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Venture capital firm Elevation Capital today offloaded Paytm shares worth ₹2,038 Cr via multiple bulk and block deals. As per NSE data, the investment firm sold 97.43 Lakh shares via its holding entity SAIF III Mauritius Company and an additional 41.36 Lakh shares via its another

The brand trip is a right of passage for influencers. It’s a mark of legitimacy that a sponsor wants to invite them on an all-expenses-paid vacation, often with luxurious freebies and activities. Trips can also spur hard feelings from uninvited influencers, trigger criticism from

Princess Eugenie gives birth to baby girl in Portugal - Published Princess Eugenie has given birth to a baby girl at a hospital in Lisbon, Portugal. The baby was born on Monday at 18:20 BST, weighing 6lbs 9oz. This is Princess Eugenie's third child with her husband, Jack Brooksba

More GPU price hikes loom for Asia as Japanese distributor warns of new increases — CFD Sales signals 20% to 40% higher prices on Gigabyte graphics card orders starting this month As if the graphics card market was not already in a bad state, things are about to get even worse fo

Tesla’s factory in Shanghai had its best June ever, according to the China Passenger Car Association. Tesla built 93,579 cars in China that month, a hefty 38 percent increase compared to June 2025, according to CPCA’s data. But that production isn’t translating into bumper sales

Hank Green, a popular YouTuber and science communicator, said he is stepping back from production amid intense criticism over his use of AI. Green described his AI usage as “not healthy,” but stressed that he used it for finding research sources and not to write scripts. ‘Not hea

This is what capitulation looks like: Airtable, a maker of workflow software, is being sold for just 10% of its peak valuation. It’s a sign that some companies hit hard by the SaaS selloff (or their venture-capital backers, as Airtable is still privately held) are bowing to reali

Lenovo’s ThinkPad P14s Gen 7 packs a Series 3 Intel Core Ultra 7 366H with Intel vPro and NVIDIA’s RTX PRO 1000 Blackwell Generation laptop GPU into a 14.5-inch mobile workstation that starts at 3.59 pounds. Our review unit backs that pairing with 64GB of LPCAMM2 memory in a sing

Autonomous car maker Waymo has dropped the waitlist for its robotaxi service in Dallas, opening it up to all residents and visitors. This is the latest step in the Alphabet-owned company’s bid to scale its self-driving technology across Europe, the United Kingdom, and the United

Off the Wire Press Releases No Peer-Reviewed Result Demonstrates Quantum Advantage on Production AI Workload STAMFORD, Conn., Aug. 4, 2026 — No enterprise AI workload at scale will run on quantum hardware by 2028 and classical accelerated AI will dominate every production benchma

AstraZeneca’s deal talks with US-headquartered Bristol Myers Squibb, which Semafor confirms remain active, would strike another blow to the UK’s effort to keep hold of its corporate champions. A merger would tilt AstraZeneca’s revenues even further away from the UK and Europe and

Off the Wire Press Releases Aug. 4, 2026 — From public health and environmental monitoring to urban planning and disaster response, organizations are looking to advanced analytics to transform location-based data into actionable insights. To help meet this growing demand, the UC

Off the Wire Press Releases Technology alliance will bring together VDURA’s GPU-adjacent, high performance data storage with Wasabi’s predictably priced S3-compatible cloud storage for AI data retention, protection, mobility and reuse LAS VEGAS, Aug. 4, 2026 — VDURA and Wasabi Te

Let’s cut to the chase: Starting today, you can take an additional $100 off your founder, investor, or attendee TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 pass, which is a nice bonus on top of our current discounted pricing. This flash sale will run all week, up until Friday, August 7 at 11:59 p.m.

President Donald Trump has a social-media site. He says market-moving things on that site, which is now selling early access to those things for $100,000 a month. It’s a blatant bit of self-dealing, requiring none of the complicated flow charts that accompany most reporting about

Off the Wire Press Releases SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug. 4, 2026 — Kioxia Corporation, a subsidiary of Kioxia Holdings Corporation, and Sandisk Corporation today unveiled their next-generation Quad-Level-Cell (QLC) 3D flash memory technology, which delivers up to 60% increase in bit

Off the Wire Press Releases SEOUL, South Korea, Aug. 4, 2026 — SK hynix Inc., in collaboration with Sandisk, has announced that it has unveiled the first standard specifications for High Bandwidth Flash (HBF), a next-generation storage technology. The announcement coincides with

AI - EDGE AND IOT Dev proves LLMs will run on anything – even a $10 microcontrollerNearly 10 tok/s and it's mostly coherent — What's not to like? - Security This one time,

Off the Wire Press Releases SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug. 4, 2026 — Marvell Technology, Inc., a leader in data infrastructure semiconductor solutions, today announced new innovations across its AI memory infrastructure portfolio, advancing its position spanning server-level AI storag

Bingers, a new TV show and movie-tracking app, has arrived to fill the hole that TV Time’s closure left. The new app is developed by one of TV Time’s original founders, Antonio Pinto, who said last month he would attempt to rebuild the best features of TV Time after its owner, Wh

Michigan Democratic voters head to the polls Tuesday to choose between Abdul El-Sayed and Rep. Haley Stevens as their Senate candidate in one of the most closely watched and impactful primary elections of the 2026 midterms. Stevens, a more moderate Democrat, and El-Sayed, a forme

Procter & Gamble is buying supplement brand Thorne for $3.8 billion, CEO Shailesh Jejurikar said on CNBC's "Squawk on the Street." The acquisition, which is set to be announced Tuesday, is a bid for P&G to grow its health and wellness division. The consumer goods giant already ow

US mulling ban on key Chinese networking tech in data center component crackdown — White House wants to impose restrictions in 2026, China says it will respond if necessary Another day, another ban. The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is working on a ruling that will

Texas slams on the brakes for 1,800 data centers, power grid requirements are five times higher than peak record demand — 474 gigawatts of power requests are now subject to new moratorium Where will they get all that power? Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) just announced a moratorium o

AI - EDGE AND IOT Dev proves LLMs will run on anything – even a $10 microcontrollerNearly 10 tok/s and it's mostly coherent — What's not to like? - Security This one time,

New Jersey Attorney General Jennifer Davenport announced on Tuesday that she's suing Amazon on antitrust grounds, alleging the online retailer abuses its power over third-party delivery contractors to suppress competition and harm workers. Amazon prevents delivery workers from un

New Jersey Attorney General Jennifer Davenport announced on Tuesday that she's suing Amazon on antitrust grounds, alleging the online retailer abuses its power over third-party delivery contractors to suppress competition and harm workers. Amazon prevents delivery workers from un

Base Power & the Future of Electricity Electricity is a commodity, and the best electron is the cheapest electron. America | Tech | Opinion | Culture | Charts In 2018, Zach Dell was a summer analyst at Blackstone studying the utility-scale battery opportunity. “One thing became r

Meesho's early investors Peak XV Partners and Elevation Capital on Tuesday divested a combined 2.27% stake in the e-commerce marketplace through block deals on the NSE worth Rs 1,949.28 crore. According to exchange data, both investors offloaded 5.24 crore shares each at Rs 186 a

Hackers are in the midst of a massive theft of cryptocurrency from supposedly secure offline hardware wallets, according to blockchain security firms monitoring the heists. At least a dozen different hackers are said to be targeting Bitcoin owners who use the hardware crypto wall

Dive Brief: - Revenue growth from Wayfair’s U.S. segment — which increased nearly 9% year over year in the second quarter — was the best the company has seen since the pandemic, when home retailers experienced a short-lived surge in demand. - Overall Q2 revenue increased 7.5% yea

Kioxia and Sandisk demonstrate the world's highest-density 3D NAND flash — 332 active layers and up to 4,800 MT/s interface World's highest 3D NAND storage density. Kioxia and Sandisk used the ongoing Future of Memory and Storage Conference to formally introduce their latest BiCS

Jeff Bezos filed plans to sell about 15 million Amazon shares worth roughly $4.1 billion, after the dominant e-commerce platform's stronger-than-expected earnings sent the stock to a record high, pushing its market value above $3 trillion. Amazon fell more than 2% Tuesday followi

VC firms Elevation Capital and Peak XV Partners cumulatively sold 10.28 Cr shares of ecommerce major Meesho via multiple bulk/block deals on August 4, netting ₹974.6 Cr apiece. Elevation Capital, via holding entity Elevation Capital V Ltd, and Peak XV Partners, via Peak XV Partne

China’s tech giants are deepening their push into enterprise AI to drive profits. For years, China’s AI race was dominated by a quest for market share, but Alibaba and Tencent are now also trying to grow by bundling their models into workplace tools, while ByteDance announced las

Google will reveal the Pixel 11 series later this month, but leaks and teasers so far have painted a picture of phones that have barely changed since last year. One notable exception seems to be the illuminated dot from some of the teasers. This has been rumored as “Pixel Glow,”

Taiwan’s “Tiger economy” is back, propelled by chips and other AI-related exports to the US, capping a decade-long pivot away from the mainland market. Economic growth is on track to expand 11% for the full year, more than double the rate of China. For the first time in a quarter

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A simmering debate among experts over China’s surging trade surplus and how it wields its currency has burst into the open. Former US Treasury official Brad Setser, whose “China Shock 2.0” thesis has encouraged some EU policymakers to push for Chinese currency appreciation, says

Dive Brief: - Almost three-quarters (71%) of shoppers plan to start their holiday shopping journey before Black Friday this year, a survey of 600 U.S. consumers conducted by marketing firm Attentive found. Almost half (46%) are shopping prior to November. - Most consumers (84%) a

Artificial Intelligence Automated web insight extraction with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Extracting insights from dozens of websites often means manually checking each one, a process that quickly becomes overwhelming. Design teams need to track competitor products, marketing teams

Preparations for the high-stakes US-China summit in Washington next month are off to a rocky start. The US has imposed more tariffs on Chinese goods, added dozens more Chinese companies to a forced labor blacklist, and banned new Chinese humanoid robots. Meanwhile, China is tight

NVIDIA is participating in the U.S. National Science Foundation’s (NSF) State and Regional Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure Hubs program, an effort launching today to expand access to the advanced computing, data, software and expertise needed for AI-enabled research and ed