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Off the Wire Press Releases Aug. 27, 2026 — Since announcing Jalapeño, OpenAI’s first custom inference chip, the company has been testing the chip and the system built around it. The results show a significant performance advance: Jalapeño can serve more AI work per unit of power

In addition to paying out up to $18 billion and adding child safety measures, Meta’s settlement agreement with attorneys general from 29 states includes an interesting provision: The states have agreed not to sue Meta under existing child safety laws over its retention and use of

Shares of Salesforce jumped 22% Thursday after the company reported a beat on second-quarter earnings and announced an expanded partnership with artificial intelligence startup Anthropic. The stock notched its second-best day ever, trailing only August 2020, when shares jumped ro

Shares of Salesforce jumped 22% Thursday after the company reported a beat on second-quarter earnings and announced an expanded partnership with artificial intelligence startup Anthropic. The stock notched its second-best day ever, trailing only August 2020, when shares jumped ro

Mike Ashley attacks Burnham plans as 'populist' - Published Billionaire Sports Direct founder Mike Ashley has criticised recent cost of living and retail policies from Andy Burnham as "populist reactions". In a letter to the prime minister, the entrepreneur accused him of "jumpin

Nvidia is reportedly moving forward to acquire Hugging Face for $12.9 billion. The acquisition could help the hardware giant expand and fortify its deep integration with the wider AI industry. Among other things, Hugging Face is a cloud repository for AI models, similar in some r

YouTube announced on Thursday that eligible creators in the U.S. can now tag Amazon products in their content and receive a cut of sales. Creators can link Amazon products in their shorts, long-form videos, and livestreams. The update turns product recommendations into a more dir

The game of musical chairs for AI executives continues. Barret Zoph, a co-founder of the AI startup Thinking Machines who left the company earlier this year to rejoin OpenAI, has found yet another job. Zoph spent two years at OpenAI and left in October 2024 to co-found Thinking M

In March, Donald Trump Jr. told Republican state attorneys general not to go after prediction markets, The New York Times reported on Thursday. The president's son, who had been speaking at an event in New Orleans, said states were being misled by gambling companies that are worr

Off the Wire Press Releases Amazon’s Annapurna Labs will be the first to collaborate on NVHBM technology alongside NVLink Fusion. Aug. 27, 2026 — The next wave of AI is placing new demands on infrastructure. As AI agents and trillion-parameter workloads become mainstream, the per

Google’s AI note-taking app, Gemini Notebook, can now pull information from the books you’ve purchased. The new “Expert Intelligence” feature allows you to bring titles from Google Play Books directly into Gemini Notebook, which means you can ask questions about the material, as

(Bloomberg) -- Oil rose after a report said US President Donald Trump has told mediators he’s uninterested in returning to terms of a June ceasefire deal signed with Iran, casting doubt on a sustainable increase in energy flows through the Strait of Hormuz. West Texas Intermediat

* Shares down more than 29%, down about 55% YTD* Co lowers FY 2026 revenue outlook to $500 mln-$525 mln* Co says it is unable to renew partnership with WalmartBy Caroline ValetkevitchNEW YORK, Aug 27 (Reuters) - Shares of Build-A-Bear Workshop plunged on Thursday and were on pace

Off the Wire Press Releases Aug. 27, 2026 — The U.S. National Science Foundation Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering encourages the research community to apply to the NSF Expeditions in Computing program. Expeditions support ambitious, transformative

Off the Wire Press Releases SAN JOSE, Calif., Aug. 27, 2026 — MIPS, by GF, today announced it is now a Premier Member of RISC-V International, with Yankin Tanurhan, SVP & CTO of MIPS, by GF, appointed as Vice Chairman of the RISC-V International Board. The milestone advances GF a

* Warsh speaks at Jackson Hole on Friday as investors watch for policy clues * Investors weigh BOJ comments on possible rate hikes * Fed's Schmid, Goolsbee, Hammack flag inflation concerns * US weekly jobless claims slightly lower than expected (Updates to afternoon trading) By C

Werro edges closer to 800m mark as world records fall in Zurich - Published European champion Audrey Werro came tantalisingly close to downing the oldest outdoor world record in athletics, finishing a little more than four tenths of a second off Jarmila Kratochvilova's 800m mark

Anthropic on Thursday announced a new interface that will make it simpler for AI agents to operate and communicate with machinery, as the artificial intelligence giant pushes into the physical world. The Model Hardware Standard, or MHS, is designed to work with any device that ha

Brian recently caught up with Tim Shedd, an expert in thermal management and a pioneer in liquid cooling technologies. The podcast covers some of the historical aspects of data center liquid cooling, from Tim’s time working with Cray and spraying liquid across tubes to his more r

A version of this article first appeared in CNBC's Inside Wealth newsletter with Robert Frank, a weekly guide to the high-net-worth investor and consumer. Sign up to receive future editions, straight to your inbox. Family offices boosted their stock holdings in the second quarter

Donald Trump may be preparing to announce sweeping new semiconductor tariffs at the absolute worst time, the tech industry fears. On Thursday, Politico reported that a wide range of new semiconductor tariffs, which the tech industry expects will “doom” artificial intelligence inn

(Bloomberg) -- Zinc slipped from the highest level in more than four years, tracking losses in other metals while traders continue to monitor signs of supply tightness on the London Metal Exchange. Futures initially climbed as much as 1% before heading lower on the LME, with all

After an explosive debut and equally impressive crash, SpaceX shares are now, well, hovering in midair. After debuting as the most volatile stock among its large-cap peers, Elon Musk's astronomic equity hasn't moved in three weeks, with shares trading in a $10 range around the $1

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The national median apartment rent in August grew 0.1% from July, moving higher for the seventh straight month, according to Apartment List. While that might seem tiny, it is the first positive rent growth for the month since August 2022. Rents are still 0.8% lower compared with

Off the Wire Press Releases Aug. 27, 2026 — The EuroHPC JU continues to fund two flagship projects, EuroCC and CASTIEL, for a third period, further expanding HPC adoption and capabilities across Europe, while strengthening their collaborative network. EuroCC3: National Competence

Artificial Intelligence Introducing OpenAI models on Amazon Bedrock for in-country inferencing in India Amazon Bedrock now supports the OpenAI GPT-5.6 models, Terra and Luna, in India, with India geographic cross-Region inference. If you have local data processing requirements in

Off the Wire Press Releases SEATTLE and SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug. 27, 2026 — Amazon Web Services (AWS) and NVIDIA have announced a major expansion of their strategic collaboration to meet surging global demand for AI infrastructure as demand continues to accelerate. Building on a