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Grab this 32-inch 4K OLED gaming monitor from ASRock for the super low price of $596 — dual-mode refresh rates and resolutions let you switch between high-fidelity and esports gaming Supports both high-fidelity and esports gaming This week's sales period may have ended for most r

Ecommerce giant Amazon has reportedly laid off at least 100 employees in India as part of its latest global job cuts. Citing sources, ET reported that the affected employees in India were primarily from retail and customer service functions. Globally, fewer than 1,000 employees w

Russia ramped up its military outlays, putting it on track to spend a record $200 billion on defense in 2026 with little sign of the Ukraine war coming to an end. The huge increase — roughly 40% higher than its original plan for the year, with a similar amount expected in 2027 —

Navi Pillay, a South African jurist who was the UN’s longest-serving human rights chief, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Pillay was a pioneer long before taking on major international roles: She was the first non-white woman to serve as a judge in South Africa’s High Court. Bu

Listen to this article in summarized format The price band buzz comes as Jio Platforms prepares for a likely IPO launch on October 21, with shares expected to list on October 28, Reuters reported earlier this week. The IPO has been widely expected to be India’s biggest listing an

Save $200 on the 2026 M5 MacBook Air right now, undoing Apple's June price hike with prices starting from $1,099 — Amazon deal nets you current-gen models with 16GB or 24GB RAM and up to 1TB storage Amazon's price drop makes these Apple laptops a little more affordable Back in Ju

Nomura has revised its financial model for PB Fintech following the consultation paper on insurance distribution reforms. The brokerage has lowered its premium estimates for the point-of-sales person (POSP) business, assuming the company exits the segment, while leaving its Polic

The rupee closed at 96.73 per dollar, barely changed from its previous close, staying within striking distance of its all-time low of 96.96 hit in May. State-run banks' dollar sales, most likely on behalf of the RBI, helped limit the fall, traders said. Frequent interventions by

Germany, Europe’s biggest economy, raised its growth forecast, a rare bright spot as regional economic worries abound. Berlin anticipates GDP will expand by 1.3% this year and a similar rate in 2027 — lackluster by global standards, but nonetheless significantly up from previous

Listen to this article in summarized format What began as a correction in the last few weeks has turned into a broad risk-off move, led by foreign selling, and higher crude oil prices. Over that eight-week stretch, Nifty and Sensex lost 8.7% and 8.4%, respectively. In the previou

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

India called comments by U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance about immigrants from the country "deeply offensive" in an official government statement published on Friday. Vance said on Thursday that the Trump administration wants foreign and local companies to "employ American workers

New Delhi rejected as “deeply offensive” Washington’s labelling of Indian workers in the US tech sector as “indentured servants,” as ties between the erstwhile partners frayed further. The two countries have been mired in deadlocked trade negotiations, have sparred over the US th

Finance editor Jeff John Roberts here. The explosive growth of the robotics industry in recent years is reflected in new technology feats, but also by the proliferation of new business and distribution models. Ultra, a startup that leases its devices to warehouses under a monthly

OpenAI reportedly assured investors it expects to reach a $70 billion annualized revenue target this year, an apparent attempt to assuage worries over it seeming to miss earlier projections, thereby casting doubt over the growth of the broader AI sector. The frontier lab’s figure

Kioxia unveils E1.L SSDs for hyperscalers with up to 122.88TB capacity — extreme density meets compact form factor When compactness weds density. Kioxia introduced its LD4-series solid-state drives (SSDs) in an E1.L form factor with capacities up to 122.88TB designed for high-den

Friday 9 October 2026 Top stories today: - Microsoft, Adobe suspended from U.S. skilled-worker residency - Elon Musk, Jensen Huang, Lisa Su awarded National Medal of Science - OpenAI annualized revenue neared $50B in Sep., below reported $70B - Apple’s touch-screen MacBook, OLED

When MV Electrosystems filed its draft red herring prospectus (DRHP) last November, the shareholding pattern showed that Madhuri Madhusudan Kela, wife of Madhusudan Kela, owned 5.6% stake in the company. According to data on the company’s shareholding pattern as on September 30,

OpenAI on Friday defended its decision to fire three safety researchers, saying they had committed a "significant breach of trust." The AI lab said in a post on X that its decision to part ways with Jasmine Wang, Tomek Korbak and Mikita Balesni, was not about the fact that they h

Q2 Results 2026: The state-owned Canara Bank has set board meeting date on 14th October 2026 to declare its Q2 Results 2026. The PSU bank announced this on Friday in an exchange filing. After the announcement of the date for Canara Bank's Q2 2026 results, Canara Bank's share pric

Power-focused engineering firms are increasingly trying to cut down waste and optimize current systems as they position their commercial offerings for the huge demand growth of the coming decades. ABB has in recent weeks rolled out a portfolio of products aimed at addressing the

Octopus Energy US is looking to acquire more software startups that can help utilities manage the influx of data center power demand, its CEO told Semafor. In March, the company bought the technology firm Uplight, which utilities can use to free up more power in the grid by subtl

Charter rates for oil tankers hit a fresh record, driving a larger wedge between the nominal price of crude futures and what it costs to actually receive barrels. Crude oil exiting the Strait of Hormuz averaged about 10 million barrels per day over the past week, despite a rising

Kevin Roose, formerly of Hard Fork and author of the frankly brilliant The AGI Chronicles, with an assist from Jasmine Sun, who is a researcher on the book, joins us. We’re going through his recent history of OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepMind, and the community of people who think and

Volkswagen’s ID.4 is no more. The midsize crossover debuted in 2021, one of VW’s first new electric vehicles designed in the wake of dieselgate. A year later, the company began local production in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and a couple of years ago facelifted the model, adding a mu

Arc Raiders publisher developing AI anti-cheat stack in escalating war with cheaters — game license blacklisting and zero-second-chance permabans now standard There's no place for cheaters in Speranza. The publisher behind Arc Raiders is now training in-house AI models to detect

On a Saturday morning in September, dozens of people lined up in New York City’s Times Square to check out pocket-sized cameras made by Chinese camera maker Insta360. YouTubers flew in to promote the products. As part of the marketing campaign, cyclists prepared to bike around th

The outflows reversed net purchases of about $4.72 billion in August, according to LSEG data covering stock exchanges in South Korea, Taiwan, India, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam and the Philippines, Reuters reported. South Korea accounted for more than 70% of the regional outflow

Anthropic has updated its usage policy to introduce restrictions on “sustained and needless abusive behaviour” towards its AI models. The company said the restrictions on abusing its models are intended for extreme cases in which users repeatedly act cruelly towards Claude withou

Bengaluru-based identity and access management startup OTPless has appointed former BharatPe technology head and Genwise co-founder Geetanshu Singla as its Chief Technology Officer (CTO). In his new role, Singla will lead engineering, product development, platform architecture, r

OpenAI is standing firm on its decision to fire three safety researchers after an investigation found they committed “a significant breach of trust.” OpenAI doubles down on decision to fire three AI safety researchers The AI lab insisted the decision was about a ‘breach of trust,

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

Companies listed on the benchmark STOXX 600 index are forecast to post aggregate earnings growth of 21% year-on-year, up from the 19.4% projected a week earlier. If realised, this would mark the second-strongest quarterly profit growth in the past 14 quarters, the LSEG data showe

How Should Enterprises Transition to the Agentic Era? Irving Wladawsky-Berger | 09 October 2026 This blog was first published on October 6, 2026 at https://blog.irvingwb.com/blog/2026/10/how-should-enterprises-transition-to-the-agentic-era.html and repurposed here with consent fr

AMD tried to crush the 'megahertz myth' 25 years ago today, debuting its Performance Rating system — Athlon XP chips introduced the scheme, which endured until Intel lost its clock advantage, focus shifted to multi-core The relatively short-lived naming convention was thought by

HCL Tech Q2 results 2026: Shares of HCL Technologies Limited surged during Friday’s trading session as part of wider relief rally seen in the IT stocks today. The recent uptick in HCL Tech stock has come ahead of its second quarter result announcement scheduled for Monday, Octobe

AI emerged as the defining theme in the Indian startup ecosystem in the July-September quarter, with startups in the segment raising their highest-ever-recorded quarterly funding. According to Inc42’s Indian Tech Startup Funding Report Q3 2026, AI startup funding surged 265% year

In his latest blog post, Damodaran said September 2026 was one for the record books as the US 10-year Treasury yield jumped from 4.75% at the start of the month to 5.29% by the end. The 54 basis point increase ranked among the top 10% of monthly moves in 10-year yields seen betwe

The Bengaluru-based company has met with potential investors ahead of the planned share sale and is targeting a valuation of Rs 270 billion ($2.8 billion), the people said, asking not to be identified because the information is private. The sale is likely to open on Oct. 15 with

Back when I was a teenager, a lot of people were very into the Left Behind series. Evangelical Christianity was still very strong in those days, especially in Texas, and Left Behind blew up by putting Christian eschatology into page-turning airport-bookstore-novel form. People re