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A sharp rally in Reliance Industries shares, driven by record quarterly results and a blockbuster Jio Platforms listing, lifted Mukesh Ambani's fortune to $88.8 billion, moving him ahead of TikTok owner ByteDance's co-founder Zhang Yiming.
Michigan State University says it is monitoring and investigating a potential cybersecurity threat after the ransomware group BYOD claimed it stole data on 1.3 million current and former students. The university says it has not found that personal information was compromised.
Meta Platforms is borrowing US$15 billion through a five-part US dollar bond offering to help pay for its rapidly growing AI infrastructure spending. It is the company's latest trip to the debt markets, following large bond sales in April and last year.
A Sao Paulo state judge has ordered Meta to stop gathering material from Brazilian media outlets to train its AI models, suspending part of the company's new business terms and threatening a daily fine of one million reais for noncompliance.
Instagram has launched a dedicated app for Apple TV that puts Reels, longer creator videos, series and live shows on the living-room screen. Meta says the experience is limited to the United States for now, leaving Canadian users without access.
Electric and hybrid vehicles made up about 92% of South Korea's imported passenger car registrations in October, with Tesla leading brands for a ninth straight month even as its monthly volume fell sharply and German rivals gained ground.
Google will turn off its search engine for K-12 students whose schools decline to enable artificial intelligence, a change that follows months of criticism over Gemini in classrooms and is already drawing accusations that the company is using its dominance to push AI adoption.
Ted Schlein's Ballistic Ventures, a venture firm that backs only cybersecurity startups, has filed with the SEC to raise $490 million through a $360 million flagship fund and a separate $130 million vehicle as AI reshapes both cyberattacks and defenses.
Nvidia has reportedly told data center partners around the world that future cloud contracts must keep Chinese customers under half of their business, an unwritten rule meant to ease U.S. concerns about indirect access to its advanced AI chips.
Payments giant Fiserv has eliminated about 3,000 employee and contractor roles since June, including over a tenth of senior management, while doubling its Project Elevate savings target to US$1 billion and planning to exit more than a dozen non-core products.
Apple has released the first developer beta of iOS 27.3, opening Siri AI to third-party apps through a developer preview, restoring the redesigned Health app pulled from iOS 27.2, and adding vertical tabs to Safari ahead of an expected December public release.
Apple's latest annual filing with the SEC adds explicit language forbidding employees and contractors from trading on prediction markets using confidential company information, or tipping others who might, as event contracts tied to Apple's business multiply.
At a Boston panel tied to the latest Bentley-Gallup survey, leaders from Amazon Robotics, Duckbill and a former Anthropic engineering manager argued that AI works best alongside people, even as young Americans express the deepest doubts about how businesses use the technology.
