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Jack & Jill has raised $40M in a Series A led by Air Street Capital, bringing total funding to $60M less than a year after a $20M seed round. Madrona and Antler are new investors, and Creandum, Ada Ventures, Entrepreneurs First, Expedite Capital, and Repeat.vc all returned. The product
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Bill Gates has committed the Gates Foundation to spending at least $1bn over the next two years on expanding access to AI, and paired the announcement with a blunt assessment of the people who are supposed to be regulating it. “I don’t think any government is nearly as deep
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Bilal Chughtai worked on AGI safety and alignment research at Google DeepMind until July. This week he posted his reasons for leaving, writing on X: “I recently resigned from Google DeepMind, where I worked on AGI safety and alignment research. At Google, I witnessed AI development first hand. I too
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The language of the data centre industry has changed. A few years ago, capacity was measured in racks and megawatts. Today, the unit of measure is gigawatts — and the ambitions attached to that number are reshaping how the world’s largest technology companies think about infrastructure. The numbers behind the
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Tata Consultancy Services, a global leader in IT services, consulting, and business solutions, has partnered with the Dubai Gold & Commodities Exchange (DGCX) to modernise and future-proof DGCX’s market infrastructure through the implementation of a next-generation integrated trading, clearing, and surveillance solution. The transformation programme will provide DGCX with
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RSK Business Solutions, a global technology consulting and software solutions provider, has announced its participation in Dubai AI Festival 2026. This two-day festival will feature technology thought-leaders, innovators, investors, and businesses who will be defining the future of AI. The Dubai AI Festival 2026 is scheduled for October 26-27, 2026,
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Quick Heal Technologies Limited, a global provider of cybersecurity solutions, today issued a warning on an ongoing WhatsApp-based malware campaign targeting finance teams, senior executives, chartered accountants and individual business users. The campaign is spreading through compromised WhatsApp accounts and is evolving rapidly, with attackers adopting new file formats and
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By Suresh Babu Katta, Co-Founder & CEO of Mukula Technologies Private Limited This month, as India reflects on the contributions of its engineers, it is worth pausing on one word: evolution. For the past three decades, India’s engineering story has been enormous, spanning software, systems, and infrastructure that today
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Good music can change the mood of a room. However, you don’t always need a large speaker system to bring the party along. Designed for those who seek powerful sound in a portable form factor, well-known Indian mass-market/mass-premium lifestyle electronics brand HAMMER brings you ‘Wave 2’ — a 20W
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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Cloudflare Connect 2026: The Agentic Conference — Stop preparing for agents. Start running
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Nor are you likely to save much by making the move, says Gartner One of the main motivations for quitting Microsoft 365 and adopting Google Workspace is spite, an emotion that sadly doesn’t produce a return on investment. The source of that disappointing news is Domenico Scriva, a senior
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Imagine you are an AI Agent. You execute inside a $20-40 million-plus Nvidia SuperPOD system’s accelerator hardware, have a skill set and can call up other agents to do your bidding. An insurance company customer, using a PC browser or smart phone, asks a question: “Am I covered for
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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Cloudflare Connect 2026: The Agentic Conference — Stop preparing for agents. Start running
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The language of the data centre industry has changed. A few years ago, capacity was measured in racks and megawatts. Today, the unit of measure is gigawatts — and the ambitions attached to that number are reshaping how the world’s largest technology companies think about infrastructure. The numbers behind the
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MediaTek on Tuesday unveiled its new Dimensity 9600 Pro and 9600M phone processors, both of which highlight support for advanced gaming as well as artificial intelligence features for upcoming phones. Phone processors are an important component in any device — they help power everything from how fast a phone runs, image
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Tata Consultancy Services, a global leader in IT services, consulting, and business solutions, has partnered with the Dubai Gold & Commodities Exchange (DGCX) to modernise and future-proof DGCX’s market infrastructure through the implementation of a next-generation integrated trading, clearing, and surveillance solution. The transformation programme will provide DGCX with
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We are entering a multi-year era of huge global demand and infrastructure upgrades for routers, switches and data centres, driven by the growth of AI and agents. One company benefiting from this is Cisco, which in its most recent financial year (FY26) revealed that product orders were up 35% year
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Now the XC60 T8 features a 37.9 kWh (net) battery pack (41.2 kWh gross), which gives the SUV an electric driving range of 78 miles (125 km), according to the Environmental Protection Agency test cycle. According to Volvo, that should be enough for three days’ worth of daily
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RSK Business Solutions, a global technology consulting and software solutions provider, has announced its participation in Dubai AI Festival 2026. This two-day festival will feature technology thought-leaders, innovators, investors, and businesses who will be defining the future of AI. The Dubai AI Festival 2026 is scheduled for October 26-27, 2026,
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Most plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV) today get an average of around 30-50 miles of battery-only range: decent, but not mind-blowing. With hybrid sales dominating the market today, Volvo is out to prove that its PHEVs can push the limits of what’s possible. Today, the Swedish automaker revealed the
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Volvo caters to EV-curious buyers with way more range in its plug-in hybrid SUVs. Given the current uncertainty in the global economy, you can forgive companies for hedging their bets and trying to cover as many bases as possible. In the automotive industry, that means leaning heavier than ever into
