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Poke, the AI assistant you text like a friend, is making its next big move. The company behind the assistant, The Interaction Company of California, has been acquired by AI coding startup Cognition in a deal valuing the startup in the “low nine figures.” The deal will bring Poke’

Hamilton leads Ferrari one-two in Hungary practice - Published Ferrari led the field by a significant margin in Friday practice at the Hungarian Grand Prix but Charles Leclerc predicted a "tight" qualifying session on Saturday. Leclerc trailed team-mate Lewis Hamilton by 0.148 se

After criticism from a federal judge, the Department of Justice yesterday withdrew demands for phone records and grand jury testimony from New York Times reporters who wrote about security concerns related to the Air Force One jet donated to Trump by Qatar. It was a setback in th

The News Bernie Sanders is doing his share, but Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren has thrown herself even more aggressively into Senate Democrats’ debate over their future direction. She’s taking her show on the road this weekend, with an evening stop today for Minnesota Lt. Go

Artificial Intelligence Introducing Claude Opus 5 on AWS: Anthropic’s most capable Opus model Today, we announce the availability of Claude Opus 5 on Amazon Bedrock and Claude Platform on AWS. Claude Opus 5 is Anthropic’s most advanced Opus model and the first in the fifth genera

Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta, Palantir and more than 20 other companies released a letter Friday urging policymakers to avoid "premature restrictions" on open-weight artificial intelligence models that would "stifle competition or drive innovation overseas." Open-weight AI models are

Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta, Palantir and more than 20 other companies released a letter Friday urging policymakers to avoid "premature restrictions" on open-weight artificial intelligence models that would "stifle competition or drive innovation overseas." Open-weight AI models are

The U.S. Justice Department is prosecuting an American for allegedly providing U.S. border authorities with a passcode that wiped the contents of his phone, according to an indictment and media reports. This is thought to be the first known case in the United States where federal

Intel commits to 14A mass production in 2028 as its sales rise 25% year-over-year It continues to bleed money. Intel on Thursday published its financial results for the second quarter of 2026, posting revenue of $16.1 billion — a 25% rise year-over-year — amid high demand for cli

Off the Wire Press Releases July 24, 2026 — At AMD Advancing AI 2026 in San Francisco, HPE showcased its latest engineering innovation in supercomputing with the HPE Cray Supercomputing GX5000 featuring 6th Gen AMD EPYC processors. The GX5000 builds on the success of previous HPE

The European Union has begun delaying the release of satellite images showing shipping lanes near the Strait of Hormuz by 24 hours. The move comes in response to an earlier US government request and coincides with the Trump administration ramping up the war with Iran once again.

Defense tech company Anduril is said to be raising a new round of capital that may push its valuation up by a whopping $40 billion to about $100 billion, Reuters reported, citing anonymous sources. The company, which raised $5 billion in May at a $61 billion valuation — itself ro

Shares of American Express Co. fell sharply on Friday even after the credit card giant posted stronger-than-expected second-quarter earnings and raised its full-year revenue growth forecast, as investors focused on rising expenses and higher spending on customer acquisition. At 1

A couple of decades after the discovery of systems that could selectively target DNA, we’re starting to see the first therapies based on gene editing. One challenge these developments have faced is safety. While we can make them pretty specific to the gene we want edited, the hum

The web and Google once had a deal: Google collects data and indexes webpages and in exchange sends oceans of traffic to websites. The deal wasn’t perfect and certainly made Google more money than it made the websites, but it worked for a long time. Now, however, the deal seems t

Off the Wire Press Releases July 24, 2026 — Savannah River National Laboratory has been awarded funding supported by the Department of Energy’s groundbreaking Genesis Mission initiative, leveraging SRNL’s advanced artificial intelligence to drive a paradigm shift in environmental

The bearish Tesla set-up we flagged ahead of Wednesday's report has delivered most of what it can. Two ways forward: bank the entire gain, or press the same playbook against another priced-for-perfection name reporting in two weeks. Heading into Tesla's second-quarter report, I a

Anthropic on Friday announced its latest artificial intelligence model, Claude Opus 5, which it said is its best-performing and most cost-effective offering across a number of industry benchmarks. Opus 5 outperforms the last model that Anthropic released, Claude Fable 5, on codin

Anthropic on Friday announced its latest artificial intelligence model, Claude Opus 5, which it said is its best-performing and most cost-effective offering across a number of industry benchmarks. Opus 5 outperforms the last model that Anthropic released, Claude Fable 5, on codin

Shares of Orient Technologies are likely to be in focus on Monday, 27 July, after the company announced that it has secured a purchase order from the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) for the supply and provision of servers. In a regulatory filing today, the company s

Off the Wire Press Releases SAN FRANCISCO and SUNNYVALE, Calif., July 24, 2026 — AMD and Cerebras Systems have announced a technical partnership to deliver a new disaggregated AI inference solution that combines AMD Helios rackscale solutions with the Cerebras Wafer-Scale Engine.

As companies like Meta push increasingly realistic AI-generated videos, the worst parts of social media and AI are converging. In what appears to be a new dropshipping scam flooding Instagram and TikTok, accounts with hundreds of thousands of followers are posting AI-generated vi

OpenAI and Anthropic have pushed the US government to address the distillation of their top models by Chinese companies, framing the practice as a threat to national security and prompting Trump officials to threaten sanctions on Chinese companies. But there’s also a way to use t

Meta is upgrading its AI chatbot with new productivity features in a bid to compete with rivals like Gemini, ChatGPT, and Claude. The update will allow Meta AI to tap into your calendar to help you plan events and generate daily briefings, as well as perform in-depth research tha

Weeks after Anthropic’s latest toe-to-toe with the US government, and days after an OpenAI security incident that dominated tech industry discussions, Anthropic on Thursday released its newest model, Claude Opus 5. Anthropic releases Opus 5 with ‘close’ to Fable 5’s capabilities

On Friday, Anthropic launched its Opus 5 model, the newest version of its long-standing heavyweight model. While smaller than Fable 5, the model will be both cheaper and less restrictive than Fable, likely making it preferable in most use cases. Notably, Opus 5 actually outperfor

For Arlan Rakhmetzhanov, 19, there is no middle ground. Either he builds a company as valuable as Google, he says, or he fails and ends up on the streets. He started coding at 15 in his native Kazakhstan, completed a couple of summer programs in San Francisco, and cold-DM’ed ever

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Reed’s view Now that Kimi K3 has been out for a week, we know a lot more about how the Chinese AI model performs in the real world. Compared to other models from the frontier labs, the early technical read is that it’s kind of “meh.” It doesn’t hold a candle to the top AI models

An apparent Indian government effort to remove GitHub repositories for Jack Dorsey’s offline Bluetooth-powered messaging app Bitchat has raised questions about the legal basis for targeting open source software because of how it works. The issue with Bitchat came to light after D

Scribe Therapeutics Inc., a clinical-stage developer of gene therapies for heart diseases, surged 67% on Friday after raising $128.7 million in an upsized initial public offering.Shares of the Alameda, California-based biotech firm opened at $25 each in New York, versus an IPO pr

Chinese AI lab Moonshot’s open model Kimi went viral this week for reasons that had less to do with the model itself and more to do with how the U.S. AI industry reacted to it. Meanwhile, an unreleased OpenAI model wandered outside its test environment and ended up connected to a

Every byte moved has a cost. As model checkpoints grow to hundreds of gigabytes or even a terabyte, that cost adds up quickly. To make things even worse, moving these model weights around the cluster is extremely common. For instance, a cold start may pull weights from remote sto

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AMD has outlined its role in two planned Oak Ridge National Laboratory supercomputing platforms, Lux and Discovery, positioned to support the U.S. Department of Energy’s Genesis Mission. The initiative brings together national laboratories, industry, academia, and other partners

PayPal, Declined Inside the Bid for an Iconic Fintech Back in 2013, when it was still owned by auction site eBay, PayPal tried to buy Stripe. At the time, Stripe was just three years old. Founded by Irish brothers Patrick and John Collison, it had raised $40 million in venture fu

Tom's Hardware Verdict The Geekom A9 Max is an attractive mini PC with plenty of ports and low idle power, but its fans are loud and it came with single-channel RAM. Pros - +Compact, attractive premium design - +Very low idle power - +Quiet unless heavily stressed - +A lot of

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