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Sixty billion dollars is a lot of bond, even by SoftBank Group’s standards. The Japanese conglomerate is reportedly preparing to raise up to that much in fresh debt, according to Bloomberg, a target that would eclipse anything Masayoshi Son’s firm has sold before and that lands squarely behind
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The apartment in the StreetEasy photo is bright, airy, and a shade roomier than the walls actually permit. Under a plan from New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani, that listing would soon have to confess the touch-up. On 16 July his administration published the Rental Ripoff Report, a 23-point agenda
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Coca-Cola says its fairlife dairy unit was hit by ransomware, and has suspended all US production while it investigates. A ransomware attack has stopped production at one of Coca-Cola’s biggest dairy brands. The company said fairlife found unauthorised access to part of its systems, including production systems, in a
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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Stop vibe coding analytics — Equals AI turns questions about your business into
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Cybercrime The company disconnected its systems on July 13 and is starting to gradually restore operations. Japanese frozen food giant Nichirei says it is ready to gradually restore operations affected by a cyberattack on July 13. Headquartered in Tokyo, Nichirei is one of Japan’s top frozen food producers. It
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After starting her career in marketing at a large retailer in South Africa, Samantha Wessels teamed up with a female colleague to start a small consulting firm, offering one-to-one marketing. The aim was to drive personalized marketing to a large number of people, and Wessels realized very quickly that in
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Some companies want their humanoid robots to fold your clothes. Others want them in the workplace. Sankaet Pathak and his startup Foundation Future Industries have a slightly different goal: produce an all-American robot supersoldier. Pathak, Foundation’s CEO, says his company plans to start giving its humanoids lethal capabilities soon,
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* The UK has the second-highest energy costs and planning environments in a study of 10 countries * Britain also ranks ninth out of 10 in terms of overall network quality * VodafoneThree wants networks to be seen as critical national infrastructure VodafoneThree has argued that the UK is falling behind the rest
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A decade ago, technology used data to make commercial real estate processes faster. Brokers leveraged tech platforms to gather data, run it through a process, and serve up solutions that flowed from predefined formulas. Today, data is used to make processes smarter. With the power of AI, platforms are giving
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British supply chain security firm Risk Ledger has announced raising £24 million (roughly $32.3 million) in a Series B funding round that brings the total raised by the company to £33.8 million (roughly $45 million). The fresh investment round was led by Axiom Equity, with additional support from
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Delinea , the runtime identity security platform that governs what humans, machines, and AI agents do once they have access, announced the launch of the Delinea Partner Advantage Program. The new comprehensive framework is built to deliver proven identity security technology, protected discounts, and ease of doing business. Developed with direct
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Databricks, the Data and AI company, today announced strategic funding at a $188 billion valuation. The company has signed a term sheet for this round, which it expects to close later this summer, led by existing investor Coatue. The round will include additional new and existing investors. Databricks will use
