India urges BRICS partners to address trade deficits as China calls for unity

India urges BRICS partners to address trade deficits as China calls for unity

Narendra Modi, India’s prime minister, speaks during a joint press statement with Lawrence Wong, Singapore’s prime minister, not pictured, at Hyderabad House in New Delhi, India, on Thursday, Sep. 4, 2025. Prakash Singh | Bloomberg | Getty Images India’s External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar on Monday urged members of the BRICS bloc to address their…

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Lachlan Murdoch cements control of Fox, WSJ media empire in new family deal

Lachlan Murdoch cements control of Fox, WSJ media empire in new family deal

Rupert Murdoch’s son Lachlan Murdoch walks on the day of the hearing on the contentious matter of succession of Rupert Murdoch’s global television and publishing empire, in Reno, Nevada, U.S. Sept. 23, 2024. Fred Greaves | Reuters The Murdoch family reached a deal that will see Rupert Murdoch’s politically conservative son Lachlan Murdoch cement control…

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Judge skewers .5 billion Anthropic settlement with authors in pirated books case over AI training

Judge skewers $1.5 billion Anthropic settlement with authors in pirated books case over AI training

Jaque Silva | Nurphoto | Getty Images A federal judge on Monday skewered a $1.5 billion settlement between artificial intelligence company Anthropic and authors who allege nearly half million books had been illegally pirated to train chatbots, raising the specter that the case could still end up going to trial. After spending nearly an hour…

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Stocks regain steady, snoozy state with reliance on big caps

Stocks regain steady, snoozy state with reliance on big caps

(These are the market notes on today’s action by Mike Santoli, CNBC’s Senior Markets Commentator.) -Stocks are held snugly in place by familiar support from several of the largest stocks and undisturbed expectations that lower Treasury yields and Fed rate cuts are happening for the “right” reasons. -After Friday’s worse-than-hoped jobs report sent a brief…

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