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Speaking at the annual Business Standard BFSI Insights Summit, Ajay Seth said the regulator will work to expedite claims in case of health policies

Gupta said that India's growth momentum has remained resilient despite multiple headwinds, including elevated oil prices, deficient rainfall and El Nino. "If these multiple external shocks had not happened in the last three years, my sense is we would have been at our inflection

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Artificial Intelligence Announcing SOCI-indexed images for faster SageMaker AI jobs Every minute your deep learning container image spends downloading is a minute you pay for and a minute your team waits. Container image download is pure overhead: billable job time that produces

Fish Audio's Realtime STT Claims Top Accuracy at $0.36 per Hour Fish Audio's new streaming speech-to-text claims the top spot on Cekura's leaderboard with 2.21% WER and conversation-aware turn-taking for voice agents. - Fish Audio launched a preview of Realtime STT, a streaming s

You wait decades for a Mac-like desktop for Linux, and then two of them come along at once. AI might be involved, but even so, it's still shiny. ZacOS 9 and Mavernix are two very new, independent, and separate projects, but there is a common thread linking them: they are both br

NVIDIA RTX Spark is a new Windows PC platform for AI development, creation, and gaming in slim laptops and compact desktops. Powered by an NVIDIA Blackwell RTX GPU and NVIDIA Grace CPU, it combines up to 128 GB of unified memory with the full NVIDIA CUDA stack and RTX technologie

Unnamed celebrity accused of 'inappropriate sexual activities', court hears - Published A celebrity has asked the High Court to prevent two news organisations from publishing his identity and allegations that he abused his status for many years to engage, or attempt to engage, in

The company had posted a profit of Rs 62.91 crore in the July-September quarter a year ago, according to a regulatory filing from Allied Blenders and Distillers (ABD). However, its revenue from operations was up 6.8 per cent to Rs 2,085.45 crore in the September quarter of FY27 a

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The company said the year-ago quarter had a write-back of Rs 195 crore in provision for doubtful receivables, aided by collections against past overdue. Its consolidated revenue rose 4 per cent to Rs 8,516 crore, and EBITDA edged up 0.4 per cent to Rs 4,633 crore. The EBITDA marg

Artificial Intelligence Fix evaluation bias to unlock better models on Amazon Bedrock This post was co-authored with Khaled Thabit, Meriem Boughrara, and Mohamed Desouky from Property Finder. The engineering team at Property Finder, a digital real estate application, discovered t

Exide Industries invests ₹150 crore in subsidiary Exide Energy Solutions - Published OnOct 27, 2026 | 22:22 IST - Last Updated OnOct 27, 2026 | 22:22 IST The fresh capital infusion will ramp up lithium-ion battery cell and module production at the subsidiary's greenfield Bengalur

Anthropic cofounder and CEO Dario Amodei. | Bloomberg via Getty Images Anthropic wants to have it both ways. With its impending IPO, it wants to tap the vast riches of the public markets and insists it doesn't want to compromise its core mission of developing AI safely and for th

Artificial Intelligence Exowatt beats frontier models on accuracy with SageMaker serverless model customization Exowatt builds modular, dispatchable solar systems that deliver reliable power for energy-intensive applications such as AI data centers. Its flagship product, the Exow

Kimi Antonelli won the United States Grand Prix from pole on a one-stop, beating Charles Leclerc by 13.078 seconds with Max Verstappen third; the pit wall held against Verstappen’s two-stop undercut. Ferrari had owned the timing sheets until then, Leclerc fastest in Friday’s seco

The PSU reported a net profit of Rs 418.72 crore in the year-ago quarter, the company said in an exchange filing. The company's revenue from operations rose to Rs 31,997.55 crore in Q2 FY27 from Rs 26,704.17 crore in the year-ago quarter. Total expenses during the second quarter

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The News The Africa Finance Corporation named a European-Turkish consortium to build a railway line through Zambia, the development of which will be a major step in the US-backed Lobito Corridor project to transport critical minerals and metals to Angola’s Atlantic coast. The mul

Spectra Logic today announced availability of Spectra Storage Reclaim, a packaged combination of analysis software, data movers, BlackPearl object storage, tape, and services that finds inactive unstructured data on flash and disk arrays and moves it to tape so the primary capaci

Hearing pushed back a day, but project faces lawsuits and other challenges

US Markets | Wall Street traded higher on Tuesday, with the S&P 500 gaining 0.2% and the Nasdaq Composite advancing 0.3%, as chip stocks extended their rally. The Dow Jones Industrial Average bucked the trend, slipping 44 points, or 0.1%. Investors tracked falling oil prices and

On Oct. 20, Amazon said it plans to employ more than 300,000 full-time, part-time and seasonal workers ahead of the peak shopping period, according to a press release. In 2025, Amazon pledged 250,000 holiday jobs, marking a 20% increase in jobs. UPS, one of the largest U.S. shipp

The Dutch multinational brewing company Heineken NV-controlled firm had posted a net profit of Rs 46.34 crore in the July-September period a year ago, according to a regulatory filing. UBL's revenue from operations increased 23.7 per cent year-on-year to Rs 4,623 crore in the Sep

Reflection AI's Beam Ran 1.3 Billion Sandboxes on 10,500 GPUs Reflection AI reveals the raw infrastructure behind Beam's reinforcement learning run and commits to OpenEnv as its future environment standard. - Reflection AI ran ~1.3 billion sandboxes to train Beam, its 501B open-w

Nous Research Rebuilds Hermes Agent Pricing Around Always-On Cloud Hosting Nous Research bundles always-on Hermes Cloud into every paid tier and swaps monthly credit pools for daily and weekly rate limits. - Nous Research revamped Hermes Agent subscriptions, bundling a cloud agen

Ratings agency Icra expects the trend of relatively higher loan slippages at private sector banks to continue in the second half of FY27, even as credit costs are projected to remain favourable and significantly below historical levels

Ripple has struck a deal with Robinhood to expand the reach of its digital dollar, RLUSD, strengthening trading and financing links between their institutional businesses and improving Robinhood's internal money management. The partnership involves using RLUSD to settle instituti

Dispute between current operator and local electricity supplier could kibosh deal

The company had posted a net profit of Rs 495 crore in the September quarter of the preceding financial year. In a regulatory filing, SBI Life said its net premium income grew 8.17 per cent to Rs 26,877 crore during the second quarter of FY27, from Rs 24,848 crore in the correspo

Google DeepMind released its newest world model, Genie 4, in research preview on Tuesday. The latest model generates the most photorealistic and interactive worlds yet, allowing users to type prompts mid-simulation to change the scene. The model also generates real-time audio tha

Hey hey, job hunters (and secret founders) 👋, How many times this year have you closed an application portal and thought, “honestly, I should just build the thing myself”? This week, that thought has a deadline. Applications for SR008, the next a16z speedrun residency, close thi

“Glorified autocomplete” and “stochastic parrot” are terms you will often heard used to describe LLMs in a derogatory way. What constitutes “autocomplete” is in the eye of the beholder, but there’s good reason to consider LLMs to be a different type of algorithm in kind. In this

Dell letting sysadms chat with PowerProtect We may as well start calling it AI Data Domain as Dell is making an AI Assistant available for PowerProtect, the rebranded Data Domain, along with a bundle of other resilience news encompassing identity protection and AI services. Power

On March 18, 2025, Secretary of State Marco Rubio handed the reins of the US Agency for International Development to Jeremy Lewin, a 28-year-old graduate of Harvard Law School, former investment banker, and affiliate of Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency. A

Before we start: I’m in San Francisco this week and also next week. On Wed, 4 November, I’m hosting The Pragmatic Engineer Unplugged at the iconic SFJazz Club, featuring a rare conversation with Diogo Almeida (creator of Jev & co-inventor of ChatGPT), and Bryan Cantrill (cofounde

This morning, Ford revealed that buyers of the forthcoming Fathom—the company’s sub-$30,000 electric pickup truck due next year—will get more than just a truck. Until now, vehicle-to-home technology—like the setup Ford developed for the now-discontinued F-150 Lightning—takes DC p

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

Mozilla is updating Smart Window - Firefox's AI-powered browsing experience - with a new feature that can help you fill out online forms based on your open tabs. As an example, Mozilla says Smart Window can pull information from your online portfolio or LinkedIn page to paste you

Genie 4: A new generation of world simulation Today, we are announcing Genie 4, our new world model, which unlocks unprecedented realism and improves real-time interactive simulation. Genie 4 is natively multimodal, enabling audio-like music, ambient noises, and interactive dialo

Can we trust LLMs to judge whether a research idea is novel? Today we’re releasing Old Ideas, Novel Problems, a new study of how reliably large language models can evaluate the novelty of scientific research ideas. Alongside the paper, we’re publishing a benchmark, data, and code

When will Reliance Industries announce Q2 results 2026? Details here - Edited byAjay Vaishnav - Published OnOct 27, 2026 | 21:42 IST - Last Updated OnOct 27, 2026 | 21:42 IST Reliance Industries will report its Q2 FY27 results on October 30, 2026. The board will review financial

Google DeepMind's Genie 4 Builds Interactive Worlds With a Gemini Planner Google DeepMind's new world model streams photorealistic, playable 3D environments with native audio, live physics, and Gemini-driven reasoning in real time. - Google DeepMind unveiled Genie 4, a real-time

Dell Technologies today expanded its cyber resilience portfolio across AI environments, identity systems, and storage infrastructure. The piece that matters most for storage buyers is now a date: the next Dell PowerStore software release, due in November, adds quantum-safe encryp

DeepVK's new Russian sentence encoder packs 8,192-token context and Matryoshka embeddings into a 149M-parameter model that rivals systems 4x its size.

Parallel Web Systems' Decisions API Answers 100 Questions for $0.001 Parallel's new Decisions API combines fast classification with live web retrieval, returning typed yes/no answers with citations at $0.001 per call. - Parallel launched the Decisions API, a web-grounded classifi

Last year, Google DeepMind sent gaming stocks tumbling with the reveal of its Genie 3 world model. Since then, world models have become a major focus of AI labs around the world, but Google isn’t resting on its laurels. Researchers have been hard at work on an updated model that

- This latest deep dive into Meta’s Privacy Aware Infrastructure (PAI) takes a look at PrivacyLib. - A privacy requirement must hold as data moves through Meta’s diverse data and processing systems. Historically, supporting a new requirement meant implementing the same enforcemen

As AI adoption expands globally, people across languages and cultures are using it in more aspects of their daily lives. General-purpose language models serve as a powerful foundation, but they sometimes lack the local knowledge, cultural nuance, and precision a particular applic