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Google DeepMind has announced Genie 4, a world model that generates interactive, three-dimensional environments with realistic visuals, sound and dialogue in real time. The model is currently available as a research preview to trusted testers across creative industries, journalis

A new framework turns physics-based expert models into interpretable fit scores, beating random forests on seismic monitoring when training data is scarce.

Indian companies developing artificial intelligence (AI) for the country's languages have raised $687 million in disclosed equity funding across 80 rounds, according to a Tracxn report released on October 28. The report, Indic AI: Building AI for Bharat, tracks 34 companies build

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It’s a good thing we published our Opus 5.5 podcast calling it the world’s best model before today’s launch. In a very pleasant surprise, Gemini announced Carbon, a newer frontier model than the 3 week old Argon, with fantastic benchmarks: Taking it to the new #1 on the Artificia

It’s a good thing we published our Opus 5.5 podcast calling it the world’s best model before today’s launch. In a very pleasant surprise, Gemini announced Carbon, a newer frontier model than the 3 week old Argon, with fantastic benchmarks: Taking it to the new #1 on the Artificia

Alphabet, Google’s parent company, reported a 25% year-on-year increase in third-quarter revenue to $127.6 billion, driven by strong growth in its cloud business and continued expansion in Search. For the quarter ended September 30, 2026, Alphabet reported operating income of $40

Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi took a jab at rival Snowflake over its AI strategy, telling the company to consider buying AI tokens through Databricks after Snowflake CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy questioned the data software company’s revenue growth. “I don’t think we should fight. The two c

Top News The U.S. Justice Department is scrutinizing Nvidia’s proposed $12.93 billion acquisition of Hugging Face, asking whether the deal could give the chip giant control over a key distribution point for AI or leverage to disadvantage rivals as part of a broader investigation

The 30-share BSE Sensex climbed 245.43 points, or 0.34%, to 73,491.46 in the morning trade and the 50-share NSE Nifty rose 62.55 points, or 0.28%, to 22,761.40

ISLAND Beauty, a skincare brand that combines Korean ingredients with formulations tailored to Indian skin needs, has raised Rs 2.58 crore from AJ VC. The proceeds will be used for product development, brand awareness and customer acquisition, the company said in a press release.

Google's Gemini 4 Carbon Tops AI Rankings and Hunts Security Bugs for Days Google's new frontier model targets autonomous cybersecurity defense and multi-day agentic coding, with early access limited to vetted defenders through the Fairwind program. - Google announced Gemini 4 Ca

General Motors’ decision to up and move its stock listing from the NYSE to the Nasdaq — a bid for inclusion in the latter’s tech-heavy index, which would bring new investors to its stock — doesn’t mean it’s a tech company. The carmaker famously failed in its foray into self-drivi

Digital lending platform Kissht reported a 44.7% year-on-year increase in operating revenue in Q2 FY27 while its profit more than doubled during the quarter. Kissht’s revenue from operations rose to Rs 732 crore in Q2 FY27 from Rs 506 crore in the corresponding quarter last fisca

AI - Oracle wants to bill you for every AI task, not just every seat Big Red says AI units will add to subscriptions, as it juggles $90BN-plus capex, mounting debt and a $225BN revenue goal for 2030 - GitHub powering up four million extra cores to stop its service going down Re-a

The U.S. Fed kept interest rates unchanged at 3.75%–4.00% as widely expected, but the market reaction turned mildly dollar-negative, forex traders said

Software-as-a-service company Freshworks has acquired Israel-based AI startup Robusta to strengthen its IT operations platform, Freshservice. The financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed. Robusta helps businesses identify the causes of technology outages and recomm

HCLTech has launched a nano Global Capability Centre (GCC) offering built on Amazon Web Services (AWS), targeting enterprises looking to establish AI-focused operations through smaller, product-centric teams. The offering is part of HCLTech's GCC 360 suite and combines its GCC ad

AI - Oracle wants to bill you for every AI task, not just every seat Big Red says AI units will add to subscriptions, as it juggles $90BN-plus capex, mounting debt and a $225BN revenue goal for 2030 - GitHub powering up four million extra cores to stop its service going down Re-a

The surfaces you work in every day are faster and cleaner, the agents working alongside you are finally visible and measurable, and admins can set good defaults once Over the last few releases, we’ve been making Jira ready for a world where people and agents work side by side – r

The parents of Bowen Wan, a 31-year-old former Amazon software engineer who died in February, sued OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman on October 27, alleging that ChatGPT advised their daughter to reduce her seizure medication without medical supervision and hide the changes from her doct

Tariff threats from the US may have driven up the price but the industry has shifted spending on the basis of long-term demand

The ways whole peoples argue, bargain, joke and tell stories will ultimately prove more powerful than the technology — if we interpret the African spider fables correctly

From audio trails to AI tech, projects around the world are elevating interactivity beyond simple Braille labels

Musical instruments will always benefit from technical innovations. The challenge is to do it well

Devices such as digital avatars are the modern iteration of age-old stage tricks, but some warn they threaten to overwhelm the storytelling

Microsoft Research and UC Berkeley released a plugin that cuts coding agent costs 18-30% by learning from past sessions in your repo.

Nvidia on Wednesday released Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe, a free, open-weight model that transcribes audio in up to 40 languages. It also released version 2 of Granary, its open source speech dataset. Nvidia boasts that Nemotron 3.5 can translate 31 languages to and from English, han

HPC Cadence, Nvidia Unveil New AI Models To Put EDA On Autopilot Like a virus, generative AI has invaded nearly every facet of technology, including chip and system design. If you ask Cadence Systems senior VP Paul Cunningham, somewhere between 20 and 30 percent of chips under de

NVIDIA RTX Spark powers thin and light laptops built for everything that developers, creators and gamers do. RTX Spark laptops are now available from ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Microsoft and MSI. These powerful systems combine an NVIDIA Blackwell RTX GPU and an NVIDIA Grace CPU in a

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Exa Opens 3.2M Podcast Transcripts to Developers Through One Search API Exa added 3.2 million podcast episodes with full transcripts to its search API, letting agents query 2.2 million hours of audio for free. - Exa added 3.2 million podcast episodes with full transcripts to its

Microsoft reports a 48% year-on-year increase in Azure revenue in Q1 FY27, driven by demand for cloud computing and AI services. The company’s overall revenue was $92.3 billion for the quarter, up 19% year-on-year. Net income rose 32% to $36.6 billion, compared with $27.7 billion

Kissht’s consolidated net profit doubled to ₹125.1 Cr in Q2 FY27 from ₹62.4 Cr a year earlier, while operating revenue jumped 44.7% to ₹731.8 Cr Revenue growth outpaced the 34.9% increase in expenses, lifting net profit margin The Details: The company’s board approved a ₹624.1 Cr

World’s largest memory-chip maker offers bullish outlook as quarterly profits fall just short of analyst estimates

OpenAI plans to buy AI chips from Google, potentially reducing its reliance on NVIDIA as it expands computing capacity to train and run its AI models, according to a report by The Information. The planned purchase could strengthen Google’s Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) business, w

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Step into a new dimension with XREAL AURA, the first-of-its-kind wired XR glasses Will Ro Head of Product Operations, Google Sean Ginevan Head of Technology Partnerships, Google Android XR Android XR is an AI-powered operating system that blends digital information with the real

At the Android Dev Summit on Wednesday, Google’s smart glasses partner Xreal launched its new Xreal Aura wired smart glasses, powered by the Android XR and Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Reality Elite platforms. The companies had teased the glasses earlier in the year at Google’s I/O deve

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Sensex Today | Stock Market Live Updates: GIFT Nifty falls sharply, hints at a 120-point gap-down Sensex Today | Stock Market Live Updates: For the last five sessions, the Nifty has been attempting to cross and sustain above 22,800, but has failed to do so. The Nifty Bank, after

Indian shares are expected to open little changed on Thursday after the US Federal Reserve held interest rates steady, as expected, while elevated oil prices kept investors cautious. GIFT Nifty futures were at 22,708 as of 7:35 a.m. IST, indicating a muted start for the benchmark

Search fieldHome page Seeking Alpha - Power to InvestorsSearch for Symbols, analysts, keywordsAbout PremiumCreate free accountLog in Earnings Call Insights Glaukos projects $1B 2027 revenue as it raises 2026 net sales guidance to $775M-$785M Oct 28, 2026, 10:20 PM ETGlaukos Co

Search fieldHome page Seeking Alpha - Power to InvestorsSearch for Symbols, analysts, keywordsAbout PremiumCreate free accountLog in Earnings Call Insights MicroVision targets ~$40M 2027 operating cash burn as it reaffirms $10M-$15M 2026 revenue outlook Oct 28, 2026, 10:20 PM

Nifty Outlook for October 29: Index stuck in 22,400-22,800 range, what should traders watch next? - Published OnOct 28, 2026 | 20:15 IST - Last Updated OnOct 29, 2026 | 07:49 IST On the first day of the November derivatives expiry series, the Nifty traded within a wide intraday r

KPIT Tech shares in focus after JPMorgan upgrade, H2 growth seen improving despite client headwinds - Published OnOct 29, 2026 | 07:48 IST - Last Updated OnOct 29, 2026 | 07:48 IST KPIT Technologies’ stock had declined 21% over the past four months, while the Nifty IT index gaine

Ford sees profit flattening as inflation, war take mounting toll on American car giant - Published OnOct 29, 2026 | 07:48 IST - Last Updated OnOct 29, 2026 | 07:48 IST Ford Motor Co. expects profits to plateau next year as inflation, driven by the war in Iran, creates a multi-bil