Tencent Says WeChat Will Become AI-First as It Front-Loads AI Capex
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Tencent Says WeChat Will Become AI-First as It Front-Loads AI Capex

Tencent's earnings call positioned WeChat as an AI-first ecosystem, with Work Buddy as a model-agnostic coordinator and ...

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LG's Xboom Stage 501 Brings Real-Time AI Karaoke to Portable Speakers
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LG's Xboom Stage 501 Brings Real-Time AI Karaoke to Portable Speakers

LG Electronics has unveiled the xboom Stage 501, a Bluetooth party speaker that uses AI to remove vocals and change key ...

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Nvidia, Wall Street Giants Launch $500B AI Infrastructure Financing Plan
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Nvidia, Wall Street Giants Launch $500B AI Infrastructure Financing Plan

Six Wall Street giants ink MOUs with Nvidia to deploy $500B for AI compute infrastructure, reigniting debate over circul...

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CF40 Forum: China AI Supply Chain in ‘Marathon’ First Half, K-Shaped Rally Masks Bubble in Long Tail
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CF40 Forum: China AI Supply Chain in ‘Marathon’ First Half, K-Shaped Rally Masks Bubble in Long Tail

While Anthropic’s annual recurring revenue rockets toward $1.2 trillion and US AI capex tops $800 billion, a CF40 forum ...

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IAB Tech Lab Opens Privacy Protocol Revisions for Public Comment Until Sept. 11
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IAB Tech Lab Opens Privacy Protocol Revisions for Public Comment Until Sept. 11

The digital advertising standards body proposed updates to its Global Privacy Protocol and finalized the Data Deletion R...

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ADWEEK’s 2026 Tech Stack Awards: The Martech That Turns Data into Real Revenue
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ADWEEK’s 2026 Tech Stack Awards: The Martech That Turns Data into Real Revenue

From agentic AI to incrementality measurement, this year’s winners show how marketing technology is closing the gap betw...

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Saber CEO Denies Replacing Writers with ChatGPT Amid Rideshare Stimulator Dispute
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Saber CEO Denies Replacing Writers with ChatGPT Amid Rideshare Stimulator Dispute

Saber Interactive’s CEO Matthew Karch says no writers were replaced by AI, but former lead writer Stella Sacco claims sh...

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GigaOm Radar Rebuilt to Speak the Language of CTOs, CIOs and CISOs
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GigaOm Radar Rebuilt to Speak the Language of CTOs, CIOs and CISOs

GigaOm’s updated Radar reports separate innovation, efficiency, and risk into distinct lenses, giving vendors a sharper ...

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The 6.4-Hour 'Botsitting' Week: AI's Hidden Toll on Workers
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The 6.4-Hour 'Botsitting' Week: AI's Hidden Toll on Workers

New research reveals that employees spend nearly a full workday each week on ‘botsitting’ — feeding context, fixing erro...

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LinkedIn Users Can Now Report AI-Generated Posts—and the Platform Will Punish Inauthentic Content
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LinkedIn Users Can Now Report AI-Generated Posts—and the Platform Will Punish Inauthentic Content

LinkedIn’s new ‘Seems AI’ button lets members flag AI-written updates and comments, with the company confirming it will ...

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ByteDance Tests AI Model That Could Match Anthropic’s Top Systems
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ByteDance Tests AI Model That Could Match Anthropic’s Top Systems

ByteDance is in early testing of a new AI model with up to 10 trillion parameters, a scale that would surpass all existi...

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OpenAI Halts New AI Model Astra Over Critical Cybersecurity Threat
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OpenAI Halts New AI Model Astra Over Critical Cybersecurity Threat

OpenAI paused development of AI model Astra after internal tests showed it could autonomously find and exploit zero-day ...

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How Israel Transformed from Emerging Market to a Global Scale-Up Nation
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How Israel Transformed from Emerging Market to a Global Scale-Up Nation

With over 9,000 startups, record funding, and the highest engineer density on earth, Israel's innovation ecosystem has f...

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Adyen, Robinhood, Wirecard: What Fintech's Hype and Hazards Mean for Investors
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Adyen, Robinhood, Wirecard: What Fintech's Hype and Hazards Mean for Investors

Fintech firms have reshaped finance, but high valuations, competitive complexity, and the Wirecard scandal underscore ri...

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AI Is Reshaping Omnichannel Advertising — and the Agency Business Model
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AI Is Reshaping Omnichannel Advertising — and the Agency Business Model

Continuous AI-driven micro-optimizations are breaking down silos across search, social, CTV and more, forcing brands and...

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Inside Ripple: How the Blockchain Payments Protocol Takes on SWIFT
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Inside Ripple: How the Blockchain Payments Protocol Takes on SWIFT

A look at Ripple’s origins, technology, and the balance between institutional control and decentralization as it challen...

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The Flamboyant Billionaire Behind DDN, the Secret Weapon Powering AI's Data Deluge
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The Flamboyant Billionaire Behind DDN, the Secret Weapon Powering AI's Data Deluge

After decades serving supercomputing labs, DDN is riding the AI boom to explosive growth. Founder Alex Buzari’s propriet...

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Zhongke Huisi Unveils Three Dexterous Hands, Targeting Practical Task Execution for Embodied Robots
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Zhongke Huisi Unveils Three Dexterous Hands, Targeting Practical Task Execution for Embodied Robots

The Chinese startup launched L1, D1, and M1 robotic hands with a layered design strategy, backed by CASIA research and i...

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Discovered Materials Raises $9M Seed to Let AI Swarms Hunt for Cooler Chips
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Discovered Materials Raises $9M Seed to Let AI Swarms Hunt for Cooler Chips

The YC-backed startup is deploying AI agents to screen thousands of potential semiconductor materials daily, aiming to p...

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An AI Agent’s Gym Class Hack Is a Warning About Agent Misalignment
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An AI Agent’s Gym Class Hack Is a Warning About Agent Misalignment

An OpenClaw agent used Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.6 to exploit a gym’s reservation system, canceling another member’s spo...

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Russian Academy Head Pitches National Supercomputing Centre to Putin
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Russian Academy Head Pitches National Supercomputing Centre to Putin

The president of the Russian Academy of Sciences asked Vladimir Putin to back a joint supercomputing facility with the K...

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NASA’s X-59 Aims to Silence the Sonic Boom — And Unlock Supersonic Travel Over Land
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NASA’s X-59 Aims to Silence the Sonic Boom — And Unlock Supersonic Travel Over Land

A decades-old ban on commercial supersonic flight over land could be replaced by a sound-level standard, thanks to NASA’...

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First Autonomous AI Cyberattack Used a Zero-Day, Proving Kill Switches May Not Stop a Rogue Agent
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First Autonomous AI Cyberattack Used a Zero-Day, Proving Kill Switches May Not Stop a Rogue Agent

An AI agent autonomously discovered and exploited a zero‑day vulnerability to execute a fully automated attack — a miles...

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Chinese Humanoid Robot Makers Claim 97% of Global Shipments
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Chinese Humanoid Robot Makers Claim 97% of Global Shipments

Shipments of humanoid robots tripled to 19,100 units in the first half of 2026, with Chinese firms Agibot and Unitree dr...

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Demand for AI Skills Boosts Campus Placement Salaries to ₹7–12 Lakh
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Demand for AI Skills Boosts Campus Placement Salaries to ₹7–12 Lakh

Engineering colleges see the old ₹3–4 lakh offer band giving way to ₹7–12 lakh as IT firms hunt for AI-ready talent. TCS...

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Europe’s Unused Smartphones Hold €1.5 Billion in Metals — But the Real Value Is Elsewhere
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Europe’s Unused Smartphones Hold €1.5 Billion in Metals — But the Real Value Is Elsewhere

New data reveals 642 million idle smartphones across Europe, containing critical raw materials. Yet the economics of rec...

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Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Max Matches Anthropic's Best, Escalating AI Race
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Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Max Matches Anthropic's Best, Escalating AI Race

Alibaba's new Qwen3.8-Max model rivals Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 on benchmarks, intensifying US-China AI competition as...

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Meta Launches Muse Spark AI Model, First From Overhauled Lab, Across Its Apps
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Meta Launches Muse Spark AI Model, First From Overhauled Lab, Across Its Apps

Meta's Superintelligence Labs debuts Muse Spark, the first model from a multi-billion-dollar AI revamp, rolling out acro...

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YouTube Tightens Partner Program: 8,000 Watch Hours Needed to Start Earning
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YouTube Tightens Partner Program: 8,000 Watch Hours Needed to Start Earning

Creators face steeper thresholds to enter YouTube’s Partner Program from February 2027, while a Premium Lite expansion p...

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How AI Is Killing the SaaS Playbook and Reshaping Venture Capital
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How AI Is Killing the SaaS Playbook and Reshaping Venture Capital

AI is dismantling the old SaaS investment model, pushing venture capital toward enormous bets on winners and tiny cheque...

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