2026-07-21

Trump's trade chief is warning new tariffs are coming as temporary 10% global duties expire

U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer told CNBC new duties could arrive this week, as the administration weighs Section 301 tariffs on 60 countries [...]

2026-07-21

Institutional investors are doubling their home listings after new housing ban

Homes listed for sale by large investors have risen from 4,166 to 9,447 since February, representing $3.1 billion in asking price [...]

2026-07-21

Nvidia Wants to Own Every Chip Inside AI Data Centers

Nvidia’s Vera Rubin platform combines CPUs and GPUs into a single system, reflecting the company’s growing ambition to power every layer of AI infrastructure. [...]

2026-07-21

Google’s newest data pipeline runs beneath the Atlantic to Portugal

Google has connected Nuvem, a new transatlantic subsea cable running beneath the Atlantic between Portugal and the United States, tightening its grip on the physical layer that carries its cloud and AI services. The system links Sines, on Portugal’s southwest coast, with Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, and adds Google to the small club of hyperscalers […]<br /> This story continues at The [...]

2026-07-21

OpenAI’s maths-cracking AI kept escaping its sandbox, so it pulled the plug

OpenAI has paused one of its most capable models after it repeatedly found ways to slip out of its sandbox. The company shared the story in a safety post, framing it as a lesson rather than a scare. This is not just any system. About two months ago it disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]

2026-07-21

Microsoft to fund Mistral’s European AI expansion in multibillion-dollar deal

Microsoft has agreed to bankroll a large slice of Mistral AI’s European build-out, extending a partnership that already binds the Paris lab to the American giant’s cloud. The two companies announced the expanded agreement on Tuesday, describing it as a multibillion-dollar commitment to compute infrastructure across the continent. What is clearer is the shape of […]<br /> This story con [...]

2026-07-21

Fig Expands Platform Across the Full SecOps Engineering Lifecycle, Making Resilience the Default

Security operations environments are constantly evolving. New cloud services, data sources, automations, and detections are introduced on a regular basis, while upstream systems can change without warning. Although these updates are intended to improve security, they can also create unintended consequences by disrupting detection pipelines and leaving organizations with visibility gaps. Fig believ [...]

2026-07-21

Empirical Security raised $25M to predict which flaws hackers will actually exploit

Most security teams face the same problem. There are far more flaws than anyone can fix, and no clear way to know which ones matter. Empirical Security wants to predict the answer. The Chicago startup’s Series A was led by Brightmind Partners, chief executive Ed Bellis told Axios, which first reported the round. It takes […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]

2026-07-21

Samsung Health Assistant arrives in beta for US users

Samsung has started rolling out a beta version of Samsung Health Assistant, which it calls a fully integrated, AI-powered personal health assistant built into the Samsung Health app. According to the company, the feature is live for eligible users in the United States, though it has not said when a wider release might follow. The […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]