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Indian equities ended the week higher, supported by gains in capital goods, metals, automobiles and information technology stocks, even as small-caps comfortably outpaced the broader market. The Sensex closed on Friday 0.58% lower at 78,499.19, while the Nifty 50 declined 0.27% t

Shopify reported Q2 2026 this week and the stock jumped roughly 18% on the news, erasing most of a 25% year-to-date decline in a single session. The headline numbers: - $3.58 billion in quarterly revenue, up 34% year-over-year - $115.6 billion in GMV, up 32%, the fifth straight q

SpaceX said this week that it will build natural gas power plants to supply electricity to the Terafab semiconductor factory it plans to build in Texas, according to a report from Bloomberg. Riley Trettel, who leads energy and data center development for SpaceX, said in a public

The regulator said inspections of stock brokers and depository participants will now be conducted jointly by stock exchanges and depositories. The revised approach has been adopted after discussions with market infrastructure institutions and the supervisory body for investment a

Charts of the Week: Bookslop The Defense Backlog; IT Services, down but not out; Kimi’s Career Update America | Tech | Opinion | Culture | Charts Bookslop We have some more data to consider with respect to AI’s impact on publishing—this time a paper from researchers at Stony Broo

Off the Wire Press Releases PALO ALTO, Calif., Aug. 7, 2026 — QC Ware today announced a technology demonstration of a hybrid quantum-classical computational chemistry workflow using Promethium and IBM Quantum hardware. The demonstration calculated electrostatic interaction energy

Gulf investors are looking to Asia for opportunities in the AI race as conflict in the Middle East and Europe and supply-chain uncertainty raise the appeal of markets seen as relatively stable. Qatari telecom Ooredoo is the lead investor in Zankore, a new AI compute platform in I

US stock indices moved higher on Friday after a softer-than-expected jobs data reinforced expectations that the Federal Reserve is likely to keep interest rates unchanged at its September policy meeting. As of 9:55 a.m. Eastern Time, the S&P 500 rose 0.4%, the Dow Jones Industria

Net interest income or the difference between interest earned on loans and that paid for deposits increased 15% year on year to Rs 46,992 crore. Total advances increased 19% to Rs 50.47 lakh crore in June 2026 due to an identical 18% growth in both the corporate as well as retail

The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 35.8 points, or 0.07%, at the open to 53849.26. The S&P 500 rose 25.2 points, or 0.33%, at the open to 7735.18, while the Nasdaq Composite rose 186.3 points, or 0.71%, to 26534.66 at the opening bell. More to come... (What's moving Sensex and

This year alone, there have been numerous known instances—often via lawsuits—of AI chatbots (most often, OpenAI’s ChatGPT) that have gone horrifically wrong. A January lawsuit described the story of a man who took his own life after being allegedly “coached” into suicide. A colle

Update | August 07, 19:15 IST Logistics tech company LEAP India’s IPO was subscribed 26% at the end of day one. As per BSE data, the IPO received bids for 3.02 Cr shares against the 11.50 Cr shares on offer. Qualified institutional buyers (QIBs) showed the highest interest in the

This week on Tom's Hardware Premium: August 7, 2026 — Inside China's lithography efforts, co-packaged optics get a spotlight, and Samsung debuts next-gen memory tech Here's what you missed this week. In case you've not subscribed to Tom's Hardware Premium yet, here's what you've

India’s D2C fashion ecosystem has become exceptionally good at spotting trends. Brands today use AI to generate hundreds of new designs in a matter of hours, identify emerging consumer preferences and launch collections at a speed that would have been unimaginable a few years ago

The Iran war has made financing Gulf solar and wind projects more difficult, but the economics still stack up firmly in their favor. The region is expected to add 12 gigawatts of renewable energy capacity this year and twice as much next year, according to a BloombergNEF report.

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Brent crude futures fell 75 cents, or 0.9%, to $81.74 a barrel by 11:41 GMT, while U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude declined 66 cents, or 0.9%, to $76.63. Oil futures closed more than $3 a barrel higher on Thursday after Iran began considering legislation that would bar US and

Saudi Arabia is building the structure for a maritime coalition that will conduct defensive operations to secure passage through the Red Sea and Bab el-Mandeb Strait. Rear Admiral Abdullah bin Salem Alshehri will lead the effort, which includes Egypt, Pakistan, and Türkiye. Ten o

ByteDance is training an AI model that could approach the size of Anthropic’s most cutting-edge Mythos system, as Chinese companies continue to narrow the gap with the top US labs. The Chinese tech giant is at an early stage of training a model with as many as 10 trillion paramet

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Wherever two fluids slide past each other at different speeds, the boundary between them buckles, then curls, then rolls up into vortexes. It’s called the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability, and the physics behind it was worked out in the late 1860s. We know this instability explains w

As security deteriorates around the Gulf and prospects for a near-term peace deal recede, regional states are strengthening their defenses. Saudi Arabia, Türkiye, and Pakistan signed a joint military agreement in Mecca today, creating an alliance that includes the second-largest

Multibagger stock: The Indian stock market has produced numerous multibagger stocks in recent years, creating substantial wealth for retail investors who believe that long-term investments are key to achieving phenomenal returns. One such stock in this regard is ICE Make Refriger

In July, I sat among roughly 100 people in a packed conference room in Taipei as a speaker highlighted the industrial parks and tax rates of an American city nearly 7,000 miles away. “There are ribbon-cutting ceremonies almost every week. Everywhere you look, something is being b

A French ban on nuisance telemarketing calls could cost 50,000 jobs in Morocco. From Aug. 11, firms making unsolicited phone calls to French consumers could pay fines of up to €75,000 a call. Morocco’s outsourced call-center industry — built on cheap, Francophone labor with relat

On Thursday, a US District Court in Oregon ordered the US government to restart the process of approving wind projects. All new wind development in the US has been on hold since August 2025, when the Department of Defense (DoD) stopped participating in a process that allows it to

Weekly Dose of Optimism #205 Terraform, Billion-Dollar Rounds, Oklo Goes Critical, Astra Math, Terafab + Extra Doses Hi friends 👋, Happy Friday and welcome to the 205th Weekly Dose of Optimism! Yesterday was my daughter Maya’s 4th birthday and we took the kids to the beach to sp

More European airlines could be the crosshairs of private equity buyers following Apollo Global Management's swoop for EasyJet — with rival U.K. budget carrier Jet2 emerging as a potential takeover target. Anna Macdonald, investment strategy director at Hargreaves Lansdown, said