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The News Hollywood’s dirty little secret is that filmmakers do like AI, and they use it to save money. A finalist in this year’s Reply AI Film Festival competition, Mike Bennion told Semafor he was recently asked to use AI for a Hollywood movie currently in production that was sh

Artificial Intelligence Build a Physical AI model factory with NVIDIA Cosmos 3 on SageMaker HyperPod A Physical AI system, such as a robot or autonomous vehicle (AV) that translates real-world data into physical actions, can’t be built in a single training job. Instead, it takes

Minisforum launches local AI solutions at IFA 2026 — AI Agent NAS N5 and AI Mini Workstation MS-S1 use AMD Ryzen AI Max+ Pro 495 processors designed to run models locally These are Minisforum's top-end mini-PC and NAS offerings, featuring AMD's latest AI processors. Mini-PC maker

Dive Brief: - Lululemon reported a rough Q2 Thursday, as sales of its signature leggings plunged 20% compared to last year. Net revenue fell 4% to $2.4 billion overall, and 8% in the Americas. Comps fell 9% overall and 12% in the Americas. - Gross margin expanded by 200 basis poi

Artificial Intelligence Run agent-driven Amazon SageMaker HyperPod operations with InstantStart If you run foundation model (FM) workloads on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod, you know the work is rarely a single task. It is a chain of dependent ones. An infrastructure team creates the

D2C beauty and personal brand SUGAR Cosmetics has raised ₹144.47 Cr ($15.3 Mn) in a fresh equity round from VC firm A91 Partners, as per the startup’s MCA filings accessed by Inc42. It allotted 1.12 Lakh Series D7 CCPS to A91’s entity A91 Emerging Fund III at an issue price of ₹1

AMD used its IFA 2026 opening keynote to reveal the Threadripper Halo Station, a liquid-cooled workstation pairing a 96-core Threadripper PRO with a pair of Instinct MI350P accelerators, and the pitch could not be more direct: this is AMD’s answer to NVIDIA’s GB300 DGX Station. “

Artificial Intelligence Customizing your knowledge base on Amazon Bedrock for large and complex documents using Amazon Textract For customer service teams handling thousands of utility bills each month, accurately parsing and analyzing complex, multi-page documents is a persisten

Off the Wire Press Releases The state-of-the-art quantum facility will strengthen Europe’s ability to design, manufacture and scale next-generation quantum chips, helping to position the continent as a global leader in quantum technology. COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Sept. 4, 2026 — Quan

Artificial Intelligence How Intuit built an agentic disaster recovery assistant with Amazon Bedrock Disaster recovery (DR) at scale is hard. When thousands of microservices span multiple AWS Regions, coordinating a reliable failover becomes a major operational challenge. At Intui

Microsoft’s Copilot rarely reproduces even full sentences from news articles and books, let alone substantive chunks that could substitute for the original, the company says in new legal filings as it fights copyright claims from publishers including The New York Times and book a

Off the Wire Press Releases FREMONT, Calif., Sept. 4, 2026 — Penguin Solutions, Inc. has announced its participation at AI Infra Summit 2026, taking place September 15-17 at the Santa Clara Convention Center. Penguin will host product demonstrations at booth #520 and deliver a sp

AI - On-PREM AMD's Threadripper Halo is a local-AI workstation for researchers with deep pocketsAI workstation promises to put up to 576 GB of HBM3e and 16 TB/s of memory bandwidth on your desk -

America | Tech | Opinion | Culture | Charts We are running out of watts. AI inference is one of the fastest-growing markets in the history of capitalism, and we are running out of nearly every physical input required to serve it: powered land, turbines, transformers, data centers

How Yahoo optimizes resources with flexible VMs in Managed Service for Apache Spark Akshay Jain Senior Software Engineer, Yahoo Surjit Singh Data & AI Engineer, Google Cloud As a global media and technology company connecting hundreds of millions of users to finance, sports, and

Spanner migrations: Automating dual-write with Antigravity CLI for minimal disruption Sachin Mathapati Application Engineer When Google's Finance Engineering team needed to modernize their legacy data layer, they chose Spanner, a globally distributed, strongly consistent, multi-m

On Thursday, Elon Musk’s X won a court order blocking Operation Bluebird from launching a new app taking over the Twitter name. In his opinion, Chief Judge Colm Connolly explained that Operation Bluebird was unlikely to prove that X had entirely abandoned the Twitter name. Theref

Dive Brief: - Amazon has made agentic AI assistant Alexa+ free for all Prime members as it completes the rollout in the U.S., the company announced Tuesday. - Non-Prime members can access the full Alexa+ for a $19.99 per month subscription. They can also access a free text-based

The normally genteel world of international space policy turned ugly this week as several prominent US space companies—including SpaceX, Blue Origin, Stoke Space, K2, and Starcloud—pulled out of a high-profile French space summit organized by the country’s president, Emmanuel Mac

Market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) issued its final observations to the National Stock Exchange on September 4, effectively clearing the way for the world’s largest derivatives exchange to proceed with its IPO. Sebi’s observations are a key regulatory

Not All LLM Workloads Are Equal: Benchmarking TPU Performance on Classification vs. Generation Rupjit Chakraborty AI Engineer Moving Large Language Models (LLMs) from experimental prototypes into enterprise production exposes a critical truth: your infrastructure dictates both yo

Save up to $900 in the Best Buy Labor Day sale on tech, with huge discounts on gaming PCs, laptops and monitors — secure an upgrade fast to beat rising hardware costs Grab some of our favorite deals from Best Buy's Labor Day sale Best Buy is throwing a huge sale for Labor Day, me

Social media users flooded Ulta Beauty’s Instagram posts this week sharing their frustration about the company’s work with surveillance technology provider Flock after a campaign by activist organization UltraViolet went viral. Ulta Beauty uses automated license plate readers fro

FLASH Storage news ticker - September 4 Cadence announced its PHY and controller IP for the PCI Express (PCIe) 6.0 specification, implemented in the TSMC N3 process, achieved first-pass success at the recent PCI-SIG compliance workshop held in late July. The workshop marked the i

Frontier AI faces pricing reckoning as token volume explodes 25-fold — mid-tier models deliver 90% of flagship capability at one-sixth the cost Tokenmaxxing is back, but only if it's affordable. AI development might not be the wild west it was when ChatGPT burst onto the scene a

AI - On-PREM AMD's Threadripper Halo is a local-AI workstation for researchers with deep pocketsAI workstation promises to put up to 576 GB of HBM3e and 16 TB/s of memory bandwidth on your desk -

Fosun Pharma held 8,53,93,894 shares, or 51.77% stake, in the pharmaceutical company as of the quarter ended June 30, 2026, as per BSE data. Following the stake sale, its holding would come down to around 45.77%. Kotak Mahindra Mutual Fund, Axis Mutual Fund and ICICI Prudential M

The price of diesel fuel hit a record Friday as the wars in Ukraine and Iran knock out refineries, triggering a global supply crunch. Truckers in the U.S. are paying an average of $5.85 a gallon nationwide, a nearly 60% increase over the same period last year when diesel cost $3.

Retro tech is making a comeback, and this week, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) put hard numbers to that trend in terms of music consumption habits. Surprisingly, the organization reported that CDs — yes, the shiny, round things that Spotify supposedly killed

It’s been another week with far more retail news than there is time in the day. Below, we break down some things you may have missed during the week, and what we’re still thinking about. From falling revenues at PVH to Lowe’s push to develop skilled trades, here’s our closeout fo

Nvidia app update fails to block unofficial DLSS multi-frame generation mod on RTX 40 series gaming GPUs — modders restore support across multiple games within hours Enterprising game modders have found ways to enable NVIDIA's own DLSS-G pipeline intended for Blackwell on Ada Lov

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Flex Pays $4.4B for EPC Power as AI Data Centers Push 800V Architecture Flex’s $4.4B EPC Power deal adds 800V DC and grid-forming technology as AI data center rack densities rise and operators rethink power delivery. Flex will acquire EPC Power for $4.4 billion, adding 800V DC, g

My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinem. The trailblazing American feminist, Gloria Steinem, who died Wednesday, lived a life defined by movement in every sense of the word. In her 2015 memoir, Steinem recounts her dynamic, nomadic career as a writer and activist, and pays vivid ho