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Database group projects $30bn in free cash flow by 2029 and will limit additional raising for data centre strategy to $20bn

Microsoft's MAI-Image-2.7 Climbs to No. 2 on Image-Editing Benchmark Microsoft AI's newest image editing model climbs to #2 on the Artificial Analysis leaderboard, trailing only OpenAI's GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst and leading four categories. - Microsoft's MAI-Image-2.7-Preview ranks

The Trump administration is trying to stop Utah from enforcing its gambling ban against Kalshi, making Utah the 10th state sued by the US government agency that regulates prediction markets. Utah, which prohibits gambling, sued Kalshi in a state court last week. Utah’s lawsuit se

(Bloomberg) -- Short-dated US Treasury yields and the dollar fell after Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh said officials will have fewer interest-rate setting meetings starting next year. Two-year yields, which are more sensitive to the Fed’s policy path, fell as much as four

The private space tourism era looked so very promising five years ago. Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic had begun flying customers—real people with zero space experience—on suborbital missions. And at about the same time, private citizens were going to orbit for days at a time abo

The financials Anthropic shared with investors this week suggest that its AI coding tool, Claude Code, is every bit the business success the frontier lab wanted. The company recorded an operating profit in the second quarter, and 900% net revenue retention — that is, spending fro

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Elon Musk is a 'real genius', Putin says after satellite talks with SpaceX boss - Published Elon Musk is a "real genius", Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday after revealing the two are in "close" contact about satellite technology. The remarks came during the Russ

Seagate announced that its Mozaic hard drives built on heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) and configured for shingled magnetic recording (SMR) have been added to Broadcom’s approved vendor list for its host bus adapters, which Seagate calls the first and only SMR drives on t

Ollama 0.40.11 gives Windows users a desktop chat application and a local model runtime for other software. Ollama has also moved beyond its original command-line interface, adding a searchable model selector, image attachments, and links to coding tools. Some controls we needed

LOS ANGELES—For about five minutes on an extremely crowded showroom floor, I got to take pictures of the new MacBook Pro and test out some of its new features. First impressions: It’s not as much of a departure from the previous design as I expected, but the outstanding OLED disp

The PHP scare may have faded from your feed, but the cleanup is far from over. Last week, two critical bugs in the open source language behind roughly 70% of websites left organizations scrambling to fix their systems, with some taking sites offline until the vulnerabilities coul

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Healey tells departments to make 1% cuts to fund defence - Published Chancellor John Healey has told every government department to find 1% cuts in their capital budgets to fill a £4.7bn hole in the funding of the Defence Investment Plan. The reductions come on top of the 1% cuts

The group has offered $7.35 a share in cash, a premium of nearly 19% to Wendy’s Tuesday closing price. Trian’s stake in the company stands at 16.3%, according to a regulatory filing cited by AP. The bid comes as Wendy’s faces a difficult operating environment, with high beef and

Red Roses make six changes but Kildunne on bench again - Published Ellie Kildunne has been named on the England bench for their fixture against the USA, despite head coach John Mitchell making six changes to his side. The 27-year-old full-back was dropped for the 31-22 defeat by

(Updates to mid-afternoon trading) * Indexes: Dow up 0.10%, S&P 500 up 0.05%, Nasdaq off 0.13% * Fed leaves rates unchanged, upgrades economic outlook * SK Hynix quarterly profit jumps * Microsoft, Alphabet results expected after the bell By Stephen Culp and Shashwat Chauhan NEW

Senate Democrats’ campaign arm is spending $500,000 with Mississippi Democratic Senate candidate Scott Colom in a coordinated ad buy, according to details first shared with Semafor. The new ad from Colom and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee features Colom touting his

New generation FPGA announcements do not come often, which makes this a bit exciting for us. Today, Altera is introducing the Agilex 27 as the first family in its new Agilex 2X portfolio. Agilex 27 pairs hardened 800GbE and 1.6TbE Ethernet with PCIe 6.0 and 7.0 support, and offer

How did Flávio Bolsonaro end up in Miami? How did Flávio Bolsonaro end up in Miami?Close Brazil's defeated presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro has landed in the US after ongoing uncertainty about his whereabouts. The US state department told the BBC on Tuesday it will issu

It’s almost like Google’s got something to prove after taking a break from releasing new frontier AI models earlier this year. Just two weeks after rolling out Gemini 4 Argon, Google has announced Gemini 4 Carbon. This isn’t the Flash model equivalent we’ve been waiting for but,

The US Federal Reserve maintained the status quo on interest rates on Wednesday, 28 October, in line with market expectations, even as the central bank said inflation remains elevated while economic activity is growing strongly. The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) decided to

Healey unveils £100 for energy bills and bank tax in first Budget - Published Millions of households will get £100 to help with soaring energy bills to be paid for by a tax on bank profits, John Healey has announced in his first Budget. The chancellor said he wanted to give hard-

Healey unveils £100 for energy bills and bank tax in first Budget - Published Millions of households will get £100 to help with soaring energy bills to be paid for by a tax on bank profits, John Healey has announced in his first Budget. The chancellor said he wanted to give hard-

Liquid AI's LFM3 family puts six specialized 2B models on one tri-hybrid backbone, with vision, audio, and decision variants that fine-tune on a single GPU.

The 12-member FOMC voted 10-2 to hold rates at a target range between 3.75 and 4.00%, citing the need for more data in the fight against inflation

Nearly two years after LG and Samsung announced at CES 2025 that their latest smart TVs would include access to Microsoft's Copilot, the company is ending support for the AI assistant's functionality on all TVs this year, according to a report by Windows Central. The news comes n

Anthropic’s highly anticipated megalisting has been looming over the broader initial public offering market, holding back other companies gearing up for debuts, Lynn Martin, president of the New York Stock Exchange Group, said at The Information’s WTF Summit on Wednesday. The pip

We’re a little over three weeks away from the Cerebral Valley AI Summit, which we’re hosting in the heart of San Francisco on Nov. 12. We’ve secured some of the top names in Silicon Valley to speak on our main stage, including Igor Babuschkin, Nikesh Arora, and Ali Ghodsi. Now, w

Welcome to Snowflake's Startup Spotlight, where we ask startup founders about the problems they're solving, the products they're building and the lessons they've learned during their startup journey. In this edition, meet Dust's Co-Founder and CTO, Stanislas Polu, and learn how t

The route aims to support India's growing data center industry

Three ways the Budget affects you To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This video can not be played Three ways the Budget affects youClose Read what else is in the Budget - from fuel duty to Isa allowances. Subsection Business Published 7 hours ago Sh

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