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Man Utd humbled by four-goal Como to pile pressure on Carrick This content is not available in your location. There was an error Manchester United suffer a heavy defeat to a Como side playing just their third ever game of Champions League football, as Nico Paz stars for the hosts

Year-old startup Flapping Airplanes has wowed Silicon Valley with an impressive founding team and a mission to find ways to train large models with less data. On Wednesday, the company announced it had raised a $1 billion Series A round, co-led by Index and Lux, reportedly at a $

President Donald Trump has made good on his claim of having put more than $300 million of his political war chest into the 2026 midterm election. New campaign finance filings released Tuesday night show millions flowing into House districts that were barely competitive two years

Oct 21st, 2026 Tesla's Future Is Robotaxis, Says Ark's Keeney Tasha Keeney, Ark Investment director of investment analysis, says robotaxis are the future for Tesla. She says the company is well positioned over its peers and the Cybercab is cheaper to operate compared to Waymo's

(Bloomberg) -- Gold fluctuated as traders assessed the outlook for the Federal Reserve’s interest-rate path on the back of potential renewed hositilities in the Middle East.The Department of State issued an ordered departure for non-emergency US government employees and their fam

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

Oct 21st, 2026 The Takeaways From Meta's Earnings and AI Spending Plans Ygal Arounian, Wedbush Internet equity research managing director, reacts to Meta Platforms' third-quarter earnings and boosted capital spending outlook. He speaks on "Bloomberg The Close."

Oct 21st, 2026 AI Is Tailwind, IBM CEO Says as Sales Rise IBM says sales increased by 5% to $17.1 billion in the third quarter, topping estimates. Sales in the software unit also expanded. The company reported earnings of $2.95 per share. CEO Arvind Krishna says AI is a tailwin

Tesla has started production of its Optimus humanoid robot at its factory in Fremont, California, in a manufacturing space once dedicated to making electric vehicles, the company announced Wednesday. “The bots coming off this line are the first production-quality bots that we hav

Huge crowds watch attempt to rescue shark stranded in South Korean canal Huge crowds have flocked to a canal in South Korea to watch a stranded shark. The 9ft 10in (3m) shark, nicknamed Bukangi, was first spotted in the waterway last month in the south-eastern city of Busan. Earl

Recursive, an AI startup founded last year, is starting to live up to its name. The company, which is trying to build AI that can improve itself, released its first model, Flint, on Wednesday. Flint is a free coding model that can run on a laptop and was built largely with the he

Anthropic's new personal agent, Claude Duet, lives on your phone, inherits all your Claude plugins and connectors, and is pitched at small business owners and busy professionals. It's the most polished agent launch I've seen: thoughtful onboarding, task lists, first-class artifac

SAP Cloud Growth Beats Forecast in Sign of Software’s Resilience Takeaways by Bloomberg AI SAP SE reported higher growth for its cloud products than anticipated in a sign that the boom in artificial intelligence hasn’t undermined demand for the German software maker’s offerings.

(Bloomberg) -- Treasuries fell after reports suggesting the Middle East war is heating up lifted oil prices. The selloff lifted yields across maturities to session highs, with short-term tenors rising most. The two-year note’s climbed as much as five basis points to 4.83%, the hi

The Nasdaq Composite rose 1.05% to 26,701.61, while the S&P 500 gained 0.58% to 7,757.74. The Dow Jones Industrial Average advanced 0.68% to 52,851.78. AI trade gets fresh support Super Micro shares jumped after the AI server maker forecast quarterly revenue and profit margins ab

Republican Sen. Mike Rounds of South Dakota leads in his Senate race by more than 20 points, according to a new poll shared first with Semafor, a sign that any blue wave in November will have its limits. Rounds is trouncing independent candidate Brian Bengs 57% to 36% in the deep

Automattic, the parent company to WordPress.com, WooCommerce, Tumblr, and others, has begun layoffs, and insiders tell us they are bracing for more cuts to come. Over at least the past week, the cuts have impacted its communications team, social team, WordPress.com, and its VIP e

NEW YORK — General Motors plans to lean into artificial intelligence and vehicle software for future growth and development amid increasing competition abroad from Chinese automakers and a tougher U.S. market. The Detroit automaker on Wednesday shared new details about a propriet

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

The company reported quarterly revenue of $64.60 billion, beating Wall Street estimates of $63.37 billion, according to data compiled by LSEG. Meta also projected fourth-quarter revenue above analysts’ expectations. The Facebook and Instagram parent has been investing heavily in

IBM Posts 5% Sales Growth, Says Infrastructure Deals Came Back Takeaways by Bloomberg AI International Business Machines Corp. reported sales that topped analysts’ estimates, saying it had recovered most of the infrastructure deals that were delayed earlier this year. Sales incre

Pope does not need further treatment after lung cancer surgery - Published Pope Leo XIV does not need any further treatment following an operation to remove a cancerous growth from his lung, his doctors have said. Test results on tissue removed during surgery confirmed he had had

Meta Touts AI Progress While Escalating Its Bet on the Market Takeaways by Bloomberg AI Meta Platforms Inc. Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg told investors that a pricey wager on artificial intelligence is delivering results, setting the stage for the company to bet even m

Meta was ordered to pay $25 billion in penalties by a New Mexico court on Wednesday as part of a data privacy case that stemmed from the company's Cambridge Analytica scandal from nearly a decade ago. The penalty, revealed in a court filing, comes after a jury in a Santa Fe court

Meta was ordered to pay $25 billion in penalties by a New Mexico court on Wednesday as part of a data privacy case that stemmed from the company's Cambridge Analytica scandal from nearly a decade ago. The penalty, revealed in a court filing, comes after a jury in a Santa Fe court

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Fernandes rounds on Carrick after Man Utd humiliation - Published Manchester United captain Bruno Fernandes turned on head coach Michael Carrick following one of the most humiliating nights in the club's European history. A 4-1 Champions League hammering at Como led to Carrick fi

Bloomberg The Close • Oct 21st, 2026 Bose CEO Lila Snyder on Skullcandy Acquisition With Bose acquiring Skullcandy today, CEO Lila Snyder sat down with Bloomberg's Romaine Bostick to discuss what the deal means for both companies, how the audio company is trying to reach the ne

Rosenberg: US diplomatic push offers little hope for imminent Ukraine peace - Published After two days of diplomacy – in Norway's capital and Russia's St Petersburg – is the war in Ukraine any closer to ending? "Good and constructive" is how Norway's prime minister described Tues

Meta Plans to Issue New Non-Voting Stock for Capital Raising Meta Platforms Inc. has established a new class of non-voting stock that it could use to fund its heavy spending on artificial intelligence. The company will distribute a dividend consisting of the new Class C stock to

Websites taken down worldwide as critical cyber-security update issued - Published International governments and agencies have urged websites to address two critical cyber-security flaws in a programming language which powers much of the internet. The vulnerabilities were found w

Investors may be wary of the volatility hitting parts of the bond market right now, but they have an "historic" opportunity to grab attractive yields in high-quality credit, Rick Rieder, BlackRock's chief investment officer for global fixed income, told CNBC in an exclusive inter

Anthropic just announced an AI agent competitor to Meta’s Muse and OpenAI’s Dots: Claude Duet. The new agent, designed for professionals and small business owners, is launching as a “research preview,” according to Anthropic, and it’s available as a standalone app on iOS and Andr

When GM announced its new fourth-generation EV platform on Wednesday, what the automaker didn’t share was almost as notable as what it did. The new EV platform, part of a series of technology-focused announcements made during its annual GM Forward event in New York, didn’t talk a

Elon Musk said earlier this week that he plans to give every kid in America a share of SpaceX next year, and Altimeter Capital CEO Brad Gerstner said Wednesday that the stock donations would come via Trump Accounts. If it happens, that donation of $10.5 billion worth of shares is

In his comments, Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Sanjay Malhotra said that there are increasing signs of generalisation of inflation as 37% of the commodities in the consumer basket had inflation above 4% in August, up from merely 20% in March. Also Read: India’s economy sta

In 1990, Eugene Brooks of Lawrence Livermore told the Supercomputing conference that nothing would withstand the attack of the killer micros. “Micro” referred to microprocessor, meaning a general-purpose chip that did a good job at most types of computation. They were also being

Every weekday, the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer releases the Homestretch — an actionable afternoon update, just in time for the last hour of trading on Wall Street. Stocks are moving solidly higher , putting the S & P 500 and Nasdaq on track for their third consecutive win

'Playing for their careers' - Australia reeling after extraordinary day - Published Second Test, Gqeberha (day four of five) South Africa 425-9 dec: Bavuma 179, Jansen 85; Boland 5-81 Australia 99 & 156-4: Head 87*; Rabada 2-30 Australia trail by 170 runs Not since the Nottingham

Apple just revealed a new brand identity for Apple Music, with the expected turn to Liquid Glass. I’m not much of a fan of their new design language in general; this is where I admit that I’m still running MacOS Sequoia and have grumpy things to say about rounded corner radii and

The review, undertaken as part of efforts to strengthen internal controls and restore confidence in the bank's governance practices, includes scrutiny of email communications involving some senior management personnel, the people said. Also Read: HDFC Bank investigates two senior