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In six days, 10,000+ people from across the global startup and tech ecosystem will come together at San Francisco’s Moscone West for TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. If you’re planning to be one of them, register for your ticket now before prices increase at the door. Discounted online p

Listen to this article in summarized format Meanwhile, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 472.21 points, or 0.92%, to 51,049.07. The S&P 500 declined 44.80 points, or 0.56%, to 7,775.04, while the Nasdaq Composite dropped 235.16 points, or 0.85%, to 27,364.73. Brent crude clim

The Nasdaq-100 is up 15% since its July low and is now 2% above its previous record from June. The S&P 500, after a two-month-long battle with surging interest rates, is back trading at an all-time high. You'd think that resilience would be met with some fanfare. Instead, the two

Electric two wheeler maker Ola Electric will open its Rs 1,000 crore rights issue on October 22. The issue will close on October 30, 2026. The company will issue 37.03 crore partly paid up equity shares at Rs 27 per share. This includes a premium of Rs 17 per share. The issue wil

There’s been something of a change in the world of motorsport over the past few years. It has to do with where the money comes from. In the old days, it was tobacco and, to a lesser extent, booze. Today such things are mostly banned, and when you look at a racecar covered in spon

The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) has laid out a new framework for the number of debt instruments by an issuer that can mature in a given financial year. The new norms come into effect immediately. In a circular issued on Wednesday, the market regulator increased

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Digital investment platform Webull, which counts 28 million global users, is quietly "tied in structural ways" to China's government, representing a national security threat to U.S. finance, according to a bipartisan congressional panel's findings shared exclusively with CNBC. Th

RackWare migration, disaster recovery, and backup RackWare was founded in 2009 in Santa Clara, CA, by CTO Todd Matters, with a vision of building a migration and DR product that provided customers with a consistent data approach while extending flexibility in supporting any targe

The best Switch 2 accessories on sale now — controllers, cameras, cases, screen protectors, and more Essential accessories for your Switch 2 console Do you or someone you know have a Nintendo Switch 2? What about accessories for your new console? Whether you want to play with oth

DBtune autonomous optimization blows PostgreSQL bottlenecks away Startup DBtune is developing a PostgreSQL autonomous database optimization capability which could make PostgreSQL better than Oracle. DBtune is headquartered in Malmö/Lund, Sweden, and was started up in 2020 by mach

It said several of these funds were trading at significant premiums to their underlying net asset values (NAVs), implying that investors were essentially buying international ETFs at elevated prices. Here are the key details. * Prices of some ETFs investing in overseas securities

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

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), India's largest IT services company, is set to announce its financial performance for the second quarter of FY27 on Thursday, October 8, with the Street largely anticipating another soft quarter from the tech bellwether. Indian tech majors are exp

Making enterprise data AI ready? Precisely! Precisely's new Platform is a unified data management offering designed to make more enterprise data AI-ready, with MCP support and an AI Studio. Mainframe-to cloud and data integrity supplier Precisely says it’s built on a single metad

In the debut episode of Future Proof from Semafor Technology, Cognition CISO and former Facebook security chief Alex Stamos goes off on the “nihilism” ripping through Silicon Valley. He joins Semafor Tech editor Reed Albergotti to discuss the very real risks of AI, and the wholly

Introducing Falcon ASR Arabic WER: 20.92% · Parameters: 1.6B · Emirati WER (TII evaluation): 22.73% We’re introducing Falcon-ASR, our 1.6 billion parameter speech recognition model for Arabic, with a particular focus on the Emirati dialect. Developed at the Technology Innovation

These 15 under-$50 gadgets have upgraded my tech life, and they're all on sale — some are even under $25 From M.2 cloners to screwdrivers, and travel-friendly tech accessories, these are affordable game-changers. As much as I love high-priced tech like my potent RTX 4090-equipped

I found the trailer for Digger intriguing, starring a nearly unrecognizable Tom Cruise and giving off strong Dr. Strangelove vibes. Plus, it is four-time Oscar-winning director Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s (Birdman) first English-language film since 2015’s The Revenant. Those elements

HPE has announced the first four ProLiant Gen13 servers, and all of them run on 6th Gen AMD EPYC, the SP7-socket Venice parts AMD listed last month. The lineup is the two-socket, eight-GPU HPE ProLiant DL585a Gen13, the 1U single-socket HPE ProLiant DL525 Gen13 with up to 256 cor

Qualcomm will license patents behind Huawei’s LogicFolding chip architecture, report says — the Kirin 9050 Pro already uses it, with a teardown showing its lower die is mostly cache and I/O How much logic is actually stacked inside Huawei’s Kirin 9050 Pro? Qualcomm has reached a

The change has raised Jefferies’ rate-hike expectation to 75-100 basis points from 50 basis points earlier. It said this could become a positive catalyst for earnings of large private banks, PSU banks and housing finance companies, while posing a mild risk to smaller private bank

Ethiopia’s prime minister reignited the issue of sea access for his landlocked country, potentially further inflaming regional tensions amid renewed fighting in its northern Tigray region. After being sworn in for a second full term, Abiy Ahmed told parliament his government woul

This is CNBC's Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox. Happy Wednesday. Even the Television Academy is cutting the cord. Starting next year, the Emmy Awards will stream on Amazon Prime Video under a six-year exclusive deal announced yes

On Wednesday, the benchmark Sensex slipped 429 points to close at 72,638. Despite the market decline, five stocks from the BSE Commodities 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

South Africa is facing growing pressure from labor unions and business groups to provide around $600 million in fuel relief, after the Iran war drove petrol prices to record highs in the continent’s biggest economy. The calls heap pressure on the coalition government to loosen it

China’s competitor to the dollar-denominated system that zips money between global banks saw record daily volume in August. A spike last spring, as the Iran war sent sanctioned companies looking for a way around Washington, now looks less like a blip and more like a permanent, if

The Reserve Bank of India raised its benchmark interest rate by 25 basis points to 5.50 per cent on Wednesday, its first increase in nearly four years. "The RBI has increased the repo rate after three years... As a result, interest rates of banks and financial institutions on hou

Florida sues TP-Link for ‘lying about the safety of its routers’ — state claims that manufacturer misrepresented its security and ties to China TP-Link is estimated to have 50% to 65% of the consumer router market in the U.S. Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier just announced

Landmark One is a Grade A+ commercial development, designed by Sohrab Dalal and the development features floor plates of approximately one lakh sq ft with 11 levels of parking. “The financing will provide a strong foundation for the construction and enable us to maintain momentum

The Gulf is entering a costly new era of accommodating Iran, regardless of whether Tehran and Washington break their stalemate. Spending on defense, protecting energy and infrastructure assets, and creating redundancies in trade and energy flows will become standard, according to

Abu Dhabi-based Eagle Hills signed a framework agreement with Syria’s government to build a housing development in Damascus and a tourism project in the coastal city of Latakia, advancing founder Mohamed Alabbar’s plan to invest $18 billion in the country. Alabbar said he would p

Consumption-focused sectors bore the brunt of the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) monetary tightening on Wednesday, with auto, consumer durables and realty stocks facing selling pressure as investors interpreted the policy move as the start of a higher borrowing-cost cycle. A highe

13 tech bargains for only $13 or less to upgrade your desktop PC setup — add connectivity, spruce up your PC, or clear space on your desk Enhance your desktop PC space with a new gadget. It's day two of the Amazon Prime Big Deal Days sales event, and time is running out to grab a

Reserves have fallen to $734.6 billion in the week ended October 2, the fourth consecutive week of fall and down from a recent peak of $785.71 billion reported on September 4, according to a footnote to governor Sanjay Malhotra's monetary policy statement on Wednesday. The latest