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Coforge has introduced an Autonomous Software Factory (ASF), which the IT services company said is designed to coordinate AI agents across the software development lifecycle (SDLC), covering coding, testing, validation, code review and quality assurance. According to the company,

Poolside's 225B Mixture-of-Experts coding model lands with open weights, 262K context, and benchmark scores rivaling frontier closed systems.

A hulking gray giant rises from the desert. Inside, engineers create the force behind our phones and computers and appliances, our streaming services and search engines and chatbots and vibe-coded apps and websites. The complex is simultaneously massive and squat, dwarfed by the

BISMARCK, N.D. — In 1918, an offshoot of the progressive farmer-labor movement known as the Nonpartisan League swept into power in North Dakota, riding a populist groundswell of anger directed at big banks and industry barons in Minneapolis and Chicago. The group was organized by

Flock ignores Minnesota city’s orders not to reinstall AI surveillance cameras — citizens complain after spotting two cameras despite the city canceling its contract More Flock controversy. Flock's AI surveillance cameras are continuing to cause controversy, this time in Dayton,

Listen to this post: Good morning, Today’s Stratechery Interview is with Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar. Sankar has worked at Palantir for 20 years, and has taken on an increasingly visible role as public intellectual, including authoring the book Mobilize, an exhortation “To Reboot t

Imagine that it is 6 a.m. in the wholesale markets of Nairobi. Merchants are delivering vegetables from up-country farms to the retailers who sell to the city’s households. Everyone is using M-Pesa, Safaricom’s mobile money platform, when suddenly, the system crashes, bringing th

An AI model may prove its capabilities during evaluation, but the real test begins when users start using it at scale. A benchmark measures model capability under controlled conditions; production serving must meet latency, concurrency, availability and cost targets under variabl

Heidelberg Cement Q2 results: Profit falls 33% to ₹17 crore despite 11% revenue growth - Published OnOct 29, 2026 | 15:26 IST - Last Updated OnOct 29, 2026 | 15:26 IST Heidelberg Cement’s September-quarter revenue rose to ₹567.7 crore, but net profit fell to ₹16.7 crore as EBITDA

It’s almost hard to remember, but just a few years ago, a lot of very smart people thought that science was in terminal decline. Respected researchers were writing papers with titles like “Are Ideas Getting Harder to Find?”, “Papers and patents are becoming less disruptive over t

The News A number of national political figures are looking svelte these days. But it doesn’t do to rifle through public figures’ medicine cabinets. And only a few of them are saying much about the policy implications of the new class of miracle drugs that promise to reverse Amer

Laurus Labs Q2 Results: Profit more than doubles, margin beats estimates; dividend declared - Published OnOct 29, 2026 | 15:20 IST - Last Updated OnOct 29, 2026 | 15:20 IST Laurus Labs’ September-quarter profit more than doubled, beating estimates alongside revenue and EBITDA. Th

Man Infraconstruction Q2 results: Profit rises 9% to ₹65 crore as revenue jumps 57% - Published OnOct 29, 2026 | 15:18 IST - Last Updated OnOct 29, 2026 | 15:18 IST Man Infraconstruction’s September-quarter revenue rose to ₹266 crore, while EBITDA increased 41%. The company is ta

Spark’s Devang Mehta sees 18-25% growth in capital market stocks over 3-5 years, favours capex - Edited byalphadesk - Published OnOct 29, 2026 | 15:18 IST - Last Updated OnOct 29, 2026 | 15:18 IST Devang Mehta, Deputy MD & CIO-Equity at Spark Capital Private Wealth highlights opp

Call it a new Apollo moment: Rocket launches from Cape Canaveral, Florida, are now outpacing those of the Cold War-era space race that first made the launch site famous. Why it matters: U.S. leaders are rushing to grow the number of rocket providers at America's busiest spaceport

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Hyderabad-based Physical AI startup Tensrai has raised Rs 3.4 crore in a pre-seed funding from India Accelerator, Finvolve, Hyderabad Angels and other angels. The fresh capital will be used to accelerate technology development, strengthen engineering and deployment capabilities,

Titan aims to double jewellery business by FY30 as festive and wedding demand stays firm - Published OnOct 29, 2026 | 15:09 IST - Last Updated OnOct 29, 2026 | 15:09 IST Titan's jewellery division is targeting a doubling of its business by FY30, driven by festive demand, the upco

AI - Oracle wants to bill you for every AI task, not just every seat Big Red says AI units will add to subscriptions, as it juggles $90BN-plus capex, mounting debt and a $225BN revenue goal for 2030 - GitHub powering up four million extra cores to stop its service going down Re-a

Welspun Corp Q2 Results: Net profit rises, $240 million expansion plans approved - Published OnOct 29, 2026 | 14:59 IST - Last Updated OnOct 29, 2026 | 14:59 IST Strong core profitability and margin expansion were driven by steady gains across steel and plastic segments, promptin

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Digital trucking platform BlackBuck reported a 56% year-on-year increase in operating revenue in Q2 FY27, while its net profit grew 42%. The company’s core truck operator services business accounted for almost all operating revenue, while its lending business remained a smaller c

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BlackBuck’s consolidated net profit rose 41.8% YoY to ₹41.4 Cr in Q2 FY27, while operating revenue jumped 55.7% to ₹235.3 Cr. A lower tax bill supported profit growth, with pre-tax profit rising 10% YoY. Total expenses increased faster than operating revenue, rising 64% to ₹210.3

Coratia Technologies, a deep-tech company developing advanced underwater robotic systems, has raised Rs 18 crore in a bridge round led by MGF Kavachh. The Odisha-based startup had earlier raised Rs 17 crore from MGF Kavachh, Piper and SIDBI in a pre-Series A round. The fresh fund

Senores Pharmaceuticals shares fall 6% despite 22% rise in Q2 profit; revenue jumps 25% - Edited byAnshul - Published OnOct 29, 2026 | 14:43 IST - Last Updated OnOct 29, 2026 | 14:47 IST Senores Pharmaceuticals reported strong Q2 results with revenue up 24.7% and net profit risin

President Trump seems to think he can save a vulnerable Ohio Republican senator's ass by talking about how strong it is. Why it matters: Republicans are getting hammered over the war in Iran, gas prices and data centers. But they're playing along with Trump's ogling of male candi

House progressives are planning to use their growing power to force votes next year on their most sweeping and divisive policies, including Medicare for All, abolishing ICE and cutting aid to Israel. Why it matters: The ultimate goal is to get these policies on the front burner f

AI - Oracle wants to bill you for every AI task, not just every seat Big Red says AI units will add to subscriptions, as it juggles $90BN-plus capex, mounting debt and a $225BN revenue goal for 2030 - GitHub powering up four million extra cores to stop its service going down Re-a

Nvidia, AMD Commit $4B to Meta AI Buildout Nvidia and AMD are deepening chip partnerships to secure long-term AI infrastructure business as Meta expands AI compute spending. Nvidia and AMD are investing a combined $4 billion in Meta as the chipmakers deepen their relationships wi

SPONSORED FEATURE How to Evaluate CPU Performance for Agentic AI A funny thing happened on the way from machine learning to chatbots to agentic AI: the central processing unit, or CPU, that has dominated commercial computing for six decades and that was temporarily supplanted by

partner content HPE puts storage to work on AI’s expensive memory problem HPE is giving its Alletra Storage MP X10000 another job: holding inference state that would otherwise be evicted from expensive GPU memory and recalculated later. In testing validated by Kamiwaza using NVID

DEARBORN, MICHIGAN — “A threat to America.” “Radical ideology.” “A jihadist.” President Donald Trump and Republicans are ratcheting up their efforts to brand Democrat Abdul El-Sayed, a Michigan-born Muslim whose parents emigrated from Egypt, as an “extremist” in the final days of

HPE is giving its Alletra Storage MP X10000 another job: holding inference state that would otherwise be evicted from expensive GPU memory and recalculated later. In testing validated by Kamiwaza using NVIDIA H200 GPUs, the Kamiwaza AI platform, and HPE Alletra MP X10000, the so

Shadowfax’s consolidated net profit jumped 421.9% YoY to ₹68 Cr in Q2 FY27 from ₹13 Cr, while operating revenue rose 56.6% to ₹1,537.7 Cr. Revenue growth outpaced the 52.8% increase in total expenses, lifting net profit margin. Sequentially, net profit grew 3.9% and operating rev

The report — developed in partnership with PhonePe Appstore and research partner The Dialogue — examines the structural challenges facing Indian game developers and identifies priorities for building globally competitive studios

The AFL-CIO is drafting its own “gold-standard” AI legislation it hopes lawmakers can pass next Congress, AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler told Semafor. The bill, which will touch on “worker protections and privacy and data protections” as well as “ideas around economic impacts,” wil

Most voters want AI safety measures and think favoring them is a political asset in states Republicans are trying to hold onto in the Senate, according to a new poll shared first with Semafor. Inquire, a polling firm run by Republican pollster Rob Schmidt, surveyed about 500 gene

President Donald Trump appears willing to give diplomacy another chance with Iran even as he seriously considers more military strikes after the election. The Trump administration is involved in ongoing negotiations centered around a temporary peace deal, an administration offici

Logistics and delivery services firm Shadowfax reported a five-fold increase in quarterly profit to Rs 68 crore in Q2 FY27, steered by higher operating revenue and improved cost efficiency. The Bengaluru-based firm also maintained its growth momentum in the first half of the fisc

How Qodo Uses Linked Specs to Catch Missing Requirements A pull request can look correct and still miss a critical requirement. The code compiles. The tests pass. The implementation matches the ticket’s acceptance criteria. But the ticket links to a specification in Confluence, a

AI has made building almost effortless. In 2019, Emilis Strimaitis spent nearly a year, and the efforts of a developer agency, on a shopping app that failed. Today, he says, an AI subscription and a weekend would produce the same app, and it would fail just as surely, only 100 ti

India’s technology conversation is increasingly dominated by artificial intelligence, data centres and digital infrastructure, however a more fundamental challenge lies in ensuring that the country has sufficient reliable power and water to sustain its growing cities and industri

SAP India on October 28 announced plans to expand its artificial intelligence skilling initiatives to equip two million people in India with AI-ready skills by 2030. The initiative forms part of SAP’s global commitment to prepare 12 million people for an AI-powered economy by the

AI chip advances depend on more than design, requiring new materials, manufacturing equipment, and packaging technologies to meet rising performance demands. The post How AI Redefines Semiconductor Manufacturing, From Materials Up appeared first on EE Times.

FTTXAI & Machine LearningSemiconductors5GNews Nvidia has no plans for a GPU attack on custom silicon in fiber Nvidia won't be doing an AI-RAN equivalent for the fixed access network, but it could still have an impact. Iain Morris,International Editor,Light Reading6 Min Read T

Google announced Gemini 4 Carbon on October 28, describing it as its strongest artificial intelligence model, with improved cybersecurity capabilities and the ability to handle complex, long-running tasks. The model is designed to identify software vulnerabilities, assess securit

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Skincare and dermatology startup CureSkin improved its financial performance in FY26, with higher revenue from product sales and services and lower advertising and promotional costs helping reduce its losses. The firm’s revenue from operations grew 27.9% to Rs 133 crore in FY26,