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The maker of the autonomous Chaparral is in advanced talks to go public through a blank-cheque merger valuing the combined company at about $1bn. The SPAC, declared dead more than once over the past few years, keeps finding new uses, and the latest is a cargo drone. Elroy Air, a
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Sam Altman told staff Washington wants GPT-5.6 released first to a short list of trusted partners, with access approved customer by customer. For years the debate over slowing down powerful AI models was a matter for company safety teams and outside critics. Now it has a government request attached.
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Numbers in the trillions have a way of losing their edges, so it is worth holding this one still for a moment. Samsung is expected to announce plans to invest 1,000 trillion won, around $647.5bn, in South Korea over the next 10 years, according to local media reports
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Professional services firms spent two decades layering tools on top of tools. An ERP for the general ledger, a handful of point solutions for everything else, and spreadsheets holding it all together. That architecture worked fine when the hardest thing you had to track was a timesheet. But it doesn&
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Former Infosys CEO Vishal Sikka has launched Hang Ten Systems, an enterprise AI startup that aims to help large organisations continuously build, modify, and operate enterprise software using AI-driven development and automation. The Bay Area-based company has also raised $32 million in seed funding, led by Mayfield, with strategic participation
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Figma has unveiled a major overhaul of its design platform, introducing an AI-powered "intelligent canvas" that brings together design, code, AI agents and collaborative workflows in a single workspace as the company bets on AI-driven product development. The announcements were made at Config 2026, Figma's annual
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IBM has unveiled what it says is the world's first sub-1 nanometer (nm) chip technology, introducing a new transistor architecture that the company believes could extend semiconductor scaling for at least another decade. The new semiconductor technology features a 0.7 nm (7 angstrom) process node and nearly
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IAN Angel Fund says it deployed over ₹115 crore in FY26. The fund invested across eight sectors, including deeptech, life sciences and healthtech, climate and sustainability, cybersecurity, logistics, edtech, food & beverage and consumer tech. About 75% of the capital went into new portfolio companies, with the remaining 25% used
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Emergent, the fast-growing AI software creation platform, has partnered with entrepreneur and content creator Raj Shamani to launch a nationwide challenge aimed at helping Indian businesses become AI-native by building software tailored to their own operations. The initiative invites business owners, founders and operators across India to identify a real
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To casual soccer viewers, the game may look like it always has—same green field, 22 players, a referee, and the familiar rhythm of play unfolding over 90 minutes. The changes are only visible if you look beneath the familiar surface. What appears to be a traditional match is now
