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The borderless Lakehouse: Bring AWS, Databricks and Snowflake data to your AI agents Sirish Chandrasekaran VP, Product Management Will Ochandarena Group Product Manager Today’s data lakehouse is no longer mere data repository, but increasingly a system of action, actively executi

Dive Brief: - The North Face and Timberland came through for owner VF Corp., posting year-on-year growth in Q1 that made up for an 8% drop at Vans — adding to a string of quarterly declines at the skate-shoe brand. - The North Face revenue rose 6%, with strength in the Americas a

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On an afternoon in mid-May, dozens of Microsoft engineers and their managers gathered online and in a conference room at the company’s Redmond, Washington, headquarters to discuss Project Glasswing. The tech giant was racing to fix weaknesses in its code that a new AI model known

Biological War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen. Jacobsen wrote a 2024 dramatization, based on dozens of interviews, of how nuclear war would unfold; this is her bioterrorism sequel. She imagines a genetically modified, airborne bacterium as deadly as pneumonic plague that releases

Elon Musk’s X has settled its multiyear legal battle with advertising trade group the World Federation of Advertisers (WFA), the two organizations said on Wednesday. The settlement ends Musk’s aggressive attempt to hold advertisers legally responsible for pulling spending from X

Martha Stewart is entering the AI software era in the most Martha Stewart way possible: She has joined the co-founding team at Hint, an app that leverages AI technology to manage the tasks surrounding home maintenance and management. With the Hint app, which launches today, homeo

Artificial Intelligence Generate Autonomous Business Insights with AI Agent and MCP Servers A Monday morning problem Sarah Chen manages 12 assembly lines and 2,000 machines. Before her 10 AM production review, she needs one answer: Which lines need attention this week? Simple que

Shein’s U.S. business operations are under investigation by the Federal Trade Commission. The e-commerce company disclosed the investigation within a Sunday filing with the entity running the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, where Shein Global Holdings Limited intends to become a public

As the Steam Deck slowly marches toward its fifth birthday next February, owners are likely eager for a way to extend its life rather than investing in expensive high-end competition. A new patch for AMD’s Linux drivers could substantially reduce low-end frame hitches when the St

A Saudi-led group has pledged to plant 35 billion trees across the Middle East — an idea surely everyone can get behind. But what happens when extreme heat makes such projects essentially redundant? That’s the question posed by Haya Alhusainan of the LSE Middle East Centre. Clima

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Artificial Intelligence Automating customer retention workflows in Amazon Quick Automating customer retention workflows in Amazon Quick can turn a five-day churn-response cycle into one that takes minutes. Last quarter, a mid-size SaaS company lost 12% of its at-risk accounts bec

This is CNBC's Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox. Happy Wednesday. From "oil" to "shock," here are the keywords Kalshi traders think Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh will say at his press conference this afternoon. Stock future

You’d think all the trailers for upcoming major films would have been released during San Diego Comic-Con last weekend. But Sony Pictures decided to wait until today to drop the trailer for Jumanji: Open World, director Jake Kasdan’s sequel to his 2019 hit, Jumanji: The Next Leve

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Ask anyone in Saudi Arabia the price of tamees — the flatbread on almost every weekend breakfast table — and the answer is one riyal ($0.27). Or, at least, it was. Friday afternoons for many Saudis often mean queuing for the cheap, calorie-rich, clay-oven bread. Lines spill down

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Whether by carrot or stick — and there’s still no definitive reporting on which — the animosity between Iran and the UAE has been easing. The Emirates bore the vast majority of Tehran’s attacks in the first weeks of the war, but since April 29 that has shrunk to 17% of Iranian st

Nvidia employee implicated in escalating Supermicro smuggling scandal, but demand only intensifies for Nvidia hardware Despite China's push for domestic chip development, Nvidia hardware is still hot enough to be worth smuggling. An Nvidia employee has been detained in Taiwan ove

The US will reinstate funding for GAVI, the global humanitarian vaccine program, in an unexpected U-turn from the Trump administration. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr froze all funding to GAVI last year, arguing that it had “ignored vaccine safety.” Kennedy has long had co

Valve says that Steam Machine reservations won't be fulfilled until ‘the end of this year’ — company also releases CAD files for the PC console’s external shell under Creative Commons Steam Machine fans waiting for their turn to buy the console need to be patient for a little bit

AI browsers were all the rage in 2025. Companies large and small tried to build browsers that baked in AI in an effort to own the interface people use to browse the internet. How the tables have turned. Today, OpenAI’s Atlas is history, and The Browser Company sold to Atlassian,

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SK Hynix announces extraordinarily high revenues but misses expectations HBM, DRAM and NAND/SSD supplier SK Hynix reported massively high revenues and profit in its second 2026 quarter, but fell short of revenue expectations and its stock price slumped. Its revenues were ₩79.32 t

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MinIO has introduced AIStor Memory, a storage service that provides persistent memory, workspaces, and secrets for AI agents within a single enterprise-controlled platform. The offering targets organizations moving agentic AI workloads from isolated experiments into production pr

Encore AI, a startup that studies companies’ customer interactions to train and deploy AI voice agents that can work alongside customer support and sales teams, or operate autonomously, has raised $30 million in a Series A round led by Team8. Founded in 2022 as Insait IO by CEO D

Commvault shows revenue resilience Commvault’s first fiscal 2027 quarter revenues grew nicely compared to last year but are flattish for the second quarter in a row. Total revenues in the quarter ended June 30, 2026, were $314 million, up 11 percent year/year, beating its $311 mi

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The tech rout deepened, with shares in chip companies leading the slump despite supercharged earnings. South Korean giant SK Hynix closed 9.61% down after reporting a record quarterly profit; rivals also saw slumps. This is a “correction to a little bit of the [AI] froth,” an ana

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An inside tour of Lenovo’s North Carolina AI server manufacturing line expansion — Chinese firm expanding US-native production to meet exploding demand Lenovo’s U.S. server manufacturing line gets a capacity boost. We recently toured China-based Lenovo’s new production facilities

Tech leaders diverged over whether AI progress ought to slow. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told a podcast that a recent case where a rogue agent escaped confinement and hacked another AI company was “the first security incident that I have felt very viscerally,” adding that the firm has

Brookfield, NextEra Launch $100B AI Campus at DOE’s Paducah Site The former uranium enrichment complex would host more than 1.2 GW of AI compute backed by dedicated natural gas and battery storage. Brookfield and NextEra Energy plan to transform part of the US Department of Energ