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After trying and failing to delay the matter, Apple on Thursday submitted its proposal for the commissions it wants to charge on purchases made using external links inside apps on its iOS devices. In a new filing in the U.S. District Court of Northern California, Apple proposed n

The race for faster AI inference is on, and markets gave Cerebras and its purpose-built chips a warm welcome in its IPO debut in May. But French startup Kog is betting that there’s a lot more power to be squeezed out of conventional GPUs. The startup hit the front page of Hacker

Tom's Hardware Verdict Scythe’s Magoroku cools RAM effectively, but our CPU thermal testing with AMD’s Ryzen 9 9950X3D did not yield impressive results Pros - +Cools RAM effectively - +Screwdriver for installation included Cons - -Not a great pairing with AMD’s Ryzen 9 9950X3D -

Leading US AI labs such as OpenAI and Anthropic are releasing cheaper models as they fight to retain cost-conscious customers who are switching to cut-price alternatives from Chinese rivals. The price war comes as rising AI bills push companies to curb usage and seek cheaper mode

The stock had crashed last month after an FDA advisory panel voted nine-to-three against the effectiveness data of the drug, deramiocel. The panel echoed FDA staff concerns that Capricor had changed how it measured the trial's main outcomes, and questioned whether enrolled patien

Shares of social networking platform Reddit gained 15% at the Wall Street opening bell, surging to around $181.70 apiece, after the company is set to join the S&P 500 next week upon meeting the benchmark's eligibility requirements. The inclusion is part of an off-cycle change tha

JP Morgan analysts estimated that index funds tracking the S&P 500 would need to buy 16.7 million Reddit shares. That is nearly three times the stock’s average daily trading volume of about 5.98 million shares since the company went public in March 2024, according to LSEG data. R

Update | August 14, 19:45 IST Shiprocket’s public issue closed with an oversubscription of 99.38X, with investors bidding for 938.53 Cr shares against 9.44 Cr shares on offer. The interest was led by qualified institutional buyers (QIBs), who oversubscribed their quota by 122.8X.

The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) is seeking to make it easier for overseas investors to open securities accounts in India, proposing to remove the physical presence and documentation hurdles that have long complicated the process. In a consultation paper issued F

Off the Wire Press Releases Companies plan to co-develop the infrastructure, systems engineering, and manufacturing capabilities required for future generations of quantum computers BROOMFIELD, Colo., and TAIPEI, Taiwan, Aug. 13, 2026 — Quanta Computer and Quantinuum have announc

Cargo thieves ram security escorts to hijack AI hardware shipments in California — brazen thieves employ PIT maneuver, rear-ending tactics to secure goods for the black market Stolen AI hardware can now fetch more than its U.S. retail price overseas. Cargo thieves knocked two pri

Charts of the Week: Head In The Neoclouds Return of Horizontal SaaS; Towards an Efficient Frontier of Token-maxxing; Lab Talent Wars America | Tech | Opinion | Culture | Charts Head In The Neoclouds Earlier in the 20th C., the Southern Pacific Railroad had a surplus of building r

Off the Wire Press Releases Aug. 14, 2026 — Siemens and Reinhausen (MR) are advancing the future of power solutions for the AI era through a strategic partnership. Together, the companies are developing and will industrialize a solid-state transformer for up to 36kV grid voltage.

Off the Wire Press Releases BOISE, Idaho, Aug. 14, 2026 — Micron Technology, Inc. has launched the Micron Ventures Paradigm Fund, a $250 million investment vehicle built to partner with the companies shaping the future of AI. Micron Ventures’ third and largest fund to date, the P

Cursor + SpaceXAI: the fastest iterating team wins Move in the right direction, faster than anyone else. America | Tech | Opinion | Culture | Charts Cursor has officially been acquired by SpaceX. AI coding could be the biggest addressable market of our lives. And, unless you thin

After years of snapping up wind and solar developments, hyperscalers like Amazon, Google, Meta, and Microsoft are betting that natural gas will power the data centers behind their lofty AI ambitions. But a new research report suggests they may regret their newfound affinity for t

Meta and Alphabet lifted the communication services sector by 0.5%, while mixed trading in chip stocks kept the S&P 500 and Nasdaq volatile. Applied Materials fell 4% despite an upbeat revenue forecast. Energy gained 1.6%, while miners and industrial stocks rose about 0.5% each.

Off the Wire Press Releases Aug. 14, 2026 — As large language models (LLMs) become more embedded in healthcare, education, journalism and everyday online search, the stakes of their mistakes grow. Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UofI) School of Informa

During the quarter under review, the company's consolidated profit came in at Rs 151.5 crore, down from Rs 188 crore reported in the corresponding quarter of the previous fiscal year. The shipbuilder's revenue from operations during Q1FY27 touched Rs 1,094 crore, up 2.3% YoY from

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Diagnostics startup Redcliffe Labs has partnered with spacetech startup Skyroot Aerospace to test the stability and performance of diagnostic reagents in space. As part of the collaboration’s first experiment, dubbed DRIFT-1, Redcliffe’s dry diagnostic reagents will be placed in

US stock markets traded mixed on Friday, a day after the S&P 500 ended at a record high, as investors weighed weaker-than-expected retail sales data and monitored the latest developments in the Middle East. As of 10:30 a.m. Eastern Time, the S&P 500 was virtually unchanged, the D

Off the Wire Press Releases Aug. 14, 2026 — Two UC Riverside computer scientists are joining projects selected for federal funding under the U.S. Department of Energy’s Genesis Mission, an initiative that seeks to harness artificial intelligence to accelerate scientific discovery

Mumbai: India is bringing the curtains down on its biggest effort in 13 years to raise dollars from overseas Indians, after a special scheme to encourage local deposits scooped up more than $52 billion in just over two months. The scheme will now run until the end of August, the

The move is aimed at providing greater flexibility to InvITs in managing major maintenance requirements of road projects without reducing the cash available for distribution to unitholders. Under the revised framework, such expenses can be added back to NDCF at both the special p

The FBI has been using hacking techniques and tools, such as spyware, since at least 1998, but to date there is no public data counting how often the feds were deploying them. That’s about to change — at least for the use of spyware for tapping into someone’s real-time communicat

Indian stocks lost ground this week as uncertainty over the Tata Group’s leadership transition added to pressure on domestic benchmarks, even as an artificial intelligence (AI)-fuelled rally lifted major Asian markets. The Sensex fell 0.09% on Friday to 78,009.25, while the Nifty

Prisoners charged over attack on Sara Sharif's father - Published Two prisoners have been charged with the attempted murder of fellow inmate Urfan Sharif who was jailed for killing his daughter Sara Sharif. Steven Sansom, 47, and Adam Watson, 39, have also been charged with other

Builders unearth €9m gold stash sealed in walls of Belgian property - Published Builders renovating a house in Belgium have discovered a stash of gold reportedly worth €9m (£7.6m) sealed into the walls of its cellar. The construction workers stumbled across the hidden trove of go

Tom's Hardware Verdict The Samsung Odyssey G80HS represents a solid step forward in the quest for greater pixel density with a gorgeous picture and speedy gaming performance. The dual refresh feature means it will work with a wide variety of systems, but it needs exotic hardware

Weekly Dose of Optimism #206 Drones, Lakers, Recast, Fuse neutrons, and Rick Rubin + Extra Doses Hi friends 👋, Happy Friday and welcome back to our 206th Weekly Dose of Optimism! This is a few minutes late because I thought it was a pretty slow week and had it all set and then n

The study, co-authored by Laltu Pore, Pampana Hari Nayak and Akshay, examined 242 mainboard IPOs and found that while only a small share of anchor allocations was sold around the first unlock, roughly half of the original anchor allotment value had been disposed of within a year.