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Zuck shrugs off DeepSeek, vows to spend hundreds of billions on AI

Zuck shrugs off DeepSeek, vows to spend hundreds of bil...

Meta is doubling down on AI spending despite markets briefly panicking over conc...

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SoftBank in talks to invest as much as $25B in OpenAI, report says

SoftBank in talks to invest as much as $25B in OpenAI, ...

SoftBank is in talks to invest up to $25 billion in OpenAI as part of a broader ...

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Meta says end of fact-checking hasn’t impacted ad spend

Meta says end of fact-checking hasn’t impacted ad spend

Meta says its controversial decision to put an end to its fact-checking program ...

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India lauds Chinese AI lab DeepSeek, plans to host its models on local servers

India lauds Chinese AI lab DeepSeek, plans to host its ...

India’s IT minister on Thursday praised DeepSeek‘s progress and said the country...

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European embedded banking startup Swan adds another $44 million to its Series B

European embedded banking startup Swan adds another $44...

French startup Swan has raised another €42 million (around $44 million at curren...

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Some shareholders of a16z-backed Divvy Homes may not see a dime from $1B sale

Some shareholders of a16z-backed Divvy Homes may not se...

The $1 billion acquisition of rent-to-own startup Divvy Homes, which was announc...

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Someone bought the domain ‘OGOpenAI’ and redirected it to a Chinese AI lab

Someone bought the domain ‘OGOpenAI’ and redirected it ...

A software engineer has bought the website “OGOpenAI.com” and redirected it to D...

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Google buys part of HTC’s XR business for $250 million

Google buys part of HTC’s XR business for $250 million

Google has agreed to acquire a part of HTC’s extended reality (XR) business for ...

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WhatsApp wins reprieve in India over user data sharing

WhatsApp wins reprieve in India over user data sharing

An Indian tribunal on Thursday suspended restrictions that would have barred Wha...

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Neko, the body-scanning startup co-founded by Spotify’s Daniel Ek, snaps up $260M at a $1.8B valuation

Neko, the body-scanning startup co-founded by Spotify’s...

Stockholm startup Neko Health has made a big bet on consumers wanting to learn a...

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Amazon to buy Indian BNPL startup Axio for over $150M

Amazon to buy Indian BNPL startup Axio for over $150M

Amazon has agreed to acquire Indian buy-now, pay-later startup Axio, deepening i...

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Hyperline secures $10 million for its automated billing platform

Hyperline secures $10 million for its automated billing...

French startup Hyperline wants to build the next-generation Chargebee. Over the ...

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Google strikes world’s largest biochar carbon removal deal with Indian startup Varaha

Google strikes world’s largest biochar carbon removal d...

Google has agreed to purchase 100,000 tons of carbon dioxide removal credits fro...

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Prepaid payments platform Recharge raises €45M to go on M&A spree

Prepaid payments platform Recharge raises €45M to go on...

With inflation still stubbornly high in comparison to previous years, and the si...

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Mistral signs deal with AFP to offer up-to-date answers in Le Chat

Mistral signs deal with AFP to offer up-to-date answers...

Just a day after Google inked a deal with The Associated Press, Mistral is also ...

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Elon Musk agrees that we’ve exhausted AI training data

Elon Musk agrees that we’ve exhausted AI training data

Elon Musk concurs with other AI experts that there’s little real-world data left...