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Scribd, Inc. classifies more than 400 million documents with Gemini batch inference on Gemini Enterprise Travis Martin Account Manager, Google Cloud Platform Sachin Sebastian Sr. Engineering Manager, Scribd Scribd, Inc. is home to one of the world's largest collections of human-c

Man jailed for throwing bottle at migrant protest - Published A father-of-two has become the first man jailed following an anti-migrant protest in Portsmouth after admitting throwing a plastic bottle and swearing at police. Del Somerville, 42, was given a two-year sentence after

Dive Brief: - Stitch Fix continues to struggle to grow its cohort of active clients, but ended its fiscal year with net revenue up 6.4% year over year, reaching $1.3 billion. Net revenue in Q4 rose over 4% to $324.4 million. - The apparel-box retailer ended fiscal 2026 with just

Sensex crashed around 1,248 points to close at 73,581, while Nifty 50 dropped 384 points to end the session at 23,063. Broader markets crashed further, with Nifty Midcap 100 plunging more than 2% and Nifty Smallcap 100 index dropping 1.5%. Also read | Why did market crash today?

We’re not even a full year into the new regulations, and Formula 1 is already thinking hard about its next iteration, set to be introduced as early as the start of 2030. This was supposed to be a big year for F1, with the introduction of a bold new technical rules package that pu

Alphabet's Google said on Thursday it will launch a prototype satellite next week in its first in-orbit test of Project Suncatcher, a research effort to explore whether space could potentially host large-scale AI computing infrastructure. Companies including SpaceX and Starcloud

The amendments seek to expand and harmonise the regulatory framework governing vault managers and vaulting services for bullion underlying different Sebi-specified bullion-related instruments, according to its latest circular. Sebi said the existing regulations, introduced to est

QNAP has introduced the TS-432XeU, a 4-bay short-depth rackmount NAS that combines 10GbE SFP+ and dual 2.5GbE networking in a 1U chassis measuring just over 292mm deep. The compact design is intended for installations where a conventional full-depth rackmount NAS may not fit, inc

Under the proposed framework, distributors could be rewarded for the quality of sales and servicing, while commissions could be clawed back in cases of mis-selling. The regulator has also proposed greater accountability for individual sales staff by tagging their identity to poli

AI - Google's TPUs to catch some rays in orbit next weekPart of Project Suncatcher, the proof of concept aims to see how well lightly modified compute fares in orbit - Meta

Dive Brief: - Consumers are forecast to spend $13.5 billion this year on Halloween purchases, according to a report from the National Retail Federation released Tuesday. It will top last year’s record of $13.1 billion. - Discount stores are expected to be the top destination for

Dive Brief: - The retail sector’s use of AI has surged over the past year, and while some trends point to greater security oversight of AI tools, others suggest that organizations still have a long way to go. - “Retailers are moving quickly from experimentation to widespread AI a

Datadobi has made Data Access Governance (DAG) generally available in StorageMAP, giving organizations visibility into who has access to their unstructured data and whether that access aligns with corporate policy. DAG surfaces access permissions across fragmented unstructured da

Indian stock market investors are likely to track several companies on Friday, September 25, following key business developments, acquisitions, order wins, project updates, fundraising plans and strategic initiatives. Dr Lal PathLabs, LCC Projects, Nykaa, Vedanta and Nava are amo

Private-sector figures, US government representatives, and Ukrainian officials including President Volodymyr Zelenskyy gathered on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly to discuss strategies for propelling Ukraine’s economy despite the ongoing war with Russia. The closed-door

Power your agents: Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar is now generally available Fabien Blanc-paques Group Product Manager, Gemini Live Following our announcement of Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking last week, we are thrilled to share that Gemini 3.8 Live with

As language models grow, scaling dense architectures becomes increasingly expensive. In a dense transformer, every token passes through every layer, so adding capabilities increases computation for both training and inference. Mixture-of-experts (MoE) architectures take a differe

An AI chatbot can give you a bad answer. An AI system controlling an aircraft, vehicle, or robot can create an entirely different kind of problem. When artificial intelligence moves into the physical world, a mistake can ground an aircraft, cause a vehicle crash, or compromise a

A surging oil market, historic highs in US yields, and a regulatory shake-up in domestic insurance combined to trigger a broad market sell-off on Thursday, with Indian equities faring among the worst in Asia. Brent crude oil crossed $106 a barrel and US treasury yields rose to th

Last month, China delayed the launch of an ambitious robotic mission to the south pole of the Moon, Chang’e 7, until early next year. The country did not provide a detailed explanation for the schedule slip, but it was welcomed by NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman. “They are targ

The buyers were Nadir Burjor Godrej, the younger brother of billionaire Adi Godrej, and Adi Godrej's children Nisaba Adi Godrej, Pirojsha Adi Godrej and Tanya Arvind Dubash. Together, they purchased 1,02,30,000 shares, representing a 0.99 per cent stake in Mumbai-based Godrej Con

AI - Google's TPUs to catch some rays in orbit next weekPart of Project Suncatcher, the proof of concept aims to see how well lightly modified compute fares in orbit - Meta

A short auction at the end of the trading day helps determine the closing price of a stock under the CAS framework, introduced on August 3 for stocks with futures and options contracts. However, the new process has led to sharp swings in derivatives prices on expiry days, prompti

Storage news ticker 24 Sep Data security company Cyera announced a $400 million extension from Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives to its Series G, led by Evolution Equity, accelerating the company's mission to build a unified platform that governs access for every human,

Ply, by Hernan Diaz. The Pulitzer Prize-winner’s new science fiction novel is set in a dystopian New York City where companies have established a monopoly over electricity. Ply’s protagonist is a young woman who works as a “pincher,” someone who makes a living stealing back energ

Lovable has crossed annual run-rate revenue of $600 million, the company’s co-founder Fabian Hedin said at the HumanX summit in Amsterdam on Thursday. The vibe-coding platform in June said that number was around $500 million. Hedin said the startup has focused on growing its ente

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AI - Google's TPUs to catch some rays in orbit next weekPart of Project Suncatcher, the proof of concept aims to see how well lightly modified compute fares in orbit - Meta

When Sara Du was helping companies build MCP servers in 2025, people kept asking her how they could use AI agents from within Slack itself. But there were a bunch of technical hurdles in the way: moving messages back and forth and getting agents the right context, all without bur

Indian equities ended higher on Wednesday despite intraday volatility, as markets shrugged off an intraday surge in crude and focused on signs of strengthening domestic growth momentum. Geopolitical developments at the UN General Assembly kept a risk premium embedded in oil price

AlloyDB delivers PostgreSQL for agents: Real-time data at agent scale, with full workload isolation Raj Pai VP, Product Management, Databases Sujatha Mandava Senior Director, Product Management, Databases Enterprises rely on mission-critical operational databases where performanc

AI agents keep getting loose, escaping supposedly secure tests to attack real-world targets, commandeer obscure wikis, and leave instructions for other agents to follow. Researchers are testing these systems precisely because they might behave in unpredictable, even dangerous, wa

A new, no-compromises database architecture for the agentic era Amit Ganesh VP Engineering, Databases Sailesh Krishnamurthy VP Engineering, Databases Entire database engineering careers have been spent on a single question: How do you scale an OLTP workload without compromising t

What happens when the app you started in high school goes viral? For Zach Yadegari, the answer was more than 15 million downloads, $30 million in annual revenue, and an acquisition by MyFitnessPal — all before his 20th birthday. Yadegari was just 17 when he co-founded Cal AI, the

How growing Latin American midsize businesses are building in the AI era Andre Alves Director, SMB Sales LATAM Latin America’s small and medium-sized businesses are the heartbeat of the region's economy — accounting for more than 60% of total employment in the region, according t

"I keep saying this: for any regulated business, the biggest risk is regulatory risk. Today's Irdai draft on insurance commissions is a good reminder," Kamath said in a post on X. His comments come after the insurance regulator proposed a major reset of distribution economics in

Google is getting ready to launch a satellite with its AI processors to test how well they perform in space, as reported earlier by The New York Times. The move is part of Google’s Project Suncatcher, the company’s experimental initiative that could eventually put AI data centers

Flock is in the hot seat in Washington, even if its CEO declined to actually face senators at a hearing about its “AI Surveillance Network” on Wednesday. The vibes are bad for Flock in Washington The new topic uniting lawmakers appears to be cracking down on Flock. “There’s many

Dive Brief: - Lowe's has launched a drone delivery pilot at a North Carolina store in partnership with DoorDash and Alphabet's Wing, the home improvement retailer announced Thursday. - Eligible customers near the store in Matthews, a Charlotte suburb, can order products through t

Stripe processes payments for most of the fastest-growing AI companies in the world, so it sees their actual revenue data. At her SaaStr AI session, Maia Josebachvili, Chief Revenue Officer of AI at Stripe, walked through what Stripe is seeing across its AI customer base and how

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Mark Zuckerberg said Meta’s new personal AI agent Muse has become the “centerpiece” of his AI vision, as he unveiled a new handheld AI “charm” device that will feature the interactive assistant. The Meta chief used the company’s annual Connect event at its Silicon Valley headquar