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The political arm of advocacy group Care Can’t Wait will launch digital ads in a half-dozen battleground congressional districts next week as part of a six-figure campaign slamming Republicans for the high price of caregiving. The ads, shared first with Semafor, contrast the cost

Greyhounds bound for Australia as New Zealand racing ban takes effect - Published At least two chartered flights carrying up to 150 greyhounds are set to fly to Australia's eastern states, as a New Zealand ban on the sport comes into effect. Several greyhound trainers in New Zeal

For years, India was the world’s largest app download market but one of its toughest places to make money. That is beginning to change as Indian consumers spend more on AI, entertainment, and other premium apps. India’s mobile app market generated a record $345 million in consume

Spider-Man is already webbing up a massive box-office haul. Sony and Marvel's "Spider-Man: Brand New Day" secured $72 million in preview ticket sales, the highest collection for any domestic film in Hollywood history. The previous record holder was 2019's "Avengers: Endgame," whi

( ) By Renee Hickman CHICAGO, July 31 (Reuters) - Chicago wheat fell on Friday but posted a monthly gain, the first such rise in three months, on mounting concerns over Black Sea supplies due to attacks by both Russia and Ukraine. Technical trading drove wheat futures down and so

ScaleFlux has introduced an AI-optimized SSD platform designed for NVIDIA CMX and other inference architectures that use SSDs as a shared KV-cache tier beyond GPU HBM and host DRAM. The platform combines high-endurance SSD hardware, Flexible Data Placement (FDP) support, and work

Global soccer may be finding the limits to private equity's stampede into sports. A plan by FIFA to sell a minority stake in a new subsidiary — FIFA Forward Enterprise, or FFE — that would control the business side of the World Cup has faced swift backlash. UEFA, the governing or

Yinka’s view Screenshots of a US State Department map of Africa that mislabeled every country quickly ricocheted through WhatsApp groups and inboxes of Africa policy specialists this week, prompting a mix of disbelief, gallows humor, and embarrassment. The State Department apolog

Anthropic said its Claude-based security models gained unauthorized access to the sensitive production environments of three outside organizations during internal testing designed to measure the models’ offensive cyber capabilities. The events, which Anthropic revealed Thursday,

Earlier this week, listed manufacturing company Aequs reported its Q1 FY27 earnings. As usual, most of the investor attention focused on the headline numbers – ₹53.2 Cr in net losses against a net profit of ₹3.6 Cr in the year-ago period, and a 55% YoY jump in operating revenue t

* TSX ends down 0.8% at 35,226.14 * For the month, the index adds 1.1% * Materials group falls 3% on lower gold prices * Telus shares tumble 11.3% as company posts Q2 loss By Sudeshna Ghoshal and Fergal Smith TORONTO, - Canada's main stock index fell on Friday as a drop in gold p

Oil posted its biggest monthly gain since March as traders grappled with simmering global conflicts and threats to supply from the Persian Gulf to the Black Sea. Brent’s most active contract settled up 1.2% near $88 a barrel while West Texas Intermediate rose 1% to settle below $

Google briefly allowed anyone to create AI-modified versions of satellite imagery available in Google Earth—before quickly reversing its decision as people shared examples of AI-generated pictures that illustrated the potential for misinformation and disinformation. There is no s

Two years ago, Leopold Aschenbrenner argued he was one of few people in the world who saw the future clearly. In a sprawling, 165-page essay that became required reading in Silicon Valley, the former OpenAI researcher positioned himself as a kind of prophet for the coming age of

Two years ago, Leopold Aschenbrenner argued he was one of few people in the world who saw the future clearly. In a sprawling, 165-page essay that became required reading in Silicon Valley, the former OpenAI researcher positioned himself as a kind of prophet for the coming age of

Wall Street is growing increasingly divided over AI's winners and losers after the world's largest technology companies reported earnings and affirmed or raised their capex forecasts, suggesting the spending spree isn't letting up yet. Nearly $2 trillion has moved this week into

Wall Street is growing increasingly divided over AI's winners and losers after the world's largest technology companies reported earnings and affirmed or raised their capex forecasts, suggesting the spending spree isn't letting up yet. Nearly $2 trillion has moved this week into

Worries that heavy investments in AI infrastructure may be taking too long to pay off rattled global markets this month and led to doubts about companies at the center of Wall Street's rally in recent years. "There were worries that Amazon's spending was just moonshot spending, t

Almost four years into the artificial intelligence boom, the world's biggest tech companies are still making grand promises about the future. The problem is, they're burning through their cash in the process. AI spending among the megacaps is projected to reach $765 billion this

Almost four years into the artificial intelligence boom, the world's biggest tech companies are still making grand promises about the future. The problem is, they're burning through their cash in the process. AI spending among the megacaps is projected to reach $765 billion this

Artificial Intelligence Announcing the Agentic Catalog Experience in Amazon Quick As organizations embrace AI-powered analytics, the value of a natural language (Text2SQL) answer is only as good as the business context behind it. We’re entering a phase where semantic richness (ta

Google rolled out a new feature on Thursday that allowed users to deploy Nano Banana 2, its AI image generator, to create fabricated images inside its satellite imagery mapping app Google Earth. The whole point of this feature, Google said, was to get creative with geography. But

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Off the Wire Press Releases July 31, 2026 — Last year, an unprecedented marine heat wave swept across Western Australia, pushing ocean temperatures at the World Heritage-listed Nyinggulu (Ningaloo) Reef as much as 4 degrees Celsius above normal. As a result, vast stretches of cor

Index Ventures has raised $2 billion in fresh capital across three funds, the firm announced on Friday. The 30-year-old firm raised $400 million for its new seed-focused fund and $900 million for its venture fund. Index also added $700 million to a $1.5 billion growth fund raised

Listen to this article in summarized format In the personal loan segment, loans against gold jewellery, which include certain agriculture loans, remained the fastest-growing sector, surging 93% YoY, data published Friday by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) showed. Vehicle loans wi

The financing is being offered at a rate up to 125 basis points above the secured overnight funding rate (SOFR), with the rate linked to the loan size offered by banks. The loan will qualify for the special swap facility of the Reserve Bank of India. "This loan is already under s

Listen to this article in summarized format Attractive dollar deposit rates and leverage facilities, along with tax-free interest income, triggered the strong response despite representative office restrictions preventing many banks from servicing all prospective customers in the

Voice AI startup Smallest.ai has raised $13 Mn (around ₹108 Cr) in its Series A funding round led by Seligman Ventures. The round also saw participation from existing backers Sierra Ventures and 3one4 Capital. The startup plans to deploy the fresh capital to scale its voice AI pl

Google has shut down Google Earth feature it launched Thursday that allowed users to edit satellite images with text prompts using AI. The tool essentially let users create AI deepfakes of the real world using text prompts; Digital Digging’s Henk van Ess, for example, intentional

AI - OFF-PREM Enterprise cloud infrastructure uptake shows no sign of slowingCloud revenue now north of $143 billion a quarter, and growth is accelerating - DEVOPS Dev who

Everyone knows that great gimmicks are the key to hiring top developers for your startup. That’s why small AI startup LemonLime—which “optimizes your existing data to work with AI”—has so many of them. Want a job interview? Score a perfect 7/7 on the company’s own “Is it a Lemon