Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) (NASDAQ:AMD) is looking to further enhance its artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure with the acquisition of AI service provider ZT Systems for US$4.9 billion. Announced on Monday (August 19), the definitive agreement is AMD’s latest move to reinforce its position in the data center market. In the…
Perth, Australia (ABN Newswire) – Lithium Universe Limited (ASX:LU7) (FRA:KU00) (OTCMKTS:LUVSF) is pleased to announce the forming of a joint committee and collaboration with the Tribal Council representing the Abenaki Council of Odanak and the Abenaki Council of Wolinak (W8banaki). This initiative aims to foster ongoing information exchange and mutual…
DETROIT — Canada’s two largest railroads are starting to shut down their shipping networks as a labor dispute with the Teamsters union threatens to cause lockouts or strikes that would disrupt cross-border trade with the U.S. Both the Canadian Pacific Kansas City and Canadian National railroads, which haul millions of…
“What are your parents’ names?” Fang, then a third grader, hemmed and hawed at the simple question as her teacher waited impatiently, unaware the 9-year-old was caught in a dilemma. Since preschool, Fang had been officially registered as the daughter of her eldest uncle – an attempt by her birth…
Israeli police are investigating an explosion that killed a person in Tel Aviv on Sunday evening. The person who died is believed to have been carrying the explosive material, District Commander Peretz Amar said. Police have not yet identified the person. A second person was moderately injured after being hit…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that Ukraine is “getting stronger” in Kursk, with his troops blowing up a second bridge in the Russian territory on Sunday. Fighting continues in the Kursk region, where Ukraine has been inching forward since launching its surprise cross-border incursion last week. But Ukraine remains…
Seven members of the same family were killed in an Israeli airstrike in central Gaza on Sunday, medical officials said, as Secretary of State Antony Blinken travels to Israel to push for a ceasefire and hostage deal. At least seven people were killed, including six children and their mother, in an Israeli airstrike…
One body has been recovered and six people are missing, according to Italian authorities, after a luxury yacht sank off the coast of Sicily. A tornado hit the vessel around 5 a.m. Monday, according to a spokesperson for Italy’s Coast Guard. The yacht was anchored about a half a mile…
At the mouth of the Motagua, Guatemala’s longest river, 40 million pounds (18 million kilograms) of trash pours into the ocean each year. It is one of the most polluted rivers in Central America, winding 302 miles (486 kilometers) through Guatemala before flowing into the Gulf of Honduras and, ultimately,…
A former Soviet aircraft carrier burned in a waterway near Shanghai over the weekend, the latest setback for the decommissioned warship since its conversion into a Chinese tourist attraction. The carrier Minsk, which has been anchored for the past eight years in a lagoon near the Yangtze River in Nantong,…