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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

AI - SYSTEMS What Nvidia's first Groq 3 LPU benchmarks tell us about its $20B gambleGemma 4 31B performance tests offer a best-case scenario for next-gen dataflow accelerators -

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

Empowering autonomous agents with advanced security governance Doug Ko Senior Product Marketing Manager, Security AI agents are the ultimate insiders. We grant them permission to read emails, query databases, and trigger API calls. They don’t just retrieve information, they take

New AI-powered quick assessments in Migration Center turbocharge modernization Jeff Welsch Principal, Product Management, Enterprise Migration & Growth Rajesh Rathod Lead Group Product Manager Technology leaders are under mounting pressure to modernize infrastructure, control mul

Artificial Intelligence AI-powered metadata correction and harmonization As data collection and data generation accelerate, the gap between our ability to produce raw data and our capacity to standardize it continues to widen. Without automation, this gap becomes a critical bottl

A Goldman Sachs partner leading one of the bank's flagship artificial intelligence projects warned that AI's spread across Wall Street risks hobbling the thinking capabilities of the next generation of financiers. "There's a huge danger here that in the era of AI, we outsource ou

A Goldman Sachs partner leading one of the bank's flagship artificial intelligence projects warned that AI's spread across Wall Street risks hobbling the thinking capabilities of the next generation of financiers. "There's a huge danger here that in the era of AI, we outsource ou

U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer on Monday said Canada was responsible for the collapse of trade deal negotiations last week, telling CNBC that Ottawa changed its demands at the eleventh hour. "We progressed to a point Tuesday night where we had enough agreement among the

Off the Wire Press Releases Aug. 24, 2026 — The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) has launched six new calls to advance strategic quantum technologies and the infrastructure needed to accelerate the development and deployment of next-generation quantum systems in Europe. Tra

Walmart Chief Communications Officer Allyson Park on Sept. 1 is leaving that position and switching to an advisory role, Park told Retail Dive by email. She will be with the retail giant through Feb. 1. Starting in September, she will advise Dan Bartlett, executive vice president

32GB of DDR5 6000 RAM now costs $400 — the latest price hike puts DIY PC building further out of reach than ever before A memory record no one asked for When it comes to building a gaming PC, DDR5 RAM clocked at speeds of 6,000 MT/s is often touted as the sweet spot for specs. Wh

New York-based General Intuition, the startup building a foundation model that trains generalized AI agents to move through space and time, is in talks to raise funding at a $6 billion pre-money valuation from new investors including Valor Equity Partners, Point72 Ventures, and S

Global startup accelerator Y Combinator has sold shares worth around Rs 970 crore in Meesho through a block deal on the stock exchanges, marking another major exit by an early investor in the ecommerce company. According to data available on the NSE, Y Combinator sold around 4.84

Adding to its Lenskart windfall, global investment firm SoftBank has now offloaded 4.50 Cr shares in the eyewear retailer to rake in ₹2,887.9 Cr. As per BSE data, the investor, via its holding entity SoftBank Vision Fund (SVF) II Lightbulb (Cayman) Ltd, sold the shares at an aver

Prometheus’ 1.5 GW Texas Data Center Plan Tests Private Power The developer plans an islanded campus with onsite generation, but reaching its 2027 target will require a customer, modular construction, and a new power plant. Data center developer Prometheus Hyperscale is betting t

Dive Brief: - Fragrance, skin care and self-care sales helped drive strong growth in the U.S. beauty industry for the first half of 2026, according to a report from Circana. - Prestige retail beauty sales were up 7% year over year to $17.1 billion in the first six months and mass

Nine indicted by Taiwan over illegal export of Nvidia B300 GPUs to China — details reveal five-point strategy to exploit and avoid customs controls A huge operation Just days after Supermicro revealed it had terminated several employees following an internal investigation into U.

The massive growth of generative AI has fundamentally altered data center design. As distributed model training scales to span hundreds of thousands of GPUs, the scale-out network connecting these nodes has emerged as a first-order performance bottleneck. For decades, traditional

US-based startup accelerator Y Combinator offloaded 4.85 Cr shares of listed ecommerce platform Meesho, around a 1% stake, via multiple block deals, as per NSE data. Y Combinator Continuity Holdings I sold 2.3 Cr shares, while YCS16 Holdings parted with 2.1 Cr shares and YCVC Fun

To generate intelligence at scale, AI factories run continuously, and their economics are defined by delivered output: tokens per second, tokens per watt, cost per token, utilization and uptime. That requires AI infrastructure designed and built as a full factory, not a collectio

The next era of AI inference won’t be defined by a single breakthrough chip, network or system. It’ll be defined by how every layer of the AI factory works together. That’s why NVIDIA is extending Vera Rubin NVL72 with fast token generation for agentic systems. Announced today, t

According to OpenRouter data, agentic AI workloads consume 15x more tokens than a simple chat request. Why? Consider what happens when an AI agent researches a company for an investment decision. The agent queries financial databases, searches news and filings, invokes a sub-agen

AI agents have expanded inference from single-turn interactions into multi-step workflows that reason, invoke tools, coordinate subagents, and carry growing context from one turn to the next. The scale of this shift is now visible in raw consumption: across 100 trillion tokens of

How much control are you willing to give an LLM over your digital life? Getting the most value from a model means giving it the keys. For a control freak or the AI-hesitant, it seems like a lot. For Andrew Ambrosino, the lead engineer for OpenAI’s desktop app, it’s the only way t

NVIDIA Groq 3 LPX is the interactive AI inference accelerator for the NVIDIA Vera Rubin platform. At the core of the platform is NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72, the most versatile machine ever built, delivering high throughput and interactivity across the widest range of AI workloads—fr

AI factories are interconnected systems where fleet economics depend on how efficiently the entire stack converts power and capital into completed agent tasks. While GPUs run the models, CPUs handle orchestration, tool execution, and sandboxed computation. Unlike conventional com

Traditional cloud infrastructure was designed for predictable, general-purpose workloads and standard interfaces. Agentic AI factories connect diverse users, agents, applications, data sources, and storage systems to massively accelerated compute at multi-terabit bandwidth per se

Donald Trump is presiding over an unexpected clean energy boom, as rising electricity demand spurs investment in new capacity despite the US administration’s efforts to thwart a solar and wind rollout. Clean energy additions will rise by a record 45 gigawatts this year, according

Africa continues to face the world’s largest electricity access gap with a shortfall in investment “the central constraint,” the latest Africa Sustainable Development Report said. Access to electricity increased from approximately 46% in 2015 to about 53% in 2023, yet nearly 600

Data Empire by Roopika Risam. Risam takes readers back to the dawn of data, charting the course of human recordkeeping from Mesopotamian farming to present-day surveillance technology. Inspired by an incident in her own life in which she discovered a singular database error that

Dive Brief: - Ann Taylor is targeting multifaceted, modern working women with its first major integrated marketing campaign in nearly a decade, according to a press release. - “This Is Ann” centers on ads that show a busy mom as she sports outfits for various occasions, including

Nigeria’s Dangote Group has offered East African countries a 30% stake in a new oil refinery planned in northern Kenya, Bloomberg reported. Ethiopia and Rwanda have already expressed an interest in investing in the facility in Lamu, according to Kenyan President William Ruto’s to

Nigeria’s antitrust regulator ordered MTN Group, Africa’s largest mobile operator, to sell a 30% stake in its Nigerian tower unit to local investors as a condition to secure approval for the $6.2 billion acquisition of IHS Holdings. The ruling underscores Abuja’s push to deepen l