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AI - Linux kernel devs drop obligatory confession of AI tool usage Torvalds says contributors must understand their code, whatever tools they use - Researchers cig-nal their faith in AI by taking up smoking What are they puffing? Tobacco, apparently. Cancer researcher tells El Re

What we know about the Pope's lung cancer diagnosis Pope Leo XIV has been diagnosed with lung cancer but had a successful surgery to remove part of his right lung, the Vatican has confirmed. The Pope, 71, underwent a 90-minute surgery on Tuesday at Rome's Gemelli Hospital, where

Enterprise AI startup Parallel Loop has raised $6.6 Mn (about ₹63.1 Cr) in a seed funding round led by 3one4 Capital, with participation from Picus Capital, Flourish Ventures, and Economic Development Innovations Singapore. Paytm founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma, CRED founder Kunal S

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Although Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman offered no clear indication of possible changes to the long-term capital gains (LTCG) tax or securities transaction tax (STT), her remarks were enough to trigger speculation, fuel debate, and prompt calculations of the potential

Ankit Jain, former managing director of Dyson India, has launched Foundry, a consumer technology company focused on premium home appliances. The company is developing appliances using proprietary, patent-pending technology, with its initial product range focused on the kitchen. F

Business News›Markets›US Stocks›Wall St Guide›Dow Jones| Nasdaq | US Stock Market Today | Live: Nasdaq tumbles 500 pts as rate pressure hammers high-flying AI stocks LIVE BLOG US Stock Market Live Updates: US stocks dip as September inflation data fuels Fed rate-hike bets. Syno

The benchmark 6.94% 2036 bond surged 3.5 basis points to 7.3999%, a more-than-three-year high. Sentiment soured after the Reserve Bank of India Governor Sanjay Malhotra said in a media interview on Tuesday that while the central bank does not generally use monetary policy to safe

Tokenmaxxing may have been the shortest-lived corporate try-hard hustle in history, but many of Wall Street’s year-end bonuses still hinge on AI use. Applicants’ AI skills are nearly four times as important in hiring decisions as where they went to college, and a quarter of US fi

Benchmark Sensex slipped 252 points to close at 72,781 on Wednesday. Despite the market decline, seven stocks from the BSE 1000 index touched fresh 52-week highs, reaching their highest price levels in the past year. A 52-week high represents the highest price at which a stock ha

Stock market today: Indian equity benchmarks closed lower on Wednesday, 14 October, as rising oil prices and sustained foreign investor outflows dampened sentiment following the previous session’s rally. Investors also assessed corporate earnings and awaited key US inflation data

In its latest consultation paper, the regulator proposed that issuers with post-issue market capitalisation of up to Rs 1,000 crore be required to list on the SME platform. Those with market capitalisation above Rs 1,000 crore and up to Rs 4,000 crore could also opt for the SME p

The Scoop Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund is preparing to inform organizers of the 2034 men’s soccer World Cup that it plans to drop five new stadiums it proposed to build to host the tournament, according to people familiar with the matter. Public Investment Fund will likel

I put Meta’s new Muse Wonder (and Wonder Full) frontier models through the How I AI bench, which covers nearly 20 tasks across prototyping, agentic workflows, coding, writing, and creative work. I scored everything with an LLM-as-a-judge pass and my own voice notes, then pulled t

AI agents, meet double agents. OpenAI said it identified, fired, and reported to the FBI an employee who bugged its office. The employee, a Saudi national later identified by law enforcement as Abdulrahman Alfozan, was arrested last week and charged with illegally recording compa

A little-noticed deal this week for senior-care clinics is the first shot fired in a Wall Street turf battle. BlackRock’s HPS credit arm is essentially lending $2.8 billion to Humana, marking Larry Fink’s entry into a space that Apollo has had to itself until now. Apollo’s dryly

AI/ML Uvi gives AI agents enterprise context Israeli startup Uvi says enterprises enterprises are paying frontier AI companies to repeatedly re-learn what their own businesses already know but cannot surface. It can reveal this hidden context using knowledge graph technology. Uvi

AI - Linux kernel devs drop obligatory confession of AI tool usage Torvalds says contributors must understand their code, whatever tools they use - Researchers cig-nal their faith in AI by taking up smoking What are they puffing? Tobacco, apparently. Cancer researcher tells El Re

Civil servant faked illness with make-up to juggle five jobs, court hears - Published A civil servant is accused of earning almost £350,000 by juggling five full-time public sector roles - using sick notes and working from home to cope with the workload. Kashim Chowdhury allegedl

The Nifty 50 fell 99 points, or 0.44%, to settle at 22,623, while the BSE Sensex declined 252 points, or 0.34%, to close at 72,782. Broader markets also traded lower, with the Nifty Smallcap 100 falling 0.32% and the Nifty Midcap 100 slipping 0.08%. On the sectoral front, the Nif

Big week for Wall Street’s largest banks and for finance nerds like myself. Morgan Chittum here. I’m Fortune’s new senior finance reporter, and Allie’s asked me to write Term Sheet a few days a week (Dream gig!) A bit about me: I love reporting on big banks, asset managers, and o

Parallel Loop, an AI operating partner for mid-market and large enterprises, has raised $6.6 million in a seed funding round led by 3one4 Capital. Co-founded by Prateek Jogani and Yujun Chean in June this year, Parallel Loop works with enterprises to integrate AI into their exist

Your teams already build with Lovable. Now they want to build more advanced apps that use sensitive data in production, and your security team has stricter requirements. Where does the app run, and where does its data live? Until now, the answer was Lovable's infrastructure. That

India's defence and aerospace sector could be entering a new phase of growth, with rising domestic procurement, localisation, defence electronics, drones and global aerospace partnerships creating opportunities across the manufacturing value chain. Brokerage DAM Capital, followin

Spain’s king said his country’s control of exclaves in Africa was “non-negotiable,” after the cities became flashpoints in territorial disputes with Morocco and Europe’s anti-immigration debate. Ceuta rose to international prominence in July, when more than 70,000 people swept in

India cracked down further on anti-government protests that have grown substantially in recent months, escalating from attacking the authorities over education to frustration with what critics see as broader threats to the country’s democracy. Three leaders of an upstart politica

The performance of several recently listed companies highlights the difference between listing-day gains and returns from the IPO price, with some stocks continuing to deliver positive returns for investors despite sharp corrections from their debut levels. Kotak Institutional Eq

Iran-backed Houthi fighters reportedly hit the headquarters of Saudi Arabia’s national oil company in overnight strikes, stoking a conflict that risks spiralling into a wider war. The attacks follow a Houthi onslaught that killed 13, injured hundreds, and forced Riyadh’s airport

For as long as Anshita Mehrotra can remember, conversations at her home were all about cosmetic formulations, ingredients, and consumer behaviour. For Mehrotras, beauty wasn’t just another industry but a family business. Her mother, Shailey Malhotra, had built Fixderma into one o

The threat of a worker’s strike — which has since been averted — at Chile’s La Escondida, the world’s biggest copper mine, sent prices for the metal near record levels, underscoring the Latin American country’s growing role in the industry. Other recent temporary closures in some

The CEO of ASML, the world’s only provider of the machines that make cutting-edge chips, said AI demand would outstrip supply for years to come, easing investors’ worries of a spending bubble. His comments come after Europe’s most valuable company reported bumper profits that far

The company’s net income for the quarter ended September 30, 2026 stood at Rs 171 crore, compared with Rs 166 crore in the same quarter last year. Operating revenue rose 28% YoY to Rs 1,699 crore, while services segment revenue grew 34% to Rs 1,356 crore. Operating EBITDA increas

Chinese exports jumped 36% year-on-year in September, a bumper figure that is likely to vex the country’s trade partners, who have demanded Beijing address imbalances and alleged domestic overproduction. Faced with US and EU restrictions, which have dented Chinese imports in the

The News Kenyan investors hoping to participate in the Dangote refinery initial public offering now have access through a financial instrument being used for cross-border African investment for the first time on Nairobi’s bourse. The use of global depositary receipts (GDRs), whic

Wael’s view In June 2008, I sat in a Jeddah Hilton conference room packed with ministers from more than 100 countries waiting for King Abdullah to arrive. Oil was closing in on a record price. Saudi Arabia’s message that day: The world had enough oil. It offered a modest increase

D2C supplement brand The Stack has raised ₹21.5 Cr ($2.2 Mn) in fresh capital to bolster its R&D and expand its product portfolio. The round was co-led by Sauce.vc, OTP Ventures and Huddle Ventures, and also saw participation from AYRA Ventures. The funding comes months after the

Despite the expansion of Starlink and other communications satellite services, most of the world’s Internet traffic still travels through subsea cables crisscrossing the ocean floors. Those fiber-optic cables coexist with a network of oil and gas pipelines and submarine power cab