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British Airways is building what it calls the "world's largest" business-class cabin and ripping out dozens of coach-class seats, the starkest example yet of how airlines are betting their future on high-spending travelers. The changes are part of a massive overhaul of the Britis

Melius Research appears to be aligned with our idea that now is the time to hold your nose and do some buying in this market — at least as it relates to some beaten-down names tied to housing. That's the message in a Tuesday note from analysts at Melius who initiated coverage on

Cloud provider Lambda is raising up to $4 billion at a $14.5 billion pre-money valuation, marking what could be its last private round before a planned 2027 IPO, according to The Wall Street Journal. Coatue Management and Blackstone are leading the round. A letter to investors re

Bitwise determinism makes large-scale pretraining easier to debug, validate, and resume reproducibly. These benefits become especially valuable when training models with trillions of parameters across thousands of GPUs, where multiple parallelism dimensions, low-precision computa

Personal AI agents, like Meta’s Muse, Instinct, ChatGPT’s Dots, and others, are kicking off a new wave of consumer AI that involves more than just responding to queries. These AI agents can actually get things done on users’ behalf, like booking flights, making dinner reservation

A low-pressure system in the western Gulf of Mexico should soon become a tropical storm, and based on the latest forecast modeling, it has a decent chance of becoming a hurricane. Normally, a hurricane forming in early October would not be particularly noteworthy. However, this y

(Bloomberg) -- US bond yields fell from their highest levels since 2002 as oil prices stabilized and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent insisted the government’s debt load can be tamed. It marked a pause in the global bond rout that’s been driven by inflationary fears from the US-I

The contract tracks Kalshi’s US 500 index, which comprises 500 of the largest US companies, the company said. Perpetual futures, commonly called “perps,” do not have an expiration date, allowing traders to hold positions indefinitely without having to roll over contracts. Kalshi

The Emmy Awards will leave its long-running broadcast network rotation for Amazon Prime Video in 2027 under a six-year exclusive global streaming deal, the e-commerce giant and the Television Academy announced on Tuesday. Under the agreement, Prime Video will stream the annual aw

Man charged with GP's murder - Published A man has been charged with the murder of a GP who was found dead at her home. The man was arrested after the body of 45-year-old Dr Hannah Terry, also known as Hannah Cain, was found at a property in Fern Hill, Dersingham, Norfolk, on Sun

Three arrested after raid on gang accused of helping migrants pretend to be gay to get asylum - Published Immigration enforcement have made arrests in connection with a suspected criminal network believed to be behind dozens of fake asylum claims from people pretending to be gay.

Attackers hijacked three top-level domains and used their control to mint counterfeit TLS certificates for Google and other large organizations, Google said Tuesday. The attackers launched a series of attacks on the .gh, .sl, and .as country code top-level domains (ccTLDs) and th

Artificial Intelligence Building a context-aware AI assistant on AgentCore and OpenClaw Off-the-shelf AI assistants answer individual questions well, but they fall short on a different axis: continuity. Ask a stateless assistant about your garden today and it has no idea that you

What can I do to protect myself after 'Asos hacked' message? - Published If a strange-looking message from Asos popped up on your phone on Tuesday, you may be worrying what it could mean and whether you need to do anything. The online retailer has emailed customers apologising fo

Kane's rise from childhood keeper to equalling England cap record - Published Harry Kane has reached another significant England milestone by equalling Peter Shilton's 36-year-old record as the most-capped Three Lions player. The Bayern Munich striker made his 125th appearance fo

Celebrating 35 Years of Linux: The Open Source Engine Powering Three Decades of Global Innovation and Infrastructure Hilary Carter | 06 October 2026 Thirty-five years ago, a modest post on a newsgroup announced a hobby project that would forever change the landscape of modern tec

In the first half of 2026, 67% of private-credit deal volume was priced below 18%, compared with 80% priced above 18% in 2023, a report by global investment bank Houlihan Lokey showed. To be sure, India's risk-free rates ranged from 6.69% to 7.19% in the September quarter, averag

GPU applications increasingly need networking and data movement to behave like first-class GPU-controlled operations rather than host-driven services. When the CPU sits in the middle of every network transaction, it becomes a bottleneck on the critical path, adding latency and li

Watch: Police raid on gang behind fake gay asylum claims Three people have been arrested after a raid on a suspected criminal network believed to be behind dozens of fake asylum claims from people pretending to be gay. It follows a BBC investigation earlier this year which reveal

Navigating Open Source Governance in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: The 2026 State of OSPOs and Open Source Management Hilary Carter | 06 October 2026 As open source software continues to serve as the backbone for modern digital infrastructure, the operational mechanisms des

Announcing MCP Toolbox Java SDK v1.0: Agentic data access for the enterprise Abirami Sukumaran Staff Developer Advocate, Google Co-authors: Stenal Jolly, Strategic Cloud Engineer, Google Anubhav Dhawan, Software Engineer, Google Following the landmark announcement of MCP Toolbox

Meta Platforms may be leaving billions of dollars in potential cloud revenue on the table. The reason? It may have found a much better use for its computing power. In a Tuesday note to clients, Wells Fargo argued that enthusiasm around the company's Muse artificial intelligence a

The ratings agency has also projected 7% GDP growth for India in FY27 and said it expects a moderate tightening in monetary policy. "Pockets of stress are likely to emerge in unsecured segments, particularly among self-employed borrowers and micro and small enterprises, with pote

Listen to this article in summarized format Senior Advocate Gaurav Joshi, appearing for the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi), said the regulator had already provided Jane Street with more than 10 GB of data and documents that formed the basis of its interim order. "Y

Listen to this article in summarized format Alliance Insurance Brokers' proposed stake sale and the InsuranceDekho-RenewBuy proposed IPO are among deals that could be affected, depending on their exposure to retail distribution. IRDAI said broker-sourced premium grew 37% between

A month after Meta's launch of Muse, the personal agent that quickly turned into a viral sensation, a group of companies is coming together to try to simplify the process of bringing the technology into the business world. Meta, Walmart, Stripe and a handful of other companies ar

A month after Meta's launch of Muse, the personal agent that quickly turned into a viral sensation, a group of companies is coming together to try to simplify the process of bringing the technology into the business world. Meta, Walmart, Stripe and a handful of other companies ar

The growing popularity of a combo contracts on prediction markets is leading to soaring volumes, even as they makes up only a small amount of total activity on the platforms. Combos, or multiple contracts stacked together that only pay out if all of them win — similar to parlays

Summary - Huawei and Qualcomm today announced a multi-year, broad patent license agreement that includes cross licenses to the companies' patent portfolios across a range of technology fields, including 5G, compute, AI, and networking, together with Qualcomm's purchase of certain

From films to streaming prices - how the Warner Bros deal could affect you - Published It has been months in the making but Paramount Skydance has finally completed its $110bn (£82.8bn) merger with Warner Bros Discovery. The deal welds two legacy Hollywood powerhouses, uniting fr

The deal gives SAP a view of its customers' workforces that its own HR software lacks, at a time when companies reorganise around AI and need to know which skills they have and which they are losing. SAP expects to close the acquisition in the fourth quarter, subject to regulator

With less than a month until midterms, Kalshi is launching three features on its election contracts to ensure traders have more transparency on how active and accurate its markets are. First, the platform will provide tags that indicate which election markets are low volume, whic

PCs who used Taser and baton on amputee, 92, sacked - Published Two police officers who pepper-sprayed and Tasered a 92-year-old amputee at a care home have been sacked for gross misconduct. PC Stephen Smith and PC Rachel Comotto, who were both acquitted of assault occasioning ac

Gold is down 3% so far this year due to expectations of interest rates staying higher for longer amid the Iran war. It jumped 64% in 2025, which was its biggest yearly rise since 1979, and hit a record high of $5,595 an ounce in January. A year ago the delegates of the same confe

The EIA now expects global benchmark Brent crude to average about $98 a barrel in 2026, an 8% increase from its previous projection, according to its latest Short-Term Energy Outlook. Oil and fuel prices have surged since the US-Israeli war with Iran disrupted shipments through t

From Muse to Instinct to Dots, tech firms are hunting for the user experience that will make an AI personal assistant a must-have product. Hark, a startup founded less than a year ago by serial founder Brett Adcock, is throwing its hat in the ring today with the wide release of H

ALLENTOWN, Pa. — Mortgage rates are climbing sharply, home prices continue to gain and inflation in the broader economy is hitting consumers, leading housing affordability to weigh heavily on both renters and potential homebuyers. In Pennsylvania — a swing state where House races