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Cornell bans all fraternity parties over gang sex assault allegations - Published Cornell University is banning all parties at fraternity houses as the school faces backlash over its handling of an alleged sexual assault on campus two years ago. Last month, a woman known as Jane

In a bankruptcy proceeding that kicked off yesterday, Disney has offered to buy some of the technology that powers the controversy-plagued chatbot Character.AI. Disney is willing to pay $20 million for “a non-exclusive perpetual license” of certain Character Technologies intellec

'If we don't scream, they won't listen to us': Student protesters speak to BBC in Paris Students protests in France have entered their fourth week and with a renewed impetus, according to the BBC's James Waterhouse. The nationwide demonstrations against poor classroom conditions,

Microsoft’s “Clea” Maia 300 Inference XPU Is A Bandwidth Beast If everyone has an AI inference problem, with tokens still being too expensive to generate even with state of the art GPU and XPU accelerators, Microsoft probably has the biggest inference problem in the world. For on

U.S. Ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle said Tuesday she would resign, shortly after new White House press secretary Katie Zacharia said Guilfoyle was being asked to leave her post. "While my time as Ambassador may be coming to an end, my commitment to President Trump, the A

Discovery+ subscription prices went up today. Ad-free plans for new subscribers went from $10 per month to $12/month. Ad-based plans went from $6 to $7. The new prices take effect for new subscribers immediately. Current subscribers to the streaming service, which primarily featu

Wednesday's closely watched reading on consumer prices could show intensifying inflationary pressures as energy costs keep climbing. Economists polled by Dow Jones expect the headline consumer price index for September to rise 0.6% for the month and to increase 3.6% compared with

Facebook is the latest social media platform to give users greater control over the algorithm that determines what appears in their feeds. Meta announced the launch of its new AI-powered feature, “Your Algorithm,” on Tuesday, a feature it first launched on Instagram. The new tool

Rockets are, infamously, a real pain in the butt. Our old friend physics forces rockets to be built with almost no room for error, and even then only a small fraction of their weight makes it to orbit. There are, at least in theory, other ways to do the job — space elevators, cen

The other day I whizzed past several people while running in the park, my playlist blasting at full volume. The next morning, I smiled at a barista while ordering a caramel apple-flavored matcha latte. Afterward, I sat on a park bench reading a book, called up a pal to chat about

Today we’re launching Devin’s integration with Pylon. Support teams can get Devin to start investigations directly from Pylon, and engineers can pick them up with the first pass of work already done. To help teams get started, we’re giving new Devin customers on Pylon $15,000 in

2026 has been a strong year for high-voltage transmission and distribution (T&D) equipment stocks, with Hitachi Energy India, GE Vernova T&D India, Siemens Energy India, and CG Power and Industrial Solutions rising 66%, 34%, 23%, and 35%, respectively, year-to-date (YTD). In comp

Perhaps the days when auto shows debuted new models aren’t entirely over. The big trade shows for cars were a gateway drug for many, expos where you could see the newest models of today and the concepts of tomorrow. But automakers increasingly got tired of sharing the spotlight w

Meta debuted its latest artificial intelligence model, Muse Wonder, and says it's the most advanced option for powering digital assistants. But it doesn't come for free. To access the model, users of the Muse personal agent app will need to sign up for a monthly subscription of $

If there’s one lesson the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident taught us, it’s that AI agents can be unpredictable. “Imagine if something like that happened in the physical world,” Howie Sun, CEO and co-founder of Laplace Intelligence, told TechCrunch. “AI agents are moving from computer

Listen to this article in summarized format The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index dropped 1.5%, extending its decline to a fifth consecutive session and touching its lowest level in about four weeks. Micron Technology fell 4.5% to its lowest level since September 16, marking its f

The problem with giving everyone in a company access to AI tools is that people will use them in unexpected ways. And that fact is steadily seeding fears that companies now have new, gaping security holes in their systems or, at least, will soon. Illustrating the pace of AI tool

AI - Claude submitted fake murder tip to Philly police during summertime testing Anthropic took more than two months to alert cops - AI systems are fully capable of carrying out nightmare attacks against infrastructure and nobody's ready Meanwhile, AI agents move robotic arms, 'm

Artificial Intelligence Manage private pricing offers for Amazon Bedrock with managed entitlements Managing AI model access across dozens or hundreds of AWS accounts creates operational friction when each workload account must subscribe and accept AWS Marketplace Private Pricing

Mumbai-based MakeO, the parent company of clear aligner brand Toothsi, has raised Rs 90 crore ($9.5 million) in a funding round led by Singularity AMC. DSP family office, Genesis and Unispace Ventures also participated in the round. The company plans to use the fresh capital to e

A new immersion app is using Duolingo jokes to sell a different way of learning Japanese.

Listen to this article in summarized format Kacholia, through Bengal Finance and Investment Pvt Ltd, invested Rs 20 crore in the anchor allocation, taking his total investment in the company to Rs 55 crore. Kotak Mahindra Life Insurance invested Rs 15 crore, taking its total inve

MI5 chief warns against overstating Russian interference in Brexit vote - Published MI5 chief Sir Ken McCallum has said there was Russian interference in the the Brexit referendum, but warned against overstating its impact on the result. It comes after Prime Minister Andy Burnham

Run fast, private agents on-device with LFM2.5-24B-A2B LFM2.5-24B-A2B is a 24B-parameter reasoning model with just 2B active parameters, built for fast, private agents on-device. It thinks before it answers, calls tools, and works through multi-step tasks inside popular agent har

Facebook’s new “Your Algorithm” feature will let you directly add and manage topics you want to see in your feed and Facebook Reels. Meta says your recommendations “respond right away” after you make updates using the new feature by hitting “interested” or “not interested” for di

Google has already added a few AI features to the Play Store, but a lot more are coming. The previously released Ask Play feature is expanding to offer more AI-powered discovery options in Google’s app store, and Google is also using AI to build a recommendation engine called Gam

Listen to this article in summarized format The agreement, announced at GIFT IFSC in Gandhinagar on October 13, will allow the two exchanges to explore opportunities for dual and cross-listings across equities, fixed income and exchange-traded funds. The partnership will also loo

Diesel fuel powers everything from shipping to agriculture, and with prices hitting record highs in recent weeks, governments around the world are scrambling to contain the fallout. For now, that’s meant releasing fuel from stockpiles, but in the coming years, the answer might be

Your vibe-coded applications can now be easily run on Android smartphones without having to first go public on the Google Play Store, the tech giant announced on Tuesday. A new feature will allow users to launch their own personal apps on their device via Google Play using their

The next time you vibe-code a custom app with Google’s AI Studio, you won’t have to connect your phone to a computer to install it. On Tuesday, Google announced a new feature in the US that will allow you to launch personal apps directly through the Play Store. Google makes it ea

AI - Claude submitted fake murder tip to Philly police during summertime testing Anthropic took more than two months to alert cops - AI systems are fully capable of carrying out nightmare attacks against infrastructure and nobody's ready Meanwhile, AI agents move robotic arms, 'm

The sell-off in chipmakers Micron Technology and SK Hynix intensified in Tuesday’s trade on October 13, amid growing concerns over competitive risks and the sustainability of the AI-led rally. Micron shares have dropped another 6% to an intraday low of $929, extending its losses

Despite the Magnificent Seven making record highs, the AI trade is showing signs of cracks. Concerns over OpenAI's revenue growth have hit neocloud stocks, and chips are selling off Tuesday on concerns about Chinese competition. Add the Fed's first rate hike since 2023 in Septemb

Earlier this month, news broke that actress Mia Goth had filed for divorce from actor and filmmaker Shia LaBeouf. An Instagram post from the account miagoth_ — marked with a blue verified checkmark — quickly spread. It’s ‘incomprehensible’ that Instagram allowed an AI image of Mi

Listen to this article in summarized format The increase marked the largest wealth gain for the group during the first nine months of any year on record, according to figures from the Bloomberg Billionaires Index cited by The Kobeissi Letter. The surge pushed the combined wealth

One Instagram account has turned AI flirting into 4.9M views.

Listen to this article in summarized format The regulator sought comments on the recommendations of a working group constituted to review the Sebi (Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2015 (LODR Regulations). Stakeholders can submit their comments and su

The sandbox has never matched production. Not yours, not anyone's. A configuration variable set differently. A database seed that skips the legacy record formats real users actually have. An upstream service that deployed a new response schema last Thursday and nobody updated the

The way Rama Afullo tells it, he saw orbital data centers coming. The Kenyan American engineer previously worked in Google’s cloud computing business before a brief stint at SpaceX’s Starlink communications network in 2024. His experiences convinced him that there was untapped po

AI - Claude submitted fake murder tip to Philly police during summertime testing Anthropic took more than two months to alert cops - AI systems are fully capable of carrying out nightmare attacks against infrastructure and nobody's ready Meanwhile, AI agents move robotic arms, 'm