Oct 29 (Reuters) – Business software maker Salesforce said on Thursday it would buy defense technology company Rune Technologies to expand its Missionforce business, which serves the US military and government agencies. Rune makes AI-powered software that helps troops forecast supply needs, plan the
By Anhata Rooprai and Max A. Cherney Oct 29 (Reuters) – Intel forecast quarterly revenue and profit below estimates on Thursday, warning that a slowdown in the PC market driven by elevated memory costs would persist into next year. The guidance could test confidence in a stock that has more than dou
Oct 29 (Reuters) – Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang defended the company’s business with Singapore-based Megaspeed International, calling it “normal and not unusual,” Bloomberg News reported on Thursday. Huang’s comments followed a New York Times report that said a former Megaspeed executive was under US inv
Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul joined the FTC and a coalition of states in a lawsuit alleging restaurant software firm Toast Inc. charged hidden fees, signed up customers for unwanted add-ons and made subscriptions hard to cancel.
By Field Level Media Oct 29 (Field Level Media) – The Green Bay Packers added two-time First-Team All-Pro cornerback Keisean Nixon to the injury report for Thursday night’s home game against the Carolina Panthers. Nixon is listed as questionable to play due to a shoulder injury. He was not listed on
By Field Level Media Oct 29 (Field Level Media) – With turnovers and injuries mounting, the Los Angeles Clippers signed guard Blake Wesley to a 10-day injury-hardship contract exception, ESPN reported Thursday. The Clippers had six players out with injuries during Wednesday’s 103-87 loss to the Los
By Field Level Media Oct 29 (Field Level Media) – Right-hander Michael King declined the player option on his contract with the San Diego Padres to become a free agent, MLB.com reported Thursday. King had two seasons remaining on a three-year, $75 million contract and held a player option for each o
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, Oct 29 (Reuters) – A meteorite found in 2022 in the Sahara in Mali formed in the Martian crust at least 4.1 billion years ago, according to scientists, making the reddish igneous rock perhaps the oldest of the 435 meteorites from Mars known on Earth. The researchers said t
By Saeed Azhar Oct 29 (Reuters) – Microsoft is planning to raise about $25 billion through its first US investment-grade bond sale in more than nine years, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Thursday. The bond sale would make Microsoft the latest tech giant to tap into debt markets to
By Keith Coffman and Steve Gorman DENVER, Oct 29 (Reuters) – The man who lobbed gasoline bombs at a pro-Israel rally in Colorado last year, injuring several people including a woman who later died, pleaded guilty on Thursday to federal hate-crime charges, the US Department of Justice said. Mohamed S
By Valentina Za SIENA, Italy, Oct 29 (Reuters) – Monte dei Paschi di Siena looked set to lose its independence after more than 550 years, with its attempt to fend off Italy’s biggest bank having failed to secure the backing of shareholders. MPS CEO Luigi Lovaglio had sought investor support for a de
(Adds missing text in paragraph 1) By Jerome Terroy Oct 29 (Reuters) – Universal Music Group reported on Thursday a pick-up in subscription streaming revenue in the third quarter and said pressures on market share has moderated from the first half of the year. “This quarter showed clear progress: su
Oct 29 (Reuters) – US oil firms ExxonMobil and Chevron have cancelled plans for their executives to travel to the United Arab Emirates’ biggest oil show next week, citing security concerns, two sources familiar with the developments told Reuters. Exxon Chief Executive Darren Woods had been due to at
By Arasu Kannagi Basil and Manya Saini Oct 29 (Reuters) – Wall Street’s top alternative asset managers are betting on the AI boom by owning the infrastructure behind it and locking in rent through long-term leases. With concerns growing that debt-laden neocloud companies at the heart of the AI infra
By Gianluca Lo Nostro Oct 29 (Reuters) – Eutelsat expects commercial services revenue of more than €10 billion ($11.1 billion) between 2032 and 2040 as it takes a leading role in the European Union’s planned alternative to Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite internet service, it said on Thursday. The Fra
The City of Macomb Water Treatment Plant says a boil order has been lifted.
By Leo Marchandon Oct 29 (Reuters) – French AI startup Mistral released its Large 4 model to the public on Thursday, saying it was designed to help organisations identify and fix cyber-security vulnerabilities. Unlike leading AI systems such as Google’s Gemini, which are mainly accessed through onli
By Mubasher Bukhari LAHORE, Oct 29 (Reuters) – A Pakistani anti-terrorism court on Thursday sentenced prominent human rights lawyers Imaan Mazari and her husband, Hadi Ali Chattha, to 10 years in prison in a security breach case, her family said. The judge announced the verdict at Adiala Jail, where
By Victoria Waldersee and Charlie Devereux MADRID, Oct 29 (Reuters) – Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez had hoped to ride a wave of public anger over the eviction of an octogenarian, who later died, to win reelection in a snap election, but Wednesday’s deadly train crash has dealt a serious blow
ATHENS/SOFIA, Oct 29 (Reuters) – A Greek container ship has sunk after being hit by naval drones off Bulgaria on Wednesday, the Bulgarian government said, in the latest of a series of strikes on ships in the western Black Sea this month. It was not immediately clear who had carried out the attack, w
Oct 29 (Reuters) – Spaniard Jorge Martin has been cleared to take part in Friday’s opening practice session at the Malaysian Grand Prix after passing a medical examination on the wrist injury he suffered in a crash at Phillip Island, Aprilia said on Thursday. Martin fractured his right wrist during
By Field Level Media Oct 29 (Field Level Media) – Nikola Jokic became the second player in NBA history to tally 200 career triple-doubles and Christian Braun knocked down back-to-back 3-pointers during a critical late-game stretch as the Denver Nuggets held off the host New Orleans Pelicans 104-91 o
Oct 29 (Reuters) – Indian fintech firm Pine Labs reported a more than sixfold jump in second-quarter profit on Thursday, buoyed by rising adoption of digital payment services, sending its shares up nearly 6%. More than 500 million people use the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) in India for transact
By Shashwat Chauhan Oct 29 (Reuters) – Nasdaq futures fell about 1% on Thursday as Alphabet’s results reignited concerns over mounting AI costs, while investors awaited a key inflation reading a day after the US Federal Reserve left interest rates unchanged. Alphabet shares slid 10.2% in premarket t
By Wen-Yee Lee HSINCHU, Taiwan Oct 29 (Reuters) – The Taiwan Semiconductor Industry Association (TSIA) said on Thursday it supports the government’s efforts to assess the possible restart of the country’s nuclear power plants, citing the need for a stable and sufficient electricity supply to support
By Nathan Vifflin and Fabrizio La Rocca Oct 29 (Reuters) – STMicroelectronics reported a third-quarter operating profit above market expectations on Thursday, as demand from AI data centres and satellite operators added to a broader recovery in the chipmaker’s markets. Operating income excluding one
By Clare Jim HONG KONG, Oct 29 (Reuters) – Hong Kong leader John Lee apologised on Thursday for the deadly blaze that killed 168 people in the city last November, promising swift but extensive reforms to its building industry and regulatory system. Lee was speaking shortly before he released a more
By Eduardo Baptista BEIJING, Oct 29 (Reuters) – Chinese firm Z.AI’s flagship AI model carried out complex cyberattacks in controlled simulations and repeatedly ignored instructions in separate tests, according to a report by AI security research firm Irregular. The GLM-5.3 model successfully complet
By Aditya Soni and Deborah Mary Sophia Oct 29 (Reuters) – Cash flow is king again. Wall Street rewarded Microsoft and Oracle on Wednesday for showing that they could fund their enormous AI ambitions without endlessly tapping investors. Alphabet, by contrast, was punished for burning through cash, wh
Oct 28 (Reuters) – Chinese AI developers DeepSeek and Moonshot AI relied heavily on outputs from OpenAI’s powerful GPT-6 Astra model to train their latest models, The Information reported on Wednesday, citing people with direct knowledge of the matter. • The practice, known as distillation, has beco
