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There's a group to thank for August's blockbuster jobs report: women. Women accounted for 158,000 — or around 98% — of the 162,000 jobs added in the month, according to a CNBC analysis of data released Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Men represent the remaining 4,000 ne

Policies from President Donald Trump's administration are helping keep bond yields higher despite the White House's own attempts to lower them. With the 80-year-old president unlikely to change his spots, Americans may not like what it could take to provide interest-rate relief:

Shares of Rail Vikas Nigam (RVNL) are expected to attract investor interest on Monday’s trade, September 7, after the company received a Letter of Award from SJVN Thermal Private Limited (STPL), a wholly owned subsidiary of SJVN, for the construction of a permanent siding along w

Enterprise work spans messages, decisions, projects, and obligations that change over time. An AI agent that starts without this context must reconstruct it before contributing. To provide agents with this necessary context, our team used NVIDIA NemoClaw to build a memory-driven

NVIDIA has agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12.93 billion, a transaction that would extend the company’s position from accelerated compute and AI infrastructure into one of the industry’s most widely used platforms for open models, datasets, and application development. In an

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Off the Wire Press Releases MILPITAS, Calif., Sept. 4, 2026 — SEMI, the industry association advancing the global semiconductor and electronics design and manufacturing supply chain, has announced in its Worldwide Semiconductor Equipment Market Statistics (WWSEMS) report that glo

ASUS is expanding its role in AI infrastructure, moving from individual AI servers to platforms for building, deploying, and operating entire AI factories. At AI Tech 2026 in Seoul, the company laid out a broader strategy that brings accelerated computing, networking, storage, de

A federal court in Delaware has ruled on a trademark fight between Elon Musk’s X and a startup trying to launch a rival social network. The startup, Operation Bluebird, originally launched under the name Twitter.now, but the court barred it from using that name, siding with X on

It’s not quite the “push button; get song” of Suno, but Roland’s new Melody Flip tool marks the company’s foray into generative AI music. Available as a plug-in for your digital audio workstation (DAW), Melody Flip offers around 250 “Palettes,” which are essentially themed collec

For many small-to-medium-sized businesses (SMBs), VMware has become too expensive. Broadcom’s acquisition of the virtualization firm brought the end of perpetual license sales and the arrival of pricey, stacked, subscription-based bundles that priced out many SMBs. The most obvio

U.S. employers added 162,000 jobs in August, nearly three times what economists had expected, while the labor force participation rate rose to 61.6%. More people moved from the sidelines directly into jobs, helping keep the unemployment rate at 4.1% even as the pool of available

Fall is the new peak season for luxury travel, as the wealthy continue to shift their holidays to September and October to avoid the summer crowds, according to a new study. Fall bookings for luxury travel and experiences are up 59% compared with last year, while sales surged 69%

Shares of Elon Musk’s SpaceX have been on a strong rally lately, as renewed investor optimism helps the stock recover from its post-listing losses. The optimism is being driven by the company’s expanding AI infrastructure ambitions, Starlink business, unmatched launch capabilitie

Artificial Intelligence Designing lifecycle policies for AgentCore memory Memory lifecycle policies help long-running agents on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore stay effective by systematically managing what they remember and forget. Your agent generates memories from every conversation

A clever technique used to hide malicious prompts in attacks on AI agents has been adopted by spammers to evade filters on email platforms that are designed to flag unwanted messages used in mass campaigns. The technique is broadly known as ASCII smuggling. It gained attention tw

It’s officially the Ternus era at Apple. Tim Cook stepped down as CEO this week, handing the company to former hardware chief John Ternus, whose first memo promised a “huge launch next week” — timing that puts Apple’s next iPhone event on his desk before he’s even settled in. Coo

As part of an AI-centric opening keynote for this year’s IFA tech convention in Berlin, AMD has announced that the company is adding another Halo-branded developer device to their lineup of systems with the Threadripper Halo Station. The forthcoming dev system is a full tower sys

Grab a new 3D printer for as low as $229 right now in Creality's Labor Day flash sale, with up to 50% off — big sale discounts also include resin and filament bundles, along with 3D scanners and toolkits Get started with a new hobby over the long weekend It's the Labor Day weeken

Following Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s startling announcement in July that the US military would begin mandatory testosterone screening for personnel, the Pentagon released a clinical guidance document on September 2 outlining the new medically questionable policy. The next d

Tesla’s private Cybercab event has come and gone, and it was very different from the large, loud, livestreamed events the company usually puts on — an odd choice for the launch of a product CEO Elon Musk has spent years building toward. In fact, it doesn’t even appear that Musk s

Back in 2009, Ars wrote about what was being reported as a leaked trailer for the then-upcoming Left 4 Dead 2, saying the footage “looks like it’s straight from a high-gloss action movie.” Today, we need to offer an important update to this crucial, 17-year-old story: The trailer

Sugar Cosmetics, once among the better-known names in India’s D2C beauty wave, has raised Rs 144.5 crore from existing investor A91 Partners as the company faces continued pressure on revenue and profitability. The funding comes alongside efforts by some early investors to find b

Yinka’s view West African governments are competing for something that, by definition, belongs to the region as a whole: the descendants of Africans taken during the transatlantic slave trade. Benin, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, and Sierra Leone have all created pathways to citizenship,

Rested after a month on the beach, European portfolio managers returned to their offices this week to the unfamiliar comfort of a home market doing really rather well. European equities have been on an impressive run, outperforming global peers over the past few months. This is p

The US labor market added 162,000 jobs in August, blowing past economists’ expectations, and the unemployment rate held steady at 4.1%. The gains came largely from a rebound in leisure and hospitality and local government, after declines in both over the summer. The stronger-than

On Friday, researchers announced the completion of a map of every neuron in the brain of a male fruit fly. The “connectome” provides a tool that can accelerate neurobiology research. But it also provides an opportunity to do some science on its own, as the connectome of a female

Anthropic’s prospective public-market investors must reckon with an external group of trustees that control the majority of the AI company’s board, as its planned blockbuster initial public offering forces close scrutiny of its experimental governance structure. The company’s Lon

A group of independent AI researchers discovered that internally deployed OpenAI agents began posting on an obscure German wiki forum in order to collaborate on evaluations. They appear to have worked together for over a month without OpenAI’s knowledge. A spokesperson for the fr

Running reasoning and agentic AI at the edge has been harder than it needs to be. Until recently, models capable of multi-step reasoning were too large to run locally on edge hardware. Developers building agents have had to route inference through a data center, adding network de