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The oil industry has warned a diesel export ban will backfire and exacerbate the global fuel crisis as President Donald Trump weighs restrictions. Trump appeared to back an export ban earlier this week, as he faces mounting political pressure to tackle rising fuel prices ahead of

The Scoop As the midterm battleground map expands deep into red territory and Republicans fret about the deteriorating national mood, Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., is reassuring GOP senators that they can still outperform the environment and hold onto the Senate. The National Republica

The basic customs duty on crude soybean oil and crude palm oil has been halved to 5%, while the duty on refined soybean and palm oils has been cut to 27.5% from 32.5%. For sunflower oil, the government has scrapped the 10% duty on crude imports, while the duty on refined sunflowe

The list contained candidates for initial public offerings, spanning from China to South Korea and India, according to a copy seen by Bloomberg News and verified by people familiar with the matter. The list - which focused mostly on Asia, along with Europe, the Middle East, and A

Lately, it seems like everyone is talking about bringing manufacturing back to the United States, especially when it comes to hard tech like drones and robotics. Michael Van Steenburg thinks he’s ahead of the game. Van Steenburg spent the last decade building all kinds of electri

Modern life comes with an unending, auto-populating to-do list. Meta’s AI agent is a cute little guy who’s great at spending my money Muse did a decent job with my to-do list, but boy is it handy with a credit card. Meta’s AI agent is a cute little guy who’s great at spending my

The ASUS ExpertCenter Pro ET900N G3 is the second GB300 DGX Station we’ve tested and the first we’ve had hands-on in the lab; our MSI XpertStation WS300 testing ran remotely. It uses the same NVIDIA silicon we tested in the MSI XpertStation WS300: a Grace Blackwell Ultra Desktop

Teslas are expensive cars, and the Roadster, which the company will reveal on October 1st, will likely be the its most expensive, if the $50,000 deposit to get on the list is any indication. Tesla's options, however, aren't particularly expensive. One-month implied volatility is

Late last week, we started seeing headlines about how new research was suggesting we might have two brains instead of the one that seems to show up on MRI scans. As is so often the case, these rumors can be traced back to a single press release put out by one of the universities

She said the rupee was not fully reflecting the strength of India's underlying economy. The currency has depreciated 13.1% between March 31, 2025 and September 16, 2026, even as the economy is positioned to grow 7-8% in real terms. Gupta was speaking at a State Bank of India even

With the National Stock Exchange (NSE) set to make its much-awaited debut on Dalal Street on Thursday, September 24, investors will be keen to see how the exchange performs on its listing day. Ahead of the NSE listing, here’s a look back at how three of India’s biggest IPOs—Hyund

Federal prosecutors in New York have opened an investigation into the two co-executors of the estate of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday. No charges have been filed against the co-executors, Epstein's longtime lawyer Darren Indyke

Artificial Intelligence From portal-hopping to instant answers: HEMA’s journey with MCP and Amazon Bedrock This post is co-written with Mauro Rallo and Patrick van der Plas from HEMA. When engineers at HEMA needed an answer, they went portal-hopping, navigating disconnected wikis

(Updates with afternoon trading) * S&P 500 -0.65%, Nasdaq -1.07%, Dow -0.54% * Worries about AI hit travel stocks * 10-year Treasury yield hits 2007 high By Noel Randewich Sept 23 (Reuters) - Wall Street fell on Wednesday, pulled down by Alphabet and Amazon, as Treasury yields cl

Listen to this article in summarized format The October futures contract was last trading at $4.7512 a gallon, down 3.9%. However, a White House official said a report that the US was considering a 90-day diesel export ban to curb record fuel prices was “fake news,” Reuters repor

Family tribute to 'devoted' mum and 'precious' children who died in fire - Published The family of a mother and three children who died in a house fire have said they are experiencing an "unimaginable" loss. Elisha Brabin, 36, and her children, Leo, 16, Ellis, 8, and Prudence, 7,

AI - Shut up and calculate: Jev's new AI primitives for codersDevelopers test what they can build with TypeSafe's fast, typed decision model - Frontier AI keeps racing desp

Brad Bird has directed some of our all-time favorite animated films: The Iron Giant (1999), The Incredibles (2004), and Ratatouille (2007), with the latter two snagging well-deserved Oscar wins. He’s back with a new animated feature, Ray Gunn, coming to Netflix in December, descr

Kubernetes manages what runs on your nodes. Managing the nodes themselves is the challenge: kernel settings, system packages, storage layouts, security agents, and the host-level tuning that GPU workloads depend on. Many teams manage this with Ansible playbooks, custom scripts, a

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a slate of bills on Monday that could finally give communities better data — and more say — on how data centers impact their electricity bills and water supply. Data centers are black boxes, but California wants to change that New legislation w

Artificial Intelligence Agentic conversational video intelligence built on AWS With video intelligence powered by agentic AI, you can ask natural language questions about uploaded videos and get answers within seconds. Organizations across media, security, insurance, and professi

Artificial Intelligence Use open weight models as your AI coding agent with Amazon Bedrock AI coding agents have become a core part of how developers write, debug, and refactor software. Open weight models on Amazon Bedrock now make these agents practical to run privately and cos

An October interest rate hike is very much on the table after a top Federal Reserve official Wednesday expressed support for one, and as fresh economic readings showed intensifying inflation pressures. In remarks prepared for a housing conference in Chicago, Fed Governor Michael

AI - Shut up and calculate: Jev's new AI primitives for codersDevelopers test what they can build with TypeSafe's fast, typed decision model - Frontier AI keeps racing desp

Streaming is getting more expensive again. Disney is the latest media giant to raise prices for its streaming services, adding to a growing pattern across the industry. The increases come roughly a year after Disney’s last major streaming price hike. Disney is raising the price o

Meta's latest consumer AI product is sending such big shockwaves through the market that it's even inflaming a long-time rivalry in the brokerage business between 55-year old investing giant Charles Schwab, and Robinhood, an icon of the post-Covid trading boom among young investo

Anthropic says its AI Claude has “autonomously discovered” a new enzyme system similar to machinery behind the powerful gene-editing tool Crispr. It’s the first result from Anthropic’s newly-launched wet lab and an early test of Claude’s usefulness for science as the company prep

Rep. Haley Stevens, D-Mich., on Wednesday introduced a new bill that would lower Social Security's full retirement age for workers in physically demanding jobs. The bill, called the Blue Collar Social Security Fairness Act, would make it so eligible individuals would be able to c

As concern over AI safety and rogue agents continue to make headlines, it’s no surprise that cybersecurity stocks are rising, or that investors are pouring massive amounts of capital into startups trying to build the next generation of security for an AI-native world. We’re even

Some Samsung smart fridges stopped working on Tuesday due to a firmware update. Korean outlets were the first to report the problems, which affect Samsung’s Bespoke AI line of fridges. Star News Korea, per a Google-provided translation, said that most of the affected devices were

President Donald Trump wants the U.S. to beat China in the artificial intelligence race. But as he meets Chinese President Xi Jinping, both countries are also weighing how to address the risks posed by rapidly advancing technology. In recent months, AI systems have taken more con

President Donald Trump wants the U.S. to beat China in the artificial intelligence race. But as he meets Chinese President Xi Jinping, both countries are also weighing how to address the risks posed by rapidly advancing technology. In recent months, AI systems have taken more con

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian in a defiant speech to the United Nations on Wednesday blamed the U.S. and Israel for stoking global instability while accusing them of launching illegal attacks on his country's civilians and infrastructure. The address to the U.N. General Ass

Dell says it has delivered more than 6,500 AI Factories to customers across nearly every industry, and it has paired that milestone with commissioned research from Omdia on how enterprises are securing the AI they run on that hardware. The headline finding is that 98% of organiza

Zoox has grounded its autonomous vehicle test fleet in Atlanta after safety drivers were potentially exposed to carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, or hydrogen sulfide gas inside its vehicles last month, TechCrunch has learned. The repeated incidents led one worker to file a complai

It's called Imperia, and its members include CEOs, founders, innovators, entrepreneurs and others. A lot of the first lady's attention has been on children, but, with Imperia, she is leaning on her business skills to encourage women to harness their economic power and help others

After facing selling pressure near the 23,500 level on Tuesday, the Nifty 50 staged a recovery on Wednesday. The index gained nearly 118 points and settled close to the 23,450 mark, recording its highest close in nearly two weeks. The index opened on a positive note but witnessed

Home secretary hits out at 'unacceptable' migrant landings - Published The Home Secretary has said migrant landings on UK beaches are "not acceptable", as she ordered an urgent review after two boats reached Kent without being intercepted. Shabana Mahmood told Border Security Com

In a forthcoming memoir, former US politician and NASA Administrator Bill Nelson offers a blistering assessment of China, saying the United States must do all it can to retain its leadership in space exploration. “Beijing’s intended strategy is to dominate the high ground of the

McDonald's on Wednesday announced plans for its own media network, pricey restaurant upgrades and ways to win over GLP-1 users during an investor presentation at its Chicago headquarters. In June, the company unveiled its newest growth strategy, McDonald's > NEXT. The pillars of