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OpenAI’s hack of Hugging Face in July 2026 has spurred a lawsuit demanding that the company stop accessing third-party computer systems and halt AI development practices that can harm the public. The lawsuit was filed by Legal Advocates for Safe Science & Technology (LASST), whic

The Department of Justice on Wednesday filed a judicial misconduct complaint against all but one Minnesota federal judges on active status for interviews they gave to The New York Times that criticized the Trump administration's handling of immigration enforcement cases in the st

Voice AI startup ElevenLabs announced today that it’s allowing employees to cash out a portion of their vested equity at a $22 billion valuation, doubling the $11 billion valuation the company hit when it raised $500 million in February. The recent $300 million tender offer gave

Data Center On-Site Power Brings Pollution Risks Closer to Home The data center industry’s shift to on-site power generation to overcome grid constraints is creating new environmental compliance challenges. New Jersey’s recent $1.07 million penalty against a Vineland, New Jersey,

How That's Life! gave Esther Rantzen a career-defining moment - Published Dame Esther Rantzen's commitment to charitable causes is something she will forever be remembered for. Along with founding Childline, a helpline for children, and The Silver Line, which supports older peopl

Listen to this article in summarized format The Securities and Exchange Commission’s proposals form part of the Donald Trump administration’s broader effort to “democratise” investments such as private equity, private credit, real estate and venture capital, which can potentially

While AI has made plenty of inroads on people’s phones and computers, it’s largely failed in dedicated devices. But over the next year, two major AI companies, Meta and OpenAI, will attempt to change that. And they’re apparently betting on a similar path: testing appetites for ph

The tender was led by Wellington and T. Rowe Price, with participation from existing backers such as Andreessen Horowitz and Lightspeed, and new investors including EQT and Goldman Sachs. Unlike a conventional fundraising round, a tender offer allows employees and existing shareh

The Indian equity market ended the final trading session of September on a weak note, with the index closing in the red after giving up more than 180 points from the day’s high. This marked the third consecutive session of decline for the index. The weakness during September was

Zella DC used Yotta 2026 in Las Vegas to introduce Zella Stack, an indoor micro data center that ships by standard courier and is assembled on site from stackable blocks. A base block carries the supporting infrastructure, IT blocks go on top of it, and the cabinet starts at 24RU

MGM Resorts International CEO Bill Hornbuckle is leaving open the possibility that the casino operator could acquire Barry Diller's People Inc., a striking reversal after the media company abandoned its own effort to take over MGM. Asked at the Global Gaming Expo this week whethe

Crude output climbed to 13.95 million barrels per day (bpd) in July, up from 13.84 million bpd in June. The monthly record high was 14.00 million bpd in October 2025. US demand for crude oil and petroleum products fell to 20.61 million bpd in July, down from 20.74 million bpd in

Saracens boss Venter skips more media duties - Published Saracens head coach Joe Shaw has refused to say when, or if, director of rugby Brendan Venter will speak to the media again, despite the club facing fines for him not doing so. Venter was not at Wednesday's pre-match press

Amid a number of updates for moderators and developers announced Wednesday, comes bad news for supporters of a more open web: Reddit is ending support for RSS feeds. Reddit says RSS has now become a “common surface for large-scale scraping and automated abuse,” which is why it’s

Bajaj Finserv, Infosys, and TCS were among 10 Nifty 50 stocks that concluded the tumultuous September with double-digit losses and contributed heavily to the market decline. Indian stocks grappled with multiple challenges last month, including elevated crude prices, persistent se

The Miamisburg, Ohio-based company's shares opened at $17.55 apiece, compared with their offer price of $18. Accelevation provides power distribution, cooling, structural systems and installation services for data centers. The company and selling shareholders raised $540 million

Everpure announced a set of platform capabilities aimed at getting enterprise AI out of pilots and into production, all of them due in October. The headline is PureKVA (Key-Value Accelerator) for FlashBlade, which pre-stages inference context directly into GPU memory and, by Ever

After this week, you could argue that consumer AI is making a comeback. Meta’s personal AI assistant, Muse, and its plush-like mascot Jolly, has been a surprise hit. OpenAI’s Dots, released just yesterday, appears to be chasing the same cartoony personal assistant idea. And the u

John Harold Rogers was walking Prada, his tiny spaniel, past a school bus stop in his suburban Washington neighborhood when FBI agents surrounded him. They handcuffed the former senior Federal Reserve official and took him into custody to face charges of spying for China. An agen

After hosting a meal with Big Tech leaders on Tuesday, President Donald Trump responded to journalist questions about his artificial intelligence announcements in typical fashion. He said his previous claims regarding fears around AI safety being a “hoax” cooked up by Democrats n

Users have already found hidden features in the White House’s new America.gov AI chatbot. The bot, which was launched Tuesday with the goal of helping citizens navigate the government’s online bureaucracy, seems to come to life when users ask it to “play Minecraft,” the 3D sandbo

David’s view As they prepared for Republicans to drop another billion dollars of ads on their heads this summer, Democrats passed around fresh advice on gender politics. A memo from the Transgender Freedom Alliance, based on focus groups and polling in battleground states, warned

Bringing together the world’s brightest minds and the latest accelerated computing technology leads to powerful breakthroughs that help tackle some of the biggest research problems. To foster such innovation, the NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship Program provides grants, mentors and tec

Imagine a customer asks whether your product supports their use case and how it handles their data. You check the enablement page. It says yes. Someone in support remembers a newer conversation about a limitation. An engineer points out that the answer depends on the customer’s c

Reed’s view While OpenAI’s new tool, dots, stole much of the spotlight at its annual developer day Tuesday, it was the change to its pricing tiers that says more about the company and the AI industry. OpenAI’s $200-per-month plan now comes with half the tokens. And there’s now an

Sumeet Bagadia's shares recommendations: The key benchmark indices of the Indian stock market remained under pressure despite stronger-than-expected domestic industrial output, as Brent crude neared $105 a barrel and the US 10-year bond yield, around 5.25%, continued to present a

In what seems like an alternate universe in hindsight, Russia and the European Space Agency began discussing collaboration on next-generation crewed spacecraft two decades ago. Under the agreement, Europe would have provided a service module to power a crew capsule carrying up to

AMD has signed a definitive agreement to acquire World Labs, the San Francisco spatial-intelligence company co-founded by Dr. Fei-Fei Li, in an all-stock transaction AMD values at approximately $8.2 billion. AMD expects the deal to close by the end of 2026, subject to regulatory

Coca-Cola Co is considering filing a draft prospectus in December for an initial public offering (IPO) of its Indian bottling unit, people familiar with the matter told Bloomberg. The Atlanta-based drinks giant has also added Axis Capital Ltd and IIFL Capital Services Ltd to the

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick reported at least $250 million in income and other proceeds last year, much of it from the financial businesses he left behind when he joined the Trump administration, according to CNBC's calculations from his newly released 2025 annual financial

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When we went deep on Dell PowerStore Gen 3 earlier this year, the story was hardware, and there was plenty of it. Dell rebuilt the platform from the chassis up: 40 E3.S NVMe bays in 3U with no slots burned on cache, a 200GbE RDMA midplane between controllers that is decoupled fro

Meta is fighting back against a journalist’s claim that its AI agent Muse read the user’s private messages without permission. Following an earlier report from Inc. columnist Jason Aten that detailed the issue, Meta VP of Communications Andy Stone pushed back, making it clear tha

The Scoop Mattel CEO Ynon Kreiz is joining David Ellison’s team at the combined Warner Bros. Discovery-Paramount in a senior leadership role, a big poach for Ellison and a signal of more expansive ambitions from the combined studio. Kreiz’s remit and title haven’t yet been determ

We fear for our lives after being told our abusive exes will be freed from jail early - Published Three women who have been told their abusive ex-partners will be released early from jail as part of controversial plans to free up prison space have said they fear for their safety.