Author: V. Alure

Anthropic has accused three prominent Chinese artificial intelligence firms of using its Claude chatbot on a massive scale to secretly train rival models, an unexpected development in a years-long global debate over where fraud ends and industry standard practice begins. In a blog post on Monday, San Francisco–based Anthropic alleged that Chinese labs DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax violated corporate law by interacting with Claude, its market-reshaping vibe-coding tool. “We have identified industrial-scale campaigns by three AI laboratories—DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax—to illicitly extract Claude’s capabilities to improve their own models,” the company said. “These labs generated over 16 million exchanges…

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Your Legacy is Now Life is not a search for meaning from others, it’s about the creation of meaning for yourself. For over 30 years Alan Weiss has consulted, coached, and advised everyone from Fortune 500 executives, state governors, non-profit directors, and entrepreneurs to athletes, entertainers, and beauty pageant contestants. That’s quite an assortment of people, and they run into the thousands. Most of them have had what we euphemistically call “means,” and some of them have had a lot more than that. Others have been aspiring and with more ends in sight than means on hand. Alan Weiss states:…

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What began as an internal tool to manage millions of customer conversations at NoBroker, one of India’s leading proptech firm is now shaping up as a standalone enterprise AI business. At its recently held Conversational AI Summit in Bengaluru, ConvoZen outlined its ambition to build a full-stack, India-focused conversational AI platform. Speaking to Business Today, Saurabh Garg and Akhil Gupta, co-founders of NoBroker and ConvoZen say that ConvoZen was born out of the operational complexity of NoBroker’s voice-heavy real estate transactions. “It was built to solve real business problems first. Today, that internal validation remains its core differentiator,” says Garg.…

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Home Depot on Tuesday posted a roughly 4% quarterly sales decline, as a sluggish real estate market and selective spending by homeowners continued to weigh on home improvement demand.The company also stuck by the current fiscal year forecast that it shared in December at an investor day. It said it expects full-year total sales growth to range between about 2.5% and 4.5% and adjusted earnings per share to be between roughly flat and up 4% from $14.69 in the prior fiscal year. It expects full-year comparable sales growth, which takes out one-time factors like store openings and closures, to range…

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Equity benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty ended sharply lower, falling more than 1 per cent, as heavy selling in information technology stocks combined with global trade uncertainties and rising geopolitical tensions to weigh on investor sentiment.The NSE Nifty declined 288.35 points, or 1.12 per cent, to close at 25,424.65 after touching an intraday low of 25,327.60. The BSE Sensex tumbled 1,068.74 points, or 1.28 per cent, to settle at 82,225.92, after plunging as much as 1,359.93 points during the session.The selloff snapped a two-session rally and came amid renewed concerns over artificial intelligence-led disruption in the IT sector, rising crude…

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The Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) has released the fifth edition of its MSME Outlook Survey for October-December 2025, indicating stable business confidence despite external risks. The composite MSME Business Conditions Index (M-BCI) stood at 60.8 in Q3 FY26, marginally lower than 61.6 in the previous quarter. An index reading above 50 signals an expansionary outlook.Sector-wise, manufacturing sentiment strengthened, with the M-BCI rising to 64.1 from 62.9 in the preceding quarter. However, trading and services recorded moderation. The composite MSME Business Expectations Index (M-BEI) projects improvement, with the index expected to increase to 63.7 next quarter and further…

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The Home Depot (NYSE: HD) reported its fourth quarter 2025 earnings results today. Sales were $38.2 billion, down 3.8% year-over-year. Comparable sales increased 0.4%, and comparable sales in the US increased 0.3%. Net earnings were $2.6 billion, or $2.58 per share, compared to $3 billion, or $3.02 per share, last year. Adjusted EPS was $2.72, compared to $3.13 last year. For fiscal 2026, the company expects total sales growth of approx. 2.5-4.5% and comparable sales growth of approx. flat to 2%. Both GAAP EPS and adjusted EPS are expected to grow approx. flat to 4% from the previous year. Source link #Home #Depot #Earnings #Key #financials #quarterly #highlights #AlphaStreet…

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Just because Barratt Redrow (LSE: BTRW) has dropped 23% from its one-year high does not mean it is one of the best FTSE stocks to buy. But it could be — it all depends on how much value is left in the stock. This is a different thing to price, which is simply whatever the market is willing to pay at any point. Value instead reflects the core fundamentals of the underlying business. So is there any value left here and, if so, how high could the stock go? Image source: Getty Images Short-term versus longer-term In the short term,…

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Dr. Peter Attia arrives on the red carpet for the premiere of ‘Limitless with Chris Hemsworth’ at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York, New York, on Nov. 15, 2022.Gabriele Holtermann | APLongevity guru Dr. Peter Attia resigned as a contributor to CBS News amid fallout over his past email correspondence with convicted sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein being made public.”Dr. Attia’s contributor role was newly established and had not yet meaningfully begun,” a spokesman for Attia told CNBC in a statement on Monday.”As such, he stepped back to ensure his involvement didn’t become a distraction from the important work being…

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