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India's startup funding story in the first half of 2026 is one of contrasts. Startups collectively raised $7.2 billion, 12% more than a year ago, according to Tracxn's India Tech H1 2026 report. Yet the number of funding rounds dropped 43%, first-time funded startups declined
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The popularity of Spotify Wrapped has kicked off a wide range of year-in-review features, on apps from YouTube to Uber — and now, the lookback trend has come to AI. Anthropic on Thursday announced a “reflect” feature for its Claude chatbot, allowing users to see an analysis of their usage data
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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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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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Meta has automatically opted all public accounts into its Muse Image AI. Steve Dent for Engadget On Tuesday, Meta announced its new AI Muse Image generator for Instagram, Meta AI and WhatsApp, promising "advanced reasoning to understand complex prompts, seamlessly blending multiple photos into high-quality creations." In Instagram,
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Character.AI’s plan to become more than just an LLM-powered chatbot platform is going beyond interactive books, comics, and audio dramas. Today, the company announced the debut of c.ai Series — short-form, episodic videos designed to be watched and interacted with — on your phone. Unlike traditional microdrama services that
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Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways * Claude Cowork turned messy tasks into useful results. * It helped fix servers, sort PDFs, and review contracts. * Giving an AI that much access remains unsettling. I am not a naturally trusting person. So when Claude
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Terrence O'Brien is the Verge’s weekend editor. He’s covered the tech industry for over 18 years and knows a thing or two about synths. Last year, Image Line introduced Gopher for FL Studio, an AI chatbot that was basically a glorified instruction manual. You asked it
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Qube Research & Technologies, one of London’s largest quantitative hedge funds, is doing something that would once have looked heretical for a firm built on code: it is hiring humans to pick stocks. The move, reported by Business Insider, places the fund alongside a small group of systematic managers
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Rubrik, the US data-security company, said it will invest more than $500m in Britain over the next five years and make London its headquarters for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. The commitment, announced on Wednesday and worth about £375m, lands as governments across the region press companies to keep
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France’s competition regulator has signalled that its long-running inquiry into Nvidia is drawing to a close, edging the world’s most valuable chipmaker nearer to a formal reckoning over how it wields its grip on the market for artificial intelligence hardware. The company has long been tipped to face
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* NordVPN has launched Message Protection for Android users worldwide, adding SMS screening to its Call and Message Protection suite. * The tool checks incoming texts from unknown senders and pushes a notification when a message looks malicious or suspicious. * Flagged texts open in a safe view that stops links being tapped
