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The Environmental Protection Agency on Monday repealed limits on carbon-dioxide emissions from power plants imposed by the Biden administration, and proposed a sweeping action that would eliminate all remaining greenhouse gas rules for the sector. The Biden administration require

OpenAI has bought smartphone camera maker Glass Imaging in a deal worth over $300 million, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. The company, founded in 2019 and based in Los Altos, California, had previously raised about $30 million in funding from investors. Glass

Artificial Intelligence Manage end-user OAuth consent for AI agents with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore AI agents often need to access services such as GitHub and Slack on a user’s behalf. Before an agent can act, the user must authenticate with the provider and explicitly approve the

Bank of America is seeing a far more subdued few months for its Wall Street advisory and trading businesses after a blockbuster second quarter, CEO Brian Moynihan told analysts Monday. Investment banking fees will likely decline by more than 10% in the third quarter from the yea

Harry and Meghan to have security review and children change school - Published The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are going to be given a review of their publicly-funded security after their return to live in the UK. It is understood that the committee which oversees royal and VIP s

The S&P 500 fell 0.48% to 7,620.05, while the Nasdaq Composite dropped 0.55% to 26,187.79. The Dow Jones Industrial Average declined 0.29% to 52,421.63, according to preliminary data. The weakness in technology stocks came alongside growing pressure from the bond and oil markets.

Off the Wire Press Releases The NVIDIA CUDA-Q platform now includes the CUDA-Q Logical orchestration layer, giving the quantum industry an open, programmable way to design and test fault-tolerant quantum computing applications in areas such as drug discovery, financial modeling a

Cornelis, a company creating networking technology to help AI chips communicate more effectively, announced Monday that it has raised $205 million in a funding round led by IAG Capital Partners. It also announced a product called Active Compute Fabric, a network technology that t

Off the Wire Press Releases Sept. 14, 2026 — Scientists and engineers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have developed a camera-based inspection system that can monitor complex 3D-printed structures layer by layer, using AI and machine learning (ML) to measure tiny

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang took a call from President Trump on Monday while onstage at the All-In Podcast’s All-In Summit. It’s not the first time Huang has taken a call from the president during work, but this time he put Trump on speakerphone before a big crowd. Jensen Huang puts

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President Donald Trump is weakening environmental regulations in the name of speeding up the construction of AI data centers, raising health risks for Americans, a cadre of former EPA officials said this week in a briefing and new report. They are urging — perhaps futilely — the

Off the Wire Press Releases RONAN, Mont., Sept. 14, 2026 — AirJoule Technologies Corporation, a leading platform technology that unleashes the power of water from air, today announced that it has acquired BitSink, a U.S.-based designer and manufacturer of cooling, electrical dist

Off the Wire Press Releases The proposed federation links SUNRISE, UKAEA’s AI supercomputing platform, with PPPL’s STELLAR-AI to speed up fusion energy research Sept. 14, 2026 — Fusion energy researchers from the United States and the United Kingdom met online Sept. 9 and 10 to t

This week, the stock market could do something unusual: rally on a rate hike. Wall Street is expecting that the Federal Reserve will raise rates this week after Chairman Kevin Warsh's tough speech against inflation at Jackson Hole last month was followed by a series of hot inflat

Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh faces a tricky head count this week when he and his fellow policymakers decide on both the immediate and future path of interest rates. While markets have honed in on a near-certain quarter percentage point hike in Wednesday's vote, it's not a

Elon Musk is seemingly done attacking Apple over its decision to integrate ChatGPT into iPhone features. Back in 2024, when the partnership was first announced, Musk slammed the integration as an agreement from Apple to let OpenAI install “creepy spyware” on users’ devices. The n

The most common question we got about the MSI XpertStation WS300 after our review coalesces around one key theme. The GB300 Grace Blackwell Ultra Superchip is a 1,300W part that normally lives in a liquid-cooled rack, so what happens to thermals when you put it in a tower? The co

China leads the world in churning out humanoid robots and four-legged robot dogs that also happen to be the most affordable on the market—and Unitree Robotics’ founder Wang Xingxing is arguably one of the people most responsible for that Chinese lead. The introverted founder, who

Off the Wire Press Releases Highlights 3nm Production, 2nm Design, 3DIC Capabilities and Multi-Die Advanced Packaging SAN JOSE, Calif., Sept. 14, 2026 — Alchip Technologies will showcase its leading-edge process technology and advanced packaging achievements in Booth 1705 at AI I

Off the Wire Press Releases Achieving world-class AI inference performance through Japan-developed 2nm 3D-stacked CPU and server integrated, developed, and manufactured in Japan KAWASAKI, Japan, Sept. 14, 2026 — Fujitsu Limited today announced that it will begin global sales of i

As previously announced, Apple has today released 2026’s major annual updates for its operating systems, including iOS 27, macOS 27 Golden Gate, watchOS 27, visionOS 27, and tvOS 27. Siri AI—a large language model-based and context-aware overhaul of the company’s Siri voice and t

Opening doors for the reintroduction of the merchant discount rate (MDR) on high-value UPI payments, the finance ministry has notified amendments to the Payment and Settlement Systems Act (PSSA), 2007. In a gazette notification dated September 14, the ministry directed the banks

For years now, the major frontier AI labs have all been acting as if they’re in an all-out, winner-take-all race with control of world-changing machine superintelligence (or at least market-changing artificial general intelligence) at the finish line. This weekend, the industry a

Apple on Monday released a new version of the iPhone software called iOS 27, which includes the company's redesigned Siri AI personal assistant, before the latest iPhones hit store shelves this week. The new Siri AI is in beta, Apple said, and users have to opt in through the set

Apple on Monday released a new version of the iPhone software called iOS 27, which includes the company's redesigned Siri AI personal assistant, before the latest iPhones hit store shelves this week. The new Siri AI is in beta, Apple said, and users have to opt in through the set

IDFC First Bank and SBI Research now expect a 25-basis-point (bps) increase next month due to a sharp rise in crude oil prices driven by escalating tensions in West Asia. Amitabh Chaudhry, chief executive of Axis Bank, has also cautioned that a rate hike may be needed sooner rath

Anthropic says AI can boost U.S. GDP by 32%, up to $44.4 trillion in four years — economics model predicts that displaced employees 'may have to switch to jobs like electrician and nurse' The tech job market might argue that future has already arrived. Last week, Anthropic publis

Listen to this article in summarized format The dispute comes as the US races to maintain its lead over China in artificial intelligence, while concerns over AI's ability to cause widespread damage are increasingly becoming part of the political and business debate. For live upda

TransUnion Cibil, India's largest credit information company, pegged the credit eligible population at 890 million as of this March. About 74% of them took credit at some point in their lifespan while 13% are first time borrowers. Read more - SBI Research, IDFC First expect rate

Off the Wire Press Releases Research Shows AI Is Pushing Organizations to Optimize Infrastructure to Unlock Long-Term Data Value SINGAPORE, Sept. 14, 2026 — Seagate Technology today introduced its inaugural 2026 Data Infrastructure Readiness Report, new global research examining

Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (BHEL) on Monday, September 14, said its board has approved a further investment of ₹65 crore, in one or more tranches, as its equity contribution to NTPC BHEL Power Projects Private Limited (NBPPL), its joint venture with NTPC Ltd. “Pursuant to Regul

AI - on-prem Datacenter developers want your backyard. FAS says negotiate harderTax breaks, water, noise, decommissioning - report tells local officials what to nail down before signing -

(Corrects misattributed statement by Jacob Coxon to "gambling with our lives" instead of "people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all," paragraph 10) By Johann M Cherian and Gregor Stuart Hunter Sept 14 (Reuters) - AI-linked stocks plunged worldwide on Monday a

The Midvale, Utah-based company's selling shareholders are seeking up to $700 million by offering 35 million shares priced between $18 and $20 apiece. For live updates on US Markets, click here Despite a strong backlog of companies preparing to go public, the fall IPO season has