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Autonomous agents are the hottest thing in AI. OpenAI, Meta, Google, Instinct, and others promise their agents can scour the internet on your behalf, doing anything from booking a dinner reservation and cleaning out your inbox to buying new shoes. But what happens when the rest o

Hindustan Zinc Q2 results: Shares of Vedanta Group-firm Hindustan Zinc will remain in focus next week due to the announcement of their second quarter results for the financial year 2026-27. The world’s largest integrated zinc producer is set to report better production than the p

Leap seconds being retired next year to avoid wreaking havoc on computer systems — International measurement organization makes move to simplify atomic time tracking No more time travel? The International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM), which maintains the International Sy

Flipkart-owned travel platform Cleartrip’s net loss widened 28.1% YoY to ₹805 Cr in FY26 from ₹628.4 Cr in FY25, as its expenses continued to outpace revenue growth. The online travel aggregator’s operating revenue grew 20.8% to ₹198.3 Cr during the year from ₹164.1 Cr in the pre

Taiwan targets illicit AI server exports to China with five-year prison terms — strict new controls follow US tariff deal and Super Micro raid This could make it easier for prosecutors to charge AI chip smugglers. Taiwan is expanding its list of controlled exports to include AI s

Net interest income (NII) or the difference between interest earned on loans and that paid for deposits grew by 26% year on year to Rs 4146 crore in September 2026 from Rs 3283 crore a year ago. Other income including fees and treasury dropped 6% year on year to Rs 1380 crore in

Crafty OpenAI agent willingly stole crypto from an account it didn't own to complete a task during test — rogue bot wrote a script to find accounts with public seed phrases, took funds to pay for gas The agent even contemplated the ethics of its actions. OpenAI recently released

Stock Market Outlook: Indian equities staged a strong comeback this week, with the Nifty 50 rising 2.77% and the Sensex surging 3.11%, as renewed buying in information technology (IT) stocks, easing global bond-yield pressures and resilient domestic institutional inflows lifted i

Game decompilation hub freezes leaderboard after AI turns progress into a hollow numbers game amid explosion of 'AI slop' — creator blames forks that use AI to ‘finish’ other teams’ projects and races to ship rough PC ports Its creator won’t ban AI-assisted projects, saying one h

AI - Benchmarked: Nvidia's RTX Spark notebook delivers serious local AI compute, at a price El Reg digs its claws into HP's N1X-powered OmniBook Ultra 16 - Want your AI chats to stay private? Brave TEEs up end-to-end encryption Browser maker using trusted hardware to protect conv

Stocks to buy under ₹100 | Mehul Kothari's stock recommendations: The Indian stock market recorded its strongest weekly gains in nearly six months for the week ended October 16, 2026, with the Sensex rising 3.11% to 74,729 and the Nifty 50 index gaining 2.8% to 23,146, marking th

Instakart Services, the Flipkart-owned logistics company behind Ekart, nearly broke even in the fiscal year ending March 2026 (FY26). Its loss narrowed 98.3% to ₹26 Cr in the fiscal under review, compared to ₹1,508 Cr in FY25. The brand’s revenue from contracts with customers fel

Close to 1 billion meetings take place each day around the world. CEOs spend nearly three-quarters of their workdays in meetings. Planning for and spearheading meetings eats up the lion’s share of managers’ time. In much of the industrialized world, meetings are both the metronom

The report highlighted a sharp increase in credit risk indicators for companies such as Oracle and CoreWeave, raising concerns over whether financial markets will continue to support the massive investments required for AI expansion. In its GREED & fear research report titled "K-

The assessment comes as rapid investment in AI infrastructure threatens to outpace the availability of electricity, raising concerns that smaller companies could struggle to compete with financially stronger technology giants. In its equity research report titled "What Does the P

Neverwinter Nights was made by the studio that produced seminal RPGs Baldur’s Gate, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Mass Effect, and Dragon Age. It sold well and was critically acclaimed at launch. Yet, somehow, it has not been canonized in most gamers’ minds over the dec

Modder finishes nine-year Xbox 360 voltage glitch mod with a $4 microcontroller, cracks the console open — tiny microcontroller dumps NAND and flashes timing files to bypass CPU cryptography Back in my day, it took substantial dedicated hardware to pull off these shenanigans. The

DIY SOS to be 'rested' next year to save money, BBC says - Published The long-running home renovation TV series DIY SOS will be "rested" next year in the light of "savings challenges", the BBC has said. It will be replaced by a spin-off show featuring highlights from past episode

The travel and ticket booking platform had posted a net loss of Rs 3.46 crore in the corresponding July-September period of the last financial year, as per a regulatory filing. Hotels emerged as ixigo's fastest-growing business line by gross transaction value (GTV), reaching Rs 1

Reliance Jio IPO GMP today: The countdown to India’s largest initial public offering (IPO) has begun. Jio Platforms IPO, backed by billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries Limited, is garnering heightened investors’ interest ahead of the opening of its subscription period.

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US Army to use 3D-printed rocket motors for low-cost cruise missiles— X-Bow cuts prototype time to days after building 2,100 engines, will arm the ‘Arsenal of Freedom’ Additive manufacturing makes it easier to produce advanced solid rocket motors. X-Bow Systems, a solid rocket mo

Listen to this article in summarized format The lender's net interest income (NII) increased 17.7% YoY to Rs 25,339 crore, compared with Rs 21,529 crore in Q2FY26, ICICI Bank said in a regulatory filing. Net interest margin or NIM stood at 4.18% in Q2FY27, compared with 4.36% in

The lender stated that Q2FY26 included a one-off gain of Rs 1,699 crore from the sale of a strategic investment (NSDL). Excluding this one-off gain, the company posted a 14% year-on-year jump in its net profit and a 59% YoY surge in its operating profit for Q2 FY27 respectively.

Pune Police has booked Rapido parent Roppen Transportation Services Pvt Ltd for allegedly running bike-taxi services without the required licence and regulatory approvals, according to an FIR registered at Vishrantwadi police station yesterday. The FIR alleges that the company us

ASML's employee-only High-NA EUV Lego kit gets an open 810-piece fan replica — custom MOC dodges $700 eBay prices with working wafer tray and vacuum pumps You can now get a mini-High-NA EUV in your home even if you don't work for ASML. ASML launched a Lego kit version of the TWIN

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Listen to this article in summarized format The most significant technical development of the week was Nifty reclaiming its 200-week Moving Average, currently at 22,651.47, after slipping below it in the preceding weeks. This recovery is significant because it has, at least for n

Building quality into the agentic workflow AI coding agents changed how fast teams ship. They didn’t change who has to verify the output. Last week, Qodo field CTO Shlomo Dalezman and solutions engineer Jonathan Klick ran a live session on what happens when code review stops wait

Saif Khan makes his ChinaTalk debut. He is perhaps my favorite example of posting-to-policy that I’ve seen over the course of my time following Washington. Saif wrote some truly excellent deep dives into AI and semiconductors during his time at CSET, then went into the NSC and Co