Top Stories — Friday, April 10, 2026
What is trending in the USA today? Here is Breaking News:
- Google and Intel deepen AI infrastructure partnership — TechCrunch
- FCC chairman climbs 2,000-foot cell tower to spotlight one of America's toughest trades — Fox Business
- 9/11 terror attacks made Dem congressional candidate more 'aware' of 'anti-Muslim bigotry': unearthed op-ed — Fox News
Google and Intel deepen AI infrastructure partnership
Source: TechCrunch • Published: 4/9/2026, 11:57:47 PM
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Google and Intel announced an expanded multi-year partnership on Thursday for Google Cloud to continue utilizing Intel AI infrastructure and to keep developing processors together.
Google Cloud will use Intel’s Xeon processors, including Intel’s latest Xeon 6 chips, for AI, cloud, and inference tasks. The company has used Intel’s various Xeon processors for decades.
The companies will also expand the co-development of custom infrastructure processing units (IPUs), which help accelerate and manage data center tasks by offloading them from CPUs.
This chip development partnership, which started in 2021, will focus on custom ASIC-based IPUs.
Intel declined to share any information regarding pricing for the deal.
This expansion comes as the industry is hungry for CPUs. While GPUs are used for developing and training AI models, CPUs are crucial for running AI models and within general AI infrastructure.
“AI is reshaping how infrastructure is built and scaled,” Intel chief executive Lip-Bu Tan said in a company press release. “Scaling AI requires more than accelerators — it requires balanced systems. CPUs and IPUs are central to delivering the performance, efficiency and flexibility modern AI workloads demand.”
More companies have been turning their focus to CPUs in recent months as there is a growing shortage for the chips.
SoftBank-owned Arm Holdings recently announced the Arm AGI CPU, the first chip that the semiconductor giant has produced itself, amid a worldwide crunch for CPUs.
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FCC chairman climbs 2,000-foot cell tower to spotlight one of America's toughest trades
Source: Fox Business • Published: 4/9/2026, 11:54:24 PM
Sky-high salaries are drawing new attention to one of the country’s most overlooked blue-collar jobs, and demand is surging for workers willing to scale America’s communications infrastructure.
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr and FOX Business' Darren Botelho joined Stuart Varney in a FOX Business exclusive on "Varney & Co." from atop a 2,000-foot broadcast tower in North Carolina, highlighting the workforce behind the nation’s expanding connectivity buildout and pointing to a growing need for skilled tower climbers as new projects ramp up nationwide.
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The climb is part of FCC's Build America Agenda launched in July 2025, which focuses on workforce development and easing barriers to infrastructure expansion. Carr has made similar climbs in Alabama and South Dakota, using the extreme heights to highlight what he has described as some of the toughest jobs in the country.
Suspended high above the ground, Carr emphasized that while the work often goes unseen, it is critical to keeping Americans connected across both urban and rural communities.
"It is fun. I like the work these tower crews do," Carr said.
A U.S. technician carries out repair work on an active 5G antenna. (Daniel Karmann/picture alliance / Getty Images)
He also underscored the critical role these crews play in keeping Americans connected.
"Most people, when they turn on their phone or their TV, they think it works on magic or pixie dust. It's the hard work of these crews," Carr said.
The push to expand wireless networks and next-generation systems is accelerating demand, creating opportunities for workers without traditional four-year degrees to step into high-paying roles.
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"These are good wages, and you can easily get over $100,000 once you start working on some of these big crews," Carr said.
With infrastructure projects expanding, Carr signaled that these roles are likely to remain in high demand as the industry continues to grow.
Read the full story at Fox Business.
9/11 terror attacks made Dem congressional candidate more 'aware' of 'anti-Muslim bigotry': unearthed op-ed
Source: Fox News • Published: 4/9/2026, 11:50:52 PM
An ordained Christian minister running for U.S. Congress in Iowa penned an opinion piece sharing how the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks — carried out by radical Islamic terrorists — made her more "aware" of the "rising anti-Muslim bigotry and its harm."
Sarah Trone Garriott is one of three Democratic candidates vying for the battleground seat held by Rep. Zach Nunn, R-Iowa.
Garriott, an Iowa state legislator and Lutheran minister, wrote the opinion piece for the Iowa Capital Dispatch in response to the "hateful messages" she received after she shared a prayer with Arabic words written by a Muslim woman on the statehouse floor in February 2021.
"They said horrible stereotypical things about my Muslim neighbors — Sharia law, hating freedom, violent religion," Garriott wrote. "There were others who made comments about the United States being a Judeo-Christian country and therefore Muslim prayers were not welcome. There were some attacks against me, as a Christian leader I was leading people astray, that I didn’t know what I was doing."
She said that the pushback "convinced" her there is a greater need for "religious diversity."
Garriott revealed that she began her master's degree in theological studies at Harvard University a day after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
"On that religiously diverse campus, I was more aware of the rising anti-Muslim bigotry and its harm," Garriott wrote. "I am kind a biblical literalist, and when Jesus said blessed are the peacemakers, I took that to heart. I worked with my Muslim classmates to organize a meal to bring the community together during Ramadan."
Meanwhile, Nunn had "a different response" to the 9/11 terrorist attacks by joining the Air Force, according to Nunn's spokesperson, Mark Matava. During his service, he "flew more than a hundred combat missions to defend America."
"Sarah Trone Garriott has called Christianity 'threatening,' mocked parents for protecting their daughters, and accused Christian schools of being 'white enclaves,'" Matava said. "Now we learn that her response to the deadliest attack on American soil was to lecture Americans about bigotry without so much as mentioning the nearly 3,000 people who were killed on 9/11. Her contempt for Iowa and America is on full display."
Nearly 3,000 people died and thousands more were injured in the 9/11 terrorist attacks. (Photo12/Universal Images Group)
Iowa GOP Spokesperson Jade Cichy also criticized Garriott for not mentioning the thousands of American victims killed on 9/11.
"Radical woke warrior Sarah Trone Garriott’s main concern after the September 11th terror attacks was ‘anti-Muslim bigotry,’ and she made no mention of the thousands of innocent Americans who lost their lives that day," Cichy said in a statement to Fox News Digital. "This stunning display of tone-deaf political pandering is just the latest example showing Trone Garriott is out of touch with Iowa values."
Republican National Committee spokesman Zach Kraft said she is "insulting Iowa values" by pandering to "coastal elite Democrat Party bosses."
Congressman-elect Zach Nunn (R-IA) attends orientation for newly elected members of the 118th U.S. Congress, following the 2022 midterm elections, at the Hyatt Hotel in Washington, U.S., November 13, 2022. (Michael A. McCoy/Reuters)
"Sarah Trone Garriott should be ashamed for wagging her finger at America for not being woke enough about 9/11 and completely ignoring the more than 2,000 patriots tragically killed that day," Kraft said in a statement to Fox News Digital.
Iowa GOP spokesperson Jade Cichy called Garriott's "tone-deaf political pandering."
Fox News Digital reported last month on a 2023 speech given by Garriott in which she criticized Christian displays at political rallies, calling it one of several "pretty uncomfortable ways that faith and political power have collided."
Fox News Digital reached out to Garriott for comment.
Elaine Mallon is a writer for Fox News Digital and Fox Business covering national politics.
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