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{beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment The Big Story Trump easing methane rules for oil and gas The Trump administration is planning to loosen regulations on methane emissions from the oil and gas sector, and particularly for low-producing, high-emitting oil and gas w

A Delaware proposal to let companies be operated by AI agents would help the firms’ human owners evade legal responsibility for reckless and harmful actions taken by the AI, US Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) told Delaware Governor Matt Meyer in a letter yesterday. Comer, chairman of th

General Motors plans to invest in its Lansing Delta Township Assembly plant to handle future production of hybrid-electric vehicles, the latest move by the U.S. automaker to claw back market share by appealing to the shifting tastes of consumers. The company said on Tuesday that

Trump says US voter fraud is 'rampant' - evidence suggests it is extremely rare - Published President Donald Trump has offered a $1m (£750,000) reward to people who report cases of voter fraud in the US which lead to a conviction. Ahead of the midterm elections on 3 November, Tru

Financial giant Bank of America is reminding customers to bank safely by kindly not sharing your banking credentials with your AI agent. In an email blast to customers titled “Protecting your finances in the Al World,” Bank of America urged customers to never share their username

A federal judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked a Trump administration rule that gives refugees just 10 days to challenge the termination of their legal status. U.S. District Judge Julia Kobick in Boston ordered the administration to halt the enforcement of the rule through Nov. 6

Now that investors have been able to dive further into Anthropic’s IPO filing, they’re seeing the same sorts of trends that helped buoy AI stocks for much of this year.

Anthropic was founded in 2021 to ensure humanity can control AI and benefit from it in the long-term. As the frontier lab approaches its initial public offering, however, there’s one class of humanity that is being shut out of control: anyone who buys its stock on public markets.

Barcelona fined £503 over approach for Alvarez - Published Barcelona have been fined 602 euros (£503) following a complaint by Atletico Madrid over contact the club made with striker Julian Alvarez. Atletico accused La Liga rivals Barcelona of approaching Argentina international

Former Fed governor and University of Chicago Booth School of Business Economics Professor Randy Kroszner said the Fed is widely expected to leave rates unchanged, though he anticipates some dissenters may favor acting sooner because inflation has not eased as hoped. He expects m

The Securities and Exchange Commission‘s publication on Monday of Anthropic’s S-1 form—ahead of a heavily anticipated initial public offering—has led to plenty of discussion of whether the company’s quickly ballooning revenues will be able to overcome its even higher costs. But a

President Donald Trump can’t stop touting the fortunes U.S. energy companies have made during the Iran war, while canvassing the country to support Republican candidates ahead of next week’s midterm elections.

At OCP 2026, I was fortunate to share an Uber ride from the hotel to the convention center with Microsoft’s project manager for the Maia 300, the company’s new in-house AI acceleration platform. I promised that we would cover it, so it is time, because it is a neat platform. OCP

The artificial-intelligence trade carried the U.S. stock market in September. But in October, it is being carried out on a stretcher.

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is investigating whether prediction market platform Polymarket violated a 2022 settlement meant to ban U.S. users from its offshore platform, according to a person familiar with the matter. The investigation is part of a broader probe the

Discord announced on Tuesday it will make some conversations in its public servers searchable and easier to find on the internet. The new update targets conversations in “Discoverable Servers,” public Discord servers that administrators have made eligible to appear in the platfor

Sheila Gulati, Founder and Managing Director of Total Capital and former Microsoft Azure executive, discusses how upcoming earnings from Microsoft, Alphabet, and Amazon will reveal whether heavy AI and data-center investments are paying off. She described Azure as a central model

As enterprise AI investment continues to grow, companies of all sizes are trying to figure out how employees feel about the technology in the workplace. Walmart, the biggest private employer in the world, asked its 2.1 million associates in June that exact question for the first

As enterprise AI investment continues to grow, companies of all sizes are trying to figure out how employees feel about the technology in the workplace. Walmart, the biggest private employer in the world, asked its 2.1 million associates in June that exact question for the first

(Bloomberg) -- Bullish bets in US Treasuries are vulnerable to a sharp reversal if the Federal Reserve takes a more aggressive stance at its upcoming monetary policy meeting. While investors are pricing only a slim chance that the Fed will lift interest-rates on Wednesday, hawkis

One word keeps appearing in third-quarter earnings reports: "resilient." That's the early read on U.S. consumers from various companies that released their results this week. Many businesses say Americans are still spending despite inflationary pressures, though not every company

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Robinhood shares fell 4% in after-hours trading as investors digested weaker-than-expected third-quarter earnings despite growth in options trading and prediction markets. Here's how the brokerage performed in its quarter ended Sept. 30, compared with Wall Street estimates, based

Robinhood shares fell 4% in after-hours trading as investors digested weaker-than-expected third-quarter earnings despite growth in options trading and prediction markets. Here's how the brokerage performed in its quarter ended Sept. 30, compared with Wall Street estimates, based

Wall Street rises as tech industry reports third-quarter earnings

President Trump has increasingly singled out Muslim politicians and communities in a bid to rally his base in the final push before election day. Why it matters: Trump's comments could energize some Republican voters in close races, but the strategy could alienate those who see t

Landline switchover could cut people off in emergency, minister warned - Published Plans to switch off the UK's traditional landline phone network could leave people in remote areas unable to contact help in an emergency, MPs have warned. Landline operators aim to complete the sw

Landline switchover could cut people off in emergency, minister warned - Published Plans to switch off the UK's traditional landline phone network could leave people in remote areas unable to contact help in an emergency, MPs have warned. Landline operators aim to complete the sw

Many AI workloads need only a fraction of a GPU. Giving each one an entire device can leave capacity idle; sharing GPUs lets platform teams serve more workloads with the infrastructure they already have. NVIDIA GPUs already support several approaches to sharing. Multi-instance GP

On Monday, OpenAI announced impressive breakthroughs in mathematics, computer science, and physics, along with what the company says is an evolving approach to communicating its findings. But despite its apparent course correction, researchers who spoke to The Verge are growing i

Boeing will come up short on 737 Max deliveries, casting doubt on its turnaround plans.

The company plans to prioritise expansion of its packaged food business and premium, health-focused and convenience-led products, while improving profitability through scale and operating efficiencies. "We will remain very aggressive on wheat flour and rice," said Shrikant Kanher

And other AI hardware deployments soon to arrive

Broadcom’s stock has gone nowhere this year, but an analyst thinks it and other quality chip stocks like Nvidia will soon start trading at higher valuations.

UPS CEO Carol Tomé says forwarding and logistics grew 17% in the quarter, helped by premium health care and data-center construction. She speaks with Romaine Bostick on "Bloomberg The Close." (Source: Bloomberg)

JetBlue’s stock rises nearly 20% as a new profit target helps calm fears about the airline’s viability.

Boeing doesn't expect to significantly ramp up output of its best-selling 737 Max aircraft until the second half of 2027 as it grapples with a slower-than-expected pace of wing production. CEO Kelly Ortberg said Tuesday on the company's quarterly earnings call that Boeing is targ

Re:Build, the Massachusetts-based manufacturing accelerator that spun out EV startup Slate Auto in 2023, has raised $2.1 billion The company said Tuesday that it will use the funding to “expand Re:Build’s capacity to manufacture hard tech products and launch new industrial startu

Michael Novogratz, the billionaire founder and CEO of the crypto financial services conglomerate and artificial intelligence data-center provider Galaxy Digital Inc., said the anxiety in global credit markets over AI spending is on the verge of easing. “We have indigestion in the

Anthropic Puts Claude Inside Drug Labs, Cutting Review Time by 89% Anthropic details Claude's work across six biotech partnerships and its own in-house drug programs, with early wins in CAR-T, allergies, and regulatory paperwork. - Anthropic announced deep drug development partne

NXP Semiconductors NV, a maker of chips for auto and industrial customers, slid in late trading after delivering a weaker revenue forecast than anticipated, sparking fears that a recovery in demand is slowing.

Defenders across the world face the burden of responding to yet another botched code-execution vulnerability, this time in boot-time firmware used by most of the world’s server vendors and data centers. The vulnerability, with a severity rating of 9.5 out of 10, resides in the Ti

AI - UK ministers had plenty of time for AI datacenter bosses, but none for environmental groups Investigation finds businesses dominated govt meetings while communities were left out of decisions about AI Growth Zones - Humanity can't afford not to spend $800B on AI, Anthropic i

The Nasdaq Composite led the gains, rising 1.18%, while the S&P; 500 advanced 0.60%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 0.05%. AI trade gets a relief rally The buzz around Anthropic’s impending initial public offering helped chip stocks extend their gains for a third straight

Insight and analysis on the data center space from industry thought leaders. Rethinking the Blind-Mate Connection PBMC technology helps liquid-cooled servers deliver higher flow in less space while better accommodating alignment variation during installation and service. Much of

Fields Medal-winning UC Berkeley professor ends graded homework due to AI cheating — says in-person exams are the only solution left to widespread AI use AI has gotten so good that it’s increasingly difficult to differentiate between human- and AI-generated homework. A University

Anthropic’s initial public offering is shaping up to be the largest ever.

Introducing VMware solution on Google Cloud Sunny Dua Group Product Manager Prashanth Bungale Director, Product Management VMware solution on Google Cloud provides customers with more options to transform their VMware estate Many organizations with workloads on VMware are looking

Serial killer Ted Bundy linked to teenage girl's murder after 52 years - Published Authorities in Utah have used advanced DNA technology to link notorious serial killer Ted Bundy to the murder of a 17-year-old girl whose body was discovered by hunters 52 years ago. Melissa Ann Sm

OpenAI’s models have disproved a foundational theory within cryptography, the AI company claimed on Monday. OpenAI also announced two other breakthroughs in physics and mathematics. The findings come after OpenAI released over 700 math papers earlier this month, with its AI model