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China’s industrial profits grew at their strongest pace in months as AI-related manufacturing surged, though analysts warned of a growing economic divide. Earnings at large industrial companies jumped by more than 15% year-on-year in the first nine months of 2026 as China flooded

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

Gemini Robotics Embodied Reasoning 2 is now available on Google Cloud Carolina Parada VP and Head of Deepmind Robotics Adrian Jones Applied AI Blackbelt Earlier this year, we introduced Gemini Robotics 2 — our next-generation intelligence layer enabling robots to think, act, and

The Netherlands said it would cut 25,000 government jobs as part of AI-related savings, among the more aggressive moves yet set out by states seeking to adapt to the technology. The cuts, which represent more than 15% of the overall Dutch civil service workforce, come alongside s

The project will meet the 90 MW power requirement of BPCL's Petro Resid Fluidised Catalytic Cracking Unit (PRFCCU) project at its Mumbai refinery, Tata Power said in a statement

MTF book drops to two-month low as Mid, Smallcap stocks face selling pressure - Edited byAjay Vaishnav - Published OnOct 27, 2026 | 18:27 IST - Last Updated OnOct 27, 2026 | 18:27 IST A recent sell-off in mid- and small-cap stocks triggered margin calls, pulling the combined NSE

Raymond Realty Q2 Results: Profit falls despite strong sales momentum; booking value jumps 98% - Published OnOct 27, 2026 | 18:23 IST - Last Updated OnOct 27, 2026 | 18:23 IST A surge in existing project sales nearly doubled booking values and lifted collections significantly, of

Four Senate Democrats are pressing Trump officials to begin restoring billions of dollars in clean energy grants before a key vote on the permitting deal. Why it matters: The path for the bipartisan bill in the lame duck session just got steeper. The big picture: Before the first

China, reluctant to pick a side in the Iran war, is reportedly being urged by its diplomats to protect relations with Gulf states as competition with the US for influence in the region heats up. The world’s second-largest economy depends on Gulf crude, including Iranian supplies,

AI inference infrastructure startup Simplismart has raised $14 million in a Series B funding round led by Dallas Venture Capital, with participation from NVIDIA, Accel, Shastra VC and Micromax. The fresh funds will be used to strengthen its inference engine and orchestration plat

Caryle Murphy, who won a Pulitzer Prize for her reporting for The Washington Post from Kuwait during Iraq’s 1990 invasion and went on to cover the intense battles of the Gulf War, died on Oct. 19 at the age of 79. Though thrust into conflict reporting, filing dispatches on tactic

The UAE is strengthening economic ties to Canada as Dubai ports giant DP World moves forward on a potential deal to link its global logistics network to Manitoba’s Port of Churchill on Hudson Bay. The partnership agreement would explore linking Churchill and its railway to DP Wor

Parsec Aerospace is in talks to raise around $10 Mn in a round led by Nexus Venture Partners, with participation from existing investors, including Lightspeed Venture Partners. The talks reflect investor appetite for early-stage aerospace ventures, even as their technologies and

Live2.ai raised ₹130 Cr in a pre-Series B funding round led by IvyCap Ventures comprising a mix of fresh capital and secondary stake sale It plans to use the capital to develop its agentic intelligence platform, deepen enterprise deployments, and expand globally Live2.ai operates

QatarEnergy agreed to buy up to 4 million tons a year of US LNG from Houston-based Cheniere, the latest deal to further the company’s aim to become the world’s largest gas trader. State-owned energy producers in the Gulf have been on a deal spree this year, securing gas supplies

Maya Research has released Maya 2 Native, an open-weight text-to-speech model that generates speech in 12 languages, including 11 Indian languages and English. The model supports real-time audio streaming and voice cloning, allowing developers to build multilingual voice applicat

Shares of Ola Electric surged on Tuesday, October 27, rising 16.3% to close at ₹34.80 apiece. The rally marked the stock’s biggest single-day gain since April. Although there was no immediate fundamental trigger behind the rebound, a sharp spike in trading volumes helped the stoc

Stocks are up, oil is down. By US President Donald Trump’s oft-repeated measure of success, Monday’s meeting between Saudi, Pakistani, and Turkish security officials and Iranian leaders in Tehran delivered results. Saudi stocks rose 3.4%, their biggest gain in 13 months, while oi

Troovy has raised ₹100 Cr in a Series B round led by Fireside Ventures to expand manufacturing, launch new snack categories and strengthen offline distribution Troovy plans to expand into namkeen, cookies and biscuits from January 2027, while building its offline presence across

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Every workspace collects projects nobody touches anymore. A prototype from a hackathon. An internal tool built by someone who left in the spring. A landing page for a campaign that ended months ago. Many of them are still published, still connected to data, and mostly forgotten.

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

Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus is a thought-provoking novel about ambition, gender inequality, motherhood, and the courage to challenge social expectations. Set in the 1960s, the story follows Elizabeth Zott, a brilliant chemist whose professional ambitions are constantly

Roblox accused of downloading 145GB of 3D assets, including adult content, for AI training purposes during scraping spree — 1,000 files scraped by automated crawler that ignored Open3DLab's site rules Another crawler vacuuming up the internet for undisclosed reasons Independent 3

A version of this article first appeared in the CNBC Property Play newsletter with Diana Olick. Property Play covers new and evolving opportunities for the real estate investor, from individuals to venture capitalists, private equity funds, family offices, institutional investors

For investors lucky enough to land shares in Jio Platforms Ltd.’s $3.1 billion IPO, trading on the unofficial market is fuelling hopes of a big debut pop. Billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s digital and telecommunications giant has attracted stellar demand across investor categories ahea

Anthropic, the company behind AI assistant Claude, faces a copyright infringement lawsuit over the alleged unauthorised use of 274 Elvis Presley songs to train its AI models. The lawsuit was filed on October 23 in the US District Court for the Northern District of California, alo

Indian equity benchmarks ended largely flat on Tuesday, 27 October as elevated crude oil prices kept investor sentiment cautious, with market participants awaiting the US Federal Reserve’s policy decision later this week. The Nifty 50 declined 0.02% to close at 22,749.75, while t

This is CNBC's Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox. Hello, this is Leonie Kidd with today's edition of Morning Squawk. The Anthropic effect is lifting the Nasdaq for a second day, after providing a boost to global technology stocks o

(Bloomberg) -- European stocks erased earlier losses as hopes of renewed negotiations between the US and Iran to end their war offset disappointing earnings from benchmark heavyweight HSBC Holdings Plc. The Stoxx Europe 600 Index was 0.2% higher by 11:01 a.m. in London. Construct

dubdub, a swipe-based trivia and puzzle app, has raised $1.3 million in a seed funding round co-led by 3one4 Capital, Antler and Stellaris Venture Partners. The fresh funds will be used to hire across product and engineering, add new interactive formats and deepen personalisation

Simplismart has raised $14 Mn in a Series B round led by Dallas Venture Capital, with participation from NVIDIA, Accel, Shastra VC, Micromax, and angel investors. The funding will help Simplismart expand globally to serve enterprises and cloud providers seeking to lower the cost

SpaceX has reached a binding commitment for roughly $40 billion in financing for AI chips and related data center equipment, the company disclosed in a regulatory filing Monday. In a statement, SpaceX called the deal the “largest committed GPU financing”. Under the agreement, an

Tata Capital Q2 Results: Net profit jumps 51% as loan book crosses ₹3 trillion; AUM grows 26% - Published OnOct 27, 2026 | 17:33 IST - Last Updated OnOct 27, 2026 | 17:33 IST Tata Capital expanded its loan portfolio past the three-trillion-rupee milestone alongside sharply lower

AWL Agri Business Q2 profit falls 2.5% to ₹239 crore despite 26% revenue growth - Published OnOct 27, 2026 | 17:33 IST - Last Updated OnOct 27, 2026 | 17:33 IST AWL Agri Business saw robust double-digit revenue expansion countered by margin compression as rising operational expen

Infosys completes global SAP transformation for Syngenta’s crop protection business - Edited byAjay Vaishnav - Published OnOct 27, 2026 | 17:32 IST - Last Updated OnOct 27, 2026 | 17:32 IST The programme, called Crop Protection Core (CP Core), was delivered jointly by Infosys and

Burnham government looks at fresh requirements for developers as it seeks to head off public opposition to infrastructure build-out

The window between a vulnerability becoming known and someone exploiting it is shrinking. Attackers now use AI agents to find weaknesses in software faster than teams can review it. The defense has to work the same way, with AI agents that find and fix those vulnerabilities befor

Imagine asking an AI assistant to find a customer, negotiate a price and help close a sale, all without typing a single prompt. Voice AI is moving beyond answering questions to taking on tasks, and Google Cloud wants businesses to put it to work. At TechSparks 2026, Naren Kachroo

Amazon and Flipkart have introduced tougher penalties for late dispatches and cancellations, Amazon has also raised a fee it charges on every item sold, and Delhivery has added a per-shipment surcharge for D2C brands, all in the weeks before Diwali. The penalties fall on sellers

The anxiously awaited go-public filing from the $965 billion company is filled with contradictions that, perhaps, wholly encapsulate the AI era. Read More

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

Defence stocks to buy: India’s push to strengthen domestic defence manufacturing could create a fresh growth opportunity for defence electronics companies, with Systematix Research initiating coverage on Astra Microwave Products and Data Patterns with BUY ratings. The brokerage h

India's offices are being reinvented, and Workshaala wants to be the company that runs them. The enterprise workspace provider has set out a Rs 1,000 crore revenue vision for its next phase of growth, built on a footprint that already spans 3.5 million sq ft of serviceable area:

CoRover.ai has listed three BharatGPT models on AIKosh, the government-backed National AI Datasets and Models Platform under the IndiaAI Mission. The models cover multilingual language processing, text generation, reasoning and Hindi speech recognition. The listing follows a revi

A series of moves by governments and companies underscored the growing centrality of data centers in national economies and corporate strategy, despite mounting opposition to the huge infrastructure projects across much of the West. Spain, which has been a hub for such sites than

Global stock markets rose on Tuesday as Anthropic’s long-awaited IPO prospectus renewed hope in the AI trade. The frontier AI firm said revenue had grown fourteenfold in the first half of the year compared to the same period in 2025, and disclosed a $112 billion cash pile. Its $8

(Bloomberg) -- Force majeure has long protected companies from acts of God. Now some borrowers want protection from acts of AI. Private equity firms are adding force majeure-style clauses to new buyouts that could let companies stop the clock on addressing defaults they determine

Israelis cast ballots in a tight election with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fighting to retain power, but analysts cautioned the vote was unlikely to significantly alter the country’s stance on foreign policy or security. Israelis are divided on key issues, including threats

Brazil’s currency suffered its worst daily fall this century and its benchmark stock index plummeted 14% as investors soured on the country’s economic prospects following President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s reelection. During his third term, Brazil’s budget deficit expanded to