Posts by Swedan Margen
Singapore shares continue to falter on Thursday; STI falls 0.1%
Published Thu, Oct 1, 2026 · 06:21 PM [SINGAPORE] Singapore stocks continued to decline on Thursday (Oct 1). The benchmark Straits Times Index (STI) lost 0.1 per cent or 8.21 points to finish at 5,667.67. DFI Retail Group led the gainers on Singapore’s blue-chip index, rising 6.6 per cent or US$0.21 to US$3.40. The worst…
Read MoreChina’s Tencent leases 100,000 chips from Oracle to accelerate AI push: report
Tech giant agrees to a five-year lease across multiple Oracle data centres in South-east Asia Published Thu, Oct 1, 2026 · 12:37 PM TENCENT signed its largest overseas lease deal with US cloud provider Oracle to access about 100,000 advanced AI chips that were not available in China, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday (Sep…
Read MoreMiracle on FlyDubai | National Review
Because of the quick thinking of heroic passengers and crew, a major disaster was averted. Source link
Read MoreThe Moral Wilderness of the Cornell Seven Case | National Review
We should get the facts and the law straight before holding a moral panic — but we should still demand a more moral society. Source link
Read MoreWatchdog finds no Fed misconduct in renovation; Trump calls for Powell’s resignation
[WASHINGTON] The Federal Reserve’s Inspector General on Wednesday (Sep 30) said it found no grounds for a criminal referral or evidence of administrative misconduct tied to cost overruns in a US central bank renovation project. However, its conclusion there was lax oversight drew a fresh call from President Donald Trump for former Federal Reserve chief…
Read MoreAI Voice Agents Get Faster and More Human With ElevenLabs
ElevenLabs released two new speech models on Monday, named v4 and v4 Turbo. Aimed at AI voice agents, they speak 90 languages, answer with less delay, and copy a voice from roughly ten seconds of audio. Here is the deal. If you want to build a phone line, a support bot, or a sales caller,…
Read MoreThe Great Divorce | National Review
The Cold War coalition is coming apart. Source link
Read MoreAI Agents for Small Business Arrive Free Through Meta Muse
Meta rolled out Muse for Small Businesses on Tuesday, opening a free door to AI agents for small business that plug into software owners already pay for. It connects to Shopify, Stripe, Slack, Notion and QuickBooks, and it can act on a goal instead of only answering questions. That matters because AI agents for small…
Read MoreWall St opens higher as soft inflation data eases rate-hike fears
Published Wed, Sep 30, 2026 · 09:46 PM [NEW YORK] Wall Street’s main indexes opened higher on Wednesday (Sep 30), as a softer-than-anticipated inflation reading buoyed hopes that the Federal Reserve might not hike rates as soon as next month. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 74.9 points, or 0.15 per cent, at the open…
Read MoreWhat Barbara Kingsolver Is Reading
Barbara Kingsolver’s books have been everywhere since the nineties: your neighbor’s bookshelf, your college lounge, your grandmother’s coffee table, your schoolteacher’s desk, every lake house in the Lower Forty-eight. Kingsolver clawed her way onto the best-seller lists with her third novel, “Pigs in Heaven” (1993), but she started camping out there for months at a…
Read MoreTom Cruise Is a Scream—and a Gas—in “Digger”
A circus of bombast ensues, some of it courtesy of the score, by the British composer Cosmo Sheldrake. Digger is lambasted by his half sister, Emma (Sandra Hüller), a superficially liberal-minded Shiv Roy type, with her own eco-friendly initiative. For presence and volume, though, Emma is soon eclipsed by the President of the United States…
Read MoreCommentary: No, AI bots won’t extinguish humanity on their own — but you should worry about the humans behind them
Fears about a future AI apocalypse distract us from its present-day harms — just as its promoters hope. If you’ve devoted even a moment’s attention to the vibes percolating within the zeitgeist, you’ve probably heard about the possibility that artificial intelligence is poised to extinguish us all. The current version of a scenario once chiefly…
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