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Will I get the £100 energy payment and when will I receive it? - Published Up to 20 million households in England will get a £100 payment to help with their energy bills this winter, Chancellor John Healey has announced in his Budget. Here's what you need to know about the paymen

Will I get the £100 energy payment and when will I receive it? - Published Up to 20 million households in England will get a £100 payment to help with their energy bills this winter, Chancellor John Healey has announced in his Budget. Here's what you need to know about the paymen

If you ask some prominent US politicians who won the 2020 presidential election, you might get some weasely answers that fail to directly acknowledge Joe Biden’s win that November. If you ask Google’s AI Mode the same question, you might get an evasive answer that simply tells yo

If you ask some prominent US politicians who won the 2020 presidential election, you might get some weasely answers that fail to directly acknowledge Joe Biden’s win that November. If you ask Google’s AI Mode the same question, you might get an evasive answer that simply tells yo

Google unveiled Gemini 4 Carbon, which it said is significantly more capable than the model it released less than a month ago, as the company steps up efforts to contend with the leading frontier labs. The back-to-back launches come after nearly a year where Google didn’t release

Russell Brand tells trial sexual consent is 'fundamental' - Published - Warning - this report contains graphic content Russell Brand has told the jury at his trial he believes sexual consent is "fundamental" and "more important than sex itself". Brand, 51, is accused of three cou

A model can reason about a task. Completing that task takes more: the right context, tools, execution environment, and controls, and an agent loop that brings them together. Microsoft’s unified harness strategy brings a shared execution foundation across our agent experiences whi

A top House Democrat on Wednesday accused President Donald Trump of using tariffs as a "tool for grift and self-enrichment," pointing to what he says are suspicious import-tax exemptions for industries whose leaders have curried Trump's favor with gifts and donations. "You took c

A Florida county that discovered a clump of mysterious unpermitted Flock cameras during a countywide takedown effort won’t investigate who owned the sketchy cameras, which have since disappeared. On Wednesday, The Washington Post reported that St. Lucie County residents “remain u

The Scoop PsiQuantum is building its first product. It isn’t a quantum computer, but it could become a superpower for AI data centers. The company has been working for a decade on building quantum computers that use photons as “bits” of information and has built its own optical c

Medical lab testing giant Quest Diagnostics has confirmed a cyberattack and data breach affecting an as-yet unspecified amount of sensitive patient information stored in its systems, according to a legally required disclosure with U.S. regulators. Quest said in an 8-K filing with

Reed’s view While interviewing the CEO of Aseon Labs for my show Future Proof, I got the feeling I was witnessing a new kind of startup — one that leverages the commoditization of robotics and advances in AI to do more with less. With a team of just 10 people and $10 million in f

Amazon wants AI to see and hear more of your home. The company on Wednesday unveiled its new Echo devices, including Alexa-powered speakers, an AI-infused digital picture frame, smart alarm clocks, and a new smart display for managing the home, all running the latest version of A

The US’ most influential tech podcast has cooled on the use of the term “super intelligence,” President Donald Trump’s preferred alternative for AI, a Semafor analysis found. Mentions of SI by the hosts of All-In jumped shortly after Trump announced the renaming on Sept. 22, thou

Adani Ports vs Adani Power vs Adani Green Energy: Three of the top Adani Group firms, ie Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone Limited, Adani Green Energy Limited, and Adani Power Limited reported their second quarter result announcement this week. Out of these three stocks, whic

Palantir Technologies Inc.’s head of defense Mike Gallagher is warning that advances in artificial intelligence capabilities have made it more compelling for Chinese leader Xi Jinping to seize control of Taiwan, a chipmaking hub that has helped fuel the global AI boom.

Investors and journalists have now spent two days parsing Anthropic’s IPO filing — its risk factors, its $80 billion headline net loss, and its unusual governance structure — but there’s one number Silicon Valley prizes above all. The company reported an 85% gross profit margin o

The increase marks a broad based shock to commodity markets, with energy, food and metals prices all rising sharply this year. The World Bank warned that a further escalation in the Middle East conflict, along with continued damage to Russian oil infrastructure, could push energy

After years of resisting, Apple today launched a MacBook Pro with a touchscreen starting at $2,899. The release comes nearly 10 years after the company first tried integrating touchscreens on its laptops, with its Touch Bar on a MacBook Pro, which it later went on to remove. The

LOS ANGELES—Apple today announced and gave a first glimpse of its first major MacBook Pro redesign in more than five years. As rumored, it includes an OLED display and, for the first time on macOS, a touchscreen—a change Apple has long debated. (Former CEO Steve Jobs famously was

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Apple launches new MacBook Pro with touchscreen and OLED — starts at $2,899 The computer is also lighter and has an updated speaker system. Apple finally has touchscreen laptops. At an event in Los Angeles, the company detailed its new MacBook Pros featuring OLED XDR displays tha

Republicans fear that Vivek Ramaswamy's explosive attack ad featuring his opponent's estranged mother could cost them the Ohio governor's race, based on new internal polling that shows him falling further behind, Axios has learned. Why it matters: The poll's findings underscore R

Exa Opens 3.2M Podcast Transcripts to Developers Through One Search API Exa added 3.2 million podcast episodes with full transcripts to its search API, letting agents query 2.2 million hours of audio for free. - Exa added 3.2 million podcast episodes with full transcripts to its

Meta Opens Its Muse Models to Five Universities for Medical Research Meta opens its Muse model family and computer vision stack to five US universities tackling heart failure, cancer, dementia, and frontier math. - Meta is giving five US universities model access, researcher coll

Google open-sourced EGM, a plugin that uses deep-context agents to draft software specs and zero-context subagents to tear them apart before any code is written.

Anil Agarwal says he will leave no stone unturned to invest in Bengal if the right opportunity presents itself; CM says the industrialist made a specific proposal to set up a unit in Asansol

Google's Gemini 4 Carbon Tops AI Rankings and Hunts Security Bugs for Days Google's new frontier model targets autonomous cybersecurity defense and multi-day agentic coding, with early access limited to vetted defenders through the Fairwind program. - Google announced Gemini 4 Ca

One forecaster thinks only the daring will survive in an AI-run business landscape

Malaysia seizes $12 million worth of advanced AI chips hidden inside 30 servers — customs says suspected smuggling network used the country as a transit hub Authorities have seized $25 million worth of chips in cases linked to syndicate Malaysian customs have seized over $12 mill

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Amazon has significantly expanded its Shop Direct program, which lets Amazon shoppers browse listings from other retailers, The Information reported on Wednesday. Amazon currently offers more than 250 million products from rival retailers via the Shop Direct program, up from arou

Following improvements made to Chrome's enhanced autofill last year that included your name, passport number, email address, and physical addresses sourced from your Google Accounts and services like Google Wallet, the feature is now expanding. Starting today, Chrome's enhanced a

Google is making it easier for businesses to connect their apps to its AI experiences across Search and Gemini with the debut of its Connected Apps Platform. Introduced in Gemini and Google Search earlier this year, connected apps let users securely link and interact with popular

Google’s Chrome browser is getting an update that will improve its autofill capabilities using AI. On Wednesday, the company said that Chrome will get an advanced version of autofill that will help users fill out online forms with suggestions pulled from their Gmail. That means C

At the Android Dev Summit on Wednesday, Google’s smart glasses partner Xreal launched its new Xreal Aura wired smart glasses, powered by the Android XR and Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Reality Elite platforms. The companies had teased the glasses earlier in the year at Google’s I/O deve

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Microsoft Ships Copilot Harness to Run Multi-Step AI Agents Without Infrastructure Microsoft's new managed agent harness in Foundry handles orchestration, tools, context, and sandboxing so developers can skip rebuilding the execution layer. - Microsoft launched the Copilot harnes

Dive Brief: - Sephora is tapping Seth Rogen for a holiday campaign that caters to people in search of gifts for friends and family but who are clueless about beauty products, according to a press release. - In new ads, the star and co-creator of “The Studio” discusses his shoppin

Raymond Lifestyle Q2 Results: Profit falls 10% as higher raw material, freight costs squeeze margins - Published OnOct 28, 2026 | 19:58 IST - Last Updated OnOct 28, 2026 | 22:27 IST Surging input and freight costs squeezed operating profitability even as double-digit revenue expa

Budget 2026: Key points at a glance - Published Chancellor John Healey has set out the government's tax and spending plans in his Budget – the first since Andy Burnham became prime minister. Here is a summary of the main points. - One-off £100 payment for up to 20 million househo

The bank had a net profit of ₹329 crore in the July-September quarter of last fiscal

US Markets | US stocks were little changed on Wednesday as investors awaited the Federal Reserve’s interest rate decision and quarterly results from major technology companies. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite traded near the flatline, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose

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

Dolores Huerta, the pioneering labor organizer who co-founded the United Farm Workers and coined the rallying cry "Sí, se puede," died Wednesday at 96, her family announced on her Instagram account. Why it matters: The civil rights legend helped lead strikes and boycotts, fought

Intel’s struggles for much of the past decade have been well documented here and in other news sites, industry analyst reports, and financial research papers. The once-dominant chip maker has been tripped up by any number of challenges, from the growing strength of AMD cutting in

Chancellor also discussed aims to help the public benefit from AI upsides