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Renowned semiconductor and software company Arm Holdings is starting to manufacture its own chips after nearly 36 years of licensing its designs to companies like Nvidia and Apple. At an event in San Francisco on Tuesday, the company announced the Arm AGI CPU, a production-ready chip built to run inference in AI data centers. The UK-based company developed the chip through a partnership with Meta, using CPU IP cores from the Arm Neoverse family. Meta is also the first customer for the chip’s Arm AGI CPU. Arm AGI CPUs are designed to work in harmony with technology companies’ training and…
The Pentagon’s decision to blacklist Anthropic’s Claude artificial intelligence model “appears to be an attempt to cripple” Anthropic, a federal judge said in a court hearing Tuesday.Lawyers for Anthropic appeared in San Francisco federal court and asked Judge Rita Lin to suspend the Pentagon’s blacklisting and President Donald Trump’s directive barring federal agencies from using the technology.The company noted that the injunction will not prevent the U.S. government from using its model or moving to another AI vendor. During the hearing, Mr. Lin asked many questions of Anthropic’s lawyers and the U.S. government about the details of the case. Her…
A New Mexico state court jury on Tuesday found Meta liable for nearly $400 million in civil damages after the state’s attorney general accused the Facebook and Instagram companies of failing to protect children who use their apps from child predators.The civil trial, which began with opening arguments in Santa Fe last month, centered on allegations that Meta violated state consumer protection laws and misled residents about the safety of apps like Facebook and Instagram. New Mexico Attorney General Raul Torres filed charges against Meta in 2023 following a sting involving the creation of fake social media profiles for 13-year-old…
Transport unions say the state of emergency is a “cosmetic band-aid” that does not address the root causes of the fuel crisis.Published March 25, 2026March 25, 2026Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. declared a national energy emergency in response to the United States and Israel’s war against Iran and what he called an “immediate danger” to the country’s energy supplies.Tuesday’s declaration of a state of emergency comes as Philippine transit workers, commuters and consumer groups plan a two-day strike starting Thursday to protest fuel price increases they say the Marcos administration has failed to act quickly.Recommended stories list of 4 itemsend…
Mohamed Salah will leave Liverpool with only Thierry Henry ahead of him in the Premier League’s pantheon of great overseas players, according to Sky Sports pundit Jamie Carragher.Liverpool announced on Tuesday night that Salah would leave the club at the end of the season after reaching an agreement to release him as a free agent a year early. Salah has won every top trophy during his nine years at Anfield and Carragher said the forward’s impending departure “marks the end of an unusual era” for his former club. A year after Kevin De Bruyne left Manchester City for Napoli, the…
With a war chest full of $5 billion in funding that closed last month (not to mention billions in revenue), Databricks is making acquisitions. The company, best known for its cloud data analytics platform, announced Tuesday that it is launching a new security product called Lakewatch. Lakewatch leverages Databricks’ ability to store large amounts of data and perform traditional security information and event management (SIEM) tasks such as threat detection and investigation. It’s only with the help of an AI agent assisted by Claude from Anthropic. Databricks has acquired two startups to support this new product. One is Antimatter, which…
As the Iran war enters its fifth week, consumers are being hit hard by soaring energy costs. Now, even as experts point to an extreme supply shock, some lawmakers are warning of the possibility of price gouging. Traffic in the Strait of Hormuz, a critical shipping route for global oil supplies, remains virtually at a standstill, causing the biggest oil supply disruption in history.Oil prices have soared more than 40% since the war between the United States and Iran began on February 28, causing soaring prices for gas and jet fuel.Brent crude, the global benchmark for oil, fell on Friday…
Six months after releasing the Sora app and seeing it go viral, OpenAI is discontinuing its service, the company announced Tuesday. “We say goodbye to Sora. We thank everyone who created with Sora, shared it, and built a community around it,” OpenAI wrote in the X post. “What you create with Sora matters, and we know this news is disappointing. We’ll be sharing more details soon, including a timeline for our apps and APIs, and details about preserving your work.”Sora has been hugely popular among users, reaching 1 million downloads in less than five days after its launch in late…
At a time when AI slop is flooding music streaming platforms, Spotify is beta testing a new “Artist Profile Protection” feature that will allow artists to review releases before making them public on their profiles. The idea behind this new tool is to give artists more control over which tracks are associated with their name on streaming services. “Music is appearing on the wrong artist pages across streaming services, and the rise of easily produced AI tracks is making the problem even worse,” Spotify said in a blog post. “This is not the experience we want artists to have on…
stablecoin issuer circle Stocks are falling as the latest version of the bill, known as the Transparency Act, indicates it could limit yields on stablecoin balances.Shares fell 20% on Tuesday, the worst day in stock history. The sharpest drop so far occurred on June 27, when the stock fell 15.5%. This move also hindered coinbaseUSDC’s primary distribution platform. The stock price fell nearly 10%.The yield earned on stablecoins such as Circle’s USDC, usually in the form of rewards, is a key incentive for users to hold the coin, similar to the interest earned on cash in a bank account. The…