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XRG is making its first move in Venezuela as the international investment arm of ADNOC looks to create a global gas platform. The stake in the concession adds to its portfolio of projects in Argentina, Azerbaijan, Mozambique, Turkmenistan, and the US. XRG aims to become a top-fiv

The value of the Public Investment Fund’s assets under management shrank $10 billion last year to around $900 billion, according to its 2025 annual report. While little more than a rounding error in the big-spending world of sovereign wealth, it marked the first such drop this de

Water levels at the largest reservoirs in the US fell to their lowest in decades, underscoring the crisis countries across the northern hemisphere face as summer temperatures reach record highs. Lakes Mead and Powell, which provide water to around 40 million people, have seen lev

Hindustan Copper’s shares have been recovering steadily of late, surging 20% in 15 trading sessions, reaching ₹566 apiece, supported by a sustained rise in international copper prices. Higher copper prices could provide further support to the company’s margins and revenue outlook

PUBLIC CLOUD Commvault Cloud Rewind now wraps round even more Azure Commvault has expanded its Cloud Rewind cyber recovery tool to treble the amount of Azure resources it supports. The New Jersey-based company says the move will speed up customers’ ability to both cloud applicati

Off the Wire Press Releases Aug. 18, 2026 — Each year, the SC Technical Papers program recognizes outstanding research through its Best Paper and Best Student Paper awards. To make this process more transparent, the following is an overview of how these papers are nominated, eval

Hims & Hers CEO Andrew Dudum defended the telehealth company amid a Federal Trade Commission lawsuit over its data sharing practices. In a wide-ranging exclusive interview aired Tuesday, Dudum contended the allegations stemmed from a misunderstanding of how the company is alterin

Intel's next-gen Nova Lake chips may skip game-boosting X3D cache rival for mobile SKUs and debut on Razor Lake-HX instead, leaker claims — new rumor says Razor Lake family reportedly uses TSMC's N2X node bLLC might remain exclusive to desktop for Nova Lake family. Update 18 Aug

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Rippling Tested 15 AI Models on Real Payroll Data. The Cheapest One Tied the Most Expensive One. Rippling’s President and CPO Matt MacInnis published something most B2B companies have and almost none share: a real test of AI models doing real work inside a real production system.

Companies are still grappling with exactly how software development should work in the AI area, but one early answer is the so-called software factory. Essentially an agent loop that’s built around the traditional stages of software development, the software factory approach has

Anthro Energy broke ground on Tuesday on a factory in Louisville, Kentucky, that can make enough battery materials for more than 300,000 electric vehicles. But the facility’s headline output, 25 gigawatt-hours’ worth of electrolytes, is just part of the story. Anthro’s factory co

Building operational resilience with agentic AI in financial services Pankaj Ojha Director & Lead Architect – Agentic Resilience Platform, Deutsche Bank Florian Graf Staff Solutions Consultant, Google Cloud Consulting For financial institutions, operational resilience has long be

Staying Ahead of Adversarial AI Through Agentic Source Code Review Google Threat Intelligence Group Google Threat Intelligence Visibility and context on the threats that matter most. Contact Us & Get a Demo Introduction Adversarial misuse of AI has increased the risk of data thef

AMD claims its 2026 rack-scale AI solution is 4X more energy efficient than its 2024 AI platform — company says it's pacing ahead of 20X efficiency by 2030 But these are just estimates, not actual benchmark results. In addition to its normal product and technology roadmaps, AMD h

Dive Brief: - Crocs is bringing its brand name to life with a new reptilian mascot named Niles that will play a role in social content, experiences and other marketing activities, according to a Thursday press release. The move arrives ahead of Crocs’ 25th anniversary next year.

A Russian court sentenced a leader of the anti-war Yabloko party to more than 11 years in a penal colony for “discrediting” the country’s armed forces, the latest sign of the Kremlin’s rising domestic repression. The decision comes a week after Moscow banned the party from contes

After numerous lawsuits over AI chatbots’ lack of safety measures, leading to teens’ suicides and other mental health concerns, OpenAI on Monday announced the launch of ChatGPT for Teens. The new product promises to include additional safety measures, as well as address the educa

Government bond yields rose to multiyear highs and stock markets fell on growing concern that tensions between the US and Iran are unlikely to resolve in the near future. Benchmark oil prices also topped $90 a barrel as investors fretted that efforts to reopen the Strait of Hormu

Perplexity spent the past year running one of the biggest AI growth experiments, giving its premium service away to customers of Indian telecom giant Airtel. Now, as the earliest of those free subscriptions expire, the results are starting to emerge, offering an early test of whe

Home Depot on Tuesday reported fiscal second-quarter results that beat Wall Street expectations on the top and bottom lines and reaffirmed its full fiscal-year guidance. "We continue to operate in what I call 'frozen housing market conditions,' but we also know that we're taking

Months after receiving a regulatory nod for its NBFC licence, MobiKwik has now completed the transfer of its digital lending operations and associated team to its wholly owned subsidiary, MobiKwik Distribution Services Private Limited (MDSPL). Beyond the restructuring, the fintec

Google reportedly plans to move its smartphone supply chain outside of China by next year, the latest sign of a deepening tech decoupling as tensions mount between Washington and Beijing. The Silicon Valley giant has told suppliers it will shift manufacturing largely to India and

US allies voiced worry over Washington’s strategy in Asia after President Donald Trump said he would scale back participation in key military drills. Trump’s announcement that he would reduce the size of the joint exercises with South Korea — in part because of Seoul’s lack of su

Buss trying to block siblings' sale of LA Lakers - Published Los Angeles Lakers governor Jeanie Buss is trying to block her siblings' sale of her family's remaining stake in the NBA franchise. Josh Kushner, the brother of US President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared, and former D

Dive Brief: - Mattel announced the launch of the digital game organization Mattel Game Studios, the toy company said in a Thursday press release. - Mattel Game Studios is part of Mattel Digital Studios, the company’s overarching digital game organization that oversees self-publis

Apple seems to be preparing launch materials for its upcoming AirPods with a camera, a leaked video in the latest macOS update spotted by MacRumors suggests. The video, found in macOS 26.7 RC, shows a man holding up a book and talking with Siri about it using visual information.

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When it comes to the fate of the all-important semiconductor sector, traders in the options market are faced with a classic investing dilemma: go with the crowd, or the big-money contrarian? According to options flows, the crowd is leaning the most heavily bullish since April. Th

US stock futures indicate a negative start to Tuesday’s trade, as technology stocks retreat from recent highs amid surging bond yields and higher oil prices, reinforcing inflation concerns. The S&P 500 was headed for a third straight day of losses as index futures retreated 0.4%,

FLASH Hard reality of surging SSD costs force tech pros to consider software defined storage Storage teams are bearing the brunt of AI fuelled price hikes for SSDs and memory, forcing them consolidate storage layers and confront the fact that much of their data is beyond their co

U.S. and European stocks are scaling record highs as investors pile into the AI boom, but economists at the European Central Bank warn that history points to a sharp downturn ahead. "Economic research on past technological revolutions points to a worrisome conclusion: a correctio

It’s not every day that attackers can force a frontier AI model to cough up user passwords and other sensitive data without user confirmation. That’s exactly what researchers recently did to Microsoft 365 Copilot for enterprise. Even more unusual is the source they tapped to disc

American Airlines is finally giving a green light to seatback screens as the carrier works to close a profit gap with rivals Delta Air Lines and United Airlines. But customers will have to wait a little while. The new screens, which will feature 4K displays, will start appearing

Starting today, AI chats in Firefox’s Smart Window AI browsing mode can pull from current web info and show source links in chat responses through a partnership with Exa. Smart Window can also now automatically suggest tab groups and show visual previews of pages you previously v

Neko Health’s promised U.S. expansion arrives on September 24, when the health-scanning startup opens its first American office. It will be located in SoHo, Manhattan’s home of luxury shopping, at 300 Lafayette Street. Neko was founded by Spotify co-founder and CEO Daniel Ek and

For High-Density AI, Available Data Center Space May Not Be Usable North American vacancy remains at 1%, but JLL says only a very small share of that capacity can support high-density AI deployments. A 5 MW data center buyer recently approached more than 10 North American operato

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Tom's Hardware Verdict The Asus ROG Swift PG32UCWM games with an addictive quality that carries over to its incredibly sharp and colorful image. It is a flagship among flagships. Pros - +Extra image clarity from Tandem RGB Stripe technology - +Smooth gaming with low input lag - +

Geospatial technology startup NeoGeo has raised around $20 Mn (₹191 Cr) in a Series A funding round co-led by Neev II Fund and Aavishkaar Capital. Neev II is managed by SBI Ventures, a wholly owned subsidiary of the State Bank of India, while Aavishkaar Capital is the investment

New Delhi: Global crude oil prices stayed above $90 a barrel on Tuesday amid choppy trade, as fading hopes of a deal between the US and Iran kept geopolitical risk elevated. Brent futures were volatile through the day before edging lower on Tuesday evening. Around 4.55 PM, the Oc

Prominent Indian startup investors — VC firm Peak XV Partners, Girish Mathrubootham-led Together Fund and Aakrit Vaish’s Activate — have acquired stakes in US-based voice AI unicorn Wispr Flow. The aforementioned investors participated in the startup’s $280 Mn Series B round, whi

This is CNBC's Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox. Happy Tuesday. It looks like that Lakers sale we told you about last week isn't shaping up to be a slam dunk. CNBC's Alex Sherman reported yesterday that team governor Jeanie Buss i