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Chinese-made drones are flying out the bodies of flood victims and delivering food to survivors in the aftermath of devastating flash floods on the border of Nepal and China’s Tibetan region. Nepal’s army has been using four DJI FlyCart 100 drones donated from China to make 10 to

Producer prices rose 5.4% in the 12 months through August. While the overall increase was in line with economists' expectations, details of the report suggested some of the recent progress on inflation may be reversing. For live updates on US Markets, click here Prices for transp

Oracle Corp. shares fell more than 3% on Thursday as investors awaited the software and cloud computing giant's quarterly earnings report, due after the US market closes. The company’s stock has faced pressure this year as investors remain concerned about the huge debt burden Ora

Two years into Starbucks' turnaround, CEO Brian Niccol is prioritizing makeovers for the coffee chain's cafes and improving the customer experience as sales rebound. "Starbucks is back," Niccol said on CNBC's "Squawk Box" on Thursday. Under Niccol's leadership, Starbucks has trie

Can Trump really pay $5,000 to every American adult? - Published US President Donald Trump has offered every adult American $5,000 (£3,700) if Republicans win November's midterm elections, but it is unclear how such a plan would be funded and whether it is legal. His remarks prom

England's push for two-day win halted by weather - Published Third Rothesay Test, Edgbaston (day two of five) Pakistan 133 (Shakeel 43; Tongue 4-42) & 52-2 (Robinson 2-10) England 453 (Brook 75, Smith 69, Lawrence 65, Gay 60, Robinson 50; Razaullah 4-148) Pakistan are 268 runs be

Insight and analysis on the data center space from industry thought leaders. Why AI Performance Starts Long Before GPUs AI outcomes depend on how predictably and securely data moves across data centers, clouds, and the edge. Designing for latency, resilience, and visibility is no

In his address at the Global Fintech Fest (GFF) 2026 in Mumbai today, RBI Governor Sanjay Malhotra urged businesses in the fintech sector to double down on AI, tokenisation and quantum computing to enhance financial inclusion while building consumer trust. Malhotra said India’s d

Esther Rantzen says she is too fragile to travel to Switzerland to end life - Published Dame Esther Rantzen has said she is now "too physically fragile" to travel to Switzerland to end her life at an assisted suicide clinic. The veteran broadcaster, 86, said she would have to fly

Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the Global Fintech Fest 2026 in Mumbai on Thursday, Setty addressed the liquidity surge following the conclusion of the central bank's concessional swap window. "I don't think the FCNR-B inflows we have gotten will lead to any sort of abn

The Gemini app is now available for Windows Today, we're launching the Gemini app for Windows. Designed to work seamlessly alongside your favorite tools and daily applications, the new desktop app gives you instant assistance without breaking your flow. Here are three ways you ca

Credit: Accenture Accenture and Google Cloud launched a new global business group to help companies scale agentic AI, a move that could speed enterprise adoption of AI tools worldwide... Keep me signed in Some subscribers prefer to save their log-in information so they do not hav

Instagram is rolling out a small but useful new feature that gives users a little more control over what appears on their profiles. Starting today, you can add posts you’re tagged in directly to your main profile grid. While it’s not exactly a groundbreaking update, it’s one of t

Theatregoer who throttled woman at show is jailed - Published A 75-year-old man who strangled a woman after she started to sing along at a West End show has been jailed for two years. Malcolm Potier was sitting near victim Kirsty O'Donnell in the audience at We Will Rock You at t

Manufacturing floors, warehouses and production lines rarely stay fixed — tasks change, layouts shift and new products arrive, and most robots can’t keep up without significant reprogramming. Skild AI’s new S1 robot foundation model helps address this, designed to learn previousl

AI - SECURITY Watch out: Apple timepiece can grab snippets of conversation without both speakers' consentWar is peace. Freedom is slavery. Privacy is surveillance - SYSTEMS

Dive Brief: - Macy’s Inc. on Thursday posted strength across its portfolio, an indication that the turnaround at its namesake is taking hold. Overall net sales rose 1.1% year on year to $4.9 billion, as comps rose 2.7%. - At Macy’s, comparable sales grew 1.1%; at its 200 revamp

Bloomingdale’s continues to benefit from the struggles at Exemplar Luxury Group, formerly Saks Global, which emerged from bankruptcy this summer. Bloomingdale’s posted double-digit comp sales growth compared to Q2 last year and the best Q2 sales volume in its history, according t

AI - SECURITY Watch out: Apple timepiece can grab snippets of conversation without both speakers' consentWar is peace. Freedom is slavery. Privacy is surveillance - SYSTEMS

Artificial Intelligence Build an end-to-end RFI questionnaire workflow using Amazon Quick Automate Build an end-to-end Request for Information (RFI) questionnaire workflow using Amazon Quick Automate to solve a challenge organizations face at every scale. A typical enterprise mig

The Scoop Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed is going after Republican opponent Mike Rogers’ healthcare record in a new ad, timed to land as Rogers takes the stage at Republicans’ midterm convention, according to details first shared with Semafor. The ad will run s

Apple’s new A20 Pro smartphone chip around 25% faster than its predecessor in leaked benchmark — the 2nm CPU in the iPhone Duo and 18 Pro hits nearly 5 GHz clocks Geekbench single-core score indicates the A20 delivers a significant generational CPU performance boost this year. We

Artificial Intelligence Model-agnostic PII detection with LLMs A configurable, instruction-driven detector that runs on any large language model (LLM) managed on Amazon Bedrock, evaluated on five public PII corpora across nine LLM-based detectors, including the OpenAI PrivacyFilt

This week with Harry Stebbings, Rory O’Driscoll and Jason Lemkin: rule-breaking as a product feature, the legal AI ceiling, agents that route around their own guardrails, and Anthropic walking from a multi-billion dollar deal after diligence. #1. Instinct and GrokBot Work Partly

The global robotaxi market — physical AI’s first commercial breakthrough — is projected to reach $400 billion by 2035, with over 6 million commercial vehicles in operation as driverless fleets are already moving people through some of the world’s busiest and most complex streets.

Google on Thursday introduced a new password manager switching experience on Android that doesn’t require you to download CSV files when migrating to a new app. With the new feature, users will be able to move all of their passwords — and even passkeys — between apps seamlessly.

Dive Brief: - The American Eagle brand’s second quarter comparable sales dropped 1% year over year, according to a Wednesday release. Aerie’s comps grew 19%, helping American Eagle Outfitters’ overall net revenue increase 8% to $1.4 billion. - American Eagle’s men’s business post

Sensex gained 138 points to close at 74,903 on its weekly expiry day, while Nifty 50 gained 46 points to end the session at 23,478. Notably, both the benchmark indices were trading in the red before the CAS, during which they reversed all losses to swing into the green. Here's ho

Artificial Intelligence Agent Evaluation Metric for multi-turn conversations Multi-turn agents fail in ways that single-turn evaluation misses: one early mistake quietly corrupts every later turn. This post introduces the Agent Evaluation Metric (AEM), a decomposable, turn-level

Artificial Intelligence How AvioBook builds turnaround insights from operational data with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore This post is co-written with Petra Lafond, Product Manager, and Maarten Cardinaels, Tech Lead at AvioBook, a Thales Group Company. Airlines run on tight, cascading

"The short answer is yes. I do think that that's a reasonable target by 2030," Armstrong told CNBC when asked whether he still expects Bitcoin to reach $400,000 by the end of the decade. For live updates on US Markets, click here Bitcoin was trading just below $80,000 when Armstr

Episode details Available for over a year Today, US President, Donald Trump, has said he will offer every adult American $5,000 (£3,700) if the Republican party wins the midterms. President Trump gave no detail on how it would work or how he would fund it. Speaking at the party's

Dive Brief: - Target introduced a suite of new AI-powered shopping features aimed at enhancing discovery and personalization, according to a Tuesday press release. - In June, the company released its Review Insights feature, which uses AI to summarize details mentioned in product

Jimmy Kimmel, the late-night talk show host with Disney-owned ABC, is taking some precautions in the face of scrutiny by the Federal Communications Commission. Kimmel said on Wednesday night that he will not air an interview with Democratic U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico on

Three-month copper on the London Metal Exchange fell 3.1% to $14,312 a metric ton by 1039 GMT after touching a record high of $14,875 earlier in the session. For live updates on US Markets, click here COMEX October copper futures slid 4.2% to $6.5355 per lb, or $14,408 per ton, r

A month of relative calm has been shattered since end-August as the U.S. and Iran hit military, shipping and energy assets, sending oil back above $100 a barrel and reviving fears about a wave of price hikes in the fuel-importing euro zone. For live updates on US Markets, click h

After a plethora of new product launches and innovation showcases on day one, the second day of the Global Fintech Festival (GFF) 2026 centred more around partnerships with AI at the heart of a lot of developments to come out of the event. Traditional banks and NBFCs joined hands

The company also kept its annual comparable sales forecast intact on Wednesday despite posting better-than-expected revenue for the second quarter. For live updates on US Markets, click here Demand across the apparel sector has been uneven as consumers, pressured by inflation, fo

Universal Music Group is launching a new AI-powered platform that will allow users to draw from its catalog of licensed music to create song remixes, mashups, and new takes on tracks, according to an announcement on Thursday. The record label is developing the platform through a

Dive Brief: - E-commerce growth is expected to outpace overall retail sales growth this holiday season for the period running from November 2026 through January 2027, according to a Thursday Deloitte forecast. - Total holiday retail sales this season are forecast to grow between

Amazon on Thursday announced it's partnering with OpenAI to let its advertisers run ads in ChatGPT, starting with select brands in the U.S. It marks a vote of confidence from the world's largest online retailer in OpenAI's burgeoning ad business, which recently reached a $1 billi