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India eases foreign investment rules for e-commerce companies, a win for Amazon, which lobbied to buy goods directly from Indian sellers and sell them overseas (Aditya Kalra/Reuters)
Aditya Kalra / Reuters : India eases foreign investment rules for e-commerce compan…
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Once hailed as an AI visionary, Satya Nadella faces pressure as a compute crunch forces Microsoft to prioritize its own AI products over Azure cloud customers (Ashley Stewart/Business Insider)
Ashley Stewart / Business Insider : Once hailed as an AI visionary, Satya Nadella f…
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Shein's IPO prospectus shows Q1 revenue of $9.05B, up 1% YoY, as it swings from $395M profit in Q1 2025 to $99M loss partly due to US' "de minimis" rule removal (Reuters)
Reuters : Shein's IPO prospectus shows Q1 revenue of $9.05B, up 1% YoY, as it s…
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Elio, which is developing a new type of image sensor designed for AI rather than human vision, raised a $21M Series A led by Innovation Endeavors and Xora (Meir Orbach/CTech)
Meir Orbach / CTech : Elio, which is developing a new type of image sensor designed…
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A look at China's bid to build an alternative global order in AI by making open models widely available and training people in developing countries to use them (Financial Times)
Financial Times : A look at China's bid to build an alternative global order in…
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China's market regulator says it had fined and confiscated ~$770M from Trip.com for abusing its dominant position in the domestic online hotel-booking market (Reuters)
Reuters : China's market regulator says it had fined and confiscated ~$770M from…
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Several universities including Yale, Johns Hopkins, and the University of Waterloo have restricted or disabled their use of AI detectors over accuracy concerns (Ima Jackson-Obot/Financial Times)
Ima Jackson-Obot / Financial Times : Several universities including Yale, Johns Hop…
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Cognition acquires the makers of Poke, an AI assistant that users can access via messaging services, in a deal valuing Poke's parent in the "low nine figures" (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch : Cognition acquires the makers of Poke, an AI assistant t…
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Paper, which allows designers to connect directly with production code and the AI agents that create it, raised a $34M Series A led by Accel and ICONIQ (Chris Metinko/Axios)
Chris Metinko / Axios : Paper, which allows designers to connect directly with prod…
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The DOJ is prosecuting a Cop City protester for allegedly providing CBP with a "duress" passcode that wiped the contents of his GrapheneOS phone (Timothy Pratt/The Guardian)
Timothy Pratt / The Guardian : The DOJ is prosecuting a Cop City protester for alle…
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GitHub plans a two-tier bug bounty program that cuts rewards for the public and boosts payouts for invite-only researchers, amid a flood of AI-powered reports (Carly Page/The Register)
Carly Page / The Register : GitHub plans a two-tier bug bounty program that cuts re…
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Yope, a social network that has ~15M registered users for its "micro communities" and no algorithms, ads, or public content, raised $12.3M seed led by Northzone (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch : Yope, a social network that has ~15M registered users fo…
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Cashea, Venezuela's largest fintech startup that offers a banking and payments app, raised a $40M Series A, including $20M in debt, and a $60M Series B (Maria Clara Cobo/Bloomberg)
Maria Clara Cobo / Bloomberg : Cashea, Venezuela's largest fintech startup that…
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OpenAI says its models, including GPT-5.6 Sol and "an even more capable pre-release model", breached Hugging Face while OpenAI tested their cyber capabilities (Ina Fried/Axios)
Ina Fried / Axios : OpenAI says its models, including GPT-5.6 Sol and “an even more…
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Poolside launches Laguna S 2.1, an 118B open-weight model built for agentic coding and long-horizon work, that it says competes with larger open models (Iain Martin/Forbes)
Iain Martin / Forbes : Poolside launches Laguna S 2.1, an 118B open-weight model bu…
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