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Prices of sugar stocks crashed today after the government halved holding limit for dealers from 4,000 quintals to 2,000 quintals for the period between 15 September to 30 November as a way to get a grasp on rising retail prices of the commodity. Dwarikesh Sugar was down 6.23% at

Dive Brief: - The Home Depot expanded its AI assistant, Magic Apron, to include localized store knowledge to assist in-store shoppers, the retailer said in a Thursday press release. - Users can ask questions through text, voice-to-text and image search queries. Shoppers can also

Tom's Hardware Verdict The Alienware 16X Aurora is a capable, well-rounded gaming laptop with a standout OLED display, strong productivity performance, and good build quality, though its weight and middling battery life make it better suited to desk duty than daily travel. Pros -

Bessent made the comments at an event on the sidelines of the U.S.-hosted Group of 20 finance leaders in Asheville, North Carolina. (What's moving Sensex and Nifty Track latest market news, stock tips, Budget 2025, Share Market on Budget 2025 and expert advice, on ETMarkets. Also

Brent crude futures were up $2.17, or 2.4%, at $92.66 a barrel by 1302 GMT, while U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude was up $2.48, or 2.89%, at $88.24. At that level, the crude contracts had erased most of the losses incurred over the past week on the back of the re-escalation in

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New ICONIQ data (as of 08/04/2026, covering 2022 through Q2 2026) on median headcount change by revenue growth band. ICONIQ’s own framing was that AI isn’t freezing headcount at hypergrowth companies, and that part is right. The more useful story is in the other three rows of the

Pune-based startup Minimac Systems has raised ₹30 Cr ($3.2 Mn) in a fresh funding round led by Zerodha’s investment arm Rainmatter as it looks to scale its lubricant recycling and circularity infrastructure across India. Minimac plans to deploy the fresh capital towards research

America | Tech | Opinion | Culture | Charts Today’s guest post is by Ruby Thelot, a professor at NYU and astute tech observer. You can watch his recent appearance on MTS here. Every year, more people use and spend more time on Big Tech platforms. It is fashionable to hate on soci

Federal Reserve Governor Michael Barr said Tuesday he would be prepared to support an interest rate hike if inflation doesn't ease. Speaking at a banking forum in Washington, the policymaker said he's concerned about "broader price pressures taking hold" as inflation has remained

Rising oil prices are raising inflation fears and pushing bond yields higher, weighing down stocks on Wall Street. The S&P 500 fell 0.7% Tuesday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 299 points, or 0.6%, as of 9:33 a.m. Eastern time. The Nasdaq composite fell 1.4%. Much of the p

Alphabet's Waymo is expanding its commercial service, and Amazon's Zoox said it plans to test in more U.S. cities, as the nascent robotaxi market gains momentum. Waymo, which has a commanding market lead in the U.S., said it's now offering driverless rides to customers in San Die

Alphabet's Waymo is expanding its commercial service, and Amazon's Zoox said it plans to test in more U.S. cities, as the nascent robotaxi market gains momentum. Waymo, which has a commanding market lead in the U.S., said it's now offering driverless rides to customers in San Die

Financially Motivated Threat Actor BREEZE COMET Targets Brazil Google Threat Intelligence Group Mandiant Introduction Beginning in 2024 Mandiant investigated a string of compromises affecting Brazilian financial services, retail, and eCommerce organizations. Google Threat Intelli

MLPerf Storage benchmark updated for modern AI V3.0 of the MLPerf Storage benchmark adds an S3 data layer to the existing POSIX one, plus KV Cache and vector database workload tests to better reflect the latest AI data systems needs. The MLPerf Storage benchmark, developed by MLC

Listen to this article in summarized format The move marks a weak start to a month that follows a largely positive August, when all three major US stock indexes posted gains. But the concerns that have been hanging over markets have not gone away. Investors remain focused on stub

From a warehouse just north of Chicago, Sarah Potempa – celebrity hairstylist and CEO of the viral Beachwaver hair curling iron – keeps thousands of viewers hooked for hours selling products on TikTok live. This kind of livestream shopping, which has boomed in China over the past

Update | September 1, 18:45 IST Enterprise cloud and AI company ESDS Software Solution’s ₹720 Cr IPO was subscribed 135.88X by the end of the third and final day of bidding, with QIBs showing the most interest. QIB participation picked up significantly on the final day, oversubsc

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Watch Live at 9 a.m. ET on September 15 The Race to Reinvent Healthcare American healthcare has never held greater promise for patients. Breakthrough therapies and AI-enabled care are transforming how diseases are diagnosed, treated, and managed. Yet rising costs, bureaucracy, an

AWS Compute Blog Scheduling email campaigns at scale with Amazon EventBridge Scheduler Scheduling email campaigns becomes more complex when you need to send email to millions of recipients at the unique time best suited for each customer. Consider these examples: - A flash sale m

Nvidia's controversial DLSS 5 will launch September 3 with NBA2K27, company shares first benchmarks — available on all RTX 50 series GPUs, laptops, and GeForce NOW The DLL leaked inside this title just days ago Following its announcement earlier this year, and just days after the

Nvidia is officially launching DLSS 5 this week, following a divisive announcement in March where we likened the AI upscaling tech to a “real-time generative AI filter for video games” and “motion smoothing for video games, but worse.” DLSS 5 will officially be available on RTX 5

Update | September 01, 18:25 IST The public issue of Purple Style Labs (PSL) IPO ended its second day of bidding with a subscription of 24%. As per BSE data, the IPO received bids for 16.18 Lakh shares against the 68.50 Lakh shares on offer. Retail investors remained the highest

Logistics company OneRail is launching a platform using Nvidia's artificial intelligence software to help retailers make faster decisions on the most efficient delivery options at scale, CNBC has learned. The new platform, called OmniStar, allows retailers to use AI to evaluate a

Indian authorities deleted 130 million people from electoral rolls in what opposition figures called a politically motivated move. A third of voters in one region were removed, and millions appear to have been wrongly purged, Indian journalist Krishn Kaushik wrote in the Financia

Meetings and moves worldwide showcased the fracturing of geopolitics in the face of American unpredictability. In the US, G20 finance ministers, “blindsided” by Russia’s attendance, demanded Moscow be excluded from a summit photo, while the host blamed Canada for trade tensions.

Russia is scaling up its assaults on Ukraine, launching non-stop drone strikes across busy areas of Kyiv as it looks to pummel the capital’s residents into submission. The onslaught — typified by a surge in daytime attacks — comes as its battlefield progress stalls and Ukraine st

Tim Cook steps down today after 15 years as Apple’s CEO in which he oversaw the tech giant becoming one of the world’s most valuable companies. Since he replaced the late Steve Jobs, Apple has shipped 3.1 billion iPhones and its stock price has risen 2,275%. But he has tied the c

Global bond yields hit their highest levels for decades over concerns about inflation, debt burdens, and central banks raising interest rates. Renewed conflict in the Gulf pushed oil prices up, and the US Federal Reserve chair made hawkish noises last week, while borrowing levels

Solar surpassed coal as China’s top source of power for the first time ever, underscoring the country’s remarkable rollout of green energy as it looks to contain the impact of the Iran war. Solar accounted for almost a third of total installed capacity at the end of July, up from

Venezuela’s August crude exports jumped almost 30% from the previous month, as the Trump administration prepares to take greater control of the country’s oil industry. Washington recently took a stake in a firm — run by a former Venezuelan government contractor who faces widespre