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John Ternus has officially taken the reins as Apple CEO, succeeding Tim Cook, who held the role for 15 years. The company’s former senior vice president of Hardware Engineering, Ternus enters the CEO role at a critical time for Apple. On September 9, the company will host its ann

The world's biggest producer of the fossil fuel is lining up nearly ₹50,000 crore in coal-gasification projects while scouting for overseas critical-mineral assets, particularly lithium, said B Sairam, chairman and managing director. It is also targeting 9.5 gigawatts (GW) of ren

Baby girl found at house was stabbed, say police - Published A newborn baby girl who was discovered fatally injured at a house in Sheffield died as a result of stab wounds, police have said. The baby was found at a house on Holywell Heights in the Wincobank area on Sunday morning

The Scoop Meta has disabled the photo- and video-taking abilities for thousands of its Glasses users after detecting they had tampered with the light that discloses that the device’s camera is on. The company recently rolled out an update that can detect whether the LED light has

Big tech giant Oracle is preparing to lay off thousands of employees globally as part of a fresh round of job cuts. India too is reportedly expected to bear the brunt of the retrenchment exercise. According to Times of India, the company plans to axe nearly 3,000 jobs in the coun

On Tuesday, Anthropic released Fable and Mythos 5.1, twinned versions of the company’s most advanced AI model. In addition to performance upgrades, the new Fable release includes changes meant to reduce token cost and false-positive restrictions from the model’s safeguards. As wi

Strong vehicle sales this fiscal have contributed to strong petrol demand. Cumulative sales growth during April-August was 6.5% for petrol and 4.3% for diesel. A rapidly expanding economy and uneven monsoon have driven diesel sales to an unusually high growth rate of 6.5% in Augu

Listen to this article in summarized format In the 213-page judgment, Justice Subramonium Prasad ordered a forensic audit into Fortis' transactions from the time the Singh brothers were in control to the period when IHH took over. Also Read: Delhi HC orders forensic audit of Fort

Off the Wire Press Releases Sept. 1, 2026 — The U.S. National Science Foundation is establishing the NSF National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource Operations Center (NSF NAIRR-OC) to strengthen the nation’s capacity for AI research and AI-enabled scientific discovery. Th

New York’s prestigious-yet-secretive venture firm Thrive Capital has been hauled into the center of a messy drama that could result in criminal charges against Gianni Infantino, the controversial president of global soccer organization FIFA. And now Thrive’s prominent founder, Jo

Off the Wire Press Releases Benchmark suite now covers the full range of AI workloads for storage systems SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 1, 2026 — Today, MLCommons announced the results of its industry-standard MLPerf Storage v3.0 benchmark suite, which measures the performance of storage

Israel warns it will retaliate if UK imposes sanctions - Published Israel's Foreign Minister Gideon Saar has warned his country will retaliate if the UK imposes sanctions against it over the potential expansion of settlements in the West Bank. Addressing Parliament for the first

AI - ai and ml Anthropic promises zero data retention – but customers must check it workedMore compliance-friendly stance could boost appeal of Fable - Security Attacker st

A closely followed measure of artificial intelligence token prices touched fresh lows this week, the latest sign of deflating prices in an increasingly competitive landscape. The LLM Token Expenditure Index, a key gauge of daily prices from intelligence firm Silicon Data, fell to

(Bloomberg) -- US oil prices topped $90 a barrel for the first time since late July as fresh American strikes on Iran raised concerns about prolonged disruptions to energy flows through the Strait of Hormuz. West Texas Intermediate rose as much as 5.1% after US forces stuck targe

Off the Wire Press Releases Funded through the Genesis Mission Phase II Request for Application, Brookhaven Lab will lead a three-year effort to develop a next-generation grid foundation model UPTON, N.Y., Sept. 1, 2026 — The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National

Off the Wire Press Releases Sept. 1, 2026 — The latest session in the ALCF’s Service-Enabled Science training series explored how integrated computing resources, automated workflows, and modern data infrastructure are helping accelerate fusion research. The webinar, “Fusing Exper

State Bank of India (SBI), HDFC Bank and ICICI Bank sharply reduced interest rates on long-tenure foreign currency non-resident deposits, unwinding the unusually high returns offered on dollar commitments since the special window was operationalised June 8. Also Read: FCNR inflow

Artificial Intelligence Introducing Claude Fable 5.1 on AWS Today, we’re excited to announce the availability of Claude Fable 5.1 on Amazon Bedrock and Claude Platform on AWS. Claude Fable 5.1 delivers frontier intelligence for ambitious tasks across coding, scientific research,

It’s a regrettable reality that there is never enough time to cover all the interesting scientific stories we come across. So every month, we highlight a handful of the best stories that nearly slipped through the cracks. August’s list includes the discovery of a new celestial ob

Depending on who you ask, developer platform Hugging Face was recently attacked by OpenAI — after it lost control of its own AI tools — or by a succession of AI “civilizations.” Welcome to the linguistic battlefield of AI safety, where word choices can shift responsibility for a

NVIDIA took the stage at Hot Chips 2026 to talk about RISC-V for NVIDIA GPUs. We wanted to cover a few of the RISC-V presentations, but on Sunday we were a bit behind. So we are catching up now. As a fun aside, this was a tutorial day session, so it is not one where we saw the sa

By Heather Schlitz CHICAGO, Sept 1 (Reuters) - Chicago Mercantile Exchange live and feeder cattle futures turned lower on Tuesday as market players digested the lifting of livestock movement restrictions in some areas of Texas and New Mexico. The cattle market is continuing to pr

Superb England crush Ireland with record ODI chase - Published First ODI, Uptonsteel County Ground, Leicester Ireland 281-5 (50 overs): Lewis 69 (89), Hunter 62 (90), Stokell 54* (48) England 283-4 (38.1 overs): Bouchier 104 (95), Dunkley 73 (61); Murray 3-58 England won by six w

After a disappointing July payrolls report that showed the economy lost jobs that month, traders on prediction market platforms think August will show a rebound in hiring, though potentially not as strong as economists think. Speculators on Kalshi see 50-50 odds that more than 50

The discussions are at an early stage and may not result in a transaction, according to people familiar with the matter cited by Bloomberg. One option under consideration is to list the business separately, with Capital IQ Pro potentially fetching a valuation in the high single-d

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney on Tuesday blasted the Trump administration for "doing memes" and "throwing shade" against his nation amid a growing trade war. Carney's comments came in response to a reporter's question about Trump officials mocking Canada's military in socia

By Dharna Bafna Sept 1 (Reuters) - Gold dropped more than 2% on Tuesday to a two-week low as elevated Treasury yields and a stronger U.S. dollar weighed on prices, while bullion's break below its 200-day moving average triggered additional technical selling. Spot gold was down 2.

AWS has made its Amazon EC2 R9g and R9gd instances generally available, introducing memory-optimized systems powered by AWS Graviton5 processors. The new Arm-based instances target database, caching, analytics, container, and microservices workloads that require high memory bandw

(Updates to mid-afternoon trading) * Indexes down: Dow 0.81%, S&P 500 0.69%, Nasdaq 0.97% * Equities kick off historically weakest month of the year * Fresh US attacks on Iranian targets add to geopolitical strife * JOLTS: Fewer than expected US job openings in July By Stephen Cu

According to a summary of the proposed combination, the acquisition will be through NuageLux BidCo a private limited company newly incorporated under the laws of Luxembourg. The summary noted a potential indirect and minuscule vertical relationship has been identified between a c