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The News Finance firms controlling over $5.8 trillion have established their first offices in the Gulf in the nearly eight months since the Iran war disrupted the region’s economies, a sign that money managers are still betting it will remain a source of new cash. In that time, a

LTO roadmap extends to 365 TB per cartridge as tape storage refuses to die —25-year-old format sees 400x capacity increase without changing form factor HPE, IBM, and Quantum will keep developing LTO as demand booms. In a world where SSDs with up to 256TB capacity are about to ent

Best Buy has slashed $950 off this gorgeous Alienware 16X Aurora gaming laptop with OLED display — 33% price reduction on Arrow Lake laptop with RTX 5070 Game in style There are a host of great laptop deals at Best Buy at the moment, but one of my favorites today is this fantasti

Cognizant has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire DyFlex Solutions, an Australia-headquartered SAP services provider, expanding its planned SAP and artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities in Australia and New Zealand. The proposed acquisition would add DyFlex’s advis

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told CNBC Thursday that demand for neocloud firms is "off the charts," but scarce capital is holding back growth. "If you look at the fundamentals, the demand for the neo clouds is off the charts," Huang told CNBC's Arjun Kharpal on the sidelines of the co

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told CNBC Thursday that demand for neocloud firms is "off the charts," but scarce capital is holding back growth. "If you look at the fundamentals, the demand for the neo clouds is off the charts," Huang told CNBC's Arjun Kharpal on the sidelines of the co

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

Morgan Chittum here. What do Elon Musk, a $3.5 trillion company and cat herding have in common? Corporate governance experts and portfolio managers tell me they’re a part of what’s next for a potential SpaceX-Tesla merger, which Musk himself backed during the company’s earnings c

Save $238 on this 9800X3D combo deal with 32GB DDR5 that lets you start a 4K gaming PC build for just over $1,000 — Newegg bundle ships this powerhouse AMD CPU with a Gigabyte X870E AM5 motherboard and a free 240mm AIO cooler Start building a 4K-capable gaming PC with parts for j

Chinese AI champion DeepSeek raised around $15 billion in one of the country’s biggest-ever financing rounds as part of efforts to keep up with Western frontier firms. The Hangzhou-based firm — which last year shocked markets by unveiling a model that could compete with Silicon V

OpenAI says ChatGPT Sol helped uncover critical PHP flaws that could affect 70% of websites — AI-assisted researchers turned a two-year-old bug that stumped human developers into working exploits in two weeks OpenAI says defenders must proactively strengthen defenses before bad a

US stock futures and Asian markets fell on growing concern that an AI boom is turning to bust. Worries have coalesced around whether public opposition or supply chain constraints will limit the buildout, and if revenues will keep up with Big Tech’s breakneck infrastructure spendi

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Thursday 22 October 2026 Top stories today: - Meta Q3 revenue +26% YoY to $64.6B, net income +264% - Anthropic unveils proactive Claude Duet agent to rival OpenAI’s Dots - Tesla Q3 revenue flat YoY at $28.0B, auto revenue -3% to $20.6B - DeepSeek raises ~$15B to challenge top U.S

Foodtech major Swiggy reported a consolidated net loss of ₹922 Cr in the September quarter of FY27, narrowing 16% from ₹1,092 Cr in the year-ago quarter. However, its loss widened 17% from ₹791 Cr in the preceding quarter. Operating revenue increased 36% YoY and 11% QoQ to ₹7,571

Shareholders of PC Jeweller seem to have reason to rejoice, given the stock’s solid performance in 2026 despite broader market weakness amid rising geopolitical tensions. Although the stock began the year on a tumultuous note, it picked up steam in the second half and has continu

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Karta AI has raised $3 million in a seed funding round led by PeerCapital and Cedar Hill Capital, with participation from Wyser VC, CDM Capital and Seedstars. The funding will support product development, distribution and expansion of the startup's artificial intelligence (AI) ag

Chennai Petroleum Q2 results 2026: Shares of Chennai Petroleum Corporation Limited recovered from intraday low during Thursday’s trading session after Navratna PSU reported a whopping 212 % year-on-year jump in its net consolidated profit for the second quarter of financial year

October is revealing cybersecurity chaos, for real. In 24 hours, three major security incidents emerged: eMudhra’s compromised certificate private keys, the State Bank of India’s customer data breach, and AI-assisted discovery of two critical vulnerabilities in PHP, the programmi

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

Blacksmith, a platform that helps companies more efficiently build and test software, including code written by AI, announced Wednesday a $66 million Series C funding round led by Sequoia that values the company at $1 billion. In announcing the round, Blacksmith co-founder and CE

The ChinaTalk team is going to CoRL (the Conference on Robot Learning) in Austin! Reply to this email if you’d like to hang out between November 9th and 12th. We’re also doing karaoke on the 11th — RSVP here if you’d like to join! A. Chen writes about people, technologies, and th

After ChatGPT was released in November 2022, the tech industry was quick to herald the chatbot as the marker of a new wave of technological progress. As companies pushed to create more powerful AI models, the water demand of their ambitions took a while to become clear. In April

Google’s TPUs for AI workloads now run in Meta's data centers — TPUs sold to external customers for the first time, threaten Nvidia's market dominance PyTorch’s own creator now serves AI models on Google’s TPUs, and most need no JAX port. Google’s tensor processing units (TPUs) —

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 News As President Donald Trump continues buying government stakes in private companies, the rest of Washington is starting to appreciate the power of his new tool. The Trump administration has so far announced 43 equity stakes in firms producing everything from minerals to se

480,000 phishing emails sent from a PC hidden behind a fridge in a Japanese hotel room — Chinese couple arrested over fraud operation, scammers remotely leech Wi-Fi to target 2.4 million victims Police arrested a Chinese couple for placing the computer that was found in a Kobe ho

AI agents are taking over routine customer service tasks, pushing human contact centre workers towards more complex problems that require judgement, specialised knowledge, and human intervention. In an exclusive interview with AIM, Thomas Wyatt, COO of communications-platform-as-

Dear SaaStr: What is the Difference Between a Good Sales Exec and a Great One? A good rep hits quota. A great rep closes multiples of what the good one does, on the same leads, and the gap almost always comes down to the same handful of things: - The gap is bigger than people thi

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

Data Centers Can Delay, Not Dodge, the Power Crunch Efficiency gains and flexible workloads may create near-term capacity for AI, but utilities will need proof that those reductions can be delivered when the grid needs them. Data center operators facing power constraints can acco

The Trump administration is at odds over an executive order targeting housing affordability, people familiar with the talks told Semafor. The White House has grappled with how to address the cost of living ahead of the midterms, which are less than two weeks away. A six-section d

The News SIOUX CITY, Iowa — President Donald Trump will touch down on Thursday in Iowa, the site of perhaps the tightest Senate race in the country. Strangely enough, both candidates are welcoming him. Only one, Republican Rep. Ashley Hinson, will be at his rally on Thursday, but

Anthropic opened a research preview of Claude Duet on October 21, introducing an artificial intelligence (AI) agent that monitors work, prioritises tasks and carries out business activities in the background. Access is initially limited to subscribers in the US on Claude Pro and

Azim Premji’s investment firm Premji Invest, along with Norwest and Lok Capital, plans to invest up to ₹1,000 crore in Vegafin Capital to build an artificial intelligence-led lending platform for micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs), according to a Bloomberg report publish

Japanese-themed dining chain Harajuku Tokyo Cafe has raised $3 Mn (around ₹28 Cr) in a pre-Series A funding round led by ZeroW, with participation from existing investors Indian Angel Network (IAN) and Samved VC. The round also saw participation from new investors, including Blum