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Healey tells departments to make 1% cuts to fund defence - Published Chancellor John Healey has told every government department to find 1% cuts in their capital budgets to fill a £4.7bn hole in the funding of the Defence Investment Plan. The reductions come on top of the 1% cuts

The group has offered $7.35 a share in cash, a premium of nearly 19% to Wendy’s Tuesday closing price. Trian’s stake in the company stands at 16.3%, according to a regulatory filing cited by AP. The bid comes as Wendy’s faces a difficult operating environment, with high beef and

Red Roses make six changes but Kildunne on bench again - Published Ellie Kildunne has been named on the England bench for their fixture against the USA, despite head coach John Mitchell making six changes to his side. The 27-year-old full-back was dropped for the 31-22 defeat by

(Updates to mid-afternoon trading) * Indexes: Dow up 0.10%, S&P 500 up 0.05%, Nasdaq off 0.13% * Fed leaves rates unchanged, upgrades economic outlook * SK Hynix quarterly profit jumps * Microsoft, Alphabet results expected after the bell By Stephen Culp and Shashwat Chauhan NEW

Senate Democrats’ campaign arm is spending $500,000 with Mississippi Democratic Senate candidate Scott Colom in a coordinated ad buy, according to details first shared with Semafor. The new ad from Colom and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee features Colom touting his

New generation FPGA announcements do not come often, which makes this a bit exciting for us. Today, Altera is introducing the Agilex 27 as the first family in its new Agilex 2X portfolio. Agilex 27 pairs hardened 800GbE and 1.6TbE Ethernet with PCIe 6.0 and 7.0 support, and offer

How did Flávio Bolsonaro end up in Miami? How did Flávio Bolsonaro end up in Miami?Close Brazil's defeated presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro has landed in the US after ongoing uncertainty about his whereabouts. The US state department told the BBC on Tuesday it will issu

It’s almost like Google’s got something to prove after taking a break from releasing new frontier AI models earlier this year. Just two weeks after rolling out Gemini 4 Argon, Google has announced Gemini 4 Carbon. This isn’t the Flash model equivalent we’ve been waiting for but,

The US Federal Reserve maintained the status quo on interest rates on Wednesday, 28 October, in line with market expectations, even as the central bank said inflation remains elevated while economic activity is growing strongly. The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) decided to

Healey unveils £100 for energy bills and bank tax in first Budget - Published Millions of households will get £100 to help with soaring energy bills to be paid for by a tax on bank profits, John Healey has announced in his first Budget. The chancellor said he wanted to give hard-

Healey unveils £100 for energy bills and bank tax in first Budget - Published Millions of households will get £100 to help with soaring energy bills to be paid for by a tax on bank profits, John Healey has announced in his first Budget. The chancellor said he wanted to give hard-

Liquid AI's LFM3 family puts six specialized 2B models on one tri-hybrid backbone, with vision, audio, and decision variants that fine-tune on a single GPU.

The 12-member FOMC voted 10-2 to hold rates at a target range between 3.75 and 4.00%, citing the need for more data in the fight against inflation

Nearly two years after LG and Samsung announced at CES 2025 that their latest smart TVs would include access to Microsoft's Copilot, the company is ending support for the AI assistant's functionality on all TVs this year, according to a report by Windows Central. The news comes n

Anthropic’s highly anticipated megalisting has been looming over the broader initial public offering market, holding back other companies gearing up for debuts, Lynn Martin, president of the New York Stock Exchange Group, said at The Information’s WTF Summit on Wednesday. The pip

We’re a little over three weeks away from the Cerebral Valley AI Summit, which we’re hosting in the heart of San Francisco on Nov. 12. We’ve secured some of the top names in Silicon Valley to speak on our main stage, including Igor Babuschkin, Nikesh Arora, and Ali Ghodsi. Now, w

Welcome to Snowflake's Startup Spotlight, where we ask startup founders about the problems they're solving, the products they're building and the lessons they've learned during their startup journey. In this edition, meet Dust's Co-Founder and CTO, Stanislas Polu, and learn how t

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Three ways the Budget affects you To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This video can not be played Three ways the Budget affects youClose Read what else is in the Budget - from fuel duty to Isa allowances. Subsection Business Published 7 hours ago Sh

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Artificial Intelligence Building an Agentic AI Platform on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore If you’ve tried to get an agent into production, the model and tool use are not the blocker. The main bottleneck is everything around them: how many teams can build within a secure environment, wh

Carlsberg India moves closer to IPO: What its updated filing reveals about the beer maker - Published OnOct 28, 2026 | 23:56 IST - Last Updated OnOct 28, 2026 | 23:56 IST Carlsberg India’s proposed IPO will allow promoter South Asian Breweries to sell up to 8.64 crore shares, wit

The Samsung Portable SSD P9 is the company’s first USB4 portable drive, rated at 4,000MB/s read and 3,800MB/s write. That’s double the T9 it sits above. It ships in 1TB, 2TB, 4TB, and 8TB capacities; the 8TB is Samsung’s first USB4 portable SSD at that size, and the 2TB unit we t

JSW Energy | The firm reported a 49.8% year-on-year increase in consolidated net profit to ₹1,056.4 crore for the second quarter of FY27, beating the CNBC-TV18 poll estimate of ₹689 crore. Revenue from operations rose 23% to ₹6,368.5 crore from ₹5,177 crore in the year-ago quarte

Artificial Intelligence Distributed training with Ray Train DLCs and EFA on EKS What usually stops PyTorch training from scaling out to a cluster is the container, not the model code. Every container needs the same CUDA runtime, a PyTorch build compiled against it, NCCL (NVIDIA C

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Off the Wire Press Releases Companies to combine commercial quantum computing technology with enterprise optimization expertise to accelerate quantum use case identification, development and deployment in Asia SEOUL, South Korea and PALO ALTO, Calif., Oct. 28, 2026 — D-Wave Quant

Tax thresholds remain unchanged - here's what it means for your pay - Published Income tax thresholds, which have been frozen under successive chancellors, will stay at current levels until April 2031 as planned. But after that they are expected to start to rise again with inflat

Artificial Intelligence Accelerating software delivery with agentic QA automation using Amazon Nova Act – Part 3 As quality assurance (QA) automation adoption grows inside an organization, a new problem appears that has nothing to do with writing tests. A platform team stands up

Creators are pulling millions by animating famous logos, and it could be the format you need for your drawing app.

Suno Drops an Official MCP Server to Generate Music From Any AI Chat Suno's new Model Context Protocol server lets Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Gemini, and Claude Code generate songs inline without API keys or tab-switching. - Suno launched MCP Beta, exposing song generation as a too

Innodata has reportedly laid off nearly 550 employees in India, with job cuts also reported in the Philippines The layoffs add to ongoing workforce uncertainty across the technology sector as companies reassess staffing and business requirements Employees reported losing access t

As widely anticipated, the US Federal Reserve left interest rates unchanged on Wednesday, October 28, giving policymakers more time to assess the impact of the previous rate hike on the economy and financial conditions, even as inflation remained above the central bank’s target.

GMR Airports Q2 results: Profit rises to ₹65 crore as revenue grows 12% - Published OnOct 28, 2026 | 23:37 IST - Last Updated OnOct 28, 2026 | 23:37 IST Surging international traffic and steady operational momentum enabled GMR Airports to post a profit for five consecutive quarte

Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh speaks to reporters during his first news conference since taking the helm at the central bank on June 17, 2026 in Washington, DC. Chip Somodevilla | Getty Images This is a comparison of Wednesday's Federal Open Market Committee statement with t

The Federal Reserve, on Wednesday, held interest rates steady in 3.75%-4.00% range. The US Fed opted to delay any changes to borrowing costs until after next week's US midterm elections and awaiting further data on the path of inflation. The US Federal Reserve decision has come e

Since debuting in 2019, Amazon’s Echo Studio targeted users who wanted superior audio quality from their Alexa-based smart speaker. The latest Echo Studio adds another less-expected differentiator: an integrated camera. The Echo Studio with Home Camera, released alongside a pile

Some board members of global oil-and-gas giant BP are in favor of breakup of the company, according to people familiar with the matter, following years of smaller spinoffs that have failed to assuage pressure from investors to boost returns. No decision has been made, and CEO Meg

CVE: CVE-2026-96656 Vendor/project: Plex Product: Media Server Known ransomware campaign use: Unknown Due date: 2026-10-23 CWE: CWE-73 Plex Media Server contains an external control of file name or path vulnerability which can allow an admin user to write arbitrary files that may

Vivix is a Brazilian flat glass manufacturer whose products include glass and mirrors for the construction and furniture markets. In float-glass production, the furnace is one of the most critical assets — and one of the hardest to observe. At operating temperatures of approximat

Share prices of technology companies surged earlier in the day in Asia, as blockbuster earnings from South Korean chipmaker SK Hynix boosted optimism around the artificial intelligence (AI) trade ahead of results from Wall Street giants Microsoft and Alphabet after the closing be

Listen to this article in summarized format The decision by the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) came largely in line with market expectations. Traders, according to Reuters, had priced in a 90% probability of a pause ahead of the two-day policy meeting. Voting against the mo

A research team proposes using thin-film lithium niobate modulators as analog replacements for Softmax and Sigmoid inside transformer attention.

Regional mediators led by Qatar are trying to reach a diplomatic deal to restart negotiations between the U.S. and Iran and prevent the resumption of war after the midterm elections, three U.S., Israeli and regional sources say. The Qataris are working to convince Iran to allow U

Off the Wire Press Releases Joint project will combine superconducting quantum hardware and AI-native digital twins to accelerate catalyst discovery LOS ANGELES, Oct. 28, 2026 — Quantum Elements and Qarakal Quantum today announced they have been selected by the Israel-U.S. Binati

“Please have at least 125 miles of range left when we pick it up.” That request from the people who look after the Cadillac press cars wasn’t going to be hard to honor. The electric Escalade IQ arrived with an indicated range of 440 miles (708 km), and with a full week of work to

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1. China Mobile — $220.33 bn | China Mobile holds the crown as the world’s most valuable telecom company, with a market cap of $220.33 billion. It’s also the only telecom operator ahead of Jio in subscriber scale: Jio is the world’s second-largest single-country operator after Ch

PyTorch 2.15 Rebuilds Distributed Training and Cuts Decoding Overhead The new release flips the rewritten NCCL backend on by default, adds one-sided transports, and accelerates NVFP4 decode on Blackwell. - PyTorch 2.15 ships with 3,117 commits from 583 contributors across distrib