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In 2018, 20,000 Google employees worldwide made headlines when they staged a walkout to protest how the company had handled sexual misconduct allegations against key corporate executives, among other grievances. One of the organizers was Claire Stapleton, a communications special

Joby Aviation reached an agreement to acquire Resonant Sciences for $500 million in cash and stock, according to a regulatory filing posted Tuesday. This is the electric air taxi developer’s latest move to push deeper into the defense sector. Ohio-based Resonant Sciences, which m

A coup for Bezos and a windfall for FSG - where does deal leave Liverpool? - Published The fourth-richest man in the world is trying to buy a stake in your club. Surely that has to be good news? Yet Liverpool fans, who still bear the scars of the Tom Hicks and George Gillette era

Dive Brief: - Signet Jewelers announced appointments for its Zales, Banter and Blue Nile brands, according to a Tuesday press release by the company. - Jamie Cygielman has been named president of Zales and Banter, effective Aug. 24. She most recently was global head of dolls at M

Accelerate PostgreSQL migrations using Gemini in Database Migration Service Tanya Sharma Strategic Cloud Engineer, Google Cloud Imagine this scenario: Your team decides to migrate a core application from an existing commercial database like Oracle or SQL Server to open source Pos

Looker’s semantic layer governs Gemini Enterprise data for user trust Tarunima Tripathi Product Manager For organizations deploying AI agents at scale, there’s often a critical divide between structured and unstructured data. While large language models (LLMs) excel at parsing te

PQC in Plaintext: Google Cloud’s post-quantum cryptography roadmap Jai Haridas VP/GM, Regulated and Sovereign Cloud Michael Bachman VP/GM, Cloud Foundations Securing infrastructure and services against a future cryptographically-relevant quantum computer has been a goal for Googl

Artificial Intelligence Deploying Anthropic Claude apps gateway for AWS for enterprise workloads AI administrators deploying Claude Code and Claude Desktop across their workforce need centralized controls over authentication, model access, cost attribution, and spend enforcement.

Dive Brief: - On’s second quarter net sales grew 13.5% year over year to 850.3 million Swiss francs (about $1.05 billion at press time) or by 21.6% on a constant currency basis, according to a Tuesday press release. That's a miss from analyst’s expectations of growth in the mid-2

Saks Global’s bankruptcy this year has been a boon to Simon Property Group, which has already begun to benefit from the luxury retailer’s Chapter 11-related store closures. The upscale department store retailer exited bankruptcy in June as Exemplar Luxury Group. In May, 1 million

Target announced it has appointed its first ever chief artificial intelligence officer on Tuesday in the retailer's latest bet to capitalize on the AI boom. The company named Chandhu Nair as its chief AI officer and senior vice president and also announced Purvi Shah as the compa

An unidentified passenger allegedly created a fake Wi-Fi network on a Delta flight from Las Vegas to Atlanta on Monday, prompting pilots to alert air traffic control, according to the airline and public broadcasts from the plane. “[The] safety of flight was never in question and

Adding to the ongoing regulatory scrutiny, the Food Safety Division of Karnataka’s Food Safety and Drug Administration Department has sealed a major Zepto warehouse in Bengaluru’s Hoskote. Officials conducted a special inspection drive on the quick commerce major’s facility under

Logistics unicorn Porter posted a net profit of ₹229 Cr in the financial year ended March 31, 2026 (FY26), a 314% jump from ₹55.3 Cr reported in the year-ago period, driven to sharp topline growth. During the fiscal year, the startup’s operating revenue increased 54% to ₹6,650 Cr

The Scoop When Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan was getting ready last week to announce a $15 billion sale of stock, he called his biggest investor: US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick. The government decided not to participate in the new stock sale, Intel’s first since 1971, which will fun

The most downloaded mobile game last year has just landed on Apple’s subscription gaming service, Apple Arcade. On Tuesday, Apple announced the addition of Block Blast!+, an ad-free version of the popular puzzle game that has around 725 million lifetime installs, according to app

Building a company is hard. But building one that also designs, manufactures, and delivers hardware at scale, from a factory floor, with supply chain concerns galore is another order of difficulty. And Rivian’s CEO RJ Scaringe is speaking at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 to detail that

The U.S. Treasury Department and IRS proposed regulations this week on how employers and employees can fund Trump Accounts, the new tax-deferred investing option for children. The proposed regulations outline how certain employer contributions to Trump Accounts may be excluded fr

The Federal Communications Commission has been shorthanded throughout President Trump’s second term, but it’s about to get a new commissioner. Unsurprisingly, Trump is breaking a historical norm with a nomination that would give Republicans a 3-1 advantage on the FCC. Historicall

The real-time flight tracker FlightAware is suing the prediction market Kalshi for allegedly using its data to host gambling markets. Kalshi started letting users bet on the number of flights canceled in the U.S., or at a given airport, about a month ago. According to FlightAware

Volta has emerged from stealth with a vertically integrated AI infrastructure platform designed to combine capital formation, powered land, data center development, GPU compute, software, and operations under one organization. The company is targeting a financing gap in the AI in

Ahead of the commencement of the bidding for its public issue tomorrow (August 12), IPO-bound logistics major Shiprocket has raised ₹727.4 Cr from anchor investors. The startup allotted 7.5 Cr equity shares to anchor investors at a price of ₹97 per share, the upper band of its pr

Solar eclipse 2026 weather forecast – where and when will the best view be? - Published One of the most spectacular solar eclipses the UK has seen for decades is taking place on Wednesday 12 August. From around 18:00 BST, the Moon will begin moving across the face of the Sun, cre

Every new generation of accelerated computing demands more from the infrastructure underneath it — more compute performance, higher rack density and more efficient, scalable power distribution. The bottleneck isn’t just wattage. It’s how power gets from the grid to the GPU. In tr

In the fusion power world, most of the attention gets lavished on the reactors themselves, where atoms fuse to unleash enormous amounts of energy. But a fusion reactor can’t run for long without a lot of other equipment, and building a fusion reactor is expensive enough on its ow

In a bid to boost EV adoption in the country, the central government has increased the total outlay of the PM Electric Drive Revolution in Innovative Vehicle Enhancement (PM E-DRIVE) scheme to ₹11,900 Cr. The revised notification, issued by the Ministry of Heavy Industries (MHI)

Monthly Outlook - Published Scotland and Northern Ireland will be wet at times through the rest of this week. Heat across much of England and parts of Wales will ease by the weekend, with a more unsettled and less warm period expected next week. By late August, high pressure domi

Dive Brief: - Gap is bringing together on-the-rise talent from the worlds of music and Hollywood for a fall campaign centered on its denim lineup, according to a press release shared with sister publication Marketing Dive. - "Denim on your own” stars Inde Navarrette, the breakout

Intel announced on Tuesday it had upsized its previously announced common stock offering to $20 billion, with an offer price of $95 per share. The chipmaker announced a $15 billion common stock offering on Monday to support skyrocketing customer demand for artificial intelligence

Zoom has patched a major security vulnerability that could allow an attacker to hijack anyone’s device during a meeting. In a blog post on Tuesday, researchers at A Security say they uncovered the flaw using “fewer than 20 prompts on publicly available AI models,” as reported ear

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The Scoop Activist investor Anson Funds is pushing movie studio Lionsgate to redefine itself for “the AI era” or put itself up for sale. “The rise of generative AI has led the market to sort companies bluntly into ‘AI winners’ and ‘AI losers,’” Anson’s Sagar Gupta wrote in a July

US President Donald Trump signed an executive order limiting childhood vaccines, saying, without scientific backing, that inoculations cause autism. The order also calls for splitting the combined measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine into separate shots, which would require years

Tim’s view Many factors have helped offset the dropoff in crude tankers exiting the Persian Gulf since the Iran war began in February. Gulf exporters ramped up alternative routes, China slashed imports, the US and Europe drew on strategic reserves, and higher prices cut into dema

The environmental and political costs of the data center energy boom are coming into focus. Last month, Semafor reported that Amazon’s sustainability chief foresees a multi-year uptick in the company’s carbon footprint. Now, one key driver is evident: A gas-fired power plant Amaz

Two decades ago, it wasn’t unusual for US politicians to know little about the UAE — more than a few have referred to “Abu Dubai” when criticizing or praising its policies. Today, the country’s image in Washington has been transformed, mirroring its emergence as a regional power

A German power company agreed with the Trump administration to cancel offshore wind development leases, the fifth such cancellation, bringing total reimbursements owed by US taxpayers to nearly $4 billion. RWE, like other companies that negotiated such deals, agreed to reinvest i

Saudi Arabia’s data center capacity is forecast to reach 1 gigawatt by 2030, making it the fastest-growing Gulf market in a sector awash in cash and FOMO. The pipeline of announced projects is larger still — PIF’s HUMAIN alone is targeting more than 6 GW in the coming decade. Fin

The Trump administration’s latest trade campaign against China’s dominant solar industry could do little more than raise consumers’ costs, industry insiders warn. On Friday, Washington imposed a 15% tariff and price floors on all imported polysilicon, a crucial material in solar