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Gravis Robotics, an ETH Zurich spinout building software that lets excavators and diggers run themselves, has raised a $200m Series A led by SoftBank, a round it bills as the largest ever in construction robotics. The deal confirms reports that surfaced earlier that Masayoshi Son’s conglomerate was circling the
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A residual value guarantee is a promise about an object, not about a tenant. Someone builds a thing. Someone else rents it. A third party promises the thing itself will still be worth a set amount. If the renter walks, the owner relets or sells. The guarantor covers only the
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In Brief 8:06 AM PDT · August 17, 2026 African defense tech company Terra Industries on Monday announced an additional $18 million in funding, bringing its seed round to $52 million. Investors in the round include Joe Lonsdale’s 8VC, Silent Ventures, and Nova Global. Since its launch back in
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This week, OpenAI added Google Drive to your ChatGPT Library. You could already connect to Google Drive, but now it means you can select a whole Drive folder and ask ChatGPT to look for answers working across all the files it contains. This can save a lot of time compared
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By Mandar Patil, EVP at Cyble Visualize a scenario where you receive a call from someone in your family asking for financial help. Their voice appears to be theirs, and they are in panic. You do not get enough time to consider; therefore, you do the transfer. Ultimately, you discover
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Cameron Faulkner is an editor covering deals and gaming hardware. He joined in 2018, and after a two-year stint at Polygon, he rejoined The Verge in May 2025. The smart speaker market is more or less dominated by major tech companies: Apple, Google, Sonos, and Amazon. But WiiM’s powerful
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It's technically still the summer season and will be for several more weeks, but in many parts of the U.S., a new school season is either already underway, or soon will be. For those heading back to school, a new laptop might be in order. If so,
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Cognizant today launched its Talent Accelerator program with 489 newly hired graduates from 58 business schools (B-schools) across 37 cities in India, including premier institutes such as IIM Bangalore; IIM Kozhikode; IIM Lucknow; ISB, Hyderabad; SPJIMR, Mumbai; FMS, University of Delhi; and XLRI – Xavier School of Management, Jamshedpur, among others.
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CSM Technologies Limited today announced that it has been certified to ISO/IEC 42001:2023, the world’s first international standard for Artificial Intelligence Management Systems (AIMS). The certification was issued following an independent audit and covers CSM’s end-to-end technology services, including software and application development, artificial intelligence, machine
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Artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping cybersecurity. Much of the conversation has focused on how large language models are helping developers write code, but a more significant shift may be occurring elsewhere: security testing. AI systems are becoming remarkably effective at identifying vulnerabilities, forcing organizations to rethink how they evaluate the
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By Shubhradeep Nandi – CoFounder – ResponCibleAI An enterprise completes its annual technology audit. The AI systems in production are reviewed, certified compliant, and signed off; a clean report filed and forgotten until next year. Within weeks, those same systems have changed. New prompts have reshaped their behaviour, fresh data has entered
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If you regularly wear an Apple Watch, you’ve probably discovered the apps most useful to your daily life, like responding to emails and texts, checking the weather and using Apple Pay for contactless payments. But there are a host of health apps and features that might not currently be
