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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

Versity says tape libraries can be a data source for GPUs doing AI work You might have to read this twice; Versity has added a high speed S3 over RDMA capability to its ScoutAM archive gateway software, meaning tape archives can now pump data directly into a GPU’s high-bandwidth

Tom DeLay, the Texas Republican who was House majority leader from 2003 to 2005, said the Federal Communications Commission has no legal authority to repeal the National Television Ownership Rule. Despite DeLay’s warning, the Trump FCC appears ready to eliminate the rule at its m

During its second-quarter earnings call on Tuesday, Spotify again teased the upcoming release of a new product that will allow music fans to leverage AI to make covers and remixes of artists’ music, with the artists’ consent. The company also announced that Merlin, a licensing pa

Express on Monday launched its fall campaign, “Too Easy to Look This Good,” with a video that features multi-hyphenate musician Tinashe and NFL player Tee Higgins, per details shared with sister publication Marketing Dive. The campaign takes its name from a lyric in the pop star’

Tech companies and developers have been scouring the U.S. for places to build data centers, and they’ve been drawn to Texas’ loose regulations and seemingly abundant power supply. Only Virginia hosts more data centers than Texas. But even Texas can be pushed to the brink. Governo

Walmart announced on Tuesday that it has completed its acquisition of self-service streaming TV advertising platform Vibe.co. The acquisition, which was announced in June, brings Vibe.co into Walmart Connect, the retailer’s connected TV advertising platform. The Wall Street Journ

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,

Texas announced new a audit on data centers that could slow approval for new facilities seeking to connect to the state energy grid. Texas says data centers must pass an audit before connecting to the grid It’s the second-largest data center market behind Virginia. Governor Greg

The August Coup by Robert Service. After profiling every major Soviet leader, Service turns here to a desperate attempt among communist hardliners to seize control of the Soviet Union in the empire’s twilight. In the summer of 1991, a group of conspirators staged a muddled coup t

Episode details Available for over a year Today, there has been more criticism from victims’ families over plans to release some prisoners early. Under the policy, due to begin in October, thousands of prisoners will be eligible to be released part way through their sentences. Mi

Apple has launched a fresh legal challenge against a U.K. government attempt to access encrypted data held by British customers. The move comes a year on from the previous dispute between the two over a request from the U.K.'s Home Office for both British and American customer da

Elon Musk wants you to believe Tesla is no longer a car company, even if it’s still shaped like one. The company shipped nearly half a million cars last quarter and made 70% of its money from car sales. Still, Musk has spent the last few years making the case that Tesla is really

KKR closed a $19.2 billion global infrastructure fund, some of which is earmarked to address the Gulf’s growing need for more resilient energy and digital build-outs. The private equity giant is already pouring billions into data centers in the Gulf, committing $5 billion across

Increasing security cooperation between Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Pakistan, and Türkiye could become the nucleus of a wider group, or just a framework for ad hoc coordination. In either case, it may help to reshape the regional order, writes the International Crisis Group’s Yasmine Fa

Two people have died amid the ongoing record-breaking outbreak of explosive diarrhea from the foodborne parasite Cyclospora, Michigan health officials announced Monday. Cyclosporiasis fatalities are extremely rare, and despite the massive size of the outbreak, some experts were s

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,

GameStop’s record Q1 profits have only gone so far, as the meme stock-prone gaming retailer has turned to its lenders to wipe away $400 million in debt coming due in 2030 and another $1 billion due in 2032. The company privately negotiated an agreement to swap about $1.4 billion

For robotaxis and other autonomous vehicles (AVs), the hardest problems aren’t the everyday scenarios. They’re the rare, complex situations that are difficult to anticipate and train for. Handling these long‑tail events takes more than just object detection and motion prediction.

Surging AI demands are driving the need for massive datasets and context windows that burst past the confines of system memory. But rising needs aren’t met by simply adding more storage capacity. What’s needed is useful, grounded insights from AI factories and efficient, secure s

Want to tap into the energy of 1,100+ startup founders, investors, and tech leaders descending on Boston for the Founder Summit 2026 on November 4th? Host your own Side Event during “Founder Summit Week,” happening November 1-7! Whether it’s a networking mixer, workshop, morning

How your HCI platform counts capacity decides your flash bill PARTNER CONTENT The memory market has turned structural rather than cyclical. DRAM contract prices rose 90 to 95 percent quarter over quarter in the first quarter of this year, with another 58 to 63 percent following i