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Nvidia posted better-than-expected quarterly earnings on Wednesday in a sign that the AI trade remains strong despite fears of an AI bubble. The chipmaking giant, widely considered a bellwether for the health of the AI market, reported $96.2 billion in quarterly revenue, crushing analysts’ expectations, with $89 billion of the ...

The US traced a vast hacking network responsible for break-ins across every branch of the federal government to a private company in China. Disguised as regular network traffic, the hackers gained access to the Federal Reserve, the US Senate, and NASA, among other bodies, the FBI said, selling stolen information ...

Britain is readying a national campaign urging people to stockpile canned food and better prepare for national emergencies, the latest European country to prioritize resilience efforts amid growing fears of an attack by Russia or a climate-related catastrophe. The push comes after Sweden this year said it would begin building ...

US regulators on Wednesday approved a drug that slows pancreatic cancer, a breakthrough treatment for a disease that kills seven out of eight patients within five years. In a late-stage study, RevMed’s Rasonque helped subjects live to 13 months, nearly twice as long as those who only received chemotherapy. “This ...

The News The CEO of United Talent Agency is going after one of Hollywood’s biggest trade publications, accusing one of its journalists of trying to deliberately damage the agency’s business. On Wednesday, Variety published a story noting that a slate of high-profile clients has departed from UTA, putting the agency ...

License-plate reading cameras could join data centers as a tech bogeyman in the US midterm elections. A host of politicians — including Sen. Bernie Sanders and Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for Senate in Michigan — have this month blasted Flock Safety: The Atlanta-based startup has come under fire following ...

David’s view If you’re running for office right now, the future is a dangerous place to be. The backlash against hyperscale data centers has converted both Democrats and Republicans into AI skeptics, warning that the industry’s rise risks robbing communities of autonomy. The populist rage against Flock and its AI-powered ...

Watch Live 9 a.m. ET on September 16 Young people are facing unprecedented challenges, from rising loneliness and anxiety to an increasingly complex digital world. But building a more resilient generation will require looking beyond any single cause or solution. It demands collaboration across health, education, technology, family, and community ...

The stigma against using AI for writing appears to be wearing off. In what Semafor’s media editor called a “precedent-setting moment,” The Wall Street Journal not only acknowledged that billionaire investor Stanley Druckenmiller used AI for a newsmaking op-ed, but defended the practice: “AI is a fact of modern life,” ...

OpenAI unveiled benchmarks for its Jalapeño inference chip Tuesday and they are… fast. So fast that they compete with Nvidia’s best chips. OpenAI built the chips in record time by using its own AI models to speed up the design and verification phase of development. It still needed to work ...