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MCX gold prices drifted lower throughout this week, giving up twice the gains recorded in the second week of September, as traders scaled back their bullion bets following hawkish signals from US Federal Reserve officials, higher US Treasury yields and rising global inflationary

Trump's plans for massive arch move ahead - Published US President Donald Trump's plans for building a massive arch appear to be moving ahead, after a federal advisory council terminated talks on how to handle the 250-foot structure's possible effects on nearby historic sites. Th

Normally, we try to update you quarterly on what’s going on with the US electric grid since it provides a nice view of developing trends and smooths out some month-to-month randomness. Unfortunately, I was out of the office when last month’s data was released, so this will be a s

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

With Harry Stebbings, Rory O’Driscoll and Jason Lemkin This week’s 20VC x SaaStr covered a lot. Anthropic moved its IPO back a month. OpenAI’s internal forecast put total burn through 2030 at $278 billion. Meta shipped the first consumer AI product that competes head-on with Chat

Vaishali Parekh, Vice President – Technical Research at Prabhudas Lilladher, has recommended three stocks for the near term, with Samvardhana Motherson International, Zuari Industries and GHCL Textiles among her picks. Her recommendations include specific buy levels, targets and

The most competitive races for control of the House of Representatives in the 2026 midterm election may be toss-ups on the political map. But in the most fiercely contested districts, one candidate often holds a massive financial edge. In 11 of the 19 incumbent-versus-challenger

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

McDonald’s is betting that “Archy,” a new AI drive-thru system, can revitalize the fast-food chain as its sales slump and its stock plunges. The company says the voice-enabled, English- and Spanish-speaking AI has a more than 90% accuracy rate at early-test restaurants, with posi

The News Film schools are starting to generate a pipeline of AI filmmakers skilled in using the newest tools to make movies — talent that is easier to hire than to train internal teams on, say film executives. “How do we find people who already know how to use this?” is a common

Call it Meta-mentum. The Mark Zuckerberg-led tech giant is having a consumer AI moment after a rough summer of negative headlines about its glasses and social media addiction trials. Now, its new Muse agent is looking like a commercial hit, lifting Meta shares more than 25% since

Sumeet Bagadia, Executive Director at Choice Broking, has recommended four stocks for the near term — Balrampur Chini Mills, Datamatics Global Services, Castrol India and Cyient — based on their technical setups and price Momentum. His recommendations, along with stop-loss and ta

Since 2024, Microsoft has tried to sell “Copilot+ PC.” The marketing initiative was aimed at making it easy for people to know which Windows systems were approved to run AI-accelerated workloads locally. But Copilot+ PC branding is nowhere to be found on the new Surface PCs Micro

Meta shares have become the market's muse, with its meteoric rise exhausting every superlative in the English vocabulary. Less talked about is what that surge has done for options prices. Fueling this optimism was Meta's surprise release of a new consumer hardware product, the "M

Would you reject a job candidate who brought an iced coffee to an interview? Your answer may not matter: Either way, someone on the internet thinks you're wrong. And a career expert says she's over it. The iced coffee debate, currently taking place on social media platforms acros

Listen to this article in summarized format Speaking about the AI boom, Schmid said the Federal Reserve needs to better understand the network of companies, financing arrangements and contracts developing around the technology as investment accelerates. "Where we have to start to

Want to keep track of the largest startup funding deals in 2026 with our curated list of $100 million-plus venture deals to U.S.-based companies? Check out The Crunchbase Megadeals Board. This is a weekly feature that runs down the week’s Top 10 announced funding rounds in the U.

Efforts to Curb Data Center Speculation Gain Ground Across the US Large-load tariffs and other measures to weed out speculative projects are taking shape amid public backlash to data centers and shifting state-level policies. “A fraction of proposed data centers will get built. U

Mark Zuckerberg has tried to disrupt the financial sector before. In 2019, he unveiled plans for a new currency, Libra. “What we’re trying to do,” he explained, “[is] rethink what a modern infrastructure for the financial system would be if you started it today rather than fifty

Farmers around the world face a pressing problem: The equipment they use to till, plant, and harvest their fields is killing their margins. Studies have estimated that soil compaction can reduce yields by 20% to 60%. Plowing can help, but it’s a laborious and expensive task that

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

Thousands of databases hosted by development platform Supabase are exposing people’s sensitive information to the public web, new security research by cybersecurity firm UpGuard has found. UpGuard told TechCrunch that it found around 16,000 databases on which some degree of perso

President Donald Trump said Friday that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent will not be tapped to be his artificial intelligence czar. Trump's announcement came after Semafor and Reuters reported that he was considering Bessent for the post. "Scott Bessent will not be going to be Su

President Donald Trump said Friday that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent will not be tapped to be his artificial intelligence czar. Trump's announcement came after Semafor and Reuters reported that he was considering Bessent for the post. "Scott Bessent will not be going to be Su

Google’s Grid-Interactive AI Data Centers: From Backup to Grid Partner At Data Center World Power, Google’s Tom Garvens detailed how full-stack design, LVDC power, BESS, and liquid cooling are reshaping hyperscale AI while supporting local grids. AI infrastructure is expanding at

Computer pioneer Alan Turing is best known for his eponymous experiment to test whether artificial and human intelligence can be distinguished. However, the more important test he faced during his lifetime was cracking the Enigma code used by Nazi Germany during World War II. Now

A federal appeals court panel in Washington, D.C., on Friday upheld the Pentagon's blacklisting of Anthropic, dealing a blow to the artificial intelligence company in its months-long battle with the Trump administration. The 2-1 decision rejected Anthropic's argument that the Dep

A federal appeals court panel in Washington, D.C., on Friday upheld the Pentagon's blacklisting of Anthropic, dealing a blow to the artificial intelligence company in its months-long battle with the Trump administration. The 2-1 decision rejected Anthropic's argument that the Dep

I'm not tempted to call an early election, Burnham says - Published Andy Burnham has insisted he is not tempted to call an early general election, arguing it would throw "the country into a backward-looking process". During a round of BBC interviews ahead of Labour's annual confe

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

AMD has been on a run of enterprise product announcements this summer. Building off of the company’s momentum over the past couple of years in not only the AI space but the traditional server space, AMD has been preparing a whole slate of new products for the fall. So far, we hav

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U2 celebrate 50th anniversary at the school where they formed - Published Exactly 50 years after they formed, U2 returned to Dublin to play a gig at the school where they met. "We've escaped from the lab," declared Bono, as the quartet took to a stage in the playground. "How's th

NetApp has agreed to acquire PEAK:AIO, the Manchester, UK software company whose metadata and parallel NFS work NetApp says will accelerate its AI infrastructure roadmap. NetApp plans to combine PEAK:AIO’s metadata services and parallel namespace technology with ONTAP, aiming at

Yesterday, with a little prodding, it was discovered that Meta’s Muse would expose its filesystem to curious users. The files offered a fascinating peek under the hood of an AI chatbot, and appeared to expose details we weren’t meant to see, not least because Muse itself told peo