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TikTok announced Monday that it’s launching an AI shopping assistant and a new in-app checkout feature that lets users buy directly from brands. TikTok describes its new Shopping Assistant as a conversational AI agent designed to help users discover and purchase products. The com

LIC Housing Finance, Bajaj Housing Finance, PNB Housing Finance, Aadhar Housing Finance and TruHome Finance are among the companies that could benefit, they said. HFCs had earlier approached NHB and the finance ministry, seeking more funding as they look to diversify their borrow

FMCG major Marico has acquired an additional 24.09% stake in Satiya Nutraceuticals, the parent company of plant-based nutrition and personal care brand Plix, for Rs 1,012.03 Cr. The acquisition increases Marico’s stake in Satiya Nutraceuticals from 60% to 84.09% on a fully dilute

Nintendo Switch 2 drops to £354.99 all-time low to defy the AI tax — pocket £65 in savings across these retailers Rising component costs have forced every major console maker to raise prices. However, Amazon U.K. has stepped up for Nintendo fans by slashing the Switch 2's retail

Cryptocurrency's biggest political spending network is making its first broad push into general-election House races this cycle, saying it plans to back 32 incumbents in hopes of preserving a pro-crypto bloc in Congress. Fairshake and its affiliated super political action committ

A sliding euro is the latest alarm bell for policymakers facing a surge in French borrowing costs that has started to spill over into the broader euro area. The euro hit 17-month lows below $1.12 on Monday and tumbled against sterling, the Swiss franc and Japan's yen . France is

Foreign portfolio investors have turned net sellers again in September, as surging bond yields, elevated crude oil prices and ongoing tensions in the Middle East have triggered aggressive selling. In September, they sold stocks worth ₹35,860 crore, with the selling continuing int

An invisible, machine-readable watermark in text output is rolling out to ChatGPT and Codex, but only for users in the European Union at first. OpenAI is adding text watermarking in ChatGPT and Codex It’s launching textGrain watermarking in the EU, but OpenAI says it won’t be the

For much of his life, Zain Javaid, 19, wanted to be a quant who uses math and data to guide his investment decisions. And for a while, he was one. But he got bored. Then, in 2022, ChatGPT was released, and he told TechCrunch, “I felt fundamentally excited in a way that I never ha

Listen to this article in summarized format The deal comes as software companies seek to secure revenue streams amid concerns that advances in artificial intelligence could offer competing services at lower costs. According to the Reuters report, Schneider manufactures equipment

How much is domestic airfare this fall? It depends where you're flying and when. Thanksgiving fares are up more than 30% this year over last as airlines pass more of this year's surge in jet fuel prices along to customers, according to a tally of "good deal" fares from flight-tra

Over decades of research, scientists have built up a partial picture of what specialized cells within the brain and spinal cord do. By studying how the brain develops, they could identify genes that were active in different populations of neurons and where in the brain those neur

AI Spending Is The Honey Badger Of Budgets Trying to figure out how much money is sloshing around for AI infrastructure and services is becoming a sport. We are living through the most dramatic IT investment cycle in the history of information technology, rivaling the debut of co

Bloomberg Tech • Oct 5th, 2026 Apple New CEO Ternus Puts Focus Back on Design Apple's new CEO is putting his own stamp on the company and making design a much bigger priority. Bloomberg's Mark Gurman discusses how John Ternus is taking a hands-on role as Apple prepares a wave o

The Nifty witnessed a volatile trading session on Monday, moving within a 224.70-point range before ending in positive territory above the 22,550 mark. The index opened on a firm note and climbed to an intraday high of 22,621.80 during the first hour of trade. However, selling pr

It's been a terrible year for farming, Jeremy Clarkson tells Tory conference - Published Jeremy Clarkson has said it had been a "terrible" year for farming due to the hot weather, at a surprise appearance at the Conservative Party conference in Birmingham. The former Top Gear pre

AI - Schneider Electric drops $22.6B on PTC as datacenter boom rains money on infra companies Part of a bigger play for smarter power infra - Cohere offers to put agents in lockdown mode with strict ACLs Like OpenClaw but with access control - INTERVIEW Altman-backed Volantis rev

On a sunny day in Seattle in late September, about 50 executives representing large Microsoft customers had a rare opportunity. They could ask anything of CEO Satya Nadella. One attendee wanted to know what Microsoft could do to help companies adapt to the artificial intelligence

On a sunny day in Seattle in late September, about 50 executives representing large Microsoft customers had a rare opportunity. They could ask anything of CEO Satya Nadella. One attendee wanted to know what Microsoft could do to help companies adapt to the artificial intelligence

Women throughout history have always sought out relationship advice, whether from newspaper columnists like “Dear Abby,” letters to Cosmo, or just chatting with girlfriends. In the social media era, you can instead post anonymously on Reddit relationship forums or look to social

There isn’t a shortage of accelerators for startups, but one of the few that investors watch closely is PearX, a 12-week program that caps its cohorts at a mere 20 startups and is run by Pear VC, a pre-seed and seed-focused venture firm. PearX’s biannual demo day is consistently

Artificial Intelligence Supercharge regulated workloads with Claude Code and Amazon Bedrock Please note that the following post is intended for informational purposes only. The approach detailed below may not be suitable for all organizations or compliance programs. It is importa

AI - Schneider Electric drops $22.6B on PTC as datacenter boom rains money on infra companies Part of a bigger play for smarter power infra - Cohere offers to put agents in lockdown mode with strict ACLs Like OpenClaw but with access control - INTERVIEW Altman-backed Volantis rev

Artificial Intelligence New agent skill: Amazon SageMaker optimized generative AI inference for your coding agent Engineers increasingly use coding assistance tools to accelerate their development workflows. Today, Amazon SageMaker AI optimized generative AI inference introduces

Prisoner took his own life after terror order had 'substantial impact' on mental state, inquest finds - Published A prisoner took his own life after strict terrorism control measures imposed by the government had a "substantial impact" on his mental state, an inquest jury has con

A surge in Russian jet-powered drone strikes on Ukrainian data centers has increasingly disrupted mobile phone and Internet services for thousands of people. Now Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and other government officials are warning of the need for more air defense capa

We’ve taken a look at a couple of GB300 DGX Stations now, and recently had two of them physically in our lab at the same time: the ASUS ExpertCenter Pro ET900N G3 and the HP ZGX Fury AI Station. With both towers sitting next to each other, we wanted to connect them and see what a

Back in May 1993, as I was wrapping up my PhD, I took a trip to Shenzhen to look for work. While at a friend's house, I was flipping through the Shenzhen Special Zone Daily and was immediately drawn to a full-page recruitment ad from Huawei. It specifically highlighted that they

ECB will 'look at' funding Windies Test if needed - Published The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) would "look at" the unusual step of funding a women's Test in the West Indies next year in order to aid England's Ashes preparations. The Test in the Caribbean, part of a multi

The grey market premium (GMP) of the proposed initial public offering of Jio Platforms Ltd, the digital services arm of Reliance Industries, has been moving higher in recent sessions, indicating strong investor interest in the issue. As of Monday, the GMP stood at ₹160, according

An OpenAI publicist tried to change the topic of CEO Sam Altman’s interview with Vanity Fair’s Mark Guiducci after the editor brought up a ChatGPT user’s suicide. When Guiducci confronted Altman about the incident, the publicist warned Guiducci about running out of time, saying s

Sam Altman thinks that the benefits of AI will be so great that “the world should accept some bad things happening” along the way. Sam Altman says ‘some bad things’ will happen, but AI is totally worth it Because ‘people will do tremendously orders of magnitude more good stuff…’

What happens when AI moves from helping job candidates to evaluating them? HackerRank, a platform used by companies to assess and hire developers, is offering a glimpse at what that future of job interviews could look like with Chakra, an AI agent that conducts interviews, observ

Hey hey, class of ‘27 (and ‘26, and ‘25, and ‘24), This is a special edition. Most weeks I write to everybody. Today I’m writing to the students, the new grads, and anyone who graduated in the last three years and still gets asked “so what’s next?” at every family dinner. On toda

Does Jev make AI code review more efficient? An extra AI check earns its place by verifying behavior the existing workflow missed. I evaluated Jev, TypeSafe’s structured-judgment model, alongside selected automated checks and Qodo code review. The improvement was marginal: one ad

China is accelerating its consolidation of smaller, mostly rural banks in a bid to shore up its financial system, amid ongoing concerns over an economic slowdown in the country. Beijing's policy-led consolidation saw a record 670 lenders closed in 2025 — about one-quarter of bank

AI - Schneider Electric drops $22.6B on PTC as datacenter boom rains money on infra companies Part of a bigger play for smarter power infra - Cohere offers to put agents in lockdown mode with strict ACLs Like OpenClaw but with access control - INTERVIEW Altman-backed Volantis rev

Stocks to buy | Vaishali Parekh's stock recommendations: The key benchmark indices of the Indian stock market ended higher on Monday. The Nifty 50 index ended 134 points higher, while the BSE Sensex gained 473 points. Among the sectoral indices, FMCG and Capital Markets outperfor

Marico has acquired an additional 24.09% stake in plant-based nutrition and personal care brand Plix for ₹1,012.03 Cr in an all-cash deal, taking its total holding in the startup to 84.09%. The latest transaction is part of an agreement to acquire a total 38.18% stake from Plix’s

Well, it’s safe to say no Bahrain Grand Prix has been affected by torrential rain quite like the 2026 race. For one thing, it was held several thousand miles from Bahrain itself. The ongoing war with Iran ruled such things out, so the Sepang International Circuit in Malaysia step