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Alphabet is by far the largest single institutional shareholder in SpaceX following the company's $86 billion IPO in June, a Reuters analysis of public quarterly filings found. Other investors who disclosed their holdings after the IPO include early backer Fidelity Investments, S

Land Banking Explained: A Novel Strategy for Data Center Expansion Data center land banking reshapes industry growth by securing land for future expansion as demand surges and site selection challenges intensify. Public attention to data center expansion primarily focuses on acti

The Scene Warner Music Group CEO Robert Kyncl joins Mixed Signals — with Semafor business editor Liz Hoffman filling in for Ben — to explain what a record label actually does in a world where anyone can upload a song to Spotify. Max and Liz ask Robert why Warner struck a deal wit

At FMS 2026, we saw a really neat system. The Supermicro ASG-4116S-NU160R is a single-socket AMD EPYC server that sports 160x U.2 NVMe drive bays. Taking only 4U of space, and combined with even “just” 122-128TB class NVMe SSDs, like the Solidigm D5-P5336 122.88TB NVMe SSD we rev

James Talarico’s Senate campaign is celebrating an endorsement from an unlikely political figure — a Texas attorney who once accused Republican Senate nominee Ken Paxton of stealing his $1,000 Montblanc pen. Joe Joplin’s pen, a gift from his wife, became a source of controversy a

Patanjali Foods shares will be in focus on Monday's trade after the company reported a strong set of June-quarter numbers, with consolidated net profit jumping 86% year-on-year (YoY) to ₹335.73 crore, compared with ₹180.36 crore in the corresponding quarter last year. The company

A judge has identified what appears to be the first time a US plaintiff has attempted to hide text in court filings that only an artificial intelligence system can read in a bid to win a case. In a decision published last week, Connecticut judge Walter Spader Jr. confirmed that t

Stephen Bear jailed over sex offender breaches - Published Reality TV contestant Stephen Bear taunted police by "bragging" he was on a beach in Brazil while he breached his requirements as a sex offender, a court has heard. He was not on the run during the trip last year, but und

Off the Wire Press Releases Applying quantum-enabled optimization to some of defense’s toughest mission-planning challenges. Aug. 14, 2026 — Davidson and Strangeworks have announced a cutting-edge collaboration centered on quantum-enabled optimization. The advanced technology fir

A state court in Washington this week ordered Kalshi to stop offering sports gambling and a variety of other wagers on its prediction market. King County Superior Court Judge John McHale issued a preliminary injunction in response to a lawsuit filed against Kalshi by the state of

Indonesia is taking charge of its AI future. This week, the Ministry of Communication and Digital Affairs (Komdigi), Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison (Indosat or IOH), NVIDIA and Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM) launched the UGM Indosat NVIDIA AI Technology Center (NVAITC) in Yogyakarta —

After its cloud storage provider went defunct, a PBS affiliate decided to sue a data center provider to regain access to 50TB of TV shows, videos, and other data dating back 70 years. As reported this week by Current, a trade newspaper covering public broadcasting, St. Louis affi

Activists try to deliver aid to Palestinians in homes besieged by Israeli settlers - Published Activists have tried to deliver supplies to Palestinians whose homes in the occupied West Bank have been besieged for days by Israeli settlers. The group left water and food near one of

In a whitewashed basement in a village south of Kabul, a dozen young women bustle about, stirring cauldrons of bubbling cherries and plums, and sticking labels on glass jam jars. Ventures like this are one of the rare spaces where women are still able to gain skills and employmen

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Instagram’s wordmark is iconic. Well, was iconic. Apparently Instagram thought it looked old, so the company rolled out a new one this week. It doesn’t look like the old Instagram wordmark. It doesn’t even look like it spells Instagram anymore. And we cannot figure out why Instag

Off the Wire Press Releases MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Aug. 14, 2026 — Lightmatter has announced the launch of the Open Silicon Photonics for AI Systems initiative as an official workstream within the Open Compute Project (OCP), in collaboration with an expanded coalition that now in

Updated August 14, 2026: Initial publication; pricing claims verified against vendor configurators August 14, 2026. Desktop workstations are ranked here on SPECworkstation, SPECviewperf, rendering, and compute results; several of these towers are ranked separately on our Best Des

Financing the AI Boom 3 Nvidia, Guarantor of Last Resort Last November, in Bubble Trouble 2, we looked at AI chips as the font of a new asset class. At the time, their prices weren’t going up, hence the cautionary title. But nine months is a long time in AI and as demand for comp

A group that includes Jeff Bezos has struck a deal with Fenway Sports Group to become minority owners in Liverpool Football Club, FSG said Friday. The deal is the Amazon founder's first investment in a sports property. The consortium will buy roughly one-third of the Premier Leag

Google will now allow you to remove visible watermarks from the images, videos, and music made with AI tools. With the update, you can toggle off a new “Media watermark” setting in Gemini and Google’s AI video generator, Flow. You can now turn off Google Gemini’s visible watermar

Alphabet's early bet on SpaceX has multiplied more than 100-fold, with the Google parent disclosing a stake worth about $94 billion at the end of June compared with the $900 million investment it said it made in Elon Musk's rocket company in 2015. Alphabet has emerged as by far t

A decade ago, SpaceX began to land the first stages of the Falcon 9 rocket with some regularity, but it’s only within the last five years that the company has begun flying the rocket dozens and then hundreds of times a year. As a result, SpaceX has very rapidly become responsible

Disney CEO Josh D'Amaro told CNBC's Julia Boorstin on Friday that the company's parks division was a "big surprise" last quarter and that he feels confident about the company's trajectory during his first few months at the top of the media giant. "We're delivering on everything t

A court ruling this week in favor of Gilead Sciences could significantly impact a burgeoning class of health programs in the U.S. that federal authorities say are illegally importing medications from overseas. Last year, a CNBC investigation found that these programs — called alt

AWS Compute Blog Implementing dynamic feature flags with AWS AppConfig on AWS Lambda Feature flags (also known as feature toggles) allow you to change application behavior in real time without deploying new code. In serverless applications, where functions are ephemeral, stateles

Marco Arment, the indie developer who created popular apps like Overcast and Instapaper, and who previously served as Tumblr’s chief technology officer, is out today with his latest creation — an alternative to Apple’s Reminders designed for procrastinators, called Unforgetful. T

The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) is proposing to overhaul its settlement framework, aiming to reduce settlement amounts and speed up enforcement by simplifying how payments are calculated and allowing cases to be resolved earlier. The move follows Sebi’s finding

Gold prices are set to extend their weekly winning run as expectations of a US Federal Reserve rate hike at its upcoming meeting ease following the latest batch of economic data, while a weaker US dollar has made the greenback-priced commodity more attractive to overseas buyers.

Google announced on Friday that it will now allow users to remove a visible watermark from its AI generations, including images, videos, and songs. The company specified that this won’t affect the invisible SynthID watermark and C2PA standard-related metadata. Josh Woodward, the

This week, Ars hosted a live discussion with Ross Scott about the Stop Killing Games movement and its ongoing efforts to ensure that games remain playable even after the original publisher shuts down the online servers undergirding them. Scott talked with Ars Technica Senior Gami

Insight and analysis on the data center space from industry thought leaders. The Vanishing Value of VMware: A Wake-Up Call The VMware-Broadcom situation illustrates a critical lesson: avoid over-dependence on any one platform by continuously evaluating workload placement, costs,

Episode details Available for over a year Today, Nigel Farage was re-elected as MP for Clacton after his resignation in July triggered a by-election in the seat. Adam and Henry are live onstage at the Edinburgh Fringe to discuss all the results from the by-election, and what coul

Artificial Intelligence Custom reward functions for multi-turn reinforcement learning with Amazon Nova Forge In multi-turn reinforcement learning (RL), your custom reward function decides what the model actually learns. A subtly wrong reward can quietly teach the wrong thing whil

Bezos-backed consortium buys a third of Liverpool - Published Liverpool's owners have agreed to sell about a third of the club to a consortium including billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. In a statement, Fenway Sports Group (FSG) confirmed it had entered into a "definitive ag

Artificial Intelligence Building agentic workflows with SageMaker AI and Bedrock AgentCore A common challenge in building agentic workflows is mixing managed foundation models (FMs) with your own cost-optimized or domain-specific models, without rewriting your agent framework to