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EAU CLAIRE, Wisconsin — In this rural-heavy stretch of the upper Midwest, Democrats are trying to claw back districts where their party brand is still deeply toxic. It won’t be easy, even in a midterm environment that heavily favors their party. Local Democratic organizers in wes

Where Solid-State Micro-Cooling Fits in Data Centers Solid-state micro-cooling could help data centers reduce hotspots in SSDs and other subsystems that liquid cooling and system fans don't fully reach. Managing heat in AI infrastructure is getting more complicated as rising powe

Fewer Americans than ever think that their representative in Congress deserves to be reelected ahead of a midterm election, according to new Gallup polling, a warning sign for incumbents from both parties battling for their seats next week. Forty-three percent of US adults say th

The cryptocurrency industry’s leading network of super PACs is yet again spending huge sums against Sherrod Brown in Ohio, despite doubts that the investment will pay off. The network known as Fairshake spent $40 million in 2024 to unseat Brown, then the Senate Banking Committee

QwikBuild, an enterprise AI startup that builds bespoke software and AI agents for business operations, has raised $2.3 million in pre-seed funding. The startup is backed by Globalway Inc., Blume Ventures, Marsshot, and DeVC, alongside prominent angel investors including Lalit Ke

Info Edge’s consolidated net profit jumped 87% to ₹649.8 Cr in Q2 FY27 from ₹347.5 Cr a year earlier. Other income surged 164.8% to ₹428.4 Cr, helping profit growth outpace the 12.2% increase in operating revenue. The board declared a ₹3 interim dividend per share, with November

Several midsize headlines today; on top of some impressive Math verification, Google Genie and Artificial Analysis and FrontierCode all shipped major version bumps of their top offerings, all of which have been AINews title stories in the past, but are mostly annual incremental i

Several midsize headlines today; on top of some impressive Math verification, Google Genie and Artificial Analysis and FrontierCode all shipped major version bumps of their top offerings, all of which have been AINews title stories in the past, but are mostly annual incremental i

Cartesia's Managed Agents Beats Gemini and Grok With 91.7% Task Success Cartesia's new Managed Agents platform jumps 98 Elo points over its predecessor on blind voice preference tests, with task success climbing to 91.7%. - Cartesia Managed Agents hits Speech Agent Arena Elo of 1

Arena's Agent Mode Now Connects GitHub, Linear, Vercel and 6 More Developer Tools Arena's Agent Mode now plugs directly into Gmail, GitHub, Linear, Notion, Vercel, Supabase and more, replacing the copy-paste shuffle between tabs. - Arena added connectors to Agent Mode for Gmail,

LTM has launched GCC Origin, a dedicated business unit to help enterprises establish, operate and transform global capability centres (GCCs) in India. The unit will operate as a standalone business within LTM, with dedicated leadership, sales and delivery teams. Shailendra Singh

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. Virgin Media O2 has installed an Nvidia processor at

Vyoma.AI, Larsen & Toubro’s (L&T) AI cloud and data centre business, has broken ground on a 52 MW AI-ready data centre in Chennai as it expands its infrastructure to support AI workloads and cloud computing. The company held a groundbreaking ceremony for the facility on October 2

Info Edge, the parent company of Naukri, reported a 87.1% year-on-year increase in consolidated net profit to Rs 650 crore in Q2 FY27. Its consolidated revenue from operations also rose 12.2% to Rs 904 crore during the quarter, up from Rs 806 crore a year ago. Info Edge’s bottom

Assembling iPhones makes great headlines for India. Owning the supply chain is where the real power lies. Apple assembled around 55 million iPhones in India in 2025, a 53% increase from 36 million units in 2024. The country now accounts for about a quarter of Apple's global iPhon

From Jio Platforms making a strong debut on the National Stock Exchange on Wednesday with its shares gaining 21.3% over the issue price of Rs 1,119 apiece, to AI that can generate almost anything we ask for, here are the latest developments across sectors. Featured StoriesWhen co

India is working on a dedicated data centre policy as it looks to expand its AI infrastructure while addressing concerns over power availability, water use and the cost of running large computing facilities. Junior IT Minister Jitin Prasada announced the proposed policy on Octobe

The All India Trade Union Congress Tamil Nadu’s petition challenged the definition of ‘industry’ under the Industrial Relations Code (IRC) 2020 as “deliciously vague”; The senior counsel Gopal Sankaranarayanan said the definition in the IRC Code did not meet the requirements of t

After years of hardware research, Intel plans to acquire a software platform that connects quantum developers with enterprise users. The post Intel Wants a Quantum Business, Classiq Could Help Build One appeared first on EE Times.

The Atlanta Dream has criticized the WNBA over its decision to move a Finals game to Thursday afternoon, prompting reactions from rapper Flavor Flav and former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Game 6 of the WNBA Finals between the Atlanta Dream and Golden State Valkyries,

Key Takeaways GomatiRoots is building a brand around Bihar's traditional badi. The startup received Rs 1 lakh in funding through YourStory's Shuru Kar initiative. Shital Kumari's startup is connecting rural women with markets. The company generated Rs 32 lakh in revenue in its fi

Picture a product developer creating a plant-based protein drink for three different markets. The product concept is clear; the information needed to build it is not. Supplier specifications are locked inside PDFs. Trial results sit in spreadsheets. Regulatory requirements arrive

Mr. Trump is pushing ways of bringing down energy costs ahead of the midterms, amid voter anger over soaring oil costs caused by his war on Iran

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. Singtel considers sovereign AI an opportunity to mov

The government is working to leverage the procurement process to promote startups, a top official of the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade said on Tuesday. Speaking at the curtain-raiser event for National Startup Awards 6.0, Department for Promotion of Indu

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Automobile classifieds platform CarTrade released its financial results for the second quarter of FY27 and reported a moderate growth of 10% year-on-year in revenue, while profits remained stable at Rs 66 crore during the period. CarTrade’s revenue from operations grew to Rs 213.

As HealthKart reportedly gears up for its IPO, the health supplement brand appears to be building the financial profile investors look for in a public market candidate: strong revenue growth, scale and sustained profitability. The company crossed the Rs 2,000 crore revenue mark i

CarTrade’s consolidated net profit rose 3% YoY to ₹66 Cr in Q2 FY27, while operating revenue grew 10% to ₹213.1 Cr. Revenue growth outpaced the 6% rise in expenses, although net profit growth remained muted. Net profit increased 16.2% QoQ, while expenses declined 0.9%. Automotive

Baidu's 3B open-source vision-language model parses hundred-page documents in a single request using a sparse attention trick that keeps memory flat.

Qdrant's ONNX port of multilingual-e5-large hits 926K downloads, giving teams a lightweight way to run a top multilingual embedder in production.

PhonePe has rebranded its homegrown app marketplace, Indus Appstore, as PhonePe Appstore, as it expands beyond app distribution into digital goods and services. Last week, PhonePe also rebranded Share.Market as PhonePe Invest. The platform is now available on more than 200 millio

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Global investors also remain cautious ahead of the U.S. FOMC decision due later in day. The U.S. central bank is widely expected to keep the Fed Funds target range unchanged at 3.75%-4.00%

CopilotKit released an MIT-licensed template for proactive AI agents that handle work in the background, request approvals, and run across web, mobile, Slack and Teams.

Founder Summit, a day packed with practical insights from founders, VCs, and marketers on how to build your startup, win funding, and attract attention in a zany market, is coming up next Wednesday, November 4 in Boston. It’s well worth checking out if you’re in the area; past at

Jio becomes India’s second-largest company in terms of market capitalisation at ₹12.5 lakh crore, replacing Bharti Airtel

SemLoc turns LLM program reasoning into runtime-checkable constraints, boosting Python fault localization Top-1 accuracy from 6.4% to 42.8% over spectrum baselines.

The organisation said restrictions are needed to protect the business of around 15 lakh traders in the national capital.

After making a strong debut on the National Stock Exchange today, the shares of Jio Platforms closed at Rs 1,419, at a gain of 26.81%. Jio Platforms achieved a market capitalisation of Rs 13,06,761.47 crore on its first day of trading, making it the second most valued company on

Bumble cofounder and CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd said on Tuesday a sale of her 12-year-old dating app was important for the “for the longevity of Bumble’s mission” given the way the public markets had treated the company, whose stock had dropped to near $2. Herd said she would “disass

At the interbank foreign exchange market, the rupee recorded marginal gains and touched 95.03, registering a rise of 4 paise over its previous close

India’s deeptech startups can tap AI infrastructure gaps in power, cooling and data movement, but patient capital and global customer adoption will determine their success. A recent debate over investors’ lack of interest in India’s hardware and deeptech bets has brought some lon

Spiritual tech startup Vama has raised Rs 19.03 crore (approximately $2.1 million) in an ongoing Pre-Series A funding round led by Writers and Publishers Private Limited, the family office of Dainik Bhaskar. The round also saw participation from Wavemaker Partners, Silver Needle

OpenAI plans to buy AI chips from Google, potentially reducing its reliance on NVIDIA as it expands computing capacity to train and run its AI models, according to a report by The Information. The planned purchase could strengthen Google’s Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) business, w

Earnings Call Insights Financials Visa expects FY 2027 adjusted net revenue growth in the low double digits while projecting strong VAS growth in the low- to mid-20s Oct 27, 2026, 10:01 PM ETVisa Inc. (V) Stock, VISA:CA Stock, ZV:CA StockAI-Generated Earnings Calls Insights Earni

A new venture to clone military dogs seems more like entertainment than a genuine attempt to solve the many real-world problems we face

US private capital group in talks with Elliott over what would be among the booming sector’s biggest deals this year

Unlimited campaign donations are driving large volumes of political advertising ahead of the November midterms