Original title: India Tightens Options Rules Again After Jane Street Saga Follow Bloomberg India on WhatsApp for exclusive content and analysis on what billionaires, businesses and markets are doing. Sign up here. Original article

Original title: LatAm Fintech Kapital Raises Funds at $1.3 Billion Value Kapital, a Mexican financial services company, has raised $86 million at a valuation of about $1.3 billion to help build out its artificial intelligence capabilities, according to a person familiar with the matter. The round was led by existing backer Tribe Capital and co-led by Pelion Ventures, said the person, who asked to not be identified because the details aren’t public. Other participants included Y Combinator, Marbruck Ventures and True Arrow, the person said. ...

Original title: Stocks Fall as Rising Bond Yields Worry Investors: Markets Wrap Wall Street returned from a long weekend to renewed unease over frothy technology stocks and stretched government budgets. Global bonds staged a broad retreat and gold briefly touched an all-time high. Futures for the S&P 500 fell 0.7%, building on the tech-driven selloff that closed out last week. Nvidia Corp. led premarket losses among the Magnificent Seven , falling 1.5%. The Nasdaq 100 dropped 0.9%. The dollar posted its biggest gain since July, putting it on course for a first advance in six days. ...

Original title: Klarna, Backers Seek $1.27 Billion in US IPO After Tariff Pause Klarna Group Plc and some of its shareholders are seeking to raise as much as $1.27 billion as the financial-technology company revives a New York initial public offering that was delayed earlier this year amid market volatility. The company and some of its backers are offering 34.3 million shares for $35 to $37 apiece, according to a filing Tuesday with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. At the top of the range, the company would have a market value of about $14 billion based on the outstanding shares listed in the filing. ...

Original title: Is AI the end of software engineering or the next step in its evolution? The first time I used ChatGPT to code, back in early 2023, I was reminded of “The Monkey’s Paw,” a classic horror story about an accursed talisman that grants wishes, but always by the most malevolent path — the desired outcome arrives after exacting a brutal cost elsewhere first. With the same humorless literalness, ChatGPT would implement the change I’d asked for, while also scrambling dozens of unrelated lines. The output was typically over-engineered, often barnacled with irrelevant fragments of code. There were some usable lines in the mix, but untangling the mess felt like a detour. When I started using AI-assisted tools earlier this year, I felt decisively outmatched. The experience was like pair-programming with a savant intern — competent yet oddly deferential, still a tad too eager to please and make sweeping changes at my command. But when tasked with more localized changes, it nailed the job with enviable efficiency. The trick is to keep the problem space constrained. I rec ...

Original title: Review: $399 Beosound A1 Portable Speaker Shows Why Bang & Olufsen Commands a Premium Bang & Olufsen recently released the third generation of its award-winning Beosound A1 portable Bluetooth speaker, and after playing with it for a good month, I’m scrambling to come up with negatives. Sure, at $399 it’s pricey, and this ultraportable unit from B&O is unashamedly pitched at the premium end of the Bluetooth speaker market, but the Danish high-end audio manufacturer’s principled attention to design and craftsmanship almost justifies the price alone. Fortunately, it sounds great, too. Design Taking the A1 out of the box, the first thing that strikes you is the compactness of the unit relative to its weight, especially given the materials used in its construction. At about 1.27 pounds (576 grams), it’s not the lightest ultraportable speaker I’ve held, but its beautifully minimalist ‘hockey puck’ design is disarmingly slight, partly thanks to designer Cecilie Manz’s decision to embed the power, volume, play/pause, and pairing controls around the rim, with the attached waterp ...

Original title: Meet the Guys Betting Big on AI Gambling Agents When Carson Szeder turned five dollars into more than a thousand by betting on an NFL game last year, he knew he was onto something major. “Definitely my biggest win,” he says. He hadn’t scored because he was especially deft at football analytics—or because he was particularly lucky. Instead, he says he used an AI program to help him decide how to gamble. Since a federal ban on sports betting was struck down in the United States seven years ago, gambling on the internet has exploded in popularity. Last year, Americans spent over $150 billion on sports-related wagers, with many placing bets on their phones rather than boarding a flight to Vegas. The American Gaming Association reported a nearly 24 percent jump in popularity in sports betting in the US in 2024, and the obsession shows no signs of slowing down. The mania has coincided with a modern AI gold rush. Now, the race is on to combine the economy-shaking pursuits, and a cottage industry has emerged to give bots the ability to plac ...

Original title: Meraki Espresso Machine Review (2025): Fine Grind, Loose Fit In theory, you’d like your espresso machine to contain everything you need to make good coffee, including a grinder for fresh beans. But in practice, this hasn’t always been the case. The classic knock on espresso machines with built-in grinders is that the grinders have often been kinda terrible. That situation is changing fast, as consumers start paying attention—and as the conventional wisdom seeps in that grinders are one of the most important components to making good coffee. (See WIRED’s guide to the best coffee grinders for some good advice.) Appliance titan Breville has started outfitting its top-line espresso machines—including WIRED’s top semi-automatic espresso pick, the Breville Oracle Jet ($2,000)—with the burr set from WIRED’s top grinder pick for mere mortal budgets, the Baratza Encore ESP ($200). It’s still a surprise to see a total newcomer like Shenzhen-founded Meraki lap most of the established brands, when it comes to the quality of its built-in grinder. Meraki is a ...

Original title: Zack Polanski elected leader of the Green Party Zack Polanski elected leader of the Green Party London Assembly member Zack Polanski has been elected leader of the Green Party of England and Wales by a landslide. Polanski defeated joint candidates, the Green MPs Adrian Ramsay and Ellie Chowns, by 20,411 votes to 3,705. Original article

Original title: Body seen in secret mortuary could solve 50-year mystery of vanished religious leader Body seen in secret mortuary could solve 50-year mystery of vanished religious leader 10 hours ago Share Save Moe Shreif BBC Eye Investigations Share Save BBC Musa al-Sadr has been missing since 1978 Warning: Contains images some may find upsetting A computer scientist at a university in the north of England is studying an image of a corpse - attempting to solve a mystery that has gripped the Middle East for nearly 50 years. “This is what he looks like now?” asks Bradford University’s Prof Hassan Ugail doubtfully. The digitised photo is of a decomposed face and it is about to be run through a special algorithm for our BBC investigation. The original photo was taken by a journalist who saw the body in a secret mortuary in the Libyan capital in 2011. He was told then that it could be charismatic cleric Musa al-Sadr, who vanished in Libya in 1978. Sadr’s disappearance has spawned endless conspiracy theories. Some people believe he was killed, while others claim he is still alive and being ...