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Since its first trade on June 12, SpaceX has lost over $500 billion in market cap, a stunning blow to retail investors who jumped into Elon Musk's rocket company at their first opportunity. The stock is coming off its fourth straight weekly loss and is more than 50% off its intra

Alibaba unveiled its latest and "most powerful" AI model Qwen3.8-Max on Monday as Chinese companies race to close the AI gap with the U.S. Qwen3.8-Max, which is scheduled for release next week, boasts 2.4 trillion parameters, making it one of the "most powerful" AI models in the

Reducing rampant pollution across the United States was so important that when Congress passed many environmental protection laws, including the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, and Safe Drinking Water Act, it didn’t want to leave enforcement only to the executive branch. Congress

AI - ai and ml China turns up the heat with open model blitz as US model makers panicFor the first time, Alibaba's Qwen team is letting its 'Max' model out of the API pen; meanwhile, DeepSeek V4-Flash gives new meaning to chea

Off the Wire Press Releases Collaboration aims to advance quantum-hybrid application development for machine learning to address financial crime detection PALO ALTO, Calif. and NEW YORK, Aug. 3, 2026 — D-Wave Quantum Inc. and Nasdaq Verafin announced today an agreement designed t

As its India IPO plans take shape, travel tech major MakeMyTrip's (MMT) consolidated net profit for the three months ended June 30, 2026 (Q1 FY27) plunged 65% to $9.1 Mn from $25.8 Mn in the year-ago period. The Nasdaq-listed company's revenue grew 6% YoY to $285.6 Mn. On a QoQ b

Off the Wire Press Releases MANCHESTER, England, Aug. 3, 2026 — PEAK:AIO, a leader in high-performance storage for artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC), today announced that executives from both PEAK:AIO and Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) will

Anthropic is bringing in-country inference for its AI platform Claude to India via Amazon Bedrock, AWS' managed service for building GenAI applications, removing one of the biggest barriers that has prevented banks, financial institutions and government agencies from deploying in

Off the Wire Press Releases Aug. 3, 2026 — The performance of many next-generation devices depends on controlling how energy flows at extremely small scales. In the field of microelectronics — where devices continue to shrink and new materials are introduced — small imperfections

American Eagle Outfitters plans to establish a $41 million distribution center in Salisbury, North Carolina, servicing the Southeastern U.S., according to a July 17 news release from the state's Department of Commerce. The facility, located northeast of Charlotte, will create mor

flash Kioxia’s nearly faster than Optane SSD Kioxia has announced a GP1 flash drive with 10 million IOPS and a <5μs latency, almost eight times faster than Intel’s now storage-class memory Optane drive in request-per-sec terms and with lower latency. The company says it enables f

Tom's Hardware Verdict The Asus ProArt PA32UCDMR is a highly capable and flexible display for content creators. But it is also a great gaming monitor and is ideal for those who just want a really nice screen for their work or play space. Pros - +Stunning image with vivid color an

A good year for IPOs. A bit less so for their performance. And not a year at all for SaaS. Per PitchBook there has been $1,786.8 billion in US VC-backed IPO value through July 28. That’s not a record. That’s five prior years stacked on top of each other and then doubled. Then you

AI - ai and ml China turns up the heat with open model blitz as US model makers panicFor the first time, Alibaba's Qwen team is letting its 'Max' model out of the API pen; meanwhile, DeepSeek V4-Flash gives new meaning to chea

Cybersecurity startup Horizon3 has raised a $250 million Series E at a $2 billion valuation, more than tripling its valuation in 14 months. The San Francisco-based firm drew backing from returning investors NightDragon and NEA. The funding arrives as two major AI research labs di

Gaming on the 4GB Radeon RX 6500 XT and GTX 1650 Super in 2026 — upscaling makes low-end GPUs viable for esports and internet cafes Does just 4GB of VRAM equal an instant performance cliff? As memory supplies get tighter and tighter and graphics card prices continue to rise, thin

Several popular Samsung smart TV apps contain code that share the owner’s internet connection with strangers, potentially putting millions of Samsung smart TVs at risk of hijacking, according to new security research published on Monday. Some of these apps claim to have been inst

While investors focused on Pine Labs' quarterly earnings and guidance, the company's first post-listing earnings call offered a deeper look at the strategy shaping its next phase of growth. Beyond the headline numbers, the fintech company disclosed a new economics for its POS bus

For fifteen years, the answer to financial inclusion was more innovation. We built payment rails that clear in seconds, a biometric identity anchor and a licensing regime that brought fintech players, payment service banks, and mobile money operators into the formal system. I hel

AI enthusiast unlocks and mods BIOS with Claude Code — AI defeats RSA-2048 signature checks and unlocks 55 hidden settings A new way to stop locked laptops from becoming eWaste is always welcome. BIOS-locked laptops are sometimes sold at bargain prices due to the operational rest

AI - ai and ml China turns up the heat with open model blitz as US model makers panicFor the first time, Alibaba's Qwen team is letting its 'Max' model out of the API pen; meanwhile, DeepSeek V4-Flash gives new meaning to chea

The Scoop A South African investor group that recently rescued the debt-laden agricultural producer Tongaat Hulett is planning a takeover of rival Illovo Sugar, according to sources with direct knowledge of the matter. The move would consolidate control of the continent’s sugar,

Co-Packaged Optics (CPO) foundry roadmaps — breaking down TSMC, Intel, Samsung, and GlobalFoundries' approach to next-generation scale-up connectivity The CPO race is about to begin. The requirements of AI clusters have made optical interconnections practical for scale-out connec

FILE Kioxia has a profitable yen for SSDs The AI assault on enterprise and hyperscaler spending has driven Kioxia’s NAND revenues to previously unseen levels as it beat its outlook guidance on all metrics. Revenues in Kioxia’s first fiscal 2026 quarter, ended June 30, were a reco

IPO-bound edtech startup Imarticus Learning has acquired Singapore-based BELLS Institute of Higher Learning for ₹800 Cr as it gears up for an ₹1,000 Cr IPO. The startup’s first international acquisition will help it strengthen its presence in Singapore and the Southeast Asian mar

GPU prices keep surging in 2026 — Lack of sale discounts and rising VRAM costs keep current-gen prices sky-high The only way is up We all know the current state of pricing for PC components is through the roof. Looking back, we have the hindsight to see what the prices were a yea

Behind the scenes: How we build, test, and scale Google Agent Skills Remigiusz Samborski Lead Developer Relations Engineer AI agents are only as good as the instructions and context you give them. When we launched Google Agent Skills, our goal was simple: encode Google Cloud doma

EV components manufacturer Matel Motion & Energy Solutions has raised ₹130 Cr ($13.6 Mn) in Series B funding round led by early-growth stage VC fund UC Impower, with participation from Catamaran and existing backer Transition VC. The Pune-based cleantech startup said the fresh ca

AI - ai and ml China turns up the heat with open model blitz as US model makers panicFor the first time, Alibaba's Qwen team is letting its 'Max' model out of the API pen; meanwhile, DeepSeek V4-Flash gives new meaning to chea

Chinese tech giant Alibaba released what it says is its largest and “most capable AI model to date,” claiming performance rivaling the best systems from US frontier labs Anthropic and OpenAI, as well as domestic rivals like Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3. Alibaba said it was making the mo

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Every so often, I’ll be piloting some sensor-laden, software-defined press car down a dark stretch of highway when an oncoming driver’s high beams arrive like a targeted retinal strike, an involuntary reminder that modern automotive lighting has entered its own lumen arms race. A

OpenAI is dominating the first visible wave of artificial intelligence spending inside Congress. The maker of ChatGPT accounted for roughly $9 out of every $10 spent on identifiable AI tools by House offices, committees and institutional accounts during the year ending March 31,

World’s smallest GPU silicon passes real-world testing — 240,000-transistor TinyGPU v2.0 renders 3D graphics at up to 15 FPS while v3.0 prepares for 2026 release TinyGPU v3.0 will feature a programmable pixel shader. We wrote about the world’s tiniest GPU heading to production la