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The pan-European STOXX 600 index rose 0.7% to 644.74 points, touching the highest in over three weeks. The benchmark was up more than 2% for the week. "This week has demonstrated the value of diversification when the concentrated US technology trade comes under pressure," said Da

Markets have been rattled this week by concerns over higher interest rates and the debt-fuelled financing behind the AI boom, triggering a selloff in technology and chip stocks. Traders increased bets on further US rate hikes after stronger-than-expected inflation data was releas

AI-linked stocks, central to the bull market that just marked its fourth anniversary, struggled in recent days, with sharp declines in shares of semiconductor companies and tech hardware firms such as Dell Technologies. Meta, among the hyperscalers spending massively to build AI

Listen to this article in summarized format Nearly fifty years after Reliance went public, his billionaire son Mukesh and grandson Akash are preparing to list the group’s telecom and digital services arm in what is set to be India’s biggest initial public offering. Jio Platforms

Startup funding continued to pick up pace in the second week of October. Overall, Indian new-age tech ventures raised $236.2 Mn across 25 deals between October 12 and October 16. This was 92.2% higher from the previous week, when 25 startups raised $122.9 Mn. Funding Galore: Indi

Eight states filed lawsuits against OpenAI on Wednesday alleging that the artificial intelligence company's ChatGPT chatbot is an unsafe product that's harmed children and deceived parents. Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, West Virginia, Arkansas, Arizona, Idaho and Montana have individua

Mark Wahlberg has started companies of his own and backed plenty of others. But he says the gym he’s opening in December has him more excited than anything he’s done in his entire career. It also goes after a corner of the market where venture money keeps flowing: pricey, diagnos

White House press secretary Katie Zacharia was ousted Friday after just five days on the job, according to two senior Trump administration officials. Why it matters: Zacharia will be the shortest-tenured press secretary in modern history, with her first and only week in the White

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Ransomware has become one of the most significant threats facing midmarket organizations across Asia Pacific.

Run Jev inside an Open Agent Harness Agents burn a lot of tokens on decisions that are really just picking one option from a short list, like matching a client request to the right GitHub issue. So we built a weekly client follow-up agent that does exactly that. We tested it on 4

16th October 2026 We think "did a human read the code?" is an imprecise proxy for "what could go wrong with this change, and which check—automated or human—is the right one to catch it?" Asking that question also changed when review happens. Before, review was a gate at the end o

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The HP OmniBook Ultra 16 is HP’s 16-inch NVIDIA RTX Spark notebook, a 0.62-inch-thick laptop built around NVIDIA’s N1X superchip and a 3K OLED display. We tested two units side by side: one with the full 20-core N1X, 128GB of LPDDR5X, and a 2TB Gen5 SSD, and one with the same chi

The Lenovo Yoga 9n 2-in-1 16 puts the NVIDIA RTX Spark N1X into a convertible: a 16-inch OLED touchscreen on a hinge that folds into tablet and tent modes, a pen-enabled haptic touchpad, and a 0.69-inch aluminum chassis. Our unit carries the full 20-core N1X with its 6,144-core B

Iran-backed militias in the region have been sending money back to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to relieve the economic pressure it's under after nine months of war, U.S. CENTCOM Commander Adm. Brad Cooper said Friday. Why it matters: While the U.S. military has been pre

The News John Thune took criticism from President Donald Trump, agitated online conservatives, and occasionally frustrated some of his own members this year. Yet his next leadership election is looking smooth compared with the past couple of bouts to lead the Senate GOP. In fact,

The Federal Aviation Administration’s pursuit of an equity stake in a private company that uses AI to manage air traffic is raising questions about whether it has clear legal authority to strike such a deal. The Trump administration has negotiated stakes in dozens of other compan

President Donald Trump faces a deadline Sunday to decide whether to impose certain penalties on other countries under a bipartisan sanctions law he signed last month. Any move by him to waive sanctions on Russian individuals or entities will be met with criticism, as would a deci

Updated App Review Guidelines are now available October 16, 2026 The App Review Guidelines have been revised to support new features, updated policies, and to provide clarification. App Review Guidelines - Before You Submit: Added links to additional documentation. - 1.2: Clarifi

Katie Zacharia is out as White House press secretary after less than one week on the job. An administration official told Semafor that Zacharia will be “transitioning out” of her role, which began on Monday and quickly descended into a series of stumbles, culminating in Fox News

Strengthening App Review Guidelines against nonconsensual intimate imagery and bait-and-switch apps October 16, 2026 The App Review Guidelines are a core part of the safe and trusted experience that the App Store strives to offer users around the world — and the foundation of tha

The Lenovo Pro 9n 15 is Lenovo’s 15.3-inch NVIDIA RTX Spark clamshell for creators, with a 165Hz 2.5K OLED display, a pen-enabled haptic touchpad, and an aluminum chassis 0.66 inches thick. Our unit carries the entry silicon: the 18-core N1X with a 5,120-core Blackwell GPU, 32GB

Have some sympathy for Capitol Hill's leaders next year, no matter who wins in November. 😩 Why it matters: The next Congress promises a thousand different ways to be miserable. And three of the big four leaders are expected to receive a two-year contract extension, with guarante

The State Department is updating its travel advisory for mainland China to include an increased risk level for wrongful detention, according to a new plan seen by Semafor. The State Department’s move comes after two US citizens were labeled as wrongfully detained earlier this yea

An October shooting by federal immigration officers in New York City has led to a head-turning show of unity from House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Mayor Zohran Mamdani. Why it matters: This unlikely collaboration between leaders of Democrats' competing establishment an

President Trump said Friday that his administration did not disrupt an Elon Musk-owned satellite system used by Ukraine to wage war against Russia. Why it matters: The restrictions imposed earlier this week on the system hampered the Ukrainian military's ability to intercept Russ

The News ESCANABA, Mich. — Abdul El-Sayed and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are already thinking beyond 2026, even though he’s not a senator yet. During three different stops Thursday on his Senate campaign’s bus tour through redder, rural areas of this swing state, El-Sayed and Ocasi

As homes fill with connected devices, internet service providers face growing pressure to deliver experiences that are not only reliable but also secure. Daniel Herscovici of Plume discusses how real-time network data, specialized AI and automated troubleshooting can help provide

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This coming holiday season, brands will have a new type of shopper to court: AI agents. Cheq, a cybersecurity company that verifies AI shopping agents, says it recorded a 100x surge in agentic traffic over a 45-day period following the release of consumer AI agents like Instinct

Reed’s view Fear is rising that the AI bubble is about to burst under the weight of mounting debt, as my colleague Liz Hoffman detailed yesterday, including this great quote from an unnamed data-center financier: “We’re not an ATM for your dystopian future.” Perhaps lenders have

Closing the Skills Gap in Data Center Facilities Management Data centers require skilled professionals. Collaboration between IT and facilities, along with proactive maintenance and remote monitoring, helps address workforce shortages. Editor's Note: This article was originally p

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AI agents are changing how software gets built. Developers have gone from writing every line of code by hand to directing agents that write most of the code. As a result, the current workflow is split across a laptop, a cloud model API, and a cloud VM. NVIDIA RTX Spark is built f

Programming note: I’ll be attending the TomorrowX Summit in Austin in November, followed by Fintech Nerdcon in San Diego. If you’re at either, please say hi. In my former career as a research analyst, I would approach earnings season with a mix of trepidation and excitement. The

The Scoop Investors are pouring cash into a hot new sector of the AI economy: model routing — a practice allowing developers and companies to easily switch between different AI models. Startup TrustedRouter, which launched publicly six weeks ago, is among a growing crop of model-

The growing AI landscape is giving enterprises more choice in how they build, customize, and deploy increasingly capable models. Open-weight models are an important part of that landscape. They give enterprises access to model weights and greater flexibility to inspect, evaluate,

It was an economy bursting at the seams: robust growth powered by a tech boom, low unemployment, elevated inflation and Fed rate hikes to try to cool things down. The big picture: That was the situation in the year 2000, and it reminds us a great deal of the conditions in 2026. T

Hemingway Knows Nothing by Artur Dron, translated by Hanna Leliv. One of several recent Ukrainian-language books that have been translated into English, Dron’s “is a visceral, gripping account of life at point zero, being wounded, and losing friends,” a Ukrainian author wrote for

COMPUTE Just How Rosy Is That Datacenter Buildout Forecast? No matter how much money anyone throws at it, the GenAI boom can only continue to grow as fast as datacenters are built and powered up to accept machinery. No amount of political, social, or economic pressure can speed u

Leostream announced Leostream Cloud, a cloud-based remote access service, available now, that connects authorized users directly to physical and cloud-hosted workstations and other protected resources. The service combines identity-based authentication with policy-driven resource

SlugFest: The npm Trusted Publishing flaw that trusted names, not IDs npm keyed publishing trust on a renameable owner/repo name instead of GitHub's immutable repository ID, exposing 1,500+ packages. The bug, the fix, and the same mistake in your own authorization code. SlugFest

XCENA showed two AI inference demonstrations built on its MX1 CXL computational memory at the OCP Global Summit 2026 in San Jose: a KV cache shared across inference servers through a CXL memory pool, and vector search for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) run inside the memory