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Brad Bird has directed some of our all-time favorite animated films: The Iron Giant (1999), The Incredibles (2004), and Ratatouille (2007), with the latter two snagging well-deserved Oscar wins. He’s back with a new animated feature, Ray Gunn, coming to Netflix in December, descr

Kubernetes manages what runs on your nodes. Managing the nodes themselves is the challenge: kernel settings, system packages, storage layouts, security agents, and the host-level tuning that GPU workloads depend on. Many teams manage this with Ansible playbooks, custom scripts, a

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a slate of bills on Monday that could finally give communities better data — and more say — on how data centers impact their electricity bills and water supply. Data centers are black boxes, but California wants to change that New legislation w

Artificial Intelligence Agentic conversational video intelligence built on AWS With video intelligence powered by agentic AI, you can ask natural language questions about uploaded videos and get answers within seconds. Organizations across media, security, insurance, and professi

Artificial Intelligence Use open weight models as your AI coding agent with Amazon Bedrock AI coding agents have become a core part of how developers write, debug, and refactor software. Open weight models on Amazon Bedrock now make these agents practical to run privately and cos

An October interest rate hike is very much on the table after a top Federal Reserve official Wednesday expressed support for one, and as fresh economic readings showed intensifying inflation pressures. In remarks prepared for a housing conference in Chicago, Fed Governor Michael

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Streaming is getting more expensive again. Disney is the latest media giant to raise prices for its streaming services, adding to a growing pattern across the industry. The increases come roughly a year after Disney’s last major streaming price hike. Disney is raising the price o

Meta's latest consumer AI product is sending such big shockwaves through the market that it's even inflaming a long-time rivalry in the brokerage business between 55-year old investing giant Charles Schwab, and Robinhood, an icon of the post-Covid trading boom among young investo

Anthropic says its AI Claude has “autonomously discovered” a new enzyme system similar to machinery behind the powerful gene-editing tool Crispr. It’s the first result from Anthropic’s newly-launched wet lab and an early test of Claude’s usefulness for science as the company prep

Rep. Haley Stevens, D-Mich., on Wednesday introduced a new bill that would lower Social Security's full retirement age for workers in physically demanding jobs. The bill, called the Blue Collar Social Security Fairness Act, would make it so eligible individuals would be able to c

As concern over AI safety and rogue agents continue to make headlines, it’s no surprise that cybersecurity stocks are rising, or that investors are pouring massive amounts of capital into startups trying to build the next generation of security for an AI-native world. We’re even

Some Samsung smart fridges stopped working on Tuesday due to a firmware update. Korean outlets were the first to report the problems, which affect Samsung’s Bespoke AI line of fridges. Star News Korea, per a Google-provided translation, said that most of the affected devices were

President Donald Trump wants the U.S. to beat China in the artificial intelligence race. But as he meets Chinese President Xi Jinping, both countries are also weighing how to address the risks posed by rapidly advancing technology. In recent months, AI systems have taken more con

President Donald Trump wants the U.S. to beat China in the artificial intelligence race. But as he meets Chinese President Xi Jinping, both countries are also weighing how to address the risks posed by rapidly advancing technology. In recent months, AI systems have taken more con

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian in a defiant speech to the United Nations on Wednesday blamed the U.S. and Israel for stoking global instability while accusing them of launching illegal attacks on his country's civilians and infrastructure. The address to the U.N. General Ass

Dell says it has delivered more than 6,500 AI Factories to customers across nearly every industry, and it has paired that milestone with commissioned research from Omdia on how enterprises are securing the AI they run on that hardware. The headline finding is that 98% of organiza

Zoox has grounded its autonomous vehicle test fleet in Atlanta after safety drivers were potentially exposed to carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, or hydrogen sulfide gas inside its vehicles last month, TechCrunch has learned. The repeated incidents led one worker to file a complai

It's called Imperia, and its members include CEOs, founders, innovators, entrepreneurs and others. A lot of the first lady's attention has been on children, but, with Imperia, she is leaning on her business skills to encourage women to harness their economic power and help others

After facing selling pressure near the 23,500 level on Tuesday, the Nifty 50 staged a recovery on Wednesday. The index gained nearly 118 points and settled close to the 23,450 mark, recording its highest close in nearly two weeks. The index opened on a positive note but witnessed

Home secretary hits out at 'unacceptable' migrant landings - Published The Home Secretary has said migrant landings on UK beaches are "not acceptable", as she ordered an urgent review after two boats reached Kent without being intercepted. Shabana Mahmood told Border Security Com

In a forthcoming memoir, former US politician and NASA Administrator Bill Nelson offers a blistering assessment of China, saying the United States must do all it can to retain its leadership in space exploration. “Beijing’s intended strategy is to dominate the high ground of the

McDonald's on Wednesday announced plans for its own media network, pricey restaurant upgrades and ways to win over GLP-1 users during an investor presentation at its Chicago headquarters. In June, the company unveiled its newest growth strategy, McDonald's > NEXT. The pillars of

NVIDIA has introduced NVIDIA DSX Ready, a qualification program for partner products that meet the applicable requirements of its NVIDIA DSX AI factory reference designs. NVIDIA’s framing is that power, cooling, water, site, and grid constraints now shape what AI factory builders

This is CNBC's Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox. Happy Wednesday. It's CJ, back for another edition. The weather's starting to cool down outside our Englewood Cliffs bureau, and, being a native Californian, I always get excited at

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UK military jamming other nations' satellites to defend itself, BBC told - Published The British military has been jamming or blocking satellites from other countries in order to defend itself from hostile threats, the BBC has been told. The RAF has been using a ground-based syst

OpenAI announced on Wednesday that it is bringing voice-based agentic features to mobile, allowing users to trigger workflows like drafting documents or summarizing emails. Plus and Pro users will be able to use the Work tab on their phone to create a document, draft an email, or

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The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has issued a penal action against quick commerce and ecommerce platforms for various food safety and regulatory non-compliances. Quick commerce companies, including Amazon, Bigbasket, Flipkart, Swiggy Instamart and Zepto, h

People across the world are increasingly turning to AI for everyday tasks, from looking up recipes and doing their homework to researching work projects or making presentations. But using AI every day doesn’t necessarily mean people are feeling comfortable with its implications f

Stocks to buy today: Technical indicators are pointing to potential breakout opportunities in several counters. Sumeet Bagadia, Executive Director at Choice Broking, has recommended Aptus, KRBL, Tata Steel, Radico Khaitan and GNFC, along with specific entry, stop-loss and target

Eriksen leaves Wolfsburg by mutual consent - Published Christian Eriksen has left Wolfsburg by mutual consent, just over three months after collapsing during Denmark's friendly with Ukraine. The former Manchester United midfielder's contract with the German second-tier side had b

"Risks to achieving our inflation target have increased, while risks to the labour market have receded," Barr said in prepared remarks for a Chicago Fed housing affordability conference. He noted that US economic growth remains strong and the labour market solid, but inflation is

Activist hedge fund Toms Capital Management sent a letter earlier this month to Devon Energy urging the Houston-based oil and gas company to review strategic alternatives, including a sale. Toms, which manages just over $4 billion in assets, says in the letter viewed by CNBC it i

Giga Computing has opened GAIFA (GIGABYTE AI Factory Accelerator), its first proprietary AI computing center, in New Taipei City, Taiwan: a six-rack, direct-liquid-cooled facility built to validate rack-scale AI infrastructure with customers before it ships. The first phase carri

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Meesho backer RPS Ventures sold nearly 3.9 Cr shares of ecommerce major Meesho to net ₹899.7 Cr. As per BSE bulk deal data, RPS’ holding entity RPS WOS II LLC offloaded a total of 3.86 Cr equity shares, or around 0.8% of Meesho’s total equity, in a block deal valuing each share a

Ronaldo spurred on by 1,000 goals and Portugal glory - Published Cristiano Ronaldo considered retiring after the World Cup but says he opted to extend his glittering career as he believes he can help Portugal to further success - and reach a personal milestone of 1,000 career goa

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Rep. Greg Casar (D-TX) have introduced new legislation that would ban anyone from developing artificial superintelligence — a technology the bill describes as capable of the “destruction or disempowerment of humanity,” including by overthrowing the

The Scoop The Trump administration is backing off its initial plan for an executive order that would give the president greater influence over decisionmaking on National Institutes of Health grants, according to three people familiar with the process. The move comes after Senate

Ahead of opening its initial public offering (IPO) for bidding, fintech unicorn Moneyview has raised ₹327.5 Cr from anchor investors by allocating 9.63 Cr shares at an issue price of ₹34 per equity share, the upper end of the IPO's price band. Seven domestic mutual funds via four