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Artificial Intelligence How DiDi built intelligent contact center QA with Amazon Bedrock DiDi partnered with AWS to build an intelligent contact center quality assurance (QA) system on Amazon Bedrock for its International Business Group’s Customer Experience (CX) department. The

Dive Brief: - U.S. retail sales during November and December are forecast to grow 4.5% year over year and top $1 trillion for the first time, according to a Thursday release from Bain & Company. Inflation will account for over half of the nominal rise in sales, per the report. -

Shares of Qualcomm, the largest maker of smartphone processors, gained nearly 9% during trading on Tuesday, 8 September, reaching a day's high of $183.49, their highest level in two months. The rally came after the company announced that it had signed Amazon.com Inc as a data cen

After five years in development, Free Stars: Children of Infinity—the official sequel to The Ur-Quan Masters by the old game’s original creators—has released a free public demo. It’s a “combat demo” in the style of UQM’s melee mode, where players can assemble a fleet from the gam

Sensex dropped around 555 points to end the session at 75,578 while Nifty 50 lost 144 points to close at 23,635. Broader markets however closed in the green, with Nifty Midcap 100 and Nifty Smallcap 100 rising up to 0.2%. Here's how analysts read the market pulse The market is no

Agentic analytics with the Data Agent Kit Jeff Nelson Developer Advocate, Google Imagine your director sends you a chat message Monday morning: Our average order value dropped 7% in January, but total revenue stayed flat. Why? If you’re a data practitioner, you know why these typ

How KDDI built Buffmee, a faster, reliable consumer RAG app Junichi Kashino Platform Business Strategy Department, KDDI Miki Katsuragi AI Consultant, Google Cloud Japan When building consumer-facing generative AI applications, balancing high generation quality with fast response

Power agent hubs or custom harnesses with the Antigravity SDK in one toolkit Wei Yih Yap Forward Deployed Engineer, Google Cloud Paul Datta Practice Customer Engineer, Google Cloud Enterprise agent adoption isn’t one-size-fits-all. While many teams will opt for managed commercial

Prime Minister (PM) Narendra Modi has directed Indian fintech startups to strengthen cybersecurity and consumer protection as the sector moves into its next phase of growth driven by agentic AI and quantum technologies. Addressing the inauguration of Global Fintech Fest (GFF) 202

Episode details Available for over a year Today, Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband has told Parliament the UK would ban the import of goods from Israeli settlements in the illegally occupied West Bank. In the speech, he said the UK government "agrees" there is ethnic cleansing in are

Ace Hardware launched its retail media network with a blank slate. The hardware retailer debuted RedVest Media about a year ago as a means to give brands a targeted approach to advertising. The program has accelerated to include an expanded partnership with DoorDash, influencer m

The failure of two candidates — one Democratic and one independent — to consolidate anti-Republican support against GOP candidate Kurt Alme is propelling him to victory, according to polling first shared with Semafor. Alme is currently winning 44% of the vote, while independent S

The U.K. government is pushing ahead with planned sanctions targeting Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, despite U.S. officials and lawmakers warning of economic consequences for doing so. Speaking in the country's parliament on Tuesday, U.K. Foreign Secretary Ed Mili

AI - AI+ML Google DeepMind rises above the AI scrum with genome atlasSee, AI can be used for good ... or at the very least, a useful distraction from the bad - AI and ML Am

DATA MANAGEMENT A quantum of data assessment and autonomous management Quantum’s Autonomous Data Management (ADM) can assess data placement across a storage estate and suggest optimizations to improve data storage cost, safety, and performance. Data is stored on flash, disk and t

Listen to this article in summarized format The New York Federal Reserve’s latest Survey of Consumer Expectations showed households continued to expect inflation at 3.6% a year from now and 3% over the next five years. Expectations for inflation three years ahead edged down to 3.

Off the Wire Press Releases Award accelerates build-out of GF’s Quantum Technology Solutions business and strengthens America’s quantum semiconductor ecosystem MALTA, N.Y., Sept. 8, 2026 — GlobalFoundries (GF) today announced it has finalized a definitive agreement with the U.S.

Nike and Simon Property Group will soon lose their places on the S&P 100, according to a list from the S&P Dow Jones Indices released last week. The companies being added to the cohort are largely from the tech sector. The changes take effect ahead of trading on Sept. 21, a Monda

Neighborhood Intelligence — formerly Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. — will no longer acquire F9 Brands. The deal would have added Cabinets To Go and Lumber Liquidators, among other home-focused companies, to the Neighborhood Intelligence portfolio. The $150 million deal was canceled afte

Off the Wire Press Releases Sept. 8, 2026 — Today, the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU), together with the National Academic Infrastructure for Supercomputing in Sweden (NAISS), inaugurated Arrhenius, a new EuroHPC supercomputer located in Sweden. This world-class supercomp

Last October, Google said it would bring an Iowa nuclear power plant back from the dead. Now the facility’s owner, NextEra Energy, has received a $1.9 billion loan from the U.S. Department of Energy to finance the refurbishment. The sizable loan is the second of its kind, suggest

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

The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 1.24% or 664 points at 52,749.37, while the S&P 500 fell 0.48% or 36 points to 7,681.71 and the tech-rich Nasdaq Composite lost 0.47% or 123 points to 26,383.23, at 10.30 am ET. Canadian Toronto Stock Exchange-listed Bombardier's shares w

Nifty extended losses for the second consecutive session, falling 144 points to close at 23,625. After opening 36 points lower, the index remained under pressure throughout the day and finished near session lows. Analysts say the broader trend remains firmly bearish, with Nifty p

AstraZeneca on Tuesday released full results from two successful late-stage trials on its experimental drug for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, boosting hopes that it could generate multibillion-dollar sales for the company. The biologic medicine, tozorakimab, is under pri

Listen to this article in summarized format The anchor book saw participation from Singularity Large Value Fund III, backed by Madhusudhan Kela, and Abakkus Emerging Opportunities Fund-I, backed by Sunil Singhania. Other anchor investors included Chartered Finance & Leasing, Nive

Chrome has officially switched from a four- to a two-week release schedule, as Google promised earlier this year, with Tuesday’s launch of Chrome 153 on desktop, iOS, and Android. The shift to faster releases is tied to Chrome’s evolving security strategy in the AI era, the compa

Off the Wire Press Releases Federal R&D Award Under the CHIPS and Science Act Will Advance PsiQuantum’s R&D for the Manufacturing of Critical Components in America PALO ALTO, Calif., Sept. 8, 2026 — PsiQuantum announced today that the company has signed definitive documentation w

AI - AI+ML Google DeepMind rises above the AI scrum with genome atlasSee, AI can be used for good ... or at the very least, a useful distraction from the bad - AI and ML Am

TSMC to start using High-NA EUV lithography in 2030 — A10 or A11 technology prime candidates for use But with which node? For years, TSMC has tried to avoid making public comments about its plans to use EUV lithography with a 0.55 numerical aperture optics, or High-NA EUV, becaus

AI - AI+ML Google DeepMind rises above the AI scrum with genome atlasSee, AI can be used for good ... or at the very least, a useful distraction from the bad - AI and ML Am

Star Trek: The Original Series, created by Gene Roddenberry. The first episode of the great, long-running show boldly went where no man had gone before 60 years ago today. The pilot was — unfortunately for the purposes of a daily recommendation slot — not very good. If you’d like

Off the Wire Press Releases BERKELEY, Calif., Sept. 8, 2026 — Rigetti Computing, Inc. today announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Rigetti & Co, LLC, has signed a definitive agreement with the U.S. Department of Commerce for an award of $100 million in funding to accelerate

Shares slipped 3% in morning trade after opening down 6.4%. Trump made the threat in a post on Monday as a trade dispute between Washington and Ottawa escalates, with Canada introducing counter tariffs on $20 billion worth of U.S. goods. The Toronto Stock Exchange, on which Bomba

Bank of Baroda is proposing to divest up to 76.90 lakh equity shares, representing 35% of its shareholding in the National Stock Exchange of India (NSE), through an Offer for Sale (OFS) as part of the exchange's proposed Initial Public Offering (IPO). In an exchange filing on Tue

Bajaj Finance, part of Bajaj Finserv, has acquired a 5% stake in TrueFan AI, an AI-powered video generation platform. The Gurugram-based startup had previously secured $10 million in a Series A funding round led by Baring Private Equity Partners India and Z3 Partners in June this

Off the Wire Press Releases BLOOMINGTON, Minn., Sept. 8, 2026 — SkyWater Technology announced the launch of SkyWater Quantum Solutions, a dedicated merchant supplier offering focused on semiconductor process development, integration, and manufacturing. This unique offering will p

Dive Brief: - Urban Outfitters Inc.-owned Nuuly is bolstering its fulfillment center operations by investing in automation and expanding its capacity to serve subscribers, Nuuly President David Hayne said on an Aug. 26 earnings call. - The clothing rental subscription service has

The U.S. bond selloff has pushed the 10-year Treasury yield toward 5%, raising concerns about how much higher borrowing costs markets can absorb without hurting corporate spending, dealmaking and stocks, according to Reuters. The yield touched 4.8% on Monday, its highest since Oc

Shares of Biocon settled at Rs 392.55, down 0.24% from the previous close of Rs 393.50 per share on the BSE on Tuesday, September 8. The stock traded in the range of Rs 399.50 to Rs 390.90 during the day. The company commands a market capitalisation of Rs 63,973.64 crore on the B