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Hey friends 👋, Happy Friday and welcome to our 207th Weekly Dose of Optimism. It’s Puja’s birthday — happy birthday Puj! — and I’m taking the day off, so today is both late and light on commentary. Thankfully, the good guys didn’t take the day off - lots to report. Let’s get to

Dive Brief: - Victoria’s Secret & Co. is ushering in new tech leadership in CTO Adrian Butler, the company acknowledged in a press release Thursday. Butler joins the company from Foot Locker, where he held the same title. - At Foot Locker, Butler supported the company through a l

Symbiotec Pharmalab IPO: The initial public offering (IPO) of Symbiotec Pharmalab is set to open on Monday, August 24. This will mark the 16th mainboard issue to hit Dalal Street this month. Twelve issues have already debuted on the exchanges, with all of them currently trading a

The forex stockpile rose $9.905 billion in the week to August 14 taking the kitty to $716.90 billion, RBI data showed, marking the seven consecutive weekly rise. The country's forex stockpile jumped by $49.975 billion in the past seven weeks as inflows poured into FCNR-B deposits

When a 9 year partnership … breaks down in the Agent Era. Podium co-founder and CEO Eric Rea posted last week that ServiceTitan gave roughly 1,000 shared customers about 30 days’ notice that the Podium integration was being switched off, in the middle of peak HVAC season, after n

Tom's Hardware Verdict The Centauri 2 Combo is a stripped-down version of the Centauri Carbon 2 and is a very good four-color, Core XY printer. It lacks creature comforts like lighting, a camera, and an enclosure, which greatly limits its range of filaments. Pros - +Less expensiv

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US stock markets surged on Friday after a sharp sell-off in the previous trading session, as some stability returned to the bond market and helped ease pressure across financial markets. As of 10:45 a.m. Eastern Time, the S&P 500 rose 0.3%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up

America | Tech | Opinion | Culture | Charts Winds of Thematic Change ETFs have become an increasingly prominent feature of public markets, especially for retail. Among other flavors, there are thematic ETFs, active and passive ETFs, index-tracking ETFs, credit ETFs, and all of th

Tom’s Hardware Innovation Awards 2026: Progress amid turmoil Affordable memory and storage are the only missing link. The tech industry faces unprecedented challenges as the continued disruption from AI-driven shortages has driven pricing to record highs and supplies to record lo

Premier League clubs are starting the new season without gambling companies on the front of their matchday shirts, as a league-wide restriction takes effect. The change has forced eight of the league's 20 clubs to find new front-of-shirt partners for the 2026/27 season, putting s

Starcloud, a startup developing satellites that can perform AI inference in orbit, told TechCrunch that it has added a $250 million extension to its March $170 million Series A funding round. The extension values the company at $2.3 billion. The additional capital will allow the

Mumbai: The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) has proposed a new network of fixed-income distributors to take online bond investing beyond big cities, alongside tighter advertising rules for online bond platforms to curb mis-selling and misleading claims. In a consult

Listen to this article in summarized format The S&P 500 and technology-focused Nasdaq were on course to break a run of three consecutive weekly gains. The Dow, meanwhile, was set to record its second weekly loss in a row and its biggest weekly decline since mid-March. Financial c

Tesla is recalling just shy of 3 million vehicles in China as part of a nationwide effort to alert vehicle owners to hidden emergency door releases, which can trap occupants in the event of a crash or a fire. Reuters reported on Friday that 11 carmakers in China are issuing recal

Off the Wire Press Releases Aug. 21, 2026 — SUNY Polytechnic Institute (SUNY Poly) is playing a key role in a new national research initiative led by Rice University, which has received a $19.9 million award from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The project will use artific

Over the past few days, a number of prominent filmmaking content creators including Matti Haapoja and Sam “Kold” Kolder have posted videos of themselves demonstrating what’s possible with AI platform Higgsfield. The videos highlight Higgsfield’s recently added Seedance 2.5 functi

Indian equities ended the week lower, as losses in information technology (IT), telecommunications, and consumer stocks outweighed gains in realty, metals, and private banks. Elevated crude and volatile global bond markets kept investors cautious even as foreign investors returne

Private equity giant Apollo Global Management has confirmed a data breach in which hackers stole reams of personal information from the company’s cloud systems. The breach comes a month after security researchers sounded the alarm on a new hacking campaign targeting financial and

LG enters chip packaging arena with Laser Direct Imaging machine, as TSMC's CoWoS remains constrained — maskless machine is designed to pattern fine interconnects, trading resolution for higher throughput There could be another kid on the chipmaking tools block. As advanced packa

Pune-based green energy startup Greenjoules has raised about ₹62 Cr ($6.5 Mn) in what appears to be an ongoing Series B funding round. While Amazon’s investment arm, Amazon.com NV Investment Holdings, is leading the funding round, Singularity AMC’s Singularity Strategic Autonomy

Gold prices climbed Friday, putting bullion on course for a gain of nearly 5% this week, as bond market jitters, a softer dollar and renewed concerns over U.S. debt helped revive demand for the precious metal. Gold futures rose 1.67% to $4,647.70 in early trading Friday, while sp

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India remains heavily dependent on imported tunnel boring machines, with China among the key suppliers of tunnelling and other boring equipment used in metro rail and highway construction, underscoring the country's long-standing struggle to build domestic manufacturing capacity.

Shares of Saatvik Green Energy closed Friday's session 4.5% higher at ₹419 apiece, as investors reacted positively to the company's latest order win, which boosted its revenue visibility. The rally also marked the stock's biggest single-day gain in over a month and helped trim it

Waymo has sharply increased its lobbying spending as it seeks to persuade US regulators to clear a path for fully autonomous taxi services, intensifying its battle with rival Uber over the future of robotaxis. The Alphabet-owned company spent more than $1 million between April an

The report noted that most projects in Bengaluru and Gurgaon saw higher price compound annual growth rate (CAGR) over the past few years, helping lift overall real estate realization across major micro-markets. "Average realization rose to Rs 9,629/sq. ft (+6% YoY, -2% QoQ), offs

The selloff in bonds was amplified by a spike in crude prices that intensified inflation and rate hike fears for the world's third-largest oil importer. Brent crude futures rose as much as 6% for a second consecutive week to $93.4 a barrel after a 60-day U.S.-Iran interim deal ex

Democratic senator Ron Wyden is asking the U.S. government to review how federal law enforcement agencies use hacking tools and spyware against Americans, citing a lack of transparency into how often or for what reasons these tools are deployed. On Friday, Wyden sent a letter to

If you have an AI agent, you can tell it to build a website, make a slideshow, or get you a table at a popular dumpling shop in Beijing. The dumpling shop, called Jinguyuan, has made headlines in China for creating a “skill” that allows users to check out the menu, seek recommend

A frontier language model is only one component of an AI agent. The surrounding agent system—often called a harness—determines how the model receives context, uses tools, maintains state, responds to feedback, recovers from failure, and sustains progress over long-running tasks.

Unlock Tom's Hardware Premium's Hot Chips 2026 coverage for free — sign up for an account to read technical breakdowns from the show All you need to do is sign up and make an account. This weekend heralds the beginning of the annual Hot Chips conference, and with it come dozens o

As AI agents become more capable and operate over longer horizons, building security and trust into the applications they power becomes increasingly important. Drawing on work with NVIDIA OpenShell, agent developers, open-source projects, and partners across the ecosystem, AI saf

Gurugram Police have registered a case against ecommerce platform Meesho and one of its sellers over the alleged sale of highly toxic ‘Sulfas’, the consumption of which allegedly led to the death of a minor. The FIR was registered following a complaint by Anuradha Mehra, a reside

LG Display introduces new OLED deposition technique that uses lithography instead of metal masks — "FLiPP" photolithography delivers 1.6x brightness and 2.4x longer lifespan LG describes it as a dream OLED display. LG Display has just unveiled perhaps the biggest innovation in OL

This is CNBC's Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox. Happy Friday. Another week, another ownership deal for a major league sports team. Two sources told CNBC that private equity firm Arctos agreed to buy 10% of the Atlanta Falcons. St