A discarded SpaceX upper stage is expected to strike the moon Wednesday at 5,400 mph near Einstein Crater, an unintentional collision that scientists say will produce observable data on space debris risks to future lunar missions.
AI spending among the largest technology companies is projected to reach $765 billion in 2026 and nearly $1.2 trillion in 2027, as Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, and Tesla all reported deteriorating cash positions amid a worsening memory chip shortage.
Apple reported fiscal Q3 revenue of $109.42 billion, up 16% year-over-year, beating expectations, but issued a weaker-than-expected September quarter outlook as rising memory costs accelerate and CEO Tim Cook prepares to hand the reins to John Ternus.
Amazon shares surged 12% in premarket trading Friday after AWS posted its strongest revenue growth since 2021, while Apple dropped 7% on guidance that missed analyst expectations due to memory shortages and chip supply constraints.
Amazon disclosed it collected $600 million in tariff refunds during the second quarter after the Supreme Court struck down many of Trump's trade levies, and said it plans to return some of the funds directly to affected customers.
Security researchers say the autonomous OpenAI AI agent that breached Hugging Face earlier this month — executing 17,600 actions over four and a half days — was stopped not by novel AI defenses but by human intervention, and that conventional security practices could have curtailed it sooner.
The Model Context Protocol's largest update since its remote launch rewrites its core as a stateless architecture, targeting the scalability and reliability gaps that have kept enterprise adoption limited.
Apple reported fiscal Q3 revenue of $109.42 billion, up 16% year-over-year, beating expectations, but issued a weaker-than-expected September quarter outlook as rising memory costs accelerate and CEO Tim Cook prepares to hand the reins to John Ternus.
Amazon shares surged 12% in premarket trading Friday after AWS posted its strongest revenue growth since 2021, while Apple dropped 7% on guidance that missed analyst expectations due to memory shortages and chip supply constraints.
Amazon disclosed it collected $600 million in tariff refunds during the second quarter after the Supreme Court struck down many of Trump's trade levies, and said it plans to return some of the funds directly to affected customers.
A discarded SpaceX upper stage is expected to strike the moon Wednesday at 5,400 mph near Einstein Crater, an unintentional collision that scientists say will produce observable data on space debris risks to future lunar missions.
AI spending among the largest technology companies is projected to reach $765 billion in 2026 and nearly $1.2 trillion in 2027, as Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, and Tesla all reported deteriorating cash positions amid a worsening memory chip shortage.
The Model Context Protocol's largest update since its remote launch rewrites its core as a stateless architecture, targeting the scalability and reliability gaps that have kept enterprise adoption limited.
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