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An interview with Axon CEO Rick Smith, who transformed the Taser maker into a policing software company, as its revenue from AI policing tools rises 700%+ YoY

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The Func. Lab Raises $1.5 Million Seed Funding; Nisaba Godrej, Anand Piramal and Bhakti Modi Among Investors

Nutrition startup The Func. Lab has raised $1.5 million in a seed funding round from a group of strategic investors, including Nisaba Godrej, Executive Chairperson of Godrej Consumer Products; Anand Piramal, Executive Director of Piramal Group; former Indian cricketer and coach Abhishek Nayar; Bhakti Modi, Co-Founder of Tira; Harsh

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China’s CXMT wins a reported $3bn memory deal with Tencent

ChangXin Memory Technologies has agreed to supply Tencent with roughly $3bn of memory chips, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters, in a deal that would bind one of China’s largest cloud operators to its largest homegrown DRAM maker. Neither company has confirmed the agreement publicly, and the

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Australia moves to double Big Tech fines and arm its regulator over the under-16 ban

Six months after Australia became the first country to bar under-16s from social media, the government has concluded that the platforms are not taking the rule seriously enough, and is preparing to make the consequences of ignoring it considerably more expensive. New legislation announced this week would roughly double the

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Prosus profit roughly doubles as its e-commerce bets and Tencent stake pay off

For years Prosus was, in effect, a single bet wearing the costume of a diversified investor: a sprawling portfolio whose value rose and fell with one Chinese asset. Its latest results suggest the costume is becoming the company. Prosus reported revenue of about $7.3bn for the financial year ended

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Amazon’s rapid-delivery push wipes $15bn off India’s Eternal and Swiggy

Amazon spent years circling India’s quick-commerce market without committing to it. Investors have now decided the circling is over, and they have repriced the incumbents accordingly. Shares in Eternal, the parent of grocery-delivery leader Blinkit, and in rival Swiggy have fallen sharply as Amazon accelerates its rapid-delivery business in

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Nearly 400 local newspapers sue OpenAI and Microsoft over copyright

A coalition that owns nearly 400 local US newspapers has sued OpenAI and Microsoft. The publishers call AI training on their reporting a death knell for local journalism. It is the largest copyright case the local press has brought yet. Local newspapers report the meetings no algorithm attends. The council

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Germany’s AI rollout is being sold as a fix for its worker shortage

The case for artificial intelligence in Germany is being made, increasingly, in the language of arithmetic rather than ambition. The country does not have enough workers, and AI is being pitched as a way to need fewer of them. The concrete version of that pitch is small and unglamorous. A

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OpenAI hires Apple’s Vision Pro chief Paul Meade

Paul Meade, Apple’s Vision Pro chief, is leaving to build OpenAI’s devices. It is the most senior Apple defection yet, and it points the AI hardware talent war straight at Cupertino. Apple does not lose vice presidents to rivals. That is the unwritten rule, and for years it

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Ex-Anthropic researchers raise $200M for self-improving AI

Mirendil, founded by two researchers who left Anthropic after barely a year, has raised $200m at a $1bn valuation. The pitch: sell the self-improving AI that the big labs build for themselves and guard from everyone else. The biggest AI labs share one private conviction. The fastest way to build

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AWS raises GPU prices 20% as the memory crunch bites

Renting an AI chip is starting to feel like booking a hotel in a sold-out city. You pay to hold the room, and the rate keeps climbing. On AWS, it just climbed again. Amazon Web Services has raised prices for EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML by roughly 20%, starting in

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SpaceX wants its own gas pipeline to fuel Starship

Most rocket companies buy their fuel. SpaceX wants to pipe it in. Filings in Texas show the company plans to build its own natural gas pipeline, an unusual move for a space firm, and a telling one. SpaceX calls the line Starpipe. It would run eight miles, about 13km, to