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The annual Global Fintech Festival 2026 kicked off on a glitzy note yesterday. As usual, the first day saw Indian fintech startups, from BharatPe to PhonePe, unveil a plethora of new launches and products for consumers and merchants. Moving beyond payments, the day saw a wave of

'An injustice' or 'righting a wrong': British Jews debate sanctions move - Published From his home in the occupied West Bank settlement of Efrat, British-Israeli Rabbi Leo Dee wrote an open letter to Andy Burnham on Wednesday, accusing him of deciding "to single out Jewish Israel

Lady Joan's death linked to lack of medication - Published A private hospital's failure to provide preventative medication contributed to the death of Lady Joan Branson, an inquest has concluded. The 80-year-old, who was married to Sir Richard Branson, died on 24 November last ye

Amazon discriminated against pregnant warehouse employees by denying accommodations like bathroom breaks and the option to sit while working, according to a lawsuit filed yesterday by four women who worked for Amazon while pregnant. The lawsuit is a class-action complaint that se

At its Surprise and Shine event on Wednesday, Apple launched a meeting notetaker for the Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4, one of a series of new audio intelligence features that can listen to sounds through your Apple Watch. The feature, called Siri Recap, uses ambient listenin

America | Tech | Opinion | Culture | Charts Fifteen years ago, I wrote that software is eating the world - at the time, a controversial claim. The main prediction of the essay has come true. As a simple measure, technology’s share of the market capitalization among the ten larges

Enterprise-grade PostgreSQL with AlloyDB Omni RPM Orchestrator is generally available Ujjwal Lanjewar Senior Staff Engineer Omkar Deshmukh Product Manager We are thrilled to announce the general availability of the AlloyDB Omni Red Hat RPM orchestrator, that brings production-rea

Apple has debuted the new AirPods 5 with improved active noise cancellation and sound quality—aiming to provide improved listening and user features at a lower launch price than the predecessor AirPods 4. The newest AirPods will go on sale for $129 in stores starting on September

By Heather Schlitz CHICAGO, Sept 9 - Chicago wheat futures fell on Wednesday as the market assessed diplomatic efforts to end Russia's war with Ukraine against continued disruption to Black Sea exports. Profit-taking after a steady run-up in prices also weighed, analysts said. Co

J.D.’s view A potentially devastating bug in Chinese superapp WeChat is the latest security scare underscoring why relying on slow-moving — and often opposing — governments won’t solve AI’s thorniest problems. Instead, it’s falling to private companies to voluntarily step in and

Apple announced the Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4 today. Both include a new “Health Sensing System” and S11 chip that give the devices the “most accurate heart rate sensing in a wearable,” Apple claimed during its fall event. Both watches will use the new S11 chip alongside the new

Traders closely study how pensions funds, controlling $73 trillion, plan to spend their firepower. But lately, the industry’s biggest whales are creating outsized dislocation and trepidation in global currency and bond markets. The excessive market scrutiny and speculation that b

Labor Day is in the rearview mirror, kids are back to school, and a squall of pumpkin spice is upon us. It’s that time again to prepare for the equally inevitable respiratory virus season with annual vaccines. With fervent anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as the countr

Harvey, the legal AI startup that VCs can’t get enough of, has raised another $550 million in funding, this time at a $15.5 billion valuation, the company announced on Wednesday. The round was co-led by Diffusion and Lightspeed Venture Partners and follows the previous $200 milli

Carles Reina was employee #4 at ElevenLabs and its first go-to-market hire. He was also its first investor. He spent the first nine months selling enterprise deals by himself, then built the entire commercial org, and has now moved full-time to Baobab Ventures, the $15M solo GP f

Ahead of the Federal Reserve's September monetary policy meeting next week, President Donald Trump and senior administration officials have urged the Fed not to raise interest rates and, alternatively, even to lower its benchmark. For consumers, higher rates would increase borrow

Samsung Electronics made two moves in two days that both point at the same problem: keeping its memory and foundry lines on the leading edge as AI demand outruns conventional scaling. On September 8, Samsung and ASML announced an expanded partnership under which Samsung will put

Air traffic failure was avoidable, says transport secretary - Published A technical failure of the UK's air traffic control system that has caused widespread flight chaos was avoidable, according to the Transport Secretary. Heidi Alexander told the Commons she had ordered an inde

Alongside the new Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4, Apple on Wednesday introduced a redesigned Apple Health app that takes advantage of Apple Intelligence to make better sense of your health data. The changes deliver a new Insights tab that includes a summary of the most timely

Artificial Intelligence How Heurist Finance built an AI-native investment workbench on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Heurist uses Amazon Bedrock AgentCore to build AI-powered financial intelligence for retail investors. Its flagship product, Heurist Finance, brings several institution

The new target is about 3.6% above the index's latest close. Barclays also expects the benchmark to reach 8,800 by the end of 2027, underscoring the brokerage's longer-term confidence in corporate earnings despite several risks facing markets. For live updates on US Markets, clic

The phantom accounts and suspected irregularities amount to roughly a third of SRG Housing Finance's reported loan book. The company had assets under management of ₹1,076 crore as of June, up 35% year-on-year, according to its latest investor disclosures. "NHB found loans that ha

Apple on Wednesday unveiled the Apple Watch Series 12 and Apple Watch Ultra 4 at its Surprise and Shine event in Cupertino. While the smartwatches aren’t getting a major hardware makeover, they are getting some significant software updates. Most notably, Apple is taking aim at th

In a world awash in AI slop, Apple wants you to trust what gets captured on its iPhones. The company announced Wednesday during its Surprise and Shine event that it is introducing Apple Reference Image, a feature it says can prove whether an image taken with the iPhone 18 Pro is

At Apple’s Surprise and Shine event on Wednesday, the company unveiled the latest generation of its wireless earbuds, the AirPods 5, introducing several upgrades like improved audio, stronger active noise cancellation, and expanded Siri and Apple Intelligence features. One of the

"I think I'll rely on my economists. They're saying 15% to 16% for the year. I think this 18-19% also has a base effect coming in, and FCNR(B) inflows could lead to some abnormal lending," Chaudhry said while speaking at the Global Fintech Fest 2026 in Mumbai. Banks have seen a s

Google is a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Enterprise AI Assistants Peder Ulander Vice President, Product Marketing, Google Cloud We are excited to share that Gartner has named Google a Leader in its inaugural 2026 Magic Quadrant for Enterprise AI Assistants. In

Takeaway: Zone resiliency isn’t a single number you apply to a whole workload. The useful question isn’t “how many zones?” but “how many zones does each component need to survive the loss of one?” Decide zone patterns component by component, use service-managed zone redundancy wh

ICICI Bank informed the asset manager about the receipt of RBI letters dated September 8, granting the approvals to ICICI Prudential AMC. The approvals allow the AMC to acquire up to 9.95% of the paid-up equity capital or voting rights in the four banks. The approvals were grante

Apple today introduced its first foldable device, named the iPhone Duo, at its Surprise and Shine event held in Cupertino. The phone is the first marquee device launched under the company’s new CEO, John Ternus. Unlike early iterations of foldables, which looked like vertical sla

CUPERTINO, Calif.—Apple’s new iPhone 18 Pro is an iterative update that—as usual—focuses heavily on both performance and new camera features. This time around, many of the new camera features are oriented around giving the user more direct control of the image, rather than depend

If strong worker protections are one of your top workplace criteria, you might want to start applying to roles in California. Oxfam's 2026 Best States to Work Index, published Sept. 3, evaluated all 50 U.S. states, Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico on the strength of their minimum

Apple’s new CEO, John Ternus, used the opening of the company’s Surprise and Shine event Wednesday to make its AI strategy clear: The iPhone is already the best AI device out there, and Apple cares more about data privacy than its rivals. The comments come as Ternus takes the rei

Private equity fund Silver Lake plans to merge two of its software firms, as the sector grapples with AI disruption. French firms Cegid, which sells business management software, and Silae, a payroll and HR platform, would combine in a deal that would bring together payroll, acco

Apple A20 Pro powers iPhone Duo, 18 Pro — the company's first 2-nanometer smartphone chip CEO John Ternus takes the stage for the first time. Apple has a new top system-on-a-chip for smartphones, the A20 Pro. The new processor debuted at Apple's iPhone event today — the first eve

The National Stock Exchange of India (NSE) has announced that it will initiate the freezing of its ISIN in the depository system from Friday, September 11, 2026, in connection with the proposed initial public offering (IPO) of its equity shares. In a notification to shareholders,

Off the Wire Press Releases Managed Environment Pairs Parallel Works’ ACTIVATE Platform with CoreWeave’s AI Native Cloud Platform to Remove the Complexity of Deploying and Managing AI at Scale CHICAGO and LIVINGSTON, N.J., Sept. 9, 2026 — Parallel Works, Inc. and CoreWeave, Inc.

Apple launched its latest Pro phones, the iPhone 18 Pro and the iPhone 18 Pro Max, today at its fall Surprise and Shine iPhone event. While the design of the phones remains the same as the earlier model, the upgraded cameras are the highlight of the new devices. The new Pro serie

AI - ai and ml Anthropic reveals fourth likely crime committed by its AIClaude's Felony Bench rap sheet is now as long as OpenAI's - SYSTEMS Samsung to help fortify OpenAI'

QNAP has introduced the TVS-hx77AX series, a new line of desktop ZFS NAS systems combining AMD Ryzen 7000 series processors with DDR5 memory, U.2 NVMe storage, and NFS over RDMA support. The family includes the 16-bay TVS-h1677AX, 12-bay TVS-h1277AX, and 8-bay TVS-h877AX, and QNA

Off the Wire Press Releases Report from Alice & Bob and Hyperion Research informed by 15 interviews with practitioners at leading supercomputing institutions in Europe, APAC, and the US BOSTON, Sept. 9, 2026 — Alice & Bob and Hyperion Research today released a new report on what

(Bloomberg) -- The US Treasury tripled the initial size of its next buyback of longer-dated government debt, in an announcement that was met with initial disappointment by investors. The Treasury Department said it will buy up to $6 billion of outstanding securities set to mature

Nearly every country represented in the United Nations General Assembly recently voted in favor of promoting world maps that more accurately show the size of various continents. But the UN resolution is unlikely to change how millions of people regularly see versions of 16th-cent