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The year 2026 has so far been a challenging one for Dalal Street bulls, with markets navigating multiple headwinds, including elevated crude oil prices, persistent selling by overseas investors, a record-low rupee, limited exposure to AI, and subdued domestic market drivers. Thes

President Trump has announced plans for new 'AI Force' and 'AI Czar' amid growing AI safety concerns — new unit will 'cherish' AI and not 'stifle' it, Trump clarifies, while dismissing safety warnings as hoaxes President says “sick conspiracy” to undermine AI is underway U.S. Pre

TypeSafe AI's Jev offers an alternative to LLMs that claims to be 193x faster and 445x cheaper — System One type model is bespoke for probabilistic decision-making A shift towards AI for code, a fresh reprieve from verbose chatbots. Now and then, something novel appears in the AI

FLASH A look at DapuStor’s combined SLC and QLC SSD China’s DapuStor has developed a dual-mode J5060 SSD, proving a mix of QLC capacity and pseudo-SLC (pSLC) speed. It is as if the drive has a configurable pSLC cache. How does it work and what are the benefits and trade-offs? Fir

The new Mac mini is the kind of Mac upgrade Apple has done a million times. It’s the same design as before but with new guts. These play-it-safe updates aren’t very exciting, but they’re also usually all upside—you get a year or two’s worth of technological improvements for the s

Google is ready to take a swing at laptops… again. The company has had a lot of success in phones, but it has struggled to parlay that into an effective strategy for larger screens. Chromebooks have been fine as a budget option, but it seems like Google has accepted they’ll never

One of the key factors of a generally healthy investment portfolio is diversification or, in other words, ensuring you aren't putting all of your eggs in one basket, financially speaking. A diverse portfolio can help protect investors from significant losses if a single company o

MediaTek’s next-gen Dimensity CX C10 Max will power new Googlebook initiative alongside Intel and Qualcomm – 3nm SoC has similar specs to Kompanio Ultra in Chromebook Plus devices, despite claims of ‘elevating’ computing portfolio The Dimensity CX C10 Max looks awfully similar to

Tom's Hardware Verdict The Mac Studio with M5 Ultra is a small powerhouse PC with strong performance, fast memory throughput, and the ability to run AI models locally (if that's your thing). Pros - +M5 Ultra delivers powerful performance - +1.2 TB/s memory throughput is excellent

Hands-on with Googlebooks — Five models, the new Googlebook OS, and a Mac-style experience for Android users at premium prices Acer, Dell, Lenovo, Asus, and HP all have hardware at launch After a brief tease back in May, Google is detailing its lineup of Googlebooks, its new line

PlayStation 3 emulation devs work around an Nvidia bug for up to 37% faster performance — open-source coders reach out to Nvidia to over uncovered bug AMD users aren’t affected by the bug, so don’t need the workaround. The developers of the open-source PlayStation 3 emulator RPCS

Tom's Hardware Verdict Apple’s latest mini machine delivers the generational performance improvements we expect, dampened by the realities of AI price hikes. Pros - +Strong single- and multi-threaded performance - +Storage performance improvements over previous M4 model - +Small

AI - Perpetual underdog AMD nips at Nvidia's heels as it joins the $1T clubFueled by the AI boom, the House of Zen's rise isn't just Instinct - Lisa Su is riding high on some Epyc design chops too -

French soccer champion Kylian Mbappé has told CNBC he was ready for "change" after ending an almost 20-year association with Nike and entering a deal with Swiss sportswear brand On. On, a new entrant in the soccer market, announced Friday that it will be working with Mbappé to de

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Listen to this article in summarized format According to Binance Research, total real-world asset (RWA) assets under management reached $34.18 billion, up 85.2% year-to-date through September 15, 2026. Bond and money-market funds remained the largest category at $18.29 billion, w

This is CNBC's Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox. Happy Monday. In the latest sign of the air travel industry's focus on premium offerings, so-called budget airline king Bill Franke told CNBC that even he's coming around to first-c

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Burnham hails Greenland deal ahead of expected first Trump meeting - Published Andy Burnham has hailed a deal between Denmark and the US to "strengthen security in the Arctic" after the two countries resolved a months-long feud over Greenland. The UK prime minister and his Danish

Boeing’s 200-jet China deal could hinge on Trump-Xi talks: industry insiders Beijing agreed to buy 200 Boeing jets during Trump’s visit to China in May. But the deal has yet to materialise – and could depend on summit outcome When President Xi Jinping travels to Washington later

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Sunday he had a successful meeting with Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng ahead of Chinese President Xi Jinping's visit to the U.S. this week. The talks covered artificial intelligence and trade, among other issues ahead of Trump and Xi's Sep

Alleged collaboration to slow AI development could reduce the value consumers receive for their AI subscriptions, as competitive progress and resulting innovations may stall. Plaintiffs argue that agreements among rivals to decelerate AI progress in the name of safety have antico

Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI, and Google face antitrust lawsuit for agreeing to slow AI development — plaintiffs say plan has been in motion for months before, calls agreement ‘self-serving’ The plaintiffs call the agreement a 'shortcut' that 'substitutes collective restraint for

China crafts working 3nm gate-all-around transistors without EUV — stacked nanosheets target 3nm without EUV, but full node remains distant But China's 3nm remains years away. The Institute of Microelectronics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IMECAS) has developed an experimen

In a statement on Monday, Noida-based Gulshan Group said it has formed a joint venture with Ourika Estates to develop real estate projects. In the first phase, the two companies have bought land parcels in Ghaziabad and Lucknow through auction by the respective development author

Pine Labs share price target: Shares of Pine Labs ended higher on Monday, after Motilal Oswal Financial Services Limited initiated coverage for the company. The merchant commerce platform has a healthy mix of recurring and transaction-linked revenue, aided by long-standing enterp

Business News›Markets›US Stocks›Wall St Guide›Dow Jones| Nasdaq | US Stock Market Today | Live: US market closes sharply higher as AI optimism returns, yields retreat LIVE BLOG Synopsis Dow Jones Today | US Stock Market Live: The S&P 500 and Nasdaq ended sharply higher on Monda

The RBI sold bonds worth 250 billion rupees ($2.61 billion) earlier in the day, with the cut-off yields below market estimates, indicating a rising demand for these securities. The benchmark 6.94% 2036 bond yield ended at 7.0497%, down from 7.0686% on Friday. The RBI sold bonds w

The bigger question is not just where global capital is invested today, but where it could be headed next. Spotting these shifts can help investors tap into new opportunities to earn maximum returns on their investments. That question will set the tone for a keynote conversation

The Strait of Hormuz “cannot be obsolete,” despite the Trump administration’s assertions, Qatar’s energy minister said. Rejecting US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s view that it could become a “worthless piece of water” as alternatives emerge, Saad Sherida Al-Kaabi noted the r

Doha is moving the Qatar Investment Authority’s domestic assets into a separate unit as it seeks to attract more foreign capital and increase private sector involvement in the economy. The sovereign wealth fund moved companies including AI-focused Qai, Qatar Airways, and Qatar Na

AI - Perpetual underdog AMD nips at Nvidia's heels as it joins the $1T clubFueled by the AI boom, the House of Zen's rise isn't just Instinct - Lisa Su is riding high on some Epyc design chops too -

OpenAI projections point to a massive $278 billion cash burn through 2030 that exceeds the national budgets of Indonesia and Norway — $856 billion compute tab outpaces tenfold revenue surge More than the Slovakian government will spend in the same period. OpenAI expects to spend

- Petal, the next step in Meta’s subsea innovation, will be the first subsea cable to deliver petabit capacity at transoceanic distances, connecting France and the United States over approximately 7,000 km (4,300 mi). - Expected to enter service in 2029, it will be the first subs

Devs say Chinese AI company silently uploaded hundreds of megabytes of local workspace data, company apologizes — Z.AI, the firm behind the GLM models, didn’t ask for user consent and made 564 attempts to exfiltrate 313MB archive Beijing-based company asserts it has now resolved

US stock futures edged higher in Monday’s trade on September 21, as a sustained decline in crude oil prices offered some relief to investors. Equities also drew support from comments by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who described his talks with Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng

The price of the world's largest cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, rose to an eight-month record high since January 2026, crossing the $85,000 mark today, on 21 September, amid improved risk sentiment in the broader markets, Bloomberg reported. Bitcoin rose 5.1% to reach $85,222 in early

After hitting a 52-week low of ₹682 on 11 September, HDFC Bank shares have rebounded, raising questions: Is it the right time to buy the stock, or is it just a technical rebound? The banking stock is up over 4% so far in September, compared to a nearly 3% fall in the equity bench

A boardroom dispute at one of India’s most closely watched business groups is now threatening to spill into the legal arena. The escalating Tata Trusts-Tata Sons confrontation over N Chandrasekaran’s reappointment and the future of Tata Sons’ listing has turned a leadership disag

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