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The Maharashtra Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has reportedly suspended the licences of 14 “food business establishments” linked to quick commerce platforms Blinkit, Zepto and Instamart. As per news agency PTI, the licences were suspended after a state-wide inspection drive u

Afghan women tell the BBC their lives are unrecognisable after five years of Taliban rule - Published Five years on from the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan, women and girls have told the BBC their lives are unrecognisable under the rule of the regime. The hard-line Islamist grou

The 10-year U.S. Treasury note yield rose on Friday after the latest retail sales figures missed expectations and the U.S. said its naval blockade of Iranian ports could continue "indefinitely." The 10-year yield — the key benchmark for U.S. government borrowing — rose more than

Neo Wealth Partners, set up by former Edelweiss Financial chief executive officer Nitin Jain, has invested Rs 230 crore for the stake, valuing Keertana at 2.3 times its net worth of Rs 920 crore, underscoring the institutional interest for collateral-backed lending platforms in I

With slow progress on the complex deals, Nvidia’s chief executive officer, Jensen Huang, decided to change tack: He went public this week with the effort, saying the group is aiming to collectively finance AI computing deals totaling $500 billion — a round figure with no obvious

Updated August 14, 2026: Dell Pro Precision 7 16 Intel added to Also Tested following its review. Originally published earlier today. Prices noted are as tested at review time; this market moves quickly, so check vendor configurators before buying. Every laptop ranked here has be

The loan is likely to be priced at 110-115 basis points over the secured overnight financing rate (SOFR), with more banks expected to join the syndication, according to people familiar with the matter. ICICI Bank has the option to increase the loan size if demand is strong. "BofA

Off the Wire Press Releases SUNNYVALE, Calif., Aug. 14, 2026 — Cerebras has announced that it is powering Ultrafast mode, a new service tier in the OpenAI API for GPT-5.6 Sol. Available initially in limited preview to OpenAI customers, Ultrafast runs GPT-5.6 Sol at up to 750 outp

Foreign currency assets in the same week rose $9.9 billion to $574.6 billion, while the valuation of gold reserves rose $3.9 billion to $108.7 billion. Last week, reserves rose by $10 billion. At its current levels, total reserves have declined from their peak of $728 billion ear

The first flight of the largest battery-electric aircraft to take to the skies lasted nearly half an hour while costing just $5 of electricity. That aviation feat comes at a time when jet fuel prices have skyrocketed because of the US war with Iran. The test flight of Heart Aeros

Lamborghini on Friday launched the Revuelto SV, a limited-edition hybrid version of its V12 Revuelto that's the fastest and most powerful car ever built at its factory. The model is the latest in Lamborghini's storied "SV" line, which began 55 years ago with the Miura SV and has

Online travel aggregator (OTA) platform EaseMyTrip announced its financial results for the Q1 FY27. The company’s operating revenue grew 18.5% year-on-year, while it slipped into the red, reporting a net loss of Rs 11.7 crore. EaseMyTrip’s operating revenue grew 18.5% year-on-yea

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Two dead after light aircraft crash - Published Two people have died following a light aircraft crash in north Wales. The aircraft was found in a remote location close to Trawsfynydd, Gwynedd, with the two people on board pronounced dead at the scene, North Wales Police said. The

Alphabet is by far the largest single institutional shareholder in SpaceX following the company's $86 billion IPO in June, a Reuters analysis of public quarterly filings found. Other investors who disclosed their holdings after the IPO include early backer Fidelity Investments, S

Land Banking Explained: A Novel Strategy for Data Center Expansion Data center land banking reshapes industry growth by securing land for future expansion as demand surges and site selection challenges intensify. Public attention to data center expansion primarily focuses on acti

The Scene Warner Music Group CEO Robert Kyncl joins Mixed Signals — with Semafor business editor Liz Hoffman filling in for Ben — to explain what a record label actually does in a world where anyone can upload a song to Spotify. Max and Liz ask Robert why Warner struck a deal wit

At FMS 2026, we saw a really neat system. The Supermicro ASG-4116S-NU160R is a single-socket AMD EPYC server that sports 160x U.2 NVMe drive bays. Taking only 4U of space, and combined with even “just” 122-128TB class NVMe SSDs, like the Solidigm D5-P5336 122.88TB NVMe SSD we rev

James Talarico’s Senate campaign is celebrating an endorsement from an unlikely political figure — a Texas attorney who once accused Republican Senate nominee Ken Paxton of stealing his $1,000 Montblanc pen. Joe Joplin’s pen, a gift from his wife, became a source of controversy a

Patanjali Foods shares will be in focus on Monday's trade after the company reported a strong set of June-quarter numbers, with consolidated net profit jumping 86% year-on-year (YoY) to ₹335.73 crore, compared with ₹180.36 crore in the corresponding quarter last year. The company

A judge has identified what appears to be the first time a US plaintiff has attempted to hide text in court filings that only an artificial intelligence system can read in a bid to win a case. In a decision published last week, Connecticut judge Walter Spader Jr. confirmed that t

Stephen Bear jailed over sex offender breaches - Published Reality TV contestant Stephen Bear taunted police by "bragging" he was on a beach in Brazil while he breached his requirements as a sex offender, a court has heard. He was not on the run during the trip last year, but und

Off the Wire Press Releases Applying quantum-enabled optimization to some of defense’s toughest mission-planning challenges. Aug. 14, 2026 — Davidson and Strangeworks have announced a cutting-edge collaboration centered on quantum-enabled optimization. The advanced technology fir

A state court in Washington this week ordered Kalshi to stop offering sports gambling and a variety of other wagers on its prediction market. King County Superior Court Judge John McHale issued a preliminary injunction in response to a lawsuit filed against Kalshi by the state of

Indonesia is taking charge of its AI future. This week, the Ministry of Communication and Digital Affairs (Komdigi), Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison (Indosat or IOH), NVIDIA and Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM) launched the UGM Indosat NVIDIA AI Technology Center (NVAITC) in Yogyakarta —

After its cloud storage provider went defunct, a PBS affiliate decided to sue a data center provider to regain access to 50TB of TV shows, videos, and other data dating back 70 years. As reported this week by Current, a trade newspaper covering public broadcasting, St. Louis affi

Activists try to deliver aid to Palestinians in homes besieged by Israeli settlers - Published Activists have tried to deliver supplies to Palestinians whose homes in the occupied West Bank have been besieged for days by Israeli settlers. The group left water and food near one of

In a whitewashed basement in a village south of Kabul, a dozen young women bustle about, stirring cauldrons of bubbling cherries and plums, and sticking labels on glass jam jars. Ventures like this are one of the rare spaces where women are still able to gain skills and employmen

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Instagram’s wordmark is iconic. Well, was iconic. Apparently Instagram thought it looked old, so the company rolled out a new one this week. It doesn’t look like the old Instagram wordmark. It doesn’t even look like it spells Instagram anymore. And we cannot figure out why Instag

Off the Wire Press Releases MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Aug. 14, 2026 — Lightmatter has announced the launch of the Open Silicon Photonics for AI Systems initiative as an official workstream within the Open Compute Project (OCP), in collaboration with an expanded coalition that now in

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Financing the AI Boom 3 Nvidia, Guarantor of Last Resort Last November, in Bubble Trouble 2, we looked at AI chips as the font of a new asset class. At the time, their prices weren’t going up, hence the cautionary title. But nine months is a long time in AI and as demand for comp

A group that includes Jeff Bezos has struck a deal with Fenway Sports Group to become minority owners in Liverpool Football Club, FSG said Friday. The deal is the Amazon founder's first investment in a sports property. The consortium will buy roughly one-third of the Premier Leag

Google will now allow you to remove visible watermarks from the images, videos, and music made with AI tools. With the update, you can toggle off a new “Media watermark” setting in Gemini and Google’s AI video generator, Flow. You can now turn off Google Gemini’s visible watermar