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PARTNER CONTENT: Onix's Wingspan platform promises to move enterprises from pilot purgatory to governed, enterprise-wide AI deployment in weeks, not years Most large European enterprises have no shortage of AI ambition, but they lack the data foundation to support it. Fragmented legacy systems, strict GDPR obligations, and anxiety
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* Samsung MAX VPN officially retires on June 15, 2026 * The app will remain on devices as a dead shell unless uninstalled * Former users should transition to a reliable third-party VPN Samsung MAX VPN is officially shutting down for good, leaving its over 50 million mobile users urgently searching for the
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OneXPlayer is launching its X2 Mini Pro on Indiegogo and with it, the promise of performance up the ying-yang, but buyers need to prepared for a major case of severe sticker shock. Starting at a staggering $2,399, the base model costs more than five Nintendo Switch 2 consoles, or
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American Express acquires TheFork, the European restaurant-reservation platform, from Tripadvisor for $700m in cash. The payments company announced the proposed deal on Monday, adding a booking network of more than 50,000 restaurants across 11 European countries to a dining business it has been quietly assembling for years. The structure
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The Kazakhstan AI deal is signed. Kazakhstan has agreed a set of accords with Firebird, a US startup backed by Nvidia, to build artificial-intelligence data centres that could draw as much as $10bn in investment, as the oil-and-gas producer tries to reinvent itself as a computing hub for the region.
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NewCore has come out of stealth with $66m to solve a problem most companies have not named yet: who, or what, is logging into their systems. The identity-security startup, based in Tel Aviv and San Francisco, is building a platform to govern both human employees and autonomous AI agents under
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An Anthropic lawsuit filed in California this week accuses the AI company of overselling its priciest Claude subscriptions. The complaint, brought by Washington, D.C. customer Karl Kahn, claims Anthropic’s “Max 5x” ($100 a month) and “Max 20x” ($200 a month) plans deliver far less usage than advertised, and
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The Meta face recognition system for its smart glasses was built on software licensed from Rank One Computing, a Pentagon and police contractor, according to a WIRED investigation. Reporters Dell Cameron and Dhruv Mehrotra found a leaked, still-active licence tying Meta to a vendor that draws roughly 80 per cent
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The letter arrived at 5:21pm Eastern Time on a Friday, which is the hour at which official Washington usually stops returning calls and the news cycle goes slack for the weekend. It came from the Commerce Department, ran to a few paragraphs, and did something no piece of American
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SpaceX’s historic IPO just got super-sized, after the public offering’s underwriters exercised their option to purchase the maximum amount of shares — bringing the total amount raised to $85.7 billion. Elon Musk’s space-and-AI company had initially raised $75 billion, which was already enough to make it the
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