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Dive Brief: - Deckers Brands, which runs Hoka, Ugg and Teva, topped $1 billion in Q1 revenue for the first time. Net sales in the period rose 5.7% year on year to $1.02 billion, with Hoka up almost 8%, Ugg up 5% and other brands down over 18%. - Wholesale net sales rose more t

Gold and silver prices edged higher in Friday's trade, as both precious metals attempted to recover a portion of their previous session's losses, even as the escalating conflict in the Middle East continued to fuel expectations of tighter monetary policy by the US Federal Reserve

OpenAI's HuggingFace breach heralds an unprecedented age of AI cyber warfare — contemporary LLMs have caused massive upheaval in cybersecurity, and it's only going to get worse Can the rest of us keep up? This week, OpenAI revealed that during a purported capability test with no

World, the online verification startup co-founded by OpenAI’s Sam Altman, has raised $52.5 million through a crypto token sale to strategic investors. Participating investors joined a 12-month lockup sale of World’s token, WLD. Lockup periods prevent asset buyers from selling or

Tom's Hardware Verdict Dell strikes a good balance with battery life, design, and price, but productivity performance comes up a bit short. Pros - +Premium-feeling chassis - +20+ hours battery life - +OLED touch display option - +Good port selection Cons - -Productivity perfo

Dive Brief: - Under Armour has found a new global brand ambassador in “Heated Rivalry” star François Arnaud. The actor is headlining a new campaign, “For When It’s Hot,” teasing the brand’s HeatGear franchise, according to a Thursday press release. - Arnaud’s character in the hoc

Open Knowledge format v0.2 tackles agentic trust Sam McVeety Tech Lead, Data Analytics, Engineering, Data Cloud Amir Hormati Tech Lead, BigQuery, Engineering, Data Cloud When we introduced the Open Knowledge Format (OKF) in June 2026, we asserted that the context that agents need

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Dive Brief: - Adidas is opening its first full-price brand concept store in Minnesota this October, according to a Monday press release. - Located at Mall of America, the 9,161-square-foot space will offer a merchandise mix edited for regional customers. That will include a shop

Several AI companies, including Hugging Face, Meta, Microsoft, Mistral, and Nvidia, have signed an open letter urging policymakers not to impose broad “premature restrictions” on open-weight AI models. The letter comes as Washington debates how the U.S. should respond to allegati

Artificial Intelligence Build an explainable next-best-product recommendation system for banking on AWS Building a deep learning-based explainable next-best-product recommendation system helps banking institutions predict which product a customer needs next. Banks hold vast amoun

Artificial Intelligence Get started with OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna on Amazon Bedrock This post is co-written with Chris Dickens from OpenAI. Developers building agentic coding, long-horizon reasoning, and high-volume inference workloads want frontier models they can cal

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It’s been another week with far more retail news than there is time in the day. Below, we break down some things you may have missed during the week and what we’re still thinking about. From At Home’s Halloween collections to Beyond Yoga’s high-sweat performance line, here’s our

Ross Stores announced the opening of 47 new stores during the months of June and July. The openings consist of 35 Ross Dress for Less and 12 DD’s Discounts locations. The discount retailer is on track to launch around 110 stores in 2026, resulting in around 5% unit growth. "Build

Gas prices are rising again following a sharp escalation of the war in Iran. And as Americans look for ways to save money at the pump, many are turning to Costco's gas stations for cheaper fuel. Demand for Costco's gasoline reached record levels during the quarter ended May 10, t

Episode details Available for over a year Today, Prime Minister Andy Burnham has officially opened up the doors to Number 10 North which he has described as the ‘best day of my life’. Adam is joined by Lucy Fisher - Whitehall editor at the Financial Times and Patrick Maguire Chie

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A spacecraft fitted with two flexible robotic arms is on the way to geosynchronous orbit after launching earlier this week on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, kicking off a planned decade-long mission to open new frontiers in satellite servicing. The Mission Robotic Vehicle, owned and b

Off the Wire Press Releases SAN JOSE, Calif., July 24, 2026 — Super Micro Computer, Inc. has announced its next-generation H15 server portfolio powered by 6th Gen AMD EPYC 9006 Series CPUs, optimized for next generation GPUs including AMD Instinct, and connected by AMD Pensando n

Rivian has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. government in an attempt to claw back a “full refund” on tariffs it paid under President Trump’s “Liberation Day” taxes, which the Supreme Court later ruled unconstitutional. The automaker joins a long line of companies seeking such ref

Attie, Bluesky’s AI assistant that lets you build custom social feeds without programming, is evolving into an open-ended research tool. The company this week said it’s added a new feature to the AI assistant, called Quests, that lets users ask it for information and news spreadi

Midjourney, an AI lab best known for its LLM-powered image and video generators, has acquired the social astrology app Co-Star, according to Bloomberg. The deal terms were not disclosed. Co-Star, which reportedly has about 4.3 million monthly active users, is mostly used to help

AMD working on new X3D V-cache mobile chip for gaming laptops, leaker claims — Ryzen 7 9800HX3D could launch with 8 cores, 16 threads, and 96MB cache A mobile Ryzen 7 9800HX3D may be coming. A new 3D V-Cache-equipped CPU is reportedly in the works and could arrive as a mobile cou

Charts of the Week: Are Semis Cheap? IRL is So Back; Gen-Z’s Small Business Surge America | Tech | Opinion | Culture | Charts Are Semis Cheap? It’s pretty much common knowledge at this point that chips have been the “AI trade.” First, it was Nvidia’s GPUs (and the related players

Dive Brief: - Hanes is shifting its brand messaging to demonstrate how the comfortability of its clothes let the wearer exude confidence, even in awkward or taboo situations, per a press release shared with sister publication Marketing Dive. - A series of four new spots depict di

The Scoop Tobin Tang didn’t mince words. “This is fake money,” the Polymarket marketing employee explains in a one-minute, how-to video obtained by Semafor. “I mean real money, obviously,” quips Tobin, cracking a faint smirk in the corner of the screen, where he appears in a blac

Genesis Mission Summit 2026: Big Ambitions and a Familiar Blind Spot The first Genesis Mission Summit was, by design, a day about momentum. Conner Prochaska, ARPA-E... During its Advancing AI 2026 launch event in San Francisco yesterday, AMD formally unveiled its latest generatio

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Gigabyte announces support for Chinese-made CXMT memory — pushes it to 8200 MT/s on Socket AM5 The performance is impressive and it's good to see official support, but the question remains whether you can actually buy any of it. You're probably already well aware of the three lar

The New York-based company said Friday it earned $3.11 billion, or $4.53 a share, compared to $2.89 billion, or $4.08 a share, in the same period a year earlier. The results beat analysts' forecasts, who were looking for AmEx to earn a profit of $4.40 a share, according to FactSe

The Trump administration unveiled the first “Genesis Mission” grants on Thursday, directing $5 billion toward hundreds of AI-driven science projects in an effort the White House has described as “comparable in urgency and ambition to the Manhattan Project.” At roughly the same ti

South Korean memory giants Samsung and SK Hynix are set to announce massive deals with leading U.S. tech firms, report claims — Korean president arrives in Silicon Valley for meetings and high-profile AI summit President Lee's presence to serve as catalyst for sealing ongoing neg

AMD exec was ‘very happy’ to see Nvidia‘s Vera performance results – ‘I actually thought we were beating them by smaller numbers’ Disclosing benchmarks invites comparisons, of course. Although the industry has largely learned to move out of the way when the big green giant that i

AMD Takes On Nvidia with MI455X GPUs and Helios Racks During its Advancing AI 2026 launch event in San Francisco yesterday, AMD formally unveiled its... The first Genesis Mission Summit was, by design, a day about momentum. Conner Prochaska, ARPA-E Director and the event’s emcee,

Welcome to Edition 9.04 of the Rocket Report! We’ve had to wait an extra week for SpaceX to get its 13th Starship test flight off the ground. A last-second abort on July 16 led engineers to roll the booster back to its hangar in South Texas to swap out engines. Starship is now ba