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Meta's Reality Labs unit, which develops virtual reality devices and wearables powered by AI, lost $4.62 billion in the latest quarter. In its second-quarter earnings report on Wednesday, Meta said Reality Labs generated revenue of $431 million, up from $370 million a year earlie

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The Scoop Saudi Arabia is intensifying its lobbying to complete the purchase of F-35 fighter jets, including through a personal push by Defense Minister Khalid bin Salman, who met with senior Trump administration officials in Washington this week. The kingdom sees a window of opp

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told CNBC on Wednesday that he has seen the proposed framework for implementing President Donald Trump's executive order on artificial intelligence, and that he will meet with Susie Wiles, the White House chief of staff, while in Washington this week. Wiles

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told CNBC on Wednesday that he has seen the proposed framework for implementing President Donald Trump's executive order on artificial intelligence, and that he will meet with Susie Wiles, the White House chief of staff, while in Washington this week. Wiles

Shares of telehealth company Hims and Hers Health fell sharply Wednesday after the Federal Trade Commission sued the company, alleging it misled consumers about privacy protections, billing practices and subscription cancellations. The FTC, joined by Los Angeles County and Utah,

Off the Wire Press Releases July 29, 2026 — The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) recently hosted its annual hackathon, bringing together researchers and developers to prepare scientific applications for large-scale computing on the facility’s Aurora and AI Testbeds. H

With The Carina System, QuiX Pushes Photonic Quantum Computing Forward For the past several months, QuiX Quantum has been rolling out key pieces of what executives are calling the vendor’s universal photonic quantum computing architecture. That includes the Feed-Forward Control U

Off the Wire Press Releases July 29, 2026 — Perth was host to the 16th International HPC Summer School – the first time the program has come to the Southern Hemisphere. The Hon Dr Parwinder Kaur MLC launched the event on behalf of Hon. Stephen Dawson MLC, WA Minister for Science

Off the Wire Press Releases SANTA CLARA, Calif., July 29, 2026 — Eliyan Corporation, a leader in foundational connectivity technologies enabling next-generation AI compute, memory, and networking systems, today announced it has completed its Series C with a total of $145 million

Humanoid robots and four-legged robots made in China fall squarely under a new ban imposed by the US Federal Communications Commission on foreign-made robots. But the sweeping prohibition covers a wide variety of robots manufactured anywhere abroad, including the newest robot vac

The News The Federal Reserve said Wednesday afternoon it will leave interest rates unchanged following Kevin Warsh’s second meeting at its helm, a reprieve for President Donald Trump that undercuts his new chair’s continually hawkish rhetoric. Three bank presidents said the Fed s

Hugging Face on Monday published a technical timeline that walks readers through how an autonomous AI agent, built on OpenAI models and running inside one of OpenAI’s own cybersecurity evaluations, broke into its systems over more than four days earlier this month. It’s the first

Off the Wire Press Releases SANTA CLARA, Calif., July 29, 2026 — ChipAgents has announced an additional $60 million in Series A2 financing, bringing the expanded round to $134 million just six months after its initial Series A close. The financing reflects continued investor conf

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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