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Elon Musk’s tunneling company, The Boring Company, has raised a $3 billion Series D funding round that pushes its valuation to $23 billion. The round was led by the United Arab Emirates. The Boring Company said Thursday that it now plans to dig more than 150 kilometers of tunnels

Domestic market endured a choppy session on expiry day amid weak Asian cues, as investor focus remained closely tethered to the volatility in crude prices. Although the strong August equity fund flow data and the moderation in the SIP stoppage ratio lent support to the markets, s

Police and army mourn officer killed in crash - Published Police officers and army veterans gathered for the funeral of the second officer killed in a head-on crash. PC Tom Clough, 38, died on the A66 in South Bank, near Middlesbrough, in the early hours of 22 August with his col

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Meta has launched its new Muse assistant, marking the company’s first real foray into AI-powered productivity tools. The company says its AI agent can “take the busywork off your plate” by helping you with online shopping, emails, trip-planning, and more. I decided to try out the

This $399 Elegoo Centauri Carbon 2 Combo with $1 filament is the perfect 3D printer deal for beginners — flash sale discount nets you a Core XY printer with four-color system and auto bed leveling Pay $1 extra for 1KG of filament with your new printer Elegoo is running a special

Biomolecular structure prediction is now often run at proteome scale, where the goal is to move an entire worklist through the pipeline efficiently. NVIDIA BioNeMo Inference Runtime (BioIR) helps accelerate supported biomolecular structure-prediction models on NVIDIA GPUs while k

As AI makes it easier to fill forms and file complaints, public services around the world are seeing enormous jumps in applications and other requests. In the United Kingdom, complaints to the housing ombudsman more than doubled since the introduction of ChatGPT, rising from 2,60

Announcing the auction Thursday, the regulator said that participants in the auction will have an option to withdraw the amount lent. The RBI is holding longer-term VRRR to absorb durable liquidity, besides holding overnight VRRR to manage the excess flow of funds, on account of

Startup d-Matrix Will Pair Its Raptor Memory-Based XPU To Nvidia Rackscale Iron Engineers with startup d-Matrix have spent the past seven years putting together the pieces of what would become a platform of hardware and software designed to speed up AI inferencing workloads while

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AI - SECURITY Watch out: Apple timepiece can grab snippets of conversation without both speakers' consentWar is peace. Freedom is slavery. Privacy is surveillance - SYSTEMS

In John Ternus' debut showcase as CEO, Apple unveiled a swarm of new products, including its first foldable phone called the iPhone Duo, as well as the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max with a larger screen. But the biggest news for investors from Wednesday's event may be the absence of

In John Ternus' debut showcase as CEO, Apple unveiled a swarm of new products, including its first foldable phone called the iPhone Duo, as well as the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max with a larger screen. But the biggest news for investors from Wednesday's event may be the absence of

Rising natural gas prices wrought by the Iran war will boost global coal consumption to a new record of nearly 9 billion metric tons this year, the International Energy Agency reported. China remains by far the world’s coal heavyweight: Its power sector alone consumes one-third o

Despite attacks by Russia on its natural gas production fields, Ukraine has moved to a gas surplus and is angling to increase exports to Europe this winter, the CEO of the country’s top private energy company said. Ukrainian energy companies spent much of the last few years scram

One lesson from the return of crude oil prices back above $100 per barrel is that US President Donald Trump seems to be hastening the end of the oil age. Apart from the psychological impact of that extra digit on US voters, there’s nothing intrinsically special about the $100 thr

Countries including the US, Japan and Hong Kong also faced low liquidity when they introduced closing auction sessions (CAS), but liquidity recovered over time, Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) chief Tuhin Kanta Pandey said on Thursday. “Many market participants have

Industry participants suggested small investors could be protected up to a specified limit, and there was also a proposal for a mechanism similar to deposit insurance for bank deposits. "A concept similar to the DICGC insurance on the bonds front could also be immensely helpful,"

Bending Spoons is continuing its trend of buying once-sought-after software companies for pennies on the dollar. This time, the Italian company is buying Miro for $1.36 billion in cash (equity value of $1.79 billion), a mighty dip in valuation for the once-hot workplace collabora

Listen to this article in summarized format The U.S. IPO market is showing signs of a stronger September, with several companies filing for public listings. For live updates on US Markets, click here Brooks provides automation and contamination-control solutions for the semicondu

Minecraft-spawned crypto kingpin faces 20 years for $245 million heist — mastermind's role in hacking campaign fueled their supercar, bodyguards, and private jet habit The gang lived the high life on the massive spoils of their crypto crimes, but not for long. The ringleader of a

U.S. President Donald Trump has urged Iran "not to get cute" over activity at a suspected nuclear site on Pickaxe Mountain, following a barrage of attacks between both countries on tankers around the strategically vital Strait of Hormuz. "We notice there's a little activity at Pi

Rising prices at the pump are squeezing US households and businesses weeks ahead of key midterm elections, pressuring President Donald Trump's administration, as average diesel costs hit new highs. For live updates on US Markets, click here The Producer Price Index (PPI) was up 5

Drone display recreates the Twin Towers over New York City According to organisers, 2,977 drones recreated the Twin Towers at full scale with each light representing a victim of the 9/11 attacks. The artwork, titled "2,977 Lights Over New York Harbor", is a commemorative public a

In 2024, Maven Robotics was brand new, and they had nothing — “a cartoon of a robot and a team of people,” CEO and co-founder Hamza Derbas told TechCrunch. Still, they heard a large consumer goods company with logistics needs was in town to meet with four rival robot companies ab

AI powered patient safety startup Graph AI has raised $13.3 million in its Series A funding round led by Insight Partners, with participation from existing investor Bessemer Venture Partners. The latest round comes nearly a year after the startup raised its seed round in October

Indian stock market investors are likely to track several companies today, September 11, following key business developments, order wins, regulatory approvals, fundraising plans and other corporate announcements. Texmaco Rail & Engineering, Sterlite Technologies, Poonawalla Finco

AI-powered contact centre startup Dialflo has raised Rs 1.7 crore in its first funding round led by early-stage venture capital firm AJVC. The round also saw participation from angel investors Afsar Ahmad, Jani, and Arpit Dave. Founded in 2024, Dialflo is building an AI-first con

Snowflake reported its fiscal Q2 2027 on September 2. And it crushed it: - Product revenue was $1.49 billion, up 37% year over year, the third consecutive quarter of accelerating growth. - The stock closed at $306 before the print and traded around $370 the next morning, within s

AI - SECURITY Watch out: Apple timepiece can grab snippets of conversation without both speakers' consentWar is peace. Freedom is slavery. Privacy is surveillance - SYSTEMS

America | Tech | Opinion | Culture | Charts Every consumer brand shares a quiet, expensive problem: they make more product than they sell. This is built into the model - brands forecast optimistically to hedge against stockouts, and end up sitting on trillions of dollars of perfe

Crude oil prices surged on Thursday, September 10, with Brent crude climbing above $105 a barrel, as escalating attacks and disruptions across key Middle East shipping routes intensified concerns over global oil supplies. Iran-backed Houthi militants have taken control of Yemen’s

Kalshi has won approval to list perpetual futures tied to precious metals gold and silver in the U.S., in the latest development as the company seeks to grow its trading offerings beyond prediction markets. Originally filed in July, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission — whic

This interview has been lightly edited for length and clarity. Why the current tech backlash feels different Answering your Decoder questions about surveillance, AI coverage, and the Nilay rant. Nick Statt: Hello and welcome to Decoder, Nilay’s show about big ideas and other prob

Can you make a case for Chelsea being stripped of 2016-17 title? - Published Should Tottenham be retrospectively crowned Premier League champions for the 2016-17 season? That's the opinion of former manager Mauricio Pochettino, who led Spurs to a second-place finish - seven point

Wall Street stocks fell sharply on Thursday as the escalating conflict in the Middle East pushed crude oil prices above $107 a barrel, while fresh US producer price data for August fuelled expectations of a possible interest rate hike this month. As of 12:24 p.m. Eastern Time, th

Gruffalo Granny illustrator says rise of AI images 'worrying' The illustrator for the Gruffalo books has said images created by artificial intelligence (AI) are "worrying". Axel Scheffler said AI pictures are "a breach of copyright" and lose their charm when compared to the hand-