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AI infrastructure companies have benefited from rising demand as tech firms and hyperscalers ramp up investments in data centers to support large language models and other AI applications. Peer Super Micro Computer had also reported upbeat results last month. "The AI momentum spo

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Dive Brief: - Williams-Sonoma is using AI to take its high-touch customer service model to the next level, CEO and President Laura Alber said on a Q2 2026 earnings call last week. - The company is tapping AI to improve the checkout experience and overall customer journey, strengt

Huna by Abdelrahman ElGendy. Two years after the 2011 Egyptian revolution, then 17-year-old Abdelrahman ElGendy and his father were arrested for recording a protest on the streets of Cairo. ElGendy’s memoir recounts the six years he spent as a political prisoner, including in Egy

The first Japanese citizen to launch into space, Toyohiro Akiyama was also the first commercially sponsored cosmonaut and the world’s first journalist to file reports while on a spaceflight. Akiyama, 84, died last Wednesday, August 26, of lower gastrointestinal bleeding, news age

Commenting on the macroeconomic backdrop, Relli noted that while underlying macroeconomic growth remains strong with a 7.8 per cent GDP print, higher global bond yields and elevated commodity prices could compress corporate profitability, if sustained over coming quarters. When a

Dive Brief: - Boscov’s is modernizing its e-commerce fulfillment by integrating inventory management into a single system, according to a Tuesday press release. - Through Manhattan Associates’ ActiveOrder platform, the department store retailer can unify its view of inventory acr

Consumers have become more discerning in their spending as concerns about inflation and jobs tighten household budgets. For alcohol makers, that has translated into lower consumption levels as health-conscious consumers watch their calorie intake amid growing use of GLP-1 drugs,

"We are in works with a very large fundraiser," Rajkumar told PTI on the sidelines of the launch of its first family schooter Wave. Declining to give the quantum of funds the company was looking at, he said, "it is not just the product that is going to scale... for us backing is

On a selling spree, Alpha Wave has now offloaded more than 3.5 Cr shares of fintech Pine Labs via a series of block deals today, as per NSE data. The investment firm, via its holding entity Alpha Wave Ventures II, offloaded 3.54 Cr shares of Pine Labs in a block deal at an averag

In terms of the increase in real-world borrowing costs, "what's driving it...is really a strong U.S. economy and a strong economic outlook fueled by big investments in AI and data centers and technology in general, so I see this as more of a reflection of the strength of the econ

OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman are facing 30 new lawsuits that accuse them of providing “substantial assistance and encouragement” to the suspect in Canada’s Tumbler Ridge school shooting, as reported earlier by TechCrunch. The new wave of lawsuits was filed in a California federa

The move marks another step in Zerodha’s attempt to build a wider financial services platform. Over the past few years, the Bengaluru-based company has expanded from stockbroking into asset management, lending and private investments. Zerodha Corporate Advisors had filed its appl

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Private U.S. companies added jobs at a slightly slower-than-expected pace in August, with gains concentrated heavily in healthcare and a few other industries, ADP reported Wednesday. The payrolls processing firm said firms added 38,000 workers, fewer than the upwardly revised 46,

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has announced a new policy today that will ban younger schoolchildren from using AI in classrooms. The one-year moratorium, effective in the 2026-2027 school year, will impact about 600,000 public school students in 2-K through eighth grade and

Off the Wire Press Releases RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, Sept. 2, 2026 — Pasqal, a global provider of neutral-atom quantum computers, and True Nexus, a computational intelligence company focused on making protein functionality programmable for real-world food applications, today announc

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Chevron moved Wednesday to more than double its oil production in Venezuela over the next five years through a $7 billion investment that expands its position in the South American nation. The oil major has been assigned two additional oilfields in the Orinoco Belt, the region th

Every company cuts the same corner on renewals. You go top down. Your biggest accounts get a real custom deck with their actual results in it. Everyone else gets a templated follow-up email. Not because you don’t care about them. Because nobody has a week to build 25 custom decks

J. Peterman, the quirky catalog retailer known for its wanderlust-infused product descriptions — made infamous by a running storyline on Seinfeld in the 1990s — appears to have gone out of business. The websites run by J. Peterman and companion brand Territory Ahead are inoperati

Real-Time Intelligence with IBM Time Series Models on Confluent Until now, those decisions have run on outdated economics: one bespoke model at a time and months of expert work on each. So teams model the few hundred series where the money is and cover the rest with safety margin

After an unreleased OpenAI model wreaked enough havoc to make international headlines, OpenAI delayed the development of a different unreleased model suite, Astra, in order to shore up its safety work, the company wrote Tuesday in a blog post. OpenAI delayed its new model’s devel

Adobe has acquired India-based marketing intelligence startup Rilo in a deal involving licensing and team acquisition, TechCrunch learned and the company confirmed. This is Adobe’s second acquisition from India after it bought video platform Rephrase.ai in 2023. The companies did

American Airlines is expanding its push into premium travel on its largest planes. The carrier on Wednesday launched its first retrofitted Boeing 777-300ER, which it uses for its most popular long-haul international flights, including routes to London, Tokyo and Sydney. The new l

Non-resident Indians (NRIs) have poured $127.2 billion into Indian banks through foreign currency non-resident (FCNR) deposits under a new deposit incentive scheme to attract dollars and strengthen the rupee. This is nearly five times the inflows seen in 2013, when a similar sche

Shares of heavyweight chipmaker Broadcom Inc (Nasdaq: AVGO) remained flat on Wednesday, 2 September, hovering around $370 apiece as investors awaited the company's third-quarter fiscal results. Broadcom investors are expecting a blowout earnings report after Nvidia Corp last week

The announcement came on a day when Swiggy shares were already under pressure. The stock fell 4% on Wednesday to Rs 264.55, its lowest level since late July, extending its two-day decline to 6%. The fall wiped out nearly Rs 5,000 crore from the company’s market capitalisation, wh

India accounts for around 20-23% of global cotton production and about 38% of the world's cotton-growing area. Despite this, Indian physical markets remain fragmented and participation in cotton derivatives has been relatively low, limiting the country's influence over global cot

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Wall Street stock indices rose on Wednesday as investors weighed renewed clashes between the US and Iran against continued strength in artificial intelligence-related stocks. As of 12:03 p.m. Eastern Time, the S&P 500 index rose 0.6%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.5%. T

Listen to this article in summarized format At 9:56 a.m. ET, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 246.01 points, or 0.47%, at 53,012.89, while the S&P 500 gained 8.22 points, or 0.11%, to 7,639.69. The Nasdaq Composite was down 14.92 points, or 0.06%, at 26,084.86. The latest

Update | September 2, 18:55 IST Pernia’s Pop-Up Shop saw its ₹680 Cr fresh issue IPO was oversubscribed by 1.29X on the final day of bidding, with retail investors and QIBs driving demand. Investors placed bids for 88.54 Lakh shares against 68.49 Lakh, according to BSE data. Reta

The bank set the final guidance at 75 basis points over Japanese yen mid-swaps for 2030 notes, 95 basis points for 2032 notes and 110 basis points for 2037 notes. Here are more details: * The bank is marketing senior unsecured callable fixed-rate bonds due in 2030, 2032 and 2037.

CrowdStrike’s security agents can trigger Commvault, Rubrik and VAST Data cyber-recovery CrowdStrike's Fal.Con 2026 event in Las Vegas saw new integrations between its security workflows and data protectors Commvault and Rubrik, plus AI data storage and processing supplier VAST D