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Saudi soccer clubs spent $407 million on international transfers this summer, their lowest total since the 2023 buying spree that aimed to boost its international cachet, according to FIFA’s transfer report. Clubs signed more players this year, but downgraded from the marquee dea

Chinese carmaker ROX has started producing its ADAMAS SUV in Abu Dhabi, with the first vehicles coming off a new line in the emirate’s Kezad industrial zone this week. The brand, which moved its global headquarters to the UAE last year, plans to have production capacity for 20,00

Beijing and Berlin are on the itineraries of Gulf leaders this week, with diplomacy and economic resilience in focus as the Iran war grinds on. UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed will arrive on a state visit to Germany tomorrow. The world’s third-largest economy is among Abu

IPO GMP Today: India’s primary market is buzzing with multiple public offerings on Tuesday, September 8 as Kanohar Electricals, Glass Wall Systems, and Prasol Chemicals opened for subscription today. For primary market investors looking for opportunities in the ongoing issues, le

Stoke Space announced Tuesday that it has raised another significant round of funding, $1 billion, as it makes a final push toward its debut launch next year. The Washington-based launch company also revealed plans for a larger medium-lift vehicle. With the Series E funding round

US stock futures were trading lower on Tuesday, 8 September, as the escalating conflict in the Middle East pushed oil prices higher and fuelled inflation fears ahead of the US Federal Reserve's upcoming policy meeting. The S&P 500 was set to open 0.4% lower at the start of a holi

Sony threatens to cut off customer support and pursue legal action over harassment as backlash to PlayStation’s physical-disc phaseout intensifies — company to move forward with no disc decision despite several lawsuits Company list excessively asks for apologies as customer hara

This is CNBC's Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox. Happy Tuesday. It's the first day with Canada's reciprocal tariffs in effect. President Donald Trump is now saying Canadian planemaker Bombardier can't sell in the U.S. unless it mo

"No ego is extremely important to make the best decisions possible. That is another thing I saw in Elon – he would be extremely passionate, but then presented with new information, he'd be like, well, okay, that was a quick switch." – Scott Morton, Founder and CEO, Revel Listen o

All-in-one 'DLSS Unlocked' mod brings DLSS 5 and multi-frame gen to RTX 20, 30, and 40 series — hybrid tool taps AMD FSR 3.1 to boost frame rates up to 6X No more artificial limitations. There are now several mods enabling DLSS 5 on older Nvidia GPUs, along with even AMD's RDNA 4

AI - AI+ML Google DeepMind rises above the AI scrum with genome atlasSee, AI can be used for good ... or at the very least, a useful distraction from the bad - AI and ML Am

Republican senators are warning that the Senate’s bipartisan cryptocurrency regulatory bill is likely to fail next week when the chamber returns. There’s been little movement on the key Democratic demand, an ethics component governing the president and his family, according to tw

NEC has quietly quit quantum computing hardware development, report claims — company says it will continue to evaluate practical applications and industrialization of quantum technologies After quitting microelectronics, NEC quits quantum computers. NEC was one of the first devel

Monty Don to leave Gardeners' World after more than 20 years - Published Monty Don is to step down as the host of Gardeners' World after more than 20 years, the BBC has announced. The 71-year-old, who is the programme's longest-serving head gardener, will leave at the end of the

Gurugram-based ecommerce enablement platform Shiprocket is starting to reap the benefits of business bets it began placing well before its stock market listing earlier this year. Its core business has traditionally involved helping online merchants ship orders by connecting them

Vintage Emulator Studio recreates 44 legendary synths down to the chip level — free MAME-powered component-level emulation should offer exceedingly accurate sound 44 synths available for free — just bring your own ROMs. Musicians and synth-heads in the audience, rejoice. A new vi

Stock to buy: Shares of UltraTech cement ended lower on Tuesday as the Aditya Birla Group company’s stock erased nearly all the gains it made following the launch of Ultravolt, its wire and cable brand. While the short-term euphoria around the stock might have fizzled out, HDFC S

Amena’s view Venezuela is not just another member of OPEC. It is one of the group’s five founders, present when the organization was conceived in Baghdad in 1960 as a counterweight to the “Seven Sisters,” the Western oil majors that held the upper hand over much of the world’s oi

Visa said Tuesday morning it will make more data available to companies lending on the blockchain as stablecoin-linked cards are met with strong demand. The payments giant will pair its settlement data with onchain lending infrastructure, giving lenders greater insight into the f

Danielle’s a poodle, with big eyes, fuzzy ears, and cartoon lavender fur. She’s also a robot, and as I talk on Zoom to Marc Theermann, she’s sitting behind him. “Danielle is a robot we built on top of Boston Dynamics’ Spot platform,” said Theermann, referencing Boston Dynamics’ f

HUMAIN’s CEO kept himself in the news over the weekend after posting on LinkedIn that he was hiring a team to prepare the barely two-year-old company for an initial public offering. The state-backed AI firm is looking for “top-tier management consulting experience, strong financi

Markets regulator SEBI has extended the deadline for angel funds to comply with the new accredited investor mandate by nearly seven months until March 31, 2027 after receiving representation from the AIF industry. The relaxation applies to angel funds registered with SEBI on or b

Hong Kong's Hang Seng and South Korea's KOSPI were among the Asian markets hit by selling pressure in Tuesday's trade, September 8, as crude oil prices approached $100 per barrel amid fears that supply disruptions in West Asia could deepen following the latest escalation of attac

FLASH SK hynix on Solidigm pre-IPO rumors: 'No matters have been determined' The status of Solidigm, SK hynix’s acquired Intel NAND and SSD division, is shrouded in fog after the company made an SEC disclosure late last week to emphasize that "while the Company’s overseas subsidi

Argentina said it would file criminal charges against an Israeli oil firm operating in the Falkland Islands, Buenos Aires’ latest salvo in its campaign to regain control of the UK-controlled territory. President Javier Milei has stepped up his rhetoric on the islands as he looks

Australia has reportedly agreed to a new treaty to deepen its relationship with the Solomon Islands, the latest in a series of deals Canberra is racing to finalize in order to guard against a rising China. The new agreement, which includes $700 million from Australia to the Pacif

Hackers drain $320 million in Bitcoin from Liquid Network, emptying roughly 95% of federation wallet — attackers claim they’re the ‘good guys’ and will return funds after the vulnerability is fixed The nature of the exploit was "unusual" Hackers reportedly claiming to be good act

Bankers for OpenAI and Anthropic — both of which are barreling towards IPOs — are reportedly pressing for the AI giants to quickly win investment-grade credit ratings, underlining the huge and growing role of debt in the tech infrastructure buildout. The AI labs’ bankers are keen

China’s trade growth accelerated last month, but data showing imports fell short of analysts’ expectations will likely add to calls for Beijing to rebalance its economy ahead of a high-stakes leaders summit with the US this month. The latest figures were largely powered by demand

AI - AI+ML Google DeepMind rises above the AI scrum with genome atlasSee, AI can be used for good ... or at the very least, a useful distraction from the bad - AI and ML Am

Attacks by Yemen’s Houthis against Saudi energy infrastructure drove oil prices towards the $100 a barrel mark, as fears grow that the largely dormant Middle East conflict is worsening. The latest set of ballistic missiles and drones launched by the Iran-backed Houthis left dozen

While the Indian stock market has been under pressure over the last two years, it appears extremely polarised now in terms of sector valuations. This could be the moment that can give rise to excellent medium-term alpha-generating opportunities, according to brokerage firm Nuvama

Cooling-as-a-Service (CaaS) platform Circolife has raised $4.5 million (around Rs 40.45 crore) in a pre-Series A funding round led by Bharat Jaisinghani, joint managing director of Polycab India. The round also saw participation from a group of individual, fund and family-office

Google maps entire brain and central nervous system of adult male fruit fly, software engineers immediately make it run Doom — AI-powered 3D model of over 166,000 neurons can also play Super Mario 64 Any sufficiently advanced technology will immediately be forced to play Doom. La

Get a 32GB DDR5 gaming PC for just $1,379 at Newegg — $420 discount includes 20-core Intel CPU and RTX 5060 1440p gaming locked in. As building a PC becomes prohibitively more expensive, buying a pre-built option continues to look like a much better way to get started with PC gam

This $389 32GB DDR5 RAM kit is the cheapest on sale right now for a gaming PC upgrade — higher-spec RAM for $415 gives PC builders rare choice as the AI boom continues to force memory prices higher Beat rising memory prices with these deals We're seeing 32GB DDR5 RAM prices regul

The Trump administration has been trying to build up the U.S. battery supply chain and reduce its reliance on China. But the funding it has set aside for the effort is small compared with what would be needed to substantially loosen China's grip on the industry, according to anal

Thailand asks data center operators to suspend 49 buildouts until legal framework is complete — new legislation is supposed to create 'airtight' requirements for large-scale data centers Compliance is voluntary, but charging on may risk additional bureaucracy. Data center builds