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Trump discloses Nvidia stock trades as he prepares to honor CEO Huang <br> President Donald Trump bought as much as $1.6 million and sold as much as $1 million in Nvidia stock ​in August, according to his latest financial disclosure, which &zwnj;was released on Thursday as he prepared to award Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang the nation&#39;s highest honor for scientific achievement. The new disclosure of ​the president&#39;s investment in one of the world&#39;s most ​valuable companies comes as his administration weighs policies ⁠that could shape Nvidia&#39;s fortunes, including rules governing exports of ​its advanced chips. White House spokesperson Davis Ingle said in a statement ​to Reuters that third-party financial institutions independently manage the president&#39;s portfolio and replicate &quot;recognised indexes, such as the Schwab 1000.&quot; Read More: US suspends Microsoft, major IT firms from key green card programme Huang is set to r...

India denies Elon Musk's claim Starlink 'blocked by oligarchs' <br> India on Thursday denied Elon Musk&#39;s claim that &ldquo;certain oligarchs&rdquo; were blocking Starlink&#39;s satellite communication services in the country to maintain their monopoly, terming it baseless. Without directly naming Musk, India&rsquo;s Communications Ministry said in a statement that the government has put in place a fair and non-discriminatory authorisation framework for all telecommunication services, including satellite communication services. It said telecom licences have been granted to three global mobile personal communication by Satellite services based on &ldquo;non-geosynchronous satellite orbit based satellite communications.&rdquo; pic.twitter.com/qIOih9RtMp &mdash; PIB_INDIA Ministry of Communications (@pib_comm) October 8, 2026 The statement said security assessment &ldquo;as part of this process is currently under way in ...

Most US voters say Trump, Congress don't take AI risks seriously, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds <br> Most US voters think President Donald Trump&#39;s administration and Congress are not&nbsp;taking AI risks seriously enough and want the government to ​write new regulations for the technology, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll. The six-day survey, which ended on Monday, showed that large swaths of the electorate see AI as a major threat to American jobs, underscoring growing scepticism of the technology across the political spectrum. The fast-advancing technology has become a matter of keen national interest amid reports of AI agents running amok and hacking into corporate computer networks, and warnings from prominent researchers that it could one day pose an existential threat to humanity. Noisy, power-hungry data centres that power AI also increasingly pose a nuisance when they pop up near neighbourhoods while jacking up ​utility bills. Read:&nbsp;OpenAI...

Kagan and Soai win 2026 Nobel chemistry prize for single molecular mirror creation <br> Scientists Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for solving a long-standing riddle of how to form a single ​molecular mirror image, a discovery hugely important for pharmaceutical manufacturing, the award-giving body said on Wednesday. &quot;This is &zwnj;the most exciting day in my life; I am very glad to share this prize with Professor Henri Kagan,&quot; Soai said, speaking by phone to the Nobel Prize press conference, adding he had been out shopping when receiving the news. BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2026 #NobelPrize in Chemistry to Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai &ldquo;for the discovery of non-linear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis.&rdquo; pic.twitter.com/nH090ql1Xc &mdash; The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) October 7, 2026 The chemistry Nobel, always the ​th...

DeepSeek set to net over $12b in new fundraising, source says <br> Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is set to raise more than 80 billion yuan ($11.93 billion) in its latest funding round, said ​one person with knowledge of the matter, as the firm &zwnj;builds up a war chest of capital ahead of a domestic IPO. DeepSeek kicked off the fundraising in July targeting a valuation of 500 billion yuan ($74 billion), a month ​after raising about $7.4 billion in its maiden external funding round, ​Reuters reported. The second fundraising has drawn massive interest from existing ⁠and new investors and the capital committed exceeds DeepSeek&#39;s original target of ​50 billion yuan, said the source. DeepSeek is expected to wrap up the ​fundraising in October, said the person and a second source with knowledge of the matter. Both sources declined to be identified as the information was confidential. DeepSeek did not ​immediately respond to an emailed request for comment. Bloomber...

Alien 'phoenix planet' was born from the ashes of a dying star <br> In ancient mythology, the phoenix was a miraculous bird with a cyclical pattern of life and death, perishing in flames only to rise again from the ashes. Astronomers have now found a world that rightly can be called a phoenix planet. Researchers said this exoplanet, as planets beyond our solar system are called, appears to have been born from material expelled into space during the death throes of a star a bit bigger than the sun, and now orbits the highly compact stellar remnant that was left behind, called a white dwarf. It is classified as a second-generation planet, meaning it did not form from the swirling disk of material surrounding a newborn star, as Earth and other first-generation planets did, but rather from the leftovers of a doomed star. &quot;This is the first example of a planet forming around a white dwarf,&quot; said Jamie Williams, a doctoral student in astrophysics at th...