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Weekly jobless claims have now remained near 57-year lows for four straight weeks, the report from the Labor Department showed on Thursday, amid historically low layoffs. Though employers are hoarding workers against the backdrop of strong profit growth and stock market performan

The rupee, which has seen some sessions of a depreciation and is hurtling towards its lifetime lows, is likely to continue being under pressure, Chief Economic Advisor V Anantha Nageswaran said while speaking at SBI-Amundi India Investor Seminar here. "If the AI boom stumbles, In

The U.S.-Iran war could drag on for years, putting America at risk of overlooking China's rise to power, according to President Donald Trump's former defense secretary. During a panel discussion at LSEG and Eurasia Group's GZERO Summit in London, Mark Esper said on Thursday he sa

Cloudflare latest quarter reported of $696.1 million, up 36%, which annualizes to $2.8 billion. Three months earlier, it had cut more than 1,100 roles, about 20% of the company, and the stock dropped 23%. In Q2 growth accelerated, and the stock jumped 17% after hours. Four days l

If there was a year the world began waking up to climate change, it might have been 1988. That June, the NASA climatologist James Hansen testified to Congress that the climate was warming and would continue to do so as long as humans pumped fossil fuel pollution into the atmosphe

FLASH Micron and Netlist settle memory patent dispute Micron and Netlist have settled their patent litigation with Micron signing a 5-year license for Netlist memory IP, and paying $600 million in license fees. The payments involve Micron paying Netlist $30 million a quarter unti

In 2020, CFOs needed new tools. Now the tools are changing the role. The role was becoming more strategic, but the software was still stale. CFOs were part data analyst and part architect, stitching together exports from a constellation of point solutions and Excel orbiting thirt

At the New York Film Festival premiere of Artificial, Luca Guadagnino’s satirical Sam Altman biopic, the director said onstage that “[when] someone wants to play God, that’s very interesting to me.” The idea of playing God, and power in general — who has it, who desperately wants

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My Decoder guest today is Hayden Field, The Verge’s senior AI reporter, and we’re discussing the new wave of consumer-friendly AI agents. Can you trust Meta’s Muse or OpenAI’s Dots to run your life? The future of computing might be always-on, autonomous agents, but should we hand

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

The wall between traditional finance and crypto is starting to come down. Imagine that your personal AI has access to all your finances. With the flick of the wrist, it puts your idle cash balances to work, makes investment decisions and negotiates the best mortgage for you. “Cla

TCS share price prediction post Q2: Tata Consultancy Services marginally beat the Street estimates after reporting its second quarter result for the financial year 2026-27 on Thursday, October 8. The Tata Group’s flagship IT software services provider reported a slightly higher-t

Russell to take further grid penalty this season - Published George Russell says he will be taking a further grid penalty this season in addition to the one he has been hit with for this weekend's Singapore Grand Prix. The Briton will start Sunday's race from the back of the grid

FPIs extended their selling spree in the Indian stock market in October, withdrawing another ₹31,282 crore in just four trading sessions. This came on top of the ₹35,857 crore worth of selling in September, according to NSDL data. The severe selling by overseas investors came ami

The biggest donors in the 2026 midterm election are breaking decisively toward Republican candidates and causes, a CNBC analysis of Federal Election Commission records found. Fourteen of the 20 largest donors and donor groups this election cycle have exclusively or nearly exclusi

Welcome to Gemini at Work 2026: Introducing the Gemini agent Thomas Kurian CEO, Google Cloud Editor’s note: This article is adapted from Thomas Kurian’s keynote address at Gemini at Work 2026. It includes a number of announcements: - Gemini, a single, universal agent for work tha

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Banks parked just Rs 79,655 crore in the central bank’s 29-day variable rate reverse repo (VRRR) auction, less than half the Rs 2 lakh crore absorption planned in the offer. Draining liquidity is considered crucial for quicker and effective transmission of increases in policy rat

Consumer packaged goods makers such as PepsiCo, General Mills, McCormick and Conagra Brands are navigating a tricky environment where surging input costs are straining margins, while cautious spending amid rising gas prices is hurting demand. "Additional structural cost reduction

Calling a bottom in the nonstop U.S. Treasury bond sell-off might seem crazy, but a handful of options traders look increasingly willing to do it. Trading in the iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF (TLT) Wednesday was very call-heavy on volume that was 50% above the 30-day average

China lets the market play a decisive role in exchange rate formation, the People's Bank of China said in a statement, adding that it does not preset exchange rate target levels or intervene in long-term exchange rate trends. China will report additional foreign exchange-related

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

"Whatever the stance of fiscal policy is, it must be credible and directed at stability, and to be seen to be such by markets," Bailey said in a speech at a conference in Istanbul organised by Turkey's central bank on Thursday. Realistic commitments to rein in debt would help cur

The News The co-CEOs of Blue Owl say the stock market misunderstands them — but they aren’t leaving it. “We went public for a reason and that reason stands,” Marc Lipschultz said on the latest episode of Compound Interest, where he was a guest alongside Doug Ostrover in a rare jo

Three sisters who drowned in sea off Brighton took own lives, inquest finds - Published Three sisters who drowned in the sea off Brighton took their own lives, a coroner has ruled. Jane Adetoro, 36, Christina Walters, 32, and Rebecca Walters, 31, had been living "very secluded li

There’s a mini-scandal brewing in Dubai’s elite food scene. The latest Michelin Guide awarded stars or distinctions to 11 restaurants that have temporarily or permanently closed because of the war. Food writer Samantha Wood questioned why shuttered restaurants made the cut. Miche

Abu Dhabi’s Technology Innovation Institute, a state-run research body, released AI models trained on the Emirati Arabic dialect, improving translation, transcription, and voice-enabled services. The Falcon-Emirati model and related tools for speech recognition and extracting Ara

DP World will invest $90 million over two years to expand its terminal at Angola’s Port of Luanda, more than doubling capacity as the Dubai-based firm deepens its bet on African trade. The expansion will lengthen the quay and add 15 cranes, allowing the terminal to handle two lar

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Xsight Labs has an interesting announcement today. The new Xsight Labs E1L DPU is designed to be a lower-power DPU, bringing 8-22 Arm Neoverse N2 cores into a power envelope that is low enough to put into a network switch or other low-power footprints. Xsight Labs E1L DPU for Low

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

Gears of War: E-Day leads the charge on GeForce NOW this week, bringing Marcus Fenix and Dom Santiago’s first fight against the Locust Horde to the cloud with GeForce RTX-powered performance. A new way to join the action is also coming: Fire TV users will soon be able to purchase

Kioxia has introduced its first E1.L form factor SSD, built with BiCS FLASH generation 8 QLC flash memory. We did a piece a few days ago showing BiCS under a microscope. Kioxia is targeting read-intensive hyperscale workloads in high-density 1U scale-out servers with the LD4 Seri