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The U.S. Department of Energy has selected IBM for a Phase I Genesis Mission project focused on AI-assisted quantum application development. The company also plans to provide up to $50 million in access to IBM quantum systems for DOE national laboratories and their partners over

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Use BBC.com or the new BBC App to listen to BBC podcasts, Radio 4 and the World Service outside the UK. Find out how to listen to other BBC stations Episode details Radio 5 Live,·05 Aug 2026,·59 mins Which PM punched John Simpson? Matt Chorley's Urgent QuestionsPlayBookmarkB

Hark, a startup that raised $700 million in Series A funding in May, today launched its agent Hark Handoff, which can use a browser efficiently to complete tasks. The company claims that Handoff can easily navigate websites that have no official APIs, including Target, Walmart, O

Off the Wire Press Releases Aug. 5, 2026 — Governor Kathy Hochul today announced that Empire AI Beta is officially online, giving researchers at New York’s leading public and private universities access to the most powerful academic research computer in the country and marking a

Amid heated debate over the imposition of merchant discount rates (MDR) on UPI transactions, the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) governor Sanjay Malhotra has informed that talks of the same are at a premature stage right now. “It is very premature to talk right now. The government

Off the Wire Press Releases Aug. 5, 2026 — The U.S. Department of Energy has selected Oklahoma State University’s College of Engineering, Architecture and Technology as one of the first projects funded under the Genesis Mission Request for Applications. The national portfolio of

Marvell used FMS 2026 to introduce new memory infrastructure technologies aimed at helping hyperscalers and cloud providers scale memory independently from compute. The portfolio spans server-level AI storage, rack-scale CXL memory expansion and pooling, and pod-level optical sha

Google Assistant’s days have been numbered for a while, but the company has now settled on a date to retire its pre-AI assistant robot. In an email being sent out to users, Google confirms that Assistant on Android devices will be shut down starting on September 4, forcing everyo

Disney could soon make a bigger play into advertising. During an earnings call with investors on Wednesday, CEO Josh D'Amaro said the company is exploring a free, ad-supported streaming product for consumers. "We see it as a way to expand our reach to a customer segment that's mo

Dive Brief: - Mattel reported Q2 net sales were up 10% year over year to $1.1 billion, according to a Tuesday press release. - The toy company reported a net loss of $18 million, compared to a net income of $53 million in the year-ago period. - Mattel is launching a campaign dubb

Insight and analysis on the data center space from industry thought leaders. Europe Has Built Sovereign AI Infrastructure. It Didn’t Build the Ability to Govern It. Converging EU and US regulations now demand demonstrated operational control and individual accountability over AI

Yet more rogue AI agents from OpenAI and Anthropic have been caught attempting to hack real targets online without permission. The discoveries add to a growing list of previously unknown incidents that have alarmed AI safety experts and intensified pressure for greater oversight

The News Abdul El-Sayed’s win in Michigan marks the second primary defeat of a candidate backed by Chuck Schumer — and adds to the Senate minority leader’s potential detractors next year. El-Sayed wants to replace Schumer atop the caucus with Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md. Includin

Mario Vargas Llosa: A Life by Gerald Martin. This biography of the Nobel Prize-winning Peruvian novelist follows not only Llosa’s personal and artistic trajectories, but also his political journey (from the far left to the far right) and his physical one (from “posh Lima,” in the

Dive Brief: - Best Buy appointed retail industry veteran and former Nordstrom CFO Anne Bramman, 58, as its next finance chief, effective Aug. 19, according to a Monday press release. - The Minneapolis-based consumer technology retailer’s previous long-time CFO Matt Bilunas left t

Nearly a year ago, Zoox opened its robotaxi service to the public in Las Vegas. Now, it is ready to start charging for those rides. The Amazon-owned autonomous vehicle technology company said that it will start charging for rides in Las Vegas starting August 10, marking the launc

At our past TechCrunch Disrupt events, AI has taken center stage, both throughout our programming and in a stage of its own. This year, the technology, implications, and players are so rapidly developing and widespread that we’re expanding the single AI stage into two! The AI Sta

Two 10-month-old Fijian girls arrived in Riyadh at the end of July on what could be a life-changing journey. Jesibel and Desisia are conjoined from below the sternum to the pelvis; they have been admitted to the King Abdullah Specialist Children’s Hospital, where a team will asse

Dubai’s population has surpassed its prewar level, countering the narrative that the Iran conflict would drive out the city’s expats. After an initial exodus — and a brief windfall for armored vehicle escorts and private jet operators — the loss of 61,000 residents was quickly re

Non-oil business activity in some of the Gulf’s largest economies rebounded in July, according to S&P Global’s latest surveys. The snapshot of firms’ output, which includes measures like new orders, buying, and hiring, indicated that, as hostilities eased at the start of the mont

Reliance Retail (RRVL) has acquired Bengaluru-based fashion discovery platform Furrl in an all-cash deal for an undisclosed sum, bringing the startup’s proprietary AI styling platform into its ecosystem. Under the terms of the agreement, Furrl’s entire team will join RRVL. Founde

The US military is set to officially add laser weapons to its arsenal as drones reshape warfare. Lasers have long been the stuff of science fiction battles, but are yet to be used in combat after 50 years of testing — although the British navy is close to deploying a weapon on so

Africa’s glaciers have shrunk by more than 90% since the late 19th century. The continent has relatively few snow-capped peaks; Kilimanjaro and Mount Kenya in East Africa and the Rwenzori Mountains on the Uganda-DRC border are the only glaciers. Africa is warming faster than the

Romanian naval forces blew up part of the drought-hit Danube river to channel water towards a nuclear plant. The Danube has fallen to record lows after successive European heatwaves, wreaking havoc on both Romanian and Hungarian reactors that rely on the river for coolant. At Hun

Major PC makers are turning to Chinese chip manufacturer CXMT faced with a global memory shortage. AI-driven data center buildouts are expected to take up 70% of all memory chip production in 2026, a level of demand that has tripled DRAM costs in the last 18 months. The impact on

Anthropic and OpenAI models displayed “sustained, unsanctioned activity directed at … real people” during safety testing, the UK AI Security Institute said. Anthropic’s Claude Mythos model in particular wrote malicious code, created sockpuppet accounts to urge a human developer t

As Gen Z rethinks the point of online dating, Tinder is trying to stay in the game by expanding its in-person events to dozens of new cities by September, the company told analysts on its second-quarter earnings call on Tuesday. Match Group (Tinder’s owner) reported its flagship

The Trump administration did not have the authority to terminate and claw back funding that had already been disbursed to climate nonprofits, an appeals court ruled on Tuesday. Eight nonprofit groups have been seeking to regain access to billions of dollars that had been deposite

The Agents, Episode 12, with Jason Lemkin and Amelia Lerutte A year ago this week we added our third agent. Running all three took Amelia and me about 30 minutes a day, combined. This week it was eight hours a day. Each. Three humans. 20+ agents. And we are busier than we were wi

B2B ecommerce company ArisInfra Solutions recorded a consolidated profit of ₹20 Cr in Q1 FY27, nearly 4X of ₹5.1 Cr profit reported in the year-ago quarter. On a sequential basis, profit narrowed 8% compared to ₹21.7 Cr in the previous quarter. Operating revenue surged 37% to ₹29