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AI startup Perplexity is augmenting its Finance dashboard with live transcriptions of Indian public companies’ quarterly earnings calls, as well as a calendar to show schedules for post-results conference calls. Alongside surfacing news about the markets, Perplexity’s Finance dashboard shows market summaries, stock exchange charts, and top performing stocks. The dashboard also lets users create stock watchlists, track sector performance, and see cryptocurrency performance. Until now, the dashboard only showed transcripts for U.S. stocks. Perplexity’s Finance dashboard now support live earnings calls transcriptions and features earnings calls schedules for Indian stocks. We hope to add a lot more value to…

The artificial intelligence company Perplexity’s audacious offer to acquire Chrome has sent shockwaves through Silicon Valley, but questions remain about whether the move represents a genuine strategy or a calculated publicity stunt.Perplexity AI made an unsolicited $34.5 billion bid for Google’s Chrome browser last Tuesday, a figure that exceeds the startup’s own $18 billion valuation by nearly a factor of two. The timing appears strategically calculated, coming as federal courts consider whether to force Google to divest itself of Chrome, following last year’s landmark antitrust ruling.The financial mechanics of the proposed Perplexity Chrome acquisition raise immediate red flags. Perplexity has…

Morgan Stanley sees $2.2 trillion of investment in new nuclear power through 2050, a more than 40% increase over its projection last year as government support and demand from the tech sector has grown. The investment bank sees the U.S. adding 150 gigawatts of nuclear power by the middle of century, according to a note published this month. That would more than double the installed capacity in the U.S., though it is well below President Donald Trump’s goal of adding an additional 300 gigawatts. “The nuclear renaissance has already made significant progress,” Morgan Stanley analysts told clients on Aug. 12.…

Workday, one of the largest providers of human resources technology, has confirmed a data breach that allowed hackers to steal personal information from one of its third-party customer relationship databases. In a blog post published late Friday, the HR technology giant said the hackers stole an unspecified amount of personal information from the database, which Workday said was primarily used to store contact information, such as names, email addresses, and phone numbers. Workday did not explicitly rule out that customer information was taken in the data breach, stating only that there was “no indication of access to customer tenants or…

Lenoir City, Tennessee, Electrical transmission equipment at the Fort Loudoun Dam, operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority. Jim West | UCG | Universal Images Group | Getty ImagesAlphabet’s Google and Kairos Power will deploy an advanced nuclear plant connected to the Tennessee Valley Authority’s electric grid by 2030, the companies announced on Monday.TVA has agreed to purchase up to 50 megawatts of power from Kairos’ Hermes 2 reactor. It is the first utility in the U.S. to sign a power purchase agreement with an advanced reactor like Hermes 2, according to the companies.Hermes 2 is the first deployment under an…

While AI might feel ubiquitous, it primarily operates in a tiny fraction of the world’s 7,000 languages, leaving a huge portion of the global population behind. NVIDIA aims to fix this glaring blind spot, particularly within Europe.The company has just released a powerful new set of open-source tools aimed at giving developers the power to build high-quality speech AI for 25 different European languages. This includes major languages, but more importantly, it offers a lifeline to those often overlooked by big tech, such as Croatian, Estonian, and Maltese.The goal is to let developers create the kind of voice-powered tools many…

A train transports oil tankers in Ajmer on July 7, 2025. Indian exporters are scrambling for options as they seek to mitigate the fallout of U.S. President Donald Trump’s threatened tariff salvo against the world’s most populous nation.Himanshu Sharma | Afp | Getty ImagesU.S. President Donald Trump’s trade advisor Peter Navarro on Monday called on India to stop buying Russian crude oil, accusing the Asian giant of undermining international efforts to isolate Vladimir Putin’s war economy.Writing in in the Financial Times, Navarro described India’s dependence on Russian oil as “opportunistic,” adding that if India “wants to be treated as a…

The artificial intelligence boom has brought with it hundreds of billions of dollars in investments and promises of economic growth . But the infrastructure required is demanding massive amounts of energy and resources. One lesser-known example of that dilemma can be found in the southern tip of Malaysia, which has quietly become one of Southeast Asia’s fastest-growing data center hubs amid the heightened compute demands of AI. The country’s state of Johor — with a population of about 4 million people — has attracted billions’ worth of projects for such data centers in recent years , including from many of…

Oil majors are betting big on liquified natural gas (LNG), throwing down the gauntlet to predictions of peak gas by the end of the decade. Britain’s Shell , a leading player in the global LNG market, has identified the super-cooled commodity as a primary focus amid the energy transition. France’s TotalEnergies said it expects LNG volumes managed by the company to grow by 50% between 2023 and 2030, while BP , which recently doubled down on fossil fuels as part of a green strategy U-turn , has significant LNG investments. Stateside, Exxon Mobil is seeking to double its LNG portfolio…

WASHINGTON (AP) — As Russia held its Victory Day parade this year, hackers backing the Kremlin hijacked an orbiting satellite that provides television service to Ukraine.Instead of normal programing, Ukrainian viewers saw parade footage beamed in from Moscow: waves of tanks, soldiers and weaponry. The message was meant to intimidate, and it was also an illustration that 21st century war is waged not just on land, sea and air but also in cyberspace and the reaches of outer space.Disabling a satellite could deal a devastating blow without a single bullet, and it can be done by targeting the satellite’s security…