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"The impact depends on to what extent tariffs are going to be applied. So, it's premature to answer. But obviously it will have some negative impact," Malhotra said during the post-monetary policy press conference in response to a query on the impact on the economy if the trade d

Listen to this article in summarized format The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) voted unanimously at the meeting to raise its benchmark rate by 25 basis points to a range of 3.75% to 4%. This came after over-3% inflation levels — fuelled by the Iran war — had persisted for t

Artificial Intelligence Introducing Claude Haiku 5.5 on AWS Today, we’re excited to announce the availability of Claude Haiku 5.5 on Amazon Bedrock and Claude Platform on AWS. According to Anthropic, Claude Haiku 5.5 is the fastest and most efficient model in the Claude 5.5 famil

Life is remarkably selective. Life relies on many molecules with what is termed “handedness”—they’re chemically identical but are mirror images of each other. Most chemical reactions will make a 50-50 mix of the left- and right-handed forms of a chemical, but life uses only one o

Western civilisation at risk of 'atrophy, servitude and decline', Rubio says - Published Standing before the Acropolis in Athens, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio swept through the history of ancient Greece to the rise of American industry in a speech on Wednesday that portrayed

At a Microsoft event in San Francisco on Wednesday, Jensen Huang and Satya Nadella outlined how NVIDIA and Microsoft are co-engineering hardware and software for AI agents to run on Windows PCs. NVIDIA was founded because of Windows, Huang said. Now AI agents are coming to Window

The Nasdaq-100 Index continues its historic run. Total returns (appreciation plus dividends) topped 24% year-to-date, and the index has nearly tripled, up 193.37% since the end of 2022 (again with dividends reinvested). If you're suffering from a mix of FOMO and vertigo from the

Federal Reserve officials expect they will raise interest rates again before the end of the year to head off inflation that has run above target for more than five years, according to meeting minutes released Wednesday. But the meeting summary provided no indication of when speci

Microsoft just wrapped up a big Windows and Surface-focused keynote in San Francisco. The biggest announcement was arguably the release details about the Surface Laptop Ultra, its new laptop that’s powered by Nvidia’s RTX Spark Arm-based chip. The machine will start at $2,599 for

Governments around the world are hardening their AI stances as more agentic hacks breach critical systems. South Korea’s president noted “considerable public concern and anxiety” following revelations that hackers used an AI system to execute recent cyberattacks against banks in

US and Chinese tech companies are taking differing approaches to bring AI agents to the masses, the industry’s latest fixation. OpenAI’s recently released dots and Meta’s Muse are built around the assistant first and then sent out to use other companies’ websites and services. Ch

Artificial Intelligence Rethinking access control for RAG with Amazon Quick and Amazon Bedrock Enterprise organizations are adopting Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) to unlock insights from company knowledge sources like Microsoft SharePoint, Google Drive, and Atlassian Confl

After the central bank's first rate increase since February 2023, existing home loan borrowers may see either a higher monthly instalment or a longer repayment period when their loan rate resets. "We do expect that floating home rates will be repriced and higher construction cost

An OpenAI publicist tried to change the topic of CEO Sam Altman’s interview with Vanity Fair’s Mark Guiducci after the editor brought up a ChatGPT user’s suicide. When Guiducci confronted Altman about the incident, the publicist warned Guiducci about running out of time, saying s

Man charged with 13 attempted murders including British child after Alps attack - Published A man accused of attacking 13 people, including a British three-year-old and three other children, with a knife at a playground in the French Alps will go on trial charged with attempted m

If there’s any doubt about how seriously Meta is taking AI, here’s a new signal: The company on Wednesday announced that its Muse assistant is now available in a dedicated iPad app. That’s a milestone it took Instagram some 15 years to reach, despite constant user demand. Muse, m

Gold prices came under renewed selling pressure in Wednesday’s trade, with spot prices falling to a two-month low, pressured by rising Treasury yields, which continued to hover at multi-decade highs, while a strengthening US dollar also weighed on the bullion. Spot gold fell 2.3%

Non-resident investors pulled $7 billion from emerging-market fixed-income assets during the month, resulting in the first net outflow since March, when an escalating conflict in the Middle East unsettled global markets. Emerging markets came under pressure after the Fed, led by

As many doctors are moving ahead with the latest advances of modern medicine—from powerful obesity drugs to breakthrough cancer treatments—pediatricians are being forced to turn back, fighting to maintain advances in children’s health that were hard-won decades ago. With anti-vac

How we taught robots to assemble GB300 tester trays and what it taught us about robot learning, mechanical intelligence, and good old-fashioned engineering The NVIDIA Grace Blackwell GB300 superchip is the engine of AI training and inference for modern foundation models. However,

Third-quarter earnings season kicks off this week and as results roll in they should reveal what the market is eagerly anticipating: another blockbuster quarter for S&P 500 profits. The market closed at record highs Tuesday as investors bet that AI capex — a major force for the m

Common Sense Media, a nonprofit that provides age-based ratings and reviews of media and tech for families, has labeled ChatGPT for Teens an “unacceptable risk.” The rating comes as chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT have been accused of following the same playbook as social media co

Children killed while they slept as Russian missile kills 19 in block of flats - Published A Russian missile has killed 19 people including five children in an apartment block in northern Ukraine, destroying 30 flats as families slept. Three of the children were one-year-olds in

X is doubling down on sports, with Wednesday’s news that it’s expanding its “Gametime” feature on the social media site to go beyond tracking the NFL alone. First announced in August, NFL Gametime is X’s new project that offers a single hub for tracking live scores, getting play-

Microsoft and Nvidia launch Surface Laptop Ultra with RTX Spark starting at $2,599 — coinciding with major Windows 11 changes for agentic AI The company also highlighted "hundreds" of games, including Call of Duty. At an event in San Francisco, Microsoft and Nvidia teamed up to s

Today’s models have absorbed more code, science, and human writing than anyone ever could, but knowing is not doing. A surgeon can read everything about an operation but still needs real, repeated time in the operating room to perform and master it. Closing that gap between knowi

At today’s Windows and Surface event, Microsoft showed off an upgrade to its Copilot AI system that will give it access to local files on your PC and the ability to take actions across the OS. It’s part of an idea Microsoft is calling “Hybrid Intelligence,” where apps and tools r

ChatGPT is about to get a lot more visual, thanks to a new feature that OpenAI calls Intelligent UI. The new interface, which is being rolled out Wednesday with a new GPT-6 model, will integrate a significant amount of visuals into users’ conversations. OpenAI says many of those

After pleading guilty, a 54-year-old North Carolina man, Michael Smith, was sentenced to 18 months in prison for using artificial intelligence to generate songs for a scheme that stole millions from music streaming platforms. In a press release Tuesday, the US Department of Justi

Best Amazon Prime Day 3D printer deals 2026: save on Bambu Lab, Prusa, Creality, Elegoo, and more The bargains for some of the best 3D printers are hot! Amazon's Big Deal Days 2026 event is here, and so are the savings on our favorite 3D printers. We've sifted through Amazon to f

Adani Enterprises on Wednesday said that its long-term rating has been upgraded to AA Stable, the highest-ever rating in its credit history. The company said the upgrade serves as an independent validation of AEL’s disciplined capital management and tight fiscal prudence. “AEL ha

Microsoft’s Nvidia-powered Surface RTX Spark Dev Box is available for preorder now and is slated to ship in November for just about $6,000. It’s pricier than the DGX Spark mini PC Nvidia launched last year, but PC prices have been climbing due to shortages of RAM and other compon

AI - Microsoft is about to let Copilot loose on your file system But don't worry, it's totally safe because the agents and models will (probably) be running locally. Routers never break right? - Microsoft N1Xes Intel in favor of Nvidia's shiny new SoCs in Surface Laptop Ultra Pov

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On Tuesday, Anthropic announced an expansion of its Claude for Startups program, offering subsidized access to its AI models and a variety of other benefits to qualifying companies. The new version of the program, which launched as part of Anthropic’s SF Tech Week event, provides

Anthropic on Tuesday announced it's expanding its Claude Startups program, the artificial intelligence lab's latest push to deepen its ties to founders and fast-growing companies. Claude Startups initially launched in May, and thousands of companies are already participating, acc