HIVE Digital Technologies has committed more than $250 million to Paraguay data centers, pivoting from Bitcoin mining toward AI and HPC compute.

Its IPO plans are thought to have the potential to be one of the world’s biggest and most highly rated.

India has 36 lakh tonnes of carryover stocks, while sugar production has reached 4 lakh tonnes as of October 25, according to ISMA

Deficient rains in key growing regions have led the government to allow duty-free imports of 1 million tonnes of raw sugar. Retail prices were up 27% year-on-year on Monday.

The creator of the Claude models unveiled its IPO filing Monday, with a view to listing on the Nasdaq in New York.

The company is expected to seek a valuation of $1.5tn to $1.75tn, below the $2tn forecast in August. Its net loss for the first half was $81bn.

Tech titan Meta has copped an eye-watering $US25 billion (around $35 billion AUD) penalty in what is officially the biggest data privacy fine in corporate history.

In the first half of 2026, net loss widened sharply to $80.7 billion, largely due to a rise in the fair value of bonds convertible into shares of the company. Revenue in this period was about $16.3 billion.