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The increase marks a broad based shock to commodity markets, with energy, food and metals prices all rising sharply this year. The World Bank warned that a further escalation in the Middle East conflict, along with continued damage to Russian oil infrastructure, could push energy

After years of resisting, Apple today launched a MacBook Pro with a touchscreen starting at $2,899. The release comes nearly 10 years after the company first tried integrating touchscreens on its laptops, with its Touch Bar on a MacBook Pro, which it later went on to remove. The

LOS ANGELES—Apple today announced and gave a first glimpse of its first major MacBook Pro redesign in more than five years. As rumored, it includes an OLED display and, for the first time on macOS, a touchscreen—a change Apple has long debated. (Former CEO Steve Jobs famously was

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Apple launches new MacBook Pro with touchscreen and OLED — starts at $2,899 The computer is also lighter and has an updated speaker system. Apple finally has touchscreen laptops. At an event in Los Angeles, the company detailed its new MacBook Pros featuring OLED XDR displays tha

Republicans fear that Vivek Ramaswamy's explosive attack ad featuring his opponent's estranged mother could cost them the Ohio governor's race, based on new internal polling that shows him falling further behind, Axios has learned. Why it matters: The poll's findings underscore R

Exa Opens 3.2M Podcast Transcripts to Developers Through One Search API Exa added 3.2 million podcast episodes with full transcripts to its search API, letting agents query 2.2 million hours of audio for free. - Exa added 3.2 million podcast episodes with full transcripts to its

Meta Opens Its Muse Models to Five Universities for Medical Research Meta opens its Muse model family and computer vision stack to five US universities tackling heart failure, cancer, dementia, and frontier math. - Meta is giving five US universities model access, researcher coll

Google open-sourced EGM, a plugin that uses deep-context agents to draft software specs and zero-context subagents to tear them apart before any code is written.

Anil Agarwal says he will leave no stone unturned to invest in Bengal if the right opportunity presents itself; CM says the industrialist made a specific proposal to set up a unit in Asansol

Google's Gemini 4 Carbon Tops AI Rankings and Hunts Security Bugs for Days Google's new frontier model targets autonomous cybersecurity defense and multi-day agentic coding, with early access limited to vetted defenders through the Fairwind program. - Google announced Gemini 4 Ca

One forecaster thinks only the daring will survive in an AI-run business landscape

Malaysia seizes $12 million worth of advanced AI chips hidden inside 30 servers — customs says suspected smuggling network used the country as a transit hub Authorities have seized $25 million worth of chips in cases linked to syndicate Malaysian customs have seized over $12 mill

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Amazon has significantly expanded its Shop Direct program, which lets Amazon shoppers browse listings from other retailers, The Information reported on Wednesday. Amazon currently offers more than 250 million products from rival retailers via the Shop Direct program, up from arou

Following improvements made to Chrome's enhanced autofill last year that included your name, passport number, email address, and physical addresses sourced from your Google Accounts and services like Google Wallet, the feature is now expanding. Starting today, Chrome's enhanced a

Google is making it easier for businesses to connect their apps to its AI experiences across Search and Gemini with the debut of its Connected Apps Platform. Introduced in Gemini and Google Search earlier this year, connected apps let users securely link and interact with popular

Google’s Chrome browser is getting an update that will improve its autofill capabilities using AI. On Wednesday, the company said that Chrome will get an advanced version of autofill that will help users fill out online forms with suggestions pulled from their Gmail. That means C

At the Android Dev Summit on Wednesday, Google’s smart glasses partner Xreal launched its new Xreal Aura wired smart glasses, powered by the Android XR and Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Reality Elite platforms. The companies had teased the glasses earlier in the year at Google’s I/O deve

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Microsoft Ships Copilot Harness to Run Multi-Step AI Agents Without Infrastructure Microsoft's new managed agent harness in Foundry handles orchestration, tools, context, and sandboxing so developers can skip rebuilding the execution layer. - Microsoft launched the Copilot harnes

Dive Brief: - Sephora is tapping Seth Rogen for a holiday campaign that caters to people in search of gifts for friends and family but who are clueless about beauty products, according to a press release. - In new ads, the star and co-creator of “The Studio” discusses his shoppin

Raymond Lifestyle Q2 Results: Profit falls 10% as higher raw material, freight costs squeeze margins - Published OnOct 28, 2026 | 19:58 IST - Last Updated OnOct 28, 2026 | 22:27 IST Surging input and freight costs squeezed operating profitability even as double-digit revenue expa

Budget 2026: Key points at a glance - Published Chancellor John Healey has set out the government's tax and spending plans in his Budget – the first since Andy Burnham became prime minister. Here is a summary of the main points. - One-off £100 payment for up to 20 million househo

The bank had a net profit of ₹329 crore in the July-September quarter of last fiscal

US Markets | US stocks were little changed on Wednesday as investors awaited the Federal Reserve’s interest rate decision and quarterly results from major technology companies. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite traded near the flatline, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose

AI - GitHub powering up four million extra cores to stop its service going down Re-architects site to cope with AI slop-pocalypse - Microsoft faces potential vote: Shareholders curious about its plans to tackle emissions Greenhouse gas output has risen dramatically since the comp

Dolores Huerta, the pioneering labor organizer who co-founded the United Farm Workers and coined the rallying cry "Sí, se puede," died Wednesday at 96, her family announced on her Instagram account. Why it matters: The civil rights legend helped lead strikes and boycotts, fought

Intel’s struggles for much of the past decade have been well documented here and in other news sites, industry analyst reports, and financial research papers. The once-dominant chip maker has been tripped up by any number of challenges, from the growing strength of AMD cutting in

Chancellor also discussed aims to help the public benefit from AI upsides

28th October 2026 - Link Blog GitHub Octoverse 2026. I'm at GitHub Universe today (GitHub gave me a free ticket through their "GitHub Stars" program). EVP Jay Parikh just announced this year's Octoverse report, and highlighted these numbers in particular: This is a pretty stark r

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Long-term customer contracts and rising chip prices point to a change in how memory manufacturers manage multi-year production capacity and capex. The post SK Hynix Reports Record Q3 Results Driven by AI Memory Surge appeared first on EE Times.

Your pay, energy bills and savings: How the Budget affects you - Published Families facing cost-of-living pressures are being offered some help, or "breathing space" as Chancellor John Healey is calling it. The help comes as prices are rising faster than expected with annual ener

Your pay, energy bills and savings: How the Budget affects you - Published Families facing cost-of-living pressures are being offered some help, or "breathing space" as Chancellor John Healey is calling it. The help comes as prices are rising faster than expected with annual ener

Artificial Analysis Ranks Seedance 2.5 and MiniMax H3 in Video AI Benchmark Artificial Analysis just rolled out AA-Video-I2V v2.1, a 1080p image-to-video benchmark with 58,000+ blind human votes across 10 use cases and 10 capabilities. - Artificial Analysis launched AA-Video-I2V

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Foreign holdings of India's index-linked bonds tumble to over 4-month low - Published OnOct 28, 2026 | 22:07 IST - Last Updated OnOct 28, 2026 | 22:07 IST Surging global crude prices, rising US Treasury yields, and domestic rate uncertainty are accelerating overseas capital outfl

If there’s one rule for surviving the AI tech shift, it’s that your learning curve can never plateau. As artificial intelligence reshapes industries and job requirements, IT professionals must keep upgrading their skills and adapting to changing business needs, said Karnataka IT

Off the Wire Press Releases ULM, Germany, Oct. 28, 2026 — NVision today announced the publication of landmark peer-reviewed research in Nature and a strategic partnership with HyperLight Corporation, an industry leader in thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) photonics. The companies

Vedanta is targeting $11 billion in profits this year, Chairman Anil Agarwal said.

The boards of SpaceX and Tesla have each formed special committees to review a possible merger. The special committees, which consist of independent directors, were created at the request of shareholders, according to Elon Musk, CEO and the largest individual shareholder of both

Could the Tesla-SpaceX merger that Elon Musk floated this week pose antitrust problems? One former Justice Department official told Semafor that the risks are real. Antitrust regulators view such “vertical” mergers as pro-competition, the official said — because they can make sup

Elon Musk told Tesla shareholders on Wednesday that, when it comes to a potential merger with SpaceX, he'd already "said everything that should be said." Tesla's head of investor relations told analysts before opening the call to their questions that execs "will not be addressing

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Data-center companies are ponying up to find out which communities will resist them the least. Startup Hamlet has parsed tens of thousands of city council meetings by scraping local governments’ video recordings, tagging comments as friendly or hostile to a potential project. CEO

AI - GitHub powering up four million extra cores to stop its service going down Re-architects site to cope with AI slop-pocalypse - Microsoft faces potential vote: Shareholders curious about its plans to tackle emissions Greenhouse gas output has risen dramatically since the comp

Now ex-vice chair completes uncoupling a year after leaving CEO position