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Binance is investing $100 million in stablecoin issuer Circle as part of a five-year deal calling for the world's largest crypto exchange to promote Circle's flagship USDC on its platform. Shares of Circle rose more than 1% in premarket trading Tuesday. The agreement signals a pu

Binance is investing $100 million in stablecoin issuer Circle as part of a five-year deal calling for the world's largest crypto exchange to promote Circle's flagship USDC on its platform. Shares of Circle rose more than 1% in premarket trading Tuesday. The agreement signals a pu

AI - Frontier AI keeps racing despite calls to slow downAnthropic and OpenAI debut Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Sol and Luna - Windows CLOSEDQUORUM malware uses AI models to autonomo

AI - Frontier AI keeps racing despite calls to slow downAnthropic and OpenAI debut Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Sol and Luna - Windows CLOSEDQUORUM malware uses AI models to autonomo

Nigeria’s trade minister on Tuesday described the country’s relationship with the US as “actually quite good” despite a 12.5% tariff Washington imposed on Nigerian exports in July as part of a broader action targeting 60 countries. “The US-Nigeria relationship is actually quite g

Toyota workers are already helping to train humanoid robots as part of the automaker’s race to eventually deploy 400,000 factory robots—but a Toyota executive said the robotic push is not meant to directly replace humans. Starting in 2028, the Toyota Motor group aims to start inv

Vector Search Is Now A Data Type, But The Money Math Has Not Gone Away For a few years it looked like every AI stack would carry a dedicated vector database next to its primary store (for the few who needed it). That moment has passed. Approximate nearest-neighbor search is now e

A “human error” in the IT department led to Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH) losing data from maternity records over an 11-year span. The data loss occurred on August 18, the English hospitals announced in a blog post on Monday spotted by The Register. The blog sai

The disruption from the Strait of Hormuz will yield a “structural shift” in the energy consumption of the billions of people who remain disconnected from the digital economy, Shell Foundation CEO Jonathan Berman said at Semafor’s The Next 3 Billion on Tuesday. Forecasts estimate

'Looksmaxxing' influencer Clavicular charged with rape in Massachusetts - Published The online influencer Clavicular, whose real name is Braden Peters, has been charged with rape, providing liquor to a person under the legal US drinking age, and drugging someone for sexual interc

AI - Frontier AI keeps racing despite calls to slow downAnthropic and OpenAI debut Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Sol and Luna - Windows CLOSEDQUORUM malware uses AI models to autonomo

Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is creating an “academy” positioned as a pipeline for young people to build or join a Silicon Valley startup. The “Horowitz Andreessen Academy” will launch with 10 partners, including Anduril, Anthropic, Coinbase, Google, Meta, Nvid

Durabook Z14I-DX3 rugged mobile workstation folds three screens into a 9.8 kg chassis — luggable targets military, emergency services, and field professionals Rugged computing goes really wide. Taiwan-based manufacturer Durabook has introduced a highly rugged mobile workstation w

Anthropic’s newest model, Opus 5.5, was released on Tuesday, setting a new state-of-the-art in coding and knowledge work performance, according to the company. Opus is the most capable and expensive tier in Anthropic’s three-tier Claude lineup; Sonnet sits in the middle, while Ha

Anthropic says its new Claude Opus 5.5 model comes with stronger safeguards in the wake of recent rogue AI hacking incidents. In an announcement on Tuesday, Anthropic says Opus 5.5 comes with improvements to certain risky behaviors, including attempts to escape the company’s test

Last year, the Trump administration did what it could to shut down work on the next US National Climate Assessment, eliminating funding for the US Global Change Research Program and booting hundreds of contributing authors. The administration even took past reports offline, forci

Director-General of the Africa Centres for Disease Control Jean Kaseya said Tuesday that the continent should begin making vaccines locally, as the Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak continues to have a huge impact on the economies of Uganda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda a

The News The head of the World Bank’s private-sector arm said investors “absolutely” overprice risk in Africa, inflating borrowing costs across the continent by treating dozens of diverse markets as a single investment story. Speaking at Semafor’s The Next 3 Billion event, Makhta

POWER POINT What I'm hearing from energy insiders "I don't know." The three hardest words for anyone on Wall Street to utter. Knowing things — or at least knowing enough to make a solid estimate — is one of Wall Street's core jobs. Analysts, bankers and traders have access to the

Ella Langley's Choosin' Texas becomes longest-running number one in US chart history - Published Ella Langley's country smash Choosin' Texas has overtaken Mariah Carey's All I Want for Christmas Is You to become the longest-running number one single in US chart history. Released

In a speech Tuesday morning at the UN General Assembly, Donald Trump railed against Iran, “globalists,” climate change, and transgender people while also claiming that the US is now “officially” renaming artificial intelligence to “super intelligence.” Oddly, this wasn’t one of t

AI - Frontier AI keeps racing despite calls to slow downAnthropic and OpenAI debut Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Sol and Luna - Windows CLOSEDQUORUM malware uses AI models to autonomo

Republicans are entering the final sprint to the 2026 midterm election trailing Democrats in national and battleground polls and defending much of the most competitive terrain in Congress. But on one critical measure, they hold a clear advantage: cash. The GOP's three national co

I was close to joining Liverpool in 2016 - Mbappe - Published Kylian Mbappe has revealed how "close" he came to joining Liverpool in 2016, saying he went against the advice of his mother who "fell in love" with Anfield. The France and Real Madrid striker said the Reds tried to si

Sensex fell 330 points to close at 74,529. On its weekly futures and options expiry day, Nifty saw its indicative price tumble around 1% in 30 seconds from 23,349.5 to 23,133, before recovering some of the losses to close at 23,329. Here's how analysts read the market pulse India

Dive Brief: - Days after announcing its entry into soccer, On outlined a $1 billion share buyback and a series of growth plans for the next three years, including an expectation to nearly double net sales over that time period to 5.6 billion Swiss francs ($6.8 billion). - To achi

Amazon asked to be removed from Meta's new Muse AI agent experience, the e-commerce giant told Retail Dive. The Muse agent was launched by Meta earlier this month and it can make purchases on behalf of users. Amazon was not given advance notice that Muse would access its e-commer

Father admits causing death of his son in hotel fall - Published A British man has pleaded guilty to causing the death of his two-year-old son who fell from a hotel window in Cyprus. Joshua Foster, from Essex, admitted a charge of causing death through a reckless, rash or dangero

New security research has found that well over a thousand U.S. water and wastewater providers are exposed to hacks due to malware that’s capable of stealing their employees’ passwords and active logged-in sessions. The findings by cybersecurity defense firm SpyCloud underscore ho

Around 20 domestic and international investors participated in the anchor book including Norges the Norway Government Pension Fund Global. The company’s anchor investor portion was fully subscribed a day ahead of its Rs 2,100 crore initial public offering opening for public subsc

Proactive AI startup Sol has emerged from stealth with $4 million in a funding round led by General Catalyst and Nexus Venture Partners, with participation from DeVC, Peercheque and Kunal Shah. The proceeds will be used for research and development and go to market initiatives. T

The IPO is entirely a fresh issue of equity shares aggregating up to Rs 500 crore. The company has 131,391,436 equity shares outstanding as on date. The issue will be made through the book-building process, the developer said in a release. As of March 31, 2026, the company had a

The continued decline in crude oil prices, with Brent slipping below the key $100 per bbl level, provided some relief to investors and helped the domestic market recover from intraday lows, although overall sentiment remained cautious.Here are 3 stock ideas for Wednesday: Target:

The shares were bought by four investors — SBI Mutual Fund, Bandhan Mutual Fund, Nippon India Mutual Fund and Clarus Capital 1 — with SBI Mutual Fund accounting for the bulk of the transaction. According to the NSE block deal data, SBI Mutual Fund bought 1,66,66,667 shares, or ar

Shares of the New Jersey-based company fell nearly 15% as investors focused on two cases of probable anaphylaxis reported in the studies. The trials tested two doses of barzolvolimab in patients with chronic spontaneous urticaria, a chronic skin condition marked by recurring hive

When Xbox announced sweeping layoffs in July as part of a brutal “reset” for the gaming brand, Xbox CEO Asha Sharma said part of the pre-existing problem in the gaming unit was “teams, studios, and functions [that] often operate independently, [making it] harder to work toward a