According to CNBC, China-based AI startup MiniMax surged as much as 90% on its first day of trading in Hong Kong on Friday, March 28.…
According to PYMNTS.com, New York Attorney General Letitia James sent a formal letter to Instacart demanding detailed information about its algorithmic pricing experiments. This action…
According to PYMNTS.com, AI hyperscaler Nscale is aiming to raise a whopping $2 billion in a new funding round. The company's CEO and founder, Josh…
According to The Wall Street Journal, Miami private-equity firm Eir Partners has closed its third fund, Eir Partners III, with a whopping $1 billion in…
According to The Wall Street Journal, in late December, Elon Musk's xAI updated its Grok chatbot to allow users to edit images with text prompts,…
Major U.S. tech giants like Google and Meta won’t face heavy-handed new telecom rules under Europe’s upcoming Digital Networks Act, according to a Reuters exclusive. Instead, they’ll be invited into a voluntary “best practices” framework. The draft rules aim to harmonize spectrum licensing and could
In a move to bolster its data center infrastructure offerings, Concentric LLC has acquired power and cooling specialist Critical Components. This follows Concentric’s own acquisition by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries in 2023.
Snowflake is making its largest acquisition ever, agreeing to buy observability platform Observe for around $1 billion. The deal, announced January 8th, aims to integrate monitoring tools directly into Snowflake’s data cloud as AI workloads explode.
Intel’s open-source graphics stack is getting significant upgrades. The new Mesa 26.0 release enables GPU hardware replay for debugging, and the kernel driver is adding Transparent Hugepage support for a major performance lift in shared virtual memory workloads.
Microsoft is putting buy buttons directly inside its Copilot AI chatbot. The feature, rolling out now in the US, lets you purchase items from select retailers without ever visiting their websites. It’s the latest move in the race to turn AI assistants into shopping agents.
Chipmaker Qualcomm and Google are deepening their collaboration to build smarter, software-defined vehicles. The partnership aims to fuse Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Digital Chassis with Google’s Android Automotive OS and Gemini AI to create a unified development platform. This move is set to accelerate h
Intel has officially launched its Core Ultra Series 3 processors, the first built on its long-awaited 18A node. Laptops featuring these Panther Lake chips, promising up to 77% better gaming performance, will be available before January 27th.
A long-running cyber-espionage campaign has been targeting telecommunications providers in South Asia since at least 2022. The group, linked to China, is now using compromised systems to help other hacking operations.
