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An interesting tug of war is happening in one of the market's hottest sectors: utilities. On hand, you have the historic AI buildout fueling an unprecedented earning boom in an otherwise stogy sector. On the other hand, you have fastest rise in Treasury yields since 1994 dimming

Leaked Intel Nova Lake product list has three 'BFC' chips with up to 144MB of game-boosting L3 cache — next-gen CPU lineup reportedly takes shape with up to 28 cores in Core Ultra 9 4970K BFC bLLC is now, apparently, BFC. A rumored SKU table for Intel's upcoming Nova Lake desktop

After Mozilla’s read-it-later app Pocket shut down in August, a number of alternatives popped up to take its place. But one newcomer, Laytr, is taking things further than offering a way to save things to read. The app lets you save anything on the web for later consumption, wheth

Intensified Russian strikes are tearing Kyiv apart, warns mayor - Published Intensified Russian drone and missile strikes are "tearing Kyiv apart", the mayor of Ukraine's capital has warned. Vitaliy Klitschko said the city was now in a "very dramatic situation" as Moscow was batt

AI - Power approval set to delay Oracle's Wisconsin AI datacenter Grid connection awaits regulatory approval, putting planned 2027 customer delivery at risk - Nvidia debuts $4,999 DGX Spark with half the RAM and storage, amid memory crunch Meanwhile 128 GB version jumps to $6,950

This report is from this week's The Tech Download newsletter. Like what you see? You can subscribe here. 2026 has been a turbulent year for Google's AI hopes and dreams. Things started well. Gemini 3, which launched towards the end of 2025, put Google very much in the frontier AI

NVIDIA has added a 64GB unified-memory configuration of the DGX Spark, starting at $4,999 and sold exclusively through Acer, ASUS, Dell, Gigabyte, HP, and MSI from October 23. The new SKU carries the same GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip, ConnectX-7 networking, DGX OS, and NVIDIA A

The Story of My Experiments With Truth by Mahatma Gandhi. India today commemorates the anniversary of Gandhi’s birth, so there is no better time to pick up a copy of his autobiography, characterized by The New York Times in a September 1948 review as containing “all the developin

Nasdaq, NYSE Arca, 24X National Exchange and Cboe EDGX have crafted plans to add an overnight session from 9 p.m. to 4 a.m. in New York, on top of the regular hours and existing pre- and post-market periods they already operate. The expansion, set to take place on Dec. 6, seeks t

California tech CEO arrested, faces up to 20 years in prison for smuggling $300 million in Nvidia AI servers to China — federal prosecutors say chips were routed through Malaysia and Singapore using false paperwork Suspect faces 20 years in prison A California man has been arrest

The era of generative AI has upended technology supply chains, and there is one ironclad rule in 2026: If it has memory or storage, it’s getting more expensive. Even devices with years-old tech inside are still apparently subject to that unwritten rule. Nvidia has just announced

In not-so-surprising news, the .si domain name is seeing unprecedented demand after President Trump signed an executive order mandating all government agencies to refer to “AI” and “artificial intelligence” as “SI” and “super intelligence.” It echoes what happened at the start of

Sumeet Bagadia's stock/share recommendations: The key benchmark indices of the Indian stock market continued to bear the brunt of sharp foreign fund outflows and rising US bond yields amid the raging conflict in the Middle East. Investors are also perturbed by elevated crude oil

The fallout from Manchester City’s guilty verdict last week is threatening more than the club’s trophy cabinet: Billions in investment are now on the line. Emirati officials have reportedly warned the UK government that the ruling could reduce Abu Dhabi’s appetite for big commitm

The 80-kilometer stretch between Abu Dhabi and Dubai — a barren expanse of farms, factories, warehouses, and not much else — is now drawing multibillion-dollar property projects. Aldar, the capital’s biggest developer, and Sharjah’s Arada formed a 15 billion dirham ($4.1 billion)

Listen to this article in summarized format The US economy added 29,000 jobs last month, the Labor Department reported, well below economists’ estimate of 90,000. Payroll growth for August was also revised lower, while the unemployment rate edged up to 4.2% from 4.1%. For live up

AI - Power approval set to delay Oracle's Wisconsin AI datacenter Grid connection awaits regulatory approval, putting planned 2027 customer delivery at risk - Nvidia debuts $4,999 DGX Spark with half the RAM and storage, amid memory crunch Meanwhile 128 GB version jumps to $6,950

AI - Power approval set to delay Oracle's Wisconsin AI datacenter Grid connection awaits regulatory approval, putting planned 2027 customer delivery at risk - Nvidia debuts $4,999 DGX Spark with half the RAM and storage, amid memory crunch Meanwhile 128 GB version jumps to $6,950

BiWin's CL 100 Mini is a particularly puny but potent SSD for portable gaming — tiny drive is only 15 x 17 mm in size, but up to 2TB in capacity It's destined for BiWin's gaming portables, but can probably be made to fit other gear. Owning a PC gaming handheld is quite handy, but

Two years ago, most companies didn’t have a GTM engineer. Now the role is showing up across tech, with practitioners using AI and automation to build revenue systems that once required multiple people, tools, and manual processes. What changed — and what does it mean for the way

Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen on Friday said artificial intelligence companies must "step up and comply" with the spirit of their White House agreement to self-regulate, days after Meta's Mark Zuckerberg and other CEOs signed the document. "The history of tech companies e

Large cap dividend jackpots: Coal India, Wipro, ITC, Bharat Petroleum Corporation and Oil and Natural Gas Corporation are among the top five large cap companies with highest dividend yield for financial year 2025-26.Large cap stocks with high dividend yield offers investors an op

Two years on, Nike's market value and earnings have more than halved, while many of the problems Hill was hired to fix - from weakness in China to over-reliance on discounted lifestyle products - continue to weigh on the business. The unfinished turnaround was on display again on

Sony brings AI-powered upscaling to the standard PS5 — new QSSR technology to deliver a taste of the PS5 Pro experience, streamlined neural network tech built with AMD PS5 gets its own upscaling solution. The PlayStation 5 is getting AI-driven upscaling, giving base console owner

JSW Group’s B2B ecommerce marketplace JSW One Platforms narrowed its consolidated net loss by 50.9% to ₹106.5 Cr in FY26 from ₹217 Cr in the previous financial year, helped by revenue growth outpacing the rise in expenses. Its operating revenue jumped 44.9% to ₹5,743.4 Cr from ₹3

Today, we launched Discourse, a curated forum on top of the Cosign network. 3,000 people have access to post directly, and everyone else can submit posts into a queue, kind of like old Product Hunt. Check it out: https://discourse.cosign.co/ America’s defense-tech renaissance is

I've seen nearly 500 executions - but never one like Christa Pike's - Published Reporter Michael Graczyk has covered nearly 500 executions carried out in Texas, continuing even after his 2018 retirement from The Associated Press. He remembers two instances where needles popped ou

Exhibit bookings for TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 close in less than 24 hours. From October 13-15, 10,000+ founders, investors, operators, and tech leaders will arrive at San Francisco’s Moscone West looking for companies, products, ideas, and people worth knowing. The question is: Wi

The clock is almost out. You have less than 24 hours left to apply to host a Side Event during TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026. Applications close tonight at midnight PT. Connect with the Boston startup ecosystem through November 1–7 by hosting your own Side Event. Bring your comm

Tiisetso’s view At about 5am on Monday, 23-year-old Boitumelo Nhlanzi left home in Thembisa for work. She never arrived. She was shot dead in what police call an apparent robbery, the 12th woman found dead in Ekurhuleni, east of Johannesburg, since July. The night before, gunmen

The US labor market added 29,000 jobs in September, falling far short of economists’ expectations following a strong showing in August, and the unemployment rate ticked up to 4.2%. Downward revisions for July and August also point to a weaker labor market than first though. The r

Welcome to Edition 9.13 of the Rocket Report! This week, SpaceX celebrated the first orbital launch of its new Starship rocket. I’m not sure many people, at least those outside of SpaceX, expected it to take 14 flights of Starship before it technically reached low-Earth orbit, bu

Vaishali Parekh's top 3 stocks to buy: In the truncated trading week, the benchmark indices corrected sharply. The Nifty 50 index ended down by 3.10%, while the Sensex fell nearly 2000 points. Among the sectors, almost all major sectoral indices saw profit-booking at higher level

AI - Power approval set to delay Oracle's Wisconsin AI datacenter Grid connection awaits regulatory approval, putting planned 2027 customer delivery at risk - Nvidia debuts $4,999 DGX Spark with half the RAM and storage, amid memory crunch Meanwhile 128 GB version jumps to $6,950

Amazon and Synopsys ink multi-year billion-dollar deal in multi-year IP agreement to accelerate AI chip design efforts — Synopsys to adopt Amazon Bedrock to deploy AI agents, harnessing AWS compute and storage capabilities Amazon and Synopsys team up. Amazon and chip design tool

One of the selling points of ETFs is that they can be highly tax-efficient for managing capital gains and losses, but wealthy investors may have to rethink certain ETF tax-deferral strategies following recent communications from the Internal Revenue Service and U.S. Treasury. At

The U.S. economy created far fewer jobs than expected in September, pointing to a surprising soft spot in the labor market and broader economy. Nonfarm payrolls rose a seasonally adjusted 29,000 for the month while the unemployment rate increased to 4.2%, the Bureau of Labor Stat

Nike shares dropped Friday, falling for a second straight day after the company reported declining revenue and plans to lay off staff in 2027. The sportswear giant said Thursday that its fiscal first-quarter revenues were down 4% to $11.2 billion, citing declines in Greater China

Tesla sold more than 480,000 EVs in the third quarter, as the company continues finding ways to move new cars despite its troubles in the U.S. market. It was the second strong quarter in a row for Tesla after a somewhat rough start to the year. The sales figure easily beat out co

Transsion Holdings, the biggest seller of phones in Africa, is eyeing a $500 million initial public offering in Hong Kong as the firm seeks to raise money to develop a new generation of AI-enhanced devices. Shenzhen-based Transsion dominates the African market across its three ma