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Fraud losses reported by older Americans jumped in 2025, driven largely by an increase in victims losing sums of at least six figures, according to a new report from the Federal Trade Commission. Americans ages 60 and older reported losing about $3 billion to fraud last year, a 2

Here’s an awkward question for any codebase that’s been around a few years. Do your tests describe what the system does? Or what somebody, at some point, thought it should do? Not the same thing. Not even close, usually. Most regression tests get written right alongside a feature

Elon Musk has made an investment in Skydance of roughly $1 billion, according to a person familiar with the matter who asked not to be named because they were not authorized to speak publicly. The financial injection comes as the company looks to cut costs. Paramount closed its a

A 25-year-old German experimental photographer has won the 2026 Nikon Small World photomicrography competition with a striking image of droplets of ink being deposited on paper by an inkjet printer. Ole Bielfeldt beat out 1,802 other entries hailing from 69 different countries. B

Market participants and economists now expect a 25-bps increase in the December and February reviews. A further 25-bps increase in April isn't ruled out if crude oil prices remain persistently above $100. One basis point is a hundredth of a percentage point. "After the minutes we

SBI may seek a claim under a Rs 1,425-crore cyber insurance policy with Oriental Insurance following a suspected leak of customer data, people familiar with the matter told ET. "SBI is in the process of notifying the insurer about the claim," said a person aware of the developmen

The RBI issued the advisory on October 19, shortly after the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) warned about the growing use of artificial intelligence agents to carry out cyberattacks. The advisory, which ET has reviewed, said financial entities should strengthen

Concerns have swirled over the access that consumers are increasingly entrusting to AI agents. Now, security services are trying to catch up. Password manager 1Password on Thursday launched a new tool by which users can allow agents to log into their personal accounts on their be

Calley Means—a top ally to anti-vaccine Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and a co-author of the so-called “MAHA bible”—resigned from his role in the Trump administration Thursday, reportedly in frustration over delays to food policy changes sought by the Make America Health

* 10-year yield on pace for biggest drop in more than 3-1/2 years * $26 billion 5-year TIPS auction viewed as solid * CME FedWatch shows October Fed hike odds at 7.2% (Updates to afternoon trading) By Chuck Mikolajczak NEW YORK, Oct 22 (Reuters) - US Treasury yields tumbled on Th

Salesforce announced an agreement Tuesday to buy customer engagement platform Braze in a deal worth about $5.66 billion. Under the deal, holders of Braze Class A common stock will get $47.50 in cash per share. Braze shares closed at $30.04 on Monday. The transaction is expected t

Shares of SpaceX jumped 9% to $161 in early premarket trade on Wednesday, October 21, after Elon Musk’s space and satellite venture reported its first quarterly profit since going public in June, driven by strong growth in its artificial intelligence (AI) business. SpaceX’s reven

Tesla and SpaceX have formed independent committees to explore a potential merger, Elon Musk said during SpaceX’s third-quarter earnings call. The billionaire backed the idea, citing opportunities in AI, chip design, robotics, and connectivity. However, neither company has agreed

AI selloff sends investors seeking safety Yields on 2 through 10 year Treasuries fell at least 15 basis points, marking their steepest declines in more than a year. Yields across all maturities of US government debt dropped by more than 10 basis points. The rally gathered pace as

When we first drove BMW’s first Neue Klasse model, the iX3, it quickly revealed that BMW knows how to make a good electric vehicle. A clean-sheet design, it featured the automaker’s sixth-generation electric powertrain, a completely reimagined dashboard, and powerful computers to

OpenAI made its Decisions API model widely available to users for the first time, entering the market for fast, cheap intelligence that recently made TypeSafe, a startup founded by a former researcher at the frontier lab, a $7.6 billion company. TypeSafe’s Jev model created a cat

Design platform Canva released its first image generation model, called Canva Craft, developed by its research team to compete with same-category models from Google, OpenAI, ByteDance, and Meta. The company said its model works in two stages. In the first stage, it interprets use

The Scoop The top Senate Republican super PAC is spending more than $1 million in Mississippi’s Senate race to defend GOP Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith and stave off an upset bid from Democratic candidate Scott Colom, according to details shared with Semafor. Senate Leadership Fund is la

Discord’s latest update released today has a big improvement for Markdown previews: they should now render correctly instead of with “a bunch of symbols,” according to the company. LLMs and AI agents often rely on Markdown files for instructions and context, so these improved pre

Elon Musk's latest clash with Ukraine underscores the critical role that his company's Starlink satellite internet service has played in Kyiv's defense against Russia, which invaded unprovoked in 2022. It's also laid bare the downsides of depending on a single provider for satell

Elon Musk's latest clash with Ukraine underscores the critical role that his company's Starlink satellite internet service has played in Kyiv's defense against Russia, which invaded unprovoked in 2022. It's also laid bare the downsides of depending on a single provider for satell

PepsiCo and Taco Bell renewed their long-running partnership through 2036, the food and beverage company said Thursday. The announcement comes one week after Taco Bell's sister chain, KFC, said that it will switch to Coca-Cola as its U.S. beverage supplier. While it is unusual fo

(Bloomberg) -- The cost of options hedges against more gains in Treasuries surged to its highest level since March on Thursday, as investors sought the safety of US government bonds following a spike in oil prices and a deepening fiscal crisis in France.Yields on the benchmark 10

Android-powered foldable phones have been available for years, but most people never paid attention to them. As predicted, that could be changing now that Apple has entered the folding phone market with the iPhone Duo. Analysts have speculated that Samsung’s Z8 foldables were see

By Karen Brettell NEW YORK, Oct 22 (Reuters) - The yen was on track for its strongest daily gain in almost a month on Thursday, as investors sought safety amid fragile equity markets, elevated crude prices from the drawn-out war in the Middle East, and doubts over future returns

Microsoft’s AI diagnostic system correctly diagnosed complex medical cases in a simulation more than twice as often as generalist physicians, according to a study published Thursday in Science. Mustafa Suleyman, Microsoft AI’s CEO, called the result a step toward “medical superin

Former OpenAI science lead Kevin Weil has launched Warp Sciences, a new AI startup focused on automating lab work for drug discovery. The company, which trains robots to make and test promising compounds identified by researchers, has raised $215 million at an $865 million valuat