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US envoy Steve Witkoff hailed Vladimir Putin as a “true humanitarian” Wednesday, after the Russian leader released an American prisoner and assented to trilateral talks to end the war in Ukraine. The Kremlin released a 74-year-old retired teacher accused of fighting for Kyiv — a

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is pushing US President Donald Trump to resume strikes against Iran, as both leaders contend with worrying polls ahead of critical elections. Netanyahu, who is trailing in polls, was preparing to bomb Iranian civilian infrastructure and n

Meta is making a big push into AI, and it’s creating a new kind of stock that could help pay for it. On Wednesday, as the company reported its third-quarter earnings, Semafor reported the company might issue non-voting stock, meaning shares that don’t give their owners a vote on

France, Denmark, Finland, and the Netherlands took government websites offline Wednesday after web developers used AI to identify a bug affecting up to 70% of the world’s websites. The exploit is “the most severe AI vulnerability… ever found,” the co-founder of Google’s Wiz cyber

CATL shares plunged after the company reported slower-than-expected profit growth, as China’s battery champion reckoned with intensifying domestic competition and EV price wars. Its stock has nearly halved since May, as investors fret over expiring tax carve-outs and a trend dubb

An open-source alternative to Claude (32k+ stars)! Onyx is a self-hostable AI chat platform that works with any LLM, like Claude, GPT, Gemini, Llama, or any open-weight model you want. Here’s what it ships with: - Agents that chain multiple tools in sequence - RAG with full index

A rush of new data centers could bring air pollution roaring back to levels not seen since the 2000s in Texas, which has become ground zero for the physical infrastructure behind generative AI. Data centers could erase decades of air quality gains New research out of Texas shows

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Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr today warned broadcasters about airing “fake polls,” amplifying one of the many complaints that President Trump has regularly made about the news media. Carr’s post on X said, “Many journalists and broadcasters have been amp

Airbnb is taking steps to limit the chores that hosts can require of guests prior to checkout, addressing a long-standing grievance among customers who often pay cleaning fees and are told they must do a list of tasks themselves. In a new policy update, Airbnb prohibits hosts fro

In September, when Microsoft severely limited the game-streaming buffet available to Game Pass subscribers, the company said non-subscribers would soon be able to “purchase cloud playtime hours through the Xbox Store and stream eligible games they own on supported devices.” Today

Bloomberg The CloseOct 21st, 2026 Tesla, IBM & Meta Report Earnings as AI Takes Center Stage The Close brings you the latest news and analysis leading up to the final minutes and seconds before and after the closing bell on Wall Street. Today's guests are BlackRock Head of the Am

IBM shares slipped in extended trading on Wednesday after the technology vendor reported better-than-predicted third-quarter results. Here's how the company performed relative to LSEG consensus: - Earnings: $2.95 adjusted vs. $2.86 expected - Revenue: $17.10 billion vs. $16.82 bi

IBM shares slipped in extended trading on Wednesday after the technology vendor reported better-than-predicted third-quarter results. Here's how the company performed relative to LSEG consensus: - Earnings: $2.95 adjusted vs. $2.86 expected - Revenue: $17.10 billion vs. $16.82 bi

Alibaba’s DAMO Academy unveiled the XuanTie E908A automotive processor IP at the RISC-V China Summit in Shenzhen on October 19. Designed for safety-related computing, domain controllers and vehicle gateways, the processor IP supports the ASIL-B and ASIL-D automotive functional sa

If there’s one lesson the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident taught us, it’s that AI agents can be unpredictable. “Imagine if something like that happened in the physical world,” Howie Sun, CEO and co-founder of Laplace Intelligence, told TechCrunch. “AI agents are moving from computer

Japan is known for world-class events - but the Asian Games were chaotic - Published From the Olympics to Tokyo's annual video game convention, Japan has a strong track record of hosting major international events. But this year's Asian Games in Nagoya and the wider Aichi Prefect

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Oct 21st, 2026 Encouraged by Meta’s Partnerships, Says First Founder Libby Leffler, discusses whether Meta’s history of scaling up new initiatives offers reason to doubt Zuckerberg’s ability to succeed. Leffler discusses Meta’s fourth-quarter revenue outlook of $73 billion to $

Enterprise-sized businesses spend, on average, 28 percent of their software budgets on unwanted upgrades, migrations, and licensing changes. Often, those firms’ IT heads think those changes are detrimental. Those results are according to a survey of 2,018 chief information office

President Donald Trump on Wednesday insisted he had nothing to do with a slowdown of SpaceX's Starlink in Ukraine and said he does not know if Elon Musk was responsible for speed-capping the critical satellite service. Trump's latest denial came one day after The Wall Street Jour

BusinessWeek Radio SimulcastOct 21st, 2026 Meta Boosts Bet on AI With Spending Outlook, New Stock Class Meta Platforms boosted its capital spending outlook and announced plans for a new class of nonvoting stock, escalating its already-stratospheric bet on artificial intelligence.

New Mexico's attorney general on Wednesday filed a federal lawsuit accusing Jeffrey Epstein's long-time personal lawyer and accountant of facilitating Epstein's sex trafficking operation. The civil suit alleges the attorney, Darren Indyke, and the accountant, Richard Kahn, helped

Oct 21st, 2026 Frank Baker on New Firm, October Capital Frank Baker, CEO and Managing Partner of October Capital, discusses the launch of the new firm, formed by tech-focused private equity shop Siris. October Capital will focus on services supporting AI infrastructure, physica

Tesla published its third-quarter 2026 financial results this afternoon. Earlier in October, it reported its sales and deliveries for the three-month period, selling fewer cars than in the same quarter in 2025, yet it still beat analyst projections. Now we can see how those sales

Meta says it’s issuing a new class of shares to fund its AI initiatives. As part of its third-quarter earnings report released on Wednesday, the company says the non-voting stock will also go toward potential acquisitions and employee compensation, with trading beginning in 2027.

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A pair of critical vulnerabilities in PHP, the open-source programming language that powers much of the modern web, has forced governments and companies across the globe into emergency action. The vulnerabilities, identified as part of OpenAI’s “Patch the Planet” initiative and f

Missiles hit Kyiv after Russia agrees to US call to resume Ukraine peace talks - Published Ukraine's capital has come under a new missile attack, hours after Russia said it was "ready in principle" to resume peace talks and the US president said the world was "the closest we've b

Brian hosted Bill Bollengier, Senior Director of Product Management at Micron, for a live podcast on LinkedIn on October 15, with Bill calling in from the floor of the OCP Global Summit. The subject was the Micron 6600 ION 245TB SSD and what a quarter petabyte per drive bay does

TechCrunch Founder Summit is a full-day gathering in Boston on November 4 where founders across all stages connect with top VCs and experienced entrepreneurs to gain tactical insights on building and scaling their companies. It’s the latest in our long line of founder-centric eve

Serial entrepreneur Ajeet Singh, who previously cofounded unicorns such as Nutanix and ThoughtSpot, has announced the launch of his third venture, called Different. Emerging out of stealth mode, the AI-powered martech startup has now raised $48 Mn (nearly ₹453 Cr) in its seed fun

Meta said during its third-quarter earnings call on Wednesday that its AI app Muse has been adopted by more than 10 million users, confirming estimates released earlier this week by market intelligence firm Sensor Tower. But it is how people are using it, and how much they’re spe

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Rice strikes to earn Arsenal draw at Bayern This content is not available in your location. There was an error Declan Rice scores a late equaliser as Arsenal and Bayern Munich play out an entertaining draw in the league phase of the Champions League while Bukayo Saka limps off wi

Southwest Airlines became the third major U.S. airline this month to cut its 2026 profit forecast due to higher fuel prices, but CEO Bob Jordan said travelers continue to book despite higher fares. The carrier expects to earn between $2.60 and $2.85 a share on an adjusted basis t