Klaviyo, a publicly traded e-commerce marketing platform, has agreed to acquire the AI customer support startup Agency. Its founder, serial entrepreneur Elias Torres, will join Klaviyo as chief product officer to lead its AI agent efforts.
Venture capital firm Sequoia Capital has led a $1 billion funding round for Valar Atomics, tripling the small reactor developer's valuation to $6 billion after it powered an Nvidia chip with fission-generated electricity.
Todd Blanche, the US deputy attorney general, has formally dropped a proposal for a fund reported at up to $1.8bn (around €1.6bn) that could have compensated people the Trump administration says were wrongly targeted by federal investigators, including some prosecuted over the 6 January 2021 Capitol riot.
New York Federal Reserve President John Williams said on 3 August that he remains confident inflation will ease, but warned the central bank will raise interest rates if price pressures prove more persistent than expected.
Todd Blanche, the US deputy attorney general, has formally dropped a proposal for a fund reported at up to $1.8bn (around €1.6bn) that could have compensated people the Trump administration says were wrongly targeted by federal investigators, including some prosecuted over the 6 January 2021 Capitol riot.
Jay Clayton, Trump's nominee to lead America's 18 intelligence agencies, is on course for Senate confirmation, as a pause in US-Iran fighting and Oman-brokered talks over the Strait of Hormuz briefly send oil prices sharply lower.
Klaviyo, a publicly traded e-commerce marketing platform, has agreed to acquire the AI customer support startup Agency. Its founder, serial entrepreneur Elias Torres, will join Klaviyo as chief product officer to lead its AI agent efforts.
The US Justice Department says OpenAI and its former subsidiary Statsig discouraged American citizens from applying for jobs earmarked for foreign workers seeking permanent residence. The AI company denies wrongdoing but has agreed to three years of federal monitoring.
A new Wharton School paper argues that competitive markets will push firms to automate far beyond what is good for any of them, eroding the consumer demand their own revenues depend on. The authors say only external policy intervention can break the cycle.
A leaked developer document seen by The Verge shows Microsoft is preparing to let Xbox 360 titles run on PC, expanding a backward-compatibility push that began with original Xbox games.
An estimated 18,000 Americans across 45 states have fallen ill in what is on track to be the largest Cyclospora outbreak in US history, linked to contaminated iceberg lettuce from Mexico. The parasite's unusual biology makes it exceptionally hard to detect, trace, and stop.
A new study links decades of uneven Pacific Ocean warming to sharply diverging wildfire trends in the United States Southwest and eastern Australia. The findings suggest that predicting future fire risk requires tracking long-term ocean shifts, not just rising air temperatures.
Wimbledon champion Linda Noskova, Australian Open winner Elena Rybakina and Olympic champion Zheng Qinwen have been confirmed for the Billie Jean King Cup finals in Shenzhen. Eight nations, including two-time defending champion Italy, will compete for the women's tennis team title in September.
FIFA president Gianni Infantino has scrapped a plan to sell a 20% stake in a new $20 billion commercial subsidiary that would have run the World Cup and other major tournaments.
Researchers are investigating whether repeated sauna sessions can train the body to cope more safely with extreme heat. The findings arrive as Europe records thousands of excess deaths from its most severe heatwaves in years.
The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival closed its 60th edition by awarding its top honour to a Myanmar co-production, while Dustin Hoffman and Juliette Binoche received lifetime achievement awards.
A recurring index of technology salaries across the Nordics — currently seeded with public salary-research data ahead of News Unlimited's first proprietary survey.