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A top executive of a Singapore AI cloud firm that was accused of illegally selling Nvidia chips to China could also have been a Chinese spy, anonymous sources told the New York Times.

Andy Alder and Arjun Mather were Stanford roommates who both studied computer science before spending a decade at Palantir. Alder led product design for a team of 800 people building software for U.S. defense and intelligence agencies, while Mather served as a senior vice president in the company’s commercial practice. When the friends decided to…

Thursday, October 29, 2026 12:41PM More than 1,000 people gathered at Fresno’s Convention Center for SJVMA’s Valley Made Manufacturing Summit.

DoorDash has struck a deal to acquire rival Instacart in a deal valued at $17 billion. The purchase will combine the two biggest grocery delivery services in the US, assuming it isn’t stymied by antitrust scrutiny. 

Opera just made a bold choice: Thanks to the newly proposed WebAI web standard, the company will soon be shipping local AI models with its browser. By doing so, Opera’s AI ensures that your queries and/or data remain on your machine. 

Both Apple and Google have violated Korea’s Telecommunications Business Act, the country’s communications regulator has determined. The companies have received penalties from the regulator and have been ordered to change their business practices related to their app stores. Google was slapped with a KRW 42.9 billion ($32 million) fine, while Apple has to pay KRW 20.81 billion ($15.6…

Finland and Japan have signed an agreement on transferring defence equipment and technology, according to the Finnish defence ministry.

OpenAI and Anthropic’s frontier models have been trading blows of late, with each claiming bragging rights in different categories. Now, Google has barged in with its latest Gemini 4 Carbon model, boasting of top benchmark scores in key areas like cybersecurity and coding. “Building on Gemini 4 Argon, which was launched two weeks ago, Carbon…

The new Echo Show 16, officially announced today, is a 16-inch smart display with integrated Fire TV, starting at $500. It’s available for preorder and will begin shipping later this year. The standard display will cost $500, while the Nanomatte display will cost $570. Customers who preorder the Echo Show 16 can get $100 off…

A hacktivist group stole records for more than 41,000 Homeland Security personnel and got help to release it on the web the Washington Post and NPR. The leaked records contain email addresses, phone numbers and office addresses of the personnel, but they also include sensitive information about the agency’s undercover and surveillance programs