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Dive Brief: - Consumer confidence waned this month amid growing pessimism about prospects for jobs, income and business conditions, The Conference Board said Tuesday in a report on a monthly survey. - A gauge of consumer confidence fell in August for the second consecutive month,

Episode details Available for over a year Today, we discuss Meta’s decision to agree to an $18 billion settlement resolving claims from 29 US states that Facebook and Instagram harmed children. Technology and AI editor Zoe Kleinman joins Adam to discuss the short trial and why Me

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Hyperscalers and AI-focused infrastructure operators are increasingly developing proprietary AI accelerators and XPUs to keep pace with large language models and complex reasoning workloads. To address the physical, memory, and networking challenges of deploying proprietary silic

Google is adding new ways for users to plan and book trips through AI Mode, its conversational search experience, the company announced on Thursday. Users will now be able to ask AI Mode to track flight prices, book hotels, and see the cost of flights and hotels in points or mile

Hot Chips 2026: Cerebras lays out the future of wafer-scale AI — Nexus system architecture triples rack-scale performance, CS-6 wafer to incorporate stacked DRAM You're gonna need a bigger chip. Cerebras' SRAM-packed wafer-scale engines (WSEs) have carved out a niche in the AI mo

Rather than holding onto tariff refunds to beef up margins and profits, Burlington plans to put the full amount it received in Q2— some $55 million — toward lower prices. “No. 1, it feels like the right thing to do for our customers,” CEO Michael O’Sullivan told analysts Thursday

Glass substrate roadmaps examined — Absolics in final qualification and a first product that keeps slipping Three years on, not much has happened. Glass-core substrates, the replacement for organic chip packaging that Intel promised in September 2023 with more than $1 billion beh

A thousand people voluntarily buried their cotton underpants for two months—not to keep the Underpants Gnomes from stealing them, but as part of a citizen science project to map out soil health in 25 countries around the world. The results of this unique experiment were reported

Dive Brief: - Cookware retailer Sur La Table launched a peer-to-peer resale marketplace Tuesday called Second Servings, according to details emailed to Retail Dive. - The U.S.-only online platform allows users to sell eligible kitchenware, home goods and dining products using pre

Global investment firm Alpha Wave has offloaded nearly 1.92 Cr shares or 7.78% stake in MSME-focused NBFC Aye Finance via bulk deals today, as per BSE data. Alpha Wave India I sold two separate tranches of 95.94 Lakh shares each at weighted average prices of ₹168.19 and ₹168.02 a

Nvidia expects to sell $20 billion of Vera Rubin systems in Q3 as shipments begin — figure would account for 20% of its data center revenue mix, marks fastest ramp in company history 20% of data center revenue. Nvidia expects sales of the Vera Rubin platform to account for around

Harry Stebbings, Rory O’Driscoll and I went through Nvidia’s ecosystem spending spree, OpenAI’s move from number one to number two, and what happens to CFO budgets when your best people are addicted to tokens. #1. Nvidia paid $6B for Poolside’s Model Factory, and the trigger was

The BLUETTI Elite 300 is a 3kWh portable power station intended for home backup, RV travel, camping, remote work, and jobs where dependable AC and DC power may not be nearby. Its 3,014.4Wh LiFePO₄ battery places it above the smaller units mainly used for phones, laptops, and camp

Samsung's new Odyssey G6 monitor hits a ridiculous 1,100Hz refresh rate at 720p — displays each frame for less than a millisecond Ironically, the display with the four-digit refresh rate is actually the bottom of the display stack Samsung is showing off at Gamescom 2026. Remember

Amazon Web Services and NVIDIA have announced a major expansion of their joint infrastructure initiatives, outlining plans to deploy an additional 2 million NVIDIA GPUs across AWS data centers between 2027 and 2028. Building on a 16-year engineering relationship, the expanded col

Teacher guilty of indecent assaults against two pupils - Published A chemistry teacher has been found guilty of indecently assaulting two teenage pupils at an all-boys school in the late 1980s. Sally-Anne Bowen, who taught at Christ's College in Finchley, north London, assaulted

Off the Wire Press Releases WILMINGTON, Del., Aug. 27, 2026 — The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the global home of open source software the world relies on, today announced that Apache Iggy and Apache Sourcelume have become Top-Level Projects (TLP). Apache Iggy is a hyper-eff

Investor appetite for the primary market remained strong, with the recently concluded IPOs of Hy-Tech Engineers and Tempsens Instruments drawing an overwhelming response across investor categories. Both issues witnessed robust demand from retail, non-institutional, and institutio

Many talks between data center developers and local governments are wrapped in secrecy behind non-disclosure agreements — residents question the need for NDAs, but developers argue it’s important to avoid ‘running afoul of insider trading rules’ People have the right to know. Res

Kusama: Infinity by Heather Lenz. The 2018 documentary follows the late Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, who died this month at the age of 97, from her conservative upbringing in Nagano, through her emergence as one of the mid-20th century’s leading artists, to her startling 1977 de

Josh Mackanic left a 10-year engineering career at Pacific Gas and Electric because he kept thinking about what the utility company doesn’t know about what’s buried underground. “I had a job that got shut down because a pipe was in the excavation [that] we didn’t know about. Fort

Hugging Face unveiled the Microduck on Thursday, a cute little duck-like robot that sells for $399 — and ships before Christmas. Clem Delangue, CEO of Hugging Face, said the Microduck is an “open-source robot you can teach new tricks with reinforcement learning.” The 25-centimete

Off the Wire Press Releases TOKYO, Aug. 27, 2026 — Kioxia Corporation, a world leader in memory solutions, announced today that it has commenced site preparation and other related work for the construction of Fab3, a new state-of-the-art manufacturing facility at the Kitakami Pla

Panic, the indie game publishers behind the quirky, yellow crank-sporting Playdate gaming handheld, is issuing refunds to customers who had to shoulder the cost of inappropriate tariffs imposed by the Trump administration this year. The news comes months after the Supreme Court s

Defence tech startup Sanlayan Technologies turned profitable in the financial year 2025-26 (FY26), as acquisitions helped it scale its portfolio of radar, electronic warfare, and other strategic electronic systems. The Bengaluru-based startup posted a consolidated net profit of ₹

Defence tech startup Sanlayan Technologies turned profitable in the financial year 2025-26 (FY26), as acquisitions helped it scale its portfolio of radar, electronic warfare, and other strategic electronic systems. The Bengaluru-based startup posted a consolidated net profit of ₹

Mumbai: The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) is likely to approve the National Stock Exchange’s (NSE) initial public offering (IPO) soon, bringing India’s largest stock exchange closer to its debut in the capital markets after a decade-long wait. “Yes, we are close (

Uefa preparing criminal legal action against Infantino - Published Uefa is preparing criminal legal proceedings against Fifa president Gianni Infantino over the now scrapped plan to sell off stakes in the World Cup and its other competitions to private investors. Documents seen b

You read that right. There is a new social network called “Twitter.now” on the block, and it’s being operated by a startup called Operation Bluebird, whose founding team includes former Twitter trademark counsel Stephen Coates. As ArsTechnica reported, X sued the company last yea

Nvidia is bolstering support for Chinese artificial intelligence models in a play to beat domestic chipmakers to optimizing hardware for the systems. The move comes amid growing unease among U.S. lawmakers about the adoption of Chinese AI models by American companies. The chip gi

Nvidia is bolstering support for Chinese artificial intelligence models in a play to beat domestic chipmakers to optimizing hardware for the systems. The move comes amid growing unease among U.S. lawmakers about the adoption of Chinese AI models by American companies. The chip gi