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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

AI and unprecedented demand for compute have fundamentally altered how investors, developers and operators evaluate opportunities

Scale agents securely with IAM Helper Agent Skills and MCP Tools Siddharth Deekshit Product Manager Surekha Balla Senior Software Engineer As organizations adopt autonomous agents to build applications, securing identities and access has become more challenging. Developers relyin

Securely connecting Gemini Enterprise to Snowflake data Pankaj Bajpai Cloud Data Engineer Abhilash Adavi AI Engineer Enterprise AI needs to go beyond simple chat interfaces. To provide real value, AI agents must access your data warehouses to generate actionable insights, all whi

Google announced today its Genie 4 world model for generating interactive experiences using AI. The company says the model has four main updates: It allows for more realistic worlds, lets users update an experience in real time with a natural language prompt, can generate audio,

- The 2026 Python Typing Survey received 1,794 responses. - Type hint use changed little across three years, but checker selection changed sharply. - Among respondents who reported which checkers they use, half selected more than one, and missing library type information was the

Replit's Cloud Agents Let Non-Engineers Ship 250,000 Lines to Production Replit Cloud Agents let non-engineers submit tested pull requests to production codebases, with video evidence and engineer approval before merge. - Replit Cloud Agents now let non-engineers submit tested pu

OneSource Specialty Pharma shares jumped nearly 14% in Tuesday’s trade on October 27, hitting a three-week high of ₹1,589 apiece, as investors cheered the company’s September-quarter performance. The pharmaceutical company announced its Q2 results during market hours, reporting r

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

How much are you willing to pay to keep using your favorite app? Maybe you’ve used it for years. Perhaps it performs a function so essential and specific that you couldn’t imagine what you’d do without it. But when the developer announces an extraordinary price hike, you’re force

L&T’s consolidated order book stood at ₹8,53,514 crore as of September 30, 2026, up 15% from March 2026. International orders accounted for 54% of the total order book, providing substantial revenue visibility.

Let me be clear up front: I'm an AI optimist. This wave is the most exciting thing I've seen in my career. Models that write code, read contracts, and reason through problems that would have been science fiction five years ago. Every week, something new. But here's what the hype

Dive Brief: - Target has reworked its largest home goods private label, Threshold, part of a merchandising overhaul under CEO Michael Fiddelke. Threshold notches almost $3 billion annually, the retailer said Tuesday. - As with other recent efforts from Target, there’s a focus on

Microsoft Ships MAI-Image-2.6 With 1,336 Elo and 2.8x Faster Flash Microsoft's flagship text-to-image models exit preview on Foundry, offering a quality tier near GPT-Image-2 and a Flash variant tuned for high-volume pipelines. - MAI-Image-2.6 and MAI-Image-2.6-Flash are now gene

The non-bank lender’s assets under management rose 26% to Rs 3.08 lakh crore as of September 30. Its retail portfolio, which includes home loans, loans against property, two-wheeler loans, personal loans and business loans, stood at Rs 1.51 lakh crore, while loans to small busine

Department stores are in their element at the holidays, but this year the season will serve as a key test for three major players. The vast array of merchandise at department stores provides shoppers with the opportunity to check a lot off their lists. And they traditionally lean

New unit to enter mass production next year

Sensex fell a little over 8 points to close at 73,599 while Nifty 50 fell over 3 points to end the session below 22,750. Nifty Smallcap 250 index meanwhile surged over 2% while Nifty Midcap 100 index rose over 1%. Here's how analysts read the market pulse Indian equities ended fl

SAIL Q2 Results: Net profit soars 318% on cost optimisation and higher sales; misses estimates - Published OnOct 27, 2026 | 21:04 IST - Last Updated OnOct 27, 2026 | 21:04 IST Strong sales volumes and aggressive cost control enabled the steel maker to multiply its quarterly net p

War is Interested in You by Gideon Rachman. The Financial Times’ chief foreign affairs commentator explores a geopolitical twilight in which the three nations with the largest nuclear arsenals are led by strongmen, allowing autocrats to exploit new gaps in the global political or

[Webinar] How to stop rewriting your agent’s code (Sponsored) Right now, you’re your agent’s context engine. You write the rules files, maintain the skills, and paste in the Slack thread it missed. But hand-curated context goes stale. And when there are conflicting answers, your

As the FCC prepares to vote on measures to harmonize SCS and MSS spectrum this week

The HTSI tech reviewer says it’s ‘by far the most beautiful foldable device I’ve seen’

E-commerce has pushed the pressure of fast delivery onto the last step of fulfillment, where warehouse workers still pack most orders by hand. Third-party logistics providers feel it most, because they absorb seasonal spikes and thin margins while labor stays hard to find, and tr

The solar photovoltaic (PV) module manufacturer’s revenue from operations rose 23.9% year-on-year to Rs 7,518 crore from Rs 6,066 crore in the corresponding quarter last year. Operating performance remained under pressure, with earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and am

Beverage company and cafe chain Chai Point has cut its AWS cloud bill by 58.2%. Dharmendra Raghuvanshi, Chai Point's director and head of digital transformation, shared the numbers in a LinkedIn post. Raghuvanshi says the company’s monthly AWS bill fell from $10,877 to $4,550 ove

First 7MW phase due live in early 2028, to host Vera Rubin GPUs

AM Green will supply around 70,000 tonnes of green ammonia annually over five years, with the potential to extend the term for additional supply.

The Federal Trade Commission has indicated to Cintas, which is seeking to buy its rival Unifirst in a $5 billion deal, that it will sue to block the transaction, according to people familiar with the matter. The regulator has not voted on the decision, and a formal “last-rites” m