Tech & Startups
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Rivian raises EV sales forecast as Q2 production ramps up
The company now expects to ship a few thousand more vehicles by the end of 2026 than it previously expected, after launching its R…
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Alva Industries raises €16M to scale its ultra-compact electric motors
Alva Industries has raised €16 million to scale production of its ultra-compact electric motors, the Trondheim based deep-tech com…
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UNICEF says children are adopting AI three times faster than adults
A 10-country analysis finds 20 million children already using AI tools, with governance struggling to keep pace with a generation …
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Yep, we’re using OpenClaw to date now
Ben Guez has "a bunch of potential international wives in [his] DMs," thanks to an automated script he set up using OpenClaw, Clau…
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Nvidia offers AI startups compute now, payment later
Instead of just selling chips, Nvidia is offering AI clouds a revenue-sharing and credit-support model built to get GPUs into the …
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Novo Nordisk’s owner backs an Italian fund to grow drug startups beyond Denmark
Novo Holdings, the investment company that controls Novo Nordisk and holds the wealth of the Novo Nordisk Foundation, is backing a…
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India tells WhatsApp to pause its usernames feature pending consultations
India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has ordered WhatsApp not to launch its planned usernames feature in the…
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Microsoft joins Lightstorm-led consortium to build an India-Southeast Asia subsea cable
Microsoft has joined a consortium led by Singapore-based Lightstorm to build a new subsea cable connecting India with Singapore an…
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Raja Koduri’s Oxmiq raises $35m to rent out AI chip design instead of selling chips
Oxmiq Labs has closed a $35m Series A to scale OxCore, a licensable GPU architecture the startup says lets chipmakers build custom…
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US in talks with AI companies over voluntary standards for new models
The US government is negotiating voluntary standards with AI companies covering how new models get released, according to the Fina…
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SoftBank revives $10bn OpenAI-backed loan with a new sweetener for lenders
SoftBank has gone back to lenders with a $10bn loan proposal secured against its OpenAI stake, and this time it is offering to per…
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Super Micro says two Taiwan staff detained in probe involving its AI servers
Taiwanese court has ordered the detention of two Super Micro employees as part of a widening investigation into whether AI servers…
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BYD and Xiaomi shares surge after June delivery numbers show momentum holding
Hong Kong-listed shares of Chinese EV makers surged on Thursday after June delivery figures beat expectations. BYD gained around 9…
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Google must pay €4.1bn fine for using Android to 'block' rivals
A Google spokesperson said the judgement "fails to recognise" the firm's "significant investment to ensure Android remains open."
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China and US risks leave Europe’s chip sector facing a bleak future, report warns
A new report from the EU Institute for Security Studies (EUISS) and the French think tank Institut Montaigne warns that Europe’s s…
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SK Hynix will spend $51bn on a new NAND factory to catch the AI memory wave
SK Hynix will spend 80 trillion won, or roughly $51.46 billion, building a new NAND flash memory factory in Cheongju, South Korea,…
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Samsung details $90bn plan for South Korea’s Chungcheong region
Samsung Group has put a number on its next decade of domestic manufacturing: 140 trillion won, or roughly $90 billion, spread acro…
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Google says it has passed its $1bn Africa investment target
Google has exceeded a five-year pledge to invest $1 billion in Africa, the company said on Wednesday at the first Africa Cloud Sum…
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Drone maker Quantum Systems raises $1.2bn, eyes humanoids
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Ubisoft taps ex-Amazon Games chief to run its Tom Clancy studio
Ubisoft has hired Christoph Hartmann, until recently vice president of Amazon Games, to run the division that controls its Tom Cla…
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OpenAI has reportedly offered Washington a 5% stake worth $42.6bn
OpenAI has proposed handing the US government a 5% equity stake in the company, according to the Financial Times, as the White Hou…
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Indian tech tycoon bets $30M of his own money to build AI alternative to Microsoft Office
Neo is Bhavin Turakhia’s fifth venture and his latest involving enterprise software. This time he's taking on Microsoft Office, Go…
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H1’s biggest M&A deals
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