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Madonna and Blur producer William Orbit dies aged 69 - Published Acclaimed British music producer William Orbit, known for his work with acts including Madonna, Blur, All Saints and Pink, has died at the age of 69. A statement, external released on Friday by Orbit's family and fr

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Six-hour train services between London and Stirling running with no toilets - Published A train operator is running services lasting more than five-and-a-half hours despite having no toilets available on board. The Lumo trains run on the West Coast Main Line, covering the new 417

Off the Wire Press Releases Two Multi-Client Studies Launched to Track Enterprise AI Barriers and Europe’s Digital Autonomy Push SUNNYVALE, Calif., Aug. 7, 2026 — Intersect360 Research has announced two new multi-client research studies. The first, “Enterprise AI Adoption,” exami

Cupid Ltd., a consumer wellness and personal care company, announced its financial performance for the June-ended quarter today, reporting strong growth across its international B2B healthcare and domestic Consumer Healthcare & FMCG businesses, supported by healthy execution acro

Airbnb shares surged 15% Friday after the company delivered one of its strongest growth quarters in years and raised its full-year outlook — a turnaround CEO Brian Chesky is directly crediting to artificial intelligence. In an exclusive interview with CNBC after the earnings repo

Airbnb shares surged 15% Friday after the company delivered one of its strongest growth quarters in years and raised its full-year outlook — a turnaround CEO Brian Chesky is directly crediting to artificial intelligence. In an exclusive interview with CNBC after the earnings repo

Off the Wire Press Releases Four U research teams which include faculty from the Department of Atmospheric Science join a national initiative advancing AI, energy, and atmospheric science. Aug. 7, 2026 — The University of Utah has been selected to receive multiple U.S. Department

Artificial Intelligence How Cohere Health digitizes clinical policies using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Prior authorization is the approval process health plans require before covering certain medical services or medications. It remains one of the most manual processes in healthcare

It’s been another week with far more retail news than there is time in the day. Below, we break down some things you may have missed during the week and what we’re still thinking about. From Canada Goose’s latest divestiture to Little Debbie’s fall product lineup, here’s our clos

Artificial Intelligence How TReNDS automates root-cause analysis with Amazon Bedrock This is a guest post co-written with Vitaly Omelchenko from the TReNDS Center at Georgia State University. At the Center for Translational Research in Neuroimaging and Data Science (TReNDS), a jo

Artificial Intelligence Determining playoff clinching scenarios in the NHL using constraint programming As the National Hockey League (NHL) regular season enters its final stretch each spring, one question dominates the minds of hockey fans: has my team clinched the playoffs? The

Dive Brief: - Ralph Lauren revenue increased 14% year over year to $2 billion in the first quarter of fiscal 2027, beating the company’s previous estimates and driven by strong growth in North America and Asia. - North America revenue grew 13% to $740 million for the quarter. Yea

Cloudflare is the latest company to join the race to build a new web browser. But instead of pitching a Chrome alternative to consumers, the internet infrastructure provider launched Kitesurf, a cloud-hosted browser designed specifically for AI agents. AI software is evolving fro

Framework, a company that makes modular repairable computers, said it has notified all of its customers that hackers stole their names, email addresses, phone numbers, and physical addresses, due to an incident at a company that provides business intelligence. On Thursday, severa

Sen. Martin Heinrich will introduce a bill, shared exclusively with CNBC, to end tax breaks for U.S. oil and gas companies that operate overseas while the industry reaps massive profits as the war with Iran spikes oil prices. The bill comes days after President Donald Trump rippe

GOL! How TelevisaUnivision streamed the FIFA World Cup to millions with Google Cloud Alexandro David Campos Vega SVP Product and Engineering, TelevisaUnivision Kevin Hutchins VP, Product Management, Networking, Google Cloud Live sports broadcasting represents the ultimate stress

Unifying Structured and Unstructured Data Insights with BQ Search Innovations Joe Malone Product Manager, Google Francis Lan Engineering Manager, Google Modern enterprises possess a vast amount of unstructured data, yet they frequently encounter significant challenges in managing

How Google Cloud detects, contains, and protects against emerging threats David Byrd Director, Security & Assured, Google Cloud Salmaan Rashid Manager, Technical Security, Google Cloud At Google Cloud, securing your data and business systems is our foundational commitment. We emp

Its profit stood at Rs 16.50 crore in the year-ago period. The total income, however, rose to Rs 535.71 crore in the first quarter of this fiscal from Rs 391.86 crore in the corresponding period of the preceding year, according to a regulatory filing. Raymond Realty reported sale

Spot gold jumped 2.4% to $4,341.69 per ounce by 10:57 a.m. EDT (1457 GMT), having surged over 3% to its highest since June 17. Bullion is set to post its largest weekly rise since January 19, with prices gaining over 7% so far this week. U.S. gold futures climbed 2.4% to $4,402.2

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CoreWeave said on August 5 that it has signed a multi-year agreement with Solidigm for priority access to enterprise SSD capacity. Storage has become the second component after GPUs that an AI cloud has to contract for years in advance, and CoreWeave has now done for flash what c

Off the Wire Press Releases SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug. 7, 2026 — AMD has announced it has reached a definitive agreement to acquire Taalas, a pioneer in specialized AI inference silicon. As AI inference becomes one of the fastest-growing segments of the AI market and workloads bec

Amazon cracks down on 'CPU waste' among engineers as agentic AI crunch intensifies — CPU demand makes low-utilization EC2 instances a hot commodity [Updated] What used to take engineers a few hours can now take several days. Amazon Web Services is cracking down on internal use of

Dive Brief: - QVC Group has exited Chapter 11 bankruptcy, the company announced in a Thursday press release. Its debt has been reduced by over $5 billion, and the company has access to a new $600 million asset-based lending facility. - As part of the restructuring, CEO David Rawl

Dive Brief: - Spencer Spirit Holdings announced that it has signed an agreement with Sycamore Partners to acquire Hot Topic, Inc. and its portfolio, according to a company press release. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. - Hot Topic and its subsidiaries will continu

CHICAGO — No advanced seat selection, lounge access or flight changes included with a C-suite executive's business-class ticket? Absolutely not, some companies say. Delta Air Lines joined United Airlines last month in launching stripped-down business-class fares for certain fligh

The Trump administration is paying another $1.2 billion to cancel an offshore wind lease, this time to German utility RWE. The energy company said in an announcement that the wind farms would have been built off the coasts of California, Louisiana, and New York. Instead, RWE will

President Paul Biya’s shuffle of key army positions during a two-month absence from Cameroon has stoked fresh speculation about political stability in the cocoa and oil-producing nation. The absence of Biya, who at 93 is the world’s oldest president, has prompted renewed question

The prospect of allowing Africans to move freely across the continent’s borders is a common source of economic anxiety, a survey by Afrobarometer found. Nearly two-thirds of respondents preferred to see fewer or no job seekers admitted into their country, the Ghana-based polling

Building on the growing popularity of livestreamed shopping, startup market Whatnot said on Friday that it has closed its latest round of funding at a $20 billion valuation, nearly doubling its valuation from less than a year ago. Whatnot, which said that it has more than 650,000

Building on the growing popularity of livestreamed shopping, startup market Whatnot said on Friday that it has closed its latest round of funding at a $20 billion valuation, nearly doubling its valuation from less than a year ago. Whatnot, which said that it has more than 650,000

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Shares of Airbnb, the vacation rental platform, surged 16% on Friday, 7 August, to a more than four-year high of $176.20 apiece, as investors cheered the company's better-than-expected June-quarter performance and upbeat guidance for the current quarter, easing concerns over the

After growing into a $65 Bn market, India's D2C ecosystem is entering its next phase of evolution. While new brands continue to emerge with digital-first strategies, more established players are increasingly betting on omnichannel distribution to unlock their next leg of growth.

The White House is drafting an executive order on the disproven link between vaccines and autism, according to independent reports from The Washington Post and Bloomberg, which both cited unnamed sources with knowledge of the efforts. Bloomberg reported that the executive order,