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MUMBAI, INDIA – SEPTEMBER 20: People take selfies with the new iPhone 16 at the Apple Store in the Bandra-Kurla complex during the first day of sale of the iPhone 16 smartphone on September 20, 2024 in Mumbai, India. Hindustan Times | Hindustan Times | Getty ImagesThis report is from this week’s edition of CNBC’s Inside India newsletter, which delivers timely and insightful news and market commentary on emerging economies. Subscribe here.big storyIt all started this Monday.The Indian government has asked mobile phone manufacturers to preload state-run cybersecurity apps without an option to disable them, forcing them to push apps…
Apple on Thursday unveiled its annual list of App Store Award winners, continuing its tradition of recognizing the best apps and games of the past year. The iPhone app of 2025 winner was the visual planner Tiimo, and the iPhone game of the year was the card game Pokémon TCG Pocket. While Apple has continued to avoid naming dedicated AI apps or AI chatbots as App of the Year, AI was featured among this year’s winners. For example, Tiimo, Apple’s app of the year, is described as a visual AI planner that turns to-dos into plans with visual timelines. The…
when Nvidia This week, the company announced it would acquire a $2 billion stake in chip design company Synopsys, just the latest in a series of big investments the company announced this year. Nvidia also announced that it would acquire a $1 billion stake in Nokia and invest $5 billion. intel And $10 billion for Anthropic — the total commitment from those four deals is $18 billion, not including small venture capital investments.That doesn’t even include its biggest commitment in years to buy OpenAI stock for $100 billion, but no final deal has been reached yet, NVIDIA finance chief Colette…
Emilia Clarke’s brain aneurysmEmilia Clarke, who filmed battle scenes for Game of Thrones, published an essay in The New Yorker in 2019 titled “A Battle for My Life.”After suffering a severe headache at the gym, the actress writes, “I made it to the bathroom and fell to my knees feeling very, very sick.” “During that time, the pain was getting worse with shooting, stabbing, squeezing pain. On some level, I knew what was happening: my brain was damaged.”She was taken to the hospital for a brain scan.”The diagnosis was swift and ominous: a subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) is a life-threatening type…
Traders work during the opening of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) market on November 18, 2025 in New York City.Spencer Pratt | Getty ImagesU.S. Treasury yields rose on Thursday as investors awaited further economic data and maintained expectations that the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates next week. The 10-year Treasury yield rose more than 2 basis points to 4.087%, and the 30-year Treasury yield rose more than 1 basis point to 4.743%. The yield on the two-year U.S. Treasury rose more than 2 basis points to 3.512%.One basis point equals 0.01%, and yields and prices move in opposite…
Meta’s move to only offer its AI chatbot, Meta AI, to WhatsApp users has not been well received by European competition regulators. The European Commission announced Thursday that it will launch an antitrust investigation into Meta’s move to ban other AI companies from using WhatsApp’s business tools to offer their own AI chatbots to users on the app. WhatsApp changed its business API policy in October, banning general-purpose chatbots from its chat app, saying the API was not designed as a platform for chatbot distribution. The policy change, which goes into effect in January, will affect whether AI chatbots such…
A sign at the New York State Department of Labor job fair held at the Downtown Central Library on Wednesday, August 27, 2025 in Buffalo, New York, USA.Lauren Petracca Bloomberg | Getty ImagesThis is CNBC’s Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox.Here are five important things investors need to know to start their trading day.1. A handbook that brings a ray of hopeYesterday we highlighted the relevance of market maxims. “Bad news can actually be good news for investors.” Stocks rose after private jobs data showed weakness in the labor market, with investors hoping the…
South African photographer Shem Compion remembers exactly when his love affair with the Great Rift Valley began. In 2002, in his 20s and seeking adventure, Compion saved as much as he could, sold what he didn’t need and bought a Land Rover. He hit the road with a friend and headed north. They could not return home for seven months. Their journey was Compion’s first exposure to the Rift Valley, also known as the East African Rift Valley. The rift valley carves a 4,000-mile path from Botswana and Mozambique in the south, through Djibouti and the Red Sea in the…
The head of Russia’s Security Council warned on Thursday that if the European Union used frozen assets seized to aid Ukraine, it would be tantamount to justifying war. The European Commission, the EU’s executive arm, has been considering how to use frozen Russian assets held in Europe to further support Ukraine.Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council, said the move could be tantamount to justifying war, in comments posted on Telegram and translated by Google. “If a crazy European Union tries to steal Russian assets frozen in Belgium by issuing so-called reparation loans, such an act could be classified…
New Zealand police have charged a man with theft after allegedly picking up a jewel-encrusted gold Faberge egg locket from a jeweler and swallowing it. The unusual incident occurred at a store in central Auckland on Friday afternoon, according to a statement from New Zealand Police Auckland Central Area Commander Inspector Gray Anderson sent to CNN on Tuesday. Anderson said store staff called police at around 3:30 p.m. local time (9:30 p.m. ET on Thursday), and “officers responded within minutes and arrested the man who was inside the store.” The 32-year-old man was charged with theft and was taken into…