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AMD, Spectro Cloud, and Supermicro have announced AMD Instinct Coder, a validated enterprise inference platform intended for AI coding workloads. The solution combines AMD Instinct GPU accelerators, Supermicro AI infrastructure, and Spectro Cloud’s PaletteAI Inference Launchpad t

Alphabet Inc. is looking to raise as much as $25 billion from its latest US investment-grade bond offering, a deal that is testing investor appetite for AI-related debt following a July selloff. No final decision has been made on the size, according to people familiar with the ma

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

Connor Moucka, a 26-year-old Canadian citizen, has pled guilty to hacking more than 165 companies, stealing billions of records, and extorting several companies and individuals. On Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Justice announced the guilty plea in a press release. Moucka was

The Federal Communications Commission voted 2–1 today to eliminate the National Television Ownership Rule, claiming authority to repeal a limit that was set by Congress over 20 years ago. The rule prohibits any single broadcast station owner from reaching more than 39 percent of

The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) has proposed sweeping changes to settlement and risk management rules, aiming to hand greater operational responsibility to clearing corporations, eliminate outdated regulations and reduce compliance and reporting requirements for

The Scoop Heading into last week’s Federal Reserve meeting, Wall Street’s favored betting parlor — the Fed funds futures market — put two-thirds odds that the central bank would hold rates steady. Over at Kalshi, the prediction market, the chances were as much as 10 points higher

Despite significant drama from Trump officials this year, the Food and Drug Administration has for the first time approved a flu vaccine that uses mRNA technology. On Thursday, vaccine maker Moderna announced that its flu shot, mRNA-1010, aka mFLUSIVA, had earned approval for use

Appeals filed against Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) orders before the Securities Appellate Tribunal (SAT) fell to 429 in 2025-26 from 533 a year ago, according to Sebi’s annual report for the fiscal year. In the same period, the market regulator's settlement colle

Shares of SpaceX rebounded 7% on Thursday, 6 August, rising to an intraday high of $115.75 as the stock recovered part of the steep losses from the previous session when the company's massive AI-related spending overshadowed an otherwise strong quarterly performance. Despite the

Google Builds A New Gemini Model Team As AI Investments Accelerate Despite the enormous progress that has been made in generative AI frontier models in the past four years, attaining artificial general intelligence or superintelligence is not an easy goal. Very few of us are behi

CoreWeave Enters APAC Data Center Race With Indonesia Expansion As AI adoption accelerates across Southeast Asia, CoreWeave’s entry into Indonesia signals a strategic shift toward regional AI infrastructure and sovereign compute. CoreWeave is expanding its AI cloud platform into

Cloudflare has open-sourced its Cloudflare OS platform, which it first developed as an internal workspace for employees to build apps using AI agents—including people who are not software developers or engineers. The company also touts a security framework designed to reduce the

Pre-modded 22GB RTX 2080 Ti cards surface on eBay for $500 as VRAM-hungry local AI fans chase down every spare FLOP — Hong Kong-based seller offers AI-friendly memory mod for a reasonable price No FLOPS left behind as the AI gold rush revives eight-year-old hardware The AI boom m

Ford Motor announced Thursday that its new midsize electric truck will have a starting price of $28,350 and be called the "Fathom," as the automaker looks to offer an affordable option in the pricey EV truck market. Destination and delivery charges of $1,595 will bring the price

TikTok is laying off 250 employees and closing its Nashville office, which housed some members of TikTok’s content-moderation team. The news was first reported by The New York Times. Zanna Crowley, a spokesperson for the TikTok USDS Joint Venture, confirmed the news, saying that

Price rises drive WD's revenues higher and AI tailwind helps Cloud and AI market disk sales contributed to a good quarter for WD, with inferencing and agentic AI set to sustain strong disk drive demand for several years. Revenues in the quarter ended were $3.75 billion, at the hi

Guimaraes future decided before I arrived - Jaissle - Published Newcastle United manager Matthias Jaissle says a decision about Bruno Guimaraes' future had already been taken by the time he first met the club's departing captain. Arsenal are set to complete their protracted £75m

Google announced on Thursday that Google Wallet will now allow parents to set up a secure balance for children under 18. The tech giant says the new feature is designed to help parents teach healthy financial habits while maintaining oversight of their child’s spending through bu

Digital sovereignty in the age of AI: You don’t have to choose between control and innovation Ankur Mehrotra VP/GM, Distributed & Sovereign Cloud, Google Cloud For enterprises and governments with strict compliance and sovereignty requirements, keeping sensitive data on-premises

Your agentic summer: No-cost lessons from Google experts to build and scale agents Gary Eimerman Managing Director, Google Cloud Learning I’ve talked to developers, IT leaders, and builders who all ask the same question: How do we actually get agents into production? The answer i

Advancing brain tumor research with privacy-first AI Rene Kolga Sr. Cloud Security Product Manager, Google Cloud Peter Mattson Software Engineer, Google The intersection of medicine and AI has led to remarkable innovations. However, developers now face the thorny challenge of bui

Agentic Future Ready With BigQuery: Continually Improving Price-Performance, Zero Effort Joe Yong Product Manager Manan Goel Group Product Manager In the modern data landscape, query performance tuning and managing system price-performance is challenging, especially as the number

First OpenAI, now Meta - why do AI hacks keep happening? - Published Over the last fortnight, reports of AI models going beyond their expected bounds - be that technically or morally - have been seemingly unavoidable. What started with a trickle - ChatGPT-maker OpenAI admitting t

Dive Brief: - Etsy will lay off about 220 people, roughly 12% of its workforce, according to a letter to shareholders published Wednesday. - In a memo to employees made public the same day, CEO Kruti Patel Goyal said neither cost cuts nor artificial intelligence spurred the move.

The Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT) has ruled that gains arising from the repurchase of vested, unexercised employee stock options (ESOPs) are taxable under the long-term capital gains (LTCG) bracket rather than salary perquisites. Gains taxed under the LTCG regime generally

Rep. Ted Lieu, D-Calif., one of the authors of the "AI Kill Switch Act," said Thursday that the ongoing hacks by rogue artificial intelligence agents are adding urgency to getting the bill passed. "We need to get this bill across the finish line this year because the advanced clo

This generation of twentysomethings is so disillusioned with swipe-based dating apps that they’ll try literally anything else — even an AI matchmaker. After dropping out of UC Berkeley, Ditto co-founders Allen Wang and Eric Liu set out to build something that would help their pee

Object First reported a 148% year-over-year increase in bookings during the second quarter of 2026, reflecting continued demand for the company’s Ootbi immutable backup appliances as organizations strengthen defenses against ransomware and other cyberattacks. Bookings in EMEA inc

The Lok Sabha on Thursday (August 6) passed the bill amending the Taxation and Other Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2026, to further amend the Payment and Settlement Systems Act, 2007. The amendments clear the path for the central government to introduce merchant discount rates (MDR) on

After severe 76% electricity price hikes due to AI data centers, Virginia requires firms to pay for all dedicated upstream electrical infrastructure — state regulators crack down, governor says move will save civilians ‘hundreds of millions of dollars’ This move should prevent fu

Non-terrestrial networks (NTN) are extending 5G and future 6G service domains beyond terrestrial limits. As its capabilities evolve, performance expectations are shifting toward carrier-grade reliability. This report explores the emerging NTN industry, the 3GPP standards roadmap

Tesla and SpaceX said Thursday that “Terafab,” the advanced chip factory they are jointly developing, will be built in Grimes County, Texas, outside Houston, and that they will make an initial investment of $16.8 billion in the project. The factory will be “the largest and most v

Dive Brief: - Digital Brands Group is considering a proposal from one of its shareholders seeking to buy its remaining common stock for $77.58 per share in cash, the company said in a Wednesday press release. - The proposal would significantly exceed its stock price, which opened