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Sila has landed a $1.4 billion loan from the U.S. Department of Defense to help the U.S.-based startup expand production of its silicon-carbon battery material. The loan, which was announced Friday, arrives as U.S. battery buyers, from automotive companies to defense contractors,

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has a lot to say about the idealized future he now envisions for humanity co-existing with artificial intelligence — his latest essay spans more than 6,500 words on the matter. The lengthy manifesto Zuckerberg published on Monday, titled “The Future is fo

Update | August 10, 20:40 IST Logistics tech company LEAP India’s IPO was subscribed 49% at the end of second day of bidding. As per BSE data, the IPO received bids for 5.62 Cr shares against the 11.50 Cr shares on offer. Qualified institutional buyers (QIBs) showed the highest i

Three years after settling a trade secret lawsuit, electric aircraft company Archer Aviation now owns its former rival, Wisk Aero. Under the terms of the deal, Boeing has agreed to sell Wisk Aero and two other subsidiaries to Archer in exchange for an ownership stake in the compa

As the home sector continues to face challenges brought on by low consumer confidence and a poor housing market, Bob’s Discount Furniture is finding success with higher-income households. The furniture retailer, known for its everyday low prices, is seeing momentum grow among cus

President Donald Trump's foreign real-estate licensing business boomed during his first year back in office, generating $59.5 million in 2025 as international developers paid a premium to brand luxury towers, golf courses and coastal resorts with the Trump name. Foreign licensing

One of China’s most used rockets, the Long March 7A, exploded a little more than a minute after lifting off on Monday evening, local time. The medium-lift rocket’s payload was classified, but it was believed to be a military communications satellite. The rocket’s liftoff from Wen

Soaring pet ownership has left Abu Dhabi trying to get a tighter leash on the issue. Its solution: mandatory pet registration. A grace period for databasing dachshunds and dalmatians ended earlier this year and failure to register a prize pooch with the Department of Municipaliti

Any dog owner would tell you that their canine companions are attuned to their humans’ emotional state and respond accordingly. Scientists have performed fMRI scans on dogs and identified a specific brain region that processes happy human facial expresses, like a smile, according

Barely a quarter after reporting profits, dronetech major ideaForge once again slipped into the red in the June 2026 quarter (Q1 FY27). The company reported a net loss of ₹2.3 Cr, down over 90% from the ₹23.5 Cr loss in the previous year quarter. In contrast, the drone tech start

Record 230 people cross Channel in one small boat - Published A small boat has crossed the English Channel carrying 230 people, the largest number to make the journey in a single vessel. It breaks the previous record set in July, when 165 people made the crossing on a single vess

When station wagons headed for the same retirement home as the vinyl roof and the opera window, Subaru looked at its sensible Legacy wagon and had a different idea. Raise it a few inches, wrap the lower body in plastic cladding, name it for the Australian bush, and suburban famil

Cory Solovewicz receives more unwanted emails than you. Seriously—it’s a lot more. Since December 2024, one of the domains at which the security researcher receives email has registered 401,796 messages—by his calculations that’s an average of 699.99 pings per day. This deluge is

Off the Wire Press Releases Achieved with Aeponyx, a subsidiary of Pasqal, the milestone clears one of the central hardware barriers on the path to fault-tolerant, industrial-scale quantum computers PARIS, Aug. 10, 2026 — Pasqal, a global leader in neutral-atom quantum computing,

Ceva Logistics, one of the world’s largest shipping and logistics giants, has been hacked. Several companies that rely on Ceva for shipping their products to their customers say that their personal information was also stolen in the breach. The cyberattack on Ceva is affecting at

DP World is expanding in Western Europe, as demand grows for specialized warehousing and more routes during a fragile time for global supply chains. The Dubai-owned logistics giant plans to build a logistics hub in the Port of Antwerp, set to cost up to €100 million ($116 million

Newly revealed security research found that until recently, marketing tech giant Klaviyo was inadvertently sharing the sign-up information of its new customers, including their passwords, with outside advertisers. Sam Jadali, a security researcher and co-founder of cybersecurity

Foot Locker on Friday launched a new brand platform that revolves around the retailer’s role in sneaker culture since its founding in 1974, per details shared with sister publication Marketing Dive. A two-minute hero film anchors an integrated campaign that spans broadcast, socia

A product that won by doing one thing perfectly spent seven years becoming several. Now its parent publishes growth figures with it removed, and the platforms where new apps get built don’t list it at all. Prompted by a read of Doug Dennison’s “The Fall of Mailchimp.” Dennison fo

Emaar, whose buildings dot the Dubai skyline, booked a 21% rise in revenue in the first half of the year, despite a slump in new property sales. The developer attributed the 42% dip in new sales to fewer launches compared to last year. Data from the wider market tells a similar s

A group of House Democrats is calling for the leaders of OpenAI, Anthropic and other major AI companies to testify before Congress following a spate of hacking incidents that the lawmakers say "have serious implications for Americans' safety and security." "Unfortunately, Congres

Can Agents Use a Computer Yet? We've Got the Data When your heaviest users stop checking the leaderboard, the leaderboard has stopped being the story America | Tech | Opinion | Culture | Charts It seems obvious to say, but if you leave Silicon Valley and go out into the rest of t

Today, I’m talking with Lila Snyder, who is the CEO of Bose. What happens to Bose when headphones become AI? Snyder on the company’s move into luxury audio, licensing the Bose brand, and what happens to great sound in the AI era. If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media

ADNOC Gas hasn’t been able to export much liquefied natural gas or other products since late February, but the company has remained profitable and kept its investment plans intact thanks to domestic demand. The listed unit of Abu Dhabi’s state-owned energy company reported a 52%

Intel's Core Ultra 5 250K Plus is down to its lowest price ever at $154 — get a 20-core midrange CPU with 5.5 GHz boost for an entry-level price Easily the best deal we've seen on a CPU in months. The Intel Core Ultra 5 250K Plus is down to its lowest price ever, with Amazon slas

AWS Compute Blog Low-latency, high-throughput SQS event processing with AWS Lambda provisioned mode Customers building event-driven applications on AWS rely on Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) and AWS Lambda event source mappings (ESMs) to process millions of events every

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. on Monday reported a big sales jump for July, as demand for its artificial intelligence-related chips continued to strengthen. TSMC, the world's biggest chip manufacturer, reported revenue for July of 467.58 billion New Taiwan dollars ($14.5

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. on Monday reported a big sales jump for July, as demand for its artificial intelligence-related chips continued to strengthen. TSMC, the world's biggest chip manufacturer, reported revenue for July of 467.58 billion New Taiwan dollars ($14.5

Apple Pay is likely to launch in India by late September or October, giving the iPhone maker a foothold in the country’s lucrative premium credit-card market. According to a Business Standard report, citing sources, Apple Pay will initially support credit cards issued on global p

The risk of the Yemen war fully reigniting is growing, following a series of strikes by the Iran-backed Houthis on targets inside the country and across the border in Saudi Arabia. The Houthis fired on the southern Saudi region of Najran last week and on Saudi Aramco’s Jazan refi

Meta returns to the open source ecosystem with the release of Muse Glimmer, a 30B open-weight dense model with a 120K+ context window built for local AI agentic work. Optimized to run across a range of NVIDIA edge, desktop, and workstation AI platforms, Muse Glimmer delivers 20K

Defaults on private-credit loans hit their highest level in at least five years, a major stress test for the growing industry. Direct lending from private funds has become one of Wall Street’s favorite moves, and the high-interest loans offer hefty returns; the private market is

Tom's Hardware Verdict The price of Acer’s Swift Go 16 AI can swing widely, and it’s a much better value when on sale. But it’s a solid big-screen portable with a nice IPS screen and lots of ports. Just check the price of the Intel option before buying, because it has OLED and ma

Türkiye said a mutual defense pact with Saudi Arabia and Pakistan could be expanded to include Egypt. Several countries want to join the trilateral agreement signed in Mecca on Friday, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan told the state-run Anadolu Agency, saying only technical m

Zostel has withdrawn its latest application before the Delhi High Court in its long-running dispute with PRISM, the parent company of OYO. The application was taken up by the Delhi High Court on Monday, August 10. The court allowed Zostel to withdraw the plea with liberty to appr

Millions of packages flow through Amazon's ever-expanding network of fulfillment centers daily, and more and more are leveraging automation technology. One of those sites in Kent, Washington, is capable of handling 1 million parcels daily alone, leveraging employee know-how, robo

Vaccines that can be stored without refrigeration have been successfully trialed in patients for the first time, marking a potential breakthrough for immunization in Africa. Around half of all vaccines are wasted each year, partly due to breaks in the “cold chain,” meaning that b

US President Donald Trump said he is waiting for Iran to buckle under economic pressure from the war rather than pressing for a deal, despite his own inflation concerns back home. “We are low-keying it,” Trump said in an interview with Axios. “We are just watching Iran with its h