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Salesforce forecast third-quarter revenue below Wall Street estimates on Wednesday, signaling lagging monetization for its highly-touted artificial intelligence agent platform as clients dial back spending due to macroeconomic uncertainty.The cloud software provider also announced a $20 billion increase to its existing share buyback program, but that was unable to allay investors’ concerns, sending Salesforce’s shares down over 5 per cent in extended trading. Since OpenAI’s ChatGPT launched in 2022, Salesforce has adopted artificial intelligence on a wide scale, integrating it into its various cloud services and creating an AI agent platform called Agentforce to automate tasks in the hopes of…

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[BENGALURU] Gold held steady on Thursday (Sep 4), hovering near all-time high hit in the previous session, buoyed by global uncertainties and increased expectations for a US interest rate cut, while investors looked forward to a key US jobs data due this week. Spot gold held its ground at US$3,561.97 per ounce, as at 8.59 am. Bullion hit a record high of US$3,578.50 on Wednesday. US gold futures for December delivery eased 0.4 per cent to US$3,619.40. The US Labor Department said on Wednesday that job openings, a measure of labour market demand, fell more than expected to 7.2 million…

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The government’s identity proofing and single sign-on tool, Login.gov, is adding passports as a way for people to prove that they are who they say they are online, the General Services Administration announced Wednesday.Login.gov is required by many government agencies for people to access online benefits, accounts or information at agencies like the Social Security Administration. Over 50 federal and state agencies use the service, which has over 100 million user accounts.Now, new users will be able to use a U.S. passport instead of a driver’s license or state ID card in the digital identity proofing process, which requires users…

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Ed Mowery, the founder and lead singer of a death metal band, suffered unfathomable pain for decades: “It was 24/7, 365,” he said, likening it to “lightning bolt razor snakes in my legs and nerve pain in my arms.”Have you ever had a really bad burn when you’re cooking? Imagine that really bad burn, multiply it by, say, 20 to 30, and then apply it from the neck down. And on top of that burn was the lightning bolt razor snakes in my legs and the crazy nerve burn in my arms. So, it was several different kinds of pain…

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Iowa State head coach Matt Campbell has never beaten Iowa at home. Is this the year that all changes?Campbell, who’s in his 10th season at the helm, has a roster littered with talent and experience. The Cyclones have started the season with two impressive wins — upsetting a ranked Kansas State team in Dublin, Ireland, and trouncing South Dakota, 55-7 in Week 1. But beating their in-state rival in Jack Trice Stadium would go a long way in solidifying Iowa State’s status as a popular early-season College Football Playoff pick. “It’s an unbelievable opportunity,” Campbell said in an interview with FOX…

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A protester walks with an Indonesian flag in front of a police headquarters that was set on fire and looted during demonstrations in Surabaya on August 31, 2025.Juni Kriswanto | Afp | Getty Images Indonesia is facing a tough political climate, as it grapples with protests over rising living costs, lawmakers’ pay and police violence, hurting investor sentiment in Southeast Asia’s largest economy.The Jakarta Composite Index fell as much as 3.6% on Monday, while the Indonesian rupiah depreciated to 16,500 against the U.S. dollar — its weakest intra-day level since Aug. 1 — according to LSEG data.While the violence and…

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[JAKARTA] Chinese companies are increasingly looking to set up their manufacturing operations in Indonesia, instead of just exporting and distributing their products in the South-east Asian nation. While Indonesia has remained attractive for its stable domestic economy, local policy shifts and the need to diversify supply chains are driving Chinese investments into the country, said Martin Widjaja, wholesale banking director at OCBC Indonesia. Widjaja was speaking on the sidelines of the bank’s One Connect Forum held in Jakarta from Aug 26 to 27. The forum – currently in its third iteration – is where the bank brings its Chinese customers to Indonesia…

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At the arch-rival Apple now allegedly is looking for help: According to information from industry circles, the iPhone group has discussions with Google in order to reorganize the weakening language assistant Siri using the Gemini AI platform.Last hope Google?This would make one of the toughest competitors in the smartphone market as a possible partner for a core function of the iPhone, such as Bloomberg reports. Insiders report that Apple has contacted the Alphabet subsidiary to create a tailor-made language model that could serve as the basis for a renewed siri from next year. The aim is to finally raise the…

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SANTA MONICA, Calif. — Many fled when wildfires devastated Los Angeles earlier this year, but Guillermo del Toro rushed back in, determined to save his lifelong collection of horror memorabilia. It’s the same loyalty that finds him making another tough decision to protect the items he loves like family: letting some of them go. Del Toro partnered with Heritage Auctions for a three-part auction to sell a fraction of a collection that is bursting at the seams. Online bidding for the first part on Sept. 26 started Thursday and includes over a hundred items, with more headed to the auction…

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