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Tesla’s budding “Robotaxi” network drove fewer miles for paying customers in the second quarter than it did in the first, according to a chart the company released on Wednesday. The quarter-over-quarter decline runs counter to Tesla’s rhetoric and actions in the past year. Tesla

European regulators have fined Google 890 million euros (US$1 billion), alleging the company gives preferential treatment to its own services. The fine is Google's first under the European Union's sweeping Digital Markets Act which aims to scrutinize Big Tech's operating practice

Meta’s newest advertisement begins with a black-and-white shot of an eye, showing us what someone sees as they read countless panicked headlines about how AI is going to take our jobs, isolate us, and spark a global crisis. “Some people will have you believe AI is going to make u

Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s uneasy truce with New York’s business elite was tested again Wednesday when he appointed antitrust crusader Lina Khan to a formal post in his administration. Khan will chair the city’s economic development board, which oversees the leasing and use of huge c

Many gamers have been lamenting Sony’s recently announced decision to halt sales of physical game discs in 2028. However, new data revealed by Circana analyst Mat Piscatella highlights how years of stark economic trends helped lead Sony to that decision. In a social media thread

Dive Brief: - Tractor Supply Thursday blamed weather in part for a disappointing Q2 and lowered its outlook for the year. Net sales rose over 2% year on year to $4.5 billion, but comps fell 1.5%. Gross profit expanded by 20 basis points to 37.1%, and net income fell over 16% to

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Graph databases make vector RAG better Graph database supplier Neo4j says graph tech can stop AI models and agents dreaming, hallucinating, and fabricating false answers to questions. It pointed us towards a recent academic paper; ”Reducing Hallucinations in Complex Question Answ

MOST POPULAR AI - SYSTEMS AMD and Cerebras join forces against Nvidia’s Groq LPUsThe enemy of my enemy is my friend - AI and ML Codeberg gives vibe-coded projects the toss

NVIDIA OptiX ray tracing engine is an application framework for achieving optimal ray tracing performance on the GPU. Applications using OptiX can fail in ways that are difficult to diagnose: an invalid API argument, a black frame, or a GPU-side bug buried under thousands of conc

Dive Brief: - Michaels announced the launch of an AI shopping assistant, dubbed Ask Mike, the retailer said in a press release on Tuesday. - The assistant provides personalized product recommendations and creative guidance based on shoppers’ descriptions. - The tool was first rel

Google has reported its financial results for the second quarter of 2026 (PDF), and as usual, the search giant raked in an unfathomable amount of money. Google saw total revenue of $119.8 billion, beating analyst expectations by a comfortable margin. Despite that, the company’s s

Google is adding a selfie video option as a new way for users to log in to their accounts, the company announced on Thursday, joining a growing wave of tech companies betting that biometrics and not passwords are the future of identity verification online. The tech giant says sel

The Blueprint: How Voicify makes AI-enabled ordering a delight for customers Nick Laidlaw CTO & co-founder, Voicify Aadu Pirn Director of Engineering, Voicify Welcome to The Blueprint, a new feature where we highlight how Google Cloud customers are tackling unique and common chal

Your AI agents are ready. Is your data? Sirish Chandrasekaran VP, Product Management, Data Analytics What’s one of the biggest bottlenecks stopping organizations from scaling their AI initiatives? It isn’t the capabilities of today’s models — it’s their access to business context

Customization is what enables developers to take a general model and tailor it to use cases, domains, languages, and more. However, customization comes with a few challenges. It requires infrastructure, technical expertise, and software specific to the workflow, as well as resour

AI memory shortage is now increasing the price of cars — GM warns of vast cost increases, BYD hikes driver assistance prices 20% The impact of the memory chip shortage is going beyond computers and consumer electronics. While PC builders, enthusiasts, and gamers are some of the m

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You Can Just Do Things: How High-Agency People Get What They Want Out of Life by Cate Hall with Sasha Chapin. A couple of years ago, we highlighted Hall’s Substack on how to be “agentic,” the master of one’s own destiny. She now has a book out on the same subject — we’d like to t

Episode details Available for over a year Today, Prime Minister Andy Burnham announced ‘no prisoners will be let out’ under early release scheme until he has conducted an ‘urgent review’. The announcement comes after the widow of PC Andrew Harper described the possible early rele

H&M’s U.S. business expects to lay off 76 employees at its New York City corporate office starting Sept. 4, according to a WARN notice filed with New York state. The notice — dated June 5 and posted to the state’s public dashboard on Wednesday — pertains to the 11th floor of 110

How to Win the Largest Market in AI Production is the product. America | Tech | Opinion | Culture | Charts There’s a certain rhythm in the history of computing: we can call it the specialization turn. When a workload is varied and shifting—usually early in the lifecycle of that w

Stripe is still private, so we mostly get data when the company chooses to give it to us. This week we got more than usual. The Information reported Stripe’s 2025 revenue hit $6.8 billion, up roughly a third year-over-year, its fastest growth since 2021. Free cash flow surged 52%

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Off the Wire Press Releases UPTON, N.Y., July 23, 2026 — Seven innovative research projects led by the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have been selected by DOE to receive funding through the Genesis Mission Phase I Request for Application (RFA).

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MOST POPULAR AI - SYSTEMS AMD and Cerebras join forces against Nvidia’s Groq LPUsThe enemy of my enemy is my friend - AI and ML Codeberg gives vibe-coded projects the toss

Dive Brief: - La-Z-Boy has integrated new 3D cloud technology that will help create custom product visualizations using its inventory images, the furniture retailer announced on July 15. - With the technology, the company can generate images for any combination of product and sty

Kill switches for most powerful AI models proposed by Bipartisan bill — DHS could order throttling or full shutdown, with fines up to $20 million per day The bill covers models that cost $100 million or more to train, and exempts incidents that occur during red-teaming. Congressm

Go Digit General Insurance reported a 7.6% year-on-year increase in its net premium during Q1 FY27. However, its profit declined 37.7% during the same period. The company's net premium rose to Rs 2,007 crore in Q1 FY27 from Rs 1,865 crore in Q1 FY26, according to its regulatory f

Taking place in San Francisco this week is AMD’s annual enterprise and AI-focused event, Advancing AI. Once one of a few differently yearly(ish) events spread across AMD’s different product segments, the rise of AMD’s fortunes in the data center market has meant that the AI-focus

This story was originally published by Grist, produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center’s Rainforest Investigations Network, and republished by Rest of World. When Min left the hot, dusty plains of central Myanmar for its mountainous eastern border with China earlier this

Nvidia’s effort to deploy its GPUs far and wide is aiming at a new target: the moon. Lunar Outpost, a startup building robotics for space infrastructure, announced on Thursday that its next moon rover will use Jetson chips to control its lidar system. When it does, it is likely t

Dora Palfi comes from a family of teachers. Naturally, then, “it was instilled in me that education is something that can completely alter the trajectory of your life,” she told TechCrunch. In 2018, she and Beatrice Ionascu launched Imagi, a company that helps provide K-12 studen