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After turning profitable in the fiscal year FY25, furniture rental startup Furlenco saw its net profit for the fiscal year FY26 skyrocket to ₹59.5 Cr. This is a near 20X jump from the ₹3.1 Cr profit it recorded in FY25. The Bengaluru-based startup’s operating revenue surged 61.9%

The San Francisco 49ers and the Los Angeles Rams are heading to Australia, marking the longest-ever distance two NFL teams have traveled for a game. It's all part of the league's push to expand American football globally. A record nine international regular-season games will be p

OpenAI’s ChatGPT, xAI’s Grok, and Anthropic’s Claude are back online after they all began experiencing issues around the same time on Thursday. At about 11AM ET, ChatGPT started returning error messages for users trying to use the chatbot, with its status page saying there were “

How to install a PS5 SSD in 2026 Expanding your PlayStation 5's storage with the best PS5 SSDs in 2026 is no longer a luxury, but a necessity. Modern AAA games are only getting bigger and more demanding, which will saturate your console's internal storage system in no time. With

Schools to close early for A66 crash funeral - Published Four schools have said they will close early on Friday amid safety concerns over a funeral linked to a crash which killed seven people. It is understood the funeral of Jakub Matusiak, 23, one of five young men killed in the

US-based fintech company PayPal has handed the pink slip to about 220 of its employees based out of India as part of its global layoff exercise. Nearly 4% of its India workforce has been impacted by the exercise, a company spokesperson confirmed to Inc42. “The recent staffing cha

Google is rolling out an updated AI weather model that’s supposed to be more accurate, especially when it comes to predicting rain and snowfall. Google says its AI weather model is getting better It’s launching an updated weather model that makes forecasts based on real-time sate

Scientists at Google DeepMind and Google Research released a new artificial intelligence model for weather forecasting today that sees our changing atmosphere more clearly and predicts its behavior more often. WeatherNext 3 is the latest wave of a sea change in meteorology brough

AI - ai and ml Hugging Face is too important to fall into Nvidia's hands$12.9 billion deal will inevitably cement Nvidia's market dominance and harm competition in the process. Regulators should take note -

Proxmox is making a major expansion to its enterprise operations, moving to 24/7 global support beginning October 19, 2026, while establishing a new North American subsidiary in Kingston, Ontario. The new support covers Proxmox Virtual Environment, Proxmox Backup Server, and Prox

Almost 70% of voters in Missouri city vote to recall council member who said yes to AI data center tax breaks — councilor said disagreement over an issue shouldn’t be enough to unseat him Two other city leaders who said yes to the tax breaks lost their re-election bids earlier th

Shares of Snowflake climbed sharply on Thursday, 3 September, after the cloud data analytics firm beat Wall Street estimates for its quarterly results and raised its full-year product revenue forecast, driven by growing demand for its cloud data platform and artificial intelligen

AI - ai and ml Hugging Face is too important to fall into Nvidia's hands$12.9 billion deal will inevitably cement Nvidia's market dominance and harm competition in the process. Regulators should take note -

The Bridge by Colm Tóibín. Deep in the Pyrenees mountains, a young man, Miquel, struggles in the wake of his mother’s death in a snowstorm — a tragic event that was at the center of Tóibín’s 2006 novella, A Long Winter. One year after her passing, Miquel wrestles with grief, desi

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says 38,000 ChatGPT queries use as much water as the production of one almond — says data centers use no more water than an office building “For every 38,000 ChatGPT queries, that is the same amount of water that is used in the production of single almond in

Save up to 46% on PC hardware in Amazon's Labor Day 2026 sale — huge discounts on tech Our favorite picks from Amazon's Labor Day Sales Labor Day weekend is almost upon us, and Amazon is hosting its Labor Day sales event with discounts of up to 46% on tech products. If you're on

Off the Wire Press Releases RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, Sept. 3, 2026 — Quantinuum, a leading quantum computing company, today announced the signing of a non-binding MOU with Aramco, one of the world’s leading integrated energy and chemicals companies, to explore a series of industrial

Last week, U.S. President Donald Trump signed a proclamation to temporarily increase imports of lean beef trimmings at a lower tariff rate to tackle higher beef prices that touched a record high this year due to a severe shortage in cattle supply in the face of drought and wildfi

Shares of the Goldfish cracker maker fell about 7% in early trading. The company said it had closed some plants and completed some workforce cuts to support margins as part of a program to save about $500 million in costs by fiscal 2030. "Our results remain unacceptable," CEO Mic

Waller said on Thursday that he would be inclined to support keeping the Fed's policy rate at its current level at the September 15-16 meeting if incoming data, particularly August inflation, confirms that price pressures are continuing to ease. "My decision on the appropriate st

Salesforce reported Q2 FY27 on August 26 and the stock went up a stunning 23%. And almost every other B2B stock went up along with it, Is the SaaSpocolypse … over? Well, it may be past the panic selling of earlier in the year at least at least. Salesforce did re-accelerate on boo

America | Tech | Opinion | Culture | Charts The bullish case for incumbent systems of record is that AI makes systems of record get more important, not less. Why? Because in theory the customer can now pipe the system’s data into Claude or Codex and skip the AI-native app. As age

US stocks advanced on Thursday after Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller indicated he could support keeping interest rates unchanged this month if incoming economic data confirms that inflationary pressures are continuing to ease. Investor sentiment also received support

American reliance on China for key components used to power data centers is coming under increasing scrutiny as Washington and Beijing battle for AI supremacy, raising the prospect of higher costs and worsening supply chain shortages for the AI buildout. U.S. hyperscalers are rac

The report, titled “The dollar-deposit opportunity: Why bank investors should watch RoE, not just NIM”, said the market’s focus on potential NIM dilution overlooks the balance-sheet, capital-efficiency and duration benefits of the scheme. The FCNR(B) deposit scheme was operationa

AI - ai and ml Hugging Face is too important to fall into Nvidia's hands$12.9 billion deal will inevitably cement Nvidia's market dominance and harm competition in the process. Regulators should take note -

India’s live entertainment market is entering a new phase, and BookMyShow is at the centre of it. The company has long dominated event ticketing, but the rapid growth of India’s concert economy is attracting new competitors. Eternal has emerged as one of the most formidable chall

Shares of PC Jeweller are likely to attract investor attention during Friday's trading session, September 4, after the company provided a key update on its efforts to become debt-free. In a post-market exchange filing on Thursday, the company said it had further reduced its outst

A whole month since India introduced closing auction sessions (CAS) to enhance transparency in stock prices, the new system remains marred by low participation and abrupt price swings. Market participants once used to full price visibility at the day's end now wait in suspense, a

At 9:34 a.m. ET, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 0.74%, while the S&P 500 gained 0.54% and the Nasdaq Composite added 0.61%. Waller's comments offered investors some relief at a time when markets are weighing the Fed's next move alongside renewed geopolitical risks. Still

Nvidia has agreed to buy AI model platform Hugging Face for $13 billion, in the latest step by the $5.4 trillion chip giant to use its financial might to accelerate the technology’s boom while exerting greater control over the industry. Hugging Face, which only last year turned d

The Scoop Saudi Arabia’s leading AI firm HUMAIN will launch a large venture capital fund — potentially even bigger than a planned $10 billion vehicle — this year, the company’s chief executive told Semafor, as it looks to position the kingdom at the forefront of the technology. B

Nvidia has agreed to buy AI firm Hugging Face for $12.9 billion in a move that expands the chipmaker’s capabilities beyond hardware and up the AI stack. Hugging Face — the AI company at the center of a hacking incident earlier this year that raised cybersecurity concerns — has ex