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Amazon.com Inc. announced a faster, slimmer Fire TV Stick 4K streaming device alongside a revamped remote control and upgrades to Alexa+ for the living room.

Valor Equity Partners and Atreides Management led a $50 million investment into agentic hardware company Flow Engineering, as the race to automate the physical world heats up.

DoorDash Inc. unveiled an artificial intelligence agent for ordering food that works inside Apple Inc.'s Messages app, stepping up efforts to integrate personal AI assistants ahead of its e-commerce rivals.

Tinder is launching a new feature called Group Hangouts designed to take the pressure off one-on-one dates, marking its latest effort to court younger users who have otherwise grown jaded with dating apps.The feature will roll out gradually in select US markets starting Wednesday, the company said in a statement. Group Hangouts, which Bloomberg first reported on in May, offers an approach to matchmaking that homes in on shared activities and interests. It builds on the success of earlier initiat

Samsung Electronics Co. introduced a pair of new Android-based tablets promising improved performance along with an upgraded SmartTag item tracker that offers better precision and longer-distance tracking capabilities than previous models.

Airbnb Inc. is adding an option for travelers in some US markets to rent baby gear and have it sent to their rental home, part of a suite of new services the company plans to offer domestically and in Europe.

The parent company of the Texas Stock Exchange raised $155 million in a third funding round, bolstering its financial firepower as it challenges the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq for equities listings.

Elon Musk should work with South Africa and launch his Starlink satellite internet service there, the country’s deputy communications minister Mondli Gungubele said in an interview in Cape Town. The service has not launched in the continent’s largest economy, with Musk criticizing as racist laws that require telecommunications companies to be 30% owned by Black citizens. The Deputy Minister was speaking with Bloomberg TV's Jennifer Zabasajja (Source: Bloomberg)

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. boosted its networking revenue forecast and announced a $1.2 billion order from cloud company Vultr, giving fresh signals that it’s benefiting from the AI build-out.

KKR’s co-head of European Infrastructure, Vincent Policard says Europe needs as much as $800 billion a year in infrastructure investment — almost double current levels — as governments seek private capital to strengthen strategic sectors including AI and space. In an interview on "The Pulse With Francine Lacqua", he also discussed KKR’s investment strategy and why the UK remains attractive despite uncertainty around the water sector. (Source: Bloomberg)

Singapore received its first notification of an AI-related data breach after a food company accidentally disclosed customers’ email addresses to other recipients of a bulk email, the Straits Times reported, citing the country’s Personal Data Protection Commission.

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MSCI is offering the ability to make more precise bets across the AI supply chain.

Apple Inc. plans to make its long-delayed push into the smart-home market on Oct. 13, marking a critical product expansion for the company under new Chief Executive Officer John Ternus.

Micron Technology Inc. shares have rebounded from a summer selloff as fears about a potential pullback in AI spending have faded. Now investors want assurances from the memory-chip maker that the long-term outlook for demand remains bright.

Ken Griffin is donating $3 billion to Carnegie Mellon University, most of it to establish a new campus in Miami, in the largest single gift committed to a US university.

Peter Oppenheimer, chief global equity strategist at Goldman Sachs, says European stocks have remained resilient and have "done rather well" in the face of inflationary pressures and rising bond yields. He also comments on French bond yields. Speaking on Bloomberg Television, Oppenheimer says the profit story "is still solid," but should markets experience a further sharp bond selloff, equities could "become vulnerable." (Source: Bloomberg)

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Legrand CEO Benoit Coquart says the electrical equipment maker will continue to do a 'lot of acquisitions', which he believes, won't damage the financial profit of the French-based group. He speaks with Haidi Stroud-Watts on "Insight with Haslinda Amin." Original filename: 20260930_054350_Legrand_CEO_Says_AI_Data_Center_Boom_Still_Driving_Growth_W.mp4 (Source: Bloomberg)