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The California State Athletic Commission sent a cease-and-desist letter to a startup that hosted a match between a human and a robot last month, as reported by The New York Times. California is trying to shut down robot vs. human cage matches The state says Rek, the ‘humanoid rob

The yield on the 10-year Treasury fell on Thursday as traders digested comments from a top Federal Reserve official along with another long-dated bond auction. The benchmark 10-year Treasury yield was down more than 4 basis points at 5.229% after reaching its highest level since

U.S. Treasury yields are likely to cool off after a surge to multidecade highs that alarmed bond traders and pressured consumer borrowing power, according to David Zervos, the Wall Street veteran who recently took a senior role in the Treasury Department. "These real yields are r

Artificial Intelligence Introducing Claude Haiku 5.5 on AWS Today, we’re excited to announce the availability of Claude Haiku 5.5 on Amazon Bedrock and Claude Platform on AWS. According to Anthropic, Claude Haiku 5.5 is the fastest and most efficient model in the Claude 5.5 famil

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Jasmine Wang, Tomek Korbak, and Mikita Balesni, the three safety researchers that OpenAI fired last week, have published an open letter denying the firm’s claims that they mishandled sensitive information outside of established company procedures and warned that their dismissal s

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Let’s Encrypt is continuing a push toward tighter security by reducing free SSL/TLS certificate lifetimes from 90 days to 64 days, starting February 10, 2027. For administrators already implementing modern ACME clients that support ARI (ACME Renewal Information), the change shoul

The Financial Times reported that ChatGPT-maker OpenAI’s annualised revenue was $20 billion below the amount it had previously indicated. The Nasdaq 100 fell 1.9%, while the S&P 500 declined 0.9% as of 1:26 p.m. in New York. The yield on the 10-year Treasury rose to 5.3%, weighin

Costco's latest monthly sales report is giving Jim Cramer a new reason to feel better about the stock. On Wednesday evening, Costco reported overall same-store sales, also called comparables or comps, increased 11.4% in September. Excluding gas and currency fluctuations, core com

By Karl Plume CHICAGO, Oct 8 (Reuters) - Chicago Mercantile Exchange cattle futures dropped for a second straight session on Thursday in a profit-taking and technical-selling retreat after sharp gains earlier this week and as wholesale cash beef prices turned lower. An increase i

The Scoop Coca-Cola is seeking to unwind its $5 billion acquisition of a British coffeehouse, months after a sales process faltered earlier this year. The American beverage conglomerate is once again exploring a sale of Costa Coffee, according to people familiar with the matter.

A federal jury in Texas recently ruled in favor of a man who sued Bexar County and its sheriff over allegations that the agency ran what the plaintiff’s attorneys called an “unconstitutional traffic stop scheme” enabled by “AI-powered” license plate readers. Late last month, plai

CTERA announced CTERA Forward Deployed Engineering on October 6, a service that places CTERA engineers inside customer environments to put specific AI use cases into production on the customer’s own unstructured file data. Each engagement is tied to a defined business outcome, ru

Starting on October 9th, anyone using Google Gemini on a free plan will be limited to the Flash Lite model. Free users can currently choose from Gemini Flash Lite, Flash, and Pro, but now you’ll need a $4.99/month Google AI Plus subscription to access the standard Flash model. Ho

Dell Technologies Turns Enterprise Data Into Trusted Context for AI Agents Dell AI Data Platform, the data foundation of the Dell AI Factory, expands with new data orchestration and storage capabilities - Unified Semantic Layer and Enterprise Knowledge Graph give eve

Under anti-vaccine Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the federal health department is undertaking an agency-wide effort to focus on injuries claimed to be related to vaccines. In a press announcement Thursday, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) laid out four

Weekly quiz: How long did it take for Glastonbury tickets to sell out? Published 7 hours ago This week, student protests continued to rock France, Donald Trump angered opponents by saying Iran could "take out" LA or San Diego, and the Celebrity Traitors returned for more misdi

Published October 8, 2026. Ranked on our current cross-platform client suite; systems tested on earlier suite versions are noted in Also Tested. Every mini PC ranked on this page has been through the StorageReview lab. We run the same client suite on every one: PCMark 10, Geekben

Protesters blame 'vulture funds' for Spain's housing crisis - Published Pierina Nicuray, a 21-year-old university graduate, has spent a week camped out in Madrid's Puerta del Sol square. Like many of the hundreds of others who have pitched their tents here to protest at Spain's h

Analysts at Jefferies estimate aggregate treasury gains in the fiscal second quarter to be ₹5,500 crore, down 58% from ₹13,100 crore a year earlier. Sequentially, this income is expected to be 23% lower compared with ₹7,100 crore in the June quarter. The benchmark 10-year governm

The News Three is a trend, and the leaks about Texas Senate nominee Ken Paxton’s campaign have more than hit that threshold. On Thursday the Texas Tribune published audio of Paxton saying the US needs to “suck it up” and cut federal programs, more drips from the same fundraiser t

Ticket rises and more TV packages - why is price of sport increasing? - Published At least £115 to watch a day of the Ashes in Birmingham - unless you are an Edgbaston member. A minimum of £255 for a standard seat at the Wimbledon singles finals. Prices starting from £289 for gen

Harry says he 'slipped into depression' after leaving UK - Published The Duke of Sussex has said he "slipped into depression for about two weeks" after relocating to Canada in 2019 ahead of his move to the US. Prince Harry, who recently returned to the UK with his wife Meghan and

Bankers believe this has had an unintended consequence for the currency: Making it expensive for overseas funds to buy rupee-denominated assets due to high hedging costs. In effect, this could be seen as partially counter-productive as a tool that's intended to give the rupee a f

The U.S. Department of Labor announced it would suspend Microsoft and Adobe from its Permanent Labor Certification program on Thursday, Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling said, as the Trump administration continues to take aim at immigration and foreign hiring programs ahead of Nov

(Bloomberg) -- US Treasuries rose after an auction of 30-year debt drew solid demand as long-dated yields edge away from their highest levels in more than two decades. The gains sent yields lower across maturities on Thursday, with those on 30-year bonds down by six basis points

(Updates to mid-afternoon trading) * Indexes down: Dow 0.07%, S&P 0.61%, Nasdaq 1.37% * Crude spikes due to supply concerns * Starbucks dips on reports of Chipotle takeover * Palantir gains after Goldman upgrade to 'buy' By Stephen Culp and Tharuniyaa Lakshmi NEW YORK, Oct 8 (Reu

Writing about quantum entanglement is always a challenge. There are so many clichés to avoid: It’s mysterious, ghostly, spooky, and weird. Entanglement is none of those things, and yet it is also all of those things—a superposition of clichés, you might say. So, having gotten all

Artificial Intelligence Pay-per-inference for AI agents: How BlockRun and Incarna use Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments When an AI agent runs, it often needs to buy something to finish a task: a model inference, an API response, access web content, or a call to another agent. The

The NVIDIA KGMON team placed second in the KDD Cup 2026 Data Agents competition with a system built around a simple idea of making an agent’s harness smaller, clearer, and easier to verify. The competition asked agents to answer natural-language questions over heterogeneous data

It’s a great time to be alive if you follow tech news and love messy drama. We’re not just getting a Nathan Fielder documentary about Elizabeth Holmes this fall. Netflix’s “The Altruists,” which follows Sam Bankman-Fried and Caroline Ellison through the scandal that crushed FTX a