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Nasdaq-listed SaaS major Freshworks has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Torii, a SaaS management platform, to extend its IT service management tool, Freshservice, into AI and software spend governance. The transaction is expected to close in the quarter ending December 2

At Microsoft, our vision is to build a Frontier Firm: one where people and technology work together, combining human expertise, context, and judgment with technology that can extend intelligence throughout everyday work. The potential is significant: helping people create, solve

At this year’s OCP Global Summit, Microsoft announced Project Tessera, the evolution of the Azure Integrated Hardware Security Module (HSM), into a fully open-source initiative developed in collaboration with Marvell®, Oracle, and Open Compute Project (OCP). Project Tessera advan

Character.ai, the startup behind one of the largest artificial intelligence companion apps, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Monday, according to a company release and court filings. The company said the platform, where users can have one-on-one conversations and rolepl

Kamaldeep Singh, former chief executive officer of DealShare, has joined Indofast Energy, a joint venture between Indian Oil Corporation (IndianOil) and SUN Mobility, as its CEO. Singh announced his new role in a LinkedIn post. He said he would focus on building an energy and mob

Last week’s guest on the podcast was Sam Newman, who had released a book I’ve personally long awaited titled Building Resilient Distributed Systems. It’s an especially timely book for many of us software engineers, as we’re seeing more outages with nearly all services and systems

Artificial Intelligence Natural language security queries at Orca Security using Amazon Bedrock Security analysts need fast answers about their cloud infrastructure without deep familiarity with domain-specific query languages. Orca Security’s tool covers over 900 cloud models (t

Regulator would quit over Man City interference - Published The head of English football's independent regulator says he will resign if he encounters any political interference over the future of Manchester City. As chairman of the Independent Football Regulator (IFR), David Koga

Majority of clubs on edge of 'financial disaster' - regulator - Published English football's finances are "dangerously exposed, with the majority of clubs living on the edge of financial disaster", according to a landmark report by the independent football regulator. Research by

Google revealed Gemini 4 Argon a few weeks ago, saying that it needed to move cautiously toward a full release because of the potential for nefarious use. Google seems to have worked all that out pretty quickly, though. Argon is beginning its wide rollout today, but it’s only com

Cross-cloud conversational analytics made simple with open standards Praveen Kumar Customer Engineer, Data & AI The reality for most organizations is that data lives everywhere. As engineering teams expand and adopt specialized platforms for their workloads, enterprise data natur

Gemini 4 Argon available on Google Cloud, built to help solve your business’ hardest problems Michael Gerstenhaber VP, Product Management, Gemini, Google Cloud Last week we announced that Gemini Enterprise has evolved to make it even simpler to get work done, and introduced the G

Gemini 4 Argon is now live in Devin Desktop and Devin CLI, at 75% off list price through October 27, 2026. That combines Google’s 50% introductory pricing, which runs through December 1, 2026, with an extra 50% discount in Devin through October 27, 2026. On FrontierCode 1.1, our

After months sitting on the sidelines of the frontier AI race, Google has finally launched its long-awaited Gemini 4 Argon model, claiming it can compete with the best the industry has to offer. Google finally releases Gemini 4 Argon After months of trailing its rivals, Google sa

Bumble bought for $1.3bn in 'bet on the future of humanity' - Published Dating app Bumble has been bought for $1.3bn (£980m) in what the new owners called "a bet on the future of humanity". Investment firm Ithaca Holdings is taking over the loss-making firm and it directors, Ravi

Dive Brief: - Hasbro announced the opening of Wizards of the Coast Studios in Montréal, according to a Thursday press release. - The new hub will focus on developing content for Dungeons & Dragons and will support the Wizards of the Coast digital games portfolio. - The studio, wh

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Dive Brief: - Nordstrom expanded its partnership with FAO Schwarz for the holiday season by featuring a selection of toys from the company at every Nordstrom location, according to a Monday press release. - Nordstrom also debuted a new in-store mode for its mobile app, allowing c

Artificial Intelligence How ShipStation Global built an AI IT help desk on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore This post is co-written with Kenneth Salmon, Edward Boswell, Jack Armstrong, Robert Bahn, and Nick Ciubotariu from ShipStation Global. Answering the same IT questions and clearing

France's parliament begins debate on the 2027 budget Tuesday as high deficits, rising debt and student protests sharpen the political cost of fiscal consolidation. The euro zone's second-biggest economy is barreling toward a debt crisis, and risks dragging the continent down with

Artificial Intelligence Build long-horizon agents with Grok 4.7 on Amazon Bedrock SpaceXAI’s Grok 4.7 is now available on Amazon Bedrock, which offers a choice of foundation models (FMs) from multiple providers. According to SpaceXAI, Grok 4.7 is trained to work longer on more di

MI5 chief warns of threats to UK from Russia, Iran and AI - Published MI5 is devoting more resource to countering state threats than during the Cold War, the head of the intelligence service has said. Sir Ken McCallum said threats from foreign adversaries had quadrupled in the la

Mumbai: Indian stocks rallied on Tuesday, with the Nifty 50 posting its biggest gain in over two months, after finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman said the government would hear investors’ views on capital gains taxation. Her remarks lifted sentiment in a market battered by susta

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Listen to this article in summarized format Sensex jumped 1,109 points to close at 73,034, while the Nifty climbed around 359 points to end the session at 22,722. The sharp gains added around Rs 5 lakh crore to the total market capitalisation of all companies, pushing it up to Rs

The 2026 monitoring platform planning framework (Sponsored) Uncover the 11 requirements for evaluating enterprise monitoring platforms anchored to operational outcomes. Use it to identify the capabilities that actually matter, eliminate overlap with tools you already have, and bu

Marvell boosts CXL-connected memory capacity and speed with AI in mind Marvell has uprated its CXL memory expansion controllers to make more memory available for AI KV caching workloads. When a GPU’s high-bandwidth memory runs out of capacity cached key:value items used in AI tok

Apple opened preorders for the HomeView smart home hub today. The HomeView is a 7-inch smart display and speaker that aims to be a central access point for up to six members of a family to access and control Apple’s ecosystem of devices, apps, and the Siri generative AI chatbot t

Extending its winning run to a fifth consecutive trading session, small-cap Cubex Tubings shares were locked in the 5% upper circuit in Tuesday’s trade on October 13, hitting a fresh record high of ₹191.30 apiece. The five-day rally has resulted in a cumulative gain of 29%, turni

TapeArk moves tape libraries to public cloud VTLs for lower cost and higher speed Old tape archives can be migrated to a virtual tape library in the public cloud by TapeArk to provide faster data access and lower costs. TapeArk says this makes decades of tape-held information ava

When it comes to deciding the fate of the planet, Colleen Golja always thought science and reason would have a seat at the table. That was until one morning last September in London, when the climate researcher took part in the first in a series of war games. The goal: to prevent

Artificial Intelligence Mixture-of-Experts kernel engineering on Amazon SageMaker AI Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) is a sparsely-activated architecture that scales large language model (LLM) capacity while keeping per-token compute low. Because its operations account for a large share

Epic Games plans to use AI to generate code and art for an unannounced Disney game, which is now delayed from its original March release window, according to a report from Bloomberg. The project’s developers have been given an “AI-first” mandate directing them to use tools like A

VAST Data dives deeper into DigitalOcean Neocloud-like CSP DigitalOcean is deploying the VAST Data AI Operating System wiithin its AI-native cloud. DigitalOcean is a 14 year-old Infrastructure-as-a-Service CSP offering cheap virtual machines in its cloud that’s expanded into offe

Indian equities advanced on Tuesday as stronger-than-expected technology earnings boosted confidence in corporate profit growth and lifted benchmark-heavy large-cap stocks. Analysts say a strong IT-led start and expectations of decent overall Q2 corporate performance suggest the

A 'landmark' moment - why has Rwanda been chosen to host F1? - Published Formula 1 president Stefano Domenicali hailed the new deal to take the sport back to Africa - ending an absence of nearly 40 years - as a "landmark" achievement. Lewis Hamilton has been pushing the importanc

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