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'Don't need help': Nepal rejects foreign rescue teams after flash floods

The flood tore through areas including Rasuwa district near ‌the Chinese border, levelling entire towns, damaging hydropower projects ​and killing close to 500 ​people

Anthropic in talks with chip startup MatX to speed up chip design

As Anthropic scales its Claude ​family of AI models, the firm is looking to produce hardware that can fulfill its voracious appetite for data crunching and reduce its reliance on Nvidia chips

US judge blocks Pentagon's Anthropic blacklisting in AI safety dispute

Hegseth's unprecedented move, which ​blocked Anthropic from certain military contracts, followed Anthropic's refusal to allow the military to use its Claude AI models ​for US surveillance

Oil prices on track for weekly loss despite simmering Iran tensions

Brent crude futures were down 25 cents, or 0.3%, to $89.45 a barrel while West Texas Intermediate crude futures fell 22 cents, also 0.3%, to $83.31

Nvidia forecasts 70% sales growth in 2027, signals AI boom has years to run

"AI has reached its inflection point. It's doing useful work. Its tokens are productive and profitable. Now, compute is revenue," Nvidia Chief Executive Jensen Huang said.

Trump says Putin will not attack NATO territory, downplays Ratcliffe trip

"He's not going to attack a NATO territory," Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. Earlier in the day, Trump told Axios ​in a phone interview that there would ‌be no such attack

Pentagon's NATO review preparing troop options for Hegseth by November 6

One important disclosure in the document is a plan for the top US ​general in Europe to participate in a decision briefing with the Pentagon's ​policy chief, Elbridge Colby, by September 18

Hero MotoCorp to increase stake in Ather with $184 million share purchase

Hero MotoCorp on Thursday said ​it would buy additional shares ​of Ather Energy for up ‌to 17.58 billion rupees ($184.01 million), raising its stake in the electric scooter maker to 32.8%.

Scott Bessent and Kevin Warsh diverge on who should set the price of money

Warsh has advocated retreating from some of the central bank's longstanding communication policies in favor of letting markets do the heavy lifting, while Bessent has deployed a number of tools

Meta settlement opens new front in global fight over social media harm

Meta's up to $18 billion settlement with nearly all US states over social media harm to teenagers has opened a new front in a global government fight to protect children and curb addiction

Russian-speaking cybercriminals hacked 7 firms using SpaceX's Cursor AI

The cybercriminals' AI-boosted hacking spree is the latest example of how rogue actors are using commercial AI tools to carry out intrusions.

45 Indian coal power plants have critically low fuel, government data shows

Heavy rainfall in some of the key coal-rich Indian states, including Odisha, Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh has hit mining and slowed the transportation of the fuel for power plants, industry sources said

Bond traders expect RBI to drain surplus liquidity as rate hikes loom

India's banking-system liquidity surplus has averaged more than 3.4 trillion rupees ($36 billion) so far in August and is expected to expand further

As AI agents go rogue, cyber insurers are adapting their policies

Insurers, including MSIG , QBE and Beazley, are reviewing traditional cyber policies and adapting their language to account for emerging risks

Singapore Oppn lawmaker opposes use of Temasek funds to shore up Air India

Singapore Oppn lawmaker Kenneth Tiong said Air India's $1.5 bn funding request is not only matter for private shareholders, given Singapore Airlines' stake and Temasek's majority ownership of carrier

Nestle wants India to consult firms on front-of-pack food labelling rules

Nearly 80% of products made by India's more than $100 billion packaged food and beverages market could be regarded as high in fat, sugar and salt, according to industry estimates

India's nuclear ambitions may be blunted by limits on foreign reactor tech

India is counting on nearly $210 billion in investments that the industry expects to require to raise its nuclear power capacity almost tenfold to 100 gigawatts (GW) over the ‌next two decades

Bank of Baroda's debt raise tops $1 bn under RBI's concessional swap window

Earlier in the month, BoB ​had raised $400 million through three-year bonds at a 5.1140% ‌coupon and $300 million through five-year notes at a 5.3180% ​coupon

Nvidia agrees to buy open source platform Hugging Face for $12.9 bn: Report

The deal would give Nvidia control of ​Hugging Face - which hosts open-source large language models and datasets

Asian stocks gain for third day as Nvidia earnings beat estimates

MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares excluding Japan was up 0.7 per cent, on track to ‌extend gains into a third consecutive day after Nvidia reported that quarterly revenue more than doubled