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The Peshawar High Court has issued a verdict regarding the delayed oath-taking of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s newly elected Chief Minister, Sohail Afridi. Chief Justice of PHC, Justice Ishtiaq Ibrahim, stated that the Governor of K-P will administer the oath at 4:00pm on Wednesday, October 15. He added that if the Governor is unable to do so, the Speaker of the Provincial Assembly, Babar Saleem Swati, will administer the oath instead. Junaid Akbar, a member of the National Assembly, welcomed the court’s ruling, saying: “The court acted impartially and granted the rights in accordance with the law.” During the day, PHC has ordered…

Oura said Tuesday that it raised over $900 million in a new Series E funding round, bringing the company’s valuation to $11 billion.The fundraise, led by Fidelity Management & Research Company, also includes new investor ICONIQ and contributions from Whale Rock and Atreides.”With this investment, we will accelerate innovation, expand our global reach, and set a new standard for what wearables can achieve in advancing preventive health,” said CEO Tom Hale in a statement.The Finnish company, which ranked No. 23 on CNBC’S 2025 Disruptor 50 List, has raised approximately $1.5 billion, according to a release.Known for its Oura Rings, the…

Instagram has installed a new privacy setting which will default all new and existing underage accounts to an automatic private mode.Brandon Bell | Getty ImagesMeta will now limit the content that teenage users can see on Instagram to what they would typically encounter in a movie rated PG-13, the social media company said Tuesday.With the new content guidelines, Meta said it will hide certain accounts from teenagers, including those that share sexualized content or media related to drugs and alcohol. Additionally, teenagers on Instagram will not be recommended posts that contain swear words, though teen users can still search for…

A Chevrolet Silverado EV and a Chevrolet Brightdrop, which is assembled in Canada, are seen on display at the Canadian International AutoShow in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, February 13, 2025. Carlos Osorio | ReutersDETROIT — General Motors’ third-quarter results next week will include a $1.6 billion impact from its all-electric vehicle plans not playing out as anticipated. The Detroit automaker Tuesday morning in a public filing said $1.2 billion of the impact will be non-cash, special charges as a result of adjustments to its EV capacity. The other $400 million in cash is primarily related to contract cancellation fees and commercial settlements associated…

Governor Gavin Newsom speaks at Google San Francisco office about ‘Creating an AI-Ready Workforce’ that new joint effort with some of the world’s leading tech companies to help better prepare California’s students and workers for the next generation of technology, in San Francisco, California, United States on August 7, 2025. Tayfun Coskun | Anadolu | Getty ImagesCalifornia Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a series of bills Monday targeting child online safety as concerns over the risks associated with artificial intelligence and social media use keep mounting.”We can continue to lead in AI and technology, but we must do it responsibly —…

ISLAMABAD: Some members of a Supreme Court constitutional bench (CB)–hearing petitions against the 26th Constitutional Amendment–have observed that even the incumbent chief justice of Pakistan (CJP), Yahya Afridi, was appointed after the amendment that is under challenge. They have also noted that the existing CB of the apex court is also created in view of the amendment, while the CJP does not have the authority now to add a new member of the bench entitled to hear constitutional matters. An eight-member CB on Monday resumed hearing the petitions filed against the 26th Constitutional Amendment and discussed the scope of the…

AMD Chair and CEO Lisa Su looks on, on the day of a meeting of the White House Task Force on Artificial Intelligence (AI) Education in the East Room at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., September 4, 2025. Brian Snyder | ReutersOracle Cloud Infrastructure on Tuesday announced that it will deploy 50,000 Advanced Micro Devices graphics processors starting in the second half of 2026.The move is the latest sign that cloud companies are increasingly offering AMD’s GPUs as an alternative to Nvidia’s market-leading GPUs for artificial intelligence.”We feel like customers are going to take up AMD very, very…

Greg Fleming, Rockefeller Capital Management president and CEO, speaks during CNBC’s ‘Squawk Box’ on July 10, 2025.CNBCRockefeller Capital Management, the wealth manager born from John D. Rockefeller’s family office, has raised new funds from investment firms of other ultra-rich families, CNBC has learned.On Tuesday, Rockefeller plans to announce the recapitalization and its new valuation of $6.6 billion, up from $3 billion in 2023. The terms of the recapitalization, which traditionally use equity or debt to fund growth, strengthen the balance sheet, or provide liquidity to investors, were not disclosed.The recapitalization was led by Mousse Partners, the family office of Chanel’s…

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff participates in an interview during the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 22, 2025.Chris Ratcliffe | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesSalesforce is ramping up partnerships with leaders in generative artificial intelligence as investors continue to fear that the software company faces business risks due to the rapid growth of AI.Just ahead of its annual Dreamforce conference in San Francisco, Salesforce said Tuesday it will enable the use of AI models from OpenAI and Anthropic inside its Agentforce 360 software. A day earlier, Salesforce expanded Agentforce beyond text chats to also handle voice calls.”The way people…

PESHAWAR: The election of Sohail Afridi as the new Chief Minister of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) has plunged the province into a full-blown legal and political controversy, with opposition parties, legal experts, and the governor’s office openly questioning the legitimacy of the process. What began as a routine change of leadership has swiftly escalated into a test case for constitutional procedure – specifically, the interpretation of Article 130(8) of the Constitution, which governs the resignation of chief ministers – and the limits of gubernatorial authority. On Monday, Afridi, a Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) loyalist and close political follower of party founder Imran Khan,…