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TikTok is developing a feature that would allow users to send each other money via direct messages, according to a new report from Bloomberg. If rolled out, the feature would use the social media service’s TikTok Pay offering, which is already available in Southeast Asia for TikT

Musiala collapses during match for second time - Published Bayern Munich midfielder Jamal Musiala says he is being treated for a "neurological dysfunction" after collapsing during a match for the second time in a four-day period. On Tuesday, Musiala collapsed six minutes after co

Robin Williams’ children are taking over their father’s Instagram account after his daughter spoke out against the use of his AI likeness, as reported earlier by The Wrap. In a post on Tuesday, Zak, Zelda, and Cody Williams write that they want the late actor’s Instagram profile

OpenAI is announcing security updates following the July news that its AI broke out of a sandboxed environment and accidentally hacked Hugging Face, including improvements to its research environments, monitoring, and alignment techniques. The company had already put the brakes o

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Sandisk has taped out the first High Bandwidth Flash memory die. The company put it on a slide at its 2026 Investor Day on August 13, under the header HBF Roadmap, next to what the slide labels an actual die picture. The second half of that slide covers the first HBF inference pr

SpaceX’s most recent Starship test flight may have ended July 24, but its mission isn’t over yet. The spacecraft splashed down in the Indian Ocean intact after flying halfway around the world from SpaceX’s launch base in South Texas. Engineers expected the ship’s life to end with

Enterprise SSD prices increased another 5 percent in July 2026, according to the latest VDURA Flash Volatility Index. While the monthly increase was lower than the extreme fluctuations seen over the past year, flash pricing remains approximately 6.5 times higher than it was in th

Artificial Intelligence Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments is now generally available: Enabling agents to transact safely and autonomously at scale Agents have evolved from simple chat applications to autonomous, long-running systems that dynamically discover and compose dozens of

Off the Wire Press Releases Aug. 18, 2026 — Biology doesn’t happen at one scale. Molecular interactions unfold in milliseconds and nanometers, while disease-associated change such as in Alzheimer’s spreads across millimeters of brain tissue. Understanding complex biological syste

SK hynix and its subsidiary Solidigm are following a two-part manufacturing plan to keep mature flash production separate from next-generation memory. Recent updates show they are expanding older production capacity overseas while also investing heavily at home. These moves will

Off the Wire Press Releases Latest LightBundle eKit delivers terabit-class optical connectivity with up to 335 microLED channels operating at 3 Gbps each SUNNYVALE, Calif., Aug. 18, 2026 — Avicena today announced that it has begun shipping 1 Tbps LightBundle evaluation kits (eKit

AMD said it has achieved an estimated 4x increase in AI energy efficiency from 2024 to mid-2026, exceeding its projected 3x target for the period. It is working toward a 20x improvement in rack-scale AI training and inference efficiency by 2030, a goal it set in June 2025. The co

Off the Wire Press Releases Enables vendors and consumers to test custom workloads and run proprietary models for greater flexibility and security GAINESVILLE, Va., Aug. 18, 2026 — The Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC) today announced the release of the SPECapc f

Disney today sued the Federal Communications Commission and FCC Chairman Brendan Carr in a lawsuit that aims to stop what it called a “campaign of censorship” waged by the Trump administration against ABC. Disney, ABC, and the eight broadcast stations they own filed a complaint i

Off the Wire Press Releases New benchmark categories for generative AI and agentic workflows arrive alongside updated LLM tests, as the industry standard for measuring PC AI performance evolves SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 18, 2026 — MLCommons, an open engineering consortium dedicated to

Off the Wire Press Releases SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug. 18, 2026 — Velaura AI, Inc., an AI compute infrastructure company developing ultra-low-power silicon and software technologies, today announced that it has raised $110 million in Series A financing, bringing its total valuatio

Off the Wire Press Releases SAXONBURG, Pa., Aug. 18, 2026 — Coherent Corp., a global leader in photonics, has announced that it has begun sampling of its 300mm high thermal conductivity silicon carbide (SiC) substrates to leading AI semiconductor partners. The milestone advances

On Tuesday, OpenAI announced a new batch of security policies focused on containing security incidents while models are being tested. The new safeguards include more detailed monitoring of models during the development process, as well as greater emphasis on alignment and securit

Even the Queen could not watch - 10 years since Olympic hockey gold - Published It is getting tense. The date is 19 August 2016, and Great Britain's women hockey players are on the cusp of history. Penalties are under way against the Netherlands in the Olympic final in Rio de Jan

The lowest prices for TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 end in just a few days, this Friday, August 21 at 11:59 p.m. PT. Once that window closes, your chance to save up to $300 on your pass, or get an even larger discount on group pricing, will come to an end. If you’ve been circling aroun

Etched on Tuesday announced that it has raised another $700 million at a $21 billion valuation, led by Jane Street after the famed quant fund tested and bought the startup’s AI hardware. Even by AI standards, this valuation step-up is jaw-droppingly fast. Etched was valued at $5

Apple on Tuesday announced that alternative, third-party app stores in the European Union will be charged a 5% commission on in-app purchases, which the iPhone maker said will "resolve" disagreements with regulators stemming from the implementation of Europe's Digital Markets Act

Apple on Tuesday announced that alternative, third-party app stores in the European Union will be charged a 5% commission on in-app purchases, which the iPhone maker said will "resolve" disagreements with regulators stemming from the implementation of Europe's Digital Markets Act

Shares of Jubilant Ingrevia are expected to attract investor interest in Wednesday’s trade, August 19, after the company announced that it has entered into a binding agreement with Zettaone Technologies India Pvt. Ltd. to acquire a 40% strategic stake for ₹189.2 crore. Following

Artificial Intelligence Customize Amazon Quick embedded chat into your application Amazon Quick embedded chat provides a conversational AI interface that you can integrate directly into your web application. Your users can ask questions, explore data, and get insights without lea

Apple on Tuesday announced a simplified commission structure for apps in the European Union in an effort to resolve its disagreements with the European Commission over the tech giant’s business terms. Under the new model, Apple will replace its per-install Core Technology Fee wit

Artificial Intelligence Implement vector-prompt document classification using Amazon Bedrock Vector-prompt classification on Amazon Bedrock helps insurance companies accurately classify thousands of daily documents: policies, affidavits, endorsements, and regulatory forms, for co

Ubiquiti continues to expand its UniFi power ecosystem with the UPS 2U Pro, a higher-capacity rackmount UPS designed for larger network racks, storage systems, and other infrastructure that needs centralized power protection and management. Following the company’s initial entry i

Artificial Intelligence How Jumio built a real-time feature store on AWS If you’re managing a real-time feature store, you might be facing challenges such as data duplication, feature engineering, feature consistency, manual deployment, and latency. Jumio is an identity verificat

Artificial Intelligence Improve contract search accuracy with auto-generated filters in Amazon Bedrock Enterprises rely on large volumes of complex legal agreements to make critical business decisions — determining rights, renewal options, geographic restrictions, and compliance

Disney's ABC has filed a First Amendment lawsuit against the Federal Communications Commission, calling the government agency's recent investigation into the company a "retaliatory campaign" due to the nature of its programming, which has been critical of President Donald Trump.

Prediction market platform Kalshi in a regulatory filing on Tuesday revealed it is seeking to launch perpetual futures tied to equity indexes. The filing with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission is the latest move by the company to expand beyond just its prediction markets o

There's something telling in how the smart money on Wall Street has started to think about socialism. The moral of the story isn't really about socialism, though, but about the very real pain in store for American households from the bond market if the actually-in-charge capitali

Liz’s view You don’t worry about bad ideas on Wall Street. Those burn themselves out quickly. You worry about good ideas because eventually someone will come along, execute them badly, and ruin the party for everyone. Few ideas on Wall Street have been better than the reinvention

US single-family homebuilding nosedived in July, falling 16% year-over-year as higher mortgage rates kept the market frozen. High mortgage rates and a dire supply shortage have sidelined potential buyers. While those would-be buyers stay put, many are now relying on buy now, pay

For the fourth time in four years, Peacock has raised its prices. The Select plan, which has ads and doesn’t include sports, movies, or Peacock originals, went from $8/month to $9/month. The monthly fee for the standard ad plan (Premium) went from $11/month to $13/month, and the

Root's great challenge to finish captaincy story - Published Of all the places for England to begin a new era, Headingley is the most difficult to shake off the memory of Ben Stokes. In the city of Stokes' greatest miracle, the home side must plot a future without a captain, all-

Comcast has rolled out a new motion-sensing technology to its latest home routers, allowing homeowners to receive notifications about activity detected inside their house while they are away. The free feature, called Wi-Fi Motion, turns newer Xfinity gateways into motion sensors

Off the Wire Press Releases Deepens Colorado investment with new global headquarters and celebrates alongside government and community leaders LOUISVILLE, Colo., Aug. 18, 2026 — Infleqtion is celebrating the grand opening of the Colorado Quantum Innovation Center (CQIC), its new

There are generally two schools of thought in the Western space community when it comes to the prospect of China landing humans on the Moon in the next few years and very possibly beating NASA and the United States in its efforts to return astronauts there. Many people will ask w

A fintech app from the makers of the crypto exchange Kraken is launching a cashback U.S. debit card, vying for a place in consumer wallets as crypto evolves from an asset class into infrastructure for mainstream financial products. The card, called the Krak Card and issued by the

A fintech app from the makers of the crypto exchange Kraken is launching a cashback U.S. debit card, vying for a place in consumer wallets as crypto evolves from an asset class into infrastructure for mainstream financial products. The card, called the Krak Card and issued by the