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Bengaluru-based healthtech startup Kinetic Age has raised around $250,000 in a funding round led by AJVC and Agrasar Ventures. The fresh capital will be used to expand Kinetic Age’s healthcare offering and reach more customers. It plans to build its model around personalised and

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

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

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OpenAI will start adding an invisible watermark to text generated by ChatGPT and Codex in the European Union to comply with the EU AI Act, the company said Monday in a blog post. The EU AI Act’s transparency rules, which took effect on August 2, require AI companies to mark AI-ge

Beyond Appliances, a smart kitchen technology company building intelligent appliances for modern Indian homes, has raised Rs 110 crore ($11.4 million) in a Series B funding round led by Fireside Ventures, with participation from Dharana Capital and other investors. The Bengaluru-

Honasa Consumer, the parent company of Mamaearth, expects its net sales value (NSV) to grow in the early-thirties year-on-year during the second quarter of FY27, as the beauty and personal care company continues the momentum seen in the previous quarter. The company attributed th

Reflection AI releases first open model to rival China The open-source startup Reflection AI released its first open-weight model Monday, stating it rivals leading open technologies made in the U.S. and China. Reflection AI, which has the backing of tech giant Nvidia, said in a b

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Nvidia-Backed Reflection Unveils Open AI Model, Taking on China Reflection AI, an artificial intelligence startup from two former Google DeepMind researchers, has unveiled a new open-weight model that it says rivals leading options in the US and China. The model, called Beam, is

Reflection AI is officially unveiling Beam, its first frontier, open-weight AI model. The two-year-old, Brooklyn-based startup claims Beam matches the performance of leading Chinese open models on advanced reasoning benchmarks at dramatically lower costs, a claim that could heat

A Decade of Industrial Grade Linux: How the Civil Infrastructure Platform Is Securing Mission-Critical Systems Hilary Carter | 06 October 2026 The global systems that power our communities, from energy grids and transportation networks to water distribution and healthcare systems

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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…’

India's Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said trade talks with the U.S. had reached a plateau, adding to growing skepticism around a deal between New Delhi and Washington. "Negotiations are still ongoing, although we'd like to believe that both sides have reached a plateau bey

Oct 6th, 2026 US Senator McCormick on US-Japan Investment Opportunities US Republican Senator for Pennsylvania, Dave McCormick, discusses his visit to Japan, as he leads a delegation to discuss bilateral investment opportunities, after the US and Japan reached a $500B investmen

The Pentagon on Monday evening said that President Donald Trump has approved a recommendation by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to have convicted Fort Hood mass killer Nidal Hasan executed by a U.S. Army firing squad. Hasan, 56, would be the first person executed after a U.S. arm

Oct 6th, 2026 Higgsfield CEO on Growth, $1B Run-rate Alex Mashrabov, CEO of Video AI Start up Higgsfield, discusses the company's path to achieving generate annualised revenue of more than $1 billion, based on current performance. He also discusses the company's growth and busi

Fundamentals Spot gold held its ground at $4,141.81 per ounce by 0033 GMT. US gold futures for December delivery edged 0.3% higher to $4,169.10. The dollar held firm, making greenback-denominated commodities more expensive for holders of other currencies. The 10- and 30-year US T

The euro ticked slightly lower to $1.1220 in the early Asian session, having slid to its lowest since May 2025 in the previous session and extending its 1.2% fall from last week. It was last at 84.83 pence, having also lost more than 1% against the British pound last week. The co

Price targets from five brokerages suggest an upside of 25-74% from Monday’s closing price of Rs 705. Analysts, however, said the new CEO’s strategy, current management continuity and execution would be key. Read more: PTC shares soar nearly 34% after Schneider Electric agrees to

Brent crude futures lost 4 cents to $100.28 a barrel by 0003 GMT, while US West Texas Intermediate crude futures fell 11 cents, or 0.1%, to $89.33 a barrel. "Oil is little changed after yesterday's decline as traders continue to digest a modest easing in supply-side anxiety," sai

Top stocks to watch: The Indian stock market is expected to open higher on Tuesday, 6 October, with GIFT Nifty signalling a positive start for domestic equities. GIFT Nifty was trading around 22,663, up nearly 81 points from the previous close of Nifty futures, indicating a firm

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Trump says he will pay for ‘Patriotic Ads’ himself after facing backlash from Democrats President Trump on Monday said he will pay for the controversial “Patriotic Ads” after backlash mounted in response to the ads being funded by taxpayers. “The Radical Left is upset with the fa

Trump says he will stop using taxpayer funds for ads after bipartisan pushback - Published President Donald Trump has said he will stop using US taxpayer funds to pay for television ads he has fronted, following bipartisan pushback. "The Radical Left is upset with the fact that I

President Donald Trump said Monday evening that he and his political action committee will pay for controversial television ads that praised him, and which reportedly were funded from up to $20 million set aside by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. The White House later c

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China AI Video Startup Kling Picks Banks for $1 Billion-Plus IPO Kuaishou Technology’s Kling AI has picked banks for a Hong Kong initial public offering that could raise at least $1 billion, according to people familiar with the matter. The artificial intelligence video service i

Listen to this article in summarized format What happened to French bonds? Yields on the French government bonds, known as OAT, topped the 5% mark as investors sold off on worries that the country would not be able to control its public debt. The gap between yields on OAT and Ger

Major fire breaks out at Nottingham city centre property - Published A major fire in Nottingham city centre has closed multiple roads and stopped tram services. At 22:55 BST on Monday night, Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service said 12 fire engines were at the fire at a "resid

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U.S. President Donald Trump has offered to help Russia after a laboratory worker died following an illness at a plague research institute in Siberia, while the Russian authorities said the situation was under control. "We'll help," Trump told reporters at the White House on Monda

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Listen to this article in summarized format "The six-month reference period for the Nifty March 2027 index review is from August 1, 2026 to January 31, 2027. Only 34% of this reference period has been completed, which means there is room for the rankings to change," he said. Max

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Temperatures set to fall as rain and cloud sweep across UK - Published After weeks of unusually warm weather, autumn is finally set to make its presence felt on Tuesday as cooler air sweeps across the UK from the north-west. Temperatures will plunge from the low 20s to the mid-te

Listen to this article in summarized format Given the expectation of a multi-fold rise in revenue and profits over the next five years, the stock has undergone a valuation rerating with the current trailing P/E at 64 compared with a five-year average of 39. However, weak market s