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This week, I placed orders for a $44,860 Patek Philippe hand-engraved watch, a $12,500 Hermès handbag, a $9,800 Tiffany diamond ring, and a $7,350 Cartier Love bracelet in yellow gold. I don’t need any of them. I certainly can’t afford them. Thankfully, they’ll never arrive. Inst

AWS Compute Blog Observability best practices for Lambda durable functions When your workflow suspends to wait for a confirmation, you need to know whether the callback arrived, how long the function waited, and what to do if the callback never comes. AWS Lambda durable functions

Galaxy Bets Its Data Center Edge on Power, Not ‘Bragawatts’ The company’s strategy emphasizes that “bragawatts” aren’t all equal: a megawatt at the end of a weak radial line has far less value than one supported by redundant, resilient transmission systems. Galaxy Digital, a digi

Edtech company PhysicsWallah reported a 24.4% year-on-year increase in revenue from operations in Q1 FY27, while its losses narrowed 30.7% during the quarter. PhysicsWallah’s revenue from operations increased to Rs 1,054 crore in Q1 FY27 from Rs 847 crore in Q1 FY26, according to

Cochin Shipyard, a leading shipbuilding and repair yard in India, released its financial performance for the June quarter today, post market hours, reporting a 19.4% year-on-year decline in consolidated net profit to ₹151.45 crore, compared with ₹188 crore in the corresponding qu

Japan Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has criticized Russian President Vladimir Putin's first-ever visit to the disputed Kuril Islands, saying they were "inherently Japanese territory." In a post on X, Takaichi said Thursday that Tokyo had "repeatedly requested the Russian side to

Plaintiff busted trying to use AI prompt injection to win court case, hides text instruction in filing — demands AI model reviewing the text should side with him, rumbled because of strange white spaces in text They thought they could get away with it. An individual named Matthew

Edtech major PhysicsWallah’s (PW) operating revenue crossed the ₹1,000 Cr mark in the June quarter of the financial year 2026-27 (Q1 FY27), rising 24.4% to ₹1,054 Cr from ₹847.1 Cr in the year-ago period. On a sequential basis, the company's top line increased 15% to ₹918.8 Cr. T

NATO fighters shot down a drone over eastern Latvia on Friday, the country's armed forces said, in an incident authorities linked to "Russian electromagnetic warfare." The drone was destroyed over the Balvi region by aircraft taking part in NATO's Baltic Air patrol mission. Latvi

Its profit was at Rs 10.03 crore in the year-ago period. Total income rose to Rs 448.87 crore in the first quarter of this fiscal from Rs 353.04 crore in the corresponding period of the preceding year, according to a regulatory filing on Thursday. Awfis has 251 coworking centres

New Delhi sold 50 billion rupees ($524 million) of 30-year sovereign green bonds, at a so-called greenium of four basis points on Friday, leading to an average premium of four bps in the fiscal half-year, the highest since such sales began in the second half of fiscal 2023. A gre

This is CNBC's Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox. Happy Friday. Reddit was announced officially as the next addition to the S&P 500, prompting a rally for the social media stock in early trading. Stock futures are little changed th

Business News›Markets›US Stocks›News›Dow Jones| Nasdaq | US Stock Market Today | Live: S&P 500 ends lower as investors weigh economic data, Middle East jitters LIVE BLOG Synopsis Dow Jones Today | US Stock Market Live: The S&P 500 closed lower on Friday, dipping from a record h

The “region cannot remain in a state of neither war nor peace indefinitely,” Anwar Gargash, diplomatic adviser to UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed, warned this week. But this limbo looks likely to persist. US President Donald Trump is taking a “low-key” approach to squeezin

Even as companies devote more resources to cybersecurity, the number of reported data breaches involving consumers' personal data is on pace to surpass last year's record. More than 471 million million victim notices were associated with data compromises in the first half of 2026

This is almost unprecedented in B2B software Databricks just announced it crossed a $7 billion revenue run-rate in Q2, growing more than 80% year over year, and closed a $5 billion strategic round at a $190 billion valuation led by Coatue. Most of the coverage will lead with the

Recently listed insurtech company Turtlemint managed to trim down its Q1 FY27 net loss 19% to ₹37.8 Cr from a loss of ₹46.7 Cr in the same quarter last year. Sequentially, the company slipped into the red from a net profit of ₹3.1 Cr. Operating revenue jumped 40% to ₹294.1 Cr fro

As Nvidia partners with Wall Street firms to mobilize more than $500 billion of third-party capital for AI infrastructure, the increasingly complex financing underpinning the boom is coming under closer scrutiny. Hyperscalers and their financial backers are turning to bond market

Fintech SaaS company Zaggle’s net profit for the June quarter (Q1 FY27) dipped 33% to ₹17.5 Cr from ₹26.1 Cr in the year-ago period. Sequentially, the company’s profit plunged by 57% from ₹40.6 Cr. Operating revenue grew 28% to ₹423.3 Cr from ₹332 Cr in the corresponding quarter

The yield on the benchmark 6.94% 2036 bond ended at 6.7578%, versus 6.7582% in the previous session. The borrowing rate failed to breach the 6.75% mark, a key psychological level, as sales by state-run banks offset demand from foreign banks, traders said. Indian government bonds

E-commerce shipping and logistics platform Shiprocket’s Rs 1,617 crore IPO ended with strong investor demand, with the issue getting subscribed 99 times on the final day of bidding. The IPO opened on August 12 and closed today, August 14. The company had fixed the price band at R

US imposes up to 100% tariffs on foreign-made drones and components — China remains primary target as Washington moves to reduce reliance on overseas suppliers Foreign drones face steep tariffs. The Trump administration has announced new tariffs on foreign-made drones and their c

Private equity firm Tiger Global Management has reportedly exited The Viral Fever (TVF), the digital entertainment company behind shows such as Panchayat, Kota Factory, Aspirants and Gullak, in a transaction that values the company at $22 Mn. The PE firm is said to have sold up t

On Friday, the benchmark Sensex declined 70 points to close at 78,009. Despite the mild correction in the market, five stocks from the BSE Commodities Index touched fresh 52-week highs, marking their strongest price levels in the past year. A 52-week high is generally considered

In 2021, when much of India was still getting used to ordering groceries online, two teenage Stanford dropouts, Aadit Palicha and Kaivalya Vohra, entered the market with a proposition that sounded excessive even by startup standards: groceries and essentials delivered by Zepto in

The Infra.Market IPO was never easy to follow. It all started with RDC Concrete. In 2021, Infra.market acquired RDC Concrete from True North for around ₹730 Cr, and for a while, the talk was about taking this ready-mix concrete business public. Then the picture changed. One reaso

Older Raptor Lake CPUs are a ‘core part of the portfolio’ for years to come, says Intel — there’s been a ‘sudden inrush of demand’ for LGA 1700 chips due to DDR5 prices Pricing and inventory should “smooth out” over time, according to Intel VP Robert Hallock Intel’s Robert Halloc

Defying the weak market trend, shares of SPML Infra edged 2.3% higher in Friday's trade, reaching ₹191 apiece, following the company's strong June-quarter performance. The company, which is one of India's leading water and energy infrastructure developers, on Thursday reported st

India consumes an estimated 26–27 million tonnes of edible oil annually, with more than 60% of its requirement met through imports. This significant import dependence leaves the domestic market exposed to global price movements, international supply-demand dynamics, currency fluc

The Power of a Positive Market Outlook Robert Wilson’s observation highlights the important role that optimism can play in investment success. Markets are inherently uncertain, and investors who maintain confidence in their long-term view may be better positioned to navigate peri

The race to build data centers is reshaping power grids, construction markets and corporate capital spending on Earth. Now, some of the biggest names in technology and space want to move part of that infrastructure into orbit. This would launch a new frontier for insurers — if th

The race to build data centers is reshaping power grids, construction markets and corporate capital spending on Earth. Now, some of the biggest names in technology and space want to move part of that infrastructure into orbit. This would launch a new frontier for insurers — if th

Iran’s recent reshuffle, as well as its shifting battlefield tactics, suggest it is adapting for a lengthening conflict with the US. Tehran has reordered its leadership in part because of repeated assassinations of its top brass by American and Israeli strikes. But recent moves p

Washington signaled it will ramp up economic and military pressure on Tehran, dashing hopes of any imminent respite to the conflict. The US Treasury secretary said he would soon unveil restrictions “that have never been seen,” while the country’s defense chief insisted a naval bl

The US heightened its trade pressure on allies and lashed out at China, raising tensions ahead of a summit of the superpowers’ leaders next month. Washington said Beijing was running a “Great Transshipment Scam,” accusing some of its closest partners of enabling China’s efforts t

AWS Compute Blog Collecting CPU and memory metrics for AWS Lambda MicroVMs Most production services in AWS use at least two key metrics for service health – CPU and memory utilization. The amount of CPU and memory used by the host (in this case, a MicroVM) can indicate scaling si

Welcome to Edition 9.06 of the Rocket Report! Rocket Lab made a lot of news this week with its quarterly update, and it is clear the company is making impressive progress as it becomes much more than a launch company. But at the end of the day, a lot of the company’s success is p

Bharat Dynamics Q1 profit: Central Public Sector Enterprise (CPSE), Bharat Dynamics (BDL), on Friday, 14 August, reported an over sixfold, or 547.4% year-on-year (YoY), jump in its Q1FY27 profit to ₹118.79 crore. In the same quarter last year, the defence PSU's profit was ₹18.35