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Anthropic has committed $35bn to a cloud provider most people have never heard of, for capacity in a Texas data centre being built by a former bitcoin miner. The Wall Street Journal reported the Lambda agreement on Monday, and Reuters...

TechCrunch

Magna's investment in Yuma Energy has reached $87 million as the Canadian auto supplier increases its majority stake in the Indian battery-swapping firm.

SiliconANGLE

Chipmakers and device makers are rebuilding enterprise data loss prevention around on-device AI security, as employees paste sensitive material into chatbots and assistants faster than rules-based tools can inspect it. Nearly 40% of all...

Techdirt

When we just discussed the two recent deaths in Pennsylvania that came as a result of measles infections, we noted that there was very little information about the deceased. Some additional information has since been released, in...

SiliconANGLE

Security vendors are rebuilding data loss prevention, or DLP, around contextual understanding rather than pattern matching — and AI-powered DLP is giving the category’s most stubborn unsolved problem a second act. Decades of rule-based DLP...

Gizmodo

It's just a memo banning license plate readers on highways. It might herald major changes.

SiliconANGLE

Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey today warned that advanced artificial intelligence poses risks to financial infrastructure. Bailey outlined his concerns in a letter to G20 finance ministers and central bank governors. The document...

The Information

Anthropic signed a deal to rent $35 billion worth of compute capacity from Nvidia-backed cloud provider Lambda Labs, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday. Nvidia, an investor and supplier to Lambda, will supply its chips for the data...

TechCrunch

Founded by a 20-year-old, Alteon is developing autonomous aircraft that hopes to harvest wind energy to stay aloft for several months.

TechCrunch

Apple says it has evidence that a former employee destroyed evidence of data theft after learning he was under investigation.

TechCrunch

The firm, 1789 Capital, led the funding round that reportedly will total around $1 billion.

GeekWire

This story originally appeared on Real Estate News. (Illustration by Real Estate News/Shutterstock) Compass and the Washington state-based Northwest Multiple Listing Service (NWMLS) have settled their year-plus-long lawsuit,...

SiliconANGLE

OpenAI Group PBC today sought to justify its controversial decision to start running ads in ChatGPT several months ago, saying its new advertising business has now crossed the $1 billion annualized revenue run rate mark. In a blog post,...

The Information

Stripe co-founder Patrick Collison might have a career as a newspaper editor if this whole payments thing doesn't work out. His weekend X post expressing “surprise at how little media coverage there’s been around the OpenAI / Hugging Face...

Ars Technica

If you’re like many of our readers, you’ve got Ars Technica bookmarked and hit the front page a few times a day. But for others, a compelling story is what brings them here for the first time. And the discussions sometimes keep them coming...

Ars Technica

The Trump administration is halting vital federal research on the foodborne parasite Cyclospora, despite the record-breaking, nationwide outbreak of the diarrheal pathogen, according to Politico. Of the three research programs that...

Ars Technica

Bentley provided flights from Washington, DC, to Monterey, California, and accommodation so Ars could drive the Supersports, as well as ride in a preproduction Torcal EV, which we wrote about last week. Ars does not accept paid editorial...

The Information

Humain, the Saudi state-owned AI company founded last year, announced a series of partnerships with U.S. startups on Monday tied to data centers in Riyadh and Dammam. Together AI, which rents out computing power to developers who train and...

The Information

Communities that don’t want data centers will end up being “backwards and poor,” President Donald Trump said on Monday, signaling his backing of the politically-charged industry ahead of the upcoming midterm elections. “If we kill the...

The Next Web

Solar Team Eindhoven drove its solar ambulance Stella Juva more than 800km across Kenya with Amref Health Africa, and found it generated more energy than it used while running an X-ray machine, ultrasound scanner and vaccine fridge at a...

The Next Web

Actuators account for 40% to 60% of a humanoid robot’s bill of materials and China refines roughly 90% of the rare earth magnets inside them, which makes the components rather than the models the limit on scale. Europe has a 2030 cap on...

The Next Web

A representative TU Darmstadt survey of more than 2,000 people in Germany found that about 43% of those with very strong AI knowledge expect AI could soon take over their work, a higher share than among those who understand it less. Only...

TechCrunch

Andreessen Horowitz held out its hand and returned with billions more in new funds to invest in startups.

The Next Web

Windows 11 is rolling out toggles that remove Bing web results and Microsoft Store suggestions from Search, in an optional August update that is being released gradually. Microsoft removed Bing from the Windows Search pane for users in the...

SiliconANGLE

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission and 22 state attorneys general today sued Amazon.com Inc. over its practices in the online advertising market. The e-commerce giant pushed back against the complaint in a lengthy statement. Amazon entered...

SiliconANGLE

CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. today launched Falcon IQ, software that hands the assessment and remediation work behind its Project QuiltWorks coalition to a fleet of more than 50 artificial intelligence agents. The launch is one of four...

The Next Web

Oslo had 120,469 electric cars at the end of 2025, nearly half its passenger fleet, and about 78% of its 4,519 public charging points are slow AC units placed where people already park. The EU’s own right to plug sits in Article 14(8) of...

Techdirt

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. In April 2026, a federal grand jury returned indictments charging the Southern Poverty Law Center with...

Ubergizmo

Lenovo has officially announced the ThinkCentre neo 50a 27 Gen 7, an updated All-in-One (AiO) PC designed primarily for workplace productivity and professional office environments. The modern desktop computer integrates upgraded internal...

Ubergizmo

The Windows 11 26H2 update is now rolling out as an optional package through Windows Update under build KB5120998. Because Microsoft deploys features via phased rollouts, several newly added capabilities remain inactive by default. Users...

GeekWire

Movable shelving towers that hold items that are autonomously moved to Amazon employees who pack them for shipping. (GeekWire Photo / Lisa Stiffler) Amazon is accused of artificially inflating the ad prices on its e-commerce site in a...

TechCrunch

Build American AI plans to lobby voters in select states about the virtues of data centers by spending millions of dollars on ads.

Gizmodo

Dwarkesh Patel described the hack as an epic drama starring three successive bot “civilizations.” His critics say he’s building castles in the sky.

Gizmodo

There was "substantial doubt" GoPro could make it. Then Markiplier came in.

Gizmodo

The immersive AI extravaganza will work harder to make your flying monkey nightmares seem ghoulishly real.

Gizmodo

The former congressman was accused of manipulating markets on whether he would attend President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address earlier this year.

Gizmodo

Do you know how bad things have to be for Trump's FTC to come after you?

Gizmodo

A dramatic new interpretation of thylacine anatomy has discovered that the extinct Tasmanian tiger killed prey more like a reptile than a mammal.

Hackernoon

Every agency has lived this version of the story. A client signs a retainer to "fix growth." The engagement starts strong — quick wins, cleaner funnels, better creative. Then the curve flattens again. The client asks the question that ends...

Hackernoon

London, United Kingdom, August 29th, 2026/TechnologyWire/--360in360 Immersive Experiences today announced that its 360in360 Living Memories programme has expanded its portfolio of memory-preservation tools to include audiobook production,...

Hackernoon

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, August 24th, 2026/CyberNewswire/--Security Risk Advisors (SRA), the authors of the free VECTR platform, announce today another great free platform launch: SCALR AI. Security teams can get SCALR AI...

Hackernoon

Cost per token is falling fast. Cost per completed task isn't, and almost nobody is measuring the difference. The cost to query a model at GPT-3.5-level performance fell 280 times between November 2022 and October 2024, from $20 to $0.07...

Hackernoon

The quarterly funnel review begins with a familiar argument. Marketing says it created thousands of qualified leads. Sales says only a fraction were ready for a conversation. Finance says the conversion report cannot be reconciled to the...

Hackernoon

What happens when an iOS app opens, which lifecycle callbacks are executed, and where startup measurement should begin and end. An iOS application does not have one launch path. A person may tap the app icon after restarting their phone,...

Hackernoon

AI demos have become remarkably easy to build. A capable model, a prompt, an API call, and a developer can have something impressive running before the end of the day. Production is different. Once real users arrive, the conversation...

Hackernoon

I've spent 20 years designing machines and the processes that build them, first in China, then in the United States. In that time, I've watched three or four waves of "the future of manufacturing" arrive with a keynote and leave with a...

Hackernoon

Summary: When a buyer asks an AI assistant which tool to use, the assistant usually pulls from documentation, changelogs, and issue threads — not from your landing page. That's not a quirk. It's a structural consequence of what those pages...

Hackernoon

Cloud vendors are very good at benchmarks. Every platform has a chart showing why its engine is faster, cheaper, or both. The problem is that those numbers are usually produced under conditions chosen by the vendor. I needed a different...

Hackernoon

BALI, INDONESIA Zoomex, a global cryptocurrency exchange focused on derivative trading experiences, announced that its official side event during Coinfest Asia 2026, “Zoomex Summer Bay Party: Trade the Tide,” was successfully held on...

Hackernoon

If you have spent any time managing data pipelines at scale, you have likely experienced this scenario: your cluster auto-scales up, your cloud bill quietly triples, and a job that used to take twenty minutes suddenly throws an ugly...