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US Fed Rate LIVE Updates: The United States Federal Reserve's hiked interest rates by 25 bps, its first increase since 2023. The central bank's rate setting committee has further indicated that a second hike is likely to come later this year. The Federal Open Market Committee (FO

The Trump administration imposed new visa restrictions on South African officials that the US accuses of “government-sponsored discrimination” against Afrikaners. The measures target individuals deemed complicit in race-based discrimination and uncompensated land seizures, and ma

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 -

Autonomous vehicle company May Mobility is merging with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) and will become a publicly traded company. It’s a deal that could raise more than $300 million for May Mobility at a valuation of $1.4 billion, the company said Wednesday. Once th

Developer vibe codes a tool to let Nvidia RTX 50-series laptop owners crank up their power limits — can juice RTX 5090 mobile GPU to 225W The tool appears to be fully vibe-coded and highly experimental, but it does seem to work on at least some laptops. Folks with Nvidia-based ga

The News AI makes hacking easier and faster, but human villains are still a large part of the process. Over the summer, a hacker was able to deploy frontier AI models to breach a European IT and software company in less than 10 hours — something that would ordinarily take human h

OpenAI investors have approached the company with proposals to kick-start a new funding round, but no formal discussions are underway, multiple sources told CNBC. Investors have floated a $1.2 trillion valuation to OpenAI, and some have positioned the potential new funding round

Our basic understanding of core-collapse supernovae hasn’t changed in decades. Large stars burn through all the fuel at their cores and start creating heavier elements in reactions that consume energy. The lack of energy from these reactions allows gravity to pull the interior of

The National Stock Exchange of India (NSE) allocated 37,793,739 shares worth ₹6,746 crore at ₹1,785 apiece to more than 150 anchor investors ahead of its initial public offering (IPO) on September 17, the company said in its filing. The anchor book saw strong demand from both dom

Indian equities advanced in tandem with regional markets as easing crude oil prices and a largely priced-in US Fed rate hike improved investor sentiment. The constructive mood was further reinforced by a moderation in Japanese bond yields ahead of the BoJ's policy decision, suppo

The firm plans to launch seven newly created ETFs to house the bulk of the assets, while the remaining mutual fund will be merged into an existing ETF. Municipal bond mutual funds have seen heavy outflows of late as the U.S. Federal Reserve is widely expected to raise interest ra

Listen to this article in summarized format Shares were allotted to anchor investors at Rs 1,785 apiece, including a share premium of Rs 1,784. NSE IPO Tracker: Catch all the live updates here LIC emerged as one of the key investors in the anchor book. LIC received 2,242,584 shar

Higher transportation rates, which included a rise in diesel prices and driver rates going into the peak holiday season, have drastically raised costs for the company, CFO Brad Delco said at the Morgan Stanley Laguna Conference in California on Tuesday. For live updates on US Mar

System performance, efficient infrastructure scaling and continuous software optimization are key levers that determine AI inference economics. Higher system performance means more tokens generated, resulting in higher revenue. Efficient scaling means throughput grows proportiona

MLCommons has published MLPerf Inference v6.1, and the round sets a participation record with 30 submitting organizations and 486 datacenter and edge results. Two new tests join the suite: an End-to-End RAG pipeline for the datacenter and an Edge Agentic Inference benchmark for s

The world hasn’t been the same since ChatGPT made its debut in November 2022, when seemingly out of nowhere, a means of engaging with large language models propelled AI beyond hype and into day-to-day reality. Robotics, like AI, has been discussed, built upon, and in some ways ad

The News Rep. Kevin Kiley, I-Calif, said Wednesday he does not plan to caucus with Republicans next year if he is reelected to the House as an independent. In an interview with Semafor’s Nicholas Wu at the Youth Wellbeing Forum, Kiley said he is working to change House rules that

Insight and analysis on the data center space from industry thought leaders. OpenAI Astra’s ‘Critical’ Rating and the AI Governability Gap Advanced AI models can now evade oversight. Data center operators must verify monitoring under adversarial conditions rather than rely on ven

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Apple Intelligence is back, baby! That’s right: Two years after its initial launch, Apple is giving its generative AI features their first significant upgrade, along with a new version of Siri that the company has been strongly insinuating would be a part of each of the last two

Google says that a bug in its Pixel smartphones’ software was exploited in limited and targeted cyberattacks. The company said Tuesday that the bug, tracked as CVE-2026-58704, has now been patched. According to the limited details about the vulnerability, the bug was found in Pix

Security researcher Matthew “Zigula” Gore-Kormanik was analyzing a fraudulent dating app called Dora when he got a pop-up message saying he was receiving a call from Jennifer. According to her bio, she’s a 41-year-old Sagittarius with red hair, blue eyes, and piercings. She likes

Redwood by Ben Macintyre. In 1981, Soviet spy Vladimir Kuzichkin offered up critical insider information on Iran’s Tudeh Party to Britain’s MI6 in exchange for discreet assistance with a personal affliction that was at the heart of his marital troubles. Ben Macintyre’s Redwood, d

Lowe’s earlier this month promoted Chief Marketing Officer Jen Wilson from senior vice president to executive vice president, adding digital commerce to a portfolio that already includes marketing, retail media, loyalty and personalization, per details shared with sister publicat

Piecemakers bets edge AI devices will diverge from reliance on HBM — custom-designed memory fuses DRAM stack directly to the processor using hybrid bonding Design fees pay the bills with stacked DRAM shipping in 2027. PieceMakers, a Nanya-backed DRAM designer, began trading on Ta

Investors behind the world's top-performing sovereign wealth fund warned Wednesday that the U.S. equity market could be due a correction. Jo Townsend, CEO of the Guardians of New Zealand Superannuation — which manages the country's $54 billion wealth fund — warned of a potential

Uber and Costco expanded their U.S. Uber Eats partnership to 47 states from availability in 17 states, according to a Wednesday press release. With the expansion, nearly 600 Costco locations will be available for delivery on Uber Eats for members of the warehouse club. "We are th

Denuvo sues anonymous game cracker ‘voices38’ over alleged DRM circumvention — seeks damages after Anti-Tamper protections bypassed in 26 games DRM battle goes to court. Anti-Tamper and DRM (Digital Rights Management) software developer Denuvo is taking its fight against video ga

Later today, Max Verstappen will strap on his helmet and take to the track at the Silverstone circuit in England for a rather unusual race. The four-time Formula 1 world champion is recognized as the leading talent of his generation, but unlike some of the legends that have prece

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Carter’s is focusing on self-expression and individuality for an identity refresh and accompanying marketing campaign titled “Watch Them Glow,” per details shared with sister publication Marketing Dive. The effort, rooted in a promise to “let every child’s light shine,” is design

Microsoft says AI rival Anthropic could have 'disastrous impact' on humanity - Published Microsoft's head of AI has warned Anthropic's approach to training its AI model Claude could have a "disastrous impact on the wellbeing of humanity". Mustafa Suleyman said his rival risked cr

A bill that is close to becoming law would deepen the involvement of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in combating retail crime. If it does, it would come at a time when federal crime-fighting agents are being diverted to support mass deportations, and as the public grows

Micron announces 512GB DDR5-9200 memory modules with 16W power draw — up to 12TB per server, claims 60% less energy-intensive than four 128GB modules Already tested by AMD and Intel, but supply will depend on demand. Micron this week introduced its first 512GB DDR5-9200 memory mo

Baron Funds’ approach has for long centred on companies that can compound over many years, even if near-term stock moves remain volatile. The biggest holding is SpaceX, which accounts for 34.3% of the portfolio. The position was added as a new holding in Q2 2026. The average buy

Off the Wire Press Releases The AI Energy Management Alliance brings together the full AI and power value chain to accelerate the interconnection of flexible, grid-enhancing data centers, strengthen reliability and protect affordability. Sept. 16, 2026 — AI factories are the infr

A bipartisan pair of US lawmakers tell WIRED they plan to introduce legislation today that would strip federal funding from states that fail to restrict the use of Flock cameras and other automated license plate readers. The devices, which help police track the location of vehicl

US stock indices surged on Wednesday after the Federal Reserve unanimously raised the interest rate by 25 bps as expected, marking the first rate hike since 2023 as inflation remains elevated, while a decline in crude oil prices offered some relief amid ongoing concerns over the