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Spotify is bringing its video podcasts to Netflix starting next year, the company announced on Tuesday. Amid the company’s push to further expand its video content selection and boost its ads business, Spotify has announced a partnership with Netflix that will showcase select video podcasts on the popular streaming service. At launch, the Netflix-Spotify partnership will bring a curated selection of sports, culture, lifestyle, and true crime podcasts from Spotify Studios and The Ringer to Netflix. Over time, the deal will see Spotify adding even more podcasts from other studios and genres, Spotify said. The move follows Spotify’s increased focus…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Tuesday threatened to pull assistance for Argentina — led by a political kindred spirit whose philosophy aligns with that of the Republican administration— if the nation’s internal politics don’t go the United States’ way in its upcoming elections.The comments came during a meeting with Argentine President Javier Milei, whose country is set to hold midterm elections for its legislative body later this month. U.S. presidents typically do not weigh in on the candidates in other countries’ democratic elections.Referring to an opponent that was “extremely far-left” who encompassed a “philosophy that got Argentina into…

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi speaks during a roundtable on “Antifa,” an anti-fascist movement he designated a domestic “terrorist organization” via executive order on September 22, at the White House in Washington, D.C., Oct. 8, 2025.Evelyn Hockstein | ReutersMeta removed a Facebook group page on Tuesday that was allegedly used to “dox and target” U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Chicago after being contacted by the Department of Justice.Attorney General Pam Bondi revealed the Facebook takedown in an X post, and said that the DOJ “will continue engaging tech companies to eliminate platforms where radicals can incite imminent violence…

Water quality is the most important thing for aquaculture farms to monitor to ensure their livestock remain healthy. While there are existing ways to monitor water quality — sensors and water testing kits — they are too expensive for many farmers in regions like Southeast Asia. Aquawise wants to offer aquaculture farmers in Southeast Asia a better way to monitor their water quality by using AI and existing satellites — no hardware purchases required. Bangkok-based Aquawise takes satellite images of fish and shrimp farms and feeds them into its physics-based AI model that monitors the water for things like temperature,…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Oracle and Advanced Micro Devices said Tuesday that they are expanding their partnership with the deployment of 50,000 AMD graphic processing units beginning in the third quarter of 2026 with further expansion to follow.The so-called AI “supercluster” is an enormous, interconnected group of high-performance computers designed to work together as a single system. AMD shares rose 1.4% in early trading Tuesday, while Oracle slipped 2.9%.The companies said that next-generation AI models are poised to outgrow the limits of current AI infrastructure. The expanding AMD-Oracle partnership is the latest in a flurry of intertwined deals in recent months…

OpenAI’s EMEA startups head Laura Modiano spoke at the Sifted Summit on Wednesday, 8 October.Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesOpenAI on Tuesday announced a council of eight experts who will advise the company and provide insight into how artificial intelligence could affect users’ mental health, emotions and motivation. The group, which is called the Expert Council on Well-Being and AI, will initially guide OpenAI’s work on its chatbot ChatGPT and its short-form video app Sora, the company said. Through check-ins and recurring meetings, OpenAI said the council will help it define what healthy AI interactions look like.OpenAI has been expanding its…

Injuries are an inevitable part of the NFL with all the high-speed collisions, crushing hits and high exertion necessary on every play.Success each season often comes down to which teams can be the healthiest at the end and a string of injuries has already hampered preseason contenders like Baltimore, San Francisco and Cincinnati.With teams investing hundreds of millions of dollars every season into their rosters, keeping those players available to play is crucial and any small edge has the potential to lead to better results on the field. To help achieve that, the NFL has turned to technology in recent…

President Donald Trump could still slap China with 100% tariffs on Nov. 1 or sooner depending on Beijing’s next move in a dispute over rare earths, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer told CNBC Tuesday.”A lot depends on what the Chinese do,” Greer told CNBC in an interview. “They are the ones who have chosen to make this major escalation.”China announced sweeping restrictions on rare earth exports last week that would disrupt the U.S. defense, technology, semiconductor and automobile industries if implemented. Trump retaliated with the threat of massive tariffs that would effectively shut down trade between the world’s two largest…

Google is making a $15 billion investment to set up a 1-gigawatt data center and AI hub in India, even as the Indian government pushes for reduced reliance on U.S. tech giants. On Tuesday, Google said it would build the data center in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh, in the port city of Visakhapatnam. The investment will take place over the next five years through 2030, the company added. Notably, this marks Google’s largest investment in India and comes five years after it first announced a $10 billion commitment to the South Asian nation in 2020. Weeks after President…

The play, in real time to the naked eye, might have looked very close to a violation. LeBron James leaped, got his right hand on the ball with a few tenths of the game’s final second remaining and tapped it through the basket to give the Los Angeles Lakers a buzzer-beating win last season.Referees on the floor called it correctly. Video replay backed up their call, and the Lakers got a victory over the Indiana Pacers.Turns out, it wasn’t close at all.The NBA has a relatively new tool called “automated officiating,” and the robotic eyes that are now tracking just…