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Everyone’s waiting for Nvidia to confirm this week’s most interesting tech deal: A reported $13 billion acquisition of Hugging Face, a platform for sharing open-weight AI models and benchmarks. Now best known as the target for a team of reward-hacking OpenAI agents, Hugging Face

The Treasury Department on Friday moved to sanction the United Arab Emirates branch of an Egyptian bank over its financial ties to Iran. Treasury intends to revoke the access of Banque Misr UAE to U.S. financial institutions, the department said in a statement. Banque Misr UAE pr

The Trump administration’s blacklisting of Anthropic was illegal, a federal judge ruled in an order vacating government directives against the use of the firm’s AI technology. The government illegally retaliated against Anthropic by designating it a supply-chain risk to national

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More British athletes convicted in connection with Baptiste case - Published Three British former athletes were convicted in Morocco as part of an investigation into the sexual assault of a minor by a sprinting coach, BBC Sport can reveal. The prosecutions led to the imprisonment

Wife of man who died after turbulence sues airline - Published A widow whose husband died after "severe turbulence" on a flight has begun legal action against the airline. Lawyers for Linda Kitchen, 74, from Thornbury near Bristol, who broke her back during the incident, said her

Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh used his Jackson Hole speech Friday to answer critics of his muddled July news conference, delivering a clearer warning that stubborn inflation could push the Fed toward a rate hike. Warsh's first pair of news conferences as Fed chairman left

Reed’s view One common response to warnings that a rogue AI could eventually threaten humanity is that humanity will also have plenty of AI firepower available to counter it. That idea just got a real-world test, and came up short. The research nonprofit METR (Model Evaluation an

Satellite images reveal scale of flood devastation in Nepal villages - Published New satellite imagery has revealed the scale of the devastation along Nepal's Trishuli River caused by Wednesday's deadly flash flood, triggered by a glacier collapse. Before-and-after images show ho

During a visit to Johnson Space Center, President Trump on Friday signed an executive order to establish a new commission with the purpose of creating the first national space academy. “It’s clear that we will need to educate and train an entire generation of skilled service memb

Videos show people survive floodwaters on balcony in Nepal A video has captured the moment a group of people stranded on a balcony in Nepal survived as powerful floodwaters rush around them. It's one of several clips BBC Verify has located along the Trishuli River after a deadly

Nvidia's blockbuster second-quarter numbers, along with its upbeat outlook, not only ignited a chip rally on Wall Street but also lifted global markets, including Taiwan, which has been a key beneficiary of the ongoing AI boom. The TAIEX, Taiwan’s benchmark stock index, closed Fr

Apple increased the price for a monthly subscription to Apple TV by $2, to $15, today. Annual prices increased by 20 percent from $99 to $119. Current subscribers will receive one month’s notice before paying the new prices, Apple said, per Variety. Apple’s most recent price hike

The stock was last trading 15% higher at $23.95, which would add about $1.14 billion to Gap's market value if the gains hold. The sharp rally came despite continued weakness at Old Navy, suggesting investors were encouraged by Gap's higher annual profit forecast and the prospect

Sweden is perhaps one of the world’s hottest tech hubs right now. It has long been home to Spotify and Klarna, but this latest wave of companies — from legal AI startup Legora to vibe-coding tool company Lovable — has left everyone wondering what’s going on in one of the world’s

The Scene If you can’t beat ’em, hook up your data to a chatbot. Salesforce this week announced “Claudeforce,” a partnership with Anthropic that lets salespeople look up customer records and check on deals by typing requests to Claude, instead of clicking through a Salesforce das

Open AI models are evolving faster than ever, but bringing them into native applications can still require model-specific conversion, preprocessing, post-processing, and runtime code. NVIDIA TensorRT Model Connect open collection of reference implementations helps to address this

The regulator is also mulling raising the limit on the size of companies that can list on platforms dedicated to small firms and mandating larger operating profit requirements before listing, the sources, who did not want to be named as the discussions are private, said. The pote

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Trump Targets Foreign Grid Equipment as Data Centers Expand A new Executive Order targets foreign grid equipment as utilities and data center developers contend with tight supplies and long lead times. President Donald Trump has declared a national emergency over the US bulk powe

The Scoop Google and Microsoft were both in talks with Nscale to rent AI computing capacity from the company’s massive data center project in West Virginia — a lease that ultimately went to Anthropic, a person familiar with the matter told Semafor. The AI startup will pay $45 bil

The News JACKSON HOLE, Wyo. — Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh made his debut Friday on one of the global economy’s biggest stages, where he appeared to play the hawk. But looks can be deceiving. Warsh used his first speech at the Kansas City Fed’s storied economic policy sympos

Gold prices reversed their gains and fell by more than 1% on Friday, 28 August, following United States Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh's speech and amid small downward revision in the US nonfarm payrolls numbers, according to reports. Warsh in his speech hinted that the centra

I’m on record declaring James Cameron’s Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) to be The Best Damn Sequel of All Time, and I stand by that assessment. August 29, the fictional date (in 1997) of the franchise’s original nuclear holocaust, is fast approaching, and Judgment Day is celebr

Just as new data centers face growing backlash from neighboring communities, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is about to make it harder for people to weigh in on any pollution those centers create. Trump’s EPA wants to let data centers hide their air pollution The Tr

Voice AI startup Gnani.ai has unveiled Artha, an end-to-end sovereign AI stack aimed at Indian enterprises and public institutions. The platform was unveiled by India’s vice president CP Radhakrishnan in New Delhi today. Artha combines two of Gnani.ai’s core offerings – Evon v3.3

Artificial Intelligence How Decathlon runs demand forecasting at scale with Chronos-2 This post is co-written with Vianney Bruned, Filippo Giruzzi, Belkiss Saidi, and Carlos Ramirez from Decathlon. Decathlon is one of the world’s largest sporting goods retailers, with more than 1

Artificial Intelligence Spreading the load: How Salesforce met Multi-AZ HA with SageMaker Inference Components When Salesforce set out to make Agentforce (Salesforce’s AI foundation for agents) highly available (HA) across multiple Availability Zones (AZs), the team faced a gap.

Sports betting has become fairly ubiquitous in the U.S. since the Supreme Court lifted a federal ban on the practice in 2018. More than a quarter (27%) of Americans and over half (52%) of men aged 18 to 49 say they have an active online sportsbook account, according to a Siena Po

Kioxia and Sandisk outlined a joint capital investment plan totaling over $31 billion (approximately 5 trillion yen) through 2032 to expand advanced 3D NAND flash memory production in Japan. The planned deployment of capital is contingent on Japanese government subsidies and buil