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The News The head of the World Bank’s private-sector arm said investors “absolutely” overprice risk in Africa, inflating borrowing costs across the continent by treating dozens of diverse markets as a single investment story. Speaking at Semafor’s The Next 3 Billion event, Makhta

POWER POINT What I'm hearing from energy insiders "I don't know." The three hardest words for anyone on Wall Street to utter. Knowing things — or at least knowing enough to make a solid estimate — is one of Wall Street's core jobs. Analysts, bankers and traders have access to the

Ella Langley's Choosin' Texas becomes longest-running number one in US chart history - Published Ella Langley's country smash Choosin' Texas has overtaken Mariah Carey's All I Want for Christmas Is You to become the longest-running number one single in US chart history. Released

In a speech Tuesday morning at the UN General Assembly, Donald Trump railed against Iran, “globalists,” climate change, and transgender people while also claiming that the US is now “officially” renaming artificial intelligence to “super intelligence.” Oddly, this wasn’t one of t

AI - Frontier AI keeps racing despite calls to slow downAnthropic and OpenAI debut Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Sol and Luna - Windows CLOSEDQUORUM malware uses AI models to autonomo

Republicans are entering the final sprint to the 2026 midterm election trailing Democrats in national and battleground polls and defending much of the most competitive terrain in Congress. But on one critical measure, they hold a clear advantage: cash. The GOP's three national co

I was close to joining Liverpool in 2016 - Mbappe - Published Kylian Mbappe has revealed how "close" he came to joining Liverpool in 2016, saying he went against the advice of his mother who "fell in love" with Anfield. The France and Real Madrid striker said the Reds tried to si

Sensex fell 330 points to close at 74,529. On its weekly futures and options expiry day, Nifty saw its indicative price tumble around 1% in 30 seconds from 23,349.5 to 23,133, before recovering some of the losses to close at 23,329. Here's how analysts read the market pulse India

Dive Brief: - Days after announcing its entry into soccer, On outlined a $1 billion share buyback and a series of growth plans for the next three years, including an expectation to nearly double net sales over that time period to 5.6 billion Swiss francs ($6.8 billion). - To achi

Amazon asked to be removed from Meta's new Muse AI agent experience, the e-commerce giant told Retail Dive. The Muse agent was launched by Meta earlier this month and it can make purchases on behalf of users. Amazon was not given advance notice that Muse would access its e-commer

Father admits causing death of his son in hotel fall - Published A British man has pleaded guilty to causing the death of his two-year-old son who fell from a hotel window in Cyprus. Joshua Foster, from Essex, admitted a charge of causing death through a reckless, rash or dangero

New security research has found that well over a thousand U.S. water and wastewater providers are exposed to hacks due to malware that’s capable of stealing their employees’ passwords and active logged-in sessions. The findings by cybersecurity defense firm SpyCloud underscore ho

Around 20 domestic and international investors participated in the anchor book including Norges the Norway Government Pension Fund Global. The company’s anchor investor portion was fully subscribed a day ahead of its Rs 2,100 crore initial public offering opening for public subsc

Proactive AI startup Sol has emerged from stealth with $4 million in a funding round led by General Catalyst and Nexus Venture Partners, with participation from DeVC, Peercheque and Kunal Shah. The proceeds will be used for research and development and go to market initiatives. T

The IPO is entirely a fresh issue of equity shares aggregating up to Rs 500 crore. The company has 131,391,436 equity shares outstanding as on date. The issue will be made through the book-building process, the developer said in a release. As of March 31, 2026, the company had a

The continued decline in crude oil prices, with Brent slipping below the key $100 per bbl level, provided some relief to investors and helped the domestic market recover from intraday lows, although overall sentiment remained cautious.Here are 3 stock ideas for Wednesday: Target:

The shares were bought by four investors — SBI Mutual Fund, Bandhan Mutual Fund, Nippon India Mutual Fund and Clarus Capital 1 — with SBI Mutual Fund accounting for the bulk of the transaction. According to the NSE block deal data, SBI Mutual Fund bought 1,66,66,667 shares, or ar

Shares of the New Jersey-based company fell nearly 15% as investors focused on two cases of probable anaphylaxis reported in the studies. The trials tested two doses of barzolvolimab in patients with chronic spontaneous urticaria, a chronic skin condition marked by recurring hive

When Xbox announced sweeping layoffs in July as part of a brutal “reset” for the gaming brand, Xbox CEO Asha Sharma said part of the pre-existing problem in the gaming unit was “teams, studios, and functions [that] often operate independently, [making it] harder to work toward a

AI - Frontier AI keeps racing despite calls to slow downAnthropic and OpenAI debut Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Sol and Luna - Windows CLOSEDQUORUM malware uses AI models to autonomo

Dive Brief: - Gap has struck a multiyear partnership with Just Your Type through the boy band’s labels, Wexler Records and Republic Records, according to a press release. It is the first deal to come out of parent Gap Inc.’s ‘fashiontainment’ platform - The collaboration with JYT

The world must build more than 6 terawatts of renewable power in the next five years — more than all previous years combined — to deliver on a goal to triple global renewable energy capacity by 2030, according to a new report. At COP28 in the UAE in 2023, countries agreed to coll

Autopsy shows Hayden Panettiere died from a drug overdose - Published Actress Hayden Panettiere died from the toxic effects of fentanyl, Xanax and several other drugs in her system, according to an autopsy completed by the Greenville County Coroner's Office in South Carolina. The

SereneDB launches superfast S3 data search engine. German startup SereneDB’s Krummelanke is claimed to be the fastest database search engine in the world, with search and analytics in one product. The company says AI agents fire hundreds of hybrid find-and-count queries per secon

Dive Brief: - Toy retailer FAO Schwarz has opened an Amazon storefront just ahead of the holiday shopping season, according to a Friday press release. - The Amazon shop features an edited assortment of branded products sorted by target age group and category, including the compan

The Qatar Investment Authority and JPMorgan’s asset management arm agreed a $20 billion partnership spanning public and private markets, as the Qatari fund keeps dealmaking despite the US-Iran war. The deal includes a $15 billion customized public equities portfolio managed by th

The Maldives is the next coastline for UAE real estate developer Mohamed Alabbar, who signed an agreement with the archipelago’s government for a $12 billion waterfront and marina development near the capital Malé. The project will be run through his Abu Dhabi-based firm Eagle Hi

The News Nigeria is on track to complete a 90,000 km fiber optic cable network in three years, a government minister said, beating an initial timeline for the project backed by the World Bank and the African Development Bank. Digital economy and communications minister Bosun Tija

NVIDIA this week has announced that they are launching a new qualification program for DSX AI factory power and cooling parts. The DSX Ready program will see NVIDIA offer qualification guidelines for both battery energy storage systems (BESS) and cooling distribution units (CDUs)

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AI - Frontier AI keeps racing despite calls to slow downAnthropic and OpenAI debut Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Sol and Luna - Windows CLOSEDQUORUM malware uses AI models to autonomo

AI - Frontier AI keeps racing despite calls to slow downAnthropic and OpenAI debut Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Sol and Luna - Windows CLOSEDQUORUM malware uses AI models to autonomo

Plenty of people want to buy electric vehicles, but not everyone is prepared to shell out for an upgrade to their home’s electrical service just to add an EV charger. The worry is reasonable. One study found that upgrading things like electrical panels (that box in the garage or

Would you trust an AI agent with access to your company’s systems? Put your employees in an autonomous vehicle? Deploy a robot that has to make sense of an unpredictable physical world? These aren’t hypothetical questions for AI founders anymore. As AI moves out of demos and into

Fly to an asteroid, land on it, make no mistakes: If only it were that easy. When NASA sends spacecraft to explore the solar system, they build in redundancy and automation. But much of the work is done by teams of flight controllers communicating with the vehicle from Earth. The

The News The US can still compete with China in markets where Beijing has an established foothold, US International Development Finance Corporation CEO Ben Black said Tuesday, arguing that Washington can take on risky investments abroad while also delivering value to American tax

Man in the Mirror, by Anand Giridharadas. Giridharadas may be best known these days as a progressive political commentator, but his new book, Man in the Mirror, goes back to his early roots as a narrative storyteller. Giridharadas recounts the tale of the subway confrontation bet

The future is looking increasingly bleak for Germany’s automotive industry. Since the turn of the century, car makers have been among the crown jewels of the German economy, punching above their weight in terms of investment and innovation. But those companies are now facing mult

Flight disruptions eased on Tuesday, a day after a fiber cable break cut air traffic controllers off from key radio and radar feeds, snarling air travel in the Philadelphia and New York area and stranding thousands of travelers. As of 7:10 a.m. ET, about 60 flights in and out of