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The PHLX chip index fell for a fifth straight session, after Broadcom CEO Hock Tan on Monday likened some of the investment flow into the sector to "casino gambling." Additionally, reports of technological advances by Chinese memory chip company CXMT underscored concerns about ri

Artificial Intelligence Building agents that transact with Anchor Browser and AgentCore payments AI agents increasingly need to access web resources that are priced per request. For example, premium datasets charge by the query, research APIs meter by the call, and paywalled publ

Chip stocks sank on Tuesday after a Chinese memory chipmaker said it had made significant progress in developing new and more efficient designs. ChangXin Memory Technologies, or CXMT, announced over the weekend that it had made headway on new architecture that will increase memor

Oil held steady after three days of gains as traders booked profits from the recent rally amid persistent risks to energy supplies stretch from the Middle East to Russia. Brent was trading near $106 a barrel while West Texas Intermediate fluctuated to trade below $94 after rising

If fusion power pans out, and there are signs that it will, the world will need a lot more lithium. That’s the bet behind Licube, a startup that has licensed technology from Hirosaki University in Japan, to purify lithium-6, the form of lithium that fusion plants need to make the

Ex-gang boss sentenced to 40 years for orchestrating Tupac Shakur's murder - Published Former gang boss Duane "Keffe D" Davis has been sentenced to at least 40 years in prison for orchestrating the murder of Tupac Shakur. A jury found Davis, 63, guilty in September of one count o

Wells Fargo shares dipped 2% Tuesday after the bank reported mixed third-quarter results. However, we think better days are ahead as management's efforts to improve returns take hold, and we're upgrading the stock as a result. Total revenue at the bank increased 2% year over year

Trump commercials paid for by the US government continued airing on TV the day after a judge blocked the ads because they likely violate a US law against government-funded publicity or propaganda. In the most widely aired commercial, Trump railed against his perceived enemies and

(Bloomberg) -- Copper wavered as traders weighed investor angst around overheated spending on metal-intensive AI infrastructure against continued supply risks.AI and technology stocks dropped across global markets following a slew of warnings that the rapid buildout of data cente

New York Federal Reserve President John Williams said Tuesday that he doesn't see additional rate hikes in 2027 after one more increase this year. "I haven't changed my view that it may be appropriate to have one more rate hike," Williams said in an interview with Bloomberg News.

Listen to this article in summarized format From your perch, what are two causes for concern about the global economy and two for optimism? Obviously the wars in Russia, Ukraine, as well as West Asia, which are causing commodity prices to go up. Agricultural prices are impacted,

More AI agents will soon be able to browse and purchase from Shopify listings, marking an expansion of the company’s agentic commerce ambitions. Shopify opens its catalog up to more AI agents Shopify previously announced a partnership with Meta’s Muse for AI-powered shopping and

The portfolio on sale of the railway ministry's listed engineering and construction company comprises two build-operate-transfer toll-road assets, the 97-km Ircon Shivpuri Guna Tollway in Madhya Pradesh and the 159-km Ircon PB Tollway in Rajasthan, and two hybrid annuity model pr

Apple on Tuesday announced a home hub called HomeView, marking CEO John Ternus' first launch outside of iPhones since he took over from Tim Cook at the start of September. Apple said the device with a 7-inch screen was designed to be mounted on a wall or placed on a table. It's d

Apple on Tuesday announced a home hub called HomeView, marking CEO John Ternus' first launch outside of iPhones since he took over from Tim Cook at the start of September. Apple said the device with a 7-inch screen was designed to be mounted on a wall or placed on a table. It's d

Trump ousts Kimberly Guilfoyle as US ambassador to Greece after corruption allegations - Published President Donald Trump's administration has asked Kimberly Guilfoyle to resign from her position as US ambassador to Greece, according to White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia.

Legendary hedge fund manager Paul Tudor Jones told CNBC that next year could be a tough one for the stock market because of increased equity supply from big tech initial public offerings coming down the pipe as well as a potential reckoning from the ballooning U.S. fiscal deficit

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

Running large language models locally has become much easier over the past couple of years, but a gap remains between downloading a model and having a useful desktop environment for it. Jan describes itself as a ChatGPT alternative, offering an open-source desktop app with a fami

Dell Technologies CEO Michael Dell said that artificial intelligence models "have to have safeguards and controls" as the debate rages on over the threats the rapidly evolving technology could pose to humans. "I think we've always had technology that can do great things and maybe

Dell Technologies CEO Michael Dell said that artificial intelligence models "have to have safeguards and controls" as the debate rages on over the threats the rapidly evolving technology could pose to humans. "I think we've always had technology that can do great things and maybe

(Bloomberg) -- The pension funds used by millions of Chileans are racing to close out bets on US interest rates that backfired after the Iran war unleashed a global inflation shock, exposing them to billions of dollars of losses. The seven so-called AFPs, private pension funds th

Retro gaming is going through a wild time at the moment, thanks to decompilations and recompilations that are letting gamers port classic titles to new devices, or merge code from two different games into a single new experience. Microsoft has witnessed skateboarding being modded

San Francisco-based startup Niobia is betting big on a critical but often overlooked part of battery and chip making: helping engineers understand how and why things go wrong. Its AI software flags production defects and lets engineers ask a chatbot what caused them, aiming to de

“I haven’t changed my view that it may be appropriate to have one more rate hike,” Williams said Tuesday in an interview with Bloomberg News at the New York Fed. “I don’t think at this time I have any reason to believe that we would need to do more” after that. Williams said ther

Millions of Social Security beneficiaries may see a larger-than-average cost-of-living adjustment in 2027, according to experts' estimates. The Social Security Administration is expected to announce the COLA for 2027 on Wednesday with the release of new government inflation data.

Deadly attacks on Saudi Arabia's second-busiest airport over the past week are highlighting how conflicts in the Middle East are upending air travel on a larger scale. Aviation is increasingly in the middle of these sprawling clashes as threats and outright attacks have forced ai

Shivam Autotech, Shraddha Prime Projects and Anand Rathi Wealth are likely to attract investors’ interest in Wednesday’s trade on October 14, as shareholders looking to benefit from dividends and participate in rights issues will keep an eye on these counters. Shivam Autotech has

* US CPI due on Wednesday, PPI on Thursday * Dollar slips from its highest since April last year * US 10-year yield hits lowest in over one week (Updates for US closing hours) By Pablo Sinha Oct 13 (Reuters) - Gold prices edged lower on Tuesday, while investors awaited key US inf

Doug Field has worked on EVs at Ford and Tesla, the not-so-secret car project at Apple, and was employee No. 1 at Segway. Now the executive is turning his attention to Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe’s latest project: Mind Robotics. Field has been hired as president of Mind Robotics, an i

When I was eight, I remember our train to Mumbai ground to a halt with a great noise. When we started moving again, a good eight hours later, someone pointed out a mangled tail, of all things, hanging from a branch close to the tracks. The train, you see, had apparently hit a wil