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The News Top Democrats in Washington are not happy about the state of their national party committee — yet most of them see Chair Ken Martin’s job as safe. Martin’s problems are well-documented: The Democratic National Committee is broke, its new presidential primary calendar is

eBay and three former executives agreed to pay nearly $56 million in a settlement over a macabre campaign of cyberstalking and harassment that targeted two journalists in 2019. As we’ve previously written, the case involved deliveries of live cockroaches, a funeral wreath, a book

Some 66 million years ago, an asteroid impact wiped out three-quarters of all plant and animal species on Earth, most notably taking down the dinosaurs. But exactly how that impact caused those extinctions has been the subject of fierce debate. According to a new paper published

Unlike autonomous driving or industrial robotics, healthcare robotics can’t rely on internet-scale data collection or unlimited real-world experimentation. Every demonstration requires specialized equipment, clinical expertise, and access to patients or laboratory environments. T

Villa offer glimpse into future despite friendly loss - Published This season will see a new version of Aston Villa under Unai Emery. A 4-2 defeat to Real Sociedad on Tuesday will irritate their perfectionist head coach, but there is plenty of time for him to fine-tune the Europa

Runlayer, a startup that offers a secure Model Context Protocol gateway — a standard for letting AI models and agents securely pull in outside data and tools — has filed a lawsuit against HR software startup Rippling, according to the complaint seen by TechCrunch. The lawsuit is

From New York to Texas, state and local governments have heard the message: Their constituents are wary of data centers. Across the political spectrum, large numbers of Americans agree that these facilities should pay taxes, cover the bill for water and power upgrades, keep noise

Washington paid its respects to Sen. Lindsey Graham on Tuesday with services honoring his life and legacy. At his funeral, held at Washington National Cathedral, President Donald Trump said the South Carolina Republican “died doing the work he was born to do” and “went out at the

Shares of glassware maker Corning dove 12% on Tuesday after the company reported its second-quarter earnings, dragging down other optical component names in the artificial intelligence space. Despite the company posting a beat on the top and bottom lines, revenue forecasts for th

Off the Wire Press Releases MILAN, July 28, 2026 — Eni is opening up its supercomputing infrastructure to companies, start-ups and research centers, making its computational capacity, specialist expertise and advanced tools available to support the development of artificial intel

Off the Wire Press Releases July 28, 2026 — The University of Southern California (USC) is among the first universities selected to help lead the U.S. Department of Energy’s Genesis Mission, a national initiative that unites universities and industry with the country’s 17 nationa

Anyone following the AI space is by now familiar with lofty claims that AI models will soon be better than humans at everything and capable of replacing vast swaths of the human workforce. In a new study from Google Research, though, a team that looked at how workers are actually

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says that it may be time to “pace” AI development so the world will be ready for it. “We may have to pace the rate of AI development to give ourselves enough time for society to harden around some of these new capability levels,” he told Patrick O’Shaughness

Off the Wire Press Releases July 28, 2026 — The Department of Energy (DOE) is accepting applications for the Spring 2027 term to the Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internships (SULI) program and the Community College Internships (CCI) program. Mentored by scientists, engineers,

Off the Wire Press Releases July 28, 2026 — Boston University has been awarded nearly $20 million from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) to help establish the National Cloud Lab Network, a nationwide system of AI-enabled, programmable laboratories that will transform how

Apple on Tuesday briefly hit a market capitalization of $5 trillion for the first time, a day after passing Nvidia to become the most valuable publicly traded company. Shares of the iPhone maker, which reports quarterly results on Thursday, have jumped 25% this year, outpacing it

Apple on Tuesday briefly hit a market capitalization of $5 trillion for the first time, a day after passing Nvidia to become the most valuable publicly traded company. Shares of the iPhone maker, which reports quarterly results on Thursday, have jumped 25% this year, outpacing it

MOST POPULAR AI - Storage A requiem for Optane, Intel's KV Cache killer that could have eased the RAM price crunchWith microscopic latencies and otherworldly write endurance, it was perfect for today's AI workloads - but gone

Employees of OpenAI and Anthropic, as well as Google, Meta, Thinking Machines, Microsoft, Mistral, and other leading AI labs, have written a statement to the US government supporting a potential slowdown of sorts for frontier AI development — or at least a speed-up of global coor

Alphabet had long been Wall Street's favorite hyperscaler due to its expertise in converting high capital expenditures into revenue. But investors expressed displeasure with company's plans, announced on Wednesday along with second-quarter earnings, to boost its 2026 capex foreca

Alphabet had long been Wall Street's favorite hyperscaler due to its expertise in converting high capital expenditures into revenue. But investors expressed displeasure with company's plans, announced on Wednesday along with second-quarter earnings, to boost its 2026 capex foreca

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It’s earnings season, and investors got an unpleasant surprise from Google: an increase on its spending estimate, to as much as $205 billion — from the last quarter’s projection of up to $190 billion. Even the lower end of Google’s new projected range — $195 billion — is much mor

MOST POPULAR AI - Storage A requiem for Optane, Intel's KV Cache killer that could have eased the RAM price crunchWith microscopic latencies and otherworldly write endurance, it was perfect for today's AI workloads - but gone

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Ozlo, the sleep earbuds startup from former Bose engineers, is launching its next device. On Tuesday, the company unveiled Sleepbuds 2, an updated version of its original product that tackles key areas of improvement, including battery life, connectivity, and sound quality. The n

A Katalyst Space robot that was launched to grab on to a space telescope and raise it to a higher orbit tumbled out of control after a series of failures, NASA and the company said today. The company is trying to stabilize the spacecraft using back-up systems, before NASA will de

Artificial Intelligence How AgentCore Gateway supports the MCP 2026-07-28 spec Today, the Model Context Protocol (MCP) published its 2026-07-28 specification, the largest and most significant revision of the protocol since its launch. With this release MCP becomes a stateless pro

Waymo and other robotaxi operators are facing increased scrutiny — and possible new federal requirements — over how their autonomous vehicles interact with emergency responders, a regulatory risk that’s becoming harder for the industry to shrug off. Rep. Kevin Mullin (D-Calif.) i

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear called on Sen. Mitch McConnell to publicly demonstrate that he remains capable of serving or resign, a day after McConnell's office said the 84-year-old Republican senator was still not medically cleared to leave rehabilitation. "As Governor of the stat

It's been a rough month for Elon Musk, if there is such a thing for the world's richest man. SpaceX and Tesla have erased a cumulative $1.5 trillion in market cap since mid-June, after an almost 50% sell-off in SpaceX since its high and an 18% drop in Tesla since earnings last we

The U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve is under strain as massive stockpile releases in response to wars in the Middle East and Europe have stressed old infrastructure in need of repair. The SPR this week fell to its lowest level since March 1983 after the U.S. withdrew 352 million

A new Airbus passenger jet completed an ultra-long test flight between Australia and France lasting more than 24 hours—paving the way for the world’s longest nonstop commercial flights starting up next year. The Airbus A350-1000ULR was developed specifically for Qantas Airways’ p

One of the most bizarre episodes in e-commerce history has come to a close. eBay and several former eBay employees have agreed to pay $56 million to a newsletter-writing couple who were targeted by the company’s former executives in a horrific targeted harassment campaign that to

Core Scientific Doubles AI Capacity to 1.1 GW in $14B AMD Deal A 15-year agreement adds 530 MW across five campuses, doubling the company’s AI footprint and securing long-term revenue. Core Scientific has doubled its leased AI data center capacity to approximately 1.1 GW after si

Minnesota, the first US state to prohibit prediction markets, was prevented from enforcing the law by a federal court ruling just days before the ban was scheduled to take effect. But while Minnesota was stopped from enforcing a total ban, the state may ultimately be allowed to p

A coalition of 44 state attorneys general wrote in a letter to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission on Monday that the agency doesn't have the power to regulate sports-related event contracts on prediction market platforms. The letter was sent as the public comment period for

Off the Wire Press Releases MIAMI and SANTA CLARA, Calif., July 28, 2026 — Core Scientific and AMD today announced a partnership to shape the future of AI infrastructure, with AMD to secure up to 2.5 gigawatts of data center capacity to support end customer deployments of AMD AI

Off the Wire Press Releases July 28, 2026 — Samsung Electronics and Broadcom have announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to expand their strategic collaboration across memory and foundry technologies, supporting the next generation of AI infrastructure. The

Ghana mourns its tallest man - a 'generous and popular giant' - Published The death of Sulemana Abdul Samed, Ghana's tallest man, has prompted an outpouring of grief especially in the north of the country where his height had made him a local celebrity. The 33 year old died in ho

Off the Wire Press Releases Lower-cost, lower-power edge AI accelerator gives designers a plug-and-play path to upgrade legacy systems to Akida LAGUNA HILLS, Calif., July 28, 2026 — BrainChip Holdings Ltd., a global leader in ultra-low power, fully digital, event-based neuromorph

Apps are back, or maybe they never left in the first place. While some people debate whether people will shift away from apps as AI agents make accessing online services more efficient, we’ve found the App Store to be alive and well, with a recent explosion of fun, creative, and