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{beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment The Big Story Dems could probe Russian diesel importers Democrats and outgoing Republican Sen. Thom Tillis (N.C.) are telling banks and ports that Congress may investigate imports of Russian diesel after President Trump said the

As it prepares to go public, Anthropic's S-1 filing makes generative AI's methane dependency glaringly obvious. "Competition for access to electrical supply and data center locations with adequate power availability is intense." In documents filed with the US Securities and Excha

Meta is looking to raise a total of $95 billion through stock-related deals that stretch into early next year.

AirTrunk secured a A$4.25 billion ($3 billion) green loan to finance the development of a Sydney data center campus, a signal of confidence in a sector that’s taken a slew of hits in recent weeks.

Victor Khosla, Founder and CIO of Strategic Value Partners, discusses headwinds worsening since his previous appearance. While markets have already repriced amid mounting pressure, he says risks remain unusually high: whereas he would normally put the chance of severe tail events

🚨🚨MUST READ🚨🚨: Mayor Zohran Mamdani and a group of fellow basketball enthusiasts have been secretly using the NYPD Police Academy’s gymnasium in Queens to play pickup ball, according to four people familiar with the games. The mayor and his crew typically show up around 10 or

Let them eat cheesecake? Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Monday became the latest right-wing critic to accuse former President Barack Obama of elitism for mockingly comparing President Donald Trump's ostentatious White House renovations to the Cheesecake Factory. But Bessent,

'Maxxing' selected as Dictionary.com word of the year - Published Americans have gone all in on "maxxing", making it the 2026 Word of the Year for Dictionary.com. Short for maximising, the term "can be used on its own or added to the end of any word to convey you're doing somethi

Anthropic’s IPO filing outlines a governance structure in which seven cofounders direct Class F shares representing about 50.1% of total voting power on key issues. Nell Minow, Chair at ValueEdge Advisors, says the filing asks investors to trust a multilevel structure: an indepen

With the release of AI agents like Meta's Muse, tech companies are promising consumers that they will start saving them tons of money by finding the best deals. On this episode of the Odd Lots podcast, President and CEO of Groundwork Collaborative Lindsay Owens joins Joe Weisenth

AI - Humanity can't afford not to spend $800B on AI, Anthropic insists It's more important than chips, 'leccy and the net, after all - OpenAI rolls out budget-priced mid-tier GPT-6.1 Terra Not a bombshell, but it rivals pricier models on some tasks at a tenth of Astra's API price

JetBlue Airways reported a bigger loss in the third quarter compared with last year, but the New York carrier said strong travel demand is helping to offset higher fuel prices as it seeks to calm investors after shares fell to a new low Monday. JetBlue stock soared roughly 11% in

Applied Materials Inc. boosted its stake in fellow chip-equipment maker BE Semiconductor Industries NV and vowed to step up their work together, citing the European company’s growing role in energy-efficient AI computing.

Anthropic PBC’s filing for a landmark initial public offering included nearly 100 pages of risk factors, an unusually exhaustive set of disclosures for how the company’s artificial intelligence business could go awry.The list included everything from slowing revenue growth and go

If you could have 1 million followers on any social media platform, which would you choose? There is a correct answer, and it’s YouTube, assuming you’d like to get paid for your work. But Instagram’s latest update could upend YouTube’s long-held position as the most lucrative pla

Optical stocks are staging a comeback following Anthropic’s IPO filing and some other good news

Steve Wilson joins the streamer in its nascent efforts to push into video podcasts.

From South Korea to Japan and China, the world’s biggest memory chipmakers will this week seek to quell fears that AI spending is outpacing future demand. How they handle back-to-back earnings disclosures and investors’ questions will help determine the trajectory for markets and

The first draft of the AI company’s prospectus is light on details, but some things immediately leap out.

Chipmakers Nvidia, AMD and Broadcom will act as cornerstone investors

A pair of Trump-friendly, right-wing populists took a one-two punch Sunday: Brazil rejected a Bolsonaro comeback, and Serbia toppled a strongman's ruling party. The big picture: Brazil denied Trump a close ally at the helm of Latin America's largest economy, snapping a streak of

Anthropic’s IPO is offering a rare look inside the business of frontier AI. Bloomberg journalists answer your questions in an interactive Live Q&A on Tuesday, Oct. 27 at 1 p.m. EDT.

President Trump will campaign with three football stars in Texas on Tuesday, leaning into America's favorite sport as Republicans scramble to turn out voters in the final week before the midterms, Axios has learned. Why it matters: Trump is trying to mobilize the lower-propensity

The Federal Trade Commission and 20 U.S. states are suing Dollar General for allegedly engaging in deceptive pricing practices in which the discount chain charges shoppers more at registers than the prices displayed on price tags and advertisements. “Dollar General has betrayed t

President Trump and MAGA-world influencers are echoing Brazilian presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro's claims of a rigged election after the Trump-aligned populist fell to the incumbent president in Sunday's election. The big picture: President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's run

The Lenovo ThinkPad P1 Gen 9 is Lenovo’s thin flagship mobile workstation. This 16-inch machine carries the premium features the rest of the ThinkPad P line trims to meet weight and price targets. It’s an aluminum chassis that measures 9.87mm at the front edge and weighs under 1.

LiteLLM has traced last week’s supply chain attack to a master key it accidentally committed to a public GitHub repository in May. The cloud and AI model secret-stealing part of the incident began when someone uploaded a poisoned version (1.107.0) of the popular open source AI g

After two months of discomfort, a man in South Korea went to an eye clinic where doctors pulled 11 living, wriggling worms from his eyes. They apparently made the most of their time on the man’s peepers; at the time of extraction, many of the female worms were pregnant. The man n

We’ll stop selling ByteByteGo Live annual memberships on October 28 at 2 PM PT. After that, courses will be sold individually. I wanted to explain why, and give you a chance to join before the change. When we launched ByteByteGo Live (our cohort-based learning platform), we thoug

Tech giant moves to control costs and it spends up to $175bn on AI infrastructure this year

The S&P; 500 gained 0.70% and the Nasdaq rose 0.83%, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average added 0.28%. The move came as investors turned their attention to Anthropic’s plans to go public and what its filing says about the AI boom. The company disclosed steep losses alongside ra

Oscar-winning producer says BBC gave her £400,000 payout after she raised antisemitism concerns - Published An Oscar-winning executive producer claims she received a £400,000 payout from the BBC after alleging she faced antisemitic remarks from colleagues at the corporation. Luci

A US-Canada trade deal is likely not as imminent as some US officials indicated over the weekend. National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett said Sunday that negotiators were “very close” to reaching an agreement that would ease the countries’ tit-for-tat tariffs on an arra

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle created one of the most beloved fictional detectives of all time in Sherlock Holmes, spawning countless novels, films, TV series, and so forth featuring the sleuth. Far fewer people know about the real-life inspiration for Holmes: a renowned surgeon at Scot

21 news publishers have challenged India’s DPDP Act in the Supreme Court, citing concerns over press freedom The law could require journalists to seek consent from investigation subjects, force publishers to erase reports and expose confidential sources, the publishers have argue

Brazil’s decision to reelect leftist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva over Flávio Bolsonaro marks a setback in President Donald Trump’s bid to elevate like-minded leaders across the globe. It also raises questions about the relationship between the two countries going forward.

In an S-1 filing today preceding what could be the largest IPO ever, Anthropic laid out extensive new details about its earnings, growth, key stakeholders and the risks it faces going forward. Clocking in at 335 pages, the document wasn’t exactly light reading. However, after a p

Anthropic on Monday unveiled its Form S-1 filing, taking the company one step closer to completing its long-awaited move to the public markets, which is now seen as almost guaranteed to come this year. Speculators on prediction market platform Kalshi place 95% odds that the artif

Instacart will stop offering high-tech shopping carts to grocers, its first announced strategy shift since reports emerged that the company is in talks to sell itself.

Today, Apple rolled out the 27.2 updates for its operating systems, including iOS, macOS, watchOS, tvOS, visionOS, and so on. Let’s start with iOS 27.2. This update is heavily focused on Siri AI. It adds a memory feature to Siri, so it can “recall your past conversations” and ref

A federal judge ruled Monday that the Department of Justice's firing last year of New York federal prosecutor Maurene Comey, the daughter of former FBI Director James Comey, was unlawful. Judge Jesse Furman, in his ruling, also granted Maurene Comey retroactive reinstatement and

Will the public change its mind about Meghan? - Published The allegations of sexual abuse against Thomas Markle have put his daughter Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, under an uncomfortable spotlight. She has been dealing with this potential news time-bomb out of sight for seven ye

Intel Corp. agreed to buy Israeli startup Classiq Technologies Ltd. as part of a push to capitalize on quantum computing, a still-nascent field that is seeking commercial applications.

Easy to integrate, compliant by design: Bringing the Swiss Franc to Google Cloud Universal Ledger Nathaniel Zollinger CTO, Crypto Finance Group Moritz Platt Capital Markets Technology Manager, Google Cloud Every day, countless financial transactions are interrupted by slow, expen

Cisco today made Cisco IQ generally available to partners at Cisco Partner Summit in Vancouver, opening the support platform’s telemetry and automation to partner workflows through a Cisco IQ MCP Server, expanded API access, and role-based access control that lets a customer gran

Dive Brief: - Banana Republic is stepping into original programming with the launch of a five-part short-form video series starring actor Jack Innanen, according to a press release. - “The Agency” debuted Oct. 14 on TikTok and follows a team of executives as they attempt to moder

Anthropic's blockbuster share listing - 5 surprising things we now know - Published Artificial intelligence (AI) firm Anthropic just released the required paperwork ahead of its long-anticipated debut on the US stock market. The 335-page document included fresh details of how the

AI - Humanity can't afford not to spend $800B on AI, Anthropic insists It's more important than chips, 'leccy and the net, after all - OpenAI rolls out budget-priced mid-tier GPT-6.1 Terra Not a bombshell, but it rivals pricier models on some tasks at a tenth of Astra's API price

The startup plans to utilise the fresh capital to continue expanding its presence in the US and other international markets, scale its tech stack and ramp up hiring The fundraise comes as India is becoming a training ground for collecting datasets for AI models, driven by huge lo