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Saudi Arabia's critical East-West crude oil pipeline will start operating again "very soon" after Iran-backed attacks forced its closure, U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright told CNBC in an interview Tuesday. "This will be a brief and temporary interruption. It will be measured in

The AI race has grown so frenzied that, by 2035, U.S. data centers are projected to consume more natural gas than Germany and Japan combined. Over the next decade, data centers are expected to be the second-strongest driver of natural gas demand growth after LNG exports. The faci

SpaceX is ready to perform the 14th test flight of its Starship mega-rocket, and now the company will finally try to put the upper stage into Earth’s orbit for the first time, the company announced Tuesday. The test launch is scheduled for September 22, with a 75-minute launch wi

The Boston city government abandoned Flock Safety’s license-plate reader cameras after the company shared data nationwide in violation of a contract provision, according to city officials. “We have actually abandoned Flock,” Boston Mayor Michelle Wu said in her monthly “Ask the M

Off the Wire Press Releases Micron’s advanced DRAM packaging enables the 512GB DDR5 RDIMM to unlock data center performance with speeds up to 9,200 MT/s and reduced operating power by more than 60% BOISE, Idaho, Sept. 15, 2026 — Micron Technology, Inc., today announced a major mi

DETROIT — Ford Motor is expanding the availability of V-8 engines and lowering the starting prices of some performance models for its 2027 lineup of F-150 pickup trucks. The Detroit automaker said the changes are meant to give customers more choice and help expand sales of key mo

Off the Wire Press Releases At AI Infrastructure Summit, WD will highlight how AI-driven data growth is reshaping infrastructure requirements at scale SANTA CLARA, Calif., Sept. 15, 2026 — As AI moves from experimentation to deployment, organizations are confronting a new infrast

AI - SYSTEMS AI networking startups race to replace Nvidia's NVLinkIntel spin-off Cornelis and newcomer Delos Data pitch open alternatives for scaling AI beyond the rack -

Domestic mutual funds took the biggest share of the anchor book. Out of the total anchor allocation, 28,70,321 equity shares, or 83.13%, were allotted to 11 domestic mutual funds through 19 schemes. Magnum Equity Ex – Top 100 Long Short Fund emerged as the largest anchor investor

The News The tech-focused creator Emily Higgins is speaking directly into the camera about the importance of a good hook for a social media video — she does what looks like three takes, each with a slightly different script. But Higgins only filmed one video. The other two were A

There might not be the same degree of optimism regarding electric vehicle adoption as a few short years ago, but the transition toward battery-electric vehicles continues nevertheless. More than 1.8 million EVs had already been sold between the start of this year and the end of A

Crude oil prices resumed their upward move in Tuesday's session, with Brent crude futures surging $3.7 per barrel to $109.39 as traders assessed the potential impact on global crude supplies after Saudi Arabia closed a critical pipeline that bypasses the Strait of Hormuz last wee

Any slowdown in AI spending would let hyperscalers catch their financial breath and ease their reliance on borrowing to fund their buildouts. A Semafor review of analyst estimates finds that at current projections, as tracked by S&P Capital IQ, Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, and Microso

Liz’s view Chuck Prince, CEO of Citigroup from 2003 to 2007, is remembered for one quote that captured the greed and spinelessness of Wall Street bosses chasing riches while steering the global economy toward a cliff: “As long as the music is playing, you’ve got to get up and dan

“If you see something, say something” is no longer limited to human beings. Two new AI hotlines have launched to give AI agents a way to phone home about misbehaving peers. The tools arrive on the heels of a string of recent incidents in which agents colluded to cheat on tests, b

AI - SYSTEMS AI networking startups race to replace Nvidia's NVLinkIntel spin-off Cornelis and newcomer Delos Data pitch open alternatives for scaling AI beyond the rack -

After the leaders of Anthropic, OpenAI and other artificial intelligence companies spent the weekend warning of the dangers of advanced AI and calling for a slowdown in model development, President Donald Trump filled up his social media feed on Monday with posts undermining thos

Warning of space arms race as US confirms weapons in Earth's orbit The US has confirmed it deployed a space weapon in Earth's orbit, the first time it has acknowledged such offensive capabilities. Russia and China responded by warning of an arms race in space. However, according

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The private sector is more than capable of addressing the risks posed by rapidly advancing artificial intelligence, National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett told CNBC on Tuesday. "I think these are completely solvable problems," Hassett said on "Squawk Box." Hassett's rem

The private sector is more than capable of addressing the risks posed by rapidly advancing artificial intelligence, National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett told CNBC on Tuesday. "I think these are completely solvable problems," Hassett said on "Squawk Box." Hassett's rem

The Scoop Michigan Democratic Sens. Elissa Slotkin and Gary Peters will implore their colleagues on Tuesday afternoon to help Democratic nominee Abdul El-Sayed in the state’s must-win Senate race, according to a person familiar with their plans. The duo will ask the Democratic Ca

Introducing new session management tools with native, granular controls Senzeni Mpofu Product Manager Cris Scruggs Software Engineer Google Cloud session management provides flexible options for setting up session controls based on your organization’s security policy needs. To he

The News Not all AI companies want to slow down. Chris Butler, who runs drug discovery at Isomorphic Labs, the Google-backed drug company started by DeepMind founder Demis Hassabis, pushed back against the suggestion that calls by OpenAI, Anthropic, and other AI leaders to pace t

Seagate and WD published separate AI storage studies within days of each other; the headline numbers: Seagate says 99% of enterprises expect AI to increase their storage requirements over the next three years, while WD’s IDC research puts the comparable figure at 74%. Read the fi

The News Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., called on Congress to act on two issues before his term ends: the looming financial problems facing Social Security and the ballooning cost of healthcare. At Semafor’s Future of Health Forum on Tuesday, Cassidy, who is leaving the Senate at the

Off the Wire Press Releases Purpose-built inference accelerator with robust software toolchain gives enterprises greater control over where and how AI runs, where data goes and what it costs EINDHOVEN, Netherlands, Sept. 15, 2026 — Axelera AI today announced the launch of the Eur

The losses in Oracle Corp persisted on Tuesday, September 15, with the stock falling another 3% to the day's low of $140.41 on the New York Stock Exchange. If it finishes the session lower, it will mark its sixth straight day of losses. The shares have been under pressure since l

The U.S. military has for the first time acknowledged that it deployed space weapons into Earth’s orbit. U.S. Air Force Secretary Troy Meink, who oversees the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Space Force, said in a speech Monday that the military has “on-orbit space control weapons capabl

Meta on Tuesday introduced a new subscription service called Meta One, offering expanded AI usage and other premium features across Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The new plans let users access a number of AI tools, like those for creating and editing images and generating vi

Thatch, a platform that lowers healthcare costs for employers while expanding plan choices for workers, has raised $108 million at a $1 billion valuation from existing investors: The General Partnership, Index Ventures, General Catalyst, and Andreessen Horowitz. The new fundraise

As researchers warn that artificial intelligence could pose catastrophic risks, some of the pioneers who helped develop the technology are weighing in with additional warnings on the dangers of unfettered advances in capability. A series of stark AI safety warnings has emerged ov

As researchers warn that artificial intelligence could pose catastrophic risks, some of the pioneers who helped develop the technology are weighing in with additional warnings on the dangers of unfettered advances in capability. A series of stark AI safety warnings has emerged ov

The Ripple Effect of Data Center Project Cancellations and Delays Canceled data center projects leave utilities with stranded infrastructure costs that are often passed on to ratepayers, while capacity reassignment can take months or years to resolve. When a large data center pro

One key use case of the Compute Express Link (CXL) standard is supporting the attachment of various forms of DRAM and other memory over the PCIe-based bus. Thanks to CXL’s high-level cache coherency capabilities, the standard allows devices to not only reach into the host’s DRAM,

How can a 30B-parameter model activate only 3B parameters per token, and still use the capacity of the larger model? Nemotron 3.5 Lightning illustrates the answer: It uses a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture that selects only a subset of its parameters for each token. There a

On a sweltering August evening in Silicon Valley, as the sun dropped and air conditioning loads spiked, Silicon Valley Power sent a signal to an AI factory to adjust its power consumption. Varun Sivaram was watching on Zoom with about forty others — his team at Emerald AI in thei

Ian Buck, vice president of hyperscale and high-performance computing at NVIDIA, Tuesday spoke on AI factory efficiency at the AI Infra Summit, the Santa Clara Convention Center event that has morphed into a Coachella of infrastructure tech. Before a packed audience — with more t

Other World Computing (OWC) has acquired OpenDrives, the Los Angeles software-defined storage company whose Atlas platform has sat behind Hollywood studios, post houses, and live broadcast networks since 2011. The deal brings OpenDrives’ Atlas, Astraeus, and Edge platforms into O