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Shares fell 4.8% in early New York trading on Wednesday. Netflix shares are down 30% this year, while the S&P 500 has gained 13%, highlighting the stock’s sharp underperformance against the broader market. Slower growth puts focus on Netflix’s outlook Netflix reported third quart

While advertising dollars increasingly shift toward streaming and digital platforms, the political ad war is still being fought over the free airwaves. Broadcast television companies are set to capture the greatest portion of political ad spend ahead of the midterm elections, acc

Don't Stop Believin'! - high school musical Glee set for reboot - Published We never stopped believin'... now it's official: Glee, the Emmy-winning US high school musical comedy drama, is set to return. Ryan Murphy's series, which chronicled the highs and lows of choir members fr

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Ant Group released its Ming-3.0 speech model family on October 20, making five models available across speech synthesis, audio understanding and conversation, and speech recognition. Developers can use individual models or combine them into voice-based applications. The text-to-s

Birla AI Labs, an AI initiative and venture studio under the Aditya Birla Group, has released Yug-1, its first time series foundation model (TSFM), developed to forecast outcomes, identify patterns, and detect anomalies across interconnected datasets. TSFMs are large-scale AI mod

Listen to this article in summarized format Revenue from operations rose 15% to Rs 5,164 crore. Net interest income increased 17% to Rs 2,822 crore. On a consolidated basis, net profit rose 61% to Rs 911 crore and consolidated total assets grew 21% to Rs 1.80 lakh crore. Credit c

The latest venture capital, seed, pre-seed, and angel deals for NYC startups for 10/21/2026 featuring funding details for Whop, Qualitate, and much more. This page will be updated throughout the day to reflect any new fundings. Whop – $200M Whop, a digital marketplace platform th

Jailed former DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson being investigated over alleged rape inside Parliament - Published Jailed former Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader Jeffrey Donaldson is being investigated by London police about an alleged rape of a woman inside the Houses of Parlia

OAuth for AI agents: What four extensions cover, and the gaps they leave RAR, DPoP, CIMD and Transaction Tokens get cited as the answer for AI agents. What each one actually binds, and three problems none of them solves yet. OAuth for AI agents means using OAuth to authorize soft

CoreWeave launched Physical AI Launchables and the CoreWeave Zero Trust AI Framework today at NVIDIA GTC Berlin. Launchables is a catalog of tested, ready-to-run templates for robotics and autonomous vehicle tools, each started with one command, that pairs environments for NVIDIA

Two of our agents now talk to each other every day. We didn’t build the connection. They did. One is Muse, Meta’s personal agent, which Amelia, our Chief AI Officer, uses as her assistant. I use it constantly, as well. The other is 10K, our AI VP of Revenue, which we built on Rep

AI code testing platform Blacksmith has raised $66 million in a Series C funding round led by Sequoia Capital at a valuation of $1 billion. The round also saw participation from Premji Invest and existing investors Peak XV Partners, Google Ventures (GV) and Y Combinator. The late

Reliance Jio IPO: The initial public offering (IPO) of Jio Platforms Limited saw bumper subscription on day 1, i.e. on Wednesday, October 21. The Reliance Industries Limited (RIL)-backed Jio IPO was subscribed 100% in less than 100 minutes of the opening of subscription.As Relian

Macron accuses foreign leaders of exploiting French riots - Published French President Emmanuel Macron has accused foreign leaders of exploiting the riots which erupted across the country on Saturday for electoral purposes. Without naming them, he said they were campaigning for f

Last month, advertising company Infillion acquired location-data platform Foursquare, a once popular social network, at an undisclosed value. Now, in a new blog post, Foursquare co-founder and former CEO Dennis Crowley said that investors didn’t see any returns from the sale. Cro

Moody’s analysts Kaustubh Chaubal, Justin Tan and Jacintha Poh described the IPO as credit positive for RIL, which carries a Baa1 rating with a stable outlook. The agency said the principal benefit would be greater funding flexibility rather than a material improvement in leverag

Paras Healthcare and Jio Platforms were the two big-ticket issues that hit the Indian primary market today, October 21, but it was the latter that stole the spotlight and remained in the headlines throughout the day. The ₹30,213-crore initial public offering (IPO) of Jio Platform

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Responding to core PHP vulnerabilities CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619 Chris Betz CISO, Google Cloud Raluca Ada Popa Head of Gemini Security, Google DeepMind Editor's note: This blog was updated on Oct. 21, 2026 at 3:30 p.m. PDT with additional guidance on Cloud Armor, and at

The company had clocked a net profit of Rs 209.54 crore during July-September quarter of the previous year, according to a regulatory filing. Total income rose 28 per cent to Rs 1,054.47 crore for the second quarter of this fiscal from Rs 825.25 crore a year ago. Expenses remaine

OpenAI disclosed a pair of safety incidents that involved AI agents weakening their safety monitoring systems during internal coding tasks. In one incident, OpenAI says its GPT-6 Astra agent disabled its safety monitor when copying reference code — and then lied about it. OpenAI

Indian Hotels Company Ltd (IHCL) had reported a net profit of Rs 318.26 crore a year ago, a regulatory filing showed. During the July-September period, the hospitality player's revenue from operations stood at Rs 2,484.32 crore, against Rs 2,040.89 crore a year ago. However, its

Update | October 21, 18:45 IST Jio Platforms’ ₹30,213 Cr IPO closed its first day with 3.15X subscription, driven by strong demand from institutional investors. Investors bid for 62.3 Cr shares against 19.75 Cr shares on offer. The qualified institutional buyers’ (QIBs) portion w

Eight private keys underpinning part of listed digital trust company eMudhra’s certificate infrastructure were so weak that researchers could recover them from publicly available certificates. The discovery prompted Google, Mozilla, Apple, and Microsoft to block the affected cert

How Jackdaw ignites row over climate and costs The UK government has approved extraction from the Jackdaw gas field in the North Sea. At Prime Minister's Questions, Kemi Badenoch accuses the government of dithering over the decision, saying the Conservative government first appro

Trump announces mandate forcing AI data centers to pay energy dividends to the local community — says excess energy should be given or sold back to prevent increases or even bring down costs Excess electricity generated could also make its way to the local community. President Do

VAST agent sandbox stores cross-session persistent agent state VAST Data is using Nvidia NemoClaw and newly-announced OpenShell to persist AI agent state with a record of tool calls, prompts, tokens, costs and decisions, while agent compute stay ephemeral. Nvidia OpenShell is an

United Airlines is set to open its biggest airport lounge this week, which it says is the largest in the Americas, as airlines continue to plow money into the facilities for high-spending customers. The 54,000-square-foot lounge is opening Thursday at George Bush Intercontinental

BERLIN — Nebius is seeing AI computing prices rise more than expected, a top executive told CNBC on Wednesday, offering a bullish view as neocloud firms' business model comes under increasing scrutiny. Investors have grown wary after CoreWeave, one of the biggest neocloud players

In the AI race thus far, openness has been China’s secret sauce. As fast followers to the frontier, Chinese AI companies have gained trust by publicizing their weights and architectures. And at the cost of revenue, they have achieved global adoption, brand recognition, and a trul

Pipes Connection Sharing: Connect Slack once for the whole organization Pipes Connection Sharing lets an admin connect a provider once for the whole organization. When it beats per-user OAuth, and what changes in your code. A shared connection in WorkOS Pipes is a provider connec

Listen to this article in summarized format The Nasdaq led the gains, rising 0.56%, while the S&P 500 advanced 0.23% and the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 0.17%. Technology and chip stocks drove the rebound, although weakness in Netflix and other communication services shar

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CONTROL Huang shrugs off protestors to kick off GTC Berlin with DSX Pods, Robots GTC Jensen Huang kicked off GTC Europe by promising to cut the time to token at new datacenters from months to weeks, with a Vera Rubin-powered AI factory in a box. The DSX Pod – essentially a contai

Can Jio IPO unlock hidden value in Reliance Industries shares? Jio Platforms is hitting the stock market, but could its listing mean more value for Reliance Industries shareholders too? We break down the holding company discount, what Reliance’s stake in Jio is worth, and why the

F*ck AI, I Made This Myself: 12M Views Trend This trend is turning the anti-AI conversation into a joke. Creators are using the hook: “F*ck AI, I made this myself.” Then they reveal the thing they supposedly made by themselves/by hand:a painting, drawing, sculpture… The joke is t

Deepinder Goyal, founder of Eternal, has teased Dark.ai, a new AI platform focused on private conversations, with a global launch planned for 2026. “Dark.ai – from the house of Eternal. Coming soon,” Goyal wrote in a post on X. According to Eternal’s Q2 FY27 shareholders’ letter,

AI - Nvidia woos wary Europeans with more open weights models New embedding, parsing, and reranking models promise smarter agentic RAG workflows - Jensen Huang sends in the robot ducks to sell Nvidia's AI-everywhere vision Containerized datacenters, androids, and telecoms all fea