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Phia, the shopping startup co-founded by Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni, is once again under fire for its alleged business practices. The latest issue stems from earlier this year when Bloomberg published an investigation that mapped out how Phia was taking credit and commission

Accel has closed a new $550 million India fund, less than two years after raising its previous India-focused vehicle, as part of a coordinated $3.5 billion global fundraising effort. The new India fund was oversubscribed and closed within weeks, people familiar with the matter to

Artificial Intelligence Accelerate cyber defense with OpenAI and AWS: Daybreak Red & Daybreak Blue now available to eligible customers on Amazon Bedrock Cyber defenders have never had more capability at their fingertips, and they have never needed it more. Frontier models can now

The Trump administration on Tuesday said it is implementing a rule that ends the use of federal Medicaid and CHIP funding for gender-affirming care for children and youth. That includes puberty blockers, hormones and surgical operations, among other treatment. Gender-affirming su

Anguish of Colombian brother at rubble of building being searched for earthquake survivors - Published Efraín Gallego does not lose faith that his brother will be found alive, although when he speaks about him, trapped beneath the rubble of a building, his voice breaks and he swa

Fifty police chiefs call for PM to prevent early release of PC Harper's killers - Published Fifty police chiefs have signed a letter urging the prime minister to pursue "every legal option" to prevent the early release of PC Andrew Harper's killers. PC Harper, 28, died in 2019 wh

Romanian army divers used explosives to destroy two Russian-made drones found floating in the Black Sea near Romania’s largest natural gas project, according to the NATO member country’s defense minister. Defense Minister Radu Miruță posted a Facebook video supposedly showing one

Jensen Huang built the world's most valuable company by pioneering the specialized computer chips behind the artificial intelligence boom. To keep his vision for the future within reach, the Nvidia founder is now attempting a different kind of engineering: convincing Wall Street

Jensen Huang built the world's most valuable company by pioneering the specialized computer chips behind the artificial intelligence boom. To keep his vision for the future within reach, the Nvidia founder is now attempting a different kind of engineering: convincing Wall Street

Woman assaulted by double murderer says nightmare became 'real life' when police let him attack again - Published A woman who was attacked by double murderer Simon Levy eight years ago has told the BBC the police made her nightmare "real life" by letting him go on to kill and att

Google’s Chrome browser has added a new feature that could go a long way in preventing a form of account takeover that’s grown increasingly common as users adopt two-factor authentication, passkeys, and similar protections. The new Chrome protection is known as device-bound sessi

VoteVets Action Fund is going into Alaska, launching a $225,000 ad buy against Sen. Dan Sullivan for his votes against reining in President Donald Trump’s Iran war powers, according to details first shared with Semafor. It’s the start of what’s expected to be a larger VoteVets ca

Off the Wire Press Releases BROOMFIELD, Colo. and AUSTIN, Texas, Aug. 11, 2026 — Quantinuum and Oracle today announced a multi-year strategic partnership to bring quantum computing to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). Under the partnership, OCI customers will be able to directly

Meta and TikTok tried to defeat thousands of social media addiction lawsuits in one fell swoop, but an appeals court rejected the attempt in a ruling issued yesterday. First up among the lawsuits is a case brought against Meta by the California attorney general and other state AG

Prediction market platform Polymarket is preparing for what's expected to be a busy fall season for event contract exchanges by making high-profile hires and restructuring its marketing strategy. Polymarket hired Travis VanderZanden, founder of E-Scooter startup Bird in 2017, as

Wealthier areas must play their part in housing asylum seekers, Burnham suggests - Published Prime Minister Andy Burnham has suggested that wealthier areas of the UK should house more asylum seekers. "We cannot have a situation where it's only the poorest communities in the count

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Uber has sold off its entire stake in Serve Robotics, the autonomous delivery robot company that spun out of the ride-hailing company more than five years ago. Uber made the disclosure in a regulatory filing that was first reported by Bloomberg. Uber’s exit from Serve Robotics ha

Criticism of empty seats and ticket prices at Europeans - Published Nearly 10,000 seats were empty at Birmingham's Alexander Stadium for the European Athletics Championships on Monday evening. A crowd of 13,623 watched as Britain's 24-year-old sprinter Amy Hunt stormed to her fir

The News President Donald Trump has a new legislative obsession: College sports. The president is getting closely involved in efforts to pass the Senate’s bipartisan college sports bill. He’s spent the last week whipping senators to support it and even enlisted former Alabama foo

Google has been all-in with Gemini for the last several years, and despite some animosity online, the bet is paying off. CEO Sundar Pichai announced today that Gemini has reached 1 billion monthly active users (MAUs), an important milestone for any Google product. While 13 other

For the 14th time, a Google product has hit 1 billion users. Google CEO Sundar Pichai posted on X that a billion people are using Gemini every month, and that Gemini is Google’s fastest-growing product ever. ChatGPT and Gemini both just passed 1 billion users OpenAI’s still the c

Longtime OpenAI executive Brad Lightcap announced his departure on Tuesday, the latest in a series of recent leadership shake-ups at the artificial intelligence company. Lightcap joined OpenAI in 2018 and held a number of senior leadership roles during his tenure, including a fou

Longtime OpenAI executive Brad Lightcap announced his departure on Tuesday, the latest in a series of recent leadership shake-ups at the artificial intelligence company. Lightcap joined OpenAI in 2018 and held a number of senior leadership roles during his tenure, including a fou

The FBI is warning that cybercriminals are hacking into the social media accounts of adults and children to steal their intimate explicit images and videos. The perpetrators rely largely on social engineering tactics to target people, the alert said, and victims are often extorte

ChatGPT is on desktops across the world, but there’s been one place where it’s been lacking: the Linux community. Certain sectors of the open source developer community have been clamoring for OpenAI to bring its chatbot to their neck of the woods. As of this week, OpenAI has rec

Rescuers scramble for survivors with 180 dead in Colombia earthquake - Published Rescue workers in Colombia are working against the clock to free survivors trapped in buildings and under rubble following Monday's powerful earthquake. More than 180 people have been confirmed dead

Off the Wire Press Releases Aug. 11, 2026 — What if scientists could get a taste of discovery as soon as their experiment finishes? Thanks to a new machine learning tool called DONUT, researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory are transformin

Bitcoin miner Riot Platform has struck a $9 billion, 20-year compute deal with Anthropic, CNBC's David Faber has confirmed. The agreement would lease 191 megawatts at Riot's Rockdale, Texas computer campus, giving Anthropic access to scarce, grid-connected power as demand surges

Bitcoin miner Riot Platform has struck a $9 billion, 20-year compute deal with Anthropic, CNBC's David Faber has confirmed. The agreement would lease 191 megawatts at Riot's Rockdale, Texas computer campus, giving Anthropic access to scarce, grid-connected power as demand surges