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Freed US citizen was tortured in Russian jail, former Ukrainian prisoners say - Published Ukrainians held alongside freed US prisoner Stephen Hubbard have said they witnessed him being beaten and humiliated by Russian guards during his four-year detention. Dmytro Khyliuk first me

Ukraine: Starlink still isn’t working after Trump restoration promise Ukraine’s military on Friday struggled with a still-slowed Starlink satellite system despite President Trump’s promise a day earlier that SpaceX owner Elon Musk had restored the service. Connections with Starsh

Treasury moves to ease access to single-family home purchases ahead of midterms The Treasury Department on Thursday moved to implement tenets of a bipartisan housing law Congress passed over the summer, including a ban on institutional investors buying single-family homes. Under

Even after another bond market rout Friday, investors are turning their attention toward Treasurys, anticipating that yields may be topping out. The benchmark 10-year note spent the day flirting with the psychologically important 5% level as oil prices surged and a fresh consumer

The iPhone Duo has an eye-popping price tag, but initial interest in Apple's first foldable phone in China appears solid. On the day of the global launch on Friday, scalpers like Alex Wang stood outside the flagship store in Beijing's popular shopping area, Sanlitun, offering to

The iPhone Duo has an eye-popping price tag, but initial interest in Apple's first foldable phone in China appears solid. On the day of the global launch on Friday, scalpers like Alex Wang stood outside the flagship store in Beijing's popular shopping area, Sanlitun, offering to

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

TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026 is coming to SoWa Power Station in Boston on November 4, bringing founders, investors, and operators together for a full day of candid conversations, practical sessions, live pitching, networking, and smaller roundtables built for deeper discussion.

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Instacart is in talks to sell itself in a transaction that would cap the grocery delivery app’s 14-year run as a standalone company. Currently valued at $12 billion, Instacart has been working with an investment bank to weigh its options and held at least preliminary conversation

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that aims to reduce mortgage costs as rising interest rates and inflation make homeownership less affordable. The order, titled "Decreasing Housing Costs for the American People," directs federal agencies to proactively cancel

Elon Musk wants a SpaceX-Tesla merger, Meta makes a deal to keep Mark Zuckerberg, and the battle of the AI agents. Ed Ludlow recaps the biggest stories from Bloomberg Tech on "The Rundown." (Source: Bloomberg)

SpaceX's Starlink internet system continues to be throttled in Ukraine as the stakes rise for the war-torn country, Ukrainian officials and a national security expert said Friday. "Every day matters for Ukraine, because every Ukrainian life matters," wrote Denys Sienik, Ukraine's

SpaceX's Starlink internet system continues to be throttled in Ukraine as the stakes rise for the war-torn country, Ukrainian officials and a national security expert said Friday. "Every day matters for Ukraine, because every Ukrainian life matters," wrote Denys Sienik, Ukraine's

Nearly 80% of all-inclusive resorts have become ‘luxury or upper upscale,’ Bernstein analysts say, as the industry seeks higher-income travelers able to weather inflation.

OpenAI Cuts Live Internet Access From Frontier Model Training After Security Breach OpenAI pulled frontier models offline, built a cached web for them to train in, then turned its own cyber agents loose to break the walls. - OpenAI removed live internet access from all frontier t

A GOP campaign ad featuring the estranged mother of Ohio gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton (D) received blowback this week after it was revealed she stood by her husband after he was charged with sexually abusing Acton as a child. Court records show that the mother, Donna Arthur,

A bipartisan group of House and Senate lawmakers is pressing the Trump administration to restore and expand Ukraine’s access to Starshield satellite systems, warning that a failure to do so will cripple Kyiv’s military operations against Russia. In a letter to Defense Secretary P

23rd October 2026 - Link Blog Introducing Kimi K3.1 Pro (via) Kimi K3.1 Pro landed on the Kimi API today - it's not yet open weights, but Moonshot promise "Full model weights will be released by Nov 4, 2026". They're also offering a "Highspeed" version that's 2-3x faster, at twic

OpenAI has begun cutting off internet access for its most capable artificial intelligence models during the training process in response to prior incidents in which its systems breached other companies.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) greeted President Trump as he arrived in Florida Friday afternoon with a gift: a gold coin with an image of Trump holding up a middle finger. The coin bears Trump’s face and the inscription, “YOU MISSED B------.” Trump showed reporters the gift after

Leaders in the US Space Force would like to have a new spaceport up and running in four years, adding a third heavy-lift launch site to relieve pressure from bases in Florida and California that have shot rockets into orbit for nearly 70 years. The obvious problem with that ambit

House Democrats are making a play for a red seat in Kansas, but Republicans are competitive in a California seat — and both are releasing polling to back it up. Democrat Don Coover is down by three points against incumbent Republican Rep. Derek Schmidt, within the 3.9% margin of

Jack Dorsey’s Block announced an AI model called Dessa that’s trained “from scratch on nothing but human conversation,” and to show off the model, Block shared chats it has had with humans that can occasionally be a little awkward and uncanny. Jack Dorsey’s Block made an AI model

Size is a relative matter. The standard Manhattan apartment would seem almost claustrophobic compared to the vast expanses offered by suburban living. A similar dynamic is playing out in the market. Mega-cap companies are generally defined as those with market capitalizations exc

Startups are staying private longer leaving employees, who typically take a portion of their compensation as stock they can’t sell, with little hope of early liquidity. An increasing number of late-stage startups are recognizing this and offering tender offers to employees. These

President Trump said Friday he directed the Department of Justice (DOJ) to file a lawsuit to block certification of the Senate election in Alaska if Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan loses in November. DOJ filed the suit Thursday, claiming the existence of a candidate with a similar n

GP says she was forced out of job after raising concerns about gender treatment - Published A doctor who raised concerns about the treatment of children questioning their gender has told the BBC she was accused of transphobia, bullied and harassed out of her child protection job

The Trump administration has determined that imports of wind turbine parts pose a national security threat, but it does not appear to be opting to tariff them. President Trump issued a memo Thursday saying “wind turbines and their components and subcomponents are being imported i

Charlie Harker had high hopes for college. Before starting her freshman year in 2023, the Lebanon, Ohio, resident had planned to meet people through clubs or at the dorms. She'd expected there would be an open, vibrant atmosphere ripe for making friends. She'd quickly find her pe

As reported by Music Business Worldwide, Spotify appears to be stepping up enforcement of existing policies regarding Family and Duo subscription plans by requiring users to scan a QR code in person on the plan manager’s device in order to maintain access to it. Those who fail to

Before the Iran war, Qatar was one of the biggest natural gas exporters in the world. After only eight months, the Gulf state is now buying supplies from its principal competitor — the United States. QatarEnergy struck a deal Thursday with U.S. exporter Cheniere Energy to buy 4 m

OpenAI wants to raise around $30 billion in a fresh funding round. That could value the ChatGPT maker at $1.25 trillion. This is according to people familiar with the matter. Bloomberg's Rebecca Torrence reports. (Source: Bloomberg)

The company expects revenue, including exports, to reach ₹2,500 crore this year; India contributes 9–11% of Kobelco Construction Machinery’s overall revenue, says director Moses Eddy

Progressive House members and candidates are taking a stark turn away from what they describe as "performative" efforts to impeach President Trump. Why it matters: This is a drastic shift in tone from Trump's first term, when progressives were some of the loudest voices in favor

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

The company posted a standalone net profit, including joint venture Tata Cummins, of ₹2,138 crore for the second quarter, compared with a loss of ₹1,021 crore a year earlier. The average of analyst estimates compiled by Bloomberg was for a net profit Rs 1933.5 crore. Revenue from

Building a startup means making decisions before you have all the answers. When should you scale? How do you know you really have product-market fit? What does it take to land enterprise customers? How do you build the right team? And when you finally get in front of an investor,

Rep. Randy Fine (R-Fla.) said Friday he plans to introduce a resolution to expel Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) if a federal investigation finds she broke the law. The Florida Republican is a conservative firebrand sometimes known for his controversial comments, including describing O

The first Phase 3 data for a cancer vaccine has raised questions about whether the potential new treatment is needed.

The HSBC Flash India Composite Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) rose to 56.7 in October from 55.9 in the preceding month. The reading was 60.4 a year ago. A reading above 50 signals expansion and one below indicates contraction. "Private-sector manufacturing activity continued to

The U.S. will issue tariff exemptions on several categories of Canadian imports, Sen. Susan Collins of Maine said Friday. The Republican incumbent's announcement came as voters have already started casting ballots in the pivotal Maine Senate race, one of the most competitive cont

Want to keep track of the largest startup funding deals in 2026 with our curated list of $100 million-plus venture deals to U.S.-based companies? Check out The Crunchbase Megadeals Board. This is a weekly feature that runs down the week’s Top 10 announced funding rounds in the U.

The government plans to launch a second public Infrastructure Investment Trust (Invit), ready three companies for IPOs, and reduce stakes in PSU banks closer to 75%, Chawla said. Also Read: Satellite lights, Google searches cut state growth estimation errors by up to 62%: RBI stu

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 lower as this week's selling goes beyond tech. The Dow is the big loser Friday, down more than 1%

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Storm Austen brings power cuts and travel disruption as more wind and rain forecast - Published More than 15,000 homes are without power as Storm Austen continues to batter southern England and Wales, with more bad weather expected this weekend. The first named storm of the seaso