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As part of the Cohere-Aleph Alpha deal, Aleph Alpha backer Schwarz Group plans to invest $600M in Cohere's Series E, which a source says is set to close in 2026 (www.cnbc.com)
22 days ago

Norway plans to ban children from using social media until they turn 16; the government says it will introduce a bill in parliament by the end of 2026 (www.reuters.com)
22 days ago Ban Norway

Canada's Cohere and Germany's Aleph Alpha agree to a merger deal valuing the combined group at ~$20B to work on sovereign AI; both governments support the deal (www.ft.com)
22 days ago Germany AI Canada

FCC's Foreign-Made Router Ban Expands To Portable Wi-Fi Hotspot Devices (mobile.slashdot.org)
22 days ago Ban

EY survey of 18,000 people across 23 countries: ~49% of consumers have used AI over the past six months to support their savings and investment decisions (www.ft.com)
22 days ago AI

DeepSeek V4 Pro costs $1.74/1M input tokens and $3.48/1M output tokens, while V4 Flash costs $0.14/1M and $0.28/1M; both models are the cheapest in their class (simonwillison.net)
22 days ago

Staffing experts say India's IT sector is seeing a rise in replacement hiring as companies adapt to Gen Z staff leaving jobs faster than previous generations (economictimes.indiatimes.com)
22 days ago India

Sources: India is piloting 10 schemes to test whether its CBDC, the e-rupee, can deliver welfare payments more efficiently, as it looks to boost e-rupee usage (www.reuters.com)
22 days ago India Welfare

Tracxn: global edtech funding fell from $16.7B in 2021 to $2.6B in 2025, while the number of startups launched dropped from 10,491 in 2021 to just 645 in 2025 (restofworld.org)
22 days ago Startup

Sources: Cursor hit $2.7B in annualized sales in March, up ~14x from a year ago, and reported a ~$900M loss in its last fiscal year on $770M in total revenue (www.theinformation.com)
22 days ago

China's top market regulator says it is launching a six-month crackdown on the country's online ad sector, targeting malpractices including the misuse of AI (www.scmp.com)
22 days ago China AI

The AI boom has pushed the market cap of Shenzhen-listed Zhongji Innolight, a leading optical communications device maker, close to $146B, a record high (www.bloomberg.com)
22 days ago AI Shenzhen

DeepSeek V4 Pro has 1.6T total parameters, its largest model by the metric, and V4 Flash has 284B parameters; both models have a context window of 1M tokens (www.scmp.com)
22 days ago

Huawei says its Ascend supernode based on the Ascend 950 AI chips will fully support DeepSeek V4, as DeepSeek launches a preview of its V4 model (www.reuters.com)
22 days ago AI

DeepSeek releases its new flagship models V4 Pro and V4 Flash in preview, saying V4 Pro trails the performance of state-of-the-art models by about 3 to 6 months (www.bloomberg.com)
22 days ago

S-1 excerpts: SpaceX warns multiple investigations into sexually abusive AI imagery created with xAI's Grok may hurt the company's global market access (www.reuters.com)
22 days ago AI SpaceX

New Gas-Powered Data Centers Could Emit More Greenhouse Gases Than Entire Nations (hardware.slashdot.org)
22 days ago

Q&A with Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian on building infrastructure for AI agents, balancing internal needs and the demands of customers like Anthropic, and more (stratechery.com)
22 days ago Google AI

Trump threatens to “put a big tariff on the UK” if it does not drop its digital services tax, which he views as unfairly targeting US tech companies (www.telegraph.co.uk)
22 days ago Trump Tax

SAP reports Q1 revenue up 6% YoY to €9.56B, vs. €9.53B est., non-IFRS operating profit up 17% to €2.87B, cloud revenue up 19% to €5.96B; SAP up 10%+ after hours (www.reuters.com)
22 days ago

Singapore is slowly emerging as a neutral ground for AI companies, offering an alternative place to build without worrying about US or Chinese regulations (www.reuters.com)
22 days ago China AI Singapore

Sources: AI coding firm Cognition is in early talks to raise hundreds of millions of dollars at a $25B valuation, up from $10.2B announced in September 2025 (www.bloomberg.com)
22 days ago AI

Apple Stops Weirdly Storing Data That Let Cops Spy On Signal Chats (yro.slashdot.org)
22 days ago Apple

Sources: the US DOJ arrested a soldier involved in the capture of Nicolás Maduro for allegedly making $400K+ on Polymarket by betting on his removal from office (abcnews.com)
22 days ago

Warner Bros Shareholders Approve Paramount's $81 Billion Takeover (entertainment.slashdot.org)
22 days ago

Hackers exploit file upload bug in Breeze Cache WordPress plugin (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
22 days ago WordPress

OpenAI Says Its New GPT-5.5 Model Is More Efficient and Better At Coding (slashdot.org)
22 days ago

Texas Instruments stock rose 19% on Thursday, its best day since 2000, after upbeat Q2 guidance driven by high demand for analog chips used in AI data centers (www.cnbc.com)
22 days ago AI Texas

Shenzhen-based Pudu Robotics, which makes commercial service robots, raised ~$150M, bringing its total funding to $300M+, and says its valuation exceeds $1.5B (www.therobotreport.com)
22 days ago Robot Shenzhen

Intel reports Q1 revenue up 7% YoY to $13.58B, vs. $12.42B est., and forecasts Q2 revenue and adjusted EPS above estimates; INTC jumps 15%+ after hours (www.cnbc.com)
22 days ago Intel

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