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Sending Diwali gifts to a handful of employees or clients is relatively simple. Sending hundreds of gifts to recipients spread across different cities is another matter. Addresses need to be verified, budgets finalized, packaging standardized and deliveries timed to arrive before

Both gold and silver edged lower in Wednesday’s trade on October 28 as investors cautiously awaited the US Federal Reserve’s policy decision later in the day. Markets were largely pricing in the possibility of the Fed keeping interest rates unchanged. MCX gold futures for Decembe

The crash occurred between Urda and Los Yébenes, in Toledo province, when a train travelling from Madrid towards Seville struck the rear of another that had stopped on the same track. Two carriages were knocked off the rails, one of them torn apart, with twisted metal and debris

Karnataka Bank shares rise 4% as Q2 profit jumps 37% to ₹436 crore - Published OnOct 28, 2026 | 15:43 IST - Last Updated OnOct 28, 2026 | 15:43 IST Karnataka Bank posted a sharp jump in quarterly profit driven by robust net interest income growth. The lender's asset quality showe

New model targets enterprises seeking to build AI-native operations through smaller, focused teams, with Asia Pacific as the first phase of rollout

Vals AI's Immigration Bench Exposes Claude Fable 5.1's Legal Blind Spots Vals AI tested 25 frontier models on 262 expert-written U.S. immigration questions and found even the best model leaves out one in four essentials. - Vals AI and Talent Mobility Fund launched Immigration Ben

South Korean chip giant SK Hynix reported a sevenfold increase in third-quarter profits from a year ago, the latest sign of a tech boom driving nationwide economic growth. The earnings, which were powered by surging demand from the AI infrastructure buildout, come after official

I got off the phone with a potential client whose company is doing great. The client, however, is not even thinking of selling the company as they see future growth over the next couple of years that they wish to materialize in order to get a larger exit. The conversation prompte

Subsea cable projects owned by US companies such as Google and Meta face some of the greatest risks from the threat of deep-sea sabotage in the Pacific Ocean, according to a new report. That coincides with Chinese research ships spending an extraordinary amount of time apparently

Standalone Nvidia Vera CPUs land in Oracle Cloud's multi-gigawatt deployment — our independent benchmarking of a local server reveals Vera's massive memory bandwidth lead over dual Xeon 6 server Standalone Vera is generally available on OCI Superclusters now. Nvidia and Oracle ha

AI - GitHub powering up four million extra cores to stop its service going down Re-architects site to cope with AI slop-pocalypse - Microsoft faces potential vote: Shareholders curious about its plans to tackle emissions Greenhouse gas output has risen dramatically since the comp

Editor’s note: The following is the latest profile in a series of articles about startup founders from non-technical backgrounds who have launched successful venture-backed companies. Read the previous interviews in the series including with MagicSchool AI founder Adeel Khan here

A free app that sends you one piece of fine art each day with a short story about it. You can also browse a catalog of 4,500+ works, from the Renaissance to Japanese prints. Now that Arc is sunsetting, this is one of the alternatives people are moving to. A free, open-source brow

Featured Story HPE claims to have beaten Cisco to a proper self-driving network Marvis, described as an AI brain, now unifies all the various parts of the Aruba and Mist portfolios to create a truly autonomous system, says HPE. Orange, Telenor and Vodafone explored how they plan

Defeated presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro reportedly fled Brazil for the US following his election loss, sowing doubt over the future of the right in the country and South America more broadly. Bolsonaro — who faces a corruption investigation but lost his legal immunity af

Let’s Game Now, a gaming and esports company, has raised Rs 30 crore in a funding round co-led by Anand Mahindra and Bestvantage Investments, with participation from a UAE-based family office. The fresh funds will be used to accelerate the development of the Indian Super Gaming L

The Finnish and Norwegian leaders broke a Western European taboo and held talks with Russia’s president, sparking division on the continent as it pushes to strengthen backing for Ukraine. The 90-minute telephone conversation was met alternatingly with anger and acceptance in Euro

This is CNBC's Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox. Hello, this is Leonie Kidd with today's edition of Morning Squawk. Investors will assess two major market forces today: the Fed decision and another round of tech earnings. Inflatio

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition took a slight lead in a tight election race, defying exit poll projections, though he remained short of the numbers required to form another government. Critics argued the results signaled voter disillusionment with Netanyahu’

Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis said they struck Saudi Arabia’s largest refinery while the US and Israel were reportedly preparing for a new round of combat with Tehran, driving oil higher on fears of fresh escalation in the Middle East. Though crude flows out of the region have rise

Tanzania announced its first gas discovery in more than a decade, a finding that comes as African nations race to boost their energy independence. The continent, which imports the majority of the fuels it uses, has been badly exposed by the wars in the Middle East and Ukraine, wh

You may get the right to find out what your colleagues earn - here's why - Published Employees should legally be able to find out what their colleagues are earning, the UK's equality watchdog has said. Bosses should be required to respond to questionaires about colleagues' pay to

Luxury cruise passengers stranded in Cambodia due to soaring fuel costs - Published A luxury cruise ship on a years-long voyage around the world said it suspended operations due to extraordinarily high fuel costs, leaving passengers stranded in Cambodia. The US-based operator of

IT vendor lists massive $60 million AI supercomputer on eBay with 9,600 Nvidia A100 GPUs and 4,200 AMD EPYC CPUs, plus free shipping — 300 racks of decommissioned GPUs on offer If you ever wanted to own your own supercomputer or data center while earning eBay cashback, Core 4 Sol

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Wednesday 28 October 2026 Top stories today: - Fed seen holding rates despite hot inflation, with Dec. hike in focus - Anthropic reports early drug development gains with 6 partners - SK Hynix +11% as Q3 revenue +328% YoY, operating profit +632% - Google DeepMind’s Genie 4 debuts

Revenue rose 26% as domestic demand surged, but higher commodity costs dragged Ebitda margin down 308 basis points to 8.9%.

Info Edge dividend 2026: The board of directors of Info Edge (India) Ltd has declared an interim dividend of ₹3 per share for eligible shareholders. The company board approved the interim dividend proposal in the meeting held on Wednesday, October 28, 2026. The parent company of

Anthropic’s reported plans to go public have put the artificial intelligence company and its Claude chatbot in the spotlight, raising a key question for Indian investors: how can they gain exposure to one of the most closely watched names in the global AI race? The company report

AI - GitHub powering up four million extra cores to stop its service going down Re-architects site to cope with AI slop-pocalypse - Microsoft faces potential vote: Shareholders curious about its plans to tackle emissions Greenhouse gas output has risen dramatically since the comp

Ravi Vasantraj, Global Delivery Head at Mphasis, tells the story of a $40 million yacht that would not start. Technicians charging $5,000 per visit came and went without fixing the problem. Then a mechanic from the garage arrived with a hammer, knocked once on the engine, and got

28th October 2026 If your work does not benefit from current AI tooling, that is a finding, not a failing. Document why, share it with your community of peers, bring it to your manager, and work to find solutions. An engineer who can explain where AI does not yet help their work

PhysicsWallah’s School of Startups (PW SoS) has signed a two-year memorandum of understanding with the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) to support early-stage ventures, particularly in Tier-II and III cities and rural areas. The partnership combines

Researchers from the National Institute of Technology Rourkela (NIT Rourkela), in collaboration with researchers from IIT Guwahati, IIT Bombay, and NISER Bhubaneswar, have developed new materials that can emit different colours of light under ultraviolet (UV) light exposure. Thes

Meta’s earnings come in the context of Zuckerberg delivering on his promise; if investors believe in Muse they must support Meta’s spending on compute. Subscribe to Stratechery Plus for full access. Already subscribed? $15 / month or $150 / year With Stratechery Plus you get acce

Malaysian customs seized about 49.5 million ringgit ($12.11 million) worth of advanced AI chips this month while investigating a syndicate suspected of routing the chips through the country’s main airport, Reuters reported. Malaysia tightened export controls last year on advanced

Mumbai: Jio Platforms Ltd.'s blockbuster stock market debut has propelled the digital company as well as its parent Reliance Industries Ltd. into rarified air. It also helped Mukesh Ambani’s conglomerate topple Tata Group as India’s largest conglomerate by market capitalisation.

$4,700 audiophile-grade network hub promises a noise-free experience and music with 'emotional impact' — seven isolation stages per port were chosen with 'listening comparisons,' uses a $5 Realtek controller The perfect cure for that latest bout of audiophilia nervosa? There are

Former Conservative chancellor unsure Budget will 'fix big problems' To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This video can not be played Former Conservative chancellor unsure Budget will 'fix big problems'Close Follow the BBC's coverage of the UK Budget

Cloud company Akamai has launched two services for deploying AI models and running AI agents, as the cloud infrastructure provider expands its AI offerings for enterprises. Akamai Inference provides managed access to open-weight and custom AI models through OpenAI-compatible APIs

Cognizant is reportedly in talks to invest in Sarvam AI as part of a proposed $300 Mn fundraise at a $3.5-4 Bn valuation The investment could make Cognizant the second IT services major on Sarvam’s cap table after HCLTech, as IT companies seek to strengthen their AI capabilities

Republicans rethink their attacks on AOC lead image

Japan experiments with autonomous AI chainsaw-wielding robots — video shows rail truck-mounted metal humanoid cutting down tree branches The frightening-looking mech in the demo still has a human operator, for now. A scary-looking humanoid robot with a chainsaw arm was shown in a

The Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha also said “Indian business is not Modi and Shah’s plaything”

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Liquid AI's LFM3 Shrinks Six Specialized Models to Run on Your Phone Liquid AI's LFM3 family packs text, vision, audio, omni, and decision models into one 2B backbone built for on-device fine-tuning. - Liquid AI released LFM3: six open-weight 2B-class models for text, vision, aud

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Google DeepMind released its newest world model, Genie 4, in research preview on Tuesday. The latest model generates the most photorealistic and interactive worlds yet, allowing users to type prompts mid-simulation to change the scene. The model also generates real-time audio tha

Some Democrats are making a play for segments of the "Make America Healthy Again" base, hoping pitches about food safety and environmental health will attract voters disillusioned with the Trump administration's lack of progress on those fronts. Why it matters: Policies around cl

AI - GitHub powering up four million extra cores to stop its service going down Re-architects site to cope with AI slop-pocalypse - Microsoft faces potential vote: Shareholders curious about its plans to tackle emissions Greenhouse gas output has risen dramatically since the comp