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Stripe said Wednesday that it plans to acquire the startup OpenRouter, as the fintech company expands into the artificial intelligence model market. Terms of the deal weren't disclosed, but The New York Times, citing a person familiar with the matter, said the price tag is about

With back-to-school season approaching (or already here in some places), keeping track of everyone’s schedules can get pretty chaotic. Between work, school, appointments, sports, chores, and everything else going on, a regular paper calendar just doesn’t cut it. That’s where Link

Americans love sports — so much so that that many are spending hundreds or thousands of dollars a year to show their fandom. Nearly two-thirds (62%) of Americans have spent or expect to spend money on sports fandom in 2026, including tickets, merchandise and betting on games, acc

Somewhere in Chicago, one 40-year-old project director spent her summer wondering if she's been working with a human or a bot. She was recently put on a project with an artificial intelligence expert who started using AI agents to manage his inbox. But in the course of their part

Weekly quiz: Where did builders find £7.6m worth of gold bars and coins? - Published This week, millions of Brits were sent a phone alert warning them against starting wildfires, scientists found giant whales were moving to Greenland, and there were courtroom clashes during Tupac

An unusual glitch has resulted in xAI’s Grok chatbot speaking gibberish to many users. After asking the model to generate a PDF, one user received the response: “match it without and your they and two for planets can practical and often cheese…” with similar nonsense continuing f

Crude oil prices marched higher in Thursday's trade, climbing to their highest levels in nearly a month as the United States prepared to impose a sweeping package of economic measures aimed at further isolating Iran from international financial and commercial channels. Internatio

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Expanding Google Antigravity for enterprise customers Scott Densmore Senior Director of Engineering Damith Karunaratne Group Product Manager Since announcing Google Antigravity in Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform at I/O in May, we’ve heard helpful feedback from our customers. You

Private equity firm Arctos has agreed to buy 10% of the Atlanta Falcons, according to two people who asked not to be named because they are not authorized to speak on the matter. Arthur Blank currently owns just under 73% of the Falcons. It is unclear if the 10% being sold is jus

TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 is built around one question for founders: How do you build an enduring company in the AI era? For investors, it’s the opposite: How do you find that company before someone else does? At Disrupt, the volume and competition are the point for investors, not

The Trump administration's plan to crush Iran's economy will likely negate the need for major U.S. military operations against the Islamic Republic, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told CNBC on Thursday. "If we are doing the maximum economic pressure, then that means that likely

Over one-third of web pages published after the release of ChatGPT show signs of being written by AI, according to a new study from Pew Research released on Thursday. The report corroborates other studies that detail how much of the web’s newer web pages are now either written by

Despite making changes last fall to help block adults from messaging unknown children, Roblox is still failing to stop adults from creeping on kids in other ways, Australia’s eSafety commissioner, Julie Inman Grant, said on Thursday. Suspecting that Roblox may not be doing enough

A tiny biotech deal announced in July is suddenly attracting a lot of attention. Tempus AI agreed to acquire Personalis, a Merck-backed company which provides advanced genomic sequencing and analytics for cancer treatments, for $1.5 billion. It would have passed by without much n

Walmart posted the slowest US sales growth in six years on Thursday, the latest sign that consumers are feeling strapped. Same-store sales missed analyst estimates, with CFO John David Rainey telling CNBC “consumers have been more pressured” than earlier this year. Walmart’s shee

Adit Singh was a partner at Foundation Capital when he helped source and co-lead the first funding round into then-obscure chip startup Cerebras. By the time Cerebras held its blockbuster IPO in May, Foundation Capital held a roughly 7% stake, making it the third-largest sharehol

Rohan’s view Battered-up and bruised software names are having their Regina George moment. Once beloved, then out of style, and now back again. What happens next is anyone’s guess — but private equity is salivating. CEOs, bankers, and investors have all known that the SaaSpocalyp

AI/ML Micron rolls out big guns to support Boise memory lab launch as WD looks to Japan to for storage innovation lab Micron has unwrapped plans for a $10 billion “long-horizon” innovation hub at its Boise HQ, attracting backing – or at least vocal support – from the US governmen

Corporate expense management platform Ramp is hot on the heels of Stripe in setting up toll houses for AI inference. Ramp on Wednesday evening launched its own AI model routing service, dubbed Router, that lets users and companies use and switch between various large language mod

Dive Brief: - Michaels has debuted an online frame builder tool, the retailer said in a press release Tuesday. - The tool uses 3D and augmented reality technology to create and preview art and photo frames based on criteria such as size, materials, glazing and matting. After cust

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Tom's Hardware Verdict Built by Channel Well Technology, the V Platinum 3000 Workstation delivers 3000W through four native 12V-2x6 connectors with excellent regulation, low ripple, and a twelve-year warranty. Efficiency clears 80 PLUS Platinum at 230 VAC, if narrowly at the top

California Attorney General Rob Bonta told CNBC's David Faber on Thursday that the group of states suing to block Paramount Skydance's proposed acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery would require "robust structural remedies" to reach a settlement in the antitrust case. "[Paramoun

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said increased buybacks of Treasury securities announced this week could be more than $4 billion per issue.“We have a big toolkit, so we’ll see,” Bessent said Thursday on CNBC. “And part of it is signaling here, and to show that we believe that

Augmont Enterprises raised ₹246.29 crore from 14 anchor investors ahead of its initial public offering (IPO), which is set to open on Friday. The company allotted 31.25 lakh equity shares to anchor investors at ₹788 per share, the upper end of the IPO price band. The anchor book

Artificial Intelligence Authoring Dogwood policies from natural language in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore AI agents can automate complex workflows but might take actions that don’t align with your organization’s policies or regulatory constraints if used without proper controls. To ad

Losses among individual equity derivatives traders remained high in 2025-26, although overall losses moderated from the previous year, showed Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) study on Thursday. The study showed that total losses stood at ₹91,685 crore in FY26, margin

Artificial Intelligence Scaling agentic AI: Enterprise patterns without vendor lock-in Scaling agentic AI across an enterprise requires architectural patterns that preserve flexibility while avoiding vendor lock-in. This post is Part 2 of our series on multi-agent systems at scal

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Thursday there's a "very good chance" that the U.S. budget deficit under President Donald Trump has likely peaked. "We are going to be laser focused," Bessent told CNBC's Sara Eisen in an exclusive interview a day after his department's extra

Two senators have given TikTok a deadline to answer questions about an experiment that withheld a safety feature from 15 million U.S. users, including a teenager who later died by suicide. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) sent a letter to TikT

The State Department is warning of the “long and challenging” road ahead in addressing the Ebola crisis ravaging parts of Africa, after the epidemic became the deadliest in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s history earlier this week. The grim milestone has renewed scrutiny o

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Artificial Intelligence Scaling cloud migrations with agentic AI on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Scaling cloud migrations with agentic AI on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore starts with recognizing where large-scale migrations break down. Discovery consumes weeks per application. Engineers w

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Bitcoin is trading at its highest levels since June thanks largely to a last-ditch push from the White House and crypto industry leaders to get the Clarity Act across the finish line in the coming weeks. The price of bitcoin rose more than 5% on Thursday to $72,383.99 and its hig

Bitcoin is trading at its highest levels since June thanks largely to a last-ditch push from the White House and crypto industry leaders to get the Clarity Act across the finish line in the coming weeks. The price of bitcoin rose more than 5% on Thursday to $72,383.99 and its hig

Meta’s experimental vibe-coding gaming app, Pocket, is now rolling out to everyone in the U.S. The app, which arrived quietly last month in the test market of Brazil, allows people to generate small, interactive games using AI prompts, which are published to a scrollable feed. Ba

Dave Petso has been a wealth manager in Boise, Idaho since the 1980s. His business has survived multiple recessions, the bursting of the dot-com bubble and the 2008 financial crisis. For most of Petso's 45-year career, Micron, the hometown maker of computer memory, has been a bor

Dave Petso has been a wealth manager in Boise, Idaho since the 1980s. His business has survived multiple recessions, the bursting of the dot-com bubble and the 2008 financial crisis. For most of Petso's 45-year career, Micron, the hometown maker of computer memory, has been a bor

Dive Brief: - Walmart's transactions and average ticket grew over 1% year over year for its U.S. business in the second quarter, with e-commerce sales growing 24%. E-commerce sales now represent over 23% of the company’s mix in Walmart U.S. — double what it was from five years ag