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Update | August 11, 19:42 IST Logistics tech company LEAP India’s IPO closed today after receiving strong interest. The public issue was oversubscribed 8.38X at the end of the final day, with investors bidding for 96.32 Cr shares against the 11.49 Cr shares on offer. Qualified in

Surging food and utility costs are squeezing thousands of izakayas across Japan, with experts fearing a record number of bankruptcies. The country’s beloved pubs, known for serving cheap drinks and small snacks, have long been a staple of Japan’s nightlife culture. But rising cos

Sweden’s prime minister said Spain’s decision to grant amnesty to more than a million irregular migrants was a “very bad idea,” warning that it could push Europe into a repeat of its 2015 migrant crisis. Ulf Kristersson’s comments come weeks after tens of thousands of people rush

The first three-plus years of the artificial intelligence build-out have been paid for through record amounts of equity and debt issued by the world's leading tech companies, some of whom are spending so much of their existing capital that they've turned cash flow negative. Nvidi

The first three-plus years of the artificial intelligence build-out have been paid for through record amounts of equity and debt issued by the world's leading tech companies, some of whom are spending so much of their existing capital that they've turned cash flow negative. Nvidi

Palo Alto Networks is now a ~$265B market cap company. The stock is up roughly 100% over the past twelve months and hit an all-time high of $368.80 in July. What makes it interesting isn’t the run. It’s how they got it. They spent about $29B on acquisitions in twelve months, took

Only a fraction of the ships that used to cross the Strait of Hormuz before the war are making it through. This scarcity has made the payoff substantial for companies willing to take the risk, or for those with alternative sea routes to ply: Last month, Saudi shipper Bahri report

Some Simple Economics of Open versus Closed AI If the weights are free, who pays for the next run, and who will keep us safe? America | Tech | Opinion | Culture | Charts Today we’re excited to share a piece by guest author Christian Catalini. To view more of his work, subscribe t

Bumble is officially giving up on the rule that made it, well, Bumble. The dating app announced Tuesday that anyone in a match can now send the first message, ending the women-message-first requirement that has been one of the company’s defining features for more than a decade. B

As AI-generated content floods the internet, differentiating machine output from human work has emerged as a defining problem. While regulators are push AI companies to label AI-generated content the default, major model developers are moving towards establishing that distinction

The FBI is reportedly investigating how a North Korean was hired to work for a U.S. federal government agency. News of the investigation was first reported by Federal News Network, citing a senior FBI official speaking at a conference on July 28 in Washington, D.C. The official c

Earlier this summer, Amazon customers began noticing that emails related to their online orders looked sparse: Order confirmation emails didn’t name specific items anymore, and instead listed only item categories. Why your Amazon order confirmation emails have become so unhelpful

This is CNBC's Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox. Happy Tuesday. If you're debating whether to stay invested in the stock market, Goldman Sachs' co-head of global banking and markets has some advice. Stock futures are little change

Imagine that you share a ride to work with the same colleague most mornings. As it passes by a license plate reader, the camera records the car, which can be linked through vehicle records to its registered owner. Beside it, another sensor detects signals broadcast by devices tra

Long-running AI agents spend most of their time on high-volume execution: tool calls, result validation, and subagent delegation. Using a frontier reasoning model for every execution step adds cost and latency. NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is an open 30B mixture-of-experts (MoE)

The open source ecosystem is making it easier for AI enthusiasts and developers to build, customize and run increasingly capable agents locally. Throughout August, NVIDIA is celebrating the partners and open source communities moving local AI forward, along with the models, appli

As AI shifts from chatbots to autonomous agents, open models are serving market demands for full control over where AI runs and how it’s deployed and evolves. Today, NVIDIA is expanding its Nemotron 3 model family with Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, the highest-efficiency model in its c

In late July, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang posted on X for the first time to defend open-source models in artificial intelligence, inserting himself into a debate that was raging across the industry. Less than three weeks later, Nvidia is releasing Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, which the co

Gymshark named Matt Rogers as its chief supply chain officer, effective Aug. 1, Rogers told sister publication Supply Chain Dive in an email. “Matt has consistently demonstrated the leadership, judgement and ambition needed to build a supply chain that's ready for the next chapte

Spotify will soon label AI artists and remove their music from your recommendations. The change, which will start rolling out in mid-September, means you’ll see an “AI Persona” badge on an artist’s profile across the app if they do “not represent a real person.” Spotify says it w

Building an AI agent does not end with choosing a single model. Each model has its own strengths, weaknesses, and cost profile, which can shift from one workload to another—or even within the same workload. For example, an agentic task may need classification for one step, reason

Ahead of its proposed IPO, Table Space has emerged as one of the largest players in India’s organised flexible workspace market, with FY26 revenue crossing the Rs 2,200 crore mark. The company ranked second among listed peers by revenue, behind WeWork India. Its operating profita

Off the Wire Press Releases First large-scale inference cluster with Together AI on IBM Cloud using NVIDIA HGX B300 systems to help enterprises run AI workloads, designed for fast and efficient production ARMONK, N.Y. and SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 11, 2026 — IBM has announced a collabo

Off the Wire Press Releases SANTA BARBARA, Calif., and MIGDAL HAEMEK, Israel, Aug. 11, 2026 — OpenLight, a leader in heterogeneous III-V-on-silicon photonic integration and custom Photonic Application-Specific Integrated Circuits (PASICs), and Tower Semiconductor today announced

Anthropic has pledged to start marking Claude-generated text and images with machine-readable data, in an effort to comply with European rules for AI transparency. “Generated text will carry embedded watermarks, and generated files will include digitally signed provenance metadat

SpaceX Plans to Power $16.8B Terafab Without the Grid SpaceX plans to power its massive Texas chip campus with onsite generation and batteries rather than the grid, according to a signed county agreement. SpaceX plans to power its massive Terafab semiconductor and advanced-comput

Off the Wire Press Releases SANTA CLARA, Calif. and NEW YORK, Aug. 11, 2026 — NVIDIA has announced strategic partnerships to establish independent compute financing platforms with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR to mobilize over $500 billion of th

Managed office space provider Table Space managed to trim its net loss for the fiscal year FY26 by 74% to ₹403.4 Cr from ₹1,554.1 Cr in the previous fiscal year. Operating revenue grew 66% to ₹2,262.3 Cr in FY26, up from ₹1,360.5 Cr in FY25. Including other income of ₹254.3 Cr, i

IBM has announced a multi-year, $240 million agreement with Together AI to deploy a dedicated NVIDIA HGX B300-based AI inference cluster on IBM Cloud. Together AI plans to use the environment to deliver inference services for open-source models, expanding its AI Native Cloud plat