2026-09-01

OpenAI lifts the lid on its in-house Jalapeño chip - with benchmarks claiming it beats Nvidia's GB300

OpenAI says its 700W Jalapeño chip beats Nvidia's 1,400W GB300 in efficiency, while skipping a crucial head-to-head against the latter's Vera Rubin architecture. [...]

2026-09-01

Halloween chocolate eyeballs sold at TJ Maxx and Marshalls recalled over hidden milk allergen

The candy was sold at TJ Maxx, Marshalls, HomeGoods, and Sierra Trading Post; no illnesses have been reported [...]

2026-09-01

Keurig Dr Pepper is selling its Chobani stake and a Pennsylvania factory for $925 million

The beverage company will sell its equity stake in Chobani for $800 million and an Allentown manufacturing facility for $125 million [...]

2026-09-01

Lowe's Foundation is rallying 75 companies to train 1 million skilled trades workers by 2035

The Building Futures Skilled Trades Coalition aims to train and develop 1 million skilled trades workers by 2035 [...]

2026-09-01

Oil surged above $94 a barrel after the U.S. struck Iranian targets in Hormuz

Brent crude climbed 3.8% to $94.36 a barrel as WTI rose 4.3%, putting the U.S. benchmark on pace for its highest settlement in over a month [...]

2026-09-01

John Deere Puts JD AI Assistant Into Operations Center

John Deere introduced JD, an artificial intelligence assistant built into its Operations Center platform, on September 1, 2026, opening an Early Access Program for select U.S. agricultural customers at the Farm Progress Show in Iowa. The company said the tool lets farmers ask plain-language questions and receive answers drawn from their own field, machine, and operational data. JD is embedded dire [...]

2026-09-01

Waymo opens driverless rides in Denver, San Diego and Tampa

Waymo opened driverless rides in Denver, San Diego and Tampa, and Denver is its first commercial deployment in a city with real snowfall. Under EU rules an automated driving system’s weather envelope is part of a type-approved operational design domain, and the vehicle must perform a minimum risk manoeuvre when it reaches the boundary. Waymo […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]

2026-09-01

Tineco puts smarter, easier home cleaning in the spotlight at IFA 2026

Led by the Floor One Station S9 Scientist Pro, Tineco’s latest lineup shows how automation can simplify everyday cleaning [...]

2026-09-01

Perplexity Introduces PII-TRACE Benchmark and PII-Tracer On-Device Detector

Perplexity on September 1, 2026, introduced PII-TRACE, a benchmark for evaluating detectors of personally identifiable information, and PII-Tracer, a compact 0.6B-parameter model built to flag PII on a user's device before text is sent to cloud models. The announcement frames both releases as privacy infrastructure for the company's hybrid compute architecture, in which cloud agents hand [...]