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Artificial Intelligence Speaker-labeled transcription with WhisperX on SageMaker AI Any team working with spoken audio hits the same wall with generic speech-to-text. Think contact-center calls, all-hands meetings, podcasts, depositions, and broadcast media. These workloads need

Google is taking its first step toward making Project Suncatcher a reality. Announced last year, Suncatcher is Google’s “moonshot” effort to design orbital AI data centers, which AI boosters like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos have pitched as an alternative to divisive terrestrial data

Dive Brief: - Tapestry is allowing shoppers to purchase products from its Coach and Kate Spade inventories directly from Google Search, including AI mode and the Gemini app, according to a company press release. - When consumers shop with Gemini or AI mode and find a Kate Spade o

Alphabet’s GOOGL-Q Google said on Thursday it will launch a prototype satellite next week in its first in-orbit test of Project Suncatcher, a research effort to explore whether space could potentially host large-scale AI computing infrastructure. Companies including SpaceX SPCX-Q

Artificial Intelligence Build a multi-account AI agent with AgentCore Gateway and MCP Enterprises increasingly want AI agents that can reason over data spread across many AWS accounts without copying or centralizing it. Each team keeps its data in its own account for good reasons

Artificial Intelligence Aderant builds intelligent ticket triage with Amazon Nova This guest post is co-written by Angela Mapes and Adam Walker of Aderant. In this post, we share how Aderant, a global provider of business management software for the legal industry, built an intel

Stockbrokers in India have made a representation to the Union government to express their concerns over a merchant discount rate being levied on Unified Payments Interface (UPI) transactions, Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) chief Tuhin Kanta Pandey said at a press c

Google’s launching an “early experiment” feature on Pixel 11 that lets users delegate local business calls to Gemini, like making a reservation, checking if a product is in stock, or rescheduling an appointment. According to Google, you don’t even need to start the call to have G

Under the new framework, an existing portfolio manager will be able to offer PRIM as a separate investment approach, with a minimum ticket size of Rs 25 lakh. The move could expand the scope of PMS beyond direct equity and other traditional portfolio-management strategies by allo

US rejects pleas from OpenAI, Anthropic for global AI standards - Published The heads of OpenAI, Anthropic, and Hugging Face have told the UN that the current pace of artificial intelligence (AI) development, and the risks it poses to society, demands international coordination.

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Sumeet Bagadia, Executive Director at Choice Broking, has recommended five stocks today — ITC Hotels, RR Kabel, MCX, Texrail and UBL — based on their technical setups and price Momentum. His recommendations, along with stop-loss and target levels, are as follows: Sumeet Bagadia s

For founders, Startup Battlefield 200 is one of the biggest moments of their careers. For everyone else in the TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 audience, it’s one of the best ways to learn how great companies are actually evaluated by VCs. This startup pitch competition is as intense as y

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said his government is investigating a June incident in which an OpenAI agent accessed “non-public files” from the country’s online Medicare statistics portal. OpenAI said in a statement that “our models took actions we did not intend” i

The purchase came on a day when shares of PB Fintech, the parent company of Policybazaar and Paisabazaar, plunged 36% following the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India’s (IRDAI) proposed overhaul of insurance distribution rules. PB Fintech shares breached mult

Poland says fire at Starlink station is sabotage as Denmark warns of rising Russian threat - Published A fire at a Starlink satellite station in central Poland was a deliberate "act of sabotage", a government minister has said. Polish Deputy Prime Minister Krzysztof Gawkowski sai

With AI agents like Meta’s Muse and Instinct now able to make calls on users’ behalf, Google is now letting Gemini call businesses with a new feature called “Call for Me.” The feature will initially roll out to Pixel 11 owners who pay for a Gemini subscription in the U.S. It will

Introducing GKE agentic migration for AI-assisted EKS-to-GKE migrations with built-in governance Sunny Hwang Product Manager, GKE Hamed Seifoddini Engineering Manager, GKE Enterprises are increasingly standardizing on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) to run their most critical and

AI - Google's TPUs to catch some rays in orbit next weekPart of Project Suncatcher, the proof of concept aims to see how well lightly modified compute fares in orbit - Meta

Scribd, Inc. classifies more than 400 million documents with Gemini batch inference on Gemini Enterprise Travis Martin Account Manager, Google Cloud Platform Sachin Sebastian Sr. Engineering Manager, Scribd Scribd, Inc. is home to one of the world's largest collections of human-c

Man jailed for throwing bottle at migrant protest - Published A father-of-two has become the first man jailed following an anti-migrant protest in Portsmouth after admitting throwing a plastic bottle and swearing at police. Del Somerville, 42, was given a two-year sentence after

Dive Brief: - Stitch Fix continues to struggle to grow its cohort of active clients, but ended its fiscal year with net revenue up 6.4% year over year, reaching $1.3 billion. Net revenue in Q4 rose over 4% to $324.4 million. - The apparel-box retailer ended fiscal 2026 with just

Sensex crashed around 1,248 points to close at 73,581, while Nifty 50 dropped 384 points to end the session at 23,063. Broader markets crashed further, with Nifty Midcap 100 plunging more than 2% and Nifty Smallcap 100 index dropping 1.5%. Also read | Why did market crash today?

We’re not even a full year into the new regulations, and Formula 1 is already thinking hard about its next iteration, set to be introduced as early as the start of 2030. This was supposed to be a big year for F1, with the introduction of a bold new technical rules package that pu

Alphabet's Google said on Thursday it will launch a prototype satellite next week in its first in-orbit test of Project Suncatcher, a research effort to explore whether space could potentially host large-scale AI computing infrastructure. Companies including SpaceX and Starcloud

The amendments seek to expand and harmonise the regulatory framework governing vault managers and vaulting services for bullion underlying different Sebi-specified bullion-related instruments, according to its latest circular. Sebi said the existing regulations, introduced to est

QNAP has introduced the TS-432XeU, a 4-bay short-depth rackmount NAS that combines 10GbE SFP+ and dual 2.5GbE networking in a 1U chassis measuring just over 292mm deep. The compact design is intended for installations where a conventional full-depth rackmount NAS may not fit, inc

Under the proposed framework, distributors could be rewarded for the quality of sales and servicing, while commissions could be clawed back in cases of mis-selling. The regulator has also proposed greater accountability for individual sales staff by tagging their identity to poli

AI - Google's TPUs to catch some rays in orbit next weekPart of Project Suncatcher, the proof of concept aims to see how well lightly modified compute fares in orbit - Meta

Dive Brief: - Consumers are forecast to spend $13.5 billion this year on Halloween purchases, according to a report from the National Retail Federation released Tuesday. It will top last year’s record of $13.1 billion. - Discount stores are expected to be the top destination for

Dive Brief: - The retail sector’s use of AI has surged over the past year, and while some trends point to greater security oversight of AI tools, others suggest that organizations still have a long way to go. - “Retailers are moving quickly from experimentation to widespread AI a

Datadobi has made Data Access Governance (DAG) generally available in StorageMAP, giving organizations visibility into who has access to their unstructured data and whether that access aligns with corporate policy. DAG surfaces access permissions across fragmented unstructured da

Indian stock market investors are likely to track several companies on Friday, September 25, following key business developments, acquisitions, order wins, project updates, fundraising plans and strategic initiatives. Dr Lal PathLabs, LCC Projects, Nykaa, Vedanta and Nava are amo

Private-sector figures, US government representatives, and Ukrainian officials including President Volodymyr Zelenskyy gathered on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly to discuss strategies for propelling Ukraine’s economy despite the ongoing war with Russia. The closed-door

Power your agents: Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar is now generally available Fabien Blanc-paques Group Product Manager, Gemini Live Following our announcement of Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking last week, we are thrilled to share that Gemini 3.8 Live with

As language models grow, scaling dense architectures becomes increasingly expensive. In a dense transformer, every token passes through every layer, so adding capabilities increases computation for both training and inference. Mixture-of-experts (MoE) architectures take a differe

An AI chatbot can give you a bad answer. An AI system controlling an aircraft, vehicle, or robot can create an entirely different kind of problem. When artificial intelligence moves into the physical world, a mistake can ground an aircraft, cause a vehicle crash, or compromise a

A surging oil market, historic highs in US yields, and a regulatory shake-up in domestic insurance combined to trigger a broad market sell-off on Thursday, with Indian equities faring among the worst in Asia. Brent crude oil crossed $106 a barrel and US treasury yields rose to th

Last month, China delayed the launch of an ambitious robotic mission to the south pole of the Moon, Chang’e 7, until early next year. The country did not provide a detailed explanation for the schedule slip, but it was welcomed by NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman. “They are targ

The buyers were Nadir Burjor Godrej, the younger brother of billionaire Adi Godrej, and Adi Godrej's children Nisaba Adi Godrej, Pirojsha Adi Godrej and Tanya Arvind Dubash. Together, they purchased 1,02,30,000 shares, representing a 0.99 per cent stake in Mumbai-based Godrej Con

AI - Google's TPUs to catch some rays in orbit next weekPart of Project Suncatcher, the proof of concept aims to see how well lightly modified compute fares in orbit - Meta

A short auction at the end of the trading day helps determine the closing price of a stock under the CAS framework, introduced on August 3 for stocks with futures and options contracts. However, the new process has led to sharp swings in derivatives prices on expiry days, prompti

Storage news ticker 24 Sep Data security company Cyera announced a $400 million extension from Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives to its Series G, led by Evolution Equity, accelerating the company's mission to build a unified platform that governs access for every human,

Ply, by Hernan Diaz. The Pulitzer Prize-winner’s new science fiction novel is set in a dystopian New York City where companies have established a monopoly over electricity. Ply’s protagonist is a young woman who works as a “pincher,” someone who makes a living stealing back energ