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Seagate and Toshiba battle for TDK's HDD head business, a critical hard drive component — multi-billion-dollar deal threatens sole independent supplier as shortages intensify What if Toshiba loses the bid? Seagate Technology and Toshiba are reportedly competing to acquire TDK's h

Dive Brief: - TikTok is launching an agentic AI shopping experience that will let customers discover and purchase products without leaving the social media platform, the company announced Monday. - The experience starts with Shopping Assistant, a conversational AI agent that unde

Liz’s view The bull market of the early 2010s was called the most hated rally in history. This one may be a close second. Back then, investors underestimated the power and determination of the Federal Reserve to prop up a flagging economy. Flatlining corporate earnings, European

One thing was clear on Skydance’s first day of life: Beneath David Ellison’s velvet glove is Ynon Kreiz’s iron fist. To earn his $40-odd million payout to help run the combined Paramount-Warner Bros., Kreiz will have to serve as a Tom Wambsgans-ian pain sponge — the executor and

Scott Bessent isn’t worried. The market is. The US Treasury secretary has been trying to reassure investors that economic growth and budget restraint can put the US government’s financial house in order. But he’s 0-for-3 on his 3-3-3 plan of increasing oil production, growing the

TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 is seven days away, bringing 10,000+ founders, investors, operators, and tech leaders to Moscone West in San Francisco from October 13-15 for three days of conversations, connections, and ideas shaping what comes next. Included in your Disrupt pass, which

Elon Musk’s SpaceX is the in-betweener in the AI capex wars. SpaceX’s reported $40 billion debt raise to buy Nvidia chips shows it is stuck between mature tech giants like Google and Meta and startups like OpenAI and Anthropic, whose private status tends to forgive their inabilit

As tensions mount over who gets access to top-end artificial intelligence, French company Mistral has released a new freely available model that it claims can compete with the very best from the US and China. The new 1 trillion-parameter model, Mistral Large 4—nicknamed Le Chonk—

Spot gold fell 1.6% to $4,096.13 per ounce by 9:20 a.m. EDT (1320 GMT), touching its lowest level since August 5. US gold futures for December delivery declined 1.6% to $4,121.70. The US dollar index climbed 0.7%, making greenback-denominated gold more expensive for holders of ot

Global brokerage firm UBS maintained its bullish outlook on Shyam Metalics and Energy in its recent note, expecting the stock to rise another 40% from current levels, even as it has gained 26% so far this year. It has retained its 'buy' rating on the stock with a target price of

At SaaStr AI we are aggressive users of AI outbound tools: - Monaco runs cold outbound. It booked a meeting for us with the right buyer at Anthropic on Day 1. That says it all. - Artisan runs warm outbound. It has for over a year and booked millions of closed won for us. It’s whe

Listen to this article in summarized format In a statement to the stock exchanges, the company said, "The Board of Ola Electric has approved a rights issue of up to Rs 1,000 crore at Rs 27 per share, payable in two calls. The issue price has been fixed by the board at about 26 pe

CARE Ratings has also reaffirmed the company's short-term rating at CARE A1+. "We would like to inform you the following updates on credit ratings by CARE Ratings Limited. AEL’s long-term rating is now upgraded to AA Stable, highest-ever rating in its credit history," Adani Enter

At the end of 2024, Texas’ grid operator had 63 GW of large new customers in its queue. By this June, that figure reached 474 GW, more than five times record peak demand, about 90% of it data centers. Then Texas hit pause. What began as directions for data centers to pay for thei

Stocks to buy today | Vaishali Parekh's stock recommendations for today: The key benchmark indices of the Indian stock market opened sharply lower and remained under pressure as markets witnessed a sell-off following the RBI’s rate hike. The central bank raised rates by 25 basis

Every piece of AI content from Google’s Gemini models has a hidden SynthID label, which makes it very difficult to pass the content off as authentic. SynthID has also gotten buy-in from other major AI players, but actually checking for those invisible watermarks has been a convol

Google on Tuesday launched a new site that lets anyone verify whether a piece of media, be it an image, a video, or an audio clip, is generated using AI. The company made this tool available to select journalists, media professionals, and researchers for testing at Google I/O las

In six days, 10,000+ people from across the global startup and tech ecosystem will come together at San Francisco’s Moscone West for TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. If you’re planning to be one of them, register for your ticket now before prices increase at the door. Discounted online p

Listen to this article in summarized format Meanwhile, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 472.21 points, or 0.92%, to 51,049.07. The S&P 500 declined 44.80 points, or 0.56%, to 7,775.04, while the Nasdaq Composite dropped 235.16 points, or 0.85%, to 27,364.73. Brent crude clim

The Nasdaq-100 is up 15% since its July low and is now 2% above its previous record from June. The S&P 500, after a two-month-long battle with surging interest rates, is back trading at an all-time high. You'd think that resilience would be met with some fanfare. Instead, the two

Electric two wheeler maker Ola Electric will open its Rs 1,000 crore rights issue on October 22. The issue will close on October 30, 2026. The company will issue 37.03 crore partly paid up equity shares at Rs 27 per share. This includes a premium of Rs 17 per share. The issue wil

There’s been something of a change in the world of motorsport over the past few years. It has to do with where the money comes from. In the old days, it was tobacco and, to a lesser extent, booze. Today such things are mostly banned, and when you look at a racecar covered in spon

The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) has laid out a new framework for the number of debt instruments by an issuer that can mature in a given financial year. The new norms come into effect immediately. In a circular issued on Wednesday, the market regulator increased

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Digital investment platform Webull, which counts 28 million global users, is quietly "tied in structural ways" to China's government, representing a national security threat to U.S. finance, according to a bipartisan congressional panel's findings shared exclusively with CNBC. Th

RackWare migration, disaster recovery, and backup RackWare was founded in 2009 in Santa Clara, CA, by CTO Todd Matters, with a vision of building a migration and DR product that provided customers with a consistent data approach while extending flexibility in supporting any targe

The best Switch 2 accessories on sale now — controllers, cameras, cases, screen protectors, and more Essential accessories for your Switch 2 console Do you or someone you know have a Nintendo Switch 2? What about accessories for your new console? Whether you want to play with oth

DBtune autonomous optimization blows PostgreSQL bottlenecks away Startup DBtune is developing a PostgreSQL autonomous database optimization capability which could make PostgreSQL better than Oracle. DBtune is headquartered in Malmö/Lund, Sweden, and was started up in 2020 by mach

It said several of these funds were trading at significant premiums to their underlying net asset values (NAVs), implying that investors were essentially buying international ETFs at elevated prices. Here are the key details. * Prices of some ETFs investing in overseas securities

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

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), India's largest IT services company, is set to announce its financial performance for the second quarter of FY27 on Thursday, October 8, with the Street largely anticipating another soft quarter from the tech bellwether. Indian tech majors are exp

Making enterprise data AI ready? Precisely! Precisely's new Platform is a unified data management offering designed to make more enterprise data AI-ready, with MCP support and an AI Studio. Mainframe-to cloud and data integrity supplier Precisely says it’s built on a single metad

In the debut episode of Future Proof from Semafor Technology, Cognition CISO and former Facebook security chief Alex Stamos goes off on the “nihilism” ripping through Silicon Valley. He joins Semafor Tech editor Reed Albergotti to discuss the very real risks of AI, and the wholly

Introducing Falcon ASR Arabic WER: 20.92% · Parameters: 1.6B · Emirati WER (TII evaluation): 22.73% We’re introducing Falcon-ASR, our 1.6 billion parameter speech recognition model for Arabic, with a particular focus on the Emirati dialect. Developed at the Technology Innovation

These 15 under-$50 gadgets have upgraded my tech life, and they're all on sale — some are even under $25 From M.2 cloners to screwdrivers, and travel-friendly tech accessories, these are affordable game-changers. As much as I love high-priced tech like my potent RTX 4090-equipped

I found the trailer for Digger intriguing, starring a nearly unrecognizable Tom Cruise and giving off strong Dr. Strangelove vibes. Plus, it is four-time Oscar-winning director Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s (Birdman) first English-language film since 2015’s The Revenant. Those elements