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Before Nvidia agreed to pay roughly $13 billion to buy open-source platform Hugging Face this month, OpenAI tried to invest $100 million into the startup, according to sources with knowledge of the matter. Deal discussions between OpenAI began after a high-profile hack of Hugging

Equipment to capture carbon dioxide from ambient air or smokestacks generally works through a sort of reversible filter. Air is passed through granules or a liquid that absorbs the CO2, then that CO2-loaded substance undergoes a process (usually heating) that causes it to let go

(Bloomberg) -- A surge of corporate bond supply in the US high-yield market is starting to overwhelm debt investors, pushing risk premiums to the highest level in five months, according to Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s head of credit strategy. “The market’s bracing for the same sort

Dutch authorities arrest suspected ShinyHunters member in Odido hack probe A 23-year-old has been arrested by Dutch authorities in connection with the investigation into the Odido hack. Police are investigating Pepijn van der S. over suspected involvement with ShinyHunters, the h

AI - AMD bets $8.2B that worlds matter more than words in AIAI pioneer Fei-Fei Li just co-founded spatial AI research company World Labs in 2024. Now it's joining AMD - AWS

MongoDB CEO CJ Desai is joining Meta Platforms as its chief enterprise platform officer and will report directly to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Desai, who was in his role at MongoDB for less than a year, will be leading the social media giant's new Meta Enterprise Platform for busi

MongoDB CEO CJ Desai is joining Meta Platforms as its chief enterprise platform officer and will report directly to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Desai, who was in his role at MongoDB for less than a year, will be leading the social media giant's new Meta Enterprise Platform for busi

The News Talks over a deal that would see the US help develop Kenya’s critical minerals processing industry are at a “very advanced” stage, the African country’s mining minister told Semafor, as the nation looks to increase mining’s contribution to its economy. The talks come aga

The head of the Federal Aviation Administration said a software problem will delay its certification of the Boeing 737 Max 10 as the agency assesses whether it poses a safety issue, a potential setback for the manufacturer as it seeks to complete government approval of its best-s

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, in a surprising reversal, has recused himself from participating in a major climate-change case the Supreme Court is set to hear next week, which involves the oil companies Exxon Mobil and Suncor Energy. Environmental groups had called on Alito

Crude prices had jumped after US President Donald Trump rejected a peace deal from Iran but pared gains on expectations that Qatari mediators would hold talks with the two countries to find a possible deal. After retreating from highs at the start of the month, oil prices have ac

The Senate on Monday is slated to vote to create a national framework for name, image and likeness deals in college sports as one of its last acts before the chamber gears up to leave town later this week ahead of the 2026 midterm election. The legislation, which would codify ath

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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg are among the tech executives expected at a Tuesday luncheon with President Donald Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson, CNBC confirmed, according to multiple people familiar with the plans, who spoke on condition of anonymi

The cost of healthcare in general is a debilitating, pre-existing condition for Americans. But the high prices of prescription drugs usually stand out as a pain point. While there are many insidious reasons why Americans pay more—often far more—for their medicines than people in

AI - AMD bets $8.2B that worlds matter more than words in AIAI pioneer Fei-Fei Li just co-founded spatial AI research company World Labs in 2024. Now it's joining AMD - AWS

The federal government’s war on fuel efficiency claimed another victim today. The Department of Transportation released a new rule for the country’s Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards, which, as expected, discourage the very idea of economical vehicles. Among the changes is

While some retailers, like Amazon (and Adidas, apparently!), are blocking AI agents from making purchases on users’ behalf on their respective platforms, e-commerce platform Shopify has moved in the other direction. On Monday, the company announced that browser-based AI agents ca

With the rise of AI in the security space, our team created the GitHub Security Lab Taskflow Agent as a way for security researchers to easily automate, package, and share the AI prompts and workflows that they find effective for their work. In this blog post, I’ll share how I cr

The Internal Revenue Service has hired Joseph Velli as a senior advisor to Chief Executive Officer Frank Bisignano to help administer Trump Accounts, according to an email Bisignano sent to senior leaders at the IRS that was shared first with CNBC. Velli serves on the boards of P

Watch: RAF Fairford suspects are bailed, what happens now? The five men arrested on suspicion of terror offences near RAF Fairford on Sunday have been released on bail, according to the head of UK counter terrorism policing. The men, UK nationals in their 20s, were arrested under

Tesla is pushing back the reveal of its redesigned, second-generation Roadster once again, this time due to a forecast of severe weather. Originally slated for October 1 in Waco, Texas, the event is being pushed to October 15, Tesla said. “We’ve been tracking the weather closely

(Bloomberg Opinion) -- What could 2026 do to make the fossil fuel supply crisis emanating from the Persian Gulf just a little bit worse? How about a whole separate fossil fuel supply crisis on the other side of the world? That’s what the bone-dry weather brought by the current su

Hart trusts Man City chair Al Mubarak over ruling - Published Former Manchester City goalkeeper Joe Hart believes club chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak's claims they are innocent of breaking financial rules. City have been found guilty of the majority of 115 breaches of financial rul

* October 25-basis-point Fed hike bets rise to about 68% from 64% Friday, CME Group's FedWatch tool shows * 10-year Treasury yield rises 4.88 basis points to 5.23% after touching 5.2741% * Qatari mediators likely to hold separate talks with Iran and US on Monday or Tuesday, offic

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times … I’ll spare you the rest, but the cliché Dickens line really does sum up this year’s New York Climate Week. Much of the climate tech community — like the rest of the U.S. economy — is eagerly riding the AI wave. Some have reser

By Scott DiSavino NEW YORK, Sept 28 - Oil prices settled slightly higher on Monday on worries about ongoing supply disruptions as Qatari mediators pledged to hold talks with the US and Iran in hopes of finding a peace deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Prices jumped over $4 a b

(Bloomberg) -- More municipal bond deals are being put on ice as state and local borrowers wait for better days with yields surging to the highest since at least 2011. A $1.8 billion bond sale for the Los Angeles Convention Center has been delayed due to market conditions, accord

Five men arrested in RAF Fairford incident released on police bail - Published Five men who were arrested on suspicion of terrorism offences near RAF Fairford are being released on police bail, counter-terror police have said. A major incident was declared and dozens of homes wer

Another federal appeals court has ruled that states can enforce their gambling laws against the prediction market Kalshi, which asserts that it can only be regulated by the US government. On Friday, a three-judge panel in the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ruled unanim

Russian foreign minister questions 'what will become of UK' and future of 'the Celts' - Published Russia's foreign minister has questioned the future of the UK, suggesting it looks uncertain with "the Celts" looking to hold independence referendums. Sergey Lavrov made the comment

Artificial Intelligence Introducing Claude Sonnet 5.5 on AWS Today, we’re excited to announce the availability of Claude Sonnet 5.5 on Amazon Bedrock and Claude Platform on AWS. Claude Sonnet 5.5 is a smarter, more efficient Sonnet model suited for focused coding and knowledge wo

The News Once the Senate passes the bipartisan college sports bill, Ted Cruz wants the Republicans to quickly turn it into a midterms victory by reconvening the House to pass the bill, having President Donald Trump sign it on live TV, and then campaigning on it. The House left fo

Man City CEO defiant over Premier League charges - Published Manchester City chief executive Ferran Soriano has issued a defiant message to the executives of other teams about the club being found guilty of a majority of Premier League charges, BBC Sport has been told. He was spe

Leading firms are swooping on each other’s star partners

(Updates to afternoon trading, adds analyst comment) * Oil off highs but remains elevated * Nvidia gains on record $150 billion share buyback announcement * Tesla falls after J.P.Morgan trims PT * Indexes off: Dow 0.45%, S&P 0.54%, Nasdaq 0.6% By Chuck Mikolajczak and Johann M Ch

On FrontierCode 1.1, Sonnet 5.5 is a significant improvement from Sonnet 5 at 64.4%, surpassing even Fable 5.1 at extra high reasoning effort. Anthropic reports more than 30% faster output generation and up to 30% lower cost per task than Sonnet 5, with unchanged token pricing.

OpenAI popularized the modern generative AI chatbot, but as its 2026 DevDay event approaches, it’s fallen behind in one of the industry’s hottest categories: continuously running, consumer-facing AI agents. On Tuesday, it will likely try to capture the lead in that race. Rumors a