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The tale of the Cambridge Analytica data scandal is long — and it keeps costing Meta gargantuan sums of money. On Wednesday, a judge ordered the social media giant to initiate its biggest payout yet: $25 billion to the state of New Mexico for the tech giant’s role in deceiving re

The bank was alerted on October 16 by its threat-intelligence service provider, the Defence Cyber Agency and the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) about the suspected exposure of customer data, the lender said in an exchange filing. Also Read: SBI hit by cyberatta

Intel installs production tools at Fab 62 in Arizona, provides updates on Ohio chip fab — confirms High-NA EUV for High Volume Manufacturing in 2028 Intel's American semiconductor operations are a step or two ahead of the competition. Intel on Wednesday announced that it had star

Anthropic said it would commit 5% of its shares — potentially more if it hits unspecified revenue targets — to a public-benefit fund, the latest effort by frontier AI labs to head off political backlash over the technology’s impact on jobs and society. Its rival OpenAI has simila

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Anthropic plans to commit 5% of its shares to a new public benefit fund, as the AI company seeks to direct a portion of its growth towards addressing the broader societal impact of artificial intelligence. The proposed Anthropic Public Benefit Fund could support large donations t

Anthropic said Sunday it plans to commit 5% of its shares to a new public benefit fund, with the stake potentially increasing as the company's valuation grows. Subject to shareholder approval, the fund would immediately commit 5% of Anthropic's shares, with the board adding, at i

Walmart is embracing agentic commerce with the launch of its own Agent Gateway to manage transactions and other new features aimed at customers using AI agents, the retailer announced on Wednesday. The move comes shortly after Walmart’s top competitor, Amazon, began blocking AI a

Walmart will soon let AI agents shop on its website for you. Next month, the retail giant will allow you to use an AI agent on the site, with systems in place to let you approve and review purchases and set spending limits. Walmart is inviting AI agents to shop for you While Amaz

The global asset manager launched the iShares Future Robotics and Related Technologies ETF on Wednesday, targeting companies that use intelligent machines to automate repetitive tasks across industries including transportation and manufacturing. Robotics seen as next leg of AI ad

* Fed outlook seen anchoring direction until next week's policy meeting * Aussie gains after RBA deputy governor flags materially worse inflation outlook * French unrest and fiscal strains pressure the euro as borrowing costs hit 24-year highs * (Updated in New York afternoon tim

Meta plans to introduce new non-voting stock, the company announced, which suggests it’s likely to lean heavily on new share sales to fund its AI buildout. The plan, earlier reported by Semafor, will allow the company to issue new stock — for acquisitions, to lure top AI talent,

The legendary studio behind series like Mass Effect, Dragon Age, Neverwinter Nights, and Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic is no more. BioWare announced via social media Wednesday afternoon that “after more than three decades of shared adventures, BioWare is closing and earl

The internet is having a bad day, from a cybersecurity perspective. Government websites around the world went offline, Reuters reported, after AI discovered critical security vulnerabilities that impacted the programming language PHP. The issues were severe enough that the U.S. N

* 10-year yield on pace for second straight daily decline * 20-year bond auction seen as mixed by analysts * Markets price 14.9% chance of 25-basis-point Fed hike, CME FedWatch shows (Updates to afternoon trading) By Chuck Mikolajczak NEW YORK, Oct 21 (Reuters) - US Treasury yiel

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

A big Mattel shareholder is preparing to mount a proxy fight at the toymaker and push the company toward a sale, according to people familiar with the matter. Southeastern Asset Management has been considering whether to nominate new directors at Mattel as part of a proxy fight,

Legal AI startup Legora announced Wednesday that it raised a $550 million Series E round, valuing it at $8.8 billion. The company helps automate and assist with workflow tasks for legal professionals, as the industry moves beyond AI assistants to AI services that help them get wo

Google would certainly prefer that everyone used its Gemini models with Google Cloud services, but soon, you’ll have more options. OpenAI and Google have come to an arrangement that will see the former’s frontier models arrive in Google Cloud services. Perhaps more importantly, G

A potential merger between Tesla and SpaceX is increasingly being viewed on Wall Street as a question of when, rather than if. However, the prospect of combining Elon Musk’s electric vehicle maker with the privately controlled space and artificial intelligence company has raised

By Fergal SmithTORONTO, Oct 21 (Reuters) - The Canadian dollar steadied near a four-week high against its US counterpart on Wednesday as investors stuck with bets the Bank of Canada would raise interest rates at a policy decision next week.The loonie was barely changed at 1.4050

21st October 2026 - Link Blog Today's PHP Security Release, and How We're Strengthening PHP Security (via) If you're running anything on PHP it's vital you upgrade - today's updates (across the entire PHP 8.x line) address two remote code execution holes, and there have been expl

A Wall Street Journal report said SpaceX CEO Elon Musk ordered the Starlink throttling that blindsided Ukraine’s air assault forces last week, despite Musk’s claim that all decisions on the military version of Starlink are made by the US military and President Trump. Trump denied

Netflix is making itself clear: It's a streaming-first business. During the company's third-quarter earnings call on Tuesday, co-CEO Ted Sarandos reiterated the streaming giant's long-held stance that its content, which it spent $20 billion on last year, is meant for its subscrib