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Burnham received £345,000 of donations ahead of becoming PM - Published Andy Burnham has registered accepting £345,000 of donations over the past year including £164,347 from businessman Lord Sainsbury. The donations, listed in the most recent version of the MPs' register of inte

A few weeks ago, we covered Qualcomm’s acquisition of Modular at Qualcomm Investor Day 2026. Modular’s mission is to build an AI stack that runs across platforms. Today, the company took another step at ModCon 2026, open-sourcing its platform. Qualcomm Modular Open-Sourced at Mod

(Bloomberg) -- Mizuho Financial Group Inc. expects the Bank of Japan to pick up the pace of interest-rate hikes, with the next one coming as soon as next month, as the weak yen and inflation prompt the central bank to act more quickly. Kenya Koshimizu, co-head of the global marke

Quantum Startup Qarakal Takes Lessons From Classical Systems With Pangaea Architecture Advancements in quantum computing continue to pile up in areas from error correction and infrastructure to software and algorithms, sharpening the view of what the once-theoretical compute para

Treasury yields are continuing to climb, and at a particularly bad time as higher rates worsen the impact of the nearly $40 trillion government debt load. Longer-dated debt has been hit particularly hard by the recent leg up, pushing the 30-year bond yield close to its highest le

President Donald Trump on Tuesday cut off talks with Iran for the foreseeable future. On Truth Social, Trump wrote that there “are no talks or conversations going on, or scheduled” with Iran. A White House official clarified that the president was announcing an end to talks with

Tracking USS Lincoln's months-long mission as concerns about conditions grow There have been reports of poor conditions on board the USS Abraham Lincoln, which the US Navy says will soon be brought home from the Middle East. The aircraft carrier was originally expected back in Ma

The Trump administration is still eyeing additional economic measures against Iran after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent indicated announcements would come this week, an administration official told Semafor. “There are many levers the president can crank harder in the weeks and

The Justice Department has launched a probe into Andreessen Horowitz regarding the firm’s partners serving on the boards of competing companies, Bloomberg reported. The nearly year-long investigation focuses specifically on the firm’s board seats at Databricks, which is valued at

Treasury yields pulled back slightly on Tuesday after long-dated bonds hit their highest level in almost two decades amid a worsening U.S. fiscal situation and persistently higher inflation. The yield on the U.S. 30-year Treasury bond fell more than 2 basis points to trade at 5.2

AI - SYSTEMS Cerebras CS-4 rack systems juice chips for every last drop of AI performanceNext-gen systems double per-chip performance while cramming 3x as many into a rack -

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