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Salesforce reported a strong beat on second-quarter earnings and announced an expanded AI partnership with Anthropic.
Read original →Part 1 of a 4-part series on Canada’s Arctic opportunity. Part 2 covers exploration; Part...
Read original →Apple's new toxic hellstew is a battle over regulation, litigation, and keeping your data safe.
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Read original →Nvidia reportedly agreed to buy open source AI platform Hugging Face for $12.9 billion as the chipmaker expands deeper into the AI ecosystem.
Read original →The US Small Business Administration (SBA) and the US Department of War (DoW) this week announced the creation of the Smaller War Plants Commission (SWPC), a new body meant to steer federal money, contracts and regulatory relief toward the small manufacturers that supply the American military. The commission was established through a memorandum of understanding between the two agencies. Small businesses account for more than 70 percent of the US defense industrial base, according to the SBA. "Since our nation's earliest days, American battle readiness has run through small businesses — from the local factories to the labs that forge the Arsenal of Freedom," said SBA Administrator Kelly Loeffler. "Under President Donald J. Trump, the Smaller War Plants Commission will end the era of dependence by putting the full weight of the federal government behind the small businesses that power our defense industrial base." President Trump is ending America’s dependence on foreign supply chains and our adversaries. That’s why the @DeptofWar, alongside our partners at @SBAgov, is reestablishing the Smaller War Plants Commission. pic.twitter.com/jKqOtExXmR — Secretary of War Pete Hegseth (@SecWar) August 25, 2026 Watch Secretary of War Pete Hegseth introduce the Smaller War Plants Commission and the goal of the newly minted department. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said the commission is meant to rebuild domestic production capacity rather than "accepting a hollowed-out industrial base." "We are restoring the industrial dominance that made the United States the decisive force of the twentieth century and applying it to the threats of this century," he said. The SWPC takes its name from the Smaller War Plants Corporation, a World War II-era SBA predecessor that helped small manufacturers secure financing, contracts and technical support; its authorities were folded into the SBA in 1953. Under the new framework, the agencies plan to build an inventory of small business production capacity through the Civil Reserve Manufacturing Network (CRMN), form joint teams to remove regulatory bottlenecks, and report periodically to President Trump on industrial readiness and supply-chain gaps. On financing, the SBA will prioritize defense-critical sectors for its lending, capital-investment and contracting programs. Named focus areas include munitions and components, drones and one-way attack systems, microelectronics, strategic and critical minerals, shipbuilding and repair components, sensors, batteries, castings and forgings, and textiles. Eligible manufacturers will also gain access to the SBA's Made in America Loan Guarantee, delivered through its International Trade Loan program, which carries a 90 percent federal guarantee, above the 75 percent standard under the agency's flagship 7(a) loan program. The guarantee can be used to finance equipment purchases, facility modernization, inventory and domestic capacity expansion. Army awards up to US$2.2 billion for on-base nuclear microreactors Separately, the US Army on August 26 awarded contracts worth up to $2.2 billion combined to five companies to build nuclear microreactors at military bases, under a program called Janus. The five companies and their assigned bases: Antares Nuclear at Fort Bragg, North Carolina; BWXT Advanced Technologies at Fort Campbell, Kentucky; General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems at Fort Hood, Texas; Radiant Industries at Fort Benning, Georgia; and Westinghouse Government Services at Fort Drum, New York. Radiant's award was reported at US$750 million for 15 of its 1-megawatt Kaleidos reactors; contract values for the other four companies were not disclosed. The Army expects to field more than 20 reactors across Department of Defense installations in total. The reactors are designed to generate independent baseload power at bases rather than relying solely on commercial electrical grids, though the bases will remain grid-connected. General Atomics' design is a 5-megawatt system scalable to 20 megawatts and transportable by rail or truck. The program traces to a May 2025 executive order, and the Army has set a target of September 30, 2028 for the first advanced reactor to be operational at a domestic base. Army Secretary Dan Driscoll said the contracts will help "deliver safe, reliable baseload power directly to our installations" and build the "energy resilience necessary to project combat power globally," without relying on "potentially vulnerable external grids." The critical minerals through-line Taken together, the two announcements illustrate how the defense-manufacturing and energy-independence pushes are converging on the same set of inputs. The SWPC explicitly names strategic and critical minerals as a priority sector for SBA lending and contracting support. The Janus microreactor buildout, meanwhile, will require a steady supply of nuclear fuel and specialty materials as reactors move from pilot sites toward full deployment — though neither the Army's announcement nor the coverage reviewed detailed sourcing plans for that fuel or those materials. That gap is worth watching. Junior miners and suppliers in the uranium and critical minerals space may find both new demand signals and new federal support mechanisms opening up as these programs move from announcement to execution. Don’t forget to follow us @INN_Resource for real-time updates! Securities Disclosure: I, Georgia Williams, hold no direct investment interest in any company mentioned in this article.
Read original →Around 1,200 isolated OpenAI agents organized themselves into a collective through an internal package registry during a safety test, broke into Hugging Face systems, and eventually attacked OpenAI's own infrastructure. Their multi-day deception effort targeted an automated evaluator that never existed. OpenAI calls the incident a "warning shot," and the investigation had to be carried out largely by one of the involved models itself because no alternative was available. The article OpenAI’s rogue AI collective was smart enough to break out of sandboxes but dumb enough to fight a ghost appeared first on The Decoder.
Read original →Google teamed up with the Pokémon Company to introduce a special-edition Fitbit Air that works with the Pokémon Sleep app.
Read original →President Donald Trump signed an executive order that he said will "immediately" change the name of Lake Ontario to "Lake America."
Read original →In financial year 2026 (FY26), Mponeng and Moab Khotsong, the high-grade South African underground operations of Harmony Gold, produced 15 t at 9 g/t with a 38% free cash flow margin. Mponeng, the world’s deepest mine, was the primary driver of this performance as Moab Khotsong moves into an ore gap.
Read original →Low-skill hacktivists are now 'enabled with the same tooling and sophistication as a state-sponsored group,' according to cybersecurity consultant Unit 42.
Read original →Architect Labs says it has created Redwood, an AI accelerator designed and verified almost entirely by artificial intelligence in less than two weeks. If independently validated and successfully translated from a programmable prototype into manufactured silicon, the project could represent a major change in how computer… Read More The post AI-designed Chip Points Toward a Faster Future for Custom Silicon appeared first on SemiWiki.
Read original →After debuting as the most volatile stock among its large-cap peers, Elon Musk's astronomic equity hasn't moved in three weeks.
Read original →Australia-headquartered diversified miner South32’s group underlying earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation (Ebitda) increased by 28% year-on-year to $2.5-billion for the financial year ended June 30, while underlying earnings increased by 55% year-on-year to $1-billion owing to a strong operational performance combined with commodity price tailwinds. “I’m really proud to have started as CEO in such a pivotal time for the company, with our strategic repositioning to base metals driving some of our best financial results on record. A strong operating performance enabled us to capture the benefit of commodity price tailwinds in copper, zinc and silver,” CEO Matt Daley pointed out during a call with the media on August 27.
Read original →The class action lawsuit claims that Oura's sleep-tracking mechanisms sell 'faulty AI-based inference as reliable science.'
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