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Anthropic confidentially files for IPO
The filing came just days after the company said it raised $65 billion in a new funding round that valued the OpenAI rival at $965 billion
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MiniMax-M3 debuts, eclipsing GPT-5.5 and Gemini 3.1 Pro on key benchmark performance for just 5-10% of the cost
Big news in enterprise AI broke over the weekend as Chinese AI startup MiniMax released its highly anticipated M3 large language model on Sunday evening Eastern time, pairing frontier-tier coding…
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Uganda’s betting companies withhold Shs 2.6bn in winning claims
Lotteries and gaming operators in Uganda withheld at least Shs 2.6 billion in winning claims from 125 players in the current financial year. According to the National Lotteries and Gaming…
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U.S. takes step to halt Nvidia AI chip shipments to Chinese firms outside China
The unexpected guidance suggests that the United States’ best AI chips may have been making their way to the subsidiaries of Chinese AI firms based in places such as Malaysia
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After the AI binge, companies balk at soaring bills
AI companies charged rock-bottom prices to hook customers after ChatGPT burst onto the scene
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Delhi High Court’s pathbreaking ruling on Google keyword advertising | Explained
Justice Mini Pushkarna assessed if a company can buy another’s registered trademark as a keyword on Google Ads to have their ads appear first in searches for that trademark
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Dell shares soar 33% as AI server demand, price hikes power stellar quarter
The company, whose AI servers are crucial components in the global AI infrastructure build-out, is set to add $68 billion to its market value
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Infosys CEO’s compensation rises 2.5% to nearly $8.7 million in fiscal 2026
Earlier this month, Indian IT stocks fell to their lowest point in three years after OpenAI announced a new services-led venture
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CNN files lawsuit against Perplexity alleging unlawful content distribution
The complaint says Perplexity unlawfully copied thousands of CNN stories, videos, and images to power its products and distributes 'identical or substantially similar' competing content
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Elon Musk says SpaceX agreed only six-month Colossus AI lease to Anthropic
“We won’t leave them hanging and will provide a reasonable off-ramp, but if compute gets super tight I said we might need it back at some point,” Elon Musk added
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Anthropic reaches near-trillion dollar valuation
Anthropic's rise came by doubling down on delivering generative AI to enterprise clients rather than general users, the path initially chosen by archrival OpenAI
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Mistral AI launches Vibe, expands into industrial AI and announces data center push to challenge OpenAI
Mistral AI used its first-ever developer conference on Wednesday to announce a sweeping expansion into industrial manufacturing, a new inference data center south of Paris, and a rebranding of its…
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Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.8 is here with 3X cheaper fast mode and near-Mythos level alignment
Anthropic today released Claude Opus 4.8, an upgrade to its flagship model that ships at the same price as its predecessor, alongside a dramatically cheaper "fast mode" tier and a…
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Are designers the new SWEs? Figma Make’s new two-way GitHub integration turns designs into live, production code — with built-in governance
Cloud design software company Figma is officially transforming its AI design assistant, Figma Make, from a prototyping sandbox into a live, visual software editor that connects natively to production codebases.…
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Samsung workers win, but the pay divide remains
The AI industry has spent considerable energy debating how its wealth should be distributed.
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Toyota Ghana launches new RAV4 Hybrid with self-charging technology
Toyota Ghana has launched the new Toyota RAV4 Hybrid onto the Ghanaian market as part of efforts to promote fuel-efficient and environmentally sustainable mobility solutions. The vehicle was unveiled by…
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Mistral defends AI use in warfare, rebuts Pope criticism
Mistral CEO and co-founder Arthur Mensch says that, 'As long as we have adversaries that are threatening, and they are threatening, we do need to have our own capabilities'
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India’s cricket ‘superfans’ rewriting sports marketing rules, says Google
This year, Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) emerged as the top-searched IPL team across India this season, closely followed by Chennai Super Kings (CSK) and Mumbai Indians (MI)
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Nvidia chief Jensen Huang to join board of Beijing’s Tsinghua University: Report
Chinese President Xi Jinping is among top politicians who attended Tsinghua, sometimes dubbed “China’s Harvard”, as an undergraduate
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Pentagon awards Microsoft $9.7 billion deal in bid to cut costs, end license sprawl
The deal, called the Core Enterprise Technology Agreement, is not new spending because baskets of Pentagon software contracts came up for renewal simultaneously
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Iranians are back online after a monthslong shutdown but still face heavy restrictions
Iranians have begun to regain internet access after authorities ended a monthslong shutdown
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U.S. charges Google engineer with insider trading on Polymarket
Google said in a statement that it is working with law enforcement and that using confidential information to place bets is a serious breach of company policy
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Meta launches paid subscriptions for Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp
According to reports, Instagram Plus and Facebook Plus will be priced at $3.99 per month, while WhatsApp Plus will cost $2.99 per month
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Google worker charged with using internal data to make $1.2m on bets
A Google employee has been arrested for allegedly using his access to company information to successfully place lucrative bets on the prediction platform Polymarket.
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AI chiefs walk back job apocalypse warnings
The reversals from rivals Altman and Amodei come as their companies, OpenAI and Anthropic, are expected to embark on high-profile IPOs that will require broad buy-in from investors to succeed
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Should you trust AI text detectors? | Explained
The accuracy of AI text detectors is literally a billion-dollar question, but the companies behind these platforms have conflicting interests that should concern both creators and readers
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MiniMax teases upcoming M3 model with new sparse attention mechanism and 15.6X long-context response speed boost
Among the many Chinese AI companies and laboratories vying for market share and attention (no pun intended) on the global marketplace, MiniMax stands out for its commitment to providing frontier-level…
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Starlink and Amazon may be able to buy into EU mobile satellite spectrum plan
The European Union’s IRIS2 multi-orbit array of 290 satellites, a response to Starlink, will be among the European companies to receive some spectrum, the sources said
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Qualcomm strikes AI chip deal with TikTok owner ByteDance: Report
The Chinese tech giant is poised to become one of Qualcomm’s first major customers for the AI-focused application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs)
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China’s MiniMax loses bid to end Disney copyright lawsuit over AI system
The studios sued MiniMax last year, alleging it trained Hailuo on their copyrighted material, and used their characters to market Hailuo as a “Hollywood studio in your pocket.”
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Activist Erin Brockovich takes on U.S. Big Tech’s data centre boom
The self-taught legal assistant first made her name helping expose a water contamination scandal in Hinkley, California, in the early 1990s
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U.S. Space Force awards SpaceX $2.29 billion contract for military space data network
The fixed-price nontraditional contracting agreement covers the Space Data Network (SDN) Backbone
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Spotify launches ‘narrated articles’ from publications like The Atlantic, Vogue
The Swedish streaming giant will offer more than 650 long-form magazine articles in the English language
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Social media as bad for children as smoking, British doctors say
“The question isn’t whether we are going to act; we will, whether that is a ban on social media for the under-16s or restrictions on key features and functions,” Technology…
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Global firms bring more work in-house at India hubs on AI boost
The shift reflects a structural change in how multinationals use their India operations, moving beyond cost-focused support roles to centres that own core functions
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Samsung workers approve bonus deal after big AI profits
Under the agreement, around 78,000 employees, out of the company's 125,000-strong domestic workforce, will each be eligible to receive a bonus of roughly $370,000 this year