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Items recovered in search for missing fishing boat and crew - Published Items belonging to a fishing boat that vanished off the north coast of the Isle of Lewis last week have been recovered as the search for the vessel and two missing crew members continues. Norman "Tam" Murray,

Disney knows that business, like football, is a contact sport. Sometimes the hits come in-house from feuding among executives. Sometimes they come in court, from battling the Federal Communications Commission. And sometimes, Disney, which owns ABC, takes hits from its own affilia

OpenAI is closing in on a funding round that could value the artificial intelligence giant at more than $1 trillion ahead of a potential initial public offering. The San Francisco-based AI company is raising up to $30 billion at a $1.25 trillion valuation, according to people fam

OpenAI is closing in on a funding round that could value the artificial intelligence giant at more than $1 trillion ahead of a potential initial public offering. The San Francisco-based AI company is raising up to $30 billion at a $1.25 trillion valuation, according to people fam

AI - Nvidia woos wary Europeans with more open weights models New embedding, parsing, and reranking models promise smarter agentic RAG workflows - Jensen Huang sends in the robot ducks to sell Nvidia's AI-everywhere vision Containerized datacenters, androids, and telecoms all fea

Meta has tweaked its business terms to remove language suggesting that it could freely train its AI models on news sites, like The Verge — but legal experts say these changes aren’t enough to address their concerns. “This does nothing to restrict the ‘associated with your product

AI - Nvidia woos wary Europeans with more open weights models New embedding, parsing, and reranking models promise smarter agentic RAG workflows - Jensen Huang sends in the robot ducks to sell Nvidia's AI-everywhere vision Containerized datacenters, androids, and telecoms all fea

(Updates at market close) By Utkarsh Hathi and Fergal Smith TORONTO, Oct 22 (Reuters) - Canada's main stock index pulled back from a four-week high on Thursday as a drop in gold and copper prices weighed on metal mining stocks, while technology fell on renewed concerns over AI sp

President Donald Trump on Thursday defended a controversial ad by the campaign of Vivek Ramaswamy featuring the estranged mother of Amy Acton, his Democratic opponent in the Ohio gubernatorial race, calling Acton a liar. Trump's defense of the ad came after widespread bipartisan

Meta has re-enabled Muse sharing after security researchers had reported that public conversation links could be easy to find. The researchers said they had been able to find Muse pages like a marketing company’s internal revenue review and a small business owner’s loan applicati

eMudhra, the certificate authority that issued eight intermediate TLS credentials so weak that anyone could mint certificates for any website or mail server—one had a private encryption key of just 4—said it’s getting out of the business. V. Srinivasan, chairman of India-based eM

The Nasdaq Composite fell 2.58% to 26,008.86, while the S&P 500 dropped 1.19% to 7,664.77. The Dow Jones Industrial Average bucked the trend, edging up 0.03% to 52,873.60. The selloff was concentrated in technology and semiconductor stocks, with the Philadelphia SE Semiconductor

How Mixx Technologies Is Lighting The Way To Fully Optical Scale-up Networks Modern rack systems like Nvidia's NV72 are packed with miles of copper flyover cables which form the substrate by which six dozen or more GPUs are made to work as one. Now, with Nvidia and others eyeing

(Bloomberg) -- DoubleLine Capital’s Jeff Sherman said he remains bearish on long-term Treasuries, arguing that heavy government borrowing and weakening demand will continue to pressure the market.Treasuries rallied Thursday as haven demand returned amid concerns about the artific

Meta's strong quarterly results were overshadowed by artificial intelligence spending concerns on Thursday, sending shares down 7%. The sellers made a mistake — and a trip to the poker table helps illustrate their folly. The bulls and bears seem to have hands of equal rank. There

Listen to this article in summarized format The selloff wiped out about $24 billion from the drugmaker's market value, halting a massive rally that has lifted the stock over 500% this year. Moderna was last down 25.2% at $183.88, its steepest one-day percentage fall on record, wh

SpaceX’s $40 billion debt raise is being finalized at sharply higher interest rates than when the rocket company last tapped bondholders, a sign of growing jitters in the AI world. The lowest-rated portion is expected to carry interest rates of about 8.3%, according to people fam

An AI factory is an end-to-end system that combines data, AI models, compute infrastructure, and governance to train, deploy, and continuously improve AI at scale. As AI moves from experimentation to production, organizations need this kind of structured way to continuously devel

Treasury yields fell sharply on Thursday, with investors turning to safe havens amid a steep sell-off in stocks driven by concerns around the artificial intelligence trade and surging oil prices. The benchmark 10-year U.S. Treasury yield — used to price mortgages, auto loans and

Meta shares slumped nearly 7% on Thursday as the social media giant showed negative free cash flow in its third-quarter earnings and raised the floor of its full-year capital expenditures. The spread on the social media giant's five-year credit default swaps reached all-time high

Meta shares slumped nearly 7% on Thursday as the social media giant showed negative free cash flow in its third-quarter earnings and raised the floor of its full-year capital expenditures. The spread on the social media giant's five-year credit default swaps reached all-time high

Subquadratic's SubQ Snap 1.1 Ties for Top AI Decision Model With 384K Context SubQ Snap 1.1 ties d1-ultra and Elephant 9B atop the Decision Index at a score of 65, winning on hallucination control and context length. - SubQ Snap 1.1 ties d1-ultra and Elephant 9B at 65 on the Deci

The White House’s press secretary vacancy won’t necessarily keep the briefing room closed. President Donald Trump’s communications director, Steven Cheung, told Semafor that the next briefing would come “soon” — but if it happens before the midterms, a new press secretary likely

The Browser Company is sunsetting its design-forward Arc browser on December 22, 2026, and directing users to Dia, its AI-first browser. The company announced the decision on Thursday, citing the rising cost of keeping a browser secure in the age of AI. “Keeping a browser secure

President Donald Trump has just one way left to bring down gas prices: ending the Iran war. Already, his administration has expanded access to red-dyed diesel; unlocked Russian diesel; waived the Jones Act; and tapped the US strategic reserve in an effort to lower costs. Yet oil

The AI era has changed how fast startups can grow. Startups can grow so fast that they hit high annual recurring revenue (ARR) numbers, only to crash and burn a few months later. At this year’s TechCrunch Disrupt, Lovable go-to-market lead Luke Arno, Ben Broca of the AI platform

Those mourning yesterday’s shuttering of highly praised and influential developer BioWare also had to deal with the cancellation of the next Mass Effect game, which was first teased back in 2020. Today, we got our best look at what that game could have been with a short, leaked t

AI - Nvidia woos wary Europeans with more open weights models New embedding, parsing, and reranking models promise smarter agentic RAG workflows - Jensen Huang sends in the robot ducks to sell Nvidia's AI-everywhere vision Containerized datacenters, androids, and telecoms all fea

Woman charged after police officer injured in shooting - Published A 27-year-old woman has been charged after a police officer was shot in Nottingham city centre. Nottinghamshire Police said the officer was shot in the foot after he approached a man and a woman at a bus stop in A

Oh sure, SpaceX’s credit risk is pretty high because it’s about to borrow another $40 billion to spend on Nvidia chips, but who cares about that? SpaceX and Tesla have formed special committees to discuss a merger! Sure, let’s smoosh SpaceX and Tesla together, who cares Yes, of c

22nd October 2026 - Link Blog DE STAAT - FREEDOM (Official Music Video) (via) OK well this is a first for me... at 00:44 in this new music video by Dutch alternative rock band De Staat: The visual effects are credited to Matties Grooten of Fake it or Leave it. Recent articles - B

Fraud losses reported by older Americans jumped in 2025, driven largely by an increase in victims losing sums of at least six figures, according to a new report from the Federal Trade Commission. Americans ages 60 and older reported losing about $3 billion to fraud last year, a 2

Here’s an awkward question for any codebase that’s been around a few years. Do your tests describe what the system does? Or what somebody, at some point, thought it should do? Not the same thing. Not even close, usually. Most regression tests get written right alongside a feature

Elon Musk has made an investment in Skydance of roughly $1 billion, according to a person familiar with the matter who asked not to be named because they were not authorized to speak publicly. The financial injection comes as the company looks to cut costs. Paramount closed its a

A 25-year-old German experimental photographer has won the 2026 Nikon Small World photomicrography competition with a striking image of droplets of ink being deposited on paper by an inkjet printer. Ole Bielfeldt beat out 1,802 other entries hailing from 69 different countries. B

Market participants and economists now expect a 25-bps increase in the December and February reviews. A further 25-bps increase in April isn't ruled out if crude oil prices remain persistently above $100. One basis point is a hundredth of a percentage point. "After the minutes we

SBI may seek a claim under a Rs 1,425-crore cyber insurance policy with Oriental Insurance following a suspected leak of customer data, people familiar with the matter told ET. "SBI is in the process of notifying the insurer about the claim," said a person aware of the developmen

The RBI issued the advisory on October 19, shortly after the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) warned about the growing use of artificial intelligence agents to carry out cyberattacks. The advisory, which ET has reviewed, said financial entities should strengthen