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Credit: Microsoft Microsoft's in-house Azure Maia chips will become the main platform for its own AI services, including Microsoft 365 Copilot, GitHub Copilot and Microsoft Foundry... Keep me signed in Some subscribers prefer to save their log-in information so they do not have t

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

- Meta has begun deploying Media over QUIC (MoQ), an emerging open protocol for real-time video streaming at scale. - MoQ will help simplify our protocol stack for live streaming video and enhance overall user experience for live video. - We’re sharing how we shipped MoQ on Insta

For over a decade now, the only “official” way to play Hideo Kojima’s cult classic, P.T.—the long-discontinued “playable trailer” for Kojima’s canceled “Silent Hills” project—has been via one of the increasingly rare PlayStation 4s that previously downloaded a copy during its mon

Hybrid models interleave state-space model (SSM) layers with a few attention layers. NVIDIA Nemotron 3, Qwen3.5 through Qwen3.8, Kimi-K3, and GLM-5.3-Flash are all built this way, with Mamba-2, Gated DeltaNet (GDN), or Kimi Delta Attention (KDA) as the SSM layer. SSM layers are d

- At Meta, we’ve built a system that enhances ads recommendations by leveraging idle inference capacity in our fleet. - Two elasticity levers in the system allow ads recommendation work to expand across opportunistic capacity, without compromising baseline performance. - This pos

Agentic data science with the Data Agent Kit Jeff Nelson Developer Relations Engineer, Google Imagine your compliance team notices that payments are taking longer than expected to clear. They suspect fraud, and you’re the data scientist helping figure out which transactions to in

10 Years of the SRE book: Announcing the second edition of "Site Reliability Engineering” Betsy Beyer SRE Program Manager David Huska Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer How Google runs production systems, rewritten for the modern cloud and AI era A decade ago, Google re

Trusted Data Apps for the Agentic Data Cloud, powered by Looker Ani Jain Group Product Manager, Google Cloud Sharon Zhang Product Manager, Google Cloud As a business intelligence user, this probably sounds familiar: Most dashboards only provide you with a standardized canvas and

Introducing TimesFM 3.0 with multivariate time-series forecasting in BigQuery Haiyang Qi Software Engineer Haoming Chen Engineering Manager Overview Since introducing zero-shot time-series forecasting in BigQuery with AI.FORECAST — initially powered by TimesFM 2.0 and later upgra

FMCG dividend giants: Colgate Palmolive (India), Hindustan Unilever Limited, ITC Limited and Britannia Industries Limited are among the key fast moving and consumer goods (FMCG) companies that have paid significant dividend to their shareholders over the past few years. As the se

Dive Brief: - Lowe’s is rolling out its Black Friday deals starting Oct. 29 and extending additional discounts to its loyalty rewards members, the home improvement retailer said in a press release Thursday. - In addition to its early Black Friday deals, the retailer is offering r

12th October 2026 I was working on a project from my phone using Codex Remote when I found myself wanting to edit a credentials file without round-tripping those credentials through the LLM itself. So... I had Codex and GPT-6 Astra Extra High build this Python web app which provi

Artificial Intelligence Deploy decision models with llama.cpp on Amazon SageMaker AI Applications that route requests, select agent actions, or assign policy outcomes often need scores over a fixed set of choices instead of free-form text. Deploying these decision models with lla

Artificial Intelligence Run multi-node inference workloads using Ray LLM Deep Learning Containers This post shows how to deploy one large language model (LLM) across two GPU nodes on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) with the multi-node Ray LLM Deep Learning Containe

The proposed public issue is entirely an offer for sale (OFS) of up to 1.67 crore equity shares by promoter Indian Energy Exchange Ltd (IEX), according to the draft red herring prospectus (DRHP). As the issue is entirely an OFS, IGX will not receive any proceeds from the IPO. The

Delta Air Lines said it will delay the launch of its nonstop service between Atlanta and the Saudi capital Riyadh until March after several deadly attacks hit the city's airport there. Delta planned to begin the route on Oct. 23, with an Airbus A350-900 wide-body plane, in what w

In two separate settlement orders passed on Friday, Sebi said Singularity AMC LLP paid Rs 9.37 lakh to settle a case involving Singularity Equity Fund and Rs 31.12 lakh for alleged violations involving three schemes of Singularity Growth Opportunities Fund. In the first case, the

Major US chip stocks came under renewed selling pressure on Monday, October 12, following their recent rally, amid concerns over rising competition from Chinese memory chipmaker ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT). Nvidia, which has been at the forefront of the AI-led rally, saw

Journalists, entrepreneurs, and even some public relations professionals will tell you that the PR process is broken (buy me a drink sometime, and I’ll give you my rant). But could AI actually make things better? Honeyjar, which will be attending this week’s TechCrunch Disrupt as

On the NSE, Quant Mutual Fund sold 11 lakh shares at Rs 915 apiece, valuing the transaction at Rs 100.65 crore. On the BSE, the fund sold another 9,81,704 shares at Rs 915.01 apiece, amounting to approximately Rs 89.82 crore, according to exchange data. On the buying side, Abakku

"The government must seriously look into anchoring hot money flows into equity segment by extending the holding period to say 2-3 years and abolishing the long-term capital gains tax for equity," SBI Research said in its Ecowrap report on Monday. The proposal aims to anchor volat

NVIDIA and Cisco announced plans today for Ultra-Dense Small Form Factor Pluggable (USFP), an optical module format built for 400Gb/s-per-lane Ethernet in AI fabrics. The first planned transceivers put 16 full-duplex lanes in a footprint about the size of an OSFP module, which wo

Traders on prediction market platform Kalshi think inflation likely reached a peak for the year, though they don't see a sharp move lower anytime soon. Traders think the September consumer price index, due Wednesday at 8:30 a.m. ET, will show a 3.6% increase year over year. That'

Microsoft president Brad Smith is calling for urgent regulation of AI, and his argument is that consumer products like milk and washing machines have more oversight than the companies building artificial intelligence. On a recent BBC podcast, Smith called AI both a “weapon and a

Nearly two decades ago, a young college student wrote his final thesis about software capable of generating design documents for school buildings. Al Dram was studying architecture — following in the footsteps of his parents and grandfather — but it was technology that really int

Indian markets failed to hold early gains on Monday as sentiment weakened amid a rise in the 10-year bond yield to a three-year high and continued FII outflows driven by external uncertainties. Going forward, analysts say the Middle East remains a key overhang, with continued Hou

Listen to this article in summarized format Sensex dropped nearly 548 points to close at 71,925 while Nifty 50 declined almost 157 points to end the session at 22,363. This came while India VIX, which measures volatility in the market, jumped over 6% to cross 15. The Sensex had o

Boldfit, a homegrown sports brand, has raised over Rs 400 crore (nearly $42 million) in its Series B funding round led by Bharat Value Fund, managed by The Wealth Company Alternates, part of the Pantomath Group. Existing investor Bessemer Venture Partners also participated in the

Across 17 states, Ross Stores Inc. opened 41 Ross Dress for Less locations and 10 DD’s Discounts stores in September and October. The additions complete the retailer’s store growth plans for the fiscal year, totaling 115 new locations opened, according to a Monday press release.

AMD introduced Helion today, an open rack reference design for agentic AI that builds on its Helios rack-scale platform. Helion comes in two versions: a CPU-only rack for hyperscalers with up to 32,768 Zen 6 cores from 6th Gen EPYC 9006 Series processors, and an all-in-one enterp

Google’s Fitbit lineup expanded on Monday with the introduction of the Fitbit Edge, a new wearable that’s positioned between the Fitbit Air and Pixel Watch. Priced at $179.99, it combines the Fitbit Air’s slim band with an OLED display for checking map directions, notifications,

HCL Technologies was another major domestic IT player to report its September-quarter results, following TCS, which announced its earnings last week. HCL Tech's numbers came in line with analysts' consensus estimates. The tech major reported a sharp rise in deal bookings, led by

The currency opened the day at 95.76 a dollar against the previous close of 96.73 and gained to 95.5850 as the separate window for meeting dollar demand from state-owned oil marketing companies eased pressure on the spot rupee. However, corporates and importers were seen buying d

AGR is the revenue base used to calculate operators’ licence fees and certain spectrum charges. Access services, which include mobile and fixed-line connectivity accounted for 83.85% of the sector’s total AGR. Licence fees increased 9.18% year-on-year to Rs 17,103 crore. Also rea

If all parents read were the headlines, they'd know two things about AI: "There's a 10% chance that it's going to kill us all." And, they'd know "it's, like, incredibly dangerous for teens." That's according to Emily Oster, parenting expert and economics professor at Brown Univer

KIOXIA America announced the CM9-DLC today, a set of direct liquid cooling (DLC) models in its CM9 Series of PCIe 5.0 enterprise SSDs. The E3.S drives mount adjacent to cold plates in liquid-cooled servers and also run just fine in air-cooled systems. Capacities reach 30.72TB in

More AI code. More CI. Bigger CI bills. (Sponsored) AI agents write more code. More code means more commits, more CI runs and bigger CI bills. For many teams, GitHub Actions is now the bottleneck. WarpBuild fixes that. Teams at Braintrust, Raycast, OpenRouter, Comcast and Jane St

How Meta designed Muse: an AI agent people actually want to talk to | Alex Cornell (Design Director) Listen now on YouTube • Spotify • Apple Podcasts Brought to you by: - WorkOS—Make your app enterprise-ready, with SSO, SCIM, RBAC, and more Alex Cornell is a design director at Me

As AI factories grow from megawatts to gigawatts, building them takes more than advanced computing. Open standards are helping the industry scale AI infrastructure faster, more efficiently and more reliably. At the Open Compute Project (OCP) Global Summit, taking place in the San

McDonald's is betting on chicken and beverages to fuel its next phase of growth, but new consumer spending data suggests the fast-food giant faces stiff competition from rivals that specialize in those areas. At its September investor day, McDonald's outlined plans to gain an add

Which war is having the biggest impact on diesel prices - Iran or Ukraine? - Published US President Donald Trump has blamed Ukraine's attacks on Russian oil refineries for the global reduction in diesel exports and the spike in prices around the world, saying President Volodymyr

Dive Brief: - Now in its third season, Spirit Christmas will have 44 locations this year across 15 states, according to a press release from parent company Spencer Gifts and Spirit Halloween Superstores. - Sister brand Spirit Halloween will transform 39 of its stores to Spirit Ch