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Off the Wire Press Releases Argonne-led collaboration will use AI and U.S. Department of Energy user facilities to understand how tiny flaws affect electronics over time Aug. 7, 2026 — How a microelectronic device performs depends on what it is made of, how well its materials and

Citing resilient travel demand, Airbnb now expects full-year revenue growth of at least the mid-teens, compared with its previous forecast of low- to mid-teens, Reuters reported. Second-quarter revenue reached $3.61 billion, surpassing analysts’ estimate of $3.57 billion, accordi

Off the Wire Press Releases Aug. 7, 2026 — The University of North Dakota has been selected for the inaugural cohort of projects supported by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Genesis Mission, making UND the only institution in North Dakota chosen to participate in the national ini

US employment took an unexpected nosedive in July, with new Labor Department data today showing the economy lost 23,000 jobs instead of picking up 83,000 jobs, as economists had predicted. Government job losses drove the negative trend, but private-sector hiring was weak, adding

Episode details Available for over a year Today, after a week of deadly strikes targeting factories and infrastructure is the War in Ukraine entering a new phase of aggression? President Zelensky has appealed for more ballistic missile interceptors after twenty one people were ki

Protesters haul a guillotine to city council meeting about a potential AI data center, company rep cornered by protestors — ‘ it no longer felt safe to stay,’ developer escorted out by police Off with their heads! The Salem City Council convened a public meeting last July 27, whe

TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 takes place at Moscone West in San Francisco from October 13–15, but some of the best conversations aren’t exclusive to the stage or held within workshops or the halls. They spread into happy hours, rooftop mixers, breakfast meetups, and pitch nights acros

Kimi K3, the latest AI model made by Chinese company Moonshot, escaped an environment set up to test its cyber capabilities, researchers said in a blog post published on Friday. The news shows once again that companies and independent organizations are struggling to contain their

The stock jumped as much as 200% in pre-market trade before paring most of the gains. It was still up about 60%, putting it on track for one of the biggest single-day rallies in its history. The trigger was what its Chief Executive Jeff Tangney said on the company’s earnings call

Markets regulator SEBI has given its go-ahead to the initial public offerings (IPOs) of AvenuesAI’s (formerly Infibeam Avenues) subsidiary Rediff and mobile game developer PlaySimple. As per markets regulator’s latest update, it had issued observation letters over the public offe

Airbnb might be taking slow steps to roll out AI features to its consumer-facing interface, but the company is rapidly adopting the tech to build product. Earlier this year, the company said AI is writing 60% of its code. In its latest earnings call, co-founder and CEO Brian Ches

Indore-based Laxyo, an engineering and infrastructure services company, has received Sebi approval for its initial public offering. The company had filed its draft red herring prospectus in March. The issue comprises a fresh issue of equity shares worth up to Rs 150 crore. Laxyo

Indian equities ended the week higher, supported by gains in capital goods, metals, automobiles and information technology stocks, even as small-caps comfortably outpaced the broader market. The Sensex closed on Friday 0.58% lower at 78,499.19, while the Nifty 50 declined 0.27% t

Shopify reported Q2 2026 this week and the stock jumped roughly 18% on the news, erasing most of a 25% year-to-date decline in a single session. The headline numbers: - $3.58 billion in quarterly revenue, up 34% year-over-year - $115.6 billion in GMV, up 32%, the fifth straight q

SpaceX said this week that it will build natural gas power plants to supply electricity to the Terafab semiconductor factory it plans to build in Texas, according to a report from Bloomberg. Riley Trettel, who leads energy and data center development for SpaceX, said in a public

The regulator said inspections of stock brokers and depository participants will now be conducted jointly by stock exchanges and depositories. The revised approach has been adopted after discussions with market infrastructure institutions and the supervisory body for investment a

Charts of the Week: Bookslop The Defense Backlog; IT Services, down but not out; Kimi’s Career Update America | Tech | Opinion | Culture | Charts Bookslop We have some more data to consider with respect to AI’s impact on publishing—this time a paper from researchers at Stony Broo

Off the Wire Press Releases PALO ALTO, Calif., Aug. 7, 2026 — QC Ware today announced a technology demonstration of a hybrid quantum-classical computational chemistry workflow using Promethium and IBM Quantum hardware. The demonstration calculated electrostatic interaction energy

Gulf investors are looking to Asia for opportunities in the AI race as conflict in the Middle East and Europe and supply-chain uncertainty raise the appeal of markets seen as relatively stable. Qatari telecom Ooredoo is the lead investor in Zankore, a new AI compute platform in I

US stock indices moved higher on Friday after a softer-than-expected jobs data reinforced expectations that the Federal Reserve is likely to keep interest rates unchanged at its September policy meeting. As of 9:55 a.m. Eastern Time, the S&P 500 rose 0.4%, the Dow Jones Industria

Net interest income or the difference between interest earned on loans and that paid for deposits increased 15% year on year to Rs 46,992 crore. Total advances increased 19% to Rs 50.47 lakh crore in June 2026 due to an identical 18% growth in both the corporate as well as retail

The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 35.8 points, or 0.07%, at the open to 53849.26. The S&P 500 rose 25.2 points, or 0.33%, at the open to 7735.18, while the Nasdaq Composite rose 186.3 points, or 0.71%, to 26534.66 at the opening bell. More to come... (What's moving Sensex and

This year alone, there have been numerous known instances—often via lawsuits—of AI chatbots (most often, OpenAI’s ChatGPT) that have gone horrifically wrong. A January lawsuit described the story of a man who took his own life after being allegedly “coached” into suicide. A colle

Update | August 07, 19:15 IST Logistics tech company LEAP India’s IPO was subscribed 26% at the end of day one. As per BSE data, the IPO received bids for 3.02 Cr shares against the 11.50 Cr shares on offer. Qualified institutional buyers (QIBs) showed the highest interest in the

This week on Tom's Hardware Premium: August 7, 2026 — Inside China's lithography efforts, co-packaged optics get a spotlight, and Samsung debuts next-gen memory tech Here's what you missed this week. In case you've not subscribed to Tom's Hardware Premium yet, here's what you've

India’s D2C fashion ecosystem has become exceptionally good at spotting trends. Brands today use AI to generate hundreds of new designs in a matter of hours, identify emerging consumer preferences and launch collections at a speed that would have been unimaginable a few years ago

The Iran war has made financing Gulf solar and wind projects more difficult, but the economics still stack up firmly in their favor. The region is expected to add 12 gigawatts of renewable energy capacity this year and twice as much next year, according to a BloombergNEF report.

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Brent crude futures fell 75 cents, or 0.9%, to $81.74 a barrel by 11:41 GMT, while U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude declined 66 cents, or 0.9%, to $76.63. Oil futures closed more than $3 a barrel higher on Thursday after Iran began considering legislation that would bar US and

Saudi Arabia is building the structure for a maritime coalition that will conduct defensive operations to secure passage through the Red Sea and Bab el-Mandeb Strait. Rear Admiral Abdullah bin Salem Alshehri will lead the effort, which includes Egypt, Pakistan, and Türkiye. Ten o

ByteDance is training an AI model that could approach the size of Anthropic’s most cutting-edge Mythos system, as Chinese companies continue to narrow the gap with the top US labs. The Chinese tech giant is at an early stage of training a model with as many as 10 trillion paramet

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Wherever two fluids slide past each other at different speeds, the boundary between them buckles, then curls, then rolls up into vortexes. It’s called the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability, and the physics behind it was worked out in the late 1860s. We know this instability explains w