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Tesla reported better-than-expected third-quarter results after the bell on Wednesday, even as automotive revenue dropped. The stock slid more than 3% in extended trading. Here's how the company did, compared with estimates from analysts polled by LSEG: - Earnings per share: 48 c

Tesla reported better-than-expected third-quarter results after the bell on Wednesday, even as automotive revenue dropped. The stock slid more than 3% in extended trading. Here's how the company did, compared with estimates from analysts polled by LSEG: - Earnings per share: 48 c

The 'trillion pound' oil fund the government believes Britain could have built - Published After a half-century wait, the United Kingdom now has an oil fund. Chancellor John Healey announced the creation of an Energy Wealth Fund at the Jackdaw gas approval announcement on Wednesd

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The grads ditching the UK for a fresh start abroad - Published Last year Rachel James quit her corporate job in London, packed a suitcase and booked a one-way ticket to Sydney, without a job lined up or a plan in place. "I went for a fresh start," says the 26-year-old from Surrey

Goal, assist... goal-kick - Kane underlines Ballon d'Or credentials - Published Even by Harry Kane's remarkable standards, this was mightily impressive. There were fewer than 25 minutes on the clock during Bayern Munich's thrilling 2-2 draw with Arsenal in the Champions League wh

'Betrayed by my body': The taboo health issue women are talking about on social media - Published "The impact goes far beyond what people understand - we're talking about pain, urgency, sleepless nights and missing out on your life," Adrianne tells her roughly 8,000 followers in

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

Only one female scientist named in GCSEs, research finds - Published Rosalind Franklin is the only female scientist named in GCSE and National 5 science exam specifications in the UK, according to new research. A Cambridge study found that of the 86 scientists named by UK exam bo

The four locations in the running to be UK City of Culture 2029 - Published Blackpool, Milton Keynes, Sheffield and Wrexham have been shortlisted to become the UK's City of Culture in 2029. The winning location will be announced in May and will be the fifth holder of the title -

Diabetes and ADHD drugs to be tested on Alzheimer's patients in new study - Published A clinical trial has been launched in the UK which scientists hope could cut years from the search for new treatments for Alzheimer's disease. It will test multiple drugs simultaneously, startin

Oct 21st, 2026 Meta Offers Zuckerberg New Shares to Shield Him From Wealth Tax Meta signed an agreement with Mark Zuckerberg to keep him living in the same jurisdiction as the company’s headquarters after the CEO said he was weighing leaving California if the state passes a wea

Airbnb hosts can no longer make guests strip beds and wash dishes under new rules - Published Airbnb has changed its rules to limit what property hosts may ask guests to do - including when it comes to cleaning. The updated guidelines state that hosts can now set seven standard h

EXCLUSIVE Comcast Planning Significant Jobs Cuts as Part of Reorganization Takeaways by Bloomberg AI Comcast Corp. is planning a significant number of job cuts as part of an overall restructuring of its cable-TV, broadband and wireless businesses, according to people familiar wit

Saka injury 'does not look good' - how will Arsenal cope? - Published Mikel Arteta says the quadriceps injury Arsenal's Bukayo Saka picked up in the 2-2 Champions League draw against Bayern Munich "does not look good at all". The 25-year-old winger went down in the 10th minute at

Private equity giant Blackstone is putting itself at the center of the AI boom, firm veteran Jas Khaira discussed last week on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt. It is writing checks via various strategies, ranging from offering massive loans to data centers to investing in frontier AI

CoreWeave is facing a crisis of confidence on Wall Street that's playing out in real time among equity and bond investors. With interest rates spiking and AI build-out concerns mounting, debt-heavy neoclouds like CoreWeave are being viewed by many market participants as the most

US envoy Steve Witkoff hailed Vladimir Putin as a “true humanitarian” Wednesday, after the Russian leader released an American prisoner and assented to trilateral talks to end the war in Ukraine. The Kremlin released a 74-year-old retired teacher accused of fighting for Kyiv — a

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is pushing US President Donald Trump to resume strikes against Iran, as both leaders contend with worrying polls ahead of critical elections. Netanyahu, who is trailing in polls, was preparing to bomb Iranian civilian infrastructure and n

Meta is making a big push into AI, and it’s creating a new kind of stock that could help pay for it. On Wednesday, as the company reported its third-quarter earnings, Semafor reported the company might issue non-voting stock, meaning shares that don’t give their owners a vote on

France, Denmark, Finland, and the Netherlands took government websites offline Wednesday after web developers used AI to identify a bug affecting up to 70% of the world’s websites. The exploit is “the most severe AI vulnerability… ever found,” the co-founder of Google’s Wiz cyber

CATL shares plunged after the company reported slower-than-expected profit growth, as China’s battery champion reckoned with intensifying domestic competition and EV price wars. Its stock has nearly halved since May, as investors fret over expiring tax carve-outs and a trend dubb

An open-source alternative to Claude (32k+ stars)! Onyx is a self-hostable AI chat platform that works with any LLM, like Claude, GPT, Gemini, Llama, or any open-weight model you want. Here’s what it ships with: - Agents that chain multiple tools in sequence - RAG with full index

A rush of new data centers could bring air pollution roaring back to levels not seen since the 2000s in Texas, which has become ground zero for the physical infrastructure behind generative AI. Data centers could erase decades of air quality gains New research out of Texas shows

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Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr today warned broadcasters about airing “fake polls,” amplifying one of the many complaints that President Trump has regularly made about the news media. Carr’s post on X said, “Many journalists and broadcasters have been amp

Airbnb is taking steps to limit the chores that hosts can require of guests prior to checkout, addressing a long-standing grievance among customers who often pay cleaning fees and are told they must do a list of tasks themselves. In a new policy update, Airbnb prohibits hosts fro

In September, when Microsoft severely limited the game-streaming buffet available to Game Pass subscribers, the company said non-subscribers would soon be able to “purchase cloud playtime hours through the Xbox Store and stream eligible games they own on supported devices.” Today

Bloomberg The CloseOct 21st, 2026 Tesla, IBM & Meta Report Earnings as AI Takes Center Stage The Close brings you the latest news and analysis leading up to the final minutes and seconds before and after the closing bell on Wall Street. Today's guests are BlackRock Head of the Am

IBM shares slipped in extended trading on Wednesday after the technology vendor reported better-than-predicted third-quarter results. Here's how the company performed relative to LSEG consensus: - Earnings: $2.95 adjusted vs. $2.86 expected - Revenue: $17.10 billion vs. $16.82 bi

IBM shares slipped in extended trading on Wednesday after the technology vendor reported better-than-predicted third-quarter results. Here's how the company performed relative to LSEG consensus: - Earnings: $2.95 adjusted vs. $2.86 expected - Revenue: $17.10 billion vs. $16.82 bi

Alibaba’s DAMO Academy unveiled the XuanTie E908A automotive processor IP at the RISC-V China Summit in Shenzhen on October 19. Designed for safety-related computing, domain controllers and vehicle gateways, the processor IP supports the ASIL-B and ASIL-D automotive functional sa

If there’s one lesson the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident taught us, it’s that AI agents can be unpredictable. “Imagine if something like that happened in the physical world,” Howie Sun, CEO and co-founder of Laplace Intelligence, told TechCrunch. “AI agents are moving from computer

Japan is known for world-class events - but the Asian Games were chaotic - Published From the Olympics to Tokyo's annual video game convention, Japan has a strong track record of hosting major international events. But this year's Asian Games in Nagoya and the wider Aichi Prefect

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