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Under Armour last week lost another longtime brand ambassador in Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, who announced Thursday that his training brand Project Rock has ended its partnership with Under Armour. Project Rock was founded in 2017 and developed an assortment of footwear, apparel a

Artificial Intelligence Build OpenClaw agents that transact with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments This post is a collaboration between AWS and the OpenClaw Foundation. Autonomous agents that browse the web, call APIs, and query Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers can encounter

HCLTech and NetApp have expanded their strategic partnership to deliver an integrated hybrid cloud Storage-as-a-Service (STaaS) platform tailored for enterprise artificial intelligence, generative AI, and high-performance data architectures. It is the latest in a run of NetApp mo

Flipkart wanted to draw attention to the final day of its Freedom Sale. Instead, its obituary-style print advertisement has triggered a debate over dark humour and how far brands should go to grab eyeballs. The advertisement borrowed the visual language of obituary notices, placi

Startup Groq has raised $350 million as it continues to pivot from an AI chipmaker to a neocloud company that provides powerful GPUs and AI infrastructure services. The new capital, led by investment firm Disruptive with planned participation from Nvidia, values the company at $3

Recent Securities and Exchange Commission guidance is underpinning the debt-fueled data center buildout to support artificial intelligence. The tech sector is getting creative in its hunt for new capital, with AI chipmaker Nvidia entering $500 billion in partially backstopped agr

If New Mexico created the blueprint for taking on Meta, California could determine the company's fate when it comes to critical changes at Facebook and Instagram. Opening arguments begin Tuesday in the trial that California Attorney General Rob Bonta is co-leading against Meta, f

If New Mexico created the blueprint for taking on Meta, California could determine the company's fate when it comes to critical changes at Facebook and Instagram. Opening arguments begin Tuesday in the trial that California Attorney General Rob Bonta is co-leading against Meta, f

Amazon Explores Grid Connection for 8,000-Acre AI Campus The project combines a planned private energy generation complex with an AI data center and has drawn national scrutiny over its potential emissions. Amazon is building its own power system for an 8,000-acre Texas AI campus

The Supreme Court on Monday rejected President Donald Trump's latest Hail Mary attempt to overturn a federal civil jury's verdict finding him liable for sexually abusing and defaming writer E. Jean Carroll. The court's decision was revealed in an order list. It offered no explana

Episode details Available for over a year Today, Donald Trump has said he will “bomb the shit” out of Oman if it “gets in the way” of US talks with Iran. Oman, which says it is a neutral country between Iran and the US, has suffered a number of strikes from Iran since the conflic

Vijay Shekhar Sharma-controlled Resilient Asset Management B.V. has proposed to sell up to a 4.98% stake in Paytm through a block market trade, according to a regulatory disclosure by One97 Communications. The proposed sale will be carried out under an existing Optionally Convert

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J.C. Penney is on a quest to turn the tables on off-price retailers, which have been taking market share from department stores for years. In a new campaign dubbed “retail rejuvenation,” described as a journey from “retail regret to retail redemption,” Penney touts its apparel as

Alibaba is selling its gaming studio for at least $1.5 billion to help fund AI buildout, mirroring Micron's exit from consumer business — dumps entire stake in Lingxi Games, which made 'Three Kingdoms: Strategy Edition' Alibaba expects over $2 billion from offloading Lingxi Games

Dive Brief: - The back-to-school shopping season will be “moderate at best” with low on-unit demand and higher spend driven by pricing, according to a report from Circana on Friday. - Overall retail sales revenue decreased 1% year over year in July, and unit sales dropped 2%, per

PharmEasy parent API Holdings claims to have become debt free, after repaying ₹1,050 Cr in outstanding debt by selling a portion of its stake in Thyrocare Technologies and internal accruals. Thyrocare promoter Docon Technologies sold 1.58 Mn Thyrocare shares, representing around

Nvidia said on Monday that it will invest $1.5 billion in SB Energy, a data center linked to SoftBank and OpenAI. The investment ensures that Nvidia will be the sole supplier of compute infrastructure at OpenAI’s Ports-Pike data center near Cincinnati, Ohio. Nvidia will also prov

The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has approved 31 new applications under the Electronics Component Manufacturing Scheme (ECMS), amounting to a cumulative ₹6,844 Cr. MeitY also cleared a further ₹1,033 Cr capacity expansion to existing beneficiary Wipr

African defense tech company Terra Industries on Monday announced an additional $18 million in funding, bringing its seed round to $52 million. Investors in the round include Joe Lonsdale’s 8VC, Silent Ventures, and Nova Global. Since its launch back in 2024, Terra has become one

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This past weekend saw Monterey Car Week at perhaps its most excessive ever. The auctions set records, including $42.9 million for one of six Shelby Daytona Coupes and $40 million for Ferrari’s first Luce electric vehicle to reach private hands. Hypercars and restomods with seven-

WordPress.com maker Automattic is expanding into education with a new, free product designed for teachers and their classes called WordPress.com Education. The suite for classrooms includes a full WordPress.com domain for each student, plus free domain names (on the .blog or .art

Judge clears Nine PBS to retrieve 70 years of archival TV data — court rules station owns 50TB of data in Iron Mountain servers after host went under The fate of 70 years of TV history (50TB) was the balance, but things are looking more positive now. There’s light at the end of t

Target developed a technology tool that aims to help the retailer make better inventory decisions across its supply chain. The tool — called Proxima — is a digital twin of Target’s middle-mile inventory positioning system, which determines how goods move between facilities to sto

Nvidia has disclosed that it owns nearly 123 million shares in SpaceX, further highlighting the chipmaker’s entangled financial relationships with some of its biggest customers. The $5.5 trillion company owned SpaceX stock worth nearly $21 billion at the end of June, according to

We canceled Notion last week after 7 years. I didn’t know until Amelia mentioned it in passing on The Agents podcast. Seven years, zero support tickets, zero feature requests, zero escalations. We loved it enough that one of our teammates got invited to present at their user conf

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