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Every marketing team runs on research: Buyer profiles, competitive analysis, audience insights, content hooks. This is the intelligence work that feeds strategy and happens every day. It just rarely gets called research.

NVIDIA is negotiating a massive $250 billion financial backstop for OpenAI’s proposed 10-gigawatt Ohio data center. The AI infrastructure race just shattered every precedent in corporate finance. NVIDIA is negotiating a staggering $250 billion financial backstop for OpenAI. The proposed guarantee supports a massive 10-gigawatt data center campus in southern Ohio. SoftBank’s energy subsidiary is building the $500 billion project on a former federal uranium site. Because OpenAI lacks an investment-grade credit rating, lenders need reassurance before writing massive checks. NVIDIA’s corporate guarantee acts as the ultimate credit boost. From a strategic perspective, the move is brilliant: For OpenAI: The…

Anthropic says Claude Mythos Preview helped derive an end-to-end key-recovery attack against HAWK-256 and a 200- to 800-fold speedup for an attack on seven-round AES-128. The HAWK attack exploits a previously unused symmetry in the lattice behind the signature scheme. Anthropic’s released implementation gives an expected end-to-end runtime of about three hours and 42 minutes on a 96-core server. The AES result removes a 256-way guessing step from an existing meet-in-the-middle attack. Anthropic said neither result affects production systems. HAWK remains a candidate in a National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) post-quantum standardization process, and the public recovery code…

Seven months into 2026, laundry pod brand Kapsä has made over S$1 million in revenue When Edison Lim and Lincoln Thong launched home fragrance brand Pristine Aroma in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2019, they had a problem most businesses would envy: their product was so popular, yet sales were highly seasonal.  Pristine Aroma’s reed diffusers and candles in scents like their signature Himalayan Tea, surged every Christmas but fell quiet every Jul and Aug. The duo knew they wanted their next business’s revenue to be somewhat steadier. The fix they landed on was taking the thing they…

Government-run dating apps sound like something out of a policy white paper. Tokyo built one anyway, and it’s already helping turn AI matches into real marriages (via Tech Xplore). So how does this app actually work? The Tokyo government launched Tokyo Enmusubi in September 2024, an AI-powered matchmaking app, with a pretty serious objective: combatting Japan’s plummeting birth rate. The idea came from a survey, which showed roughly 70% of people who wanted to marry simply weren’t actively dating.  Representative Image (AI-generated) To keep things on track, anyone joining had to prove they were legally single and pass an online…

“Attackers have frontier AI. Defenders need a frontier AI ecosystem.” Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang issued the warning on X as the company introduced the Open Secure AI Alliance, a coalition helping security teams understand and control powerful AI agents. OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic are missing from the inaugural group. Their absence creates an early challenge for Huang’s vision of bringing leading open and closed AI systems into the same defense community. The names building Nvidia’s AI defense network The Open Secure AI Alliance unites companies across AI and cybersecurity, plus cloud and enterprise software. Prominent members include: Microsoft Hugging Face…

An illustration shows campers using a smartphone to connect with a stylized Amazon Leo satellite network. (Amazon Photoillustration) Amazon Leo has asked the Federal Communications Commission to approve its plan to launch up to 5,105 satellites capable of providing space-based connectivity for mobile devices. “Our plan is to start deploying in 2028, and we’re excited to work with partners to make it happen,” Chris Weber, vice president of business and product for Amazon Leo, said on X. The direct-to-device network, Amazon Leo D2D, would complement Amazon’s satellite network for high-speed internet service via fixed antennas. It would also leverage the…

After suggesting a wood-burning stove, and a mini bellows, you should have seen this coming. What you need to complete the full-fire package is Cooking on Fire, a gorgeous book of recipes and techniques for cooking over an open flame. Cooking on Fire has a good mix of recipes, ranging from simple and delicious veggies to slow-cooked meats that require hours. There’s also plenty of background on different types of fires and cooking techniques, as well as all the equipment you might want to cook various things (for example: spits, forked sticks, cast iron pans, and so on). It’s everything…

Need some help with today’s Mini Crossword? The first two clues require you to know a little bit about different alphabets. Read on for all the answers. The completed NYT Mini Crossword puzzle for July 28, 2026. Mini across clues and answers 1A clue: Letter after alpha, in the Greek alphabetAnswer: BETA 5A clue: Letter after Alfa, in the NATO phonetic alphabetAnswer: BRAVO 6A clue: Barrier reef organismAnswer: CORAL 7A clue: Bout of sniffling and sneezing, sayAnswer: COLD 8A clue: Blue expanseAnswer: SKY Mini down clues and answers 1D clue: “Babbling” body of waterAnswer: BROOK 2D clue: Before expectedAnswer: EARLY…

At AMD’s Advancing AI event, Lisa Su called her shot – just like Babe Ruth. The question now is whether AMD has built the engineering machine to hit it. Last week, we argued that AMD’s next reinvention did not require it to beat Nvidia. Rather, we said, the company needed to become the indispensable second platform in a rapidly expanding AI infrastructure market. That thesis was well received. But at Advancing AI, Lisa Su raised the stakes considerably. AMD didn’t present its new products like Venice, Instinct MI455X, Helios and ROCm as “respectable alternatives.” It claimed outright leadership across CPUs, GPUs, rack-scale…