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Seagate and Toshiba have each held preliminary talks to acquire TDK’s hard disk drive recording head business in a potential multibillion-dollar deal, Bloomberg reported this week. The report describes TDK as the only independent HDD head supplier, selling to all three nearline d

Dive Brief: - Stacie Borteck Dattner, a longtime merchant at Bloomingdale’s, is leaving to lead merchandising at another Macy’s Inc. nameplate, Bluemercury. - Dattner starts the job Monday. She will report to Bluemercury CEO Alexandre Choueiri, who arrived at Bluemercury this sum

During the HTML5 revolution, besides sending the Adobe Flash media player into retirement, truly semantic markup made headlines. But even today, it’s not that easy to shake off the habit of reaching for <div> and <span> when we quickly need a tag to wrap the content. Sometimes, <

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement will not pause its activities in New York after ICE agents in the Bronx shot and wounded a man while he was in a car with a 5-year-old child, Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said Friday. The shooting Thursday afternoon prompte

Bonus share alert: Shares of JOJO Limited are likely to remain in focus next week ahead of the company’s upcoming bonus issue record date. The film production, distribution and exhibition firm has fixed Monday as the record date for the corporate action.For investors who closely

Data centers have divided America. The ire of everyday citizens continues to increase against a backdrop of enthusiastic and deep-pocketed Wall Street investors betting artificial intelligence is the economic engine of the future. And as data centers that power the answers for Go

Data centers have divided America. The ire of everyday citizens continues to increase against a backdrop of enthusiastic and deep-pocketed Wall Street investors betting artificial intelligence is the economic engine of the future. And as data centers that power the answers for Go

Dive Brief: - Amazon’s October Prime Big Deal Days, which ran Tuesday and Wednesday, helped drive $9.86 billion in online sales for U.S. retailers, according to data from Adobe. As in past years, the event drew competing sales from retailers including Target. - Online demand duri

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

Delta Air Lines slashed its 2026 profit outlook as high fuel prices persist, but CEO Ed Bastian said pricier fares aren't turning off travelers. Delta on Friday forecast full-year earnings per share of between $5.10 and $5.60 on an adjusted basis, compared with its outlook in Jul

BEIJING — European trade commissioner Maroš Sefčovič said Friday that China has agreed to halve its exports of hybrid cars to the bloc. Europe has called on China to voluntarily reduce hybrid car exports into the continent, but authorities in Beijing had reportedly slapped down t

Automattic’s interim chief financial officer Jeremy Klaperman has left his position after less than a month, TechCrunch has learned. Klaperman had been elevated to the new job last month after the governance crisis at the WordPress.com parent company, which saw its entire board e

AI - Nvidia found $1B under the couch to help secure American scientific computing dominance Commitment comes as GPUzilla prepares to fortify Uncle Sam's arsenal with at least seven AI-optimized supers - TSMC taps GlobalFoundries to bolster US silicon interposer production in $2B

Thirteen years ago I developed to my knowledge the first and currently the only fully featured model oriented programming language and IDE. I utilized this technology (Mo+) to great effect on my own and workplace enterprise projects, but failed to sell the ideas to a wider audien

Autobiography of Red, by Anne Carson. Through “47 compulsively readable long-lined poems of intense cinematic detail,” the Canadian writer — and winner of the 2026 Nobel Prize for Literature — retells the ancient Greek myth of Hercules and Geryon as a modern day queer love story,

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver expressed confidence on Friday that he will get a deal done with EuroLeague to launch NBA Europe, a new European basketball league. "We're going to get something worked out," Silver said in an exclusive CNBC interview. "It's like any negotiation – it'

AI - Nvidia found $1B under the couch to help secure American scientific computing dominance Commitment comes as GPUzilla prepares to fortify Uncle Sam's arsenal with at least seven AI-optimized supers - TSMC taps GlobalFoundries to bolster US silicon interposer production in $2B

TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 brings founders, investors, operators, builders, and technology leaders to San Francisco from October 13-15. But the activity doesn’t stop when the conference floor closes. Throughout Disrupt Week, startups and organizations from across the global tech eco

AWS Compute Blog Scaling RL rollouts with Firecracker on Amazon EC2 metal Modern reinforcement learning (RL) systems rely on thousands of rollout environments running in parallel. For large language model (LLM) training using Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) each rollout environment run

Widdecombe suspect had 'particular hostility to Reform', court told - Published The man accused of murdering Ann Widdecombe had a "particular hostility to Reform", prosecutors alleged on Friday. They said Joshua Kerry, 28, "had an extreme left wing and/or anti-establishment minds

President Donald Trump has a knack for turning words against his enemies. His first successful presidential run was built on monikers like “Little Marco” and “Crooked Hillary”; he changed “fake news” from a phrase describing scammy media outlets to a derogatory term for the press

Your next personal shopper may not be a person at all. The latest breed of artificial intelligence assistants goes beyond the abilities of chatbots, which are great at answering questions and creating content. These generative AI chatbots, like ChatGPT, are the brain. These new A

Former International Criminal Court Judge Navanethem "Navi" Pillay was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for her work promoting peace and international law. Pillay has been instrumental in ensuring that war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide are prosecuted, said J

An IPO should be Plan A. It’s the best outcome for almost everyone on the cap table. But founders, employees and even a lot of VCs treat the IPO date as the liquidity date. For most of the cap table … most of the money comes years later. Start the clock at the first check and the

After improving its bottom line performance in the fiscal year FY25, D2C fashion brand Bewakoof reversed the trend and slipped deeper into the red in the fiscal year ended March 2026. The company’s net loss increased 19.4% to ₹87.4 Cr in FY26 from ₹73.2 Cr in FY25. The brand had

Amid huge anticipation around Jio Platforms Limited initial public offering (IPO), fresh update has emerged regarding the IPO. The Mukesh Ambani-led telecom giant is set to price its shares at ₹1,065 to ₹1,119 apiece in its IPO, reported Bloomberg citing sources. Jio Platforms is

Sightlines issue no.3: Raise the bar for how teams use AI How do you drive AI adoption and make better decisions about what to build? Share Sightlines issue no.3: Raise the bar for how teams use AI Whether in Executive Briefing webinars or at Leadership Collective events, we’ve b

Data centers have divided America. The ire of everyday citizens continues to increase against a backdrop of enthusiastic and deep-pocketed Wall Street investors betting artificial intelligence is the economic engine of the future. And as data centers that power the answers for Go

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What reception awaits Man City at Anfield? - Published It was December 2024 when Pep Guardiola's Manchester City side were 2-0 down at Liverpool and the Anfield crowd chanted "you're getting sacked in the morning" towards the opposition boss. No-one truly believed he was going to

Before there were cute little guys, there was Instinct. Instinct was the buzziest AI agent around — can it survive Muse? Instinct AI is an impressive assistant, but the pressure from OpenAI and Meta is officially on. If you buy something from a link, The Verge may earn a commissi

Four days. That’s all that stands between now and TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, when 10,000 founders, investors, and tech leaders descend on Moscone West in San Francisco on October 13-15. It’s also your final window to secure discounted online pricing. Ticket savings of up to $100 wi

Indian equities broke an eight-week losing streak, but the modest rebound offered limited reassurance as crude oil climbed above $100 a barrel and the central bank took a hawkish stance after a 25-basis-point rate hike. The Nifty 50 rose 1.30% in the Friday session to 22,520.45,

Listen to this article in summarized format Meanwhile, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 136.24 points, or 0.27%, to 51,367.88. The S&P 500 gained 25.23 points, or 0.32%, to 7,790.59, while the Nasdaq Composite added 130.99 points, or 0.48%, to 27,324.33. Crude prices decline

Yinka’s view This month, Togo invited citizens to contribute texts, recordings, and translations to help AI models understand the West African country’s 50 local languages. The absence of African languages from large language models has become a major concern for the continent’s