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Borrowing costs are likely to remain elevated across the US and Europe for the foreseeable future, economists said. Experts surveyed by The Wall Street Journal projected that US 10-year Treasury yields would decline only slightly from current levels to end the year at 5.1%, and w

Deadly weekend Houthi attacks on Riyadh’s airport underscored the risk of war enveloping still more of the Middle East. Several major energy CEOs cancelled travel to Saudi Arabia, which had been preparing several major conferences courting foreign investment. The missile strikes

Economists and executives warned of thinning global oil buffers, with conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine piling pressure on the energy supply chain. Goldman Sachs over the weekend raised its forecast for average year-end oil prices, warning of “downside risks to supply, low

Investments in AI infrastructure look set to maintain the pace of global economic growth despite pressure resulting from global conflicts, with the IMF saying Asia is likely to be a notable beneficiary. “AI, love it, hate it, it’s already here,” the Washington-based lender’s mana

Russia hit several Ukrainian power plants in the hours after US President Donald Trump declared an energy ceasefire, strikes that Kyiv’s supporters cited as further evidence of Moscow’s bad faith in peace negotiations. Faced with domestic cost-of-living concerns ahead of midterm

Dev used AI agents and more than 500 billion tokens to rebuild Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2's source code — 83% of the 2009 shooter's functions now match the original byte for byte The agents originally tried to cheat the developer’s check. Developer Maurice Heumann details in

India's headline inflation rose to 5.54% in September from 4.82% in August, adding pressure on the country's central bank to further tighten monetary policy. The consumer price index print was slightly above economists' expectations of 5.40%, according to a Reuters poll. Inflatio

The primary market is set for a busy week, with four companies — Bonfiglioli Transmissions, Tonbo Imaging India, Sahajanand Medical Technologies and Zetwerk Manufacturing Business — preparing to launch their initial public offerings (IPOs) on 15 October. The four IPOs will remain

Walmart has slashed $750 off this RTX 5060 gaming laptop, now 40% cheaper — HyperX Omen 15 is just $1,149 A very cheap 5060 laptop If you're in the market for a budget gaming laptop, then $1,149 for a 15-inch RTX 5060 HyperX OMEN is about as good as it gets right now. Walmart has

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The News Tanzania is counting on increased investment to accelerate industrialization and create jobs for its young population, the prime minister said. The government has targeted $15 billion in annual foreign direct investment, roughly triple last year’s figure, as part of its

Mukesh Ambani’s Jio IPO: As primary market investors are eagerly waiting for Reliance Industries Limited's planned ₹30,000 crore Jio Platforms initial public offering, Dalal Street is also assessing the impact of one of the biggest IPOs of the country on the telecom sector player

When self-taught coder Sigil Wen was 17, he moved to Silicon Valley and lived in an AI hacker house with famed AI researcher Andrej Karpathy. While there, he hacked and coded alongside other people who would become the biggest names in AI, like Perplexity founder Aravind Srinivas

In the debut episode of Future Proof from Semafor Technology, Cognition CISO and former Facebook security chief Alex Stamos goes off on the “nihilism” ripping through Silicon Valley. He joins Semafor Tech editor Reed Albergotti to discuss the very real risks of AI, and the wholly

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Redditor unknowingly buys stolen rental PC, and it gets remotely blocked by rental firm — NZXT service provider resolves issue by replacing ‘bricked’ computer The seller probably thought they got away with their scam. Redditor u/cal93 had the used PC they bought for $650 from an

The News The $16 billion project to build Aliko Dangote’s refinery on the Kenyan coast is at the center of a high-stakes political battle ahead of elections in 10 months. President William Ruto is hinging his second-term bid on a series of major infrastructure developments. He ha

Monday 12 October 2026 Top stories today: - Decart in ~$7B Amazon buyout talks after Anthropic passed - Anthropic bars live internet access in internal AI tests - Elon Musk, Mark Benioff pledge AI rebrands - Ramp raises ~$1.85B at ~$62B post-money valuation - Apple’s HomeView hub

Which LLM should review your code? New frontier models ship almost every month. Each release can change the balance of quality, cost, and speed available to teams building with AI. Code review brings those trade-offs into focus: how many bugs can a model catch, how much noise doe

Former President Barack Obama has cut an ad for Mississippi Senate candidate Scott Colom, the latest sign of Democrats putting real effort behind boosting their candidate in the deep red state as they eye a potential upset next month. The Colom campaign will run the 30-second spo

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Reddit user pays $35 for a crypto mining rig left in a garage and gets 54GB of VRAM at 65 cents per GB — the first test for 2017-era GPUs: a 35B-parameter AI model running locally at over 30 tokens per second A rusty rig and a refused test, but all nine cards worked. A Reddit pos

DIGITIMES notes that China continued to advance smart glasses policies from the central government to local governments in 2026, driving both enterprise production and consumer purchase subsidies. Enterprise priorities include dedicated chips, microdisplays, and light waveguide s

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Common Sense Media, a nonprofit that offers reviews of apps, services, and entertainment with a focus on youth safety, today said that OpenAI’s ChatGPT for Teens is an “unacceptable risk.” ChatGPT for Teens is an ‘unacceptable risk,’ says Common Sense Media ChatGPT’s teen-focused

When in August OpenAI released its ChatGPT for Teens, a tool with "stronger built-in safety protections" geared toward 13- to 17-year-olds, experts said it showed promise. New research, however, reveals it has important limitations. On Wednesday, media ratings nonprofit Common Se

Virginia Tops AI Data Center Readiness Ranking as Smaller Markets Advance TRG DataCenters’ August 2026 ranking places Virginia in the lead, while states with abundant power, low-carbon electricity, and favorable water conditions gain ground. Power supply and water availability co

Retail is entering its most transformative chapter since the dawn of e-commerce. Stores are evolving into hybrid hubs for fulfillment, service and brand experience—all while customer expectations rise, labor capacity shrinks and omnichannel pressure grows. The frontline is being

How to Secure Data Centers During the Construction Phase Before operations begin, layered defenses at the site and in the supply chain help prevent theft, vandalism, counterfeit gear, and covert endpoints. As data center build-outs accelerate, most conversations about physical se

BANGKOK — Policymakers are moving from debating whether artificial intelligence will hit jobs to issuing stark warnings about AI-led disruption and recommending measures on cushioning the fallout. International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva warned on Monday

BANGKOK — Policymakers are moving from debating whether artificial intelligence will hit jobs to issuing stark warnings about AI-led disruption and recommending measures on cushioning the fallout. International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva warned on Monday

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InCred Capital has appointed Abhinav Khanna as CEO of Capital Markets and Abhimanyu Kalra as managing director and co-head of equities as it looks to expand its institutional equities business in India. The appointments are part of the company’s efforts to grow its market share i

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An AI application can store its records in Europe while sending prompts and project context elsewhere for model processing. Knowing where the database lives answers one part of an enterprise security review. Knowing where the AI runs answers another. Lovable’s EU inference settin

Zetwerk’s upcoming IPO is expected to deliver multi-fold returns to several early investors, with Kae Capital and Kalysta Capital set to earn around 38X returns on their investments. The offer for sale (OFS) will see existing shareholders offload 14.45 crore shares worth approxim

Independent tests rank Mistral’s new trillion-parameter Large 4 the best AI model outside the U.S. and China — but Chinese open-weights still overcome Europe's best efforts Its best result is a cyber test, but it falls behind on the index. Mistral launched its trillion-parameter