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Listen to this article in summarized format S&P 500 fell 19.94 points, or 0.26%, to 7,711.05, while the Nasdaq Composite dropped 140.79 points, or 0.53%, to 26,400.56. The Dow Jones Industrial Average slipped 11.06 points, or 0.02%, to 53,558.38. Warsh's first speech at Jackson H

Early backers continue to dilute their shareholding in Lenskart. Alpha Wave Ventures has now offloaded 2.94 Cr shares of the omnichannel eyewear giant in multiple block deals for ₹1,856.8 Cr. As per NSE data, the venture capital (VC) firm sold the shares at ₹630 apiece to rake in

Affirm Holdings stock closed nearly unchanged on Friday after the buy now, pay later firm reported fiscal fourth-quarter earnings and CEO Max Levchin said high gas prices are weighing on shoppers. "The U.S. consumer undoubtedly sees the higher gas prices, so can't, can't ignore t

Affirm Holdings stock closed nearly unchanged on Friday after the buy now, pay later firm reported fiscal fourth-quarter earnings and CEO Max Levchin said high gas prices are weighing on shoppers. "The U.S. consumer undoubtedly sees the higher gas prices, so can't, can't ignore t

Nvidia denies pausing AI cloud commitments initiative after reported partner backlash — report claims company told cloud providers it could only lease its GPUs to Nvidia-approved customers Why pause after giving $36 billion of commitments? Nvidia on Friday denied a report by the

Corn and wheat prices have surged to their highest levels in more than three years. But the forces driving recent rallies for these two crops are notably different. Wheat futures settled 3.1% higher at 784 cents per bushel on Friday after hitting a high of 790.25 cents, the highe

Newlywed Boulter won't repeat Murray's ring mistake - Published Andy Murray has long been a guiding figure for British tennis, but newly-married Katie Boulter will not be following his lead when it comes to keeping her wedding ring safe. Three-time Grand Slam champion Murray, who

AI - security Industry that built the problem offers to sell you the solution100+ tech giants warn AI attacks are coming, skip the part where they pay for defenses - SYSTEM

Sarfaraz denies knowing about Pakistan threat to end tour - Published Head coach Sarfaraz Ahmed said he and his players did not know about a Pakistan Cricket Board threat to the England and Wales Cricket Board over a Sky interview with the sons of Imran Khan. During lunch on day

If Federal Reserve chair Kevin Warsh wanted to put the bond market on alert, he certainly got his wish Friday: odds of an interest-rate hike by the central bank in its September meeting jumped to nearly 60 percent after Warsh's speech in Jackson Hole, compared to just 35 percent

OpenAI released its official report Wednesday on the Hugging Face breach, offering the clearest picture yet of how an unusual chain of events allowed an AI model to escape its testing environment and triggered a sprawling cybersecurity incident. The report, released more than a m

OpenAI published a technical report on Wednesday detailing how its artificial intelligence models successfully breached Hugging Face last month, an incident that rattled researchers and executives across the tech sector. The 37-page report chronicles the actions that OpenAI's mod

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Shein is expected to price the offering at HK$48.56 a share, close to the midpoint of its HK$47.60 to HK$49.50 range. The deal would raise approximately HK$13.6 billion ($1.73 billion), the sources told Reuters on condition of anonymity because the information has not been public

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Artificial Intelligence Batch write and discover records in Amazon SageMaker Feature Store Amazon SageMaker Feature Store is a fully managed, purpose-built repository to store, share, and manage features for machine learning (ML) models. It provides low-latency online serving for

Training AI models with other AI models has become a very popular goal for neolabs — and now, a researcher in Anthropic’s fellows program has given us an early look at what it might look like in practice. On Friday, Anthropic published a new paper titled “Automated Researchers Ca

The ASRock Rack W890D8-2L2T is a really interesting motherboard because it brings the Intel Xeon 600 series, primarily for workstations, into a form factor that can be used as a workstation, a server, or a data center/rack-mounted workstation. That latter category is becoming mor

* Ivory Coast plans to fix price at 1,200 CFA francs/kg * Smuggling into Liberia, Guinea likely to rise due to price disparities * Ghana to review cocoa prices periodically By Ange Aboa ABIDJAN, Aug 28 (Reuters) - Ivory Coast is expected to keep the fixed price paid to cocoa farm

How England are building an attack to trouble Australia - Published Exciting or too early to say? Any praise for England's pace attack this summer comes with the caveat of the quality of Pakistan's batting - and the fact they are operating in helpful home conditions. But, after h

Apple on Friday increased the monthly price of Apple TV, its streaming service, to $14.99, or $119 per year. It was previously $12.99 per month, or $99 per year. Apple TV is included in Apple One, a bundle subscription that also includes iCloud storage, Apple Music and other serv

Apple on Friday increased the monthly price of Apple TV, its streaming service, to $14.99, or $119 per year. It was previously $12.99 per month, or $99 per year. Apple TV is included in Apple One, a bundle subscription that also includes iCloud storage, Apple Music and other serv

Off the Wire Press Releases TORONTO, Aug. 28, 2026 — Xanadu Quantum Technologies Limited, a leading photonic quantum computing company, announced today that it will establish an advanced photonics research, development, and manufacturing facility as part of Project OPTIMISM, supp

Russia ramps up rhetoric but wants to avoid war with Nato, Western officials say - Published Russian President Vladimir Putin wants to avoid a direct military confrontation with Nato, despite increasingly hostile rhetoric aimed at the UK and other allies over their support for Uk

* Warsh says Fed may have 'work to do' * Dollar poised for weekly gain * September rate hike expectations climb By Chuck Mikolajczak NEW YORK, - The U.S. dollar saw strong gains on Friday, putting it on track for its biggest daily climb in 2-1/2 months after U.S. Federal Reserve

Chrome alternative Brave just added a good reason to make the switch to its browser: email aliases. The feature, announced this week, allows Brave’s users to sign up for websites and other online services without having to share their personal email addresses. To use the feature,

Everyone’s waiting for Nvidia to confirm this week’s most interesting tech deal: A reported $13 billion acquisition of Hugging Face, a platform for sharing open-weight AI models and benchmarks. Now best known as the target for a team of reward-hacking OpenAI agents, Hugging Face

The Treasury Department on Friday moved to sanction the United Arab Emirates branch of an Egyptian bank over its financial ties to Iran. Treasury intends to revoke the access of Banque Misr UAE to U.S. financial institutions, the department said in a statement. Banque Misr UAE pr

The Trump administration’s blacklisting of Anthropic was illegal, a federal judge ruled in an order vacating government directives against the use of the firm’s AI technology. The government illegally retaliated against Anthropic by designating it a supply-chain risk to national

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More British athletes convicted in connection with Baptiste case - Published Three British former athletes were convicted in Morocco as part of an investigation into the sexual assault of a minor by a sprinting coach, BBC Sport can reveal. The prosecutions led to the imprisonment

Wife of man who died after turbulence sues airline - Published A widow whose husband died after "severe turbulence" on a flight has begun legal action against the airline. Lawyers for Linda Kitchen, 74, from Thornbury near Bristol, who broke her back during the incident, said her

Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh used his Jackson Hole speech Friday to answer critics of his muddled July news conference, delivering a clearer warning that stubborn inflation could push the Fed toward a rate hike. Warsh's first pair of news conferences as Fed chairman left

Reed’s view One common response to warnings that a rogue AI could eventually threaten humanity is that humanity will also have plenty of AI firepower available to counter it. That idea just got a real-world test, and came up short. The research nonprofit METR (Model Evaluation an

Satellite images reveal scale of flood devastation in Nepal villages - Published New satellite imagery has revealed the scale of the devastation along Nepal's Trishuli River caused by Wednesday's deadly flash flood, triggered by a glacier collapse. Before-and-after images show ho

During a visit to Johnson Space Center, President Trump on Friday signed an executive order to establish a new commission with the purpose of creating the first national space academy. “It’s clear that we will need to educate and train an entire generation of skilled service memb

Videos show people survive floodwaters on balcony in Nepal A video has captured the moment a group of people stranded on a balcony in Nepal survived as powerful floodwaters rush around them. It's one of several clips BBC Verify has located along the Trishuli River after a deadly