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In Brief 9:40 AM PDT · August 3, 2026 OpenAI’s ChatGPT is Congress’s AI tool of choice so far in terms of money spent, according to a report from CNBC. OpenAI received roughly 90% of all spending on AI tools by House offices, committees and institutional accounts during
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It’s Monday, and a new week means there’s a fresh batch of deals for you to shop at Walmart. You’ll find some serious savings on everything from top tech to household basics, along with tons of back-to-school essentials. Plus, CNET’s shopping experts are here to help
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi virtually laid the foundation stone for ASIP Technologies' ₹2,500 crore semiconductor manufacturing facility in Visakhapatnam recently, marking the launch of Andhra Pradesh's and South India's first semiconductor manufacturing project approved under the India Semiconductor Mission (ISM 1.0). The Outsourced
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IIRM Holdings India Ltd has announced a strategic capital raise of ₹1,500 million, underscoring a broader trend of consolidation in India's insurance distribution market. The company said the funding will support business expansion, strategic acquisitions, capital expenditure and working capital requirements. The capital raise, comprising equity shares
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India's semiconductor ambitions are gathering pace. Battery manufacturing is expanding, electronics production is climbing, and government-backed incentives are pushing companies to manufacture more within the country. Yet beneath these headline investments lies a quieter challenge that receives far less attention: the materials that make these industries possible. From
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Fortinet has expanded its FortiGate G Series portfolio with the launch of the FortiGate 1200G and FortiSASE Outpost, a new offering designed to combine high-performance firewall capabilities with cloud-delivered Secure Access Service Edge (SASE). The company said the solution is aimed at enterprises managing AI workloads, hybrid infrastructure, and growing
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Anthropic is now bringing in-country inference for Claude to India through Amazon Bedrock. In the coming weeks, organizations using the India endpoint on AWS will have requests processed on servers located within India, allowing enterprises to keep AI inference inside the country while using Claude models. The move marks another
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Flipkart is set to enter India's online food delivery market by mid-August, beginning with a pilot rollout in Bengaluru and a restaurant commission model of 10–11%. The Walmart-owned e-commerce company is betting that lower commissions can help it attract restaurant partners in a market long dominated by
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Refining an Automated Reasoning policy in Amazon Bedrock has been a manual cycle of diagnose, hand-edit, retest, and repeat. Today, we are announcing automatic policy refinement, which automates the diagnose-and-fix work in that cycle. The refinement engine diagnoses failing tests and proposes formal-logic fixes. You approve every change before it
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Building on its recently-announced plans to bring original Xbox games to PC, Microsoft is also planning to let developers bring their Xbox 360 games to PC as well, according to a leaked document, seen by The Verge, that was sent to developers recently. Xbox 360 games will be able to
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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. Most carriers track everything. Cape doesn't. — Unlimited talk, text &
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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. Most carriers track everything. Cape doesn't. — Unlimited talk, text &
