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A lawsuit against Comcast’s cable division alleges that a store manager humiliated the lowest performing salesperson each month with a strange ritual in which a cream pie was smashed into the employee’s face. The lawsuit claims the store manager took videos of the assaults and or

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Off the Wire Press Releases Long-term, Governed, Organizational Memory for AI Agents REDWOOD CITY, Calif., July 29, 2026 — MinIO today announced AIStor Memory, built from the ground up to provide AI agents with a durable environment to store their memory, workspace, and secrets i

The Scoop Elon Musk is coming for your cell phone network. SpaceX, which is trying to fill a hole in its airwaves crucial for a full-service wireless network, has been hunting for spectrum that works well in cities and dense areas, according to people familiar with the matter. Th

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Off the Wire Press Releases WASHINGTON, July 29, 2026 — The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced a partnership with Brookfield, NextEra Energy, Big Rivers Electric Power Corporation, Jackson Purchase Energy Cooperative, and Paducah Power System to redevelop portions of

For a year now, the AI safety testing firm Andon Labs has given frontier models various real-world tasks to determine how well they do as agents running for long periods with no human supervision. On Wednesday, Andon published a new installment in how things are going in its Vend

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In an interview with our friend Joanna Stern on her YouTube channel, OpenAI president Greg Brockman said the company is working on a “family of devices” for interacting with its AI models. However, Brockman didn’t confirm reports that one of those devices is a smart speaker OpenA

Governments around the world are suddenly very keen on online age verification requirements. In some places, this takes the form of ID requirements to access adult content, but several US states have also focused on app stores. With these laws now going into effect, Google has an

Off the Wire Press Releases Partnership allows Causaly AI agents to access and read full-text of Sage journal articles and deliver the most relevant insights directly within the Causaly platform, helping mutual customers unlock deeper evidence from their existing institutional li

Microsoft says physical discs should not have stopped working during the Xbox outage — clarifies issue with entitlement checks that failed to read licenses correctly, update on the way You should have been able to play your discs offline. Xbox consoles recently experienced a worl

The US Federal Reserve held rates steady at its meeting today, but the path ahead looks unclear as concerns bubble over stubborn levels of inflation. About three-quarters of futures bets expected no change to the benchmark lending rate and the remainder predicted a quarter-point

Elon Musk’s xAI is trying to sue its way out of a Grok reckoning as arrests of Grok users accused of making child sex abuse materials (CSAM) have triggered lawsuits from kids to sue xAI to force changes to the tool to block harmful outputs. Earlier this month, xAI started suing u

Sometimes the crowd isn’t so wise. When Ferrari revealed the Luce — its first EV — to the public in May, the internet reacted. And not in a positive way. Critics compared the wedge-shaped Luce with a Nissan Leaf and said Chinese EVs would outperform it while undercutting it on pr

Off the Wire Press Releases WASHINGTON, July 29, 2026 — The Department of Commerce today announced the signing of 7 letters of intent to provide $874 million in federal incentives under the CHIPS and Science Act. These incentives will support innovative domestic technologies to d

Waymo is slowly adding freeway routes back to its service area more than two months after the company stopped driving these high-speed roads due to how its robotaxis behaved near construction zones. Waymo announced Wednesday in a post on X that it would gradually add freeway rout

The Trump administration is banning the import of new foreign-made humanoid robots, robot dogs, and power inverters, citing an “unacceptable” threat to national security. The move largely affects imports from China, which currently has the vast majority of the global market share

Dell’s naming puts the Pro 5 14 a rung below the Pro 7 in its commercial lineup, but the spec sheet complicates that hierarchy. This is the compact counterpart to the Dell Pro 5 16 AMD we reviewed earlier, yet Dell equips it with a Core Ultra X7 368H, which is a higher-tier proce

If you follow quantum computing news for long enough, it can start to seem like any quantum system that can alternate between two well-separated energy states can be used as a qubit. Atoms, ions, photons, electrons, and manufactured devices all have their backers. One of the key

When we last checked in on Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft in February, NASA was announcing that it had formally classified the 2024 crewed flight of the Starliner spacecraft as a “Type A” mishap, an acknowledgement that the test flight was a serious failure. At the time, NASA Admi

David’s view When they’re not fighting each other, which is rare these days, Democrats agree on three points about their midterm election strategy. First, they want to talk about affordability. Second, they want to take on corruption. And lastly, the public perception that both p

Digital lending platform Kissht reported its first quarterly results for the fiscal year ending March 2027. The company's operating revenue grew 45% year-on-year in the quarter, while its profit increased 58% to Rs 95 crore. Kissht’s revenue from operations increased to Rs 670 cr

Google is expanding its answer to Apple’s age-assurance tools with Wednesday’s news that it will bring its Play Signal API to users worldwide by the end of 2026. The technology, already available in Brazil, allows Android developers to identify younger users of their apps in orde

Wall Street is suffering from analogy slop: There’s so much money going into AI that it has to be a bubble, and surely there are parallels to past bubbles. It’s the financial crisis all over again; it’s the 1929 stock market crash; it’s the year 2000. The latest wave of this came

The US is looking to its allies to make sure China doesn’t dominate the future of telecommunications. The Trump administration on Monday unveiled a partnership with 24 countries — including Australia, Germany, Japan, and the UK — aimed at coordinating strategies around 6G, which

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Seagate to start qualifying record-setting 50TB HDDs in 2027 — most drives are sold out through 2028 Hard drives are spinning up Seagate's earnings. Seagate is on track to start qualification of its hard disk drives featuring 50TB-class capacities in late calendar 2027, with ship

The US’ ban on new foreign humanoids opens another front in Washington’s campaign against Chinese tech — but it also adds a new layer of pressure on domestic bot makers. Some in the industry speculated the US might put tariffs on Chinese robots, but Washington routed its ban thro

Artificial Intelligence Authenticate with Private Key JWT using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity now supports Private Key JWT client authentication for agents. With Private Key JWT client authentication, your agents can authenticate to a downstr

Dive Brief: - Pet product company Bark has appointed Anya Hamill as its chief financial officer, effective Sept. 8. She will report to Bark’s co-founder, CEO and executive chairman, Matt Meeker. - Hamill comes with more than two decades of finance experience in the consumer packa

Dive Brief: - Back-to-school shoppers are focusing on essentials like school supplies and technology for the first day of school and planning to spread out apparel shopping throughout the year, according to Circana. - The company’s Future of Apparel forecast studied point-of-sale

What’s new in Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform Mike Clark Director of Product Management, Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform Since we launched Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform a few months ago, we’ve seen inspiring progress from businesses and builders alike. To stir up development

Automate your agent development lifecycle using any coding agent Shubham Saboo Senior AI Product Manager Lavi Nigam ML Engineer, Cloud AI Advocacy Welcome to our latest Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform deep dive, a practical walkthrough where we’ll teach you how to build real-wor

Automate data monitoring and root-cause analysis with Looker Agentic Workflows Indumathi Velusamy Product Manager Traditional business intelligence alerts can only tell you that a metric changed, leaving data analysts to manually hunt through dashboards to figure out why. Today,