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Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger ordered the state government to take steps that could empower local communities to have a larger say in data center development and slow down approvals in a state that is already home to the data center capital of the world. Virginia governor crea

With a few carefully chosen words, Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh both explained this week's decision to hike interest rates and raised vexing questions about what comes next. Warsh described Wednesday's decision to lift the central bank's benchmark rate by a quarter percen

"A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore," said the late Yankee great, Yogi Berra, referring to persistent inflation. Fast forward 50 years, and the same might be said of fast food value menus. McDonald's announced this week that it is revising its U.S. value strategy after recording

Russian hybrid attacks against Europe intensifying, says Macron - Published French President Emmanuel Macron has warned that the threat of hybrid attacks by Russia against Europe and France has intensified. In a news conference at the Elysee Palace, Macron said he had ordered a p

Macklemore's removal from Ed Sheeran's tour is having ripple effects on the ticket market. Ticket prices for an upcoming Macklemore performance are climbing after the rapper was dropped from the remainder of Sheeran's Loop tour for making pro-Palestine comments onstage earlier th

The Scoop The top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, New Hampshire’s Jeanne Shaheen, has blocked an arms sale to Israel since July and continues to withhold consent for advancing the $2.8 billion transaction, a person familiar with the matter told Semafor. Shahee

Disney has hired its first-ever chief technology officer and in a curious twist, the new executive hails from an AI startup that the Magic Kingdom previously accused of infringing on its IP. Karandeep Anand is the former CEO of Character.AI, a company that has weathered numerous

The Federal Communications Commission yesterday approved Paramount Skydance’s plan to sell large equity stakes to the sovereign wealth funds of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Qatar. Under US law, companies with licenses to run broadcast stations need FCC approval to

For a long time, sleep research has treated the cerebral cortex as a passive follower reacting to signals from the deep brain. “Usually, sleep is associated with being controlled by subcortical regions,” said Geoffrey Terral, a neuroscientist at the Albert Einstein College of Med

For some iPhone buyers in India, getting Apple’s brand-new iPhone 18 Pro or iPhone 18 Pro Max did not require lining up outside a store or waiting days for delivery. They needed only a few taps on a quick-commerce app to get one delivered to their doorstep in about 10 minutes. Bl

SpaceX has expanded its contract with NASA and will conduct an additional three crewed Dragon flights to the International Space Station through 2030, netting Elon Musk's company up to $946 million upon completion. The award for flight support brings SpaceX's total missions under

SpaceX has expanded its contract with NASA and will conduct an additional three crewed Dragon flights to the International Space Station through 2030, netting Elon Musk's company up to $946 million upon completion. The award for flight support brings SpaceX's total missions under

While geopolitical tensions, elevated crude oil prices, and persistent foreign investor selling kept the Indian stock market under pressure, the weakness in the secondary market did little to dent activity in the primary market. As many as 19 companies across the mainboard and SM

JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon and Citigroup chief Jane Fraser are set to attend President Donald Trump's state dinner for Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Washington next week, sources familiar with the matter told CNBC on Friday. The White House did not immediately respond to CNBC'

Google is testing a new product designed to help families coordinate with the support of an AI agent. This week, the search giant introduced a new version of CC, an AI agent designed to work across email, calendar, chats, and tasks. With the update, CC now focuses on keeping fami

On Wednesday, US government officials removed a Chinese AI search tool that was briefly deployed on the Federal Register website, Reuters reported. The change came after social media users noticed an apparent contradiction: The National Archives was using one of Alibaba’s Qwen AI

An aircraft equipped with Joby Aviation’s autonomy technology flew more than 3,100 miles across the United States without a human pilot taking control at any point, the company said Friday. The flight not only demonstrated the capabilities of Joby’s autonomy tech, but also showed

The transition comes nine months after Warren Buffett handed over the CEO role to longtime Berkshire executive Greg Abel. Howard's appointment continues a succession plan that has been in place for years, with his role focused on preserving the company's culture rather than runni

AI - Microsoft agentically ports Copilot runtime to Rust for $120KThe Rust compiler remains unperturbed by the antics of the LLM - Virginia governor wakes up to fact datace

The American automotive industry wants President Donald Trump to maintain policies that make it difficult for Chinese automakers to operate in the U.S. — or even ban them altogether. In a letter to Trump dated Thursday and viewed by CNBC, groups representing major facets of the U

Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary apologises over 'high-fare rapists' remarks - Published Ryanair chief executive Michael O'Leary has said he is "truly sorry" for describing rival airlines as "high-fare rapists". He had previously refused to apologise to a rape crisis centre which cri

A week after an Anthropic researcher’s doomsday warning rattled the AI world, the company’s CEO Dario Amodei has outlined his plan to “pace the frontier” of AI development. The proposal leans on independent safety evaluators and coordination between AI labs in democratic countrie

Storage News Ticker - 18 September Alation announced six new products for its enterprise AI operating system AIOS, including a first-of-its-kind product to enable real-time monitoring of enterprise AI agent compliance that helps solve one of the biggest roadblocks to AI agent per

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) is positioning the state to take the lead on AI oversight, including the potential to mandate a “kill switch” for frontier models, with a new executive order issued Friday. Gavin Newsom is pushing for an AI kill switch With Congress unlikely to ac

Over 100 artificial intelligence experts and evaluators are banding together to warn they won't have the necessary resources and protections to test the safety of AI technology, which is facing heightened scrutiny due to concerns from insiders about the potential dangers of front

Over 100 artificial intelligence experts and evaluators are banding together to warn they won't have the necessary resources and protections to test the safety of AI technology, which is facing heightened scrutiny due to concerns from insiders about the potential dangers of front

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AI - Microsoft agentically ports Copilot runtime to Rust for $120KThe Rust compiler remains unperturbed by the antics of the LLM - Virginia governor wakes up to fact datace

Friends, Dave Thomas had a confession to make: He was just fourteen. Two years earlier, Thomas had come to Regas Restaurant in Knoxville, Tennessee, asking for a job at the counter. He’d told the owner he was sixteen. He was, in fact, twelve. Money hadn’t been the only thing that

The benchmark Nifty 50 ended the holiday-shortened week in losses as volatility continued to grip Dalal Street, keeping overall sentiment fragile. Although the index recovered in the latter part of the week, the rebound was not sufficient to turn the index positive, extending its

Artificial Intelligence Introducing Kimi K3 on Amazon Bedrock Open-weight models are changing the economics of building and deploying AI at scale. Rapid gains in intelligence and efficiency mean companies can match each workload with the right balance of capability, speed, and co

Reed’s view There’s a groundswell of people in Silicon Valley and Washington claiming the AI doomer narrative sweeping the nation is part of some carefully coordinated “psyop.” I don’t buy that. Some inside OpenAI and Anthropic were “blindsided” by an apparent agreement over the

AirAsia is "sustainable" despite media reports to the contrary and is even planning for growth despite soaring fuel prices and geopolitical uncertainty, according to co-founder Tony Fernandes. Reuters reported earlier this week, citing people with knowledge of the matter, that th

Chinese AI startup Manus, which earlier this year had to break off a merger with Meta, is in discussions to raise $500 million at a $4 billion valuation now that it has resumed operations as an independent company, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing anonymous sources. Poten

Space Data Centers Inch Toward Reality, With Caveats At the AI Infra Summit, a panel of executives and a US government IT leader discussed the promise and challenges of building data centers in space. SANTA CLARA, Calif. – Orbital data centers are edging closer to reality, but si

As the tech sector sounds alarms about AI’s potential to destroy humanity, entertainment labor groups are urging the public to stay focused on what’s already happening. The Verge reached out to Disney, Netflix, Amazon, Lionsgate, and other studios who have started using AI, as we

At Salesforce's annual Dreamforce mega-conference in San Francisco this week, the keynote conversations between CEO Marc Benioff and the heads of Anthropic, OpenAI and Nvidia delved into the raging AI safety debate, with the execs opining on whether model development is moving to

At Salesforce's annual Dreamforce mega-conference in San Francisco this week, the keynote conversations between CEO Marc Benioff and the heads of Anthropic, OpenAI and Nvidia delved into the raging AI safety debate, with the execs opining on whether model development is moving to

Pocket FM is betting heavily on AI to improve its content economics and lift its EBITDA margin to 15%-20% from around 5% currently, cofounder Prateek Dixit told Inc42. Dixit did not disclose a timeline for achieving the margin target. However, he said AI already powers about 90%

Announcing Native BM25 Ranking in AlloyDB and Cloud SQL Darshana Sivakumar Group Product Manager Nisa Meshal Customer Engineer Vector search is a critical component of generative AI, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and data agent architectures, but sometimes vector search a

AI - Microsoft agentically ports Copilot runtime to Rust for $120KThe Rust compiler remains unperturbed by the antics of the LLM - Virginia governor wakes up to fact datace