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Anthropic on Tuesday announced it will change a controversial data retention policy for its business customers after "a lot of feedback," and it said it plans to implement a new solution called Enterprise Frontier Safeguards instead. The company introduced its existing data reten

Anthropic on Tuesday announced it will change a controversial data retention policy for its business customers after "a lot of feedback," and it said it plans to implement a new solution called Enterprise Frontier Safeguards instead. The company introduced its existing data reten

At VMware Explore 2026, we had the chance to sit down with Stuart McRae, Executive Director of Lenovo’s Enterprise Storage, Software, and Solutions Offering Group. Rather than focusing on a specific product or technology, as we often do, this conversation took a broader view. We

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is excluding two measles deaths reported by Pennsylvania health officials last week from its latest update of national measles data. The move publicly challenges the accuracy of the state’s death determinations in an extraordinary mo

Off the Wire Press Releases One fiber connector technology, from the optical engine to the box edge. Live connector demonstration at SEMICON Taiwan. SAN JOSE, Calif., Sept. 1, 2026 — Mixx Technologies, Inc. has launched the SxC Connector, an optical connector for both the front p

Apple is pushing for “expedited discovery” in its legal battle against OpenAI over concerns the company is actively destroying evidence, as reported earlier by Bloomberg. In a filing on Monday, Apple alleges OpenAI only just handed over a MacBook used by a former employee at the

Five takeaways from Burnham's Commons debut as PM - Published Andy Burnham has taken questions from MPs in the House of Commons for the first time since taking over as prime minister. The statement on his future plans for power comes six weeks after he took over from Sir Keir Sta

California Judge Orders Full Environmental Review of 330 MW Data Center A California judge says Imperial County must review a proposed 330 MW data center and its power, water, battery, and generation infrastructure. Imperial County must set aside key approvals for a planned 330 M

After 15 years, Tim Cook has handed off the Apple CEO role to John Ternus, the company’s senior vice president of hardware engineering. As of Tuesday, Ternus now leads one of the world’s most valuable companies. But if you’re not a dedicated Apple enthusiast, you’ve probably neve

Let’s be frank: Some of Google’s recent Android feature Drops have been duds, offering little more than an expansion of Gemini summaries and chat functions. The new September Drop does have some Gemini flavor, but there are non-AI goodies, too. Your messaging threads are getting

Off the Wire Press Releases Sept. 1, 2026 — AWS has announced that Amazon EC2 R9g and R9gd instances are generally available, powered by AWS Graviton5 processors. R9g instances are memory-optimized and deliver up to 25% better compute performance compared to Graviton4-based R8g i

Off the Wire Press Releases CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Sept. 1, 2026 — Matt Pines, Alex Klokus and Dr. Alexander Wissner-Gross today launched Physical Superintelligence (PSI), an AI-focused physics research lab developing computational models and tools for designing and optimizing physica

SB Energy has filed for an initial public offering with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, setting the stage for a potential public-market debut as the company expands into the rapidly growing business of powering artificial intelligence data centres. The company, backed

The Federal Trade Commission and 22 states sued Amazon yesterday, alleging that it has conducted a secret scheme to overcharge advertisers for seven years. “Since 2019, Amazon.com, Inc. has secretly and systematically overcharged its approximately 1.2 million advertising customer

Google is entering the creative design market with a new image-creation and editing tool called Google Pics, which will become a part of its Google Workspace suite for business customers and premium Google AI subscribers. The company says the product, which is powered by Google’s

MONTEREY, Calif.—Elsewhere on these pages, you can find our first track drive of the new Bentley Supersports. Shorn of its hybrid system and stripped back to rear-wheel drive, it’s not only the most driver-focused Bentley we can remember, but it’s also apparently the lightest car

"Inflation remains too high and has been for over five years," Barr said in prepared remarks for the Second Chance Lending Forum. With the Fed's September 15-16 policy meeting approaching, Barr said the direction of inflation will be critical in determining whether policymakers n

Steve Jobs and Tim Cook solved Apple’s biggest problems of their respective eras — building new products people loved and then manufacturing them at global, margin-fattening scale. John Ternus, who takes over as CEO today, will now have to confront Apple’s AI era. Among his first

Liz’s view Hi, and welcome back. A lot happened while Rohan and I were on vacation, but the one thing still on my mind — freshly cleansed by Hudson Valley air — is Kevin Warsh’s speech in Jackson Hole. The Fed chair argued the central bank should say less about what it’s thinking

Building on a partnership between NVIDIA and MediaTek that has existed for many years, NVIDIA announced this week that it will forge an even deeper partnership with its fellow fabless semiconductor firm. In a major deal that will tie the companies even closer together both financ

OpenAI said today that it is integrating ChatGPT Health with Epic’s electronic health record (EHR) system, which holds data for over 325 million patients, to let clinicians import patient data and use AI to ask questions. The company said that in certain systems, it will also int

Waymo argued last week that fully autonomous vehicles are not possible without using a mix of sensors, and that “pure end-to-end” AI systems are not safe enough — shots at Tesla, despite the Alphabet-owned company not naming names. The company took these swings in a blog post and

The crypto industry heads into September with its biggest legislative bet hanging in the balance, and little confidence the proposed bill will make it past the finish line. The looming vote on the crypto market structure bill known as the Clarity Act is shaping up as a critical t

The crypto industry heads into September with its biggest legislative bet hanging in the balance, and little confidence the proposed bill will make it past the finish line. The looming vote on the crypto market structure bill known as the Clarity Act is shaping up as a critical t

AI - ai and ml Anthropic promises zero data retention – but customers must check it workedMore compliance-friendly stance could boost appeal of Fable - Security Attacker st

SB Energy, the artificial intelligence power infrastructure company backed by Softbank, OpenAI and Nvidia, has filed for an initial public offering with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Among the risk factors listed in the Tuesday filing, SB Energy said it's "substantially

SB Energy, the artificial intelligence power infrastructure company backed by Softbank, OpenAI and Nvidia, has filed for an initial public offering with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Among the risk factors listed in the Tuesday filing, SB Energy said it's "substantially

A version of this article first appeared in the CNBC Property Play newsletter with Diana Olick. Property Play covers new and evolving opportunities for the real estate investor, from individuals to venture capitalists, private equity funds, family offices, institutional investors

Before joining Sequoia Capital in 2020 as chief digital and information officer, Avon Puri spent over a decade running infrastructure at Rubrik and VMware. Three years ago, as large language models began showing their true potential, Puri, alongside another Sequoia IT leader, Sud

When incoming Apple CEO John Ternus spoke to CNBC in late 2023, he was all about the technology. Custom chips, device battery life and memory architecture were among his primary interests. "If we build the right products with the right components within them, right silicon and ot

When incoming Apple CEO John Ternus spoke to CNBC in late 2023, he was all about the technology. Custom chips, device battery life and memory architecture were among his primary interests. "If we build the right products with the right components within them, right silicon and ot

Artificial Intelligence From theory to delivery: How Atos upskilled 400 engineers in agentic AI When Atos set out to upskill 400 engineers from theory to delivery in agentic AI, the team faced a familiar challenge: how to build real-world capability, not only theoretical knowledg

The state government of Haryana has granted full university status to Gurugram-based Masters’ Union (MU), paving the way for the company to operate as Master’s Union University. The Haryana Legislative Assembly passed the Haryana Private Universities (Amendment) Bill, 2026, allow

The Scoop Apollo founder Leon Black’s career started falling apart in October of 2020, when The New York Times revealed that he’d been one of Jeffrey Epstein’s main financial patrons, relying on the criminal long after others had abandoned him. The veteran finance writer Bill Coh

River water smashed into tunnel and chased me for 20 minutes, Nepal worker tells BBC - Published Nepalese hydropower workers have told the BBC about the catastrophic moment water from the Trishuli River crashed into their tunnel as the region was inundated by deadly flash floods

AI - ai and ml Anthropic promises zero data retention – but customers must check it workedMore compliance-friendly stance could boost appeal of Fable - Security Attacker st

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MinIO goes to Saudi Arabia to build HUMAIN AI data fabric MinIO is partnering Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund to provide the data foundation for a sovereign Saudi AI Stack provided by HUMAIN, which is building an operating system for enterprise intelligence. MinIO and HUMAIN

Artificial Intelligence Tokenomics at scale: How Jamf built real-time spend enforcement for Amazon Bedrock Generative AI spend behaves unlike any cost line before it. Traditional compute scales with provisioned capacity. AI spend scales with behavior: a single engineer running an