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Artificial Intelligence AWS vector solutions: Build agentic AI where your data lives Agentic AI is changing how you work, and vector search powers the retrieval layer that makes agents accurate, contextual, and grounded in real data. Agents plan, reason, and take action across mu

Lululemon Chief Communications Officer Bill Chandler is leaving the company on Sept. 4 to “pursue other opportunities,” the athleisure brand confirmed to Retail Dive. Chandler spent more than seven years at Lululemon in various communications roles, according to his LinkedIn. “We

How AlloyDB ScaNN scales vector search to 10 billion vectors Bin Song Software Engineer Itai Rosenblatt Engineering Manager To satisfy the demands of enterprise-grade agentic AI applications, underlying vector databases often struggle to scale effectively as modern use cases can

10 questions every startup should answer before moving to production with their AI prototype Sergio Villani Technical Solutions, Google Cloud AI It’s never been easier to start an AI-powered startup on Google Cloud. You grab an API key from Google AI Studio at breakfast, paste it

Announcing quantum-safe key import in Cloud KMS Alessio Buraggina Senior Software Engineer, Cloud KMS Erlander Lo Senior Product Manager, Google Cloud As enterprises increasingly adopt multicloud architectures, bring your own key (BYOK) has become a fundamental pillar for maintai

Recommender systems (RecSys) are one of the most ubiquitous machine learning problems in the consumer internet industry yet notoriously difficult to train and serve at scale. The advent of LLMs has inspired a shift from the traditional embedding-similarity-based objective to a ge

Google is a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud-Native Application Platforms Ines Envid Sr. Director, Product Management Lisa Shen Product Manager, Google Cloud We are thrilled to announce that Google has been recognized as a Leader for the third year in a row i

During a brainstorming session earlier this summer, a group of comedians and employees at beverage company Liquid Death kicked around an idea for a brazen new advertising campaign that would humorously shed light on the amount of water required to operate massive artificial intel

During a brainstorming session earlier this summer, a group of comedians and employees at beverage company Liquid Death kicked around an idea for a brazen new advertising campaign that would humorously shed light on the amount of water required to operate massive artificial intel

Wednesday was already shaping up to be the best for crypto assets in recent memory, with bitcoin trading the highest since June as President Donald Trump scheduled a meeting with industry leaders. Then the big news hit. Around 3 p.m. ET, the president hinted at regulating Hyperli

OpenAI has had a hell of a year. The company spent months battling former cofounder Elon Musk in a sensational jury trial, was hit with a high-profile trade secrets lawsuit from Apple, and faced widespread scrutiny after an unreleased model hacked another AI company. As it prepar

Dive Brief: - TJX Companies posted a rare miss on Wednesday, reporting that Q2 comp sales at its U.S. Marmaxx division rose just 1% year over year, well below its own and analyst expectations. Comps in the segment grew 6% last quarter and 3% a year ago. - The segment is the compa

Grab Keychron's compact K8 wireless mechanical keyboard for an all-time low of $34 — 87-keys, Gateron Red switches, and white backlight keeb is 56% off A no-nonsense TKL from a respected brand, at a bargain-basement price There are loads of budget mechanical keyboard options, but

Michigan township combats nuclear weapons data center by passing ban on new electrical infrastructure — 220,000-square-foot hyperscale project is backed by University of Michigan and the Los Alamos National Laboratory Data centers can't operate if they can't plug in or don't have

CXMT planned to use stolen Samsung IP to develop its DRAM, court hears — former Samsung engineer who jumped to Chinese memory maker now behind bars Steal process recipe, get your DRAM on the market faster. ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT), China's largest maker of dynamic rand

Direct-to-consumer (D2C) watch brand Bruno Milano has raised Rs 7.5 crore in a funding round led by Sauce VC, with participation from Titan Capital and angel investors including Arjun Purkayastha, Unacademy cofounder Roman Saini, and Kitty Agarwal. The fresh funds will be used to

Retail bellwether Walmart saw its shares plunge sharply on Thursday, 20 August, falling 10% to a nine-month low of $103 apiece after the company missed quarterly comparable sales estimates for the first time in more than five years. The slowdown came as shoppers pulled back on sp

AI - DEVOPS Go updates may delight diehard gophers but displease AI overlordsv 1.27 expands generics to support methods - EDGE AND IOT Waymo has designed a robocar chip to

Artificial Intelligence Build intelligent security for healthcare APIs with Amazon Bedrock If you manage Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) APIs, you must balance open patient data access with strict data protection requirements. Static security rules require const

AI - DEVOPS Go updates may delight diehard gophers but displease AI overlordsv 1.27 expands generics to support methods - EDGE AND IOT Waymo has designed a robocar chip to

Off the Wire Press Releases WAYNE, Pa. and TOKYO, Aug. 20, 2026 — Cornelis and NEC Corporation have announced an expanded collaboration that builds on the companies’ successful work together in Europe and will help organizations across Japan and the broader Asia-Pacific region de

Off the Wire Press Releases COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Aug. 20, 2026 — QC Ware, the organizer of Q2B conferences and a developer of computational chemistry and quantum computing software, has announced that the 2026 Q2B Copenhagen Conference will take place on September 9-10, 2026, in

Dive Brief: - In the first half of 2026, U.S. toy dollar sales jumped 17% from a year prior, the highest year-over-year growth in the past six years, according to a new Circana report. - Unit sales increased 12% from a year prior and the average sales price of toys rose 4%, a tre

Global retail giant Walmart said that ecommerce major Flipkart’s ad vertical drove its global advertising business in the second quarter (Q2) of FY27. In its earnings release, Walmart said that its advertising business grew 20% during the quarter, led by Flipkart Ad. Overall, its

A couple of years ago, Genesis showed us its unique take on the luxury electric SUV with the Neolum concept. The brand’s designers know how to draw a handsome shape, particularly using an SUV’s proportions, and the clean-lined concept featured a four-seat interior with no B pilla

Dive Brief: - Amazon is expanding its drone delivery capabilities to nearly 500 cities and towns by the end of 2026, a sixfold increase from its current footprint, the e-commerce giant announced Wednesday. - The company expects its Prime Air service to launch soon in the metro ar

AI - DEVOPS Go updates may delight diehard gophers but displease AI overlordsv 1.27 expands generics to support methods - EDGE AND IOT Waymo has designed a robocar chip to

A version of this article first appeared in the CNBC Property Play newsletter with Diana Olick. Property Play covers new and evolving opportunities for the real estate investor, from individuals to venture capitalists, private equity funds, family offices, institutional investors

Micron Puts $10B Behind US AI Memory Research The new Idaho research hub will target memory, compute, and packaging as AI systems push existing technologies. Micron Technology is putting $10 billion behind a new research organization aimed at a growing constraint on AI infrastruc

After months of slow progress and noncommittal MOUs, international oil companies are making tangible headway in Venezuela. Oil Minister Paula Henao announced deals with two US firms this week. Oilfield service provider SLB will provide AI software to facilitate drilling, and said

A big hiccup is moving through the global oil trade that’s likely to cause another surge in prices, especially in Asia, over the next few weeks. With tanker traffic out of the Persian Gulf constricted over the past six months, higher exports from other countries, especially the U

Tom's Hardware Verdict The Dell XPS 13 returns as an excellent Windows-based answer to the MacBook Neo. It’s no performance powerhouse, but at just 2.2 pounds, with 8GB and 16GB options and nearly 15 hours of battery life in our testing, it’s an excellent option for students or m

Even as some economic diversification projects are put on the back burner, Saudi Arabia is intensifying its $13.3 billion push to build indoor entertainment centers across the country. The kingdom is starting with its underserved second-tier cities, which are often in areas that

Everyone agrees you have to build with AI now. That argument is over. The unsettled questions are what a product built on agents is supposed to measure, and what stops a foundation model from doing to you next quarter what you just did to your own category. Adam Guild has been ru

“Designed in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.” Packaging on a new laptop from HUMAIN bears this statement — in a not-so-subtle nod to Apple — seen in a teaser video posted by Tareq Amin, CEO of the Public Investment Fund’s AI firm. The device was built in collaboration with chip desi

Cutting Iran off completely from the UAE could deal a serious blow to the Islamic Republic’s economy — but experts say disentangling the pair’s commercial ties could prove difficult. The UAE was Iran’s largest source of imports before the war, ahead of China, with two-way trade w

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Today on Decoder, I’m talking with Robert Hart, The Verge’s London-based AI reporter, about what AI is doing to the field of mathematics and the existential crisis many lead mathematicians are having about it. Welcome to the AI crisis in math The Verge’s Robert Hart on why new AI

Elon Musk’s talk about maintaining a million-strong AI data center satellite megaconstellation may not exactly be practical or economical, but it might be unique. It’s about the closest we’ve come to confronting a scheme that would export a considerable amount of valuable materia

Online stockbroking platform Upstox has reportedly begun preliminary discussions with investment banks for a potential IPO. The Mumbai-based brokerage is expected to appoint advisers soon for the proposed IPO, which could raise around $400 Mn (about ₹3,800 Cr) through a combinati