2026-08-31
The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking has signed a €387.8 million procurement contract with French vendor Bull to deliver LUMI-AI, a next-generation supercomputer announced August 31, 2026 as powered by AMD Instinct MI430X GPUs and 6th Gen AMD EPYC 256-core processors. The system will be installed at CSC – IT Center for Science's new data center in Kajaani, Finland, with deployment scheduled for [...]
2026-08-31
Every back-to-school season compresses months of retail behavior into a few intense weeks. Families browse across websites and apps, compare prices, respond to promotions, visit stores, join loyalty programs and make purchases across categories ranging from apparel to electronics. This year, that activity started especially early. National Retail Federation research found that 62% of back-to-schoo [...]
2026-08-31
HUMAIN, a PIF company delivering full-stack artificial intelligence capabilities, and KORA Systems Inc. announced a strategic engineering and co-development partnership on August 31, 2026, at LEAP 2026 in Riyadh to build HUMAIN OS, an enterprise-grade, AI-native Linux operating system, according to a company press release. The companies said they are demonstrating an early version of HUMAIN OS at [...]
2026-08-31
Phil Marshall, Founder and CEO of Spoken, is a physician, inventor, technology entrepreneur, and science fiction writer whose career has spanned healthcare, digital media, artificial intelligence, and product innovation. Before launching Spoken in 2024, Marshall co-founded Conversa Health, a personalized patient engagement and conversational AI company that was acquired by Amwell in 2021 and becam [...]
2026-08-31
Tim Cook took over as Apple CEO in the long shadow of his predecessor, Steve Jobs — and yet he became the best tech CEO in a generation, more than preparing the company for his successor, John Ternus. [...]