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A bipartisan group of House and Senate lawmakers is pressing the Trump administration to restore and expand Ukraine’s access to Starshield satellite systems, warning that a failure to do so will cripple Kyiv’s military operations against Russia. In a letter to Defense Secretary P

23rd October 2026 - Link Blog Introducing Kimi K3.1 Pro (via) Kimi K3.1 Pro landed on the Kimi API today - it's not yet open weights, but Moonshot promise "Full model weights will be released by Nov 4, 2026". They're also offering a "Highspeed" version that's 2-3x faster, at twic

OpenAI has begun cutting off internet access for its most capable artificial intelligence models during the training process in response to prior incidents in which its systems breached other companies.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) greeted President Trump as he arrived in Florida Friday afternoon with a gift: a gold coin with an image of Trump holding up a middle finger. The coin bears Trump’s face and the inscription, “YOU MISSED B------.” Trump showed reporters the gift after

Leaders in the US Space Force would like to have a new spaceport up and running in four years, adding a third heavy-lift launch site to relieve pressure from bases in Florida and California that have shot rockets into orbit for nearly 70 years. The obvious problem with that ambit

House Democrats are making a play for a red seat in Kansas, but Republicans are competitive in a California seat — and both are releasing polling to back it up. Democrat Don Coover is down by three points against incumbent Republican Rep. Derek Schmidt, within the 3.9% margin of

Jack Dorsey’s Block announced an AI model called Dessa that’s trained “from scratch on nothing but human conversation,” and to show off the model, Block shared chats it has had with humans that can occasionally be a little awkward and uncanny. Jack Dorsey’s Block made an AI model

Size is a relative matter. The standard Manhattan apartment would seem almost claustrophobic compared to the vast expanses offered by suburban living. A similar dynamic is playing out in the market. Mega-cap companies are generally defined as those with market capitalizations exc

Startups are staying private longer leaving employees, who typically take a portion of their compensation as stock they can’t sell, with little hope of early liquidity. An increasing number of late-stage startups are recognizing this and offering tender offers to employees. These

President Trump said Friday he directed the Department of Justice (DOJ) to file a lawsuit to block certification of the Senate election in Alaska if Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan loses in November. DOJ filed the suit Thursday, claiming the existence of a candidate with a similar n

GP says she was forced out of job after raising concerns about gender treatment - Published A doctor who raised concerns about the treatment of children questioning their gender has told the BBC she was accused of transphobia, bullied and harassed out of her child protection job

The Trump administration has determined that imports of wind turbine parts pose a national security threat, but it does not appear to be opting to tariff them. President Trump issued a memo Thursday saying “wind turbines and their components and subcomponents are being imported i

Charlie Harker had high hopes for college. Before starting her freshman year in 2023, the Lebanon, Ohio, resident had planned to meet people through clubs or at the dorms. She'd expected there would be an open, vibrant atmosphere ripe for making friends. She'd quickly find her pe

As reported by Music Business Worldwide, Spotify appears to be stepping up enforcement of existing policies regarding Family and Duo subscription plans by requiring users to scan a QR code in person on the plan manager’s device in order to maintain access to it. Those who fail to

Before the Iran war, Qatar was one of the biggest natural gas exporters in the world. After only eight months, the Gulf state is now buying supplies from its principal competitor — the United States. QatarEnergy struck a deal Thursday with U.S. exporter Cheniere Energy to buy 4 m

OpenAI wants to raise around $30 billion in a fresh funding round. That could value the ChatGPT maker at $1.25 trillion. This is according to people familiar with the matter. Bloomberg's Rebecca Torrence reports. (Source: Bloomberg)

The company expects revenue, including exports, to reach ₹2,500 crore this year; India contributes 9–11% of Kobelco Construction Machinery’s overall revenue, says director Moses Eddy

Progressive House members and candidates are taking a stark turn away from what they describe as "performative" efforts to impeach President Trump. Why it matters: This is a drastic shift in tone from Trump's first term, when progressives were some of the loudest voices in favor

AI - Torvalds: AI is fine for competent devs, but spare us the 'drive-by' patches Kernel maintainers stop asking who used AI, as long as the code is good - Nvidia woos wary Europeans with more open weights models New embedding, parsing, and reranking models promise smarter agenti

The company posted a standalone net profit, including joint venture Tata Cummins, of ₹2,138 crore for the second quarter, compared with a loss of ₹1,021 crore a year earlier. The average of analyst estimates compiled by Bloomberg was for a net profit Rs 1933.5 crore. Revenue from

Building a startup means making decisions before you have all the answers. When should you scale? How do you know you really have product-market fit? What does it take to land enterprise customers? How do you build the right team? And when you finally get in front of an investor,

Rep. Randy Fine (R-Fla.) said Friday he plans to introduce a resolution to expel Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) if a federal investigation finds she broke the law. The Florida Republican is a conservative firebrand sometimes known for his controversial comments, including describing O

The first Phase 3 data for a cancer vaccine has raised questions about whether the potential new treatment is needed.

The HSBC Flash India Composite Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) rose to 56.7 in October from 55.9 in the preceding month. The reading was 60.4 a year ago. A reading above 50 signals expansion and one below indicates contraction. "Private-sector manufacturing activity continued to

The U.S. will issue tariff exemptions on several categories of Canadian imports, Sen. Susan Collins of Maine said Friday. The Republican incumbent's announcement came as voters have already started casting ballots in the pivotal Maine Senate race, one of the most competitive cont

Want to keep track of the largest startup funding deals in 2026 with our curated list of $100 million-plus venture deals to U.S.-based companies? Check out The Crunchbase Megadeals Board. This is a weekly feature that runs down the week’s Top 10 announced funding rounds in the U.

The government plans to launch a second public Infrastructure Investment Trust (Invit), ready three companies for IPOs, and reduce stakes in PSU banks closer to 75%, Chawla said. Also Read: Satellite lights, Google searches cut state growth estimation errors by up to 62%: RBI stu

Every weekday, the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer releases the Homestretch — an actionable afternoon update, just in time for the last hour of trading on Wall Street. Stocks are lower as this week's selling goes beyond tech. The Dow is the big loser Friday, down more than 1%

Supporters of the tax say many billionaires threatening to leave the state will not go

Storm Austen brings power cuts and travel disruption as more wind and rain forecast - Published More than 15,000 homes are without power as Storm Austen continues to batter southern England and Wales, with more bad weather expected this weekend. The first named storm of the seaso

Epoch Finds Half of 21 Major AI Benchmarks Are Flawed Epoch AI expanded its benchmark audit program, flagging popular evals like SWE-bench Verified and Humanity's Last Exam as Flawed under a public rubric. - Epoch AI released 8 new benchmark reviews: 1 Verified, 3 Flawed, 4 Not E

Bodycam clip released in fatal police shooting of Mississippi one-year-old - Published Mississippi authorities have released body camera footage showing how a toddler was fatally shot by a police officer responding to a report of shoplifting in a Walmart car park. Kohen Wiley, ag

President Trump says the NFL should have considered postponing a game set to be played in France on Sunday between the New Orleans Saints and Pittsburgh Steelers amid social unrest in the country. Trump told reporters on Friday he was "worried" about the game, saying "it's lookin

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson publicly broke with her Supreme Court colleagues in a Thursday ruling allowing New Hampshire to fully block voters from using student IDs in the upcoming midterms. Jackson, the high court's most junior liberal justice, wrote in a short dissent that s

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Prince William on how he once dreamed of becoming 'DJ Xara' The Prince of Wales has revealed he once dreamed of becoming a policeman or a DJ. Speaking on BBC One's The Graham Norton Show, Prince William said he thought being a policeman was "quite cool," before going through a ph

Leclerc sets Austin practice pace from Verstappen - Published Ferrari's Charles Leclerc set the pace from Red Bull's Max Verstappen in first practice at the United States Grand Prix. Leclerc was 0.084 seconds quicker than Verstappen at the start of the first weekend on which Merc

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Celebrated Irish musician Dónal Lunny dies aged 79 - Published One of Ireland's most-celebrated traditional musicians and multi-instrumentalists, Dónal Lunny, has died aged 79. A founding member of three renowned bands - The Bothy Band, Planxty and Moving Hearts - he was widely c

Data centre spending has emerged as a fast growing source of revenue for industrial companies that make generators, construction equipment, switchgear and chillers. AI drives data centre expansion The data centre market, valued at $275 billion in 2022, could reach $2.93 trillion

President Trump will rally voters closer to home Friday afternoon, with a campaign stop in Fort Myers, Fla., as long-awaited midterm elections approach. He'll be there to boost Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.), who's running for governor, and Sen. Ashley Moody (R-Fla.), who is running

Anthropic Lets Claude Code Run Hours-Long Jobs Without Dropping Them Claude Code CLI now supports MCP Tasks for durable long-running jobs and Elicitations for mid-task user prompts, with other Claude products coming next. - Claude Code CLI gains MCP Tasks for durable long-running

NVIDIA's Cosmos 3 Cuts Robot Test Drives by 90% With Synthetic Data NVIDIA expands Cosmos with data factory blueprints, training recipes and faster inference, with Porsche, Mercedes-Benz, Siemens and others building on top. - NVIDIA expanded Cosmos with new data, training and sim

Investors favored flashier AI plays earlier this year, but some analysts say Nvidia’s dependability could now hold more appeal.

Black Forest Labs' FLUX 3 Klein Runs Image Generation on 8GB GPUs Black Forest Labs drops a 5.6B open-weights image model that runs on 8GB VRAM, tops open benchmarks, and generates 1MP images in 4 seconds. - Black Forest Labs released FLUX 3 Image Klein, a 5.6B open-weights image

The initial public offering (IPO) of Jio Platforms, which attracted strong investor enthusiasm throughout its bidding period, has set multiple new benchmarks in the country’s primary market, setting the stage for its stock market debut. The Street is now betting that Mukesh Amban

Strategic investors are increasingly interested in getting into startups early says Alexa von Tobel, co-founder and managing partner of Inspired Capital. The early-stage generalist firm just closed its Fund IV with $450 million. Von Tobel discusses how Inspired plans to deploy th

humans& Beats FlashInfer's Best MoE Kernel by 25% on Blackwell GPUs Humans& rebuilt the NVFP4 decode kernel on Blackwell by keeping weights at 4 bits while promoting activations to BF16, gaining both speed and accuracy. - Humans& accelerated NVFP4 MoE decode by up to 25% while in

On the Multi Commodity Exchange (MCX), silver futures fell ₹6,799 per kg, or 3.4%, to ₹1,92,800 per kg on Friday. Prices have plunged ₹32,955, or more than 14%, over the past 10 sessions. A recent appreciation in the rupee has provided only limited relief against the decline in i

Coforge reported a 53.6% year-on-year increase in consolidated revenue to ₹6,170.8 crore in Q2 FY27, supported by Encora's full-quarter contribution and the company’s continued focus on AI-led engineering. The IT services company also raised its FY27 EBIT margin guidance to 16%.