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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.

This week, I placed orders for a $44,860 Patek Philippe hand-engraved watch, a $12,500 Hermès handbag, a $9,800 Tiffany diamond ring, and a $7,350 Cartier Love bracelet in yellow gold. I don’t need any of them. I certainly can’t afford them. Thankfully, they’ll never arrive. Inst

AWS Compute Blog Observability best practices for Lambda durable functions When your workflow suspends to wait for a confirmation, you need to know whether the callback arrived, how long the function waited, and what to do if the callback never comes. AWS Lambda durable functions

Galaxy Bets Its Data Center Edge on Power, Not ‘Bragawatts’ The company’s strategy emphasizes that “bragawatts” aren’t all equal: a megawatt at the end of a weak radial line has far less value than one supported by redundant, resilient transmission systems. Galaxy Digital, a digi

Edtech company PhysicsWallah reported a 24.4% year-on-year increase in revenue from operations in Q1 FY27, while its losses narrowed 30.7% during the quarter. PhysicsWallah’s revenue from operations increased to Rs 1,054 crore in Q1 FY27 from Rs 847 crore in Q1 FY26, according to

Cochin Shipyard, a leading shipbuilding and repair yard in India, released its financial performance for the June quarter today, post market hours, reporting a 19.4% year-on-year decline in consolidated net profit to ₹151.45 crore, compared with ₹188 crore in the corresponding qu

Japan Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has criticized Russian President Vladimir Putin's first-ever visit to the disputed Kuril Islands, saying they were "inherently Japanese territory." In a post on X, Takaichi said Thursday that Tokyo had "repeatedly requested the Russian side to

Plaintiff busted trying to use AI prompt injection to win court case, hides text instruction in filing — demands AI model reviewing the text should side with him, rumbled because of strange white spaces in text They thought they could get away with it. An individual named Matthew

Edtech major PhysicsWallah’s (PW) operating revenue crossed the ₹1,000 Cr mark in the June quarter of the financial year 2026-27 (Q1 FY27), rising 24.4% to ₹1,054 Cr from ₹847.1 Cr in the year-ago period. On a sequential basis, the company's top line increased 15% to ₹918.8 Cr. T

NATO fighters shot down a drone over eastern Latvia on Friday, the country's armed forces said, in an incident authorities linked to "Russian electromagnetic warfare." The drone was destroyed over the Balvi region by aircraft taking part in NATO's Baltic Air patrol mission. Latvi

Its profit was at Rs 10.03 crore in the year-ago period. Total income rose to Rs 448.87 crore in the first quarter of this fiscal from Rs 353.04 crore in the corresponding period of the preceding year, according to a regulatory filing on Thursday. Awfis has 251 coworking centres

New Delhi sold 50 billion rupees ($524 million) of 30-year sovereign green bonds, at a so-called greenium of four basis points on Friday, leading to an average premium of four bps in the fiscal half-year, the highest since such sales began in the second half of fiscal 2023. A gre

This is CNBC's Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox. Happy Friday. Reddit was announced officially as the next addition to the S&P 500, prompting a rally for the social media stock in early trading. Stock futures are little changed th

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