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Saplings: Unstable Ground Part II, a study of founders’ home lives and parental patterns. José Ferrera wanted his money. A week earlier, the farmhand had labored in the orchards of Luigi Giannini, picking fruit. Though he’d received some payment, he’d been stiffed by a dollar. Or

Databricks on Thursday said it closed a $5 billion funding round at a $190 billion valuation to invest in enterprise AI capabilities. The company said that it crossed $7 billion in revenue run rate and grew more than 80% year-over-year in its second quarter. CEO Ali Ghodsi told C

Databricks on Thursday said it closed a $5 billion funding round at a $190 billion valuation to invest in enterprise AI capabilities. The company said that it crossed $7 billion in revenue run rate and grew more than 80% year-over-year in its second quarter. CEO Ali Ghodsi told C

Dive Brief: - About four in ten (42%) of U.S. consumers say that AI tools extend the time it takes them to decide what to buy because AI displays more options to consider, according to a survey of over 1,800 customers in the U.S., U.K., Japan and France by performance marketing f

RAVEL and Strata Expanse have named RT-One as the first commercial customer of the AMPHIX AI Infrastructure Platform, a deployment model designed to validate enterprise AI infrastructure before permanent production sites are completed. AMPHIX combines site-ready land, resilient p

A Texas-based company with links to President Donald Trump has delayed plans to drill for oil in Greenland, after the Arctic island's government issued a "strong warning" to its joint venture partner for bringing equipment ashore without permission. Greenland Energy Co., a Nasdaq

Dive Brief: - Academy Sports and Outdoors is partnering with Instacart to offer same-day delivery of products across camping, fishing, team sports and other categories, Instacart said in a press release on Monday. - The sporting goods retailer is integrating more than 300 stores

Artificial Intelligence Monitor on-premises and multi-cloud AI agents with AgentCore Observability When you deploy AI agents built with frameworks like Strands Agents, LangGraph, and CrewAI, you need observability into their performance. This holds true whether they run on Amazon

Suno is releasing Studio 2.0 with significant upgrades that push it closer to an actual digital audio workstation (DAW), rather than a bare-bones audio editor with generative AI features. The biggest addition is undoubtedly MIDI support. Suno says that MIDI was its most requested

X is significantly expanding its open source codebase, which includes the app’s “For You” algorithm and its core ranking engine, and adding a feature that will let users see if their account or posts have been impacted by any of its ranking systems, the social network said on Thu

Artificial Intelligence Automate legacy web applications with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Browser Tool Enterprises across healthcare, manufacturing, retail, and financial services struggle to automate legacy web applications that demand human-like interaction beyond what standard Ro

At FMS 2026, Silicon Motion introduced the MonTitan SSD Reference Design Kit (RDK), a platform built around the company’s next-generation PerformaShape technology. The design targets Agentic AI infrastructure, where enterprise SSDs can provide a persistent memory layer for KV cac

Artificial Intelligence Accelerating M&A due diligence with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) teams face a persistent challenge: conducting thorough due diligence on multiple acquisition targets while maintaining speed and analytical rigor. Teams often spend

Off the Wire Press Releases KIHEI, Hawaii, Aug. 13, 2026 — Members of the U.S. Space Force’s Maui High Performance Computing Center (MHPCC) officially unveiled the newest premier research asset in Hawaii: the Makau High-Performance Computer, during a ribbon-cutting ceremony Aug.

E-commerce enablement SaaS platform Unicommerce continued its growth trajectory in the latest quarter, reporting a 14.3% year-on-year increase in revenue and a 20.3% rise in profit during Q1 FY27 . The company’s revenue from operations rose to Rs 51.37 crore in Q1 FY27 from Rs 44

Artificial Intelligence Amazon Quick for Microsoft 365: Agentic AI where you work Your enterprise data lives in dozens of systems, but often the work happens in Microsoft 365. Amazon Quick bridges that gap as an AI assistant grounded in your data, now available directly inside Mi

Instagram on Thursday introduced a new wordmark, which is the text-only logo that spells out the company’s name. The social media giant’s logic was that the older version of its logo felt dated after a decade in use. The change was announced by Instagram head Adam Mosseri on both

Dive Brief: - Fabletics plans to triple its international footprint and open as many as 20 new stores worldwide over the next year, according to a Wednesday press release from the company. - Throughout 2026 and 2027, the athleticwear brand expects to expand into new markets, incl

Dive Brief: - Dillard’s Q2 retail sales (excluding its construction business) rose less than 1% year on year to $1.5 billion, with comps up 1%, the company said Thursday. - Women’s accessories and lingerie sales rose significantly; home rose moderately; and shoes, beauty and me

The News A fresh cash injection from the World Bank’s private investment arm will help Africa’s largest ecommerce vendor absorb shocks spurred by ongoing geopolitical crises in the Middle East and meet profit targets over the next year, the company’s chief executive told Semafor.

Two years ago, Microsoft described AI as a “generational shift” in technology that it wanted to lead. Today, the company is merging its Copilot-branded consumer and business apps, and ditching a number of unsuccessful AI features. As initially reported by GeekWire and detailed in

Bed Bath & Beyond, Inc. named Jill Windrum as its chief accounting officer and deputy chief financial officer. The executive will lead the accounting and financial reporting organization “while partnering across the enterprise on financial planning, controls, integration, process

Imagine a trio of bumbling, English lads who fantasize about becoming megastars while knocking back a few pints in a grimy pub somewhere in London. Picture the guys chortling and trying to one-up each other’s idealized visions of the future with a series of increasingly glitzy fa

A History of the Novel in Britain by Philip Hensher. In this historical telling of an art form that’s seen a slow decline in popularity, Hensher details the evolutionary scramble that motivated writers and publishers to do justice to the medium’s name: find something novel. Hensh

Off the Wire Press Releases Cascadia is a new open source runtime which pools the resources of Intel-powered machines, allowing them to run models larger than any single machine could. JERSEY CITY, N.J., Aug. 13, 2026 — Today, Community Labs is launching Cascadia, a distributed A

Off the Wire Press Releases LONDON, Aug. 13, 2026 — AMD has announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the University of Oxford to support open academic frontier artificial intelligence research conducted by the British Open-ended Learning and Discovery Lab

Off the Wire Press Releases AUSTIN, Texas, Aug. 13, 2026 — Oracle today announced the general availability of Oracle Exadata Database Service on Exascale Infrastructure on Oracle AI Database@AWS, bringing Exadata-class performance and pay-per-use economics to Oracle AI Database w

Steve Eisman is warning that the artificial intelligence boom has become increasingly dependent on the fortunes of just two companies: OpenAI and Anthropic. The investor, best known for his bet against the housing market ahead of the global financial crisis, said the two AI start

The Scoop AstraZeneca’s planned $400 billion deal with Bristol Myers Squibb triggered worries at the UK government’s highest levels, prompting outreach that helped contribute to the collapse of the deal, according to people briefed on the deal. Varun Chandra, the UK’s top busines

Nvidia announced this week that Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs, and KKR were willing to commit up to $500 billion to build AI data centers. That eye-popping figure got a lot of the attention, but the bigger story is Nvidia’s effort to create a secondary

Bartesian’s cocktail makers would be best described like a Keurig or Nespresso machine, but for alcoholic drinks. The Bartesian Duet model that I tested certainly lives up to that description — it’s really easy to serve a bunch of different cocktails with the push of a button, pl

Off the Wire Press Releases Aug. 13, 2026 — New York Governor Kathy Hochul has announced a competitive Request for Proposals to establish up to four Regional Quantum Technology Commercialization Hubs across New York State. First proposed in her 2026 State of the State and funded

Who could replace White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt? - Published The departure of White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt will create a major opening in President Donald Trump's administration, and the guessing-game of who will replace her has already begun. So fa