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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

Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema used his first trip abroad since his re-election last month to tell Gulf investors to fully comply with the country’s local procurement rules, he said. Zambia is Africa’s second-largest producer of copper, whose prices have soared as demand ri

Senate Republicans’ top super PAC is making a tactical change, pausing its ad campaign in North Carolina’s Senate race and launching a new one in Kansas. Senate Leadership Fund is plowing seven figures into Kansas to help incumbent Republican Sen. Roger Marshall against Democrat

Investors now think the odds are extremely unlikely that the Federal Reserve raises interest rates again in October, following a weaker-than-expected September employment report. CME's FedWatch tool, based on trading in 30-day interest rate futures, shows only a 17% chance that t

Storage news ticker - 2 October Cloud storage provider Backblaze has published its quarterly drive stats report with the now usual minor changes in disk drive annual failure rates. The report spends a lot of time discussing the whys and wherefores and ins and outs of shingled mag

Epic, the software technology giant that makes the widely used MyChart software for accessing patients’ medical data, has paused most of its product development as the company works to protect its software and systems from cyberattacks. Judy Faulkner, the founder and chief execut

Flock drones with cameras deployed as first responders in some US cities amid privacy concerns — UAVs connect to wider emergency services system and streams video to dispatchers, officers These drones could cut emergency response times to under two minutes, but at what cost? Seve

Rivian sold more electric vehicles than ever in the third quarter, thanks in large part to the launch of its new, more affordable R2 SUV. The company said Friday morning that it built 19,751 vehicles and delivered 19,248. That’s roughly 45% more than it delivered in the same peri

How Gordon became one of England's main men - Published Jude Bellingham, Harry Kane, Declan Rice, Jordan Pickford and now Anthony Gordon. All have become guaranteed starters and reliable stars for England, with the Barcelona winger the latest to look, according to captain Kane, l

The African Development Bank is holding talks with financiers, with the aim of finding ways to mobilize around $4 trillion in untapped domestic capital to fund the continent’s development needs, its president said. Sidi Ould Tah said the goal was to plug a development financing g

MinIO: you don’t need an object cache. You need a faster object store. MinIO blogs about object caching in AI and says you don’t need a cache if your object storage is fast enough. Blogger Daniel Valdivia, a MinIO architect, compares a CoreWeave LOTA (Local Object Transport Accel

The African Union urged Ethiopia and its neighbors to exercise restraint as growing tensions threaten to destabilize the region. Addis Ababa has accused Egypt, Eritrea, and Sudan of supporting armed opposition groups that have fought Ethiopia’s federal troops in the northern Tigr

Nigeria will shift its economic policy goal from administering “emergency treatment” to delivering shared prosperity, President Bola Tinubu said, pitching himself as the best person to address welfare concerns ahead of crunch elections in January. Tinubu’s three-year overhaul of

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

Local AI is becoming more useful by the token. As AI agents move from experiments into everyday development, increasingly capable open models are shrinking to fit on more devices, giving builders more to run locally. Coming this month, NVIDIA DGX Spark will be available with 64GB

Nvidia introduces 64GB DGX Spark to throw local AI fans a lifeline amid the RAMpocalypse — new GB10 config starts at $4999 for those who can work with less Less memory, lower price, otherwise identical Nvidia is tailoring its popular DGX Spark platform and the GB10 SoC to better

Insight and analysis on the data center space from industry thought leaders. Five Ways to Assess Your AI Infrastructure Readiness AI success hinges on infrastructure. Use this five-part framework to evaluate power, cooling, security, cost strategy, and scalability. Enthusiasm doe

It’s been another week with far more retail news than there is time in the day. Below, we break down some things you may have missed during the week, and what we’re still thinking about. From Patagonia’s voting campaign to what low TV purchasing intent means for Best Buy, here’s

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

Rivian has issued a recall for its R2 SUV after the company discovered that fasteners on its high-voltage battery pack might not be properly tightened, which can cause a loss of power while driving. The company says only around 14 vehicles may have been affected, and that it will

YouTube is stalking the sports landscape for live rights. YouTube would like as many games as it can get its hands on – while also giving users as "clean" of an experience as possible, according to people familiar with the matter. YouTube has been coy with its sports strategy, ac

Shares of HDFC Bank, will remain in focus on Monday, October 5, after India’s largest private lender announced the appointment of Anup Bagchi as its next chief of executive for a period of three years.Fifty five year old Anup Bagchi will succeed Sashidhar Jagdishan, who decided t

Hi friends 👋, Happy Friday and welcome to our 213th Weekly Dose of Optimism. You might notice that the title card looks a little different than it normally does, and you might also notice that our fifth story comes with its own short film. Good eye. Over the coming quarter, we’r

School protests send shivers down French government's spine - Published It is a piece of wisdom that all French leaders take care to heed: young people on the street equals trouble. Since the student protests of May 1968 – memorably described by President De Gaulle as chienlit (b

OpenAI’s Jalapeño ASICs are deployed alongside AMD EPYC ‘Turin’ CPUs as hosts — Hardware VP says Nvidia’s Vera standalone is ‘a little bit behind… on that maturity level’ Hardware VP Robert Ho says the choice to use Turin was “pragmatic.” OpenAI’s new Jalapeño ASIC is being deplo

After a successive stock market crash on all four sessions last week, the Nifty 50 index slipped from the 23,140 to 22,421 level, logging a weekly loss of 719 points or 3.10% weekly loss. Market experts believe persistent foreign selling, a weaker Indian Rupee and rising global b

Novartis has signed a deal worth up to $7.8 billion, in the latest of a flurry of tie-ups between Big Pharma and Chinese biotechs. The Swiss pharma major is entering a licensing agreement with China-based Abogen Biosciences for its lead asset, an early-stage experimental treatmen

United Airlines wants you to defect from your airline. The carrier is in the middle of an unusually pointed status-match campaign to woo travelers who have earned a spot in elite frequent flyer tiers with Delta Air Lines and American Airlines by offering similar treatment at Unit

United Airlines wants you to defect from your airline. The carrier is in the middle of an unusually pointed status-match campaign to woo travelers who have earned a spot in elite frequent flyer tiers with Delta Air Lines and American Airlines by offering similar treatment at Unit

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

Nathan Johnson, a Texas state senator and the Democratic candidate for attorney general, announced that, if elected, he plans to investigate Deloitte and other state vendor contracts in the wake of a software error that resulted in a failure to process voter registrations for wha

Nathan Johnson, a Texas state senator and the Democratic candidate for attorney general, announced that, if elected, he plans to investigate Deloitte and other state vendor contracts in the wake of a software error that resulted in a failure to process voter registrations for wha

This is CNBC's Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox. Happy Friday. If you missed it yesterday: More than 60 million children were automatically enrolled in Trump Accounts after the Treasury Department proposed the change earlier this

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