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Chipotle, Qdoba remove jalapeños tied to salmonella outbreak that has spread to 27 states The Washington PostWhere People Got Sick: Salmonella Outbreak, August 2026 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | CDC (.gov)Jalapeños linked to a US salmonella outbreak are tracked to a Mexican farm and a distributor AP NewsWith several foodborne illness outbreaks nationwide, … Read more

In the AI industry, Google prides itself on seeming like the adult in the room: quiet, stable, time-tested. On Wednesday, even as the company announced its largest AI org shakeup yet, Google and its leaders presented a unified front, keeping their messaging focused on how the changes tee up future success.But the reality is that … Read more

The U.K. has cleared Paramount Skydance’s $111 ⁠billion acquisition of Warner Bros. on both competition and ⁠public interest grounds after Paramount beefed up promises ​about ​programming ⁠and news provision in the country. In a statement, the U.K.’s Department of Culture, Media and Sport said, “Today, the Competition and Markets Authority have announced their decision that … Read more

‘I’ve had to Botox my CV’: Are AI recruitment tools affecting women’s careers? BBCAvoid auto rejections: How to oust AI-driven discrimination hrmagazine.co.ukAI Weeds Out Older and Minority Job Applicants, Lawsuit Against Workday Claims CPA Practice AdvisorRecruitment sector gets smart tech boost China Daily – Global EditionWhen AI screens women out, an appeal pathway must be … Read more

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange during morning trading on August 05, 2026 in New York City. Michael M. Santiago | Getty ImagesFutures tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose early Thursday after the blue-chip index closed at a record high, as investors looked ahead to another round of … Read more

SK Hynix Inc. 12-layer HBM4E memory chips on a LPDDR5X CAMM2 memory module arranged at the company’s office in Seongnam, South Korea, on Friday, July 24, 2026. SK Hynix and Samsung Electronics Co. are set to test investor appetite for memory chips as South Korea’s stock market now a bellwether for global AI sentiment grapples with violent … Read more

Over the past 12 months, Nvidia (NVDA +3.44%) grew revenue 71% to $253 billion and more than doubled its net income, to about $160 billion. The stock, meanwhile, trades at about 21 times forward earnings (the profits the company is expected to produce over the next year) as of this writing. That’s the kind of … Read more

Meta said on Wednesday that one of its AI models hacked ⁠another company during cybersecurity testing, after an error by its testing partner gave the model unintended internet access.The incident adds to a ⁠growing list of ⁠cases in ​which AI agents from major developers breached systems at other companies during testing, after Anthropic said last … Read more

Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis’s departure Wednesday from the top job at the company he founded in 2010 and sold to Google in 2014 was at least a year in the making, said two people familiar with his thinking.Hassabis had been drifting away from the day-to-day responsibilities of running the company’s Gemini AI models and … Read more

SpaceX (SPCX) reported second quarter results on Tuesday that topped estimates — its first report as a public company — which comes as the stock has been in a recent free fall. Rising capital expenditures in its Q2 report didn’t help matters. SpaceX’s AI segment posted an operating loss of $1.26 billion versus estimates of $2.39 … Read more