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Finance editor Jeff John Roberts here. The explosive growth of the robotics industry in recent years is reflected in new technology feats, but also by the proliferation of new business and distribution models. Ultra, a startup that leases its devices to warehouses under a monthly

OpenAI reportedly assured investors it expects to reach a $70 billion annualized revenue target this year, an apparent attempt to assuage worries over it seeming to miss earlier projections, thereby casting doubt over the growth of the broader AI sector. The frontier lab’s figure

Kioxia unveils E1.L SSDs for hyperscalers with up to 122.88TB capacity — extreme density meets compact form factor When compactness weds density. Kioxia introduced its LD4-series solid-state drives (SSDs) in an E1.L form factor with capacities up to 122.88TB designed for high-den

Friday 9 October 2026 Top stories today: - Microsoft, Adobe suspended from U.S. skilled-worker residency - Elon Musk, Jensen Huang, Lisa Su awarded National Medal of Science - OpenAI annualized revenue neared $50B in Sep., below reported $70B - Apple’s touch-screen MacBook, OLED

When MV Electrosystems filed its draft red herring prospectus (DRHP) last November, the shareholding pattern showed that Madhuri Madhusudan Kela, wife of Madhusudan Kela, owned 5.6% stake in the company. According to data on the company’s shareholding pattern as on September 30,

OpenAI on Friday defended its decision to fire three safety researchers, saying they had committed a "significant breach of trust." The AI lab said in a post on X that its decision to part ways with Jasmine Wang, Tomek Korbak and Mikita Balesni, was not about the fact that they h

Q2 Results 2026: The state-owned Canara Bank has set board meeting date on 14th October 2026 to declare its Q2 Results 2026. The PSU bank announced this on Friday in an exchange filing. After the announcement of the date for Canara Bank's Q2 2026 results, Canara Bank's share pric

Power-focused engineering firms are increasingly trying to cut down waste and optimize current systems as they position their commercial offerings for the huge demand growth of the coming decades. ABB has in recent weeks rolled out a portfolio of products aimed at addressing the

Octopus Energy US is looking to acquire more software startups that can help utilities manage the influx of data center power demand, its CEO told Semafor. In March, the company bought the technology firm Uplight, which utilities can use to free up more power in the grid by subtl

Charter rates for oil tankers hit a fresh record, driving a larger wedge between the nominal price of crude futures and what it costs to actually receive barrels. Crude oil exiting the Strait of Hormuz averaged about 10 million barrels per day over the past week, despite a rising

Kevin Roose, formerly of Hard Fork and author of the frankly brilliant The AGI Chronicles, with an assist from Jasmine Sun, who is a researcher on the book, joins us. We’re going through his recent history of OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepMind, and the community of people who think and

Volkswagen’s ID.4 is no more. The midsize crossover debuted in 2021, one of VW’s first new electric vehicles designed in the wake of dieselgate. A year later, the company began local production in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and a couple of years ago facelifted the model, adding a mu

Arc Raiders publisher developing AI anti-cheat stack in escalating war with cheaters — game license blacklisting and zero-second-chance permabans now standard There's no place for cheaters in Speranza. The publisher behind Arc Raiders is now training in-house AI models to detect

On a Saturday morning in September, dozens of people lined up in New York City’s Times Square to check out pocket-sized cameras made by Chinese camera maker Insta360. YouTubers flew in to promote the products. As part of the marketing campaign, cyclists prepared to bike around th

The outflows reversed net purchases of about $4.72 billion in August, according to LSEG data covering stock exchanges in South Korea, Taiwan, India, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam and the Philippines, Reuters reported. South Korea accounted for more than 70% of the regional outflow

Anthropic has updated its usage policy to introduce restrictions on “sustained and needless abusive behaviour” towards its AI models. The company said the restrictions on abusing its models are intended for extreme cases in which users repeatedly act cruelly towards Claude withou

Bengaluru-based identity and access management startup OTPless has appointed former BharatPe technology head and Genwise co-founder Geetanshu Singla as its Chief Technology Officer (CTO). In his new role, Singla will lead engineering, product development, platform architecture, r

OpenAI is standing firm on its decision to fire three safety researchers after an investigation found they committed “a significant breach of trust.” OpenAI doubles down on decision to fire three AI safety researchers The AI lab insisted the decision was about a ‘breach of trust,

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

Companies listed on the benchmark STOXX 600 index are forecast to post aggregate earnings growth of 21% year-on-year, up from the 19.4% projected a week earlier. If realised, this would mark the second-strongest quarterly profit growth in the past 14 quarters, the LSEG data showe

How Should Enterprises Transition to the Agentic Era? Irving Wladawsky-Berger | 09 October 2026 This blog was first published on October 6, 2026 at https://blog.irvingwb.com/blog/2026/10/how-should-enterprises-transition-to-the-agentic-era.html and repurposed here with consent fr

AMD tried to crush the 'megahertz myth' 25 years ago today, debuting its Performance Rating system — Athlon XP chips introduced the scheme, which endured until Intel lost its clock advantage, focus shifted to multi-core The relatively short-lived naming convention was thought by

HCL Tech Q2 results 2026: Shares of HCL Technologies Limited surged during Friday’s trading session as part of wider relief rally seen in the IT stocks today. The recent uptick in HCL Tech stock has come ahead of its second quarter result announcement scheduled for Monday, Octobe

AI emerged as the defining theme in the Indian startup ecosystem in the July-September quarter, with startups in the segment raising their highest-ever-recorded quarterly funding. According to Inc42’s Indian Tech Startup Funding Report Q3 2026, AI startup funding surged 265% year

In his latest blog post, Damodaran said September 2026 was one for the record books as the US 10-year Treasury yield jumped from 4.75% at the start of the month to 5.29% by the end. The 54 basis point increase ranked among the top 10% of monthly moves in 10-year yields seen betwe

The Bengaluru-based company has met with potential investors ahead of the planned share sale and is targeting a valuation of Rs 270 billion ($2.8 billion), the people said, asking not to be identified because the information is private. The sale is likely to open on Oct. 15 with

Back when I was a teenager, a lot of people were very into the Left Behind series. Evangelical Christianity was still very strong in those days, especially in Texas, and Left Behind blew up by putting Christian eschatology into page-turning airport-bookstore-novel form. People re

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

Asian Paints is in focus as its board is scheduled to meet on October 29, 2026, to consider its second-quarter results and an interim dividend, if any, for FY27. The record date for the interim dividend, if declared, has been fixed as November 4, 2026. The upcoming board meeting

ThisWay Global to Convert Bankrupt RELLIS Site into 73 MW AI Hub ThisWay Global will revamp a bankrupt data center project at Texas A&M’s RELLIS Campus into a 73 MW AI and research center to demonstrate its Sovereign AI Blueprint. The Texas A&M University System (TAMUS) has explo

The News Congressional Democrats aren’t eager to impeach Donald Trump. Pete Hegseth is a different story. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and his leadership circle remain reluctant to lean too far into talking about impeaching the president if they regain power next month,

The Signal Interview “Everybody wrote this place off,” Shobi Khan says as he walks a visitor around Canary Wharf, the 130-acre estate he has overseen since 2019. After the UK’s banker-scaring vote to leave the European Union, and an office-emptying pandemic, the refrain he kept h

The pan-European STOXX 600 index rose 0.8% to 630.47 points by 0718 GMT, rebounding after closing at a near four-month low on Thursday as surging oil prices and bond yields weighed on investor sentiment. Oil prices fell nearly 1% on Friday after US President Donald Trump said Was

The stock pared some of its gains but continued to trade higher during the session. At 1:49 PM, SEPC shares were trading at Rs 5.31, up 7.71% from their previous close of Rs 4.93. The latest contract comes as SEPC's consolidated order book has crossed Rs 10,000 crore, nearly 10 t

How Do Family Offices Hunt for Multibagger Startups? At the ET Alpha Wealth Summit 2.0, family office leaders discuss what it takes to identify the next multibagger startup, drawing on their experience of backing companies such as Zomato and Flipkart early on. They also explain w

MSME-focused lending platform NeoGrowth has secured ₹85 Cr ($8.8 Mn) in a mix of debt and equity round led by Dutch development bank FMO, with participation from LeapFrog Investments. The startup is planning to use the fresh capital to scale its digital lending capabilities, deep