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India has kicked off a pilot to let consumers shop and pay directly through AI chatbots, with OpenAI’s ChatGPT leading the rollout and integrations with Google’s Gemini and Anthropic’s Claude in development, as the South Asian nation becomes the next major market for global AI companies. On Thursday, the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), the federal body behind the country’s widely used Unified Payments Interface (UPI), partnered with OpenAI and fintech firm Razorpay to enable consumers to shop and pay directly through ChatGPT. Razorpay confirmed to TechCrunch that the pilot is being rolled out nationwide and will become widely…

MACAO — NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said Friday the WNBA could be next to play games in China. Silver spoke exclusively with CNBC courtside from the first of two NBA games in Macao. “We have to get through a new collective bargaining agreement with our players,” he said. “But once we do, there’s so much interest in women’s basketball here, I think we’d love to bring a WNBA game to Macao or to mainland China.” The games this weekend mark the NBA’s return to China after a six-year hiatus. The league is actively trying to grow its footprint in its No. 2 market,…

by Lacey Pfalz Last updated: 2:35 PM ET, Thu October 9, 2025 UPDATED: 2:35 EST on Thursday, October 9, 2025Over a week into the government shutdown, air passengers are still being impacted by longer wait times at TSA checkpoints and, in some cases, delays caused by less air traffic controllers.  Yesterday, FlightAware data reported a total 4,608 flight delays and 60 cancellations. As of 2:00 p.m. EST, FlightAware is reporting 2,584 delays today and 55 cancellations. While it’s a smaller number than Monday’s over 5,000 delays, air traffic controllers calling out sick while they remain unpaid are impacting flights across the…

The explosion of AI companies has pushed demand for computing power to new extremes, and companies like CoreWeave, Together AI and Lambda Labs have capitalized on that demand, attracting immense amounts of attention and capital for their ability to offer distributed compute capacity. But most companies still store data with the big three cloud providers, AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure, whose storage systems were built to keep data close to their own compute resources, not spread across multiple clouds or regions. “Modern AI workloads and AI infrastructure are choosing distributed computing instead of big cloud,” Ovais Tariq, co-founder and CEO of Tigris Data,…

NEW YORK (AP) — Don’t speak — scream, because No Doubt has announced the band’s first run of shows in 14 years.After surprising fans with a brief reunion at the 2024 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, the ska-punks have set their sights on Las Vegas. The band will embark on a six-show residency at the Sphere: May 6, 8, 9, 13, 15, and 16 in 2026.The state-of-the-art, 17,500 capacity, $2.3 billion arena has seen performances by Phish, the Backstreet Boys, Dead & Company, the Eagles and more. No Doubt is making history by joining them — singer Gwen Stefani…

As the government shutdown stretches on, significant flight delays began stacking up at one of the country’s busiest airports on Thursday. Flights at New Jersey’s Newark International Airport (EWR) were experiencing ground delays of 88 minutes on Thursday afternoon due to low air traffic control staffing numbers, according to the FAA.  Newark’s air space is controlled remotely from a tower in Philadelphia, which reported lower-than-usual staffing numbers on Thursday afternoon. While the government is closed, air traffic controllers are being asked to show up for work without pay because they are considered essential federal workers. This has led to a “slight…

Getting design and engineering teams on the same page about what digital product to create and how to build it continues to be a challenge.  A lot of companies find themselves dealing with scattered information, often depending on shared spreadsheets to keep track of design specs and guidelines. Design teams might use tools like Figma, while engineers manage their source code with systems like Git.  This issue becomes even trickier for large organizations juggling multiple brands and various websites. Miscommunication can pile up quickly, resulting in wasted time and inefficiency. That’s where Knapsack comes in. It’s a collaboration platform specifically…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology said Friday she “cannot support” a White House proposal that asks MIT and eight other universities to adopt President Donald Trump’s political agenda in exchange for favorable access to federal funding.MIT is among the first to express forceful views either in favor of or against an agreement the White House billed as providing “multiple positive benefits,” including “substantial and meaningful federal grants.” Leaders of the University of Texas system said they were honored its flagship university in Austin was invited, but most other campuses have remained silent as they…

A version of this article first appeared in CNBC’s Inside Wealth newsletter with Robert Frank, a weekly guide to the high-net-worth investor and consumer. Sign up to receive future editions, straight to your inbox.The price surge in bitcoin helped created another 70,000 new crypto millionaires over the past year, adding hundreds of billions of dollars in potential spending to the economy, according to new studies.There are now an estimated 241,700 individuals with crypto holdings worth $1 million or more, up 40% from last year, according to Henley & Partners and New World Wealth. There are 450 crypto centimillionaires, or those with crypto…

by Mia Taylor Last updated: 3:45 PM ET, Thu October 9, 2025 Club Med, a pioneering leader in the all-inclusive resort industry, is marking its 75th anniversary this year and as the global company acknowledges that major milestone, it does so with a flurry of brand expansions and renovations worldwide.In 2025, Club Med accelerated its global expansion with plans for new ski resort projects in Canada and Italy. At the same time, the company has set its sights on unveiling major renovations this fall at its flagship Punta Cana resort.In addition to all of that news, the all-inclusive resort pioneer…