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Alibaba Group is offering $1.5 billion to acquire Pupu, one of China’s last independent online grocery platforms, according to Bloomberg. The bid is more than double a $600 million proposal from Sun Art Retail, the former Alibaba affiliate now backed by private equity firm DCP Capital. The move
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The chief executives of the three most powerful artificial intelligence companies on Earth are about to sit in the same room as the leaders of the world’s seven largest advanced economies. OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, and Google DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis are all slated to
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* This Whoop hack matches heart rate to meeting attendees * It can link coworkers with higher levels of stress * The unofficial hack was made with the help of Claude Fable 5 AI We've seen several examples of people hacking their Whoop bands before (including recently), but nothing quite on
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According to OpenAI, there have been 17 million ChatGPT prompts related to the World Cup 2026 so far. Whether you're looking for answers about teams, players, qualifications, match times, results or records, AI can be a surprisingly useful World Cup 2026 companion. That got me thinking about some
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Craig Federighi, Apple’s SVP of engineering, said the new Siri will resist attempts at romance. Siri AI will fend off users' attempts at romancing it, according to Craig Federighi, Apple's SVP of engineering. As MacRumors has reported, Federighi clarified that the upgraded Siri for iOS 27
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Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Dell and HP have produced some of my favorite Windows laptops over the past few years. Whenever anyone asks me for a PC recommendation, I inevitably think of these brands first, as both offer several models you can't
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Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways * Android Auto now goes beyond roads, helping you explore outdoors. * Most of these apps offer offline use. * Some off-road vehicles already have Android Auto built in. Android Auto is a fantastic companion for your daily
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When a specialist AI agent company can raise $950m at a valuation above $15bn, enterprise AI has clearly moved beyond experimentation. Where buyers once asked AI tools to carry out simple tasks such as summarizing documents, answering support questions or drafting code, the question is now whether the technology can
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They say a lot can happen in a week in politics. So imagine how much can change in a year within the world of AI! Even 12 months ago, Gen AI still wasn’t mainstream worldwide. But by the end of 2025, roughly one in six people worldwide were using
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Xbox's new CEO, Asha Sharma, says the console business is facing a hardware "crisis" and warns that the market needs to provide consumers with cheaper options if it wants to survive. In a new interview with Fortune, Sharma explained that soaring costs of components like memory
