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Are Trump's US government funded ads illegal? President Trump has faced criticism after fronting television ads paid for by the US government. There are laws against federal funds being used in the US for political advertising. The White House has said they are public service ann

SINGAPORE — Luckin Coffee is once again weighing an entry into Persian Gulf markets after securing backing from Abu Dhabi's sovereign wealth fund Mubadala. Luckin's senior management is considering expanding into the Gulf countries, Chairman David Li told CNBC in an exclusive int

U.S. midterm elections are right around the corner, and they may pose a threat to the driving force behind the bull market—the AI trade. In the lead up to the midterms, which are slated for Nov. 3, the stock market has proven quite resilient. The S&P 500 has bucked the September

Listen to this article in summarized format Brent crude rose above $108 a barrel after Washington rejected Tehran's conditional proposal to operate the Strait of Hormuz. However, prices were cooling a bit late in the night (India time) as Qatari mediators held talks with Iran and

'Labour split on triple lock' and 'Plot's going on, PM?'Published1 hour agoImage caption, A number of the papers preview a speech from Prime Minister Andy Burnham on Tuesday, where the Times says he will pledge to have an "honest conversation" with voters over "difficult issues"

From Amazon retreats to clinical research: The rise of psychedelic therapy - Published From retreats in the Amazon to clinical trials in Newcastle, psychedelic therapy is attracting growing attention as a possible treatment for depression. Could hallucinogenic drugs one day becom

Government bonds fell in New Zealand, while futures pointed to losses in Japan and South Korea. Australian debt was little changed ahead of the Reserve Bank’s policy decision later Tuesday. The moves followed a broad Treasury selloff that sent yields to multi-decade highs. Earlie

Listen to this article in summarized format The first holds unambiguously true for India's red-hot primary market, while a listless secondary market rounds off the study in contrasts. Since India's frontline equity gauges scaled summit Everest in September 2024 and briefly repeat

Migrants using longer, more dangerous routes across Channel - Published A growing number of migrants are trying to cross the Channel on small boats using longer routes from beaches further south and west of Calais and Dunkirk, French authorities say. Last week one boat set off fr

Burnham to unveil public body to invest in electricity grid - Published Andy Burnham is expected to announce a new government body to invest in Britain's electricity grid in his first party conference speech as Labour leader on Tuesday. The prime minister will tell party activist

When it comes to investing, blue-chip stocks are often associated with established companies that have built a strong track record over the years. These companies typically have a large market presence, established businesses and a history of steady performance. There is no fixed

The Securities and Exchange Board of India’s (Sebi’s) decision to allow portfolio management services (PMS) companies to invest in foreign securities could unlock a new growth lever for the industry, provided they can find professionals with expertise in managing global portfolio

Listen to this article in summarized format While the Nifty has fallen 12% in 2026 till mid-September, this cohort has surged about 60%. Many of these companies are small- and mid-caps in capital goods, utilities and technology hardware, which means their presence is not adequate

From a technical perspective, immediate support for the Nifty is seen in the 22,650–22,700 zone, while a break below this range could extend the correction in the near term, according to Rupak De, Senior Technical Analyst at LKP Securities. Against this backdrop, shares of Tata G

Peak XV Partners, one of the largest venture capital firms investing in markets including India and Southeast Asia with more than $10 billion in assets under management, has increased how much it invests per startup through Surge, its seed-stage investing platform, as it unveils

Listen to this article in summarized format STATE OF THE MARKETS GIFT Nifty (Earlier SGX Nifty) signals a muted start GIFT Nifty on the NSE IX traded lower by 10 points, or 0.04 per cent, at 22,834.5, signaling that Dalal Street was headed for a muted start on Tuesday. Tech View:

Introducing Machine Gods Why we're betting on AI realism. PLUS: The hell of PHP2Shell Joel Kaplan leaves Meta Long a voice for Republicans inside the company, he played a leading role in pushing Meta to the right The states come for OpenAI Will the approach that beat Meta in

The 10-year yield closed at 7.19%, its highest level since April 2024 and seven basis points higher than its previous close of 7.12%, CCIL data showed. Yields are expected to increase further, with most dealers expecting 7.25%, while some also expecting 7.50% if oil prices remain

Listen to this article in summarized format In a separate settlement order, the regulator said, four Adani Group companies, chairman Gautam Adani and 13 others have settled a case with it over alleged violations of MPS norms by paying a total settlement amount of ₹1.48 crore. Thi

Listen to this article in summarized format Silver futures for September delivery fell by ₹6,661 to ₹2,28,035 per kg on MCX. Gold futures for October delivery slipped 3,214 to ₹1,47,667 per 10 grams. The correction has improved affordability, but jewellers said buyers are unlikel

About a year after I joined, Pekka Enberg, Turso's CTO, handed me a barebones pull request for MVCC (multi-version concurrency control). It built on an open source MVCC experiment he had worked on with Piotr Sarna and Avinash Sajjanshetty, based on the research behind Hekaton, Mi

Jev for analytics: turn text columns into gold, in plain SQL · 12 min read Every now and then, we all end up with a table that has a big text column. A comment, some customer feedback, or worse, an address nobody parsed upstream. There are insights in that column, but they're har

Factory joins the OpenAI marketplace September 29, 2026 - 1 minute read Company Partners Share SAN FRANCISCO, September 29, 2026 - Factory is a launch partner for the OpenAI marketplace, which OpenAI announced today at DevDay. Eligible OpenAI enterprise customers can now apply pa

Ollama now supports Jev-style decision models September 29, 2026 Ollama now supports decision models, based on TypeSafe’s Jev API for fast, typed decisions: - No additional costs - Lower latency when run locally - Three new decision models available today via Ollama This new API

Alexandria and the Developer Index are now in ChatGPT and Codex You can now use Alexandria directly in ChatGPT and Codex through the Firecrawl plugin. Search and scrape the live web, with access to 100+ data providers and Firecrawl's specialized indexes from the same conversation

Starting today, OpenAI customers can apply their existing OpenAI spend commitment towards CodeRabbit through the OpenAI Marketplace, simplifying procurement. The announcement comes as coding agents increase the volume of proposed changes reaching software teams. Each change still

Build a Discord bot for your Appwrite projects with Appwrite Functions_ Build a Discord bot that tells you why a deployment failed, how many users signed up, and what your functions are doing, without leaving Discord. Your team already talks about deployments in Discord. Someone

Announcing breached password detection for Appwrite Auth_ Appwrite Auth now checks passwords against Have I Been Pwned, so you can flag, reject, or block sign-in with passwords exposed in known data breaches. Tr0ub4dor&3 is the example password in xkcd's Password Strength comic,

Today we are announcing the release of Turso 0.8. We are continuing work from the previous release to improve the engine under real-world workloads. So far, we've focused on SQLite features, compatibility, and correctness. However, performance is a big part of why people love SQL

SSO bypass - Category - SSO - Published Let specific users sign in with an email code when their enterprise SSO connection is unavailable. An active enterprise single sign-on (SSO) connection requires users on its domains to sign in through an identity provider (IdP). If the IdP

Best Image-to-Video AI Models in 2026: Cost, Resolution, and Control Kenny Rogers · · Updated If you already have the image a video should start from, choosing an image-to-video model comes down to what has to happen after that first frame: how long the clip runs, whether it must

Hurricane Polo unleashes threatening winds as it approaches Mexico - Published Hurricane Polo is lashing the northern Pacific coast of Mexico with intense winds as it moves ashore with the threat of life-threatening flash floods. The powerful category three storm, with maximum su

OpenAI had planned to release yet another AI model next month, but has decided to nix the release over safety concerns. The Wall Street Journal reports that Astra 6.1 was scheduled to be released as soon as within the next few days. However, the model “showed higher levels of dec

Three Egyptian security officials convicted of kidnapping Italian student - Published Three Egyptian security officials have been convicted by a Rome court over the kidnapping of an Italian student whose tortured body was found in Cairo a decade ago. The men, who were tried in ab

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