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Amazon plans to merge MX Player into Prime Video in India, combining free and paid streaming catalogs on a single platform over the next few months

Sponsor Posts Niantic Spatial: World models need real-world data — Scaniverse is the gateway to spatial services — self-serve and built for AI and robotics. Large-area 3D reconstruction from 360° cameras and precise localization, anywhere machines operate. The link between workplace clarity and employee well-being — Workplace well-being isn't only influenced

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The best VPN extensions for Chrome in 2026: Expert tested and reviewed

An estimated 68% of internet users favor Chrome as their browser, beating rivals including Safari, Edge, and Firefox. As one of the dominant browsers with a massive user base, it makes sense for VPN providers to offer a Chrome extension. Virtual private networks (VPNs) are accessible, easy-to-use software packages and

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You can’t firewall a conversation: how AI red-teaming became mission-critical

The explosion of AI usage since 2023 is unprecedented. In terms of adoption, AI is moving faster than cloud, faster than mobile, and certainly faster than the internet did. Research group Gartner predicts that 80% of enterprises will deploy AI tools this year. When we classify a company’s journey

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Home Office seeks three CTOs to keep borders, passports, and core IT ticking

Public Sector Roles span eGates, passports, visas, asylum applications, and enterprise services – yours for up to £105K The Home Office's digital divisionis recruiting three chief technology officers (CTOs) formigration and borders and enterprise services, each paid£81,000 to £105,000 a year. It is looking for two

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Scale AI wins $500m Pentagon contract, five times its previous Defense Department deal

The agreement was signed with the Pentagon’s Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office, the procurement vehicle driving the bulk of US military AI integration spending in 2025 and 2026. Microsoft, Amazon, and Google signed parallel classified-network deals the same week. Scale AI has won a $500m contract from the

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Is the AI infrastructure layer now more valuable than software? Boomi CEO Steve Lucas raises the stakes with Boomi World on deck

What are the scope of Boomi's agentic ambitions? We're about to find out at Boomi World 2026 in Chicago. Boomi was once described as an iPaaS vendor. Now, Boomi bills itself as a "data activation company." What is that? Well, Boomi says it can

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Pronto Raises $45 Mn As Demand For Quick Home Services Picks Up

Pronto’s latest $45 Mn Series B close at a $200 Mn valuation is another sign that investors are now placing bigger bets on hyperlocal home services, a category that until recently remained fragmented, largely offline, and difficult to scale. The Bengaluru-based startup, which promises 10-minute on-demand home services, has

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Neocloud IREN buys OpenStack champion Mirantis

Former bitcoin miner plans to build an easier cloudy AI on ramp while remaining a friend to FOSS Neocloud IREN has decided to buy Mirantis, and the two plan to build an open AI stack. Mirantis made its name developing open source cloud infrastructure, such as its OpenStack distribution, hyperconverged

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OpsMill raises $14m Series A to make IT infrastructure data trustworthy enough for AI agents

IRIS led the Paris- and London-based startup’s round, with BGV joining alongside existing investors Serena and Partech. The company’s Infrahub platform is in production at TikTok and at one European cloud provider that says it has cut deployment times from five days to fifteen minutes. OpsMill, the Paris-headquartered

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Pit launches in Stockholm with $16M to build custom AI-native software for enterprise operations

The Voi co-founder, Adam Jafer, is the chief executive. Lakestar joined a16z on the round, with strategic angels from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Deel, and Revolut. Early customers, including Voi, Tre, Stena Recycling, and Kry, are reporting deployment timelines of days to weeks. Pit, a Stockholm-based AI-native software platform for enterprise

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Five architects of the AI economy explain where the wheels are coming off

Earlier this week, five people who touch every layer of the AI supply chain sat down at the Milken Global Conference in Beverly Hills, where they talked with this editor about everything from chip shortages to orbital data centers to the possibility that the whole architecture that undergirds the tech

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HP Discount Codes: 60% Off May 2026

If you don't know where to start—and use—your HP coupon code, there’s a wide variety of options available at HP.com in terms of budget and use case, but my eye goes first to the high-end HP Omen gaming monitors, like the fantastic HP Omen