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Starting on October 9th, anyone using Google Gemini on a free plan will be limited to the Flash Lite model. Free users can currently choose from Gemini Flash Lite, Flash, and Pro, but now you’ll need a $4.99/month Google AI Plus subscription to access the standard Flash model. Ho

Total disbursements stood at Rs 2,275 crore in Q2 FY26 and Rs 3,370 crore in Q1 FY27, translating into a 4.6% quarter-on-quarter increase. Non-JLG disbursements rose 94.2% year-on-year to Rs 2,602 crore from Rs 1,340 crore in Q2 FY26 while increasing 19.4% from Rs 2,180 crore in

* Seasonally adjusted sales decreased 5.2% last month from August to 5,174 units, marking the second straight month of decline and the steepest drop since February. * The board's home price index was down 0.5% month-over-month, after seasonal adjustment, to C$924,600 ($648,296).

In a regulatory filing, the company informed that it achieved total pre-sales, or sales bookings, of around Rs 2,100 crore during the July-September quarter of the 2026-27 fiscal, compared to Rs 156 crore in the year-ago period. Max Estates achieved pre-sales of Rs 3,200 crore in

Telecom operators are increasingly building their AI strategies on open models — and the reasons go beyond mere cost. Open models give telcos the ability to trust, control and customize AI across their most critical workloads — from autonomous networks to customer care. NVIDIA’s

Mistral on Tuesday unveiled a new AI model it said ranked among the best open models in the world, as Western companies race to close the capability gap with Chinese developers in the market. Mistral Large 4 (ML4), also known as le Chonk, is a 1-trillion-parameter model that is p

Mistral on Tuesday unveiled a new AI model it said ranked among the best open models in the world, as Western companies race to close the capability gap with Chinese developers in the market. Mistral Large 4 (ML4), also known as le Chonk, is a 1-trillion-parameter model that is p

AI - Google teams with nuclear power giant to give reactors a tune-up Upgraded turbines, generators, and digital controls are expected to unlock an addition 890MW of capacity - Schneider Electric drops $22.6B on PTC as datacenter boom rains money on infra companies Part of a bigg

Just when merchandising and inventory management seemed complicated enough, thanks to shifting tariffs and rising costs, along comes the strongest El Niño weather disruption on record. El Niño is the warm phase of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation, a climate pattern where sea surf

store Dell Adds Data Context, Prep, And Storage Features To Its AI Data Platform Earlier this year, Dell published the results from a survey of 3,800 enterprise IT decision-makers and AI experts from around the world talking about their experiences in adopting and scaling the tec

China's DeepSeek is considering expanding its latest funding round to as much as 100 billion yuan ($14.9 billion), double its earlier target, with state-backed funds and corporate investors jostling for stakes, people familiar with the matter told CNBC. The AI startup has fielded

India's data centre (DC) market added about 130 MW of new capacity in the first six months of 2026, while more than 200 MW is expected to go live in the second half of the year, CBRE said in a report 'Beyond Growth: India's Rise Among APAC's Leading Data Centre Markets' released

The Singapore-India Network for Growth Forum 2026, which was attended by around 300 Singapore-based investors, was addressed by Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini and Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Vishnu Deo Sai on Monday. Both the chief ministers have come here with separate

This is CNBC's Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox. Happy Tuesday. If you have a sweet tooth, you may need to prepare for sticker shock as cocoa prices begin climbing again. Stock futures are higher this morning following a winning s

disk Distant third HDD maker Toshiba spending $380 million to catch up Toshiba aims to to nearly double its LTI Philippines disk drive plant’s annual production capacity by FY2027 compared with FY2025 on a storage capacity basis. Toshiba Information Equipment (Philippines), Inc.

India’s markets regulator called Jane Street Group LLC’s demand for additional documents a “dilatory” tactic, a day after the US-based hedge fund asked the Securities Appellate Tribunal (SAT) to direct the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) to share the trading records

From Delegation to Collaboration: Inside Qodo’s Dark Factory TL;DR Agent-to-agent communication is becoming an important research area for AI companies. As agents grow more capable, their ability to communicate, plan, challenge one another, and work toward a shared objective may

The publisher of Wikipedia said Monday that OpenAI agents attempted to hack a note-taking tool it hosts, made unauthorized edits, and sent millions of resource-intensive requests to its infrastructure, in the latest instance of OpenAI systems taking harmful and potentially danger

Dubai’s priciest license plate, P7, sold for $15 million in 2023. Yet the resale market has run largely on Instagram and independent brokers. A new app, Mazal, aims to change that by holding buyers’ funds in escrow until ownership is transferred, for a 5% fee. Its founders say pl

Saudi Arabia’s expatriate workforce shrank for the first time in more than two years, amid layoffs, the Iran war, and a backlash against hiring foreigners at state-controlled companies. Foreigners employed in the country, excluding domestic workers, fell by 16,000 in the three mo

Abu Dhabi is backing a rail link to enhance the logistics behind Jordan’s main exports. The 403-kilometer network will carry 16 million tons a year of phosphate and potash, used in fertilizers, from mines to the Port of Aqaba. The line, which will replace truck convoys and an agi

That question feels particularly relevant today, with global bond yields at new highs, fiscal concerns clouding sentiment and foreign investors pulling money out of Indian equities. At the same time, massive investments in AI, data centres and tech infrastructure are creating new

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RBI MPC interest rate decision in focus: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is most likely to raise the repo rate by 25 basis points on Wednesday, October 7, following the trend set by other major global central banks, including the US Federal Reserve, the Bank of Japan (BoJ) and th

Benchmark Sensex gained 685 points to close at 73,067. Amid the market rally, four stocks from the BSE 500 Index touched fresh 52-week highs, marking their highest price levels in the past year. A 52-week high represents the highest price at which a stock has traded over the prev

VMware customers face multiple obstacles as they rethink their virtualization strategy to reduce dependence on VMware. Today, Rimini Street published its “2026 IT Virtualization Survey – What’s Next for VMware Users.” The survey examined 300 organizations worldwide that use VMwar

The benchmark 6.94% 2036 bond yield settled at 7.1928%, down from 7.2108% on Monday. The benchmark yield has risen for seven straight weeks togain a cumulative 45 basis points, its longest such streak in over a year. Indian government bonds witnessed minimal changes on Tuesday as

Spending on U.S. data center buildings hits record $85 billion annual pace, up 73% in a year — and Census doesn’t count the servers and racks inside Marks fastest rate of annual growth in over a year. Private data center construction spending is up over 73%, from $49.05 billion t

Networking for AI inference model serving - GKE only and for all other backends Ammett Williams Developer Relations Engineer Enterprises and individual developers frequently run multiple AI inference models. The right architecture can simplify how the models are called while also

CodeRabbit launched CodeRabbit Security a few months back. It is powered by AI reasoning with the ability to find deep, complex vulnerabilities in your code. We tested CodeRabbit Security and three other systems on their ability to find known vulnerabilities in open-source reposi

Shares of Taj GVK Hotels & Resorts, renamed Krishna GVK, could see a sharp re-rating as the company enters a new expansion phase, according to Monarch Network Capital (MNCL) Research. The brokerage initiated coverage on the stock with a BUY rating and a target price of ₹475, impl