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Iran's IRGC Navy says seven vessels hit, warns US of wider response

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy said on Thursday that four vessels involved in illegal oil transfers in the northern Persian Gulf were simultaneously hit and

October 22, 2026

Business|Finance|Technology

Meta strikes deal to keep Zuckerberg in California after wealth tax concerns

Meta Platforms has struck a deal with Mark Zuckerberg to keep him living in California after the CEO warned he was considering leaving the state that houses the

October 22, 2026

Business|Science|Technology

Tesla aims to sell Cybercab robotaxis by end of year despite federal probe

Tesla is aiming to start selling its Cybercab robotaxis to the public by the end of this year, its engineering chief said on Wednesday, even as the US

October 22, 2026

Arts|Business|Entertainment|Technology

Video game developer BioWare shuts down, next 'Mass Effect' canceled amid broader layoffs at EA

Video game publisher Electronic Arts is shutting down the popular and influential game development studio BioWare after more than three decades

October 22, 2026

Business|Economy|Finance|Technology

Comcast plans significant job cuts, Bloomberg News reports

Comcast Corp is planning a significant number of job cuts as part of a restructuring of its cable-TV, broadband and wireless businesses, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday, citing

October 21, 2026

Australia's ASX says 'turning point' reached after trading outages

The Australian Securities Exchange's chair said on Thursday the company had reached a turning point in addressing its regulatory troubles, and maintained

October 21, 2026

Australia's Fortescue warns of possible operations hit as China state buyer talks rumble on

Australia's Fortescue warned on Thursday its operations could be hit if talks with China's state-backed buyer did not conclude by year-end, as the world's fourth-largest

October 21, 2026

Business|Technology

Chinese-linked hackers compromise ConnectWise, target hundreds in global attack, Microsoft says

A Chinese state-aligned hacking group used an AI-driven penetration testing tool to compromise IT services firm ConnectWise as part of a campaign that targeted hundreds of

October 21, 2026

Crime|Education|Health|Political|Technology

Meta sued in Australian class action over alleged social media harm to children

A class-action lawsuit has been filed in an Australian court against Meta Platforms' Facebook and Instagram that alleges the social media platforms exposed children to

October 21, 2026

Science|Technology

Anthropic unveils Claude Duet AI agent app (Oct 21)

Anthropic on Wednesday unveiled Claude Duet, a standalone AI agent app designed to act as a proactive assistant

October 21, 2026

Business|Science|Technology

Tesla cuts spending before potential SpaceX deal even as Musk bets future on AI, robots

Tesla cut its annual capital expenditure forecast by a fifth and posted surprise positive free cash flow in the third quarter on Wednesday, after

October 21, 2026

Business|Economy|Finance|Technology

Tesla's Q3 profit drops as it prepares for possible merger with Musk's other public company, SpaceX

Tesla posted a drop in profit for the latest quarter as it prepares for a possible merger with Elon Musk’s other big business, SpaceX

October 21, 2026

Business|Economy|Finance|Technology

Meta Q3 revenue tops estimates and Zuckerberg says Muse accounts have topped 10 million

Meta Platforms says its third-quarter profit jumped more than threefold, as revenue climbed sharply

October 21, 2026

Business|Economy|Finance|Political|Technology

Meta ordered to pay $25 billion in New Mexico case over Cambridge Analytica scandal

October 21, 2026

Business|Finance|Technology

IBM raises annual software revenue outlook as deal delays ease

IBM finance chief James Kavanaugh on Wednesday said delayed software deals that rattled investors in the last quarter were beginning to close, as the company

October 21, 2026

Business|Finance|Technology

Analog chipmaker Texas Instruments sees quarterly sales above estimates

Texas Instruments forecast fourth-quarter revenue above Wall Street estimates on Wednesday, a sign of recovery in industrial chip demand and growing momentum for its AI data-center

October 21, 2026

Asia|Business|Technology

Starlink access in Ukraine a decision for Musk, not White House, Rubio says

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Wednesday that decisions regarding Ukraine's access to Starlink were up to its parent company SpaceX and Elon Musk

October 21, 2026

Business|Economy|Finance|Science|Technology

Trading Day: Tech it away

Buoyant AI sentiment on the back of quarterly results from SpaceX and Super Micro Computer lifted Wall Street on Wednesday, as relatively calm

October 21, 2026

Business|Economy|Finance|Science|Technology

Walmart launches tools for AI agents to shop for customers

Walmart on Wednesday intrduced new tools that will allow artificial intelligence agents to shop and complete transactions for customers, as the retailer seeks

October 21, 2026

Arts|Business|Economy|Finance|Technology

Meta puts Muse agent at heart of AI strategy, plans new stock to power investments

Meta introduced new non-voting shares on Wednesday to help fund the social media giant's costly AI expansion, as executives laid out their vision

October 21, 2026

Arts|Environment|Finance|Technology

Meta ordered to pay New Mexico $25 billion for deceiving users about privacy on Facebook

A state judge has ordered Meta to pay New Mexico $25 billion for deceiving users about privacy on Facebook, marking the biggest fine ever against the tech giant

October 21, 2026

Business|Economy|Finance|Stock Markets|Technology

A strong profit report from SpaceX helps lift tech stocks and Wall Street

U.S. stocks climbed following strong profit reports from SpaceX, Capital One Financial and other big companies

October 21, 2026

Arts|Business|Economy|Finance|Technology

A SpaceX-Tesla megamerger could benefit both companies and Elon Musk's personal fortune

Stocks of Elon Musk's two biggest companies are rising Wednesday after he suggested a combination was in the works to form a trillion dollar colossus in possibly the biggest deal ever

October 21, 2026

Chevron to sharpen US Gulf focus with sale of older assets

Chevron is exploring the sale of some of its older oil and gas assets in the US Gulf, the company confirmed to Reuters, part of an

October 21, 2026

Business|Finance|Science|Technology

BlackRock adds robotics ETF to growing ranks of AI-themed products

BlackRock rolled out another in a suite of exchange-traded funds tied to AI on Wednesday, even as the willingness of investors to wholeheartedly embrace

October 21, 2026

Crime|Political|Technology

Trump says fraud investigations make 'very big dent' in overseas scams

President Donald Trump said on Wednesday his administration has made a "very big dent" in scams by foreign criminal networks that lure Americans into

October 21, 2026

Business|Economy|Finance|Technology

Nasdaq leads Wall Street gains as SpaceX, Super Micro boost AI sentiment

The tech-heavy Nasdaq led Wall Street to a higher close on Wednesday after quarterly results from SpaceX and Super Micro Computer improved investor

October 21, 2026

Arts|Business|Entertainment|Technology

EA to shutter BioWare studio, cut jobs as it narrows game slate

Electronic Arts is planning to close BioWare, the developer of the "Mass Effect" series of games, and lay off employees to focus on more lucrative projects, the company said on

October 21, 2026

Education|Science|Technology

Oklahoma students build airplane through hands-on aviation program

October 21, 2026

Arts|Business|Education|Finance|Technology

Trump's political groups spend nearly $277 million in late midterm blitz on behalf of GOP candidates

President Donald Trump’s political groups have spent more than one-quarter of a billion dollars to bolster Republicans in the final stretch of this year’s midterm elections

October 21, 2026

Science|Technology

Nvidia's Huang hails Europe's AI potential, flanked by robot ducks

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang believes that Europe's engineering expertise gives it an edge in physical AI and robotics, he said on Wednesday

October 21, 2026

Business|Europe|Science|Technology

Europe risks startup exodus as regulation, funding and skill gaps hamper AI adoption, AWS EMEA head says

Regulatory hurdles, funding shortages and gaps in workforce skillsets are prompting European startups to consider relocating, risking a mass

October 21, 2026

Tunisia military court sentences opposition figure Olfa Hamdi to four years in prison

A Tunisian military court sentenced opposition politician Olfa Hamdi to four years in prison on charges of plotting against state security and inciting the

October 21, 2026

Science|Technology

Anthropic adds former Harvard science dean to oversight body

Anthropic said on Wednesday that Christopher Stubbs, former dean of science at Harvard University, had joined its oversight body, which holds the power to appoint a majority of the

October 21, 2026

Europe|Finance|Technology

Europe's financial regulators query Google over cloud outage that hit banks

Financial regulators in Europe are questioning Google after a cloud computing outage on Tuesday left millions of bank customers

October 21, 2026

Health|Science|Technology

Meta smart glasses give blind veterans in South Carolina a new tool for independence

October 21, 2026

Arts|Entertainment|Science|Technology|Travel

The wait is over! A first look inside Cleveland Metroparks Zoo's Primate Forest

October 21, 2026

Science|Technology

What it's like to use the iPhone Duo for a week

CNN's Lisa Eadicicco got to try Apple’s newest phone, the iPhone Duo, ahead of its launch. She traded her regular-sized iPhone for the company's first-ever folding phone for nearly a week. Apple provided CNN with an iPhone Duo for testing purposes.

October 21, 2026

Arts|Election|Entertainment|Finance|Technology

Maine Secretary of State says state is seeing a record-high number of absentee ballots

October 21, 2026

Europe|Science|Technology

Hungary considers replacing Russia's Rosatom in nuclear project

Hungary is considering replacing Russia's Rosatom as the main contractor in the expansion of its Paks nuclear power plant

October 21, 2026

Science|Technology

Apple will have limited iPhone Duo units available in stores on Friday

Apple on Wednesday said it will have 'limited' numbers of its folding iPhone

October 21, 2026

Business|Sports|Technology

Kalshi could be headed for Supreme Court showdown, CEO says

A legal clash between prediction markets and US states over who should regulate the industry could eventually end up at the Supreme Court, Tarek Mansour, the co-founder of

October 21, 2026

Sisi says Egypt would defend Saudi territory but rules out attack on Yemen

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said Egypt's military support for Saudi Arabia would be limited to defending the kingdom's territory and borders and would not include

October 21, 2026

Science|Technology

What is PHP and why did it take government websites offline?

Government websites across Europe went dark on Wednesday as operators raced to patch two critical vulnerabilities in PHP, one of the most widely used programming

October 21, 2026

Business|Crime|Technology

Michigan teen injured in e-bike crash sues GM; automaker withdraws countersuit

October 21, 2026

Business|Economy|Science|Technology

Nvidia CEO encourages Europe's lagging AI sector and offers tools to accelerate data center buildout

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang urged Europe’s lagging artificial intelligence industry to get going and touted a modular system to quickly build the AI data centers with the massive computing power Europe currently lacks

October 21, 2026

Business|Finance|Technology

OpenAI expands ChatGPT ads to 26 more countries in bid to boost revenue

OpenAI said on Wednesday it was expanding advertising on ChatGPT to 26 more countries, bringing the total to 89, as the AI company beefs up its advertising business to boost revenue

October 21, 2026

Business|Finance|Technology

AT&T's fiber revenue per user to keep sliding as bundle discounts weigh

AT&T expects average revenue per fiber customer to extend its third-quarter decline into the fourth, as more customers sign up for discounted bundles,

October 21, 2026

Arts|Business|Technology|World

EBay to lay off 9% of workforce in push to simplify operations, internal memo shows

EBay will lay off about 9% of its workforce as the online marketplace looks to simplify operations and shift resources to its fastest-growing areas

October 21, 2026

Business|Economy|Science|Technology

Wall St opens higher as SpaceX, Super Micro results lift AI stocks

Wall Street's main indexes opened higher on Wednesday after quarterly results from SpaceX and Super Micro Computer improved appetite for AI stocks, while Netflix slipped after its

October 21, 2026

Business|Finance|Science|Technology

Wall St sees Tesla-SpaceX merger as inevitable, but split on price

A Tesla-SpaceX merger appears to be a matter of when, not if, to many on Wall Street. But they disagree on a key factor: how much Tesla shareholders should be paid.

October 21, 2026

Netflix's ad stumble deepens fears its growth is hitting a wall

Netflix's cut to its advertising sales forecast is fuelling concerns that its growth engine is losing steam, threatening the edge that made it a

October 21, 2026

Business|Europe|Science|Technology

PHP developers issue updates to fix vulnerabilities, says flaw was found in 2024

Developers of the PHP programming language said a set of new updates fixing two previously identified critical vulnerabilities was now live, and acknowledged a delay in

October 21, 2026

Science|Technology

Astonishing winning images from Nikon’s Small World photography competition 2026

October 21, 2026

Crime|Political|Science|Technology

Human rights could improve – or worsen – based on how nations use the UN treaty against cybercrime

If the treaty enters into force, responsible nations will have to carefully monitor how other countries use it.

October 21, 2026

Arts|Crime|Science|Technology

An AI model’s false tip to Philadelphia police reveals how digital agents can do as they’re told and still cause trouble

An expert on AI governance explains why these rare mistakes may soon be common, and with much higher stakes.

October 21, 2026

Technology

A First Nation community in Canada is using a data center to preserve its heritage

The Wiikwemkoong First Nation in Canada is using a data center to help preserve its heritage

October 20, 2026

Georgia TikTok star trades health care career for auto repair and helps train new mechanics

October 21, 2026

Arts|Technology

Clock repairer brings treasured chimes and family memories back to life

October 21, 2026

Business|Economy|Finance|Technology

Super Micro climbs after upbeat forecast shows robust AI demand

Super Micro Computer jumped more than 11% on Wednesday after it forecast quarterly revenue and profit margin comfortably above Wall Street estimates, signaling that AI data center

October 21, 2026

Science|Technology

The iPhone Duo is Apple’s coolest phone in years. There’s just one problem

October 21, 2026

Musk mulls megacap

It was hard to keep track of global markets from hour to hour on Tuesday, with Brent crude hitting fresh five-month highs before plunging, which rippled through tech-

October 21, 2026

Technology

Poland says social media firms are 'silent ally' of Russia, threatens fines

Social media platforms are a "silent ally" of Russia in a "digital war" and are doing nothing to curb disinformation, Polish Digital Affairs Minister Krzysztof Gawkowski

October 21, 2026

Economy|Europe|Science|Technology

How cheap Chinese antibiotics threaten Europe's last major penicillin plant

Tucked away in the green foothills of the Austrian Alps, the last fully integrated European penicillin plant faces an

October 21, 2026

Business|Economy|Science|Technology

OpenAI to sell its top models on Google Cloud in latest enterprise push

OpenAI will make its frontier artificial intelligence models and Codex coding agent available through Google Cloud in the coming weeks, the companies said on Wednesday

October 21, 2026

The 2027 full-size trucks you need to know about, according to Edmunds

Choosing a full-size pickup truck is harder in 2027

October 21, 2026

Political|Technology|World

Malaysia bans civil servants from using navigation app Waze, citing data risks over Israeli links

Malaysia has banned civil servants from using the navigation app Waze due to data security concerns linked to its Israeli origins

October 21, 2026

Russian strikes kill elderly Ukrainians after Trump urges Kyiv to agree terms

Two Ukrainians over 80 years old were among four killed in overnight Russian attacks that also targeted energy facilities across four regions, officials said, hours after US

October 21, 2026

ECB says AI, greener economy help euro zone weather energy shock

The euro zone economy has weathered this year's energy shock better than expected, with lower dependence on fossil fuels, stronger fiscal support and an AI investment

October 21, 2026

Business|Economy|Finance|Technology

Investors flood to Jio IPO on day one of India's largest offering

Investors flocked to Jio Platforms’ $3.2 billion IPO on Wednesday, with bids covering the shares on offer in under two

October 20, 2026

Economy|Europe|Technology

Booking.com targeted in EU investigation into phishing scams, fraudulent listings

EU tech regulators will investigate whether online hotel reservation website Booking.com is doing enough to weed out fraudulent listings and phishing scams

October 21, 2026

Business|Economy|Science|Technology

OpenAI president urges AI safeguards as group he funds opposes regulation

As OpenAI executives step up their public calls for federal AI safety rules, a political group the company’s president helped fund is spending millions

October 21, 2026

Arts|Technology

The anti-AI writing police are everywhere. What are they looking for?

October 21, 2026

Science|Technology

Pentagon grants DHS permission to test heat ray weapon for potential use at border

October 21, 2026

Business|Technology|World

China's Chery open to partnering with US automakers, executive says

Chery is open to partnerships with US automakers, a senior executive told Reuters on Wednesday, as China's top car exporter looks to expand in North America following

October 21, 2026

Science|Technology

Toyota to recall about 105,800 US vehicles over fire risk, NHTSA says

Toyota is recalling 105,794 vehicles in the US over a potential fuel leak that could raise the risk of fire if it reaches an ignition source, the National Highway Traffic Safety

October 21, 2026

Business|Economy|Finance|Science|Technology

Auto industry bosses expect software, China growth to reshape sector by 2035, survey shows

Software and digital technology are set to overtake traditional vehicle engineering as the key battleground in the automotive industry by 2035, while China is

October 21, 2026

Arts|Business|Finance|Technology

Ray-Ban maker's shares jump as strong eyewear sales temper AI glasses worries

EssilorLuxottica shares rose more than 14% on Wednesday after the Ray-Ban maker beat third-quarter revenue expectations, with resilient demand for its core

October 21, 2026

Business|Economy|Technology

Micron faces strike from one Taiwan union after deal with another

A union representing workers at a Micron plant in Taiwan said it would proceed with a planned strike on Thursday, even as the US memory chipmaker reached a

October 21, 2026

Arts|Business|Environment|Finance|Technology

Trump says companies should pay 'dividend' to communities to make data centers popular

US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that companies building data centers should pay a "dividend" to the communities where they are sited if they want to make the

October 21, 2026

Europe|Technology

Europe weighs giving utilities, infrastructure companies more powers to bring down drones

At a former flight-test base south of Paris, drones swoop over fields and woodland as teams on the ground test

October 21, 2026

Business|Science|Technology

Samsung, SK Hynix upgrading China plants to make more advanced chips, people say

Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix are upgrading their China factories to produce more advanced memory chips, four

October 21, 2026

US agents investigate report incendiary device thrown at ICE office in Atlanta

US federal agents are investigating reports that an incendiary device was thrown at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) building in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, on Tuesday

October 21, 2026

Anthropic logged net loss of over $80 billion in first half of 2026

Anthropic's net loss widened sharply to $80.7 billion in the first half of this year, in large part due to a rise in the fair value of bonds convertible into shares of

October 20, 2026

Business|Science|Technology

China's Moonshot AI to operate in Singapore, jobs post shows

Chinese AI startup Moonshot is expanding into Singapore, with a new sales role listed on the company's LinkedIn page this week.

October 21, 2026

Business|Economy|Finance|Stock Markets|Technology

Australian AI data centre operator NextDC shares shed 42% on revenue delay, future plans on hold

Australian data centre operator NextDC shed nearly half of its market value on Wednesday after sharply cutting revenue forecasts for

October 21, 2026

Business|Science|Technology

Why would Musk merge SpaceX and Tesla?

Elon Musk believes a merger between Tesla and SpaceX is a good idea, he said on Tuesday, publicly backing an idea that would create one of the most valuable companies

October 21, 2026

Technology|World

Taiwan security agency flags rise in Chinese disinformation ahead of local elections

China spread more than 2.5 million pieces of disputed or false online information targeting Taiwan in the first nine months of this year, the island's top

October 21, 2026

Business|Environment|Science|Technology

Memphis leaders reject contentious 18-month pause on new data center development

October 20, 2026

Science|Technology

OpenAI says its AI agents weakened internal monitoring system

OpenAI said on Tuesday that two of its AI agents weakened parts of an internal monitoring system designed to detect misbehavior, the latest case of AI agents acting

October 21, 2026

Business|Science|Technology

A possible SpaceX-Tesla merger? Here's what people are saying

Elon Musk said on Tuesday that a merger of his two companies, SpaceX and Tesla, would be "a good idea" and that they had formed special committees to discuss a union.

October 21, 2026

Japan exports rise 16.7% in September as AI chip demand powers trade

Japan's exports rose 16.7% in September from the same month a year earlier, government data showed on Wednesday, as strong demand for semiconductors and AI

October 20, 2026

Pakistan's factory workers swelter in extreme heat as global brands fail on safety pledges

Extreme heat intensified by climate change is creating dangerous conditions for factory workers in Pakistan

October 21, 2026

Business|Economy|Technology

AI data center projects boost US warehouse demand and rents, real estate company JLL says

AI data center construction projects, particularly near Dallas/Fort Worth and Washington, DC, are generating new demand for warehouse space and helped

October 20, 2026

Business|Science|Technology

Musk says SpaceX-Tesla merger is 'a good idea' as companies form deal committees

Elon Musk said on Tuesday that a merger of his two companies SpaceX and Tesla would be "a good idea" and that they had formed special committees to

October 20, 2026

Science|Technology

SpaceX and Tesla's Terafab targets 2028 for volume chip production, Musk says

By Max A.

October 20, 2026

Political|Science|Technology

New UN initiative will aim to tackle the military uses of AI

The United Nations is launching a new initiative on the military uses of artificial intelligence, aimed at addressing some dire concerns about the threat the rapidly developing technology could pose to humanity

October 20, 2026

Arts|Business|Economy|Environment|Technology

FAA clears the way for airlines to put Boeing's long-delayed 737 Max 10 into service

The U.S. government has certified Boeing’s 737 Max 10 airliner for passenger service after years of delays

October 20, 2026

Business|Science|Technology

SpaceX stock surges after Musk says a merger with Tesla would be ‘a good idea’

October 20, 2026

Business|Economy|Finance|Stock Markets|Technology

Trading Day: Oil reversal lifts spirits

US stocks rose on Tuesday, shrugging off global weakness earlier in the day as oil prices pulled back sharply from six-month highs, a reversal

October 20, 2026

Business|Finance|Technology

Super Micro sees quarterly revenue soaring on AI server boom

Super Micro Computer expects quarterly revenue and profit margin well above Wall Street estimates as it benefits from relentless AI data center demand, the server maker said on

October 20, 2026

Political|Science|Technology|World

Musk ordered slowdown of Starlink service used by Ukraine's military, WSJ reports

Elon Musk last week ordered the slowdown of a military-grade version of SpaceX's Starlink satellite service that Ukraine relies on, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday,

October 20, 2026

Arts|Business|Economy|Finance|Technology

FAA certifies Boeing's 737 MAX 10, clearing way for deliveries

The US Federal Aviation Administration on Tuesday granted final approval to the long-delayed Boeing 737 MAX 10,

October 20, 2026

Economy|Health|Science|Technology

Kennedy says Trump administration aims for regulated market for peptides

US Health Secretary Robert F.

October 20, 2026

Business|Economy|Science|Technology|World

Beijing blasts US sanctions on 5 Chinese firms tied to ex-Google engineer

Beijing has expressed strong opposition to U.S. sanctions on five Chinese companies linked to a former Google engineer accused of intellectual property theft

October 20, 2026

Arts|Business|Environment|Technology

Colorado Department of Transportation unveils trucks to protect emergency responders from crashes

October 20, 2026

Utah family spreads awareness after button battery emergency hospitalized infant daughter

October 20, 2026

Arts|Business|Technology

Instacart settles federal claims of discrimination against US-born job seekers

The federal government has reached a $5 million settlement with Instacart for allegedly discriminating against U.S.-born workers in its hiring practices

October 20, 2026

Business|Economy|Finance|Stock Markets|Technology

Dow outperforms as Wall Street rises, healthcare stocks lead gains

The Dow rose 1% on Tuesday, outperforming the benchmark S&P 500 while the healthcare sector provided Wall Street's biggest boost and

October 20, 2026

Most US stocks rise following strong profit reports from Equifax, Hasbro and other big companies

Most of the U.S. stock market rose Tuesday following strong profit reports from Equifax, Hasbro and other companies

October 20, 2026

Arts|Entertainment|Science|Technology

Horror films exploit how human vision works to deliver movies’ best scares

Scary movies create tension in that space between perception and recognition, as your brain tries to determine what, exactly, you’re seeing.

October 20, 2026

Election|Technology

Meta tells Brazil's electoral court it treats Lula and Flávio Bolsonaro equally ahead of Sunday vote

Meta says it has complied with an order from Brazil’s electoral court to treat Brazil's presidential candidates equally before Sunday's runoff

October 20, 2026

Arts|Economy|Environment|Finance|Technology

'Be patient at the pumps': Nebraska drivers face rising gas prices as fuel supply tightens

October 20, 2026

Alberta rejects secession referendum, chooses to remain part of Canada

October 20, 2026

Arts|Election|Finance|Technology|World

Meta tells Brazil court it treats Lula and Bolsonaro campaigns equally

Meta Platforms, owner of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, told Brazil's Superior Electoral Court on Tuesday that it has adopted measures to ensure equal treatment of

October 20, 2026

Business|Technology

Meta's global affairs officer Joel Kaplan to leave company after 15 years

Meta Platforms' chief global affairs officer Joel Kaplan will leave the company next year after 15 years there, a spokesperson told Reuters on Tuesday.

October 20, 2026

Education|Technology

France backs UNESCO drive to involve more young people in political decisions

A UNESCO drive to get more young people into decision-making bodies, including those on how to prevent wars, won the backing of France's foreign minister on

October 20, 2026

Finance|Science|Technology

Anthropic's public benefit fund and how it compares with other big philanthropic efforts

Anthropic said it would commit 5% of its shares to a new public benefit fund, as debate intensifies over how the growing wealth generated by artificial intelligence should be

October 20, 2026

SpaceX investors, ahead of results, press Musk on Tesla merger

SpaceX shareholders want to know when the rocket maker will merge with Tesla, bringing together two of Elon Musk's biggest companies in a union that investors have

October 20, 2026

Arts|Business|Economy|Finance|Technology

Instacart settles US probe over foreign worker recruiting for $5 million

Instacart parent Maplebear will pay $5 million to settle a federal investigation into claims that the grocery delivery company discriminated against American

October 20, 2026

US citizen injured during California ICE incident, officials say

October 19, 2026

Business|Economy|Finance|Science|Technology

AI startup ASI valued at $3 billion in latest funding round

Artificial intelligence startup ASI said on Tuesday it had raised $325 million in a funding round valuing the company at $3 billion, amid growing investor appetite for AI software

October 20, 2026

Business|Economy|Finance|Technology

Otter.ai raises $320 million in non-equity financing to expand enterprise business

AI meeting-transcription company Otter.ai said on Tuesday it had closed $320 million in growth financing from General Catalyst's Customer Value Fund to expand its

October 20, 2026

Business|Economy|Finance|Technology

Blackstone, Warburg explore IntraFi sale at over $10 billion, sources say

Blackstone Inc and Warburg Pincus are exploring a sale of IntraFi that could value the financial technology company at more than $10 billion,

October 20, 2026

NATO to send planes and drones to Black Sea after attacks on shipping

NATO will send more maritime patrol aircraft, radar systems and drones to the Black Sea, the military alliance said on Tuesday, after a series of deadly drone attacks on

October 20, 2026

Business|Finance|Science|Stock Markets|Technology

Salesforce deepens AI bets with $5.66 billion Braze deal

Salesforce is buying Braze in a deal valued at about $5.66 billion, bolstering its AI push with tools that let brands send personalized messages and respond to

October 20, 2026

Business|Finance|Technology

Starboard's Smith unveils stake in Solstice, presses for improvements

Activist investor Starboard Value on Tuesday unveiled a new stake in Honeywell spin-off Solstice Advanced Materials, arguing the company is

October 20, 2026

Stocks mostly rise as oil, US yields ease; French stocks fall

US stock indexes ended mostly higher as oil prices and Treasury yields eased on Tuesday, while French stocks fell as worries about

October 20, 2026

Business|Technology

So you say you hate ‘surveillance pricing’

October 19, 2026

Business|Economy|Finance|Science|Technology

Ahead of massive IPOs, AI companies are sketching plans to share their wealth

As they steam toward massive public offerings on Wall Street, the companies at the forefront of artificial intelligence have begun sketching plans to share their wealth with the public

October 20, 2026

Science|Technology

The Orionid meteor shower is coming. Here's how and when to watch

The Orionid meteor shower, caused by remnants from Halley’s comet, peaks this week

October 20, 2026

Arts|Business|Science|Technology

Ferrari CEO hails Tesla Roadster redesign as the bold innovation the industry needs

Ferrari CEO Benedetto Vigna on Tuesday praised Tesla's latest Roadster sports car presentation, saying the redesign showed the auto industry had room for daring innovation

October 20, 2026

Political|Science|Technology

Phoenix Tailings to build $375-million rare earths facility in New York state

Phoenix Tailings will build a commercial-scale rare earth processing facility worth $375 million in the city of Rochester, New York state's Governor Kathy

October 20, 2026

US pending home sales tumble to record low in September

Contracts to purchase previously owned US homes plunged to a record low in September as rising mortgage rates depressed demand for housing.

October 20, 2026

Business|Europe|Finance|Science|Technology

Google Cloud outage in UK eases after impacting digital banks, public sector websites

Alphabet's Google said on Tuesday its cloud services in the UK were back up after an hours-long outage that disrupted several financial firms and public-sector

October 20, 2026

Business|Finance|Technology

Webull to debut crypto-linked perpetual futures in November

Online trading platform Webull said on Tuesday it has partnered with prediction market operator Kalshi to offer perpetual futures to US customers from November, starting with

October 20, 2026

Health|Science|Technology

US FDA issues guidance on apps used with prescription drugs

The US FDA on Tuesday issued guidance aimed at clarifying how drug companies can develop, distribute and label apps used alongside their prescription medicines.

October 20, 2026

Business|Finance|Technology

RTX lifts 2026 forecasts as aerospace, defense demand drives record backlog

RTX raised its full-year profit and revenue forecasts on Tuesday as sustained demand for commercial aerospace services and military programs

October 20, 2026

Arts|Business|Finance|Technology|Travel

Hilton to move stock listing to Nasdaq

Hilton Worldwide plans to transfer its stock listing from the NYSE to Nasdaq, the hotel operator said on Tuesday, as companies increasingly view the tech-heavy exchange as a way to

October 20, 2026

Business|Europe|Science|Technology

Waymo to launch autonomous ride-hailing in Madrid next year

Waymo, Alphabet's autonomous driving unit, plans to launch a fully autonomous ride-hailing service in Spain's Madrid region in 2027, its first deployment in the country, it

October 20, 2026

China's CATL third-quarter profit growth slowest in nearly two years as competition intensifies

Net profit growth at China's CATL slowed sharply in the third quarter, hit by fierce competition in the electric vehicle battery market as China's auto sales growth cooled.

October 20, 2026

Business|Technology

Micron union in Taiwan to launch one-day strike as bonus dispute escalates

A union representing Micron Technology workers in Taoyuan, Taiwan, said it would launch a one-day strike on October 22, escalating a dispute with the US

October 20, 2026

Business|Economy|Finance|Technology

Aerospace and military contractors raise 2026 profit forecasts

Northrop Grumman and RTX raised their annual profit forecasts on Tuesday, helped by robust demand from military programs that

October 20, 2026

Business|Finance|Technology

Qualcomm to cut jobs worldwide in performance-focused layoffs, internal memo shows

Qualcomm will cut jobs globally in a "performance-focused reduction" following its annual employee reviews, CEO Cristiano Amon told staff in a memo

October 20, 2026

Technology

US judge dismisses Sam Altman's sister's sexual abuse lawsuit

Sam Altman on Tuesday won the dismissal of a civil lawsuit filed by his sister accusing the OpenAI co-founder and chief executive of repeated sexual abuse more than two decades ago,

October 20, 2026

Amazon to recruit over 300,000 workers for holiday season in first hiring jump in three years

Amazon said on Tuesday it plans to hire more than 300,000 workers for the US holiday season, marking the first increase in recruitment for the period in three years as the online

October 20, 2026

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Wall St opens lower as AI stocks decline, oil prices rise

Wall Street's main indexes opened lower on Tuesday, dragged down by renewed weakness in AI-linked stocks and a rebound in oil prices, while investors braced for major corporate

October 20, 2026

Science|Technology|World

EU unveils a new Arctic push as global warming and security threats reshape the region

The European Union has unveiled a plan to boost its presence in the Arctic

October 20, 2026

Political|Science|Technology

How governments worldwide are shaping what AI can say about politics

Some governments use legitimate AI concerns as a pretext to control political discussion, particularly chatbot responses about those in power.

October 20, 2026

Arts|Opinion|Science|Technology

A scuff on your bag, a dent in your mug – and suddenly it feels like time for a new one

While perfectionists hold themselves to high or even impossible standards, people who want perfect stuff hold what they buy and own to lofty standards.

October 20, 2026

Arts|Business|Economy|Finance|Technology

Britain seeks to break Apple's grip on contactless payments

Britain's competition regulator said on Tuesday it was seeking to loosen Apple's grip on contactless payments by proposing that the company lower fees and

October 20, 2026

Business|Finance|Technology

Rain from the neocloud

After a week of street riots and protests in France, the country's stocks and bonds are on edge, even as curfews in parts of Paris overnight appear to have restored

October 20, 2026

Technology

Ford recalls more than 102,000 F-Series trucks over faulty speedometer, US NHTSA says

Ford is recalling 102,159 F-Series trucks in the US over faulty equipment, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said on Tuesday.

October 20, 2026

Business|Economy|Finance|Stock Markets|Technology

GM shares sink as automaker signals rising cost pressures

General Motors' third-quarter core profit rose sharply on the back of strong pickup truck sales, but its shares fell on Tuesday after the automaker

October 20, 2026

Brazil’s love affair with cellphones turns theft into an election flashpoint

Brazilian content creator Tabata Lenk had just been fired

October 20, 2026

Business|Science|Technology|World

Governments, regulators increase scrutiny of China's DeepSeek

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek, which said in January last year it had developed an AI model to rival ChatGPT at a much lower cost, has come under scrutiny in some countries for its

January 06, 2026

Britain says it will carry out defensive air missions over Saudi Arabia

Britain will fly Royal Air Force Typhoon fighter jets on defensive missions to help protect Saudi cities and critical national infrastructure from Houthi aerial attacks, the

October 20, 2026

Business|Science|Technology

Apple commits up to $100 million for US titanium in domestic manufacturing push

Apple said on Tuesday it has committed to purchasing up to $100 million of titanium over three years from a Pennsylvania-based company as part of the iPhone maker's push to expand

October 20, 2026

Rubio and India's foreign minister hold talks in Mumbai as both sides aim to finalize a trade deal

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has held talks with India's foreign minister in Mumbai

October 20, 2026

Arts|Business|Finance|Technology

Canary in the coal mine or just a bad apple? CoreWeave debt drama roils Wall Street

October 20, 2026

Economy|Environment|Science|Technology

Can larger batteries safely power residential buildings? A project in New York aims to show how

A battery system that stores excess energy when it’s plentiful will power an apartment building in Buffalo, New York, when the grid is strained and electricity is costly

October 20, 2026

Business|Finance|Technology

Ryanair CEO tells Europe to ready for biggest airfare hike in history

European airfares will see their "biggest increase in history" next year, Ryanair CEO Michael O'Leary said on Tuesday, with airlines largely unhedged

October 20, 2026

Business|Economy|Finance|Science|Technology

ByteDance, Alibaba, Tencent place over $35 billion worth of Nvidia chip orders

ByteDance, Alibaba and Tencent have ordered more than 3 million of Nvidia's new RTX PRO 5500 graphics cards with a collective sticker price of over $35 billion, two people familiar

October 20, 2026

Business|Europe|Technology

EssilorLuxottica's smart glasses boom runs into tougher regulatory scrutiny

Smart glasses that resemble ordinary eyewear are under increased scrutiny from European regulators and advocacy

October 20, 2026

Business|Finance|Technology

Meta's AI spending, Muse assistant adoption in focus for quarterly results

Meta's massive artificial intelligence outlays and adoption of its Muse personal assistant will be in focus when it reports third-quarter results on Wednesday, as the social media

October 20, 2026

A 16-year-old carried out the Bend school shooting. Could his parents face charges?

October 20, 2026

Business|Economy|Science|Technology|World

China defends DeepSeek after US ban of its AI from government systems

China has criticized a U.S. ban on AI startup DeepSeek for federal civilian agencies and is warning of possible retaliatory measures, highlighting tensions in the tech race between the two countries

October 20, 2026

Business|Economy|Finance|Technology

CoreWeave debt selloff poses limited risk to global banks, J.P. Morgan says

Most global banks have limited exposure to CoreWeave, J.P.

October 20, 2026

Arts|Education|Finance|Health|Technology

Declared dead: Indian voters fight to get back on electoral rolls

Kamta Prasad has been shuttling between government offices in Delhi trying to prove he is not dead.

October 20, 2026

Business|Economy|Finance|Technology

Korean canary in the AI coalmine

A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Rocky Swift A rocky start for a South Korean startup cast a shadow over highly anticipated announcements by AI hyperscalers this week.

October 20, 2026

Volkswagen bet on Xpeng to save its China business. It's not going to plan

When Volkswagen turned to EV maker Xpeng in 2023 to help fix its flailing Chinese business, executives touted the partnership as a

October 20, 2026

Business|Economy|Science|Technology

As Japan pursues a chip-industry reboot, it's being pressed to build America's

Japan is in the midst of a major push to revive its chip sector, but its latest investments show how Tokyo is being pulled into helping

October 20, 2026

Business|Economy|Finance|Technology

Software upgrades eat nearly a third of companies' IT budgets, survey finds

Large US and British companies spend 28% of their software

October 20, 2026

Business|Technology

Waymo plans to quintuple fleet to 20,000, Semafor reports

Alphabet's self-driving unit Waymo plans to expand its fleet five-fold to 20,000 by the end of next year using $5 billion it raised earlier this month, Semafor reported on Monday,

October 19, 2026

Business|Finance|Technology

Honeywell Aerospace sees business aviation growth on rising aircraft use

Honeywell Aerospace said on Monday it expects 9,950 new business jet deliveries worldwide between 2026 and 2035, raising its forecast by 4.4% from last year as higher aircraft

October 19, 2026

Science|Technology

Japan launches spacecraft to mysterious moons of Mars in a bold mission to bring home soil samples

A Japanese spacecraft is rocketing toward Mars on a quest to explore its mysterious moons and bring back samples

October 19, 2026

Crime|Science|Technology

Ex-OpenAI worker accused of bugging conference room planned to fly to Saudi Arabia, prosecutors say

Federal prosecutors say a former OpenAI engineer secretly installed a recording device in a conference room to gather company details

October 19, 2026

Business|Science|Technology

Musk, Anthropic outline dueling approaches to AI-era philanthropy

Anthropic and Elon Musk have laid out sharply different blueprints for sharing some of the spoils of the AI boom, a split that may shape how

October 18, 2026

AI stocks lead a rebound on Wall Street as European markets drop following protests

AI stocks recovered some of their steep losses from last week, but the rest of the market and stocks worldwide were shaky

October 19, 2026

Science|Technology

Nvidia-backed Nscale, Anthropic in talks for new $45 billion AI cloud deal, source says

Nscale is in talks to sell AI computing power to Claude maker Anthropic in a new deal that could be worth about $45 billion, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters on Monday

October 19, 2026

Nasdaq climbs as chip and AI-linked stocks bounce back

The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite led Wall Street with a 1% advance on Monday as investors returned to the chip sector and other AI-related

October 19, 2026

Business|Economy|Science|Technology

Germany's Merz urges AI investment ahead of Nvidia deal

Chancellor Friedrich Merz appealed to Germany's businesses to embrace artificial intelligence at an industry summit in Berlin on Monday that was meant to attract

October 19, 2026

Environment|Science|Technology

Trump admin cuts to satellites will set back US weather forecasting by a decade, experts say

October 19, 2026

Business|Finance|Science|Technology

Apple to host 'Pro and tell' event on October 28 in LA

Apple said on Monday it would host a "Pro and

October 19, 2026

Technology

Ukraine's Zelenskiy discusses speeding up supplies of Patriots with Lockheed Martin

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday he had discussed ways of speeding up supplies of the Patriot system, vital to countering Russia ballistic missiles, with

October 19, 2026

Sudan's famine risk worsened by conflict, drought and funding shortages, report says

Conflict and drought are worsening food insecurity in Sudan’s Darfur and Kordofan regions, according to the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification

October 12, 2026

Rights group says paramilitary drone strike in Sudan killed 41 near Ethiopian border

A drone strike blamed on Sudan's paramilitaries has killed 41 displaced people near the Ethiopian border

October 10, 2026

Science|Technology

AI agents are only as good as the personal information you share. That raises privacy concerns

Downloads of new artificial intelligence agents — like Meta's Muse and OpenAI's dots — are booming

October 19, 2026

Business|Economy|Finance|Science|Technology

US stocks rebound with AI earnings test ahead, euro falls on France unrest

The Nasdaq rose more than 1% on Monday as tech shares rebounded ahead of a big week for AI-related earnings, while

October 18, 2026

Science|Technology

China's MiniMax launches updated AI model M3.1 Flash, claims major improvements

Chinese AI startup MiniMax launched an updated version of AI model M3.1 Flash, it said in a statement on Monday.

October 19, 2026

Economy|Science|Technology

AI stocks bounce back after bruising selloff, CoreWeave gets Goldman upgrade

AI-linked stocks bounced back on Monday from a bruising selloff last week as yields on government bonds dropped and crude oil prices eased, while CoreWeave

October 19, 2026

Science|Technology

Amazon says its AI chips will work with popular coding language, challenging Nvidia

Amazon.com is introducing a new tool that allows its custom AI chips to run code written in the most popular AI coding language without modification

October 19, 2026

Election|Technology

Senator Schumer urges FCC to reject conservative group's bid to use political AI-generated robocalls

Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer on Monday urged the Federal Communications Commission not to approve a petition to allow political AI-

October 19, 2026

Business|Economy|Environment|Science|Technology

Google, McKinsey strike Brazil carbon removal deal with silvopasture project

Google and McKinsey have agreed to buy 320,000 metric tons of carbon removal credits over 10 years in its first-ever silvopasture project, as part of

October 19, 2026

Europe|Technology

Serbian rector's phone was infected with spyware during student protests, group says

A digital rights group says spyware from an Israeli company targeted the phone of the head dean of Belgrade University

October 19, 2026

Political|Science|Technology

Two Serbian opposition figures targeted with spyware, research group says

Two Serbian opposition figures were recently targeted with powerful cyberespionage tools, according to one of the men and a report issued on Monday by

October 19, 2026

Business|Environment|Science|Technology

Trump geothermal lease sale collides with planned Nevada solar farms

The US Interior Department's sale of geothermal leases in Nevada this week will include thousands of acres overlapping major planned solar projects from NextEra

October 19, 2026

Science|Technology

HK-listed Metis TechBio, Eli Lilly strike drug-delivery deal worth up to $1.1 billion

Hong Kong-listed Metis TechBio said on Monday it has entered into a collaboration agreement with Eli Lilly worth up to $1.1 billion to research and develop tissue-specific drug

October 19, 2026

Business|Finance|Stock Markets|Technology

SpaceX, Tesla earnings to test Musk's AI spending ambitions as merger talk grows

SpaceX and Tesla will report third-quarter results on consecutive days this week, giving investors a rare side-by-side look at Elon Musk's two most valuable

October 19, 2026