Energy runs on volatile markets. Finance protects the margin.
Databricks introduces Genie, an AI tool for energy finance teams to track live margin, revenue risks, and capital allocation amid volatile power markets driven by AI demand.
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Tokenised RWAs: Access Is Just the Beginning
Tokenised RWAs expand beyond Treasuries and gold, but investors must scrutinise underlying claims, returns and liquidity before treating tokens as comparable investments.
Introducing Radar Researcher: An AI tool for exploring Internet data in plain language
Cloudflare has launched Radar Researcher, an AI tool that allows users to query Internet traffic data using plain language, replacing manual API and dashboard navigation with automated, interactive responses.
Over The Edge 2.0: what independent researchers found about browser choice on Windows
Independent researchers found Microsoft’s browser choice tactics remain coercive outside Europe, despite minor changes under the Digital Markets Act.
NVIDIA AI Factory Compute Is Becoming an Investable Asset Class
NVIDIA and six major financial firms will mobilize over $500 billion to finance AI infrastructure as a new asset class, shifting from project-based chip purchases to long-term, repeatable AI factory financing.
The EU Digital Product Passport: a traceability deadline
The EU’s Digital Product Passport (DPP) mandates standardized, machine-readable product traceability by February 2027 for batteries, expanding to textiles, electronics, and more under the Ecodesign for Sustainable...
Meet Brain: The AI system behind Azure reliability
Microsoft introduces Brain, an AI-driven reliability system for Azure that integrates telemetry, models, and dependencies to automate cloud health monitoring and incident response across services and regions.
Next Week on XBOX: New Games for August 3 to 7
Xbox announced new games arriving August 3–7 across Xbox platforms, including post-apocalyptic RPGs, life sims, hidden-object mysteries, and physics-based multiplayer titles.
7 best customer success platforms (& how to choose the right one)
Customer success platforms (CSPs) centralize post-sale customer data to predict churn risks and automate retention strategies, replacing manual tracking with AI-driven insights and workflows.
Redefining Network Security for the Frontier AI Era
Palo Alto Networks unveils PAN-OS 12.2 Ceres, introducing Advanced Virtual Patching and AI-driven defenses to counter AI-powered cyber threats and surging network traffic.
New Data: Middle Managers Aren’t Obsolete. AI Just Made Them More Important.
A Salesforce survey of over 500 managers finds AI is increasing their importance in driving workplace transformation, despite concerns about readiness and accountability.
Ghost Recon Wildlands: Last Rites – A Major Free Update Powered by Community Feedback and Player Insights
Ubisoft Bordeaux has released Ghost Recon Wildlands: Last Rites, a major free update for Xbox Series X|S, introducing a new story mission, expanded customization options, and community-driven improvements.
Vertical Advantage: Transforming Industries with Lakebase and Agentic AI
Databricks partners have launched industry-specific solutions built on Lakebase, a unified transactional and analytical platform, to address real-time operational needs across sectors such as finance, healthcare, and...
Raising machine-checked security benchmarks to advance hash-based SNARKs through agentic collaboration
The Ethereum Foundation launched better.codes, an open autoresearch challenge to advance hash-based SNARKs by raising machine-verified security benchmarks for Reed–Solomon proximity problems.
Spy vs. Spy at Machine Speed: Inside the Agentic AI Arms Race
Autonomous AI agents are accelerating cyberattacks and defenses, forcing enterprises to deploy AI-driven security tools that operate at machine speed while maintaining human oversight to prevent catastrophic errors.
Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy
Asobo Studio’s Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy, launching August 27 on Xbox Series X|S, PC and Game Pass, shifts the series to a combat-focused narrative centered on Sophia, departing from prior stealth mechanics.
PRX Part 4: Our Data Strategy
Hugging Face details the data pipeline behind PRX, a 7B text-to-image model, emphasizing diversity over aesthetic perfection in pre-training datasets and the use of long, accurate captions to improve output quality.
The next measure of AI momentum is work transformed
Microsoft reports that Microsoft 365 Copilot has reached 30 million paid seats, with quarterly net additions more than doubling, signaling a shift from AI as a tool to an active participant in enterprise workflows.
Introducing Real World VoiceEQ: Measuring the human quality of voice AI
Hugging Face introduces Real World VoiceEQ, a benchmark assessing voice AI’s human-like listening, response, and naturalness beyond traditional metrics like word error rate.
How Atlassian improved Jira and Confluence performance on Arm Neoverse-based AWS Graviton
Atlassian migrated over 3,000 Jira and Confluence EC2 instances to AWS Graviton processors, then optimized performance through JVM tuning, cache analysis, and workload-specific strategies, achieving up to 30% throughput...
ESS Partners with Alsym Energy to Deliver 8.5 GWh of Non-Lithium Battery Energy Storage Solutions
ESS and Alsym Energy will supply 8.5 GWh of sodium-ion batteries to expand ESS’s storage portfolio beyond long-duration systems, targeting short- and medium-duration applications with safer, lower-cost alternatives to...
Introducing Shieldstral.
Mistral AI released Shieldstral, a 3-billion-parameter open-weights multimodal safety classifier that evaluates text and images against plain-language policies without retraining, outperforming models up to seven times...
The New Monday Morning Report: How Generative AI can deliver the insights your executives need.
Databricks introduces a generative AI system to transform the Monday Morning Report from a data dispute into an actionable brief, integrating real-time signals and governed controls for joint retail and CPG teams.
Apple unveils iPhone Duo
Apple introduced iPhone Duo, its first foldable iPhone, featuring a 7.6-inch inner display and a 5.4-inch outer display, with pre-orders starting October 16 and availability on October 23.