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Max Financial Services Q2: Value of new business rises to ₹734 crore, total APE at ₹2,716 crore - Published OnOct 27, 2026 | 21:05 IST - Last Updated OnOct 27, 2026 | 22:58 IST Expanding margins and surging annuity sales drove stronger profitability for the insurer, bolstered by

Ferring Pharmaceuticals, the privately owned Swiss specialty biopharma group, has signed an agreement to acquire Gameto, a cell-engineering biotech focused on women’s reproductive health, in a deal valued at up to $1.3825B. The price is tied to development, regulatory, and commer

Anthropic's IPO prospectus is chock-full of details for investors to celebrate — and worry about. The company's bulls are cheering its 1,300% annual sales growth, 900% net revenue retention and 85% implied gross margin. But its bears are pointing to roughly $80 billion in half-ye

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Cognition's FrontierCode 2.0 Reveals Every AI Coder Fails Half of Real Engineering Tasks Cognition's new coding benchmark tests whether agents respect unstated constraints, with top model Opus 5.5 scoring just 45% on tasks maintainers built over 40+ hours each. - Cognition launch

Bitcoin investors cheered as their favorite coin rebounded over the summer. With the turn of the season, they’ve been left with a nagging question: why did the rally fizzle out?

UK and EU officials to discuss freedom of movement - Published British and European officials will discuss the future options for the UK's relationship with the EU, Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds has told the BBC. Officials on both sides are expected to begin discussions ab

The safeguards will be applicable for traders aged between 18 and 20 years, Kalshi said on Tuesday. The category of traders will start with a $2,500 monthly deposit limit, creating a prevention to massive losses that can be incurred on the platform Kalshi will alert new traders w

Beer maker United Breweries reported strong financial performance for the September quarter on Tuesday, October 27, posting growth across key financial metrics, driven by a surge in premium volumes, premiumisation and productivity initiatives. The Dutch multinational brewing comp

The long-running case will continue with Northstar Commercial Partners as defendant

AWS Compute Blog Building document-investigation agents with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and Amazon S3 Files When you investigate a set of documents, you might not know in advance which files you will need. For example, in a contract dispute, you open the primary agreement, which po

Build specialized multimodal models with LFM3 LFM3 is our new generation of Liquid Foundation Models (LFMs), built to be the starting point for specialized intelligence. It brings text, vision, audio, omni, and decision models onto one shared backbone, all in the 2B parameter ran

GM has a market value of around $64.4 billion, according to data from LSEG. It expects to begin trading as a Nasdaq-listed company on November 17, and will retain its existing ticker symbol. (What's moving Sensex and Nifty Track latest market news, stock tips, Budget 2025, Share

Addressing the 36th Conference of State Finance Secretaries, the governor also advised states to make effective use of the State Level Bankers’ Committee (SLBC) forum

JSW Cement Q2 profit falls 1.3% to ₹85 crore as margin shrinks; approves ₹1,078 crore expansion - Published OnOct 27, 2026 | 22:42 IST - Last Updated OnOct 27, 2026 | 22:42 IST Surging revenue and higher core earnings propelled growth, even as margin compression slightly weighed

It is the first time the SHFE has made a metals price available for trading on another exchange. "We have seen a successful start to trading for the new contract, with active quoting and over 550 lots traded so far on the first two active months," an LME spokesperson said just be

Syngene International Q2 Results: Net profit tanks 52% on lower Zoetis revenue, forex hedge losses - Published OnOct 27, 2026 | 22:40 IST - Last Updated OnOct 27, 2026 | 22:40 IST Weaker partner revenue and currency hedges pulled down quarterly earnings, even as sequential revenu

Australia fight back to keep Cummins out of unwanted club... for now - Published Third Test, Cape Town (day one of five) South Africa 329: Ackerman 95, Markram 78; Starc 6-72 Australia: Yet to bat It is the club every cricket captain desperately tries to avoid. Nasser Hussain is

Raises CAD$2.45bn for newly-formed tower business

OpenAI released solutions to three blockbuster math problems that have long vexed researchers. One was a surprise rejection of the Exponential Time Hypothesis (ETH), a durable assumption in computer science that plays a large role in how we understand what is difficult to compute

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Liquid AI's LFM3 Shrinks Six Specialized Models to Run on Your Phone Liquid AI's LFM3 family packs text, vision, audio, omni, and decision models into one 2B backbone built for on-device fine-tuning. - Liquid AI released LFM3: six open-weight 2B-class models for text, vision, aud

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