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**Microsoft Unveils Maia 300 AI Chip, Promising 40% Greater Efficiency as It Challenges Nvidia** \Microsoft is taking another major step toward reducing its dependence on outside chipmakers, unveiling its...

# Amazon Reportedly Eyes $7 Billion Acquisition of AI Startup Decart as Chip Competition Intensifies Amazon is reportedly exploring a multibillion-dollar acquisition of artificial intelligence startup Decart, a deal...

SpaceX reached one of the most important milestones in the history of its Starship program early Monday, successfully sending the enormous rocket into orbit for the first time. The achievement came during Starship’s...

TikTok has reached a major settlement with Alabama just days before the social media company was scheduled to face a jury over allegations that its platform harmed children and teenagers. The agreement makes Alabama the...

Nvidia is expanding beyond the chips and computing systems powering artificial intelligence with a new effort aimed at making autonomous AI agents safer. The company on Monday introduced the Open Agent Safety Platform...

The United States and China have agreed to reduce tariffs on roughly $60 billion worth of goods traded between the world’s two largest economies, delivering one of the clearest economic outcomes from Chinese President...

America’s housing affordability crisis is entering another difficult phase as mortgage rates climb back above 7% and sellers increasingly cut asking prices to attract buyers. The average rate on a 30-year fixed...

Novo Nordisk is making a major bet on technology that could dramatically reduce how often patients need to inject obesity and diabetes medicines. The Danish pharmaceutical giant has entered a licensing and development...

Akamai Technologies has landed one of the largest contracts in its history, signing a seven-year, $11.6 billion cloud infrastructure agreement with Anthropic as the artificial intelligence company continues an...

Clicks is getting closer to putting a physical keyboard back into the hands of smartphone users. The company has confirmed that its long-awaited Clicks Communicator, an Android smartphone inspired by the keyboard-first...

Advanced Micro Devices crossed the $1 trillion market-capitalization threshold for the first time Monday, marking a historic milestone for the semiconductor company as investors continue betting heavily on its expanding...

Oura is preparing for one of the biggest consumer technology IPOs of the year, with the Finnish smart-ring maker and its shareholders seeking to raise as much as $2.2 billion in a U.S. offering. The listing will give...

U.S. diesel prices climbed above $6.50 a gallon for the first time Monday, setting another record as the war involving Iran continues to disrupt global fuel supplies and transportation routes. The surge is creating a...

Paramount is discussing a potentially sweeping settlement with California Attorney General Rob Bonta that could remove one of the biggest remaining obstacles to its proposed merger with Warner Bros. Discovery. Among the...

Recursive self-improvement is becoming increasingly vital for autonomous AI agents, where progress hinges on discovering high-value solutions across complex domains. The driver of this process is effective exploration...

Matrix multipliers available on recent GPUs do not conform with the IEEE 754 floating point standard. Features of matrix multipliers differ across vendors and architectures of the same vendor, such as accumulator width...

Day to day, I think a surprising amount of engineering productivity comes from small nuggets of knowledge: being aware that a language feature exists; knowing that an unexplained tcp delay is probably related to the...

...or how to make Qwen learn query optimization via agentic reinforcement learning Source: rohanbansal.com (95 points, 14 comments) Hacker News discussion

We're sharing open source code that can sort arrays of numbers about ten times as fast as the C++ std::sort Source: googleblog.com (138 points, 20 comments) Hacker News discussion

Airbnb is committing at least $250 million to help finance affordable and mixed-income housing projects, marking one of the company's most significant efforts yet to address concerns surrounding housing supply and...

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has entered the growing debate over artificial intelligence safety, arguing that AI companies already have strong incentives to make their systems safe without collectively slowing the pace of...

OpenAI is reportedly in discussions for another massive private funding round that could value the artificial intelligence company at approximately $1.2 trillion, according to the Financial Times. The potential...

Stanford University Graduate School of Business has taken the top spot in LinkedIn’s 2026 Top MBA Programs ranking, which evaluates 100 business schools around the world based on career outcomes for their graduates...

Mortgage rates are once again approaching the 7% mark, threatening to further weigh on an already sluggish U.S. housing market and forcing potential buyers to reconsider whether they can afford to purchase a home. Rates...

The U.S. Senate has blocked legislation that would establish a broad federal regulatory framework for cryptocurrency markets, dealing a major setback to an industry that has spent months pushing for clearer rules...

Starbucks is once again using limited-edition merchandise to generate excitement around its stores, and this time Snoopy is driving the frenzy. The coffee chain launched a new Peanuts merchandise collection at select...

Apple TV had a historic night at the 78th Primetime Emmy Awards on Monday, with its breakout comedy series “Widow’s Bay” leading a record-setting performance for the streaming service. The first-year series...

Novig’s provocative advertising campaign featuring actress Sydney Sweeney is facing a new wave of criticism, this time from women athletes who say the campaign sends the wrong message about women in sports. The...

Disney is tightening its return-to-office requirements, with some remote employees across its product and technology teams now being asked to work from a company office four days a week, according to Business Insider...

Apple’s new iPhone Duo may have been the headline act at the company’s September launch, but the foldable device appears to be only the beginning of a much broader product push under new CEO John Ternus. With Ternus...

The 10-year U.S. Treasury yield surged above 5% Tuesday, reaching its highest level since 2007 as investors confronted a combination of rising oil prices, renewed inflation concerns and expectations for another Federal...

OpenAI has acquired Glass Imaging, a startup developing artificial intelligence technology for smartphone cameras, in a transaction valuing the company at more than $300 million, according to people familiar with the...

Oil Surges Above $108 as Saudi Pipeline Attack Deepens Global Supply Fears Oil prices surged Monday as a fresh wave of attacks across the Middle East raised fears that an already-constrained global energy market could...

JPMorgan Chase has reportedly halted lending to Leopold Aschenbrenner’s hedge fund, Situational Awareness, after the young investor suffered what has been described as the largest loss in hedge fund history...

OpenAI and Anthropic Push for AI Slowdown as Industry Faces Growing Safety Debate The leaders of OpenAI and Anthropic are calling for greater caution in the development of frontier artificial intelligence systems...

Trump Pushes Fed to Cut Rates as Inflation Raises Pressure for a Hike President Donald Trump is calling on the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates as policymakers prepare for a closely watched September meeting...

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Says Safety Comes First as Company Rules Out 2026 IPO OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is putting safety at the forefront of the company's strategy as the artificial intelligence industry confronts growing...

Oracle Cuts Workforce Again as AI Expansion Pushes Debt to $125 Billion Oracle is reducing its workforce again as the technology giant carries out another round of organizational changes while aggressively expanding its...

Microsoft has introduced a new code of conduct for its artificial intelligence models as the technology industry faces growing calls for greater caution in the development of increasingly powerful AI systems. The...

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