2026-08-10

Bristol Myers Squibb is building a $2.3 billion drug manufacturing campus in Houston

The roughly 600,000-square-foot facility at Generation Park will create nearly 500 permanent jobs and about 2,000 construction positions [...]

2026-08-10

Imperial Brands is slashing thousands of jobs in the U.S. and Europe

The British tobacco company employs about 25,800 people globally and has outlined a plan to achieve £320 million in annual savings by 2030 [...]

2026-08-10

Brex assumes its AI agents could do anything — so it watches the network, not the code

Brex CEO Pedro Franceschi offered a blueprint for one of the pressing challenges facing the enterprise today at VB Transform 2026: securely deploying AI agents, like the open-source OpenClaw, into production environments.Unlocking this enterprise value requires a mindset shift. The industry needs to move past vague terminology and focus on concrete enterprise roles. “People talk a lot about age [...]

2026-08-10

Has Ford got cheap car fever? A $25K crossover is supposedly on the way.

Ford dealers were told about the new Escape-sized model; one of them spilled the beans. [...]

2026-08-10

Taylor Farms recalls jalapeño products for Salmonella amid Cyclospora outbreak

Recall of jalapeño products spans 26 states, major retailers, a variety of foods. [...]

2026-08-10

Valve slowly expands SteamOS support on non-Valve hardware

New update includes improvements for the Intel-based MSI Claw 8 EX AI+ among others. [...]

2026-08-10

Following Epic loss, Google has started hosting rival app stores in the Play Store

Aptoide has become the first app store distributed inside Google Play under a judge's order. [...]

2026-08-10

Old OCR text cripples language model training, and FineBooks wants to fix that at scale

The FineBooks project from Hugging Face and EleutherAI tested 14 open-source OCR models on more than 2,000 historical book pages. The top model, dots.mocr, hits 97.6 percent character accuracy at under two dollars per thousand pages. That's good enough for AI training data, but not yet for scholarly transcriptions, the team says.<br /> The article Old OCR text cripples language model tr [...]

2026-08-10

Microsoft is planning to unveil its next-gen AI chip this fall as it races to reduce Nvidia reliance

The company has been in talks with TSMC to secure manufacturing capacity for more than 300,000 units for delivery in 2027 [...]