA’s B300 or Rubin,

First-of-its-kind telecom AI deployment Telecommunications organizations are increasingly looking to AI to help teams navigate highly specialized domains, but generic models often lack the industry-specific knowledge needed to understand telecom networks, standards, and operation

AMD’s new X100 chip lineup puts embedded Ryzen AI 'Strix Halo' chips into robots – APUs for physical AI bring Zen 5 CPU, RDNA 3.5 GPU cores to compete with Intel’s Panther Lake AMD takes on Intel (and Nvidia) in the robot wars. AMD is bringing its Strix Halo APUs into the world o

Patreon is laying off 20 percent of its workers, or around 93 employees, as reported earlier by 404 Media. In a memo to employees, Patreon CEO Jack Conte writes that the company isn’t making these changes “because we believe AI replaces humans,” but says AI has “fundamentally tra