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The Trump administration is recruiting private security firms to conduct federal government-authorized operations, including cyberattacks, against overseas-based criminal organizations that commit hacks on US persons, organizations, or government entities. In a National Security

The News President Donald Trump’s plans to sell F-35 fighter jets to Türkiye remain stalled more than a month after he announced them, leaving Congress to navigate the resulting tension between a NATO ally and Israel. At issue is the requirement in US sanctions law that Türkiye o

Another OpenAI executive is departing. Denise Dresser, who joined OpenAI as its chief revenue officer in December after serving as CEO of Slack, will be leaving in the “coming weeks” to “pursue other opportunities,” she said in a team note posted to LinkedIn. Dali Rajic, presiden

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If you’ve ever found yourself wishing that ChatGPT was a little bit quicker on the uptake, OpenAI seems to be answering your prayers. The AI lab has rolled out a new mode called Ultrafast, which it says is designed to seriously accelerate the pace at which its latest and most pow

IBM on Thursday announced its partnership with OpenAI to bring the AI company’s models and tools to more enterprise customers, opening another avenue for OpenAI to connect with some of the world’s largest companies through IBM’s global consulting business as competition for corpo

Off the Wire Press Releases Aug. 13, 2026 — Accurately predicting ground shaking is vital for seismic hazard assessment and infrastructure safety. However, infrequent, large-magnitude events are difficult to model due to the paucity of data from ground motion sensors of past even

As Virgin Galactic nears christening the first of its next-generation spaceship designed to launch customers on suborbital flights, it still is missing a key component—a name. The self-described “commercial spaceline,” which was founded by British tycoon Richard Branson, has turn

(Updated in New York afternoon time) * Fed funds futures show 35% chance of September hike, down from 40% on Wednesday * July producer prices are unchanged after revised 0.1% drop in June * Dollar index edges up 0.02% to 99.96 after briefly falling to 99.80 By Karen Brettell NEW

By Sukanya Mitra Aug 13 (Reuters) - Gold fell more than 1% on Thursday as investors locked in gains after prices climbed to two-month highs following U.S. inflation data that was in line with expectations, tempering expectations for a Federal Reserve rate hike next month. Spot go

(Bloomberg) -- Supporting the yen will take more than government intervention and will need hawkish signals from the Bank of Japan, said Rick Rieder, chief investment officer for global fixed income at BlackRock Inc.Japan’s currency has edged back toward 160 per dollar this week,

Mangione lawyers to meet federal prosecutors amid reports of plea deal - Published Attorneys for Luigi Mangione, who is accused of killing United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New York, are meeting federal prosecutors on Friday amid US media reports of a potential plea agreeme

Anthropic's early meetings with prospective investors ahead of its potentially historic initial public offering have been high level and have not included discussions about specific financials or a valuation, sources told CNBC's David Faber. The artificial intelligence company co

Anthropic's early meetings with prospective investors ahead of its potentially historic initial public offering have been high level and have not included discussions about specific financials or a valuation, sources told CNBC's David Faber. The artificial intelligence company co

Manufacturing platform Zetwerk has filed its Updated Draft Red Herring Prospectus with the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), moving a step closer to its proposed public listing. The Bengaluru-based company is looking to raise up to Rs 2,600 crore through a fresh issu

Updated August 13, 2026: Dell Pro Precision 5 14s AMD enters at #13 with 14 hr 26 min; the Dell Pro Max 16 Premium rotates off at the 20-system cap. Originally published earlier today with the top 20 runtimes from two years of lab testing. New results are added as laptop reviews

Ukrainian drone teams demolished a brigade of US Army tanks and armored vehicles during a live war game held this year—but the US soldiers were lucky enough to get “respawn” attempts while learning from the experience. The semiannual military exercise, called Combined Resolve, ga

Son of 102-year-old says father died after being 'pushed off stage' - Published A 102-year-old great-grandfather with dementia died days after he was allegedly pushed off stage in his local pub after making a noise complaint. Philip Ormerod, from Cwmbran, Torfaen, was taken to ho

What happens when you pit AI agents against each other? According to Anthropic’s testing, things get messy fast. On Thursday, Anthropic’s Frontier Red Team published new research examining how groups of AI agents behave when they encounter each other in the wild. The findings pro

Off the Wire Press Releases New FSU Quantum Initiative certificate will prepare students and professionals for careers in the rapidly expanding quantum workforce TALLAHASSEE, Fla., Aug. 13, 2026 — Florida State University is launching Florida’s first formal graduate-level credent

On Thursday, Flock announced plans to require all agencies with access to license plate reader data to use a safety tool that automatically detects abnormal activity and locks out cops who abuse their access to stalk people they know in their personal lives. Flock’s audit assista

Months after the markets regulator cleared its confidential IPO filing, B2B manufacturing startup Zetwerk has now filed its updated draft red herring prospectus (UDRHP) with the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI). As per its UDRHP, Zetwerk’s public issue comprises a fr

At FMS 2026, Microchip had a number of its data center connectivity solutions on display. That included a new family of Microchip Switchtec PCIe Gen6 switches with up to 160 lanes. We also saw the company’s XpressConnect PCIe Gen6 retimer chip working. There was even a cameo by a

Smart pet-feeder company Petlibro suffered an outage on Tuesday, giving users a harsh reminder of the risks of relying on smart devices. Petlibro makes pet feeders that connect to Wi-Fi and, for setup with Petlibro’s mobile companion app, Bluetooth. Users can set the feeders to a

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Microsoft's nemesis drops new zero-day privilege escalation vulnerability — attack grants system-level privileges, but it could already be patched The researcher's vendetta against Microsoft continues apace, but it seems like the company could be keeping up this time around Proli

Today, Instagram unveiled a refresh of its wordmark, accompanied by the usual bland corporate platitudes these kinds of announcements are always packaged with. Head of Instagram Adam Mosseri called it “leaner and more modern, with references to the original and the simplicity and

POWER POINT What I'm hearing from energy insiders What a difference a week makes. Since we last published Power Insider, U.S. crude oil dropped nearly $10 dollars per barrel before clawing back some of those declines. In the months since the Iran war began, oil has shifted 40% to

OpenAI has replaced chief revenue officer Denise Dresser after just nine months on the job, tapping Wiz president and chief operating officer Dali Rajic to take on frontier lab’s top sales job. The move comes as part of a broader shake-up in the organization in the last month, wh

Google is announcing a new Gemini model today, but it’s not the long-awaited 3.5 Pro. Gemini 3.7 Flash is now rolling out to replace 3.6 Flash, which itself was released only three weeks ago. This new “workhorse” model is supposedly the product of core optimizations and developer

Using BigQuery Graphs with measures for trusted agentic workloads Deepak Dayama Group Product Manager, Google Cloud Yun Zhang Software Development Manager When enterprises transition from using simple chat assistants to autonomous, agentic workloads, they quickly run into a hard

Liz’s view There’s always money in the banana stand sports team. Mark Walter controls a vast financial empire and is under federal investigation for undisclosed related-party transactions between its interlocking parts. Unwinding those transactions will require him to raise billi

Near-packaged optics (NPO) gains ground as the industry hedges against CPO's growing pains — analysts say volume for NPO silicon photonics products will extend until the end of the decade SemiAnalysis calls NPO the interim step between pluggable transceivers and true CPO. SemiAna

Off the Wire Press Releases NEW YORK, Aug. 13, 2026 — For decades, the distribution of quantum information has been confined to laboratory demonstrations because of the fragile nature of maintaining the fidelity of quantum entanglement across today’s deployed telecommunications f

Updated August 13, 2026: Initial publication. On the roadmap as hardware lands: GB300-class systems. Pick order is provisional pending final composite scoring. Every system ranked on this page has been through the StorageReview lab. We benchmark local AI performance directly: vLL

Updated August 13, 2026: The Laptop Battery Life Leaderboard is live with 27 lab-tested systems, joining Best Desktops for Local AI and the Storage Leaderboard. Workstation and business laptop leaderboards are in testing now. StorageReview Best is our family of living leaderboard

The War Between Open Source, Open Weight, And Closed AI Models Ask yourself these questions, assuming you have a serious medical condition and your doctors are going to be using GenAI to scan your images and test results to discover the breadth and depth of your condition and to

Weekly quiz: What was used to smuggle Donald Trump off Air Force One? - Published This week, millions of people across Europe gathered to watch the eclipse, an ancient Roman shipwreck was discovered off the coast of Sicily, and Cristiano Ronaldo married his long-time partner. But

Iran is set to join the BRICS New Development Bank, the country's central bank chief said Thursday, as Tehran seeks to shore up its economic alliances almost six months into its war with the U.S. and Israel. The BRICS alliance was set up in 2006 by founding members Brazil, Russia

Ford made a $2 billion bet two years ago when it closed its Louisville Assembly Plant in Kentucky and scrapped the assembly line system it had used for more than a century. Its goal was to transform the factory into one capable of making a new generation of affordable EVs. The au

LIV set to cancel season-ending Team Championship - Published LIV Golf players have been warned that the season-ending Team Championship later this month is set to be cancelled, BBC Sport has been told. Tickets for the event in Michigan cannot now be purchased online, with LIV's