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Dive Brief: - During the upcoming holiday season, retail sales are predicted to grow between 4.3% and 4.9% from a year prior, surpassing $1.7 trillion, according to a report from ICSC released Tuesday. - Nearly eight in 10 (78%) of shoppers expect to spend the same or more as las

Verstappen on sprint pole after another settings issue - Published Red Bull's Max Verstappen beat Mercedes driver George Russell to sprint pole at the Singapore Grand Prix. Verstappen, fresh from his and Red Bull's first victory of the season in Malaysia last weekend, was 0.12 se

I wrote this week about the bleak economics of consumer AI — but where some see a crisis, others see an opportunity. Olivia Moore covers consumer AI as a partner at Andreessen Horowitz — and on Monday, she released a report on the top 100 consumer AI apps. ChatGPT is still the bi

It’s been another week with far more retail news than there is time in the day. Below, we break down some things you may have missed during the week and what we’re still thinking about. From Fleet Feet’s leadership shuffle to Bark’s expanded partnership with Crocs, here’s our clo

QatarEnergy won stakes in seven exploration blocks off Brazil’s northeastern coast, the latest in a series of Gulf investments in Latin America’s energy sector. The state-owned company will hold 30% of each block in the Ceará Basin, with operator Petrobras holding the rest. Conce

The war caught up with the Gulf’s construction sector last quarter. Project awards across the region fell 37.2% from a year earlier to $47.4 billion, according to Kuwaiti investment firm Kamco Invest. Every country was down by double digits; Oman all but stopped signing contracts

Gabriel India, the flagship company of the ANAND Group, announced in a post-market regulatory filing that it had entered into a joint venture with France-based Forvia, one of the leading global automotive technology suppliers. The partnership aims to bring advanced seating system

The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) approved a 24-hour suspension of mobile internet services in New Delhi amid the ongoing protests against the chief election commissioner, Gyanesh Kumar, in the capital. The shutdown will come into effect from 10 PM on October 9 to 10 PM on Octob

Artificial Intelligence ICYMI: What landed for AI builders in September 2026 A recap of the latest Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, and Strands updates from September 2026 At AWS, we believe the fastest path to enterprise AI is giving builders real choice at every layer:

Artificial Intelligence How Postman runs Agent Mode for 40 million developers on Amazon Bedrock Building an AI agent for a demo and operating one for 40 million developers are different engineering problems. Postman set out to build Agent Mode, an AI-native way to work across API

Seagate and Toshiba have each held preliminary talks to acquire TDK’s hard disk drive recording head business in a potential multibillion-dollar deal, Bloomberg reported this week. The report describes TDK as the only independent HDD head supplier, selling to all three nearline d

Dive Brief: - Stacie Borteck Dattner, a longtime merchant at Bloomingdale’s, is leaving to lead merchandising at another Macy’s Inc. nameplate, Bluemercury. - Dattner starts the job Monday. She will report to Bluemercury CEO Alexandre Choueiri, who arrived at Bluemercury this sum

During the HTML5 revolution, besides sending the Adobe Flash media player into retirement, truly semantic markup made headlines. But even today, it’s not that easy to shake off the habit of reaching for <div> and <span> when we quickly need a tag to wrap the content. Sometimes, <

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement will not pause its activities in New York after ICE agents in the Bronx shot and wounded a man while he was in a car with a 5-year-old child, Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said Friday. The shooting Thursday afternoon prompte

Bonus share alert: Shares of JOJO Limited are likely to remain in focus next week ahead of the company’s upcoming bonus issue record date. The film production, distribution and exhibition firm has fixed Monday as the record date for the corporate action.For investors who closely

Data centers have divided America. The ire of everyday citizens continues to increase against a backdrop of enthusiastic and deep-pocketed Wall Street investors betting artificial intelligence is the economic engine of the future. And as data centers that power the answers for Go

Data centers have divided America. The ire of everyday citizens continues to increase against a backdrop of enthusiastic and deep-pocketed Wall Street investors betting artificial intelligence is the economic engine of the future. And as data centers that power the answers for Go

Dive Brief: - Amazon’s October Prime Big Deal Days, which ran Tuesday and Wednesday, helped drive $9.86 billion in online sales for U.S. retailers, according to data from Adobe. As in past years, the event drew competing sales from retailers including Target. - Online demand duri

When in August OpenAI released its ChatGPT for Teens, a tool with "stronger built-in safety protections" geared toward 13- to 17-year-olds, experts said it showed promise. New research, however, reveals it has important limitations. On Wednesday, media ratings nonprofit Common Se

Delta Air Lines slashed its 2026 profit outlook as high fuel prices persist, but CEO Ed Bastian said pricier fares aren't turning off travelers. Delta on Friday forecast full-year earnings per share of between $5.10 and $5.60 on an adjusted basis, compared with its outlook in Jul

BEIJING — European trade commissioner Maroš Sefčovič said Friday that China has agreed to halve its exports of hybrid cars to the bloc. Europe has called on China to voluntarily reduce hybrid car exports into the continent, but authorities in Beijing had reportedly slapped down t

Automattic’s interim chief financial officer Jeremy Klaperman has left his position after less than a month, TechCrunch has learned. Klaperman had been elevated to the new job last month after the governance crisis at the WordPress.com parent company, which saw its entire board e

AI - Nvidia found $1B under the couch to help secure American scientific computing dominance Commitment comes as GPUzilla prepares to fortify Uncle Sam's arsenal with at least seven AI-optimized supers - TSMC taps GlobalFoundries to bolster US silicon interposer production in $2B

Thirteen years ago I developed to my knowledge the first and currently the only fully featured model oriented programming language and IDE. I utilized this technology (Mo+) to great effect on my own and workplace enterprise projects, but failed to sell the ideas to a wider audien

Autobiography of Red, by Anne Carson. Through “47 compulsively readable long-lined poems of intense cinematic detail,” the Canadian writer — and winner of the 2026 Nobel Prize for Literature — retells the ancient Greek myth of Hercules and Geryon as a modern day queer love story,

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver expressed confidence on Friday that he will get a deal done with EuroLeague to launch NBA Europe, a new European basketball league. "We're going to get something worked out," Silver said in an exclusive CNBC interview. "It's like any negotiation – it'

AI - Nvidia found $1B under the couch to help secure American scientific computing dominance Commitment comes as GPUzilla prepares to fortify Uncle Sam's arsenal with at least seven AI-optimized supers - TSMC taps GlobalFoundries to bolster US silicon interposer production in $2B

TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 brings founders, investors, operators, builders, and technology leaders to San Francisco from October 13-15. But the activity doesn’t stop when the conference floor closes. Throughout Disrupt Week, startups and organizations from across the global tech eco

AWS Compute Blog Scaling RL rollouts with Firecracker on Amazon EC2 metal Modern reinforcement learning (RL) systems rely on thousands of rollout environments running in parallel. For large language model (LLM) training using Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) each rollout environment run

Widdecombe suspect had 'particular hostility to Reform', court told - Published The man accused of murdering Ann Widdecombe had a "particular hostility to Reform", prosecutors alleged on Friday. They said Joshua Kerry, 28, "had an extreme left wing and/or anti-establishment minds

President Donald Trump has a knack for turning words against his enemies. His first successful presidential run was built on monikers like “Little Marco” and “Crooked Hillary”; he changed “fake news” from a phrase describing scammy media outlets to a derogatory term for the press

Your next personal shopper may not be a person at all. The latest breed of artificial intelligence assistants goes beyond the abilities of chatbots, which are great at answering questions and creating content. These generative AI chatbots, like ChatGPT, are the brain. These new A