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Two robots that look roughly like people just reached inside a live animal and removed an organ. No film studio staged the scene. It happened in a lab in California, and it is a first for medicine. Surgeons at the University of California San Diego used two teleoperated humanoid robots
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Japan’s biggest payments app and its most famous convenience-store chain may be about to get closer. SoftBank and its payments arm PayPay are in talks to invest in Seven & i Holdings, the retailer behind 7-Eleven, according to Bloomberg, which reported the discussions on Friday. Neither the size nor
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Europe uses about a fifth of the world’s chips, but makes only a tenth of them. A three-year-old Munich startup thinks it can help close that gap, and Brussels has just backed the bet. QuantumDiamonds is a spin-out of the Technical University of Munich. It has raised €91M to
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Anthropic has built a feature that does something odd for a tech company. It counts how much you lean on its product, then gently suggests you might want to lean a little less. The feature is called Reflect, and it landed in beta on Thursday. It is a dashboard, tucked
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Nanya Technology spent years as the also-ran of the memory business, the Taiwanese DRAM maker that Samsung, SK Hynix and Micron never had to worry about much. The AI boom has changed the arithmetic. The company now plans to spend around $6bn in 2027 as it races to expand capacity
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Brussels has decided that infinite scroll is not a feature but a hazard. On Friday, the European Commission told Meta to dismantle the design tricks that keep people glued to Facebook and Instagram, or risk a fine that could run into billions, in a fresh set of charges under the
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Qure.ai today announced the appointment of Malika Shrivastava, a former Google executive, as its first Chief Marketing Officer, and the promotion of Amy Casey, a former Microsoft and Nuance leader, to Executive Vice President of Sales for North America, strengthening its leadership team as the company scales its commercial
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AssetPlus, a WealthTech startup, has launched Har Ghar MFD, a digital learning and knowledge platform designed to support aspiring and existing Mutual Fund Distributors (MFDs), as India's mutual fund industry looks to address a growing gap between investor participation and distributor availability. The initiative was unveiled in Mumbai
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DXC Technology, an enterprise IT services provider, has opened a 200,000 sq ft Customer Experience Center in Bengaluru. The company, which provides IT services, consulting, cloud, cybersecurity, and engineering solutions to enterprises, said the facility will help customers develop, test, and deploy AI applications. "By bringing together our
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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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Nearly 500 GCCs in India are not realising their full potential and have begun to plateau, as per the findings of UnearthIQ and Embark’s “The Great Plateau: Why GCCs are Unable to Reach their Full Potential” report. Around 30% of GCCs established after 2020 have already plateaued, representing nearly
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Midmarket ERP vendor Unit4 today launches a try-before-you-buy offer of its AI capabilities that will see customers who sign up this year getting free access through the end of August 2027, subject to a fair usage cap. At the same time, the vendor has been evolving its cloud-native ERPx platform
