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VRL Logistics, JSW Dulux, Tips Music and Angel One are likely to attract investors’ attention on Wednesday, October 21, as shareholders track upcoming dividend payouts, a stock split, a share buyback and key record dates. VRL Logistics has revised the record date for its share bu

Ukraine’s unprecedented drone rescue of a wounded soldier from the battlefield has shown once again how battlefield necessity can spur innovation. The operation was revealed just days after separate Ukrainian drones designed for casualty evacuation were deployed for frontline tes

A slumping stock price. C-suit shakeups. Corporate layoffs. A failed takeover bid. It's not a new drama on Netflix, but rather the drama that has surrounded the streaming giant as it limps into earnings with its stock nearly off 50% from its all time highs. Option traders are bet

We’re excited to announce that Orchestra Bio has been acquired by OpenAI. To read more about the acquisition, read Jay Rughani and Jorge Conde’s post about it here. For more general information on what OpenAI is up to in the Health space, check out our podcast with them here. It

Running complicated algorithms on quantum computing hardware is going to require the use of logical qubits, where collections of hardware qubits are linked together in ways that allow errors to be detected and corrected. In general, the more hardware qubits you dedicate to each l

Meta says it paused a Muse feature that lets you share conversations with the AI assistant after researchers found the URLs publicly available on the web, as reported by Ars Technica. In a report published this week, researchers at the security firm Claroc say they found more tha

A new lawsuit filed Tuesday challenges President Donald Trump's invocation of a Depression-era law to impose 50% tariffs on a range of Canadian goods. Trump in July used Section 338 of the Tariff Act of 1930 to slap those steep tariffs on Canadian hockey sticks, wine, honey, wigs

Artificial Intelligence Workflow context for AI agents with Smartsheet MCP on AWS AI agents are most useful when they can act on the real work happening across your organization. Running projects and operations involves complex, cross-functional tasks such as updating project tim

Eric Schmidt’s fortune is about to get even bigger. The former Google CEO is reported to own about 1% of Anthropic after investing tens of millions of dollars in the leading AI lab’s Series A round in 2021, according to Bloomberg. The startup was valued at $461 million at the tim

Three month copper on the London Metal Exchange was up 0.1% at $14,353 a metric ton by 0955 GMT, marking a third straight session of tight trading. The metal has gained 55% since Donald Trump returned to the US presidency in January 2025, even as global demand fell 0.5% to 27 mil

Snyk's Randall Degges on what it costs to know a vulnerability is real Snyk's Randall Degges on reachability analysis, the price of context, and why the tools your agent uses are the weakest security spot in the industry today. I sat down with Randall Degges at ELC 2026. He leads

Another Data Center IPO Fizzles as Investor Appetite Wanes South Korean data center firm Elice’s IPO disappointment is the latest sign the AI boom may have peaked. Editor's Note: This article was originally published on Light Reading. The AI bubble hasn’t burst – but it certainly

AMD's FSR 4.1 now works on Radeon RX 6000 GPUs, Xbox Series X and S, and Ryzen AI Max, AI 9, and Z2 SoCs — new release brings cutting-edge tech to older hardware with a small performance cost AMD gives older GPUs an image quality boost amid the ongoing AI chip drought Earlier thi

In copyright lawsuits over AI training, Meta has spent weeks blaming staff for downloading torrents. The company has now been ordered to name executives who authorized decisions to pirate books from shadow libraries like Anna’s Archive and LibGen, TorrentFreak reported. In a disc

Across my conversations with leaders in government, critical infrastructure and regulated industries, one priority consistently rises to the top: putting technology to work on their most important systems while maintaining the control those systems require. This challenge is beco

A software engineer whose company is looking into its own spending on AI tools pinged me with a very timely question recently, asking what other companies spend on AI, per engineer. They were also keen to find out what the PR throughput was before and after the spending on AI at

UK government to make Jackdaw gas field announcement - Published The UK government is expected to announce a long-awaited decision on whether to approve the Jackdaw gas field in the North Sea. It is widely believed in Westminster that Jackdaw will be approved but that a decision

AI - Tens of thousands of Nvidia GPUs sit idle in Meta's Prometheus supercluster, just waiting for a failure And other fun facts about how Zuckercorp aims to keep a million GPUs running long enough to train a model - HPE to launch AI straight to the Moon Mystery silicon and mirro

Shares of Braze surged in Tuesday’s trade on October 20, rallying 52% to a 22-month high of $45.59 apiece on the Nasdaq after Salesforce (CRM) agreed to acquire the customer-engagement software company, handing existing investors a major windfall. For Braze, the strategic attract

German AI-powered language translation powerhouse goes VAST DeepL is using VAST Data’s storage and AI OS to help it develop new language translation offerings, saying it expects to get roughly three times the storage capacity from its existing hardware. The company is a neural ma

Meta’s AI companion, Muse, is now one of only a dozen mobile apps to have reached 10 million U.S. downloads in its first 40 days on the market. According to new data from market intelligence provider Sensor Tower, Muse has seen 10.9 million downloads since its September debut, 10

The geopolitics of open-weight AI are accelerating again this fall, as we would expect with the risks of all AI systems (open and closed) rising rapidly. We’ve seen many news items in the last week showing both the U.S. and Chinese governments positioning themselves for some cont

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Atlassian’s 2026 State of Developer Experience report reveals a disconnect between AI adoption, developer productivity and organisational performance. An engineering leader recently asked me how AI could help their team work more effectively, to keep up with a rapidly growing wor

Travel tech company ixigo is betting on hotels as its fourth growth engine alongside trains, flights, and buses, as further market share gains become harder in rail bookings and high airfares and capacity constraints weigh on flights. The company began reporting hotels as a separ

AI - Tens of thousands of Nvidia GPUs sit idle in Meta's Prometheus supercluster, just waiting for a failure And other fun facts about how Zuckercorp aims to keep a million GPUs running long enough to train a model - HPE to launch AI straight to the Moon Mystery silicon and mirro

Dive Brief: - Walmart is offering customers a way to combine a Walmart+ and Sam’s Club Plus membership, another challenge to Amazon Prime from the retail giant. - As of Tuesday, customers can buy the two memberships for $120 a year, which trims nearly $100 for those who sign up f

TP-Link proposes $1 billion US Wi-Fi router manufacturing alliance with Key Tronic — potential deal seeks to end ongoing saga blocking its Wi-Fi 8 products from American homes You scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours TP-Link is fully determined to get in the good graces of the U.S

Dive Brief: - Hasbro’s Magic: The Gathering topped $600 million in quarterly revenue for the first time, according to a Tuesday press release from the company. - Hasbro reported Q3 net sales of $1.5 billion, up 17.5% year over year. It marks the fourth consecutive quarter of doub

It’s the moment everyone is waiting for — the ChatGPT moment for robotics, Amulya Vishwanath explained to TechCrunch’s Equity. She is the founder and managing partner of Techable Ventures, a VC firm focused on physical AI, which she started after spending nearly seven years as a

Dive Brief: - Best Buy is piloting Best Buy Gamers, a new online hub for gaming content, preorders, gear, deals, giveaways and experiences, according to a Tuesday press release. The company intends to add new features, content and perks as it receives feedback from shoppers. - In

“That Does Not Make Any Sense”: Early Trend Alert This early audio (under 850 videos) is being used for situations where the outcome was completely predictable and yet people act surprised when it happens. Creators put the questionable decision in the hook, then act out the lyric

Sloppy England start winter with Pakistan defeat - Published One-day international tri-series, Rawalpindi Pakistan 302-9 (50 overs): Baker 3-65; Nawaz 79 (74), Arafat 59 (58) England 215 (38.4 overs): Banton 57 (53), Arafat 6-40 Pakistan won by 87 runs England began their wanderi