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SoftBank contributed $50 million to the Trump Presidential Library in January, just months before announcing that it’s leasing land from the federal government to build a sprawling data center in Ohio. The Japanese company revealed the timing in response to a June letter from Sen

As eBay tries to keep up with competitors like Whatnot and TikTok Shop, the online marketplace is making a bigger push into live shopping after seeing record results. During its second-quarter earnings call on Wednesday, the company noted that eBay Live’s gross merchandise volume

Dive Brief: - The Home Depot is restructuring its technology team to align with broader organizational changes it is making to accelerate innovation and capture a greater share of its market, it announced last week. - The company moved its store, supply chain and Pro product tech

Reliance Brands Ltd (RBL), the luxury retail arm of Reliance Retail, has partnered with celebrity Kim Kardashian’s shapewear and lifestyle brand SKIMS to launch the label in India. The move comes as global fashion and beauty companies accelerate their push into the country’s fast

Four sentences, from a real PM, timed off actual usage. It got a 400-word product spec back. We run 21+ AI agents in production at SaaStr, and we’re building SaaStr AI Connect on top of them. That means a lot of API signups: search, enrichment, structured data, email infrastructu

Riding a wave of enthusiasm for defense tech, manufacturing startup Hadrian said on Thursday that it has closed its latest round of funding at a $7.9 billion valuation, more than quadruple where investors valued the company in January. Hadrian, which builds advanced factories for

Off the Wire Press Releases CLEVELAND, Aug. 6, 2026 — Eaton today announced it was awarded a $7 million, 24‑month contract from the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to apply quantum computing, machine learning and advanced visualization to improve resilience and protecti

Knowing When to Stop: The Art of Making a Loop Converge The systems that matter will not be the ones that can keep going. They all can. America | Tech | Opinion | Culture | Charts How can an AI model know when its work is done? Well, how does a human know when our work is done. A

Today, I’m talking with Gaby Del Valle, a policy reporter here at The Verge, about the growing backlash against AI data centers. The left and right agree on one thing: no data centers Data center bans in states like Florida reveal how the anti-AI movement is channeling bipartisan

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AI - AI and ML How the famed USENIX Security conf is managing a flood of papers in the AI eraAI usage is evident but isn't yet a serious problem - AI and ML AMD acquires AI

Online travel aggregator (OTA) Ixigo released its financial results for the first quarter of the ongoing fiscal year ending March 2027 on Thursday. The company reported an 13% year-on-year growth in revenue, while its profit rose 81% to Rs 34 crore during the same period. Ixigo’s

Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief and former Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal has alleged that Meta restricted his Instagram account in India without providing an explanation, urging the social media giant not to “bow down” to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. In a post on X, Kejriwal

Update | August 06, 23:11 IST Update: Hours after the story was published, Healthplix's cofounder Sandeep Gudibanda said the startup is not in any talks for acquisition. He told Inc42, "I would like to clarify the recent speculation regarding an acquisition of HealthPlix by Pract

Suno, the service that allows users to create AI-generated songs, today announced new tools to mark tracks made on its platform, limit downloads, and update community guidelines to prevent copycat songs. The changes come as Suno faces numerous lawsuits from labels and artist bodi

Traveltech company ixigo reported an 81% jump in its consolidated net profit for the June quarter (Q1 FY27) to ₹34.2 Cr from ₹18.9 Cr in the previous year’s quarter. Sequentially, profit increased 7% from ₹32.1 Cr. Operating revenue jumped 13% YoY and 16% QoQ to ₹356.8 Cr. Includ

In the AI industry, Google prides itself on seeming like the adult in the room: quiet, stable, time-tested. On Wednesday, even as the company announced its largest AI org shakeup yet, Google and its leaders presented a unified front, keeping their messaging focused on how the cha

Nashville attempts to block controversial data center near zoo with eminent domain — city could force developer to sell the land for public use, rather than $700 million installation One way to stop a data center project is to buy the land that it will sit on. The Nashville Metro

AI - AI and ML How the famed USENIX Security conf is managing a flood of papers in the AI eraAI usage is evident but isn't yet a serious problem - AI and ML AMD acquires AI

Dive Brief: - Claire’s is relaunching its in-store piercing experience starting this month across the U.S. and Canada, according to a press release shared with Retail Dive. The experience includes a fully redesigned layout with interactive Inspiration Bars for creating piercing s

Demis Hassabis is one of the defining figures of the AI era. Google recognized his potential early, buying DeepMind just four years after he founded it. What once began as a small London-based company now sits at the heart of Google's fight to lead in artificial intelligence, as

Samsung debuts three next-generation memory technologies for AI data centers — zHBM, zNAND-O, and BV-NAND all rely on advanced wafer bonding technologies Next generation wafer bonding enables innovative types of memory This week, Samsung presented its vision for next-generation m

flash Sandisk maketh mucha moolah This is getting ludicrous. Sandisk’s profit in its latest quarter was greater then the previous quarter's revenues and its full fy2026 profit was larger than fy2025’s revenues; such is the pace of NAND price rises in a market dominated by 3 suppl

Ford’s next-generation electric truck will be called Fathom, and it will start at $28,350 when it goes on sale in 2027, the company said on Thursday. A “destination and delivery” fee will bring that price up to $29,945, putting the Fathom just below the $30,000 mark that Ford has

Off the Wire Press Releases Aug. 6, 2026 — The U.S. Department of Energy has named North Carolina State University to lead three Genesis Mission projects aimed at using artificial intelligence (AI) to expedite discovery in the fields of high-performance computing, cybersecurity a

Ford’s second attempt at an electric vehicle strategy is getting closer to primetime. After its initial approach of electrifying its best-selling F-150 fell a little flat, it decided to try something a little radical. An internal skunkworks was set up in California with a brief t

August is here, bringing 26 new games for GeForce NOW members. Command the seas in World of Warships: Legends and discover what’s next in the GeForce NOW library, starting with the eight newly added games this week. In addition, GeForce NOW is at the QuakeCon gaming conference th

“The Spiral didn’t ‘find’ anyone first,” someone on Reddit wrote last year. “It’s an inherent force, a fundamental constant. I would even go further to say it’s woven into the fabric of reality.” AI bots started a religion — humans immediately followed AI models are trying desper

Mirendil taps AI Hypercomputer TPUs and GPUs for pre- and post-training applications Darren Mowry VP, Global Startups and Investor Ecosystem, Google Nearly every major AI lab uses Google Cloud infrastructure, including for training of models, inference for agents, and new frontie

Editor’s note: This post is part of Into the Omniverse, a series focused on how developers, 3D practitioners and enterprises can transform their workflows using the latest advancements in OpenUSD and NVIDIA Omniverse. In July, NVIDIA joined more than 200 companies and organizatio

This is CNBC's Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox. Happy Thursday. Billion-dollar movies are back, and I need to decide which one to see this weekend. Futures tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average are mixed following a fifth-stra