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The European Union gained new powers to inspect AI models, restrict EU market access and fine model providers, raising the stakes for U.S. companies like Anthropic and OpenAI and Google. Under the powers that came into effect on Sunday, the Commission, the EU's executive arm, can

Education-focused NBFC Avanse Financial Services has reported a 31% YoY uptick in its net profit for the first quarter of the ongoing fiscal year (Q1 FY27) to ₹154.3 Cr from ₹118 Cr in the year-ago period. Sequentially, its net profit dipped by 8% from ₹168.1 Cr in the previous q

Trying to make sense of enterprise data can often feel like searching for a needle in a haystack. For brands like Bata, the challenge was never the lack of data, but too much of it scattered across disconnected systems. Sales, inventory, pricing, footfall and seasonal demand all

China's domestic tourism market is weakening faster than expected, clouding one of the few bright spots in the country's sluggish consumer economy. Hilton China said last week it now expects revenue per available room (RevPAR) to fall by low single digits this year, worse than ex

Hideo Kojima unveils a Death Stranding 2-themed wireless CD player — Limited edition device costs ~$160, comes with Bluetooth 5.3 & exclusive artwork Like if someone combined an orange N64 and a GameCube. Legendary video game designer Hideo Kojima, through his studio Kojima Produ

AI - ai and ml China turns up the heat with open model blitz as US model makers panicFor the first time, Alibaba's Qwen team is letting its 'Max' model out of the API pen; meanwhile, DeepSeek V4-Flash gives new meaning to chea

Grab 32GB of Corsair DDR5 for an effective $230 right now in this 9950X3D combo deal — Newegg RAM bundle ships with 16-core AMD X3D chip alongside an MSI X870E board and a free 240mm cooler for $1,308 A powerful bundle to bring the cost of DDR5 memory down RAM bundles are becomin

Leopold’s Fall Situational Awareness and Amaranth 20 Years Apart Programming note: As in prior years, expect interrupted coverage over August. I am currently in Croatia, before heading through Slovenia into Italy. I am perfectly accessible though… any ideas, comments, or feedback

Used car retailing platform Spinny is preparing for its planned initial public offering (IPO) by converting into a public company. The board has passed a special resolution to change the name of its parent entity from Valuedrive Technologies Private Limited to Valuedrive Technolo

Electric two-wheeler manufacturer Ather Energy announced its Q1 FY27 results today. During the period, the company reported 89% year-on-year growth in its operating revenue. At the same time, the losses for the Bengaluru-based company narrowed by 71% to Rs 51 crore. Ather’s reven

The News GRAND HAVEN, Mich. — Standing outside a beachfront restaurant on the shores of Lake Michigan, Mike Rogers didn’t want to talk much about national politics. How would he vote on the multiple Senate-approved measures to condemn President Donald Trump’s tariffs? “I don’t kn

The surge of powerful Chinese open-weight AI models has sparked a feud in Silicon Valley and Washington over whether they are threats to U.S. national security or essential parts of the expanding AI economy. Entrepreneurs and politicians are taking sides — arguing for either unfe

It’s so hard for big businesses to get AI tools working reliably that whole new organizations of forward-deployed engineers or FDEs — specialists who drop into a company to get its AI systems up and running — are springing up to help them. “AI, paradoxically, increases the demand

Ten years later, the iconic GTX 1080 Ti still holds up in 1080p gaming, but not without showing its age — Redux testing highlights the wonders of 11GB VRAM & the woes of time A card worthy of the GOAT status. Few names echo in the aisles of tech cathedrals like the legendary GTX

Meta’s earnings were a bit disappointing; future promises about AI products were more disconcerting. Subscribe to Stratechery Plus for full access. Already subscribed? $15 / month or $150 / year With Stratechery Plus you get access to the subscriber-only Stratechery Update and St

EV maker Ather Energy narrowed its consolidated net loss by 71% to ₹51.1 Cr in the quarter ended June 30 (Q1 FY27) from ₹178.2 Cr a year earlier. On a sequential basis, its loss declined 49% from ₹100.2 Cr. Operating revenue surged 89% YoY and 4% QoQ to ₹1,216.9 Cr. Including oth

Battery swapping startup Battery Smart is gearing up for its IPO and is likely to file the DRHP in September or October. A PTI report, citing sources, said the Delhi NCR-based startup plans to include its FY26 and June quarter financials in the filing. Battery Smart reportedly ex

Credit: DIGITIMES Major memory suppliers are increasing capital spending as AI-related demand from U.S. technology companies accelerates, but Kioxia is keeping investment comparatively tight... Keep me signed in Some subscribers prefer to save their log-in information so they do

AI - ai and ml China turns up the heat with open model blitz as US model makers panicFor the first time, Alibaba's Qwen team is letting its 'Max' model out of the API pen; meanwhile, DeepSeek V4-Flash gives new meaning to chea

Pune based Matel Motion & Energy Solutions has raised Rs 130 crore (around $15 million) in a Series B funding round led by UC Impower. The round also saw Catamaran join as a new investor, while existing investor Transition VC also participated. In May 2024, Matel had raised $4 mi

Only one-third of American workers expect AI to improve their jobs, according to new polling from Groundwork Collaborative, a liberal group, and Ipsos. There’s a clear divide across income brackets: Four in 10 of those making $100,000 or more expect AI to make their jobs better,

Most retail organizations can answer a version of this question with reasonable confidence: how is our AI performing? They have dashboards, interaction reports, and conversion comparisons that tell them how shoppers engage with AI tools once they arrive. What most cannot answer i

Retail and eFulfillment run on a single and simple promise: if the system says it's in stock, it ships. Most operations fall short of keeping that promise not because of poor processes or undertrained staff, but because the data underneath those processes is wrong. According to A

Cloud Region Migration: Optimize Costs, Latency, and Compliance Cloud region migration helps businesses optimize costs, improve latency, and meet compliance needs. Learn how to plan and execute seamless transitions. Migrating to the cloud is rarely a one-and-done process. Organiz

Oil prices fell Monday in Asia trading as investors pared geopolitical risk premiums after U.S. President Donald Trump said he had called off a planned strike on Iran. West Texas Intermediate futures for September delivery declined 5.05% to $80.39 per barrel as of 4:44 a.m. ET. B

Man arrested after death of nine-year-old girl found injured in industrial estate ByGraeme Ogston Tayside and Central reporter - Published A man has been arrested after the death of a nine-year-old girl who was found with serious injuries in Arbroath. Officers were called to the

AstraZeneca shares dropped as much as 7% after a report that the U.K.'s largest drugmaker was in talks with U.S. peer Bristol Myers Squibb over a megadeal that, if completed, could value the companies at roughly $400 billion. AstraZeneca declined to comment. Bristol Myers Squibb

Chavda Infra Ltd 's board of directors will meet on Thursday, 6 August 2026, at the company's registered office to consider and approve several proposals, said the company in an exchange filing.The agenda included recommending the issue of bonus shares, subject to the necessary a

Search fieldHome page Seeking Alpha - Power to InvestorsAbout PremiumCreate free accountSearch for Symbols, analysts, keywordsLog in Energy TotalEnergies to acquire Shell's European onshore renewables portfolio Aug 03, 2026, 4:42 AM ETTotalEnergies SE (TTE) Stock, SHEL StockKK

Professional education company Imarticus Learning has acquired Singapore based BELLS Institute of Higher Learning. The acquisition brings together two institutions focused on professional education and workforce development. Imarticus Learning, which says it has served over 1 mil

According to Reuters, EY expects the UK economy to expand by 0.8% in 2026 if the vital shipping route reopens by the end of September, before growing 1.2% in 2027 under its base-case scenario. However, EY's downside scenario paints a much weaker outlook if the Strait of Hormuz re

U.S. Treasury yields followed oil prices lower on Monday as investors monitor signs of de-escalation in the Iran conflict. The yield on the 10-year U.S. Treasury note — the key benchmark for U.S. government borrowing — fell over 1 basis point to 4.688%. The 2-year Treasury note y

Stock futures inch up ahead of earnings, labor dataAug 03, 2026, 4:38 AM ETS&P 500 Futures (SPX), INDU, US100:INDCOST, DIS, MCD, AMD, BIIB, BMY, DVN, MGM, EQIX, GL, J, FRT, PSX, HLT, PLTR, US10Y, US2Y, US30YBy: Sinchita Mitra, SA News Editoralexsl Stock index futures were higher

Ahead of the IPO, LEAP India's grey market premium (GMP) stood at around 5% over the upper end of the price band, indicating moderate investor interest. The Rs 2,480 crore IPO comprises a fresh issue of 3.02 crore equity shares worth Rs 480 crore and an offer for sale (OFS) of 12