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Get a Wi-Fi 7 mesh network for a discounted $149.99 — TP-Link Deco 7 BE25 offers 5,012 Mbps speeds and coverage for 150 devices Faster Wi-Fi, wider coverage. If you're looking to upgrade your home network without spending a fortune, investing in a mesh Wi-Fi 7 system is worth con

Healthleap, a startup building an AI platform that reads patient records to identify patients at risk of undiagnosed illnesses, has raised $38 million in seed and Series A funding, TechCrunch has exclusively learned. The financing includes an $8 million seed round co-led by Sequo

Indian stock market investors are likely to track several companies on Thursday, October 8, following key order wins, business updates, expansion plans and corporate announcements. Brainbees Solutions, OM Power Transmission, Silver Touch Technologies, PC Jeweller, Ola Electric Mo

The Scoop Every Thursday afternoon, a cadre of state AFL-CIO leaders meets on Zoom to advance a shared project: the “Contract with Working Americans,” a populist economic platform they devised independently of the national AFL-CIO. These calls are a new organizing tactic for labo

Observatories and telescopes, lasers and X-ray light sources, and other high-throughput instruments generate image data faster than CPU-bound pipelines can process it to support timely decisions. The computational bottleneck is rarely one slow kernel. It’s the whole path from dat

Researcher ports Doom to $8,000 Hasselblad X2D — 100-mp medium-format camera uses touchscreen for directional control, shutter button to fire weapon The latest version of this professional camera costs nearly $8,000. An independent camera researcher experimenting with the firmwar

The railroad industry was one of the first to disrupt how the world worked with technology, but lately, innovation in freight railroading has amounted to little more than longer and longer trains. That has led many railroads to abandon shorter routes, ceding a chunk of the $1 tri

AI infrastructure is a system, and every part of that system is connected. Decisions made in silicon and systems design influence how infrastructure is sourced, deployed, and operated across the fleet. And what we learn once that hardware is running can inform what we build next.

When Justin Kosmides co-founded Bloom in 2023, his goal was to create a savior for the mobility industry. He had seen many e-bike and e-scooter companies fail because of an inability — or an unwillingness — to outsource some of the hardest problems, like logistics, manufacturing,

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

Yields on 30-year gilts - once a major part of UK debt issuance - jumped 13 basis points on the day to peak at 6.036% at 1341 GMT, their highest since January 1998 and pushing past a previous record set on October 1. Yields on 20-year gilts were a whisker away from a similar reco

But the SEC warned that it had concerns about the group's actions and said that ahead of the 2027 proxy season, large shareholders need to understand their regulatory disclosure obligations. (What's moving Sensex and Nifty Track latest market news, stock tips, Budget 2025, Share

Returning to Reims, by Didier Eribon. After his father’s death, French philosopher Eribon’s trip to his hometown catalyzes a profound meditation on the socioeconomic tensions and disillusionment felt by many young French people. As an academic now living in Paris, he reflects on

Levi Strauss & Co. shares were under pressure on Wednesday as investors awaited the apparel maker's third-quarter (Q3) 2026 earnings report, scheduled to be released after the US market closes. Analysts expect the denim maker to report adjusted earnings of $0.36 per share and rev

When Tony Fadell takes the stage at the inaugural MIT Future Fest, he projects a slide with three images of once-hyped AI devices that have already been discontinued: the Rabbit R1, the Humane Ai pin, and the Limitless pendant. “These were kind of the ‘Gen 1’ AI products, and bec

Google DeepMind, Meta, and AI drug discovery startup Isomorphic Labs are jointly investing $300 million into an initiative to create a “virtual cell” that researchers can use to combat disease, as reported earlier by Reuters. The project is led by Biohub, a nonprofit biomedical r

Why I upgraded to a 4K OLED PC gaming monitor — and why you should or shouldn’t True blacks and infinite contrast, incredible colors, and burn-in? 4K OLED PC monitors have been out for years, but while some enthusiasts have made the move to OLED tech, some haven’t. Like any new t

Stocks to buy today | Sumeet Bagadia's stock recommendations today: The key benchmark indices of the Indian stock market opened sharply lower and remained under pressure as markets witnessed a sell-off following the RBI’s rate hike. The central bank raised rates by 25 basis point

The barriers to entry for game creation are rapidly diminishing as AI makes game development more accessible to people without traditional programming, design, or illustration skills. The latest example is an experiment from Google Labs. On Wednesday, the tech giant’s public incu

Badenoch says Tories would scrap inheritance tax on family homes - Published Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch has pledged to scrap inheritance tax (IHT) on family homes while also allowing couples to leave £1m tax-free, in her keynote speech at the party's conference in Bi

Listen to this article in summarized format The country's central bank said in a statement that the new exchange rate had been decided at a meeting of Iraq's Cabinet the night before "to meet the relevant financial, economic and monetary requirements." The previous exchange rate

OpenAI just made one of its biggest bets yet on what comes after the chatbot. Now, the person leading that product is coming to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, happening October 13-15. Alexander Embiricos, product lead for Dots at OpenAI, will join us at Moscone West in San Francisco ju

How an 'absolute fluke' exposed sandpapergate scandal - Published According to the man who helped catch them, it was blind luck. Sandpapergate, the scandal that engulfed Australia eight years ago, was blatant cheating played out in real time on live television to a global audienc

Seagate and Toshiba battle for TDK's HDD head business, a critical hard drive component — multi-billion-dollar deal threatens sole independent supplier as shortages intensify What if Toshiba loses the bid? Seagate Technology and Toshiba are reportedly competing to acquire TDK's h

Dive Brief: - TikTok is launching an agentic AI shopping experience that will let customers discover and purchase products without leaving the social media platform, the company announced Monday. - The experience starts with Shopping Assistant, a conversational AI agent that unde

Liz’s view The bull market of the early 2010s was called the most hated rally in history. This one may be a close second. Back then, investors underestimated the power and determination of the Federal Reserve to prop up a flagging economy. Flatlining corporate earnings, European

One thing was clear on Skydance’s first day of life: Beneath David Ellison’s velvet glove is Ynon Kreiz’s iron fist. To earn his $40-odd million payout to help run the combined Paramount-Warner Bros., Kreiz will have to serve as a Tom Wambsgans-ian pain sponge — the executor and

Scott Bessent isn’t worried. The market is. The US Treasury secretary has been trying to reassure investors that economic growth and budget restraint can put the US government’s financial house in order. But he’s 0-for-3 on his 3-3-3 plan of increasing oil production, growing the

TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 is seven days away, bringing 10,000+ founders, investors, operators, and tech leaders to Moscone West in San Francisco from October 13-15 for three days of conversations, connections, and ideas shaping what comes next. Included in your Disrupt pass, which

Elon Musk’s SpaceX is the in-betweener in the AI capex wars. SpaceX’s reported $40 billion debt raise to buy Nvidia chips shows it is stuck between mature tech giants like Google and Meta and startups like OpenAI and Anthropic, whose private status tends to forgive their inabilit

As tensions mount over who gets access to top-end artificial intelligence, French company Mistral has released a new freely available model that it claims can compete with the very best from the US and China. The new 1 trillion-parameter model, Mistral Large 4—nicknamed Le Chonk—

Spot gold fell 1.6% to $4,096.13 per ounce by 9:20 a.m. EDT (1320 GMT), touching its lowest level since August 5. US gold futures for December delivery declined 1.6% to $4,121.70. The US dollar index climbed 0.7%, making greenback-denominated gold more expensive for holders of ot

Global brokerage firm UBS maintained its bullish outlook on Shyam Metalics and Energy in its recent note, expecting the stock to rise another 40% from current levels, even as it has gained 26% so far this year. It has retained its 'buy' rating on the stock with a target price of

At SaaStr AI we are aggressive users of AI outbound tools: - Monaco runs cold outbound. It booked a meeting for us with the right buyer at Anthropic on Day 1. That says it all. - Artisan runs warm outbound. It has for over a year and booked millions of closed won for us. It’s whe

Listen to this article in summarized format In a statement to the stock exchanges, the company said, "The Board of Ola Electric has approved a rights issue of up to Rs 1,000 crore at Rs 27 per share, payable in two calls. The issue price has been fixed by the board at about 26 pe

CARE Ratings has also reaffirmed the company's short-term rating at CARE A1+. "We would like to inform you the following updates on credit ratings by CARE Ratings Limited. AEL’s long-term rating is now upgraded to AA Stable, highest-ever rating in its credit history," Adani Enter

At the end of 2024, Texas’ grid operator had 63 GW of large new customers in its queue. By this June, that figure reached 474 GW, more than five times record peak demand, about 90% of it data centers. Then Texas hit pause. What began as directions for data centers to pay for thei

Stocks to buy today | Vaishali Parekh's stock recommendations for today: The key benchmark indices of the Indian stock market opened sharply lower and remained under pressure as markets witnessed a sell-off following the RBI’s rate hike. The central bank raised rates by 25 basis

Every piece of AI content from Google’s Gemini models has a hidden SynthID label, which makes it very difficult to pass the content off as authentic. SynthID has also gotten buy-in from other major AI players, but actually checking for those invisible watermarks has been a convol

Google on Tuesday launched a new site that lets anyone verify whether a piece of media, be it an image, a video, or an audio clip, is generated using AI. The company made this tool available to select journalists, media professionals, and researchers for testing at Google I/O las