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Gold prices came under renewed selling pressure in Wednesday’s trade, with spot prices falling to a two-month low, pressured by rising Treasury yields, which continued to hover at multi-decade highs, while a strengthening US dollar also weighed on the bullion. Spot gold fell 2.3%

Non-resident investors pulled $7 billion from emerging-market fixed-income assets during the month, resulting in the first net outflow since March, when an escalating conflict in the Middle East unsettled global markets. Emerging markets came under pressure after the Fed, led by

As many doctors are moving ahead with the latest advances of modern medicine—from powerful obesity drugs to breakthrough cancer treatments—pediatricians are being forced to turn back, fighting to maintain advances in children’s health that were hard-won decades ago. With anti-vac

How we taught robots to assemble GB300 tester trays and what it taught us about robot learning, mechanical intelligence, and good old-fashioned engineering The NVIDIA Grace Blackwell GB300 superchip is the engine of AI training and inference for modern foundation models. However,

Third-quarter earnings season kicks off this week and as results roll in they should reveal what the market is eagerly anticipating: another blockbuster quarter for S&P 500 profits. The market closed at record highs Tuesday as investors bet that AI capex — a major force for the m

Common Sense Media, a nonprofit that provides age-based ratings and reviews of media and tech for families, has labeled ChatGPT for Teens an “unacceptable risk.” The rating comes as chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT have been accused of following the same playbook as social media co

Children killed while they slept as Russian missile kills 19 in block of flats - Published A Russian missile has killed 19 people including five children in an apartment block in northern Ukraine, destroying 30 flats as families slept. Three of the children were one-year-olds in

X is doubling down on sports, with Wednesday’s news that it’s expanding its “Gametime” feature on the social media site to go beyond tracking the NFL alone. First announced in August, NFL Gametime is X’s new project that offers a single hub for tracking live scores, getting play-

Microsoft and Nvidia launch Surface Laptop Ultra with RTX Spark starting at $2,599 — coinciding with major Windows 11 changes for agentic AI The company also highlighted "hundreds" of games, including Call of Duty. At an event in San Francisco, Microsoft and Nvidia teamed up to s

Today’s models have absorbed more code, science, and human writing than anyone ever could, but knowing is not doing. A surgeon can read everything about an operation but still needs real, repeated time in the operating room to perform and master it. Closing that gap between knowi

At today’s Windows and Surface event, Microsoft showed off an upgrade to its Copilot AI system that will give it access to local files on your PC and the ability to take actions across the OS. It’s part of an idea Microsoft is calling “Hybrid Intelligence,” where apps and tools r

ChatGPT is about to get a lot more visual, thanks to a new feature that OpenAI calls Intelligent UI. The new interface, which is being rolled out Wednesday with a new GPT-6 model, will integrate a significant amount of visuals into users’ conversations. OpenAI says many of those

After pleading guilty, a 54-year-old North Carolina man, Michael Smith, was sentenced to 18 months in prison for using artificial intelligence to generate songs for a scheme that stole millions from music streaming platforms. In a press release Tuesday, the US Department of Justi

Best Amazon Prime Day 3D printer deals 2026: save on Bambu Lab, Prusa, Creality, Elegoo, and more The bargains for some of the best 3D printers are hot! Amazon's Big Deal Days 2026 event is here, and so are the savings on our favorite 3D printers. We've sifted through Amazon to f

Adani Enterprises on Wednesday said that its long-term rating has been upgraded to AA Stable, the highest-ever rating in its credit history. The company said the upgrade serves as an independent validation of AEL’s disciplined capital management and tight fiscal prudence. “AEL ha

Microsoft’s Nvidia-powered Surface RTX Spark Dev Box is available for preorder now and is slated to ship in November for just about $6,000. It’s pricier than the DGX Spark mini PC Nvidia launched last year, but PC prices have been climbing due to shortages of RAM and other compon

AI - Microsoft is about to let Copilot loose on your file system But don't worry, it's totally safe because the agents and models will (probably) be running locally. Routers never break right? - Microsoft N1Xes Intel in favor of Nvidia's shiny new SoCs in Surface Laptop Ultra Pov

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On Tuesday, Anthropic announced an expansion of its Claude for Startups program, offering subsidized access to its AI models and a variety of other benefits to qualifying companies. The new version of the program, which launched as part of Anthropic’s SF Tech Week event, provides

Anthropic on Tuesday announced it's expanding its Claude Startups program, the artificial intelligence lab's latest push to deepen its ties to founders and fast-growing companies. Claude Startups initially launched in May, and thousands of companies are already participating, acc

Listen to this article in summarized format Brent crude rose 1.1% to $101.69 per barrel as the market weighed supply constraints from a storm heading for US oil-producing regions and attacks by Yemen's Iran-backed Houthis on Saudi Arabia. US crude increased 1.34% to $90.64 a barr

How clean is the air in your workplace? That’s the question Tanvi Thombre and Lakshya Saraf began investigating when they were engineering students who worked in their university makerspace. In fact, Thombre said via email that, while working in the space, they were “unknowingly

AI - Microsoft is about to let Copilot loose on your file system But don't worry, it's totally safe because the agents and models will (probably) be running locally. Routers never break right? - Microsoft N1Xes Intel in favor of Nvidia's shiny new SoCs in Surface Laptop Ultra Pov

Is it too early to look at Premier League table? - Published Just five games in, it might seem a bit early to pay much attention to the Premier League table - but it's probably more settled than you think. While it would be no surprise if Manchester City and Arsenal finish as the

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Boots sold in £7bn deal to Canadian billionaire family - Published Boots, the High Street pharmacy and retail chain, has been sold in an $8.9bn (£6.7bn) deal to Canada's billionaire Weston family. Wittington Investments, the holding company, confirmed it had agreed to buy the 177

There’s a new kind of AI influencer flooding social media feeds — and they’re not even pretending to look like real people. Higgsfield — which recently announced it hit a $1 billion run rate, and which boasts 30 million users — has updated its AI influencer tool, making it easier

Google has been ordered to halt work on two data centers it's developing in Finland, a month after the tech giant committed to investing $15 billion in artificial intelligence infrastructure in the country. Finnish Licensing and Supervision Agency, or LVV, on Tuesday issued a not

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A now-former officer with the Central Intelligence Agency has pleaded guilty to stealing almost $200 million, including hundreds of gold bars, as part of a fraudulent scheme masquerading as a top secret government program. The U.S. Department of Justice on Tuesday confirmed that

Sun Pharmaceutical Industries said in a regulatory filing on Wednesday that its Board of Directors is scheduled to meet on Monday, 12 October 2026, to consider and approve the issuance of listed, rated, unsecured, and redeemable non-convertible debentures (NCDs). The proposed NCD

J.D.’s view The race in the West to become the top open-source AI model shifted into higher gear this week, as both Nvidia-backed Reflection AI and French lab Mistral unveiled new models they hope will break China’s open-source monopoly. The challenge looming over Beam and Le Cho

Claude Haiku 5.5 is now live in Devin. On FrontierCode 1.1, our proprietary benchmark that grades models on real-world engineering tasks based on quality and mergeability, Haiku 5.5 scores 58.4%. That puts it ahead of Sonnet 5 at about an eighth of the cost per task. Claude Haiku

Prompt caching, first introduced on SambaCloud with MiniMax M2.7, is now available for MiniMax M3. When requests share a stable prefix of at least 4,096 tokens, SambaCloud can serve that prefix from cache instead of recomputing it, with no code changes required. Cached tokens are

Meta announced Wednesday that it took action against 33.2 million pieces of child sexual exploitation content on Facebook and Instagram in the first half of 2026. At the same time, the company is rolling out new AI tools to find ads and accounts that may be used to secretly direc

They found two UGC formats that turned Instagram stalking into millions of views.

Here are the best OLED gaming monitor deals you can snag for Amazon Big Deal Days 2026 — beautiful monitors up to 39% off OLED gaming monitors are hot right now, and Prime Big Deal Days is an excellent time to be in the market. OLED panels are quickly becoming a must-have item fo

Nasuni has announced that AI Activate and Resilio 6.0 are generally available on the Nasuni File Data Platform, with Enterprise Search following later this quarter. Together with the content classification Nasuni picked up in its recent DryvIQ acquisition, the additions let AI to

Disney announced Wednesday that its streaming service Disney+ will air the upcoming Super Bowl in February. The 2027 championship game, as well as two Monday Night Football games leading up to the Super Bowl, will be available to all Disney+ subscribers in the U.S. Disney had pre