Sankalp Phartiyal / Bloomberg : Sources: India plans to unveil a ~$10.8B fund aimed at bolstering domestic chipmaking, including subsidiz...
Sources: India plans to unveil a ~$10.8B fund aimed at bolstering domestic chipmaking, including subsidizing chip design projects and manufacturing equipment — India plans to unveil a more than 1 trillion rupee ($10.8 billion) fund aimed at bolstering domestic chipmaking …
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Axiom Math, which uses AI and the Lean language to verify code in much the same way that mathematicians prove math problems, raised $200M at a $1.6B valuation — In January, a team of researchers at Carnegie Mellon University published a study analyzing the use of artificial intelligence technologies …
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IDS and ADRN study: 11 African governments spent $2B+ on Chinese-built surveillance tech that recognizes faces and monitors movements; Nigeria spent $470M — Countries across the continent have spent more than $2bn on Chinese tracking technology that is not ‘necessary or proportionate’, new report finds
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Microsoft is pushing for more Africans to adopt its AI tools as it competes with DeepSeek: training 3M people, partnering with telecom MTN to sell 365, and more — Microsoft Corp. is making a push for more Africans to adopt its artificial-intelligence tools as the US tech giant competes …
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Chinese brain-computer interface startup Gestala raised $21.6M co-led by Guosheng Capital and Dalton Venture at a $100M to $200M valuation, per CEO Phoenix Peng — Elon Musk's Neuralink and OpenAI-backed Merge Labs are pushing forward with brain-computer interface (BCI) technology in the U.S. Meanwhile …
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Sources: Alibaba-backed PixVerse, which develops AI video generation tools, raised a $300M Series C led by CDH; the company says the round values it at $1B+ — PixVerse has raised $300 million in fresh funding, people familiar with the matter said, elevating the startup backed …
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Mastercard unveils a Crypto Partner Program with 85+ companies, including Binance, PayPal, and Ripple, to link blockchain tech with its payments infrastructure — More than 85 partners will work with Mastercard to connect on-chain payments with banks, merchants and global commerce as part of the payment giant's recent crypto program.
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Bernstein: 42% of China's 20K+ humanoid robot shipments in 2025 were education and R&D; data collection and human-robot interaction services each made up 19% — Network of training farms aims to supply data needed to put ‘brains’ into machines — At a new 12,000 square metre facility in Wuhan …
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How Amazon pushes employees to integrate AI across their workload despite their concerns that the company's “half-baked” tools are creating more work — Corporate employees said Amazon's race to roll out AI is leading to surveillance, slop and ‘more work for everyone’.
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Apple's MacBook Neo validates a vision that began with Windows on ARM, which to this day is still held back by Microsoft's commitment to x86 compatibility — I'm completely blown away by Mac Neo. It made me think a lot about what we tried to accomplish with Windows 8 more than a dozen years ago.
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