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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

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

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

StartLux, the young Chinese team behind the StartLux-Decision model family, has open-sourced Prism, an inference engine written specifically for decision models. The code was released on GitHub on October 22, and the company describes it as the first openly available engine built

A research team involving miHoYo’s Honkai AI researchers and university collaborators has open-sourced GameScaling, a family of models that play games by generating keyboard and mouse actions from visual observations. The release includes eight checkpoints ranging from 800 millio

China’s DeepSeek Wants Ubiquity. Beijing Has Mixed Feelings AI leaders want their models everywhere and under their control. They may not get both. This article is for subscribers only. Welcome to Bloomberg’s AI Today newsletter. Every weekday we’ll break down artificial intellig

Welcome, Weekenders! Whenever I’m the slightest bit ill, I take to my bed and mope. If it goes more than a day or so, I assume the worst—that the end is nigh. I can’t honestly remember the last time I felt unwell for more than a couple days, but I imagine such a scenario would pr

GM's decision to scale back on EVs due to short-term demand and policy changes has led to declining market share and investor value, with GM losing ground in major markets despite overall rising U.S. EV sales. EVs represent a major growth driver; after making gains, GM cut EV in

Retail investors who are trying to beat the market by buying individual stocks and complex exchange-traded funds may be better off with broad market index funds, according to Elm Wealth's Victor Haghani. "I'm not sure that investors are that much more sophisticated than they were

The challenge for voters is learning how to question suspicious content without assuming everything they encounter is fake.

It’s been a long time since I’ve been genuinely excited about a new iPhone. For years, a new iPhone meant a device that was thinner, faster, and had a camera that came with incredible upgrades. At some point (and Apple devotees can debate which year’s model this was!), a new iPho

Most AI chatbots won’t outright tell you who to vote for, but some of the models behind them will. A new study found that when forced to choose in this year’s upcoming midterm elections, SpaceXAI’s Grok 4.7 recommended the Republican candidate in 92% of its answers, while OpenAI’

World renowned chef José Andrés is entering the battle over Washington’s proposed ban on foie gras, a delicacy which animal rights activists have called cruel. Andrés responded to a proponent of the ban, labeled as Initiative 86 on D.C.’s ballot, in a post to the social platform

Earnings News Earnings scorecard: 17 out of 20 industrial companies beat EPS estimates this week Oct 24, 2026, 10:45 AM ETState Street Industrial Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLI)GE, BA, FDX, UPS, CAT, MMM, LMT, BE, RTXBy: Khushi Singh, SA News Editor Industrial companies remained in

The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) took action against Indian stock markets and options trader, Avadhut Sathe, and his trading academy, for running an unregistered investment advisory and research analyst business. The markets regulator, on Friday, directed Avadhut

Simon King of Saturna Capital names two stocks tied to base metals, for investors who want to look beyond the beaten path for AI-related trades.

Myntra reported a net loss of ₹581.8 Cr in the financial year ended March 31, 2026 (FY26), reversing a net profit of ₹546.3 Cr in the previous fiscal Myntra’s parent, Flipkart Group, also released its consolidated FY26 financials following its reverse flip to India Myntra’s opera

One early morning in 2022, I found myself watching a dog walker on TikTok and thinking: I want her job. It felt ridiculous. I was finishing up my MBA and navigating the next chapter of my career with a focus on prestige and financial success. But soon after relocating from Kentuc

Search fieldHome page Seeking Alpha - Power to InvestorsSearch for Symbols, analysts, keywordsAbout PremiumCreate free accountLog in Zelenskyy says Starlink restored to full speed Oct 24, 2026, 10:35 AM ETSpace Exploration Technologies Corp. (SPCX) StockBy: Jonathan Block, SA N

Google Cloud and NVIDIA expand co-engineering collaboration to scale infrastructure for the agentic era Mark Lohmeyer VP & GM, AI & Computing Infrastructure Ankur Mehrotra VP/GM, Distributed & Sovereign Cloud, Google Cloud As enterprises transition to continuous, multi-step agent

The S&P 500 (SP500) closed in the red on Friday, after investors digested corporate results from big companies including Netflix and Meta Platforms during the week. However, technology stocks continued to lag amid artificial intelligence spending fears and a continued rise in oil

Search fieldHome page Seeking Alpha - Power to InvestorsSearch for Symbols, analysts, keywordsAbout PremiumCreate free accountLog in Consumer Discretionary Earnings: EPS beats outpace revenue Oct 24, 2026, 10:30 AM ETState Street Consumer Disc Sel Sect SPDR ETF (XLY), VCR, FXD,

A drug from Amgen could give patients with a notoriously aggressive form of lung cancer significantly more time to live when added to an immunotherapy from AstraZeneca, a study found. Full results from a late-stage trial released Saturday show that adding Amgen's immunotherapy Im

Search fieldHome page Seeking Alpha - Power to InvestorsSearch for Symbols, analysts, keywordsAbout PremiumCreate free accountLog in 5 out of 5 communications services stocks deliver EPS wins this week: Earnings Scorecard Oct 24, 2026, 10:23 AM ETState Street Com Svc Sel Sec SP

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The $400 Boox Palma 2 Pro is a smartphone-sized e-reader designed for people who want to read books, articles, and documents on a small E Ink display. However, it offers more than just a dedicated reading experience because it runs Android and supports Google Play, giving you acc

Search fieldHome page Seeking Alpha - Power to InvestorsSearch for Symbols, analysts, keywordsAbout PremiumCreate free accountLog in Eli Lilly releases promising early-stage data on ADC for ovarian cancer Oct 24, 2026, 10:10 AM ETEli Lilly and Company (LLY) StockBy: Jonathan Bl

We ran a live edition of The Agents this week to walk through our agent-led growth stack as it stands today. We talked about “ask your agent instead of your developer” on last week’s episode, and this session goes into how that works in practice. At SaaStr, agent-led growth means

The Atlantic CEO Nicholas Thompson tells Bloomberg This Weekend that AI offers powerful tools for businesses but poses significant risks to media, while its broader economic impact continues to lag behind rapidly advancing capabilities. Speaking with hosts David Gura and Christin

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OpenAI’s efforts to undercut Anthropic on price are producing some results. For instance, in May, Anthropic models powered 57% of the coding work of hundreds of engineers at Rippling, an HR software firm, while OpenAI models handled 16% of that work. Since then, the situation has

Eric Lugo didn't know that when he launched his sewing workshop business, Stitch Lab ATX, as a side project in May 2025, it'd become his full-time focus within weeks. Lugo also couldn't have predicted it'd become so successful within two years that offerings would grow fivefold,

Rather than downloading another app, a growing number of agents can simply be texted like an ordinary person. You text it what you need, and it can remember context, connect to the apps and services you already use, and complete tasks on your behalf. That can mean scheduling an a

The effort is to engineer "Twelve Angry Men" scenarios on real juries — but unlike in the movie, the jurors are actually being trained to ignore evidence and deliberations in favor of political outcomes.

Federal authorities arrested a government contractor and charged him with leaking classified national defense information, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on Friday. FBI investigators have accused 42-year-old Ian Brinksman, an employee of a third-party company which pro

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The commerce ministry is identifying professions less vulnerable to artificial intelligence (AI) to prepare for a fast-changing technological landscape and seize opportunities for India to emerge as a global leader, Union Minister Piyush Goyal said. The commerce and industry mini

President Trump pushed back Saturday morning against reports he was considering replacing the White House press briefing room with an indoor swimming pool but said he was considering moving media “to a less obnoxious location.” On Tuesday, The New York Times reported Trump expres

Proton hosts Flock map revealing over 300,000 cameras, defying cease-and-desist threats against creator — privacy-focused company hosts site on Swiss servers, says users have the right to know who’s recording them Is this a backup copy of Joshua Michael's Flock Surveillance Map?

Investors have been steadily pouring money into the Invesco S&P 500 Quality ETF this year.

Reliance Jio Platforms: Jio Platforms initial public offering (IPO) concluded with massive subscription on Friday and all eyes are now on the listing of the mega IPO next week. Backed by Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries Limited (RIL), the issue broke multiple records whether i

“We worked out a monthly budget of $1,500 for her share of rent, utilities and food, including groceries and meals on campus.”

Jackson stars with two goals - player ratings for Aston Villa v Man City - Published Nicolas Jackson scored twice as Aston Villa ended Manchester City's 100% winning start to the Premier League season. Here's how I rated the players and how you rated the players. - What do BBC Sp

Lumax Auto Q2 results: Profit jumps 58%; new Manesar plant targets ₹500 crore turnover - Published OnOct 24, 2026 | 18:53 IST - Last Updated OnOct 24, 2026 | 18:53 IST Lumax Auto Technologies reported a 57.5% YoY rise in Q2 FY27 net profit to ₹105.5 crore and a 34.5% increase in

The competing concerns highlight the challenge facing the ethanol procurement framework: balancing the availability and cost of different feedstocks.

68-point swing and a Tonga win - how England avoid World Cup exit - Published Sixty-eight. That is the magic number for England. For Brian McDermott's side to reach the semi-finals of the Rugby League World Cup, a specific series of events needs to happen next weekend. On the bac

The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Friday sent letters to election officials in every California county asking that they identify potential noncitizens on their voter rolls, according to several reports. The letter warned local officials would “risk significant federal scrutiny”

From YouTube influencers to Reddit threads, the health and wellness side of the internet is full of talk about peptides. The term refers to a class of chemical compounds made up of short chains of amino acids. In the wellness market, synthetic peptides are often sold to consumers

AI - Torvalds: AI is fine for competent devs, but spare us the 'drive-by' patches Kernel maintainers stop asking who used AI, as long as the code is good - Nvidia woos wary Europeans with more open weights models New embedding, parsing, and reranking models promise smarter agenti