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Gold is up 15% this month, rallying alongside higher interest rates and quietly on pace for its best month since 2008. The biggest trade in the entire options market today says that run is coming to an end. Twenty minutes after the market opened Monday, someone sold almost 116,00

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is seeking to cap rising yields using a variety of tools at his department's disposal. However, traders on prediction market platforms think these moves won't lead yields to fall dramatically. Traders on Kalshi think there's a 56% chance that the

The Trump administration on Monday announced a plan to isolate Iran's economy by threatening to impose secondary sanctions on the "enablers" keeping the Islamic Republic afloat. "We are launching an economic onslaught against Iran's financial connections around the globe," Treasu

Off the Wire Press Releases SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug. 24, 2026 — NVIDIA today announced that SpaceXAI will deploy NVIDIA Vera CPUs to accelerate its next generation of agentic AI applications, bringing the first CPU built for AI agents to one of the world’s most ambitious AI depl

At the Hot Chips conference, IBM revealed the industry’s first dual-architecture mainframe processor, engineered for future generations of IBM Z and LinuxONE enterprise systems. Developed through the joint collaboration between IBM and Arm in April 2026, the processor will allow

Episode details Available for over a year Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney says "we cannot accept what they've offered, and we will not give what they've asked,” after trade negotiations with the US broke down over the weekend. Donald Trump has announced 50% tariffs on Canadia

Off the Wire Press Releases SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug. 24, 2026 — SiFive today, at an event coinciding with Hot Chips, introduced the SiFive BigSky SF-2U870 datacenter development platform. In collaboration with hyperscaler customers and leading ecosystem partners, SiFive has deli

Trump Media & Technology Group interim CEO Kevin McGurn on Monday defended his company offering faster access to President Donald Trump's Truth Social posts, and said more customers have signed up for the pricey and controversial service. "We're getting into the mid-teens now, an

Everyone is buzzing about Instinct, an AI personal assistant still in private access, not only for its incredible capabilities, but also for its potential privacy concerns. The agent, a veritable taskmaster, has been praised as feeling “like magic” and being one of the “most exci

Mumbai: The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) has disposed of proceedings against Max Financial Services Ltd (MFSL), Max Life Insurance Co. Ltd (MLIC) and Axis group entities, noting that allegations of fraud and inadequate disclosures were not established. The order

The News Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Monday threatened a wider range of secondary sanctions on countries that do business with Iran, stopping short of imposing them as the Trump administration continues its battle against inflation. “We are giving everyone the opportunity

Hot Chips 2026: SK hynix pushes hybrid bonding to HBM5 as AI memory hits 775-micron ceiling — firm extends MR-MUF through Nvidia Rubin Jaesik Lee laid out the physics capping HBM stack height and all-but-confirmed hybrid bonding misses HBM4E This Tom's Hardware Premium article is

Hot Chips 2026: IBM's first dual-ISA core natively executes ARM and z/Architecture in the same core; all cores run at 5.7 GHz base frequency — next-gen mainframe AI processor is built on 2nm node with 11 cores Native AArch64 and z/Architecture support within the same core This To

Off the Wire Press Releases Diamond Rapids, Crescent Island and Wildcat Lake demonstrate how Intel is scaling Agentic AI from the rack to the edge. Aug. 24, 2026 — Intel is showcasing three architectures for Agentic AI and Enterprise-scale workloads, combining the Diamond Rapids

LG's native 1,000 Hz 1080p gaming monitor has a matching $1,000 price tag — preorders open for the 25-inch UltraGear 25G590B $1 per Hz is the going rate for the LG UltraGear 25G590B Earlier this year, we brought you news of the UltraGear 25G590B gaming monitor, which LG proudly c

Nvidia announced Monday that its Groq 3 LPX rack is in full production, marking the commercialization of technology from the company's largest acquisition on record. The Groq rack will be deployed alongside Vera central processors and Rubin graphics processors at neocloud Nebius,

Off the Wire Press Releases BOISE, Idaho, Aug. 24, 2026 — Micron Technology Inc. today opened a 60,000-square-foot Micron Training Center (MTC) in Boise, a strategic investment to strengthen the skilled talent pipeline, support advanced semiconductor manufacturing and expand educ

Tom's Hardware Verdict The Cooler Master Q300L V3 offers builders an excellent budget option in the Micro ATX space. Its improved airflow, flexible I/O placement, and 20 Gbps Type-C port are all positives for this sub-$45 budget chassis. Pros - +Sub $45 price - +20 Gbps USB Type-

Off the Wire Press Releases Aug. 24, 2026 — NVIDIA today announced that NVIDIA Groq 3 LPX, the interactive AI inference accelerator, is now in full production. An extension of the NVIDIA Vera Rubin platform, Groq 3 LPX delivers a major boost in AI inference by enabling ultrafast

Mummified human and animal remains have long been in demand among collectors, and such items are sufficiently rare that their acquisition may involve unregulated, occasionally clandestine trade practices—if not outright illegal ones. According to the authors of a paper published

CUDA is a giant for GPU compute, which includes machine learning applications. So far, CUDA supports x86-64 and aarch64 CPUs. Now, Nvidia is looking at extending CUDA support to RISC-V. This move opens the door for RISC-V CPUs to feed GPU compute. Nvidia’s talk focuses on the req

Off the Wire Press Releases LOUISVILLE, Colo., Aug. 24, 2026 — Infleqtion, a global leader in quantum computing and quantum sensing powered by neutral-atom technology, has helped Japan reach a major quantum milestone, supporting a research team led by Professor Kenji Ohmori at th

Watkins' departure would cut deepest - and Villa did not see it coming - Published Aston Villa have been here before. Last year, it was Emi Martinez looking to leave for Manchester United. When asked about the Argentina goalkeeper's absence from last season's opening league match

Taiwan has indicted nine people—reportedly including an Nvidia senior manager and two Supermicro employees based in the country—who allegedly helped forge documents to cover up illegal exports of high-end AI servers to China in violation of US export controls. On Monday, Reuters

Fast fashion major Shein Global Holdings is in the final leg of its long-winded initial public offering (IPO) journey, seeking to raise $1.8 billion (HK$13.9 billion) in Hong Kong, according to a Bloomberg report today. The retailer is offering 280 million shares at HK$47.6 to HK

Artificial Intelligence Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD): An open specification for agent discovery How AWS Agent Registry and the Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD) specification enable cross-environment discovery for your agents As organizations scale their use of artificial inte

Dive Brief: - Walmart has expanded its 30-minutes-or-less delivery offering into 38 U.S. markets, giving millions of additional customers access to a faster fulfillment option, President and CEO John Furner said in a Q2 earnings call Thursday. - The service began in May in 33 mar

Artificial Intelligence Building a restaurant telephony AI host with Amazon Connect At many restaurants, a large share of orders still arrive by phone, and those calls usually land on a staff member who is already taking care of customers at the counter. Callers wait on hold, ord

Alvarez's Arsenal dilemma amid summer's most bitter transfer tussle - Published Acrimony, anger and animosity: the Julian Alvarez summer transfer saga in a nutshell. The boos aimed at the Atletico Madrid forward from his own supporters at the Riyadh Air Metropolitano Stadium on S

SoftBank has sold another 4.5 crore shares of eyewear retailer Lenskart for around Rs 2,888 crore (over $300 million) through a block deal, making its second large sell-off in the company since June. According to the stock exchange, the shares were sold at Rs 641.75 each, taking

Episode details Available for over a year Today, Andy Burnham will hand over blueprints to Ukraine so Kyiv can build its own long-range missiles. On a visit to Kyiv to meet with President Zelensky, the PM promised to keep up the pressure on Russia despite Moscow's "outrageous thr

Dive Brief: - Gap Inc. has named Justin Breton as its vice president of development starting Aug. 31, the apparel company said in a Thursday email to Retail Dive. - Breton will manage the company’s content ideation, development and production of original content in multiple forma

After months of rumors surrounding his future, now we know: Four-time champion Max Verstappen is staying in the sport for the foreseeable future. The news broke on the eve of the Dutch Grand Prix, held this past weekend at Zandvoort in the Netherlands as F1 returned from its mand