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Listen to this article in summarized format Yields across maturities fell by at least five basis points, with the two-year and five-year yields pulling back from multiyear highs reached after Wednesday’s Fed decision. The 10-year Treasury yield dropped eight basis points to 4.95%

Weekly quiz: Why did women's sports stars criticise actress Sydney Sweeney? - Published This week, AI insiders voiced concerns about how quickly the technology is developing, Lord Byron returned to London's Hyde Park, and a magazine borrowed from a US library was returned 132 yea

Four Big New Deals That Reveal the State of Podcasting New ventures involving ‘Giggly Squad,’ NPR, Steven Bartlett and Serial Productions have set the podcasting world atwitter This article is for subscribers only. Welcome back to Soundbite. This week has unofficially been dubbed

(Bloomberg) -- More than six months after the start of the Iran war, JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s oil analysts are stating what many traders have been saying privately for some time: the path to the end of the war is increasingly impossible to predict.Several economic red lines that th

Listen to this article in summarized format Oil breached $100 a barrel this month with Brent crude at around $107 as US-Iran clashes stoked supply fears. Retail fuel marketing margins are expected to turn into a loss of ₹7.4 per litre for petrol and ₹10.3 per litre for diesel in

Waymo has restarted its robotaxi service in San Antonio, Texas, five months after one of its vehicles was swept away during a flash flood. Multiple Waymo robotaxis got stuck during the heavy flooding in April. The vehicles slowed but did not stop as they approached waterlogged st

AWS Compute Blog Multi-modal autoscaling with Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling: adding signals for faster, more reliable scaling How do you handle unpredictable workload patterns that spike during promotional events or seasonal peaks? Multi-modal autoscaling with Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling c

The weekly average rate on a 30-year fixed-rate home loan has been rising for months and this week climbed to just below 7% - its highest level in over 19 months. The benchmark 30-year fixed rate mortgage rose to 6.95% from 6.76% last week, mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursda

How Existential Fears Are Shaping the Debate Over AI Some experts worry that heated rhetoric makes it hard to hold companies accountable, and sets back attempts to deal with environmental impact and job loss The current round of panic over artificial intelligence is based on the

AI Pioneer Andrew Ng Calls Extinction Fears ‘Science Fiction’ Artificial intelligence pioneer Andrew Ng said warnings about existential AI risks from researchers at top model makers are “science fiction” that may be detrimental to ensuring the technology’s maximum benefits to soc

Rentomojo and Kanohar Electricals were the latest additions to the Indian stock market this week, after both IPOs received stellar demand, with participation seen across investor categories. Rentomojo, the online furniture and appliance rental platform, was listed on the exchange

'Built differently' - Hodgkinson reveals hamstring abnormality - Published Olympic champion Keely Hodgkinson says an MRI scan has uncovered an "abnormality" in her hamstring. Following a suspected tear last year, Hodgkinson had a scan which revealed she has a "split" hamstring, g

Securitize surged Thursday after federal regulators greenlit the issuing of tokenized stocks on some trading platforms in the U.S. The tokenization name was last up 14%. At its peak, it was up 24%. The Securities and Exchange Commission earlier in the day announced a temporary pa

Artificial Intelligence Reduce time-to-hire for quality candidates with AI-powered Amazon Connect Talent Hiring at scale in industries such as retail, logistics, hospitality, and others has its fair share of challenges. Recruiting teams are expected to fill hundreds of roles with

UK Youth Parliament looks set to be axed - Published The UK Youth Parliament is at risk of being axed within months, BBC News has learned, as the government is not committing to funding it any longer. The parliament was launched in 2000 to boost interest in politics among young p

OnEMI Technology Solutions, the parent company of digital lending platform Kissht, has approved a fundraise of up to Rs 832.2 crore through a preferential issue, according to its exchange filing. The company’s board approved the issuance of up to 2.64 crore equity shares at an is

The News Video AI company Pika launched a program to help AI creators make videos faster by using fewer prompts. The product automates which AI model is used to create a given element in the video and speeds up the prompting process. Instead of crafting paragraph descriptions fro

AI - SYSTEMS Nvidia goes green to keep grid capacity from zapping its revenuesGPUzilla woos neoclouds into another walled garden, promising smarter, more efficient, and profitable bit barns -

Pending regulatory approval, SpaceX said today it intends to launch its 14th Starship mission as early as September 22. This flight is notable, as it will be the first time that SpaceX attempts to launch the experimental vehicle into orbit. The company set a target liftoff time o

SpaceX is ready to perform the 14th test flight of its Starship mega-rocket, and now the company will finally try to put the upper stage into Earth’s orbit for the first time, the company announced Tuesday. The test launch is scheduled for September 22, with a 75-minute launch wi

AWS Compute Blog Deploying regulated workloads on AWS Local Zones and AWS Outposts Customers in many industries and geographic locations have specific data sovereignty and residency objectives. AWS Local Zones and AWS Outposts are fully managed infrastructure solutions for custom

CTERA has launched the CTERA Data Archiving Solution, which pairs its InsightAI data service with CTERA Archive so the platform can recommend which files to move off primary storage and then execute the move under retention policy and an audit trail. It’s the product follow-throu

FARMINGDALE, N.Y. — NBA superstar Stephen Curry said Thursday a new signature shoe he's designing in partnership with Li-Ning will debut early next year. Curry announced in June he had struck a deal with the Chinese shoe company after his 13-year partnership with Under Armour cam

King Charles hosted a private summit Thursday with some of the most prominent names in AI and the U.K. government, including Nvidia’s Jensen Huang, leaders from OpenAI and Anthropic, the U.K.’s new AI minister Kanishka Narayan, and even the head of the U.K.’s foreign intelligence

AWS Compute Blog Planning for disaster recovery using AWS Local Zones and AWS Outposts racks AWS customers with data residency, low latency, or local data processing requirements can use AWS Hybrid Cloud services to run their workloads either on-premises or within their regulator

Ukrainian guilty of vandalism at mosques linked to Russian network behind Starmer arson attack - Published A Ukrainian man has pleaded guilty to spraying abusive graffiti on mosques in east London, in a case linked to the Russian state network behind arson attacks against the for

Baseten launched a new safety infrastructure standard alongside its Base Labs research arm on Wednesday, partnering with Hugging Face and Goodfire AI to build safety evaluation and monitoring infrastructure for open-weight models. The announcement lands amid debate for the safety

Pinterest is turning to AI to help consumers move from searching for product inspiration to actually being able to imagine what it might be like to redesign a space or compare home decor options as they’d appear in their own rooms. On Thursday, the company said it’s launching a n

The exemption allows platforms offering tokenized stocks, digital tokens representing shares that can trade on a blockchain, to avoid several rules that apply to traditional stock exchanges such as Nasdaq and the New York Stock Exchange. Liquidity providers in tokenized stocks wi

The News Republicans may have to make hard choices this fall as they shape their strategy for keeping the Senate — and some think it might not include North Carolina or Georgia. Just 10 years ago, those two southern states formed the bedrock of Republicans’ Senate majorities. But

A few weeks ago, we headed to Austin, Texas, to the lab where the Arm AGI CPU is coming to life. To me, this was a really interesting one because when I think of Arm, I think of a company that has been around for decades, powering devices from large to small. Still, the Arm AGI C

Google named a Leader in the External Threat Intelligence Service Forrester Wave™ Jayce Nichols Director, Intelligence Solutions Emiliano Martinez Director Product Management, Google Threat Intelligence At Google, we see firsthand how the speed, scale, and sophistication of cyber

The future of orchestration: Pine59’s journey to Airflow 3 on Google Cloud Piotr Wieczorek Lead Senior Product Manager, Google Jan Hajný Senior Data Engineer, Pine59 Operating large data pipelines requires an orchestration layer that scales smoothly as workloads expand. When your

Warm words on Canada's EU 'associate membership' but no guarantees - Published Is Canada about to join the EU? Headlines across Europe indicate a lot of confusion right now. The EU constitution rules that possibility out as Canada is geographically outside Europe. But in a speech

Major US chip stocks have remained higher on Wall Street on Thursday, 17 September, extending their recovery from a sharp sell-off earlier in the week. The extended rally was led by Intel, whose shares surged 10% to hit a day's high of $111 apiece, their highest level in more tha

Family blame police for 'Putney pusher' suspect's death - Published The family of Nicholas Brandram have insisted he was not the so-called "Putney pusher" and have blamed the Metropolitan Police for his death. The 44-year-old was under suspicion of being the jogger who pushed a w

The big questions for Tuchel's first England squad since World Cup - Published Sixty-five days after England's semi-final defeat by Argentina, Thomas Tuchel will name his first squad since the World Cup on Friday. While the tournament ultimately ended with a spectacular 6-4 win o