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Crude oil is back above $90 and energy stocks in the S&P 500 index are approaching fresh 52-week highs as the group's year-to-date rally surpasses 40%. Despite energy stocks holding the title as the best-performing sector in the S&P 500 in 2026, options traders seem unconvinced t

AI - AI+ML Google DeepMind rises above the AI scrum with genome atlasSee, AI can be used for good ... or at the very least, a useful distraction from the bad - AI and ML Am

Huawei and Xiaomi this week rolled out their latest foldable phones as the Chinese tech giants look to steal a lead on rival Apple, which is rumored to launch its first foldable iPhone on Wednesday. Xiaomi, the world's third-largest smartphone player, introduced the Xiaomi 18 Fol

Huawei and Xiaomi this week rolled out their latest foldable phones as the Chinese tech giants look to steal a lead on rival Apple, which is rumored to launch its first foldable iPhone on Wednesday. Xiaomi, the world's third-largest smartphone player, introduced the Xiaomi 18 Fol

Sixty years after television audiences first tuned in to see the voyages of the Starship Enterprise, an astronaut on board the International Space Station has paid tribute to Star Trek by flying the badge of the franchise’s latest fictional captain. Expedition 75 flight engineer

OpenAI announced ChatGPT Images 2.5 on Tuesday and is adding a new way to tell ChatGPT what you want it to make an image of: by drawing a doodle. With a new feature called Sketch, you can just draw something right inside ChatGPT and then tell ChatGPT how you want it to make an im

The S&P 500 fell 0.58% to 7,673.94, while the Nasdaq Composite declined 0.31% to 26,423.69. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was the biggest laggard, dropping 1.16% to 52,797.10. Software stocks were among the main drags on the market. Salesforce, ServiceNow and Intuit fell, send

Qualcomm shares rose 3% on Tuesday after the company announced a data center infrastructure partnership with Amazon Web Services, a major win as the chipmaker tries to take on Nvidia in the artificial intelligence market. As part of the agreement, Qualcomm said in a filing with t

Qualcomm shares rose 3% on Tuesday after the company announced a data center infrastructure partnership with Amazon Web Services, a major win as the chipmaker tries to take on Nvidia in the artificial intelligence market. As part of the agreement, Qualcomm said in a filing with t

Late last week, word started leaking that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) had reached an agreement with the Department of Defense that would see part of the NIH’s budget used to fund research at the Department of Defense. So, on the Friday just prior to a US holiday weeke

First, Anthropic updated Fable and Mythos. Then came model enhancements from Meta and Google. OpenAI followed suit by releasing GPT-6 Astra. That was all this week, as a dizzying pace of modifications and upgrades hit the market from a handful of companies that are vying to stay

The News The nonprofit arm of Pod Save America’s audio empire is hoping to lure younger voters back to the Democratic Party by boosting ideologically aligned social video creators ahead of the 2028 presidential election. Crooked Ideas, the issue-focused partner organization of Cr

For research and development (R&D) organizations, the promise of agentic AI is not a better one-time answer. It is a new way to explore complex scientific and engineering problems: pursuing multiple hypotheses, validating them against evidence, learning from what does not work, a

Off the Wire Press Releases New superconducting digital program brings together foundries, system companies and hyperscalers around industry needs in next-gen HPC, AI, quantum computing, photonics and neuromorphic computing LEUVEN, Belgium, Sept. 8, 2026 — This week, at the 2026

* Yen strengthens past 153 before retreating * U.S. CPI eyed as markets gauge Fed's rate path * Oil near six-week high amid Iran threats * Canadian dollar strengthens after retaliatory US tariffs take effect By Chibuike Oguh and Sruthi Shankar NEW YORK, Sept 8 - The Japanese yen

Off the Wire Press Releases SAN DIEGO, Sept. 8, 2026 — Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. today announced a multi-generation collaboration with Amazon to enable customized silicon at scale for large-scale AI data centers, working together on AI inference. In addition, the companies are

In a victory for Republican campaign committees, the Supreme Court issued an order on Friday that forces broadcast TV stations to cut the prices of election ads purchased by political parties and joint fundraising committees. The September 4 ruling came in response to a petition

Off the Wire Press Releases MONTEREY, Calif., Sept. 8, 2026 — This week at the SPIE Photomask Technology + Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography conference, Intel Foundry and ASML highlighted continued progress in bringing High Numerical Aperture (High NA) Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) lit

(Bloomberg) -- Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is set to reveal how far he’s initially willing to go restrain US bond yields via an expanded buyback program that has Wall Street dealers on edge. The Treasury Department is expected to announce on Wednesday the size of the next da

(Bloomberg Opinion) -- The growing list of US credit busts, from subprime auto lender Tricolor Holdings to Broadband Telecom Inc., raises a troubling question: If such “cockroaches” proliferate — if many more enterprises collapse under the weight of excessive debt — who will ulti

The backlash against artificial intelligence data centers could prove a tailwind for real estate investment trusts in the sector. Protests have sprung up nationally as hyperscalers look to build data centers to train and run their AI models. Not only do the data centers take up l

Private equity (PE) giant TPG yesterday offloaded Shadowfax shares worth ₹200 Cr via an open-market transaction. According to BSE data, the PE major, via its entity NewQuest Asia Fund IV (Singapore), sold 80 Lakh shares of the logistics giant at ₹250.03 each to rake in the amount

Leading chipmakers Samsung Electronics and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. announced plans to adopt ASML’s latest chipmaking machines in the next several years—and they also joined Intel in agreeing to a crucial technology change that could boost chip production on the new

Meta introduced its AI personal agent app on Tuesday and is asking a subset of users to pay at a time when the company and broader artificial intelligence industry face intensifying scrutiny and public skepticism. The app, which was given the internal code name Hatch, is powered

Meta introduced its AI personal agent app on Tuesday and is asking a subset of users to pay at a time when the company and broader artificial intelligence industry face intensifying scrutiny and public skepticism. The app, which was given the internal code name Hatch, is powered

Sabalenka fights back to keep US Open defence alive - Published Aryna Sabalenka thought she had lost her US Open crown before leaving herself "speechless" as she battled back to beat Linda Noskova in three sets and advance to the semi-finals. Taken to a deciding set for the first

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Meta is making another push to bring artificial intelligence to the masses with Muse, a personal assistant it says can put AI in the hands of virtually anyone. The product is the latest step in a multi-billion-dollar strategy overhaul designed to revitalize the company’s ailing p

Less than two weeks after Meta agreed to a massive $18 billion multistate settlement in a lawsuit over social media’s consumer harms, the company announced its biggest bet on consumer AI to date — and one that requires significantly more trust than social media ever did. On Tuesd

AI - AI+ML Google DeepMind rises above the AI scrum with genome atlasSee, AI can be used for good ... or at the very least, a useful distraction from the bad - AI and ML Am

* Fed funds futures show 59% odds of September rate hike * Producer Price Index report due on Thursday, CPI report out on Friday * Treasury sees strong demand for three-year note auction (Updated in New York afternoon time) By Karen Brettell NEW YORK, Sept 8 (Reuters) - U.S. Trea

Commentator Tim Montgomerie quits Reform following suspension - Published Conservative Party defector and political commentator Tim Montgomerie has told the BBC he has resigned from Reform UK, urging Nigel Farage to "get a grip" of the party. Montgomerie defected from the Tories

One of the cinematic highlights of 2023 was director Takashi Yamazaki’s gloriously grounded kaiju epic, Godzilla Minus One, which became a major international hit and snagged an Oscar for best visual effects. Yamazaki is back this fall with the hotly anticipated sequel, Godzilla

Meta took days to remove ads containing AI-generated child sexual abuse material (CSAM) on Facebook and Instagram. Some ads featured photos of real kids, including a press photo of a young member of a European royal family and images swiped from a popular Instagram profile of a p

Indian stock market investors are likely to track several companies on Wednesday, September 9, following key business developments, order wins, fundraising plans, stake sales, and other corporate announcements made after market hours. NLC India, HMA Agro Industries, Innovision, R

It's easy to feel trapped by a loaded question. You're on the spot and someone's waiting for your answer — but you disagree with the premise of what they're asking and feel the question is designed to make you look bad. You might feel tempted to answer anyway, and hope that your

Glastonbury confirms ticket sale dates - and highest ever price - Published After taking a fallow year in 2026, the Glastonbury Festival has confirmed that tickets for next year's event will go on sale in October. Tickets for the weekend will cost £408 including a £5 booking fee