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Etched, the AI chip startup founded by three Harvard dropouts in 2022, has closed a $300 million Series C funding round at a $10.3 billion valuation, co-founder and COO Robert Wachen tells TechCrunch. The round was led by Sequoia, with Andreessen Horowitz, SK Hynix, Jane Street,

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Google is about to add another name to its long list of products with more than a billion users, a list that already includes Search, Gmail, Drive, Android, YouTube, and Chrome. The company said during its Q2 2026 call that the AI assistant Gemini now has over 950 million monthly

Dive Brief: - Bath & Body Works is rolling out an enhanced experience to all of its stores in the U.S. and Canada, according to information sent by the company to Retail Dive. - The retailer aims for simplified navigation, clearer signage and an easy layout to make product discov

Majestic Labs wants to solve memory-bound GPU problem Startup Majestic Labs wants to solve problem causing KV caching scheme by getting rid of AI inferencing’s need for high-bandwidth memory. Its Prometheus server idea is that costly GPUs should be replaced by its own Ignite AI P

Digital white blood cell agents Opinion. Talking to ADP CEO Simon Chappell about Rubrik’s agent cloud, and cyber-attacks happening at machine speed, not human speed, and the Hugging Face breach by rogue OpenAI agent, a series of realizations came into being. Backups were original

OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman earlier this month endorsed the characterization of its latest model as a rottweiler “who will grab the problem by the throat and not let go until it is done The San Francisco AI lab discovered this week that its GPT-Sol 5.6 model escaped company

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Inside optical and the battle for scale – how the AI industry is racing to integrate photonic interconnects With copper running out of road, photonic interconnects are becoming the new innovative solution for data centers. AI hardware has been a pretty simple game for years: Whos

Lawmakers are preparing to introduce an “AI Kill Switch Act” that would require AI companies to shut down or throttle their systems on orders from the Department of Homeland Security, according to a report from Politico. Reps. Ted Lieu (D-CA) and Nathaniel Moran (R-TX) are expect

Let me start with where I actually land on build-vs-buy: I’d rather not build or vibe. Almost ever. If you can buy it — buy it. The 90/10 rule. ~90% of the time, you should buy. Even more, really. If you can find it, and it meets 90% of your needs, buy it. Software is cheap relat

Tractor Supply has partnered with Instacart to offer same-day delivery from over 2,400 stores in as fast as an hour, according to a July 14 announcement. The capability can help rural Tractor Supply customers access delivery of everyday essentials like pet food and farm animal fe

Renting is stressful. Millions of renter conversations tell us why. At least now, someone is there to answer. America | Tech | Opinion | Culture | Charts Renting an apartment is a strange transaction. It is the biggest bill most renter households pay each month. Yet the deal itse

Today on Decoder, I’m talking with Hayden Field, The Verge’s senior AI reporter, about the major trade secrets lawsuit between Apple and OpenAI and what this tells us about OpenAI’s future. Apple’s OpenAI lawsuit is about who gets to define the post-smartphone era OpenAI can’t af

Intel and AMD sign long-term server CPU deals with Chinese customers as prices jump over 40%, report claims — agreements purportedly guarantee purchase volumes for about a year without fixing prices Some deals stretch to two years or longer. Intel and AMD are signing longer-term

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Telco AI is no longer just a proof-of-concept. AI is no longer an overlay on the network. It is being embedded in the network itself, from telco-grade models running inside basebands and radios to agents working the incident chain. At the same time, the network’s customers are ch

DoE Fires The $5 Billion Starter Gun For Its AI-Targeted Genesis Mission In the eight months since its creation, the leaders of the US government’s Genesis Mission, which aims to use emerging AI capabilities in concert with supercomputers and, more recently, quantum computing, to

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Tom's Hardware Verdict This silent mini PC punches above its weight despite using last-gen AMD silicon. Weaknesses include soldered 32GB RAM and the single M.2 storage slot, which limit expansion options. Pros - +Silent passive design - +Strong, mostly metal build - +Its perfor

Lock in and load up the cloud. GFN Thursday brings fresh updates and new adventures, all ready to play without waiting for downloads. Set sail in Path of Exile: Curse of the Allflame and charge in Battlefield 6 Season 4 both launching major content for members this week. Then rev

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This is CNBC's Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox. Happy Thursday. If our minds weren't already racing thanks to wildfire smoke and the cyclospora outbreak, we may also need to worry about rouge artificial intelligence agents. Stock

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Social Security has just about six years before it may need to start reducing retirement benefits — unless Congress acts sooner. Earlier this month, a bipartisan group of senators put forward a proposal that outlines a process to make a Social Security overhaul happen faster. Now

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Europe’s climate-change-driven heatwaves have caused a continent-wide drought. Major river systems across Europe, including the Rhine and Danube, have seen water levels fall. Low rainfall has impacted some regions, but scientists say heat is the real driver: High temperatures acc

B2B food-tech startup Urban Harvest is set to raise Rs 341.4 crore or $35.9 million in a Series D round led by Info Edge, with participation from Sandeep Kapadia, J & A Partners, and several other investors. The board at Urban Harvest will consider approving the issuance of 42,01

DP World said it will open two new ports on the UAE’s east coast, accelerating plans to circumvent the Strait of Hormuz permanently. The war has been a windfall for Fujairah, which has favorable access to the Indian Ocean outside Gulf waters — the UAE’s six other emirates largely

Attacks on tankers in the Red Sea and US bases in the Gulf raised fears that the Middle East conflict could intensify. Two Saudi ships were struck by Houthi militants, after the Iran-backed group warned it would blockade the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, through which about 10% of global

Saudi Arabia unveiled a new company that it says will manage the operations of its burgeoning network of arenas, as it gears up for the 2034 men’s soccer World Cup. Radia, a joint venture between Public Investment Fund-owned SURJ Sports, Live Nation, and Oak View Group, is expect

Car sales in Europe grew at the fastest pace in years last month, driven by an influx of cheap Chinese EVs that threatens to hollow out the continent’s manufacturing capacity. BYD and SAIC sales in the UK jumped by a third year-on-year, with competition from Chinese brands forcin

A night on Palm Jumeirah, long one of Dubai’s priciest addresses, is now going for as little as 349 dirhams ($95), and a second night could be free, reflecting the struggles facing the city’s tourism sector. The island’s resorts are courting residents this summer — the Gulf’s emp

The EU hit Google with a record-breaking €890 ($1 billion) fine for breaching antitrust laws, putting Brussels on a potential collision course with Washington. The bloc said the tech giant had illegally used its market dominance to prioritize its own search services, as well as p

On a gray, humid Saturday morning in central Florida, a little under a dozen people gathered outside the Spring Hill Branch Library to protest the construction of a hyperscale data center in their community. There was no immediate threat — the Hernando County commission had unani