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Software giant Adobe has acquired Peak XV Partners-backed martech startup Rilo for an undisclosed amount. An Adobe spokesperson confirmed the development to Inc42. However, there appears no clarity on the deal size. This is Adobe’s second acquisition of an Indian startup, after i

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Artificial Intelligence Modernizing and scaling support operations with generative AI on AWS Scaling support operations requires handling rising ticket volumes, meeting strict Service Level Agreements (SLAs), adapting to evolving compliance requirements, and maintaining documenta

All states going forward must report undocumented immigrants known to be in a state to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security or risk losing federal funding for programs meant to aid low-income individuals, the Department of Justice said in a new legal opinion. The DOJ, in issu

Artificial Intelligence How an AWS team detects dashboard content failures at scale using Amazon Bedrock Picture a scenario familiar to any organization running business intelligence (BI) at scale: A user opens a dashboard minutes before an important meeting and finds a blank cha

Artificial Intelligence From code to diagrams: Agentic architecture documentation with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Architecture documentation remains one of the most persistent challenges in software development as code bases evolve rapidly. Development teams often spend hours manua

Artificial Intelligence Trinity: Agentic AI-powered transition planning for students with disabilities This post was co-authored with Marc Steren, Odina Salihbaeva, and Aashrit Surapaneni from University Startups, a partnership between University Startups, g/d/n/a, and AWS. Trini

Google hasn’t released a frontier-level Gemini Pro AI model since early 2026, but it sure loves rolling out new Gemini Flash variants. Today, Google is announcing its third Flash model release in just six weeks, making it more likely that we’ll never see the promised Gemini 3.5 P

When it comes to paying for long-term care — potentially one of the biggest costs in retirement — 39% of middle-class households expect to turn to Medicare, according to a new survey from the American Council of Life Insurers, an insurance industry trade group. Yet there is one p

Optics Still Driving Marvell’s AI Business More Than Custom Chips The datacenter has become the dominate factor in driving the business of chip maker and chip shepherd Marvell, and the growth in this business is almost exclusively coming from components for AI clusters. While it

Four federal agencies have been sued amid calls to release information about the secret framework that the Trump administration uses to conduct safety reviews of frontier AI models prior to release. In a Wednesday press release announcing the lawsuit, a nonpartisan nonprofit call

The coming week could be pivotal for Oracle and the AI complex. The day after OpenAI Foundation's presentation at the Goldman Sachs Communications & Technology conference, Oracle reports earnings amid enormous enthusiasm for its role in the AI infrastructure buildout precisely at

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Abel said that Berkshire sees significant opportunities from the expansion of AI data centers, following its decision to make Alphabet its third-largest common stock holding. Reuters reported that Berkshire ended June with nearly 106 million Alphabet shares worth about $37.8 bill

Amazon is trying to combat impersonation scams with a new feature that allows you to use its AI assistant to determine whether an email, text message, or phone call actually came from the company. With the update, you can ask Alexa for Shopping about a message you received, and i

Shares of Palo Alto Networks plunged 11% in Wednesday's trade, 2 September, sliding to around $322 apiece as investors appeared disappointed with the company's fiscal fourth-quarter results, despite the numbers coming in above Wall Street expectations. The decline also marked the

Off the Wire Press Releases SYRACUSE, N.Y., Sept. 2, 2026 — BQP today announced a strategic investment from IBM Ventures, the venture capital arm of IBM. The investment brings BQP’s total funding to $8 million and funds BQPhy’s expansion from engineering design into operational d

Iranian attack on Saudi tanker killed two Filipino sailors, Saudi Arabia says - Published Saudi Arabia has condemned what it said was an Iranian attack on a Saudi-owned supertanker on Monday night that killed two Filipino sailors. The Saudi national shipping company, Bahri, confi

New York Federal Reserve President John Williams said Wednesday that the recent surge in Treasury yields is the product of a strong economy, not market dysfunction. The central bank policymaker added in a CNBC interview that he's still absorbing economic data, and did not commit

Netherlands moves billions in gold to London in 'crisis preparedness' move - Published The Dutch central bank (DNB) has confirmed that billions of dollars in gold has been taken out of north America and relocated to London, citing "increasing geopolitical unrest". DNB said on Wed

The internet has a trust problem, and it’s not just because social media feeds are filling up with AI slop. AI-generated text and images are now making their way into job applications, product reviews, and even insurance claims, leaving platforms and users alike scrambling to fig

NVIDIA CUDA remains the foundation of GPU-accelerated computing, powering everything from scientific simulations to large-scale AI training. But writing correct, maintainable, and performant CUDA code can be challenging: memory bugs hide in plain sight, performance bottlenecks ca

Southwest Airlines on Wednesday unveiled plans for its network of airport lounges that it's been hinting at for months. The carrier said its first lounges would debut in Austin, Texas; Baltimore; Honolulu; and Nashville, Tennessee. It said construction has already begun at those

Elon Musk’s social network X on Wednesday said that starting today, all of its U.S. creator payouts will be handled through X Money, the app’s payments service. This includes payouts from both X’s Original Content Rewards Program and creators’ subscriptions, the company said in a

In a lawsuit that The New York Times filed against OpenAI, the Trump administration has contributed a 20-page brief in defense of the ChatGPT maker’s unlicensed use of copyrighted material to train its LLMs. “The United States has a strong interest in continuing to develop a robu

David’s view House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries shared good news with his caucus this week: His Democrats’ bid for a midterm campaign focused on “affordability” is cutting through the noise. According to polling that Jeffries circulated this week, Democrats have fixed a mismat

Global investment firm Alpha Wave has exited almost its entire stake in fintech company Pine Labs through a Rs 550 crore block deal on Wednesday. According to exchange data, Alpha Wave sold 3.54 crore shares, representing a 3.11% stake, at Rs 155.10 apiece in a block deal worth a

Indian stock market investors are likely to track several companies on Thursday, September 3, following key developments and announcements. RBL Bank, Power Grid Corporation of India, Paisalo Digital, NHPC, ICICI Bank, India Cements, and Meesho are among the stocks likely to remai

Geothermal energy company Fervo notched another win as Google agreed to buy nearly half a gigawatt of electricity to power a planned new data center in Utah. The power purchase agreement, announced Tuesday, commits Google to buying 396 megawatts from Fervo’s Cape Station power pl

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EU and Nato vow to step up pressure on Russia after 'new escalation' in Germany - Published The heads of Nato and the European Commission have warned that Russia is growing increasingly reckless and vowed to respond to a "new normal". "Leipzig marks a new escalation on European U

OpenAI is on the cusp of releasing its most powerful AI model yet, Astra, following weeks of delays to shore up safety protocols after its agents attacked real targets during testing. As details about the model trickle out, researchers are warning it “may be the single worst deve

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Proactive cyber defense for governments and enterprises Defenders wanting to use advanced AI have faced a difficult dilemma: adopt enormous frontier models that could be expensive to deploy and difficult to control across enterprise codebases, or turn to smaller open-weight model

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