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Netanyahu's bloc leading Israel election but short of majority, partial results show - Published Partial results from Israel's general election show veteran Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is leading his rival, former military chief Gadi Eisenkot, but is still short of a majori

Shares of Stellantis were up Wednesday as the European car giant's third-quarter results showed it was making progress with its 60 billion euro turnaround plan. Third-quarter revenues rose 1% to 37.6 billion euros from a year ago, the Chrysler and Jeep owner said on Wednesday, wh

AI - GitHub powering up four million extra cores to stop its service going down Re-architects site to cope with AI slop-pocalypse - Microsoft faces potential vote: Shareholders curious about its plans to tackle emissions Greenhouse gas output has risen dramatically since the comp

Three media outlets that President Donald Trump banned from the White House in September, only to have a federal judge's order restore much of their access, amended their lawsuit Wednesday, seeking to regain full access to serve in a press pool for other reporters in the Oval Off

Apple has announced its first touchscreen Mac computer, but it will come with a massive spike in price. The MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display will start at $2,899. On Tuesday, Apple introduced a new MacBook Pro with the M6 chip and no touchscreen that will start at $1,999. The

Bond yields moved higher on Wednesday as investors digested the Federal Reserve's decision to hold interest rates steady at its October meeting. The 10-year Treasury note yield — the main benchmark for mortgages, auto loans and credit card debt — was more than 3 basis points high

Listen to this article in summarized format The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 126.21 points, or 0.24%, to 52,503.78. The S&P; 500 gained 0.33% to 7,748.03, while the Nasdaq Composite advanced 0.32% to 26,561.24. For Highlights on US Markets, click here Fed holds rates as Dece

CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss said critics of her leadership of the network should “judge us by the journalism” in a wide-ranging interview with Jessica Lessin of The Information Wednesday. Speaking at The Information’s WTF Summit, a gathering of senior women in the technol

What we now know about the UK economy in four charts - Published The UK may have no involvement in the US-Iran war, but the country is feeling the full force of the conflict on its economy. Soaring energy prices are set to dent growth in the short term, push up inflation and leav

What we now know about the UK economy in four charts - Published The UK may have no involvement in the US-Iran war, but the country is feeling the full force of the conflict on its economy. Soaring energy prices are set to dent growth in the short term, push up inflation and leav

Microsoft Corp. posted increasing growth in its cloud business and kept its capital expenditures in check, satisfying investors amid a drumbeat of concern that spending on artificial intelligence won’t pay off.

Alphabet Inc.’s search and advertising sales disappointed in the most recent quarter, reinforcing investors’ fears that Google is losing ground to AI rivals despite pouring hundreds of billions of dollars into the technology.

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During Meta’s earnings call on Wednesday, the company revealed its board had approved a new class of nonvoting stock, called Class C common stock. The shares give the holder an ownership stake but no vote on company decisions. This class takes effect in January. Meta says it will

Mark Zuckerberg was just three minutes into his keynote speech at the company's annual Meta Connect product event last month when his tone turned almost wistful. "Building is an act of love," he said, glancing down at the ground with his hands in his pockets. "It's how we impart

Google has released its latest frontier model, Gemini 4 Carbon, offering "significant gains" in coding, agentic tasks, and cybersecurity. In an announcement on Wednesday, Google highlights Carbon's top spot on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index (v5.0) benchmark, with Clau

Artificial Analysis' Code2Video-AA Benchmark Shows Claude Opus 5.5 Dominates AI Video Coding A new benchmark judges 27 models on turning marketing briefs into animated HTML videos, with Claude Opus 5.5 leading at 10x the cost of rivals. - Artificial Analysis launched Code2Video-A

What the Budget offers for under 25s - and what it leaves out - Published Chancellor John Healey has announced his Budget, which includes changes to minimum wage and help for people trying to get onto the housing ladder. Here is how the Budget could affect you if you are under-25

What the Budget offers for under 25s - and what it leaves out - Published Chancellor John Healey has announced his Budget, which includes changes to minimum wage and help for people trying to get onto the housing ladder. Here is how the Budget could affect you if you are under-25

(Bloomberg) -- Heavy crude oil in Alberta has weakened to the lowest price relative to US futures in more than four years. Western Canadian Select’s discount — also called a differential — in Alberta grew to $31 a barrel compared to a monthly average of West Texas Intermediate as

T-Mobile US Inc. added more total customer accounts in the third quarter than analysts had expected, showing its slate of offers and loyalty incentives are resonating with customers.

Personally identifiable information belonging to thousands of U.S. Department of Homeland Security employees has been published online after a hacker stole reams of data in a previously undisclosed breach at the government department earlier this year. The breach includes names,

Oracle shares jumped 11% on Wednesday after the software company issued a revenue forecast of $225 billion for fiscal 2030, implying 35% average annual growth, and said it will limit additional fundraising over that stretch to $20 billion. At its investor day, Oracle said that, a

Oracle shares jumped 11% on Wednesday after the software company issued a revenue forecast of $225 billion for fiscal 2030, implying 35% average annual growth, and said it will limit additional fundraising over that stretch to $20 billion. At its investor day, Oracle said that, a

An unprecedented leak of Department of Homeland Security records has exposed details of more than 41,000 employees or contractors who work for the department and its constituent agencies. The records include email addresses, phone numbers, and office addresses, but also reference

Top Republican surrogates like Vice President JD Vance and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz are hitting the road to boost their party’s midterm candidates — and offering a glimpse at how they might approach 2028. Vance has traveled to campaign near-daily this month, especially to states like

AI - GitHub powering up four million extra cores to stop its service going down Re-architects site to cope with AI slop-pocalypse - Microsoft faces potential vote: Shareholders curious about its plans to tackle emissions Greenhouse gas output has risen dramatically since the comp

DoubleLine founder Jeff Gundlach told CNBC's "Closing Bell" on Wednesday that it's unclear why the Federal Reserve is waiting to hike rates further. "What are you waiting for? You just upgraded the economy right here," he said, referring to Fed Chairman Kevin Warsh's comments abo

People working with Democratic Senate nominee Mary Peltola's campaign and senior aides at the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee participated in efforts to recruit a man named Daniel J. Sullivan to enter the Alaska Senate contest, in a bid to draw votes away from incumbent

Dharshini David: Healey buys himself some time, but big questions still unanswered - Published John Healey talked of charting a new course for Britain, but this Budget was more about course-correcting than charging down a new path. It was abundantly clear that the financial fallo

Speaking at a news conference after the Fed kept interest rates unchanged, Warsh said the US economy was "pointing in the right direction." "Is the economy running too hot? Is the economy running too strong? That isn't the judgment of most of my colleagues," Warsh said, noting th

I first met Paul Copplestone and Ant Wilson in Singapore, shortly after they finished YC as the hottest startup of YC S20. Six years later, we finally got them on the podcast! This is their first podcast together, after taking an open-source, fully remote company from zero to a $

I first met Paul Copplestone and Ant Wilson in Singapore, shortly after they finished YC as the hottest startup of YC S20. Six years later, we finally got them on the podcast! This is their first podcast together, after taking an open-source, fully remote company from zero to a $

Given the fact that privatisation of several PSEs is a long journey, calibrated disinvestment could serve as an interim measure

The Federal Reserve voted Wednesday to keep benchmark interest rates on hold, opting to take a patient approach in its fight against inflation despite mounting evidence that price pressures are proving more nettlesome than policymakers had hoped. In a widely expected decision, th

Explained: The US Federal Reserve maintained the status quo on Wednesday, keeping interest rates unchanged in the 3.75%–4% range despite stubbornly high inflation. The decision was in line with market expectations. The Fed’s rate decision was approved by a 10–2 vote, with Lisa D.

AWS Compute Blog Observing AWS Lambda durable functions with the Durable Execution Telemetry Exporter A durable function is an AWS Lambda function that might run for minutes, days, or even up to a year. You build these functions with the Durable Execution SDK, which provides oper

US Fed Meeting Highlights: Federal Reserve keeps rates unchanged despite elevated inflation US Fed Meeting Highlights: The Federal Reserve kept its benchmark interest rate unchanged on Wednesday, choosing to hold off on further action as it continues to tackle inflation that has

Database group projects $30bn in free cash flow by 2029 and will limit additional raising for data centre strategy to $20bn

Microsoft's MAI-Image-2.7 Climbs to No. 2 on Image-Editing Benchmark Microsoft AI's newest image editing model climbs to #2 on the Artificial Analysis leaderboard, trailing only OpenAI's GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst and leading four categories. - Microsoft's MAI-Image-2.7-Preview ranks

The Trump administration is trying to stop Utah from enforcing its gambling ban against Kalshi, making Utah the 10th state sued by the US government agency that regulates prediction markets. Utah, which prohibits gambling, sued Kalshi in a state court last week. Utah’s lawsuit se

(Bloomberg) -- Short-dated US Treasury yields and the dollar fell after Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh said officials will have fewer interest-rate setting meetings starting next year. Two-year yields, which are more sensitive to the Fed’s policy path, fell as much as four

The private space tourism era looked so very promising five years ago. Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic had begun flying customers—real people with zero space experience—on suborbital missions. And at about the same time, private citizens were going to orbit for days at a time abo

The financials Anthropic shared with investors this week suggest that its AI coding tool, Claude Code, is every bit the business success the frontier lab wanted. The company recorded an operating profit in the second quarter, and 900% net revenue retention — that is, spending fro

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Elon Musk is a 'real genius', Putin says after satellite talks with SpaceX boss - Published Elon Musk is a "real genius", Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday after revealing the two are in "close" contact about satellite technology. The remarks came during the Russ

Seagate announced that its Mozaic hard drives built on heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) and configured for shingled magnetic recording (SMR) have been added to Broadcom’s approved vendor list for its host bus adapters, which Seagate calls the first and only SMR drives on t

Ollama 0.40.11 gives Windows users a desktop chat application and a local model runtime for other software. Ollama has also moved beyond its original command-line interface, adding a searchable model selector, image attachments, and links to coding tools. Some controls we needed

LOS ANGELES—For about five minutes on an extremely crowded showroom floor, I got to take pictures of the new MacBook Pro and test out some of its new features. First impressions: It’s not as much of a departure from the previous design as I expected, but the outstanding OLED disp

The PHP scare may have faded from your feed, but the cleanup is far from over. Last week, two critical bugs in the open source language behind roughly 70% of websites left organizations scrambling to fix their systems, with some taking sites offline until the vulnerabilities coul