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Affordability is the "defining challenge" when it comes to economic mobility, according to a new report by the McKinsey Institute for Economic Mobility and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. The survey of 30,000 Americans across income levels found that 90% of those polled cited grocer

Over the past few years, it has become a rather rare treat when I end up genuinely, unequivocally enjoying the latest superhero film. Mostly I find them to be middling entertainment, sometimes a bit dull—and for The Eternals, nearly unwatchable—with the notable exception of 2024’

The Kids Online Safety Act, known as KOSA, cleared a key hurdle Wednesday by advancing through the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee. The measure, which has strong bipartisan support, is aimed at establishing protections for children's online safety by creatin

The Trump administration continues to respond sluggishly to the explosive, nationwide outbreak of Cyclospora—a unicellular parasite spread from human feces that has now sickened nearly 23,000 people in 47 states, killing two and sending over 500 to the hospital. Michigan health o

Etched raised $300 million in a Series C funding round at a $10.3 billion valuation, announced in late July, less than a month after the company emerged from stealth. Sequoia led the round, which included participation from a16z, Jane Street, Diffusion, and SK Hynix. The company

Artificial Intelligence How Mobileye transformed support operations using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore What if deploying production-grade AI agents required zero infrastructure management, came with enterprise observability built-in, and worked easily with your existing on-premises s

The head of Google DeepMind is stepping down from his role and moving into a chairman position, in a major shakeup at the AI research lab. Demis Hassabis, who founded DeepMind in 2010 before it was acquired in 2014, will also become chief scientist at Google parent company Alphab

Artificial Intelligence How we built an MCP bridge to give our AgentCore-hosted AI agent access to local MCP tools Our agent runs in the cloud, but our users’ spreadsheets live on their laptops. How do you bridge that gap? The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open source standa

Artificial Intelligence Run production AI agents in n8n with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore harness If you build and automate workflows in n8n without writing much code, you’ve probably used its AI Agent node to add a model call to a workflow. It’s a great start. But a production agent

Reddit on Wednesday announced a series of changes to its infrastructure and tools, designed to make it easier for people to participate on its site, protect against scraping and spam, and aid in the moderation of its online communities. In addition to providing a new suite of mod

Lucid Motors was just months away from releasing its most affordable electric vehicle yet, a crossover SUV called the Cosmos that was supposed to start under $50,000. But this week, the company pushed the release of the Cosmos back by almost a full year to the second half of 2027

Off the Wire Press Releases SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug. 5, 2026 – AMD, Super Micro Computer, Inc. and Spectro Cloud today announced AMD Instinct Coder, a jointly developed, turnkey enterprise AI coding solution designed to help organizations scale AI-assisted software development w

Reed’s view The White House says it discussed a framework for evaluating the cybersecurity risks of frontier AI models with OpenAI and Anthropic, but it doesn’t plan to release details publicly. The secrecy (frontier labs are being asked to submit the most powerful models for ass

Surveillance technology without accountability is a recipe for authoritarianism, but with strong guardrails and transparency, it can help stop crime, including crimes committed by law enforcement. An article in the Washington Post chronicled how police officers were caught abusin

Last year, we covered A Meta Vision for GPU Scale Compute with 1PB E2 SSDs. At this year’s FMS2026, there are two major storylines. First, compared to last year, the show is significantly more upbeat, with many NAND and DRAM vendors experiencing unprecedented business booms. Seco

AI-powered equity research startup Pinegap has raised $8 Mn (over ₹76 Cr) in its Series A funding round led by Stellaris Venture Partners. Existing backers, including Silicon Valley Quad and DeVC, also participated in the round. The New York-based startup, which also operates an

Disney is “exploring a free product” for streaming customers, CEO Josh D’Amaro confirmed in a call with investors today. D’Amaro, who succeeded Bob Iger as Disney’s chief in March, said that a free Disney-owned streaming service would help Disney reach more “price-sensitive” cust

The applications are in. The TechCrunch Startup Battlefield team made their decisions. Eight Australian startups have earned their spot on the Startup Battlefield stage at Stripe Tour Sydney on August 19 — and they’re ready to pitch for $15,000 in Stripe fee credits, investor att

For most of its existence, the Tesla Supercharger network was both the automaker’s crown jewel and a walled garden. Tightly integrated to work only with Tesla electric vehicles, the DC fast-charging experience for Tesla customers was painless in ways that EV drivers dependent on

We were pretty sure that Fenix Flexin’s “Rubberz” was made using AI, but musician Medasin was confident that it was made using Treblo specifically. Now the company and a new detection tool seem to confirm it. Sure seems like Fenix Flexin used AI music generator Treblo The company

Apple’s Private Relay, an opt-in feature designed to hide a user’s IP address when they browse the internet with Safari, can be circumvented to reveal the supposedly hidden IP address due to a series of flaws. Researchers revealed the issues in a blog post on Tuesday. The researc

David’s view I doubt that anybody who bundled up for “Menorah in the D,” the 2023 kickoff of Hanukkah in Detroit, knew how much it would end up shaping the 2026 Senate primary. The event took place two months after Hamas’ Oct. 7 attacks on Israel — in hindsight, a high point of A

Google is making some significant AI leadership changes, including a major shift for Google DeepMind leader Demis Hassabis. Google just announced a major shakeup of its top AI leadership Google’s AI head Demis Hassabis is leaving his role to become the Google DeepMind chair and A

Amazon-owned Zoox said Wednesday it will start offering paid robotaxi rides in Las Vegas, Nevada, beginning Aug. 10, marking the company's first commercial launch as it seeks to scale up and compete with Alphabet's Waymo. Zoox has been offering free driverless rides to the public

D-Wave is a bit of an oddity in the quantum computing space, having been founded back in the last century. And its initial offering wasn’t a quantum computer like those being developed by IBM or Google. Instead, the company built what’s now called a quantum annealer, a machine th

Once, I had some questions about why SpaceX, Elon Musk’s healthiest company, acquired xAI, his sickliest one. Now I have some questions about why we’re calling the whole thing SpaceX. SpaceX is barely Space and mostly X Elon Musk’s exploding rockets are a front for the real money

Dive Brief: - Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. is changing its corporate name to Neighborhood Intelligence and will begin trading on the Nasdaq under the ticker symbol NXH, effective Aug. 17. As a result, the company’s last day trading on the New York Stock Exchange will be Aug. 14. - The

The Scoop Quintessential San Francisco AI startup Polsia employs nobody and operates swarms of AI agents to help run other businesses. Its projected annual revenue skyrocketed almost overnight this year from $100,000 to $10 million, but so did its token spending, reaching a debil

Bank of America spends more than $250 million a year covering GLP-1 weight loss drugs for its employees, CEO Brian Moynihan told CNBC on Wednesday, saying the rapidly rising cost is a worthwhile investment in his workforce. The company sets aside more than $2 billion a year on he

PB Fintech, the parent company of Policybazaar and Paisabazaar announced its Q1 FY27 results today. The company reported a 92% year-on-year jump in profit after tax to Rs 163 crore. The Gurugram-based company posted operating revenue of Rs 1,888 crore in Q1 FY27, a 40% increase f

Reddit is enlisting AI to help moderate new subreddits — and eventually the rest of site. The company is introducing automated moderation tools that rely on LLMs to help mods manage their communities, and it’s expanding who can use those tools today ahead of a full launch later t

Solving the "Noisy Neighbor": How Sharded Architecture Protects Multi-Tenant Platforms Sri Harshini Donthineni Cloud Data Engineer, Google Cloud Abdullateef Abdulsalam Cloud Data Consultant, Google Cloud Whether you are a multi-tenant SaaS provider, a large enterprise managing in

Scaling agentic AI: How UiPath built its high-performance GPU platform on AI Hypercomputer Abhijeet Rajwade Senior Customer Engineer, AI Infrastructure Jason Morrison Principal for AI Partnerships, UiPath As a market leader in enterprise agentic automation and business orchestrat

Dive Brief: - Sales declines at Michael Kors made a dent in Capri Holdings’ Q1, as the company's total revenue in the period fell 3.5% year over year to nearly $770 million. - Michael Kors revenue tumbled over 7% to $590 million, while Jimmy Choo revenue surged more than 10% to

Dive Brief: - Under Armour has named six-member K-pop boy band BoyNextDoor as global brand ambassadors, according to a Thursday press release. - The partnership will promote a regional rollout of Under Armour’s Bouncy Tee across Asia-Pacific as part of its Commit campaign. The ca

E-commerce software maker Shopify seems to be benefiting handily from people using AI to search. On the company’s second-quarter earnings call, Shopify President Harley Finkelstein said AI has become a “complement to search, rather than a substitute for it,” and had particularly

Beauty and personal care (BPC) brand Typsy Beauty has secured ₹20 Cr ($2.1 Mn) in a fresh funding round led by Saama Capital, with participation from Genesis Luxury founder Sanjay Kapoor and SRF Family Office. Existing backers, including Bottomline Media founder and CEO Tanaaz Bh

Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan on Wednesday called the recent near collapse of high-flying AI hedge fund Situational Awareness a warning shot for financial markets that are being fueled by elevated valuations and borrowed money. Situational Awareness, led by Leopold Aschenbre

Off the Wire Press Releases PALO ALTO, Calif., Aug. 5, 2026 — D-Wave Quantum Inc. today announced a major research breakthrough advancing the path to practical, fault-tolerant gate-model quantum computing. Published in the peer-reviewed scientific journal Nature, the research dem