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American Express is bringing Airbnb into its travel rewards platform. The companies on Thursday announced a new partnership to bring more than 1 million Airbnb listings to Amex's travel portal and allow cardholders to earn rewards when booking the stays. It does not currently all

Thinking Machines’ Tinker changed how people do post-training. You write the training loop in plain Python on your laptop, and Tinker runs the forward and backward passes on its GPUs. We’re big fans, and so are many of the teams we work with. As those teams scale up, however, the

On October 21, 2026 the PHP and Node.js projects released security updates addressing vulnerabilities that can allow remote code execution. Teams running either runtime should identify affected services and apply the appropriate patches immediately. Applying those takes more than

Micron pulls the plug on future 4F² DRAM after two decades of research in dramatic shift — company says architecture offers no meaningful density advantages, increases manufacturing complexity and costs, and has fundamental scaling limitations Micron goes against the industry? DR

Mumbai: The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) has waived margin requirements for trades using proceeds from sales under the early pay-in (EPI) mechanism, a move aimed at easing margin-funding requirements. In a circular issued on Thursday, the capital markets regulato

This is CNBC's Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox. Hello, this is Leonie Kidd with today's edition of Morning Squawk. The pickup in volume during super early trading has been overwhelmingly to the downside. Futures are worse, Asia c

Retro Atari VCS platform will end with the closure of its software store in February 2027 — OS update will be released removing reliance on Atari servers and opening up homebrew development The modern VCS with its AMD APU-powered architecture only received a tepid response when i

Deep-tech venture capital firm Unicorn India Ventures (UIV) has launched operations in the US, appointing former Google executive Kishore Kanakamedala as Venture Partner to lead the expansion. The move aims to help Indian deep-tech startups access US markets, investors and techno

Binny Bansal-backed AI startup ShopOS has launched Sloosh, a self-service platform that makes the image and video generation technology it uses for enterprise clients available to individual creators and small businesses. Speaking to Inc42, ShopOS cofounder Ajay PV said Sloosh ta

Shares of Tesla dropped 4% in pre-market trade on Thursday, October 22, as investor sentiment weakened after the electric vehicle maker cut its capital expenditure forecast, clouding Elon Musk’s plan to transform the company into an AI and robotics business. Capital expenditure w

Vedanta Q2 results 2026 date: Anil Agarwal-led Vedanta Limited, on Thursday, October 22, released its earnings schedule for the second quarter of financial year 2026-27. The metal-to-mining conglomerate is set to announce its quarterly results by the month-end.The metal stock clo

Unknown hackers hijacked more than 300 Tor exit nodes and reconfigured them to favor unencrypted email traffic and redirect SSH connections through servers they controlled, a researcher reported Tuesday. The hijacking began in late August, when, according to Tor volunteers, the a

EA is closing BioWare, the studio behind Mass Effect and Dragon Age, after more than 30 years — early development of the next Mass Effect game killed EA says it is focusing on Battlefield, Iron Man and a Fight Night revival instead. Electronic Arts (EA) is closing BioWare and its

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

Nutanix announced on 22nd October its collaboration with NVIDIA, Supermicro and Netris on infrastructure for production AI. All three arrangements are described as plans, and the company's own disclaimer says some features will be offered "on a when-and-if-available basis." The A

The Scene MIDLAND, TX — This should be a glorious era for Diamondback Energy. In the 15 years since the oil company went public, it has leveraged savvy fracking skills and astute acquisitions to grow from a scrappy West Texas driller — its stock ticker is FANG — to a behemoth res

“I Don’t Give A F” Reaction Trend This sound is being used for situations where someone is talking or explaining but the creator is overwhelmed by the amount of information coming in. Creators put the reason in the hook, then use the audio to act out the reaction. 3.8M views “How

In 2015, all but two countries agreed to make an effort to keep global temperatures from reaching 1.5° C above pre-industrial readings. Since then, most of the world has largely treated what they signed on to as aspirational, and one of the largest emitters (the US) has alternate

17 Russian trawlers logged mapping undersea cables connecting the US and Europe — over 500 incidents of Russian vessels loitering over critical communications cables reported in under 5 years The Russians are apparently scouting the exact locations of this critical infrastructure

JanAI has partnered with four universities to expand access to artificial intelligence (AI) education in rural India and create opportunities for rural youth and entrepreneurs. The company has collaborated with Presidency University, Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE), Be

Reliance Industries shares could be approaching a potential turnaround after a prolonged correction, with Monarch Networth Capital identifying a technical reversal pattern that may pave the way for a recovery of up to 20% over the next three to four months. The brokerage has name

Yes Bank shares have come under intense selling pressure, falling 21.23% in two weeks as uncertainty surrounding the bank's additional tier-1 (AT-1) bond liabilities weighs on investor sentiment. The stock has declined 30.60% over the past month and 11.29% over the past week, as

HCLTech has launched an AI-powered verification and validation (V&V) offering for automotive software, built on NVIDIA’s simulation technologies and AI models. The offering targets vehicle manufacturers and tier-1 suppliers developing software-defined vehicles. The offering links

Stocks to buy after Q2 Results 2026 | KEI Industries shares: KEI Industries shares are one of the beaten-down stocks on Dalal Street. In YTD, KEI Industries' share price has fallen by over 14%, while over the past six months it has corrected by over 20%. In one month, this stock

The News Finance firms controlling over $5.8 trillion have established their first offices in the Gulf in the nearly eight months since the Iran war disrupted the region’s economies, a sign that money managers are still betting it will remain a source of new cash. In that time, a

LTO roadmap extends to 365 TB per cartridge as tape storage refuses to die —25-year-old format sees 400x capacity increase without changing form factor HPE, IBM, and Quantum will keep developing LTO as demand booms. In a world where SSDs with up to 256TB capacity are about to ent

Best Buy has slashed $950 off this gorgeous Alienware 16X Aurora gaming laptop with OLED display — 33% price reduction on Arrow Lake laptop with RTX 5070 Game in style There are a host of great laptop deals at Best Buy at the moment, but one of my favorites today is this fantasti

Cognizant has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire DyFlex Solutions, an Australia-headquartered SAP services provider, expanding its planned SAP and artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities in Australia and New Zealand. The proposed acquisition would add DyFlex’s advis

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told CNBC Thursday that demand for neocloud firms is "off the charts," but scarce capital is holding back growth. "If you look at the fundamentals, the demand for the neo clouds is off the charts," Huang told CNBC's Arjun Kharpal on the sidelines of the co

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told CNBC Thursday that demand for neocloud firms is "off the charts," but scarce capital is holding back growth. "If you look at the fundamentals, the demand for the neo clouds is off the charts," Huang told CNBC's Arjun Kharpal on the sidelines of the co

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

Morgan Chittum here. What do Elon Musk, a $3.5 trillion company and cat herding have in common? Corporate governance experts and portfolio managers tell me they’re a part of what’s next for a potential SpaceX-Tesla merger, which Musk himself backed during the company’s earnings c

Save $238 on this 9800X3D combo deal with 32GB DDR5 that lets you start a 4K gaming PC build for just over $1,000 — Newegg bundle ships this powerhouse AMD CPU with a Gigabyte X870E AM5 motherboard and a free 240mm AIO cooler Start building a 4K-capable gaming PC with parts for j

Chinese AI champion DeepSeek raised around $15 billion in one of the country’s biggest-ever financing rounds as part of efforts to keep up with Western frontier firms. The Hangzhou-based firm — which last year shocked markets by unveiling a model that could compete with Silicon V

OpenAI says ChatGPT Sol helped uncover critical PHP flaws that could affect 70% of websites — AI-assisted researchers turned a two-year-old bug that stumped human developers into working exploits in two weeks OpenAI says defenders must proactively strengthen defenses before bad a

US stock futures and Asian markets fell on growing concern that an AI boom is turning to bust. Worries have coalesced around whether public opposition or supply chain constraints will limit the buildout, and if revenues will keep up with Big Tech’s breakneck infrastructure spendi

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Thursday 22 October 2026 Top stories today: - Meta Q3 revenue +26% YoY to $64.6B, net income +264% - Anthropic unveils proactive Claude Duet agent to rival OpenAI’s Dots - Tesla Q3 revenue flat YoY at $28.0B, auto revenue -3% to $20.6B - DeepSeek raises ~$15B to challenge top U.S

Foodtech major Swiggy reported a consolidated net loss of ₹922 Cr in the September quarter of FY27, narrowing 16% from ₹1,092 Cr in the year-ago quarter. However, its loss widened 17% from ₹791 Cr in the preceding quarter. Operating revenue increased 36% YoY and 11% QoQ to ₹7,571

Shareholders of PC Jeweller seem to have reason to rejoice, given the stock’s solid performance in 2026 despite broader market weakness amid rising geopolitical tensions. Although the stock began the year on a tumultuous note, it picked up steam in the second half and has continu

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Karta AI has raised $3 million in a seed funding round led by PeerCapital and Cedar Hill Capital, with participation from Wyser VC, CDM Capital and Seedstars. The funding will support product development, distribution and expansion of the startup's artificial intelligence (AI) ag