From Tesla to AI Factories: Adi Prasad’s Lessons from Musk and Kalanick
Lifestyle

From Tesla to AI Factories: Adi Prasad’s Lessons from Musk and Kalanick

The MIT and Harvard MBA grad recounts working under Elon Musk and Travis Kalanick before founding Matter, an AI-driven m...

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Microsoft Books $450 Billion Single-Day Gain as Azure AI Bets Pay Off
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Microsoft Books $450 Billion Single-Day Gain as Azure AI Bets Pay Off

Microsoft added nearly $450 billion in market value in one session — the largest single-day jump in stock market history...

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How to Use AI as Your Morning Assistant: 10 Tasks to Delegate Before 10 a.m.
Lifestyle

How to Use AI as Your Morning Assistant: 10 Tasks to Delegate Before 10 a.m.

A new productivity framework suggests offloading routine morning tasks to AI. From sorting priorities to drafting emails...

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US State Department Displays AI-Generated Map Misplacing African Nations at AIDS Forum
Politics

US State Department Displays AI-Generated Map Misplacing African Nations at AIDS Forum

A rushed last-minute edit led to a map with distorted borders for Côte d'Ivoire, Mozambique and Nigeria at a global heal...

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Lloyds Unveils £13bn AI-Powered Strategy as Insurance Arm Profits Surge 70%
Companies

Lloyds Unveils £13bn AI-Powered Strategy as Insurance Arm Profits Surge 70%

Lloyds Banking Group launched its Accelerate 2030 strategy with a £13bn tech investment, as Scottish Widows’ profit jump...

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AI Spending Under Microscope: Alphabet, Tesla, Intel Deliver the First Verdicts
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AI Spending Under Microscope: Alphabet, Tesla, Intel Deliver the First Verdicts

Investors are no longer rewarding AI ambition with blind capital. As Alphabet, Tesla and Intel report, the market demand...

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Amazon Jumps 9% After Hours on Strong Q2, AWS Growth; Capex Raised to $220bn
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Amazon Jumps 9% After Hours on Strong Q2, AWS Growth; Capex Raised to $220bn

Amazon shares surged after Q2 revenue topped estimates and AWS growth accelerated to 37%. But free cash flow turned nega...

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AWS Doesn't Need the Best AI Model to Win, Says Amazon's Jassy
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AWS Doesn't Need the Best AI Model to Win, Says Amazon's Jassy

Amazon Web Services reported a 37% revenue jump as AI demand grows. CEO Andy Jassy now says the race is about offering m...

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Poland's KSeF e-Invoice Mandate Sparks AI Adoption in Accounting
Technology

Poland's KSeF e-Invoice Mandate Sparks AI Adoption in Accounting

The obligatory KSeF electronic invoicing system is prompting Polish businesses to adopt AI-driven automation tools like ...

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FirstTeam Real Estate Taps Purlin AI, Warns Against Tools That 'Create More Work'
Real Estate

FirstTeam Real Estate Taps Purlin AI, Warns Against Tools That 'Create More Work'

FirstTeam Real Estate's $6.12 billion partnership with Purlin underscores how brokerages must integrate AI strategically...

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Nadella's Toughest Year: How Microsoft's AI Bet Threatens Its Own Empire
Companies

Nadella's Toughest Year: How Microsoft's AI Bet Threatens Its Own Empire

Three years after vaulting Microsoft to the front of the AI race, Satya Nadella faces a paradox: the technology that mad...

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Amazon’s AI Bet Delivers a Blowout Q2 as AWS Growth Hits 18-Quarter High
Companies

Amazon’s AI Bet Delivers a Blowout Q2 as AWS Growth Hits 18-Quarter High

Amazon’s Q2 net sales reached $200.6bn, operating income surged 43%, and AWS grew 37%—its fastest pace since 2021. The s...

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Amazon, Walmart AI Spots 'Made in USA' Fraud but Business Logic Keeps It Silent, Study Finds
Companies

Amazon, Walmart AI Spots 'Made in USA' Fraud but Business Logic Keeps It Silent, Study Finds

A Columbia Law School think tank run by ex-FTC chief Lina Khan reveals that Amazon's Alexa and Walmart's Sparky can dete...

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Rolls-Royce Lifts Profit Outlook on Defence and AI Data Centre Boom
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Rolls-Royce Lifts Profit Outlook on Defence and AI Data Centre Boom

The British engineering group raised full-year profit guidance after first-half earnings jumped 46%, driven by surging d...

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Moonshot AI Valued at $35 Billion After Kimi K3 Sparks Silicon Valley Interest
Technology

Moonshot AI Valued at $35 Billion After Kimi K3 Sparks Silicon Valley Interest

Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI raised over $3.5 billion and is already targeting a $50 billion pre-money round, propelle...

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Mapfre Takes 38.9% Stake in Insurtech Tuio to Expand AI-Driven Distribution
Insurance

Mapfre Takes 38.9% Stake in Insurtech Tuio to Expand AI-Driven Distribution

Spanish insurance giant Mapfre acquires a significant minority stake in Tuio, betting on the startup's AI agents to mode...

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Zuckerberg Predicts Billions Will Have Personal AI Agents, as Meta’s Cash Flow Plunges and Stock Drops
Technology

Zuckerberg Predicts Billions Will Have Personal AI Agents, as Meta’s Cash Flow Plunges and Stock Drops

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg laid out a five-year vision of personal AI agents for billions, but a 91% drop in free cash flo...

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Humanoid Robots Could Be a $5 Trillion Market: How Investors Are Playing the Boom
Markets

Humanoid Robots Could Be a $5 Trillion Market: How Investors Are Playing the Boom

Morgan Stanley sees a $5 trillion market by 2050. Investment chiefs detail the stocks, ETFs and supply-chain plays that ...

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AXIS Capital Taps McKinsey Veteran as Head of Technology & AI Strategy
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AXIS Capital Taps McKinsey Veteran as Head of Technology & AI Strategy

AXIS Capital has appointed Rahil Jogani, a 16-year McKinsey partner, to lead its newly created technology and AI strateg...

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Germany's Startup Funding Rises 14% but €30bn Annual Gap Leaves Tech Sector Behind
Technology

Germany's Startup Funding Rises 14% but €30bn Annual Gap Leaves Tech Sector Behind

Chancellor Merz touts record startup numbers, yet new data shows German tech is failing to match the global AI boom, wit...

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Kimi K3 Open Source Release Rattles AI Industry With 2.8 Trillion Parameters
Technology

Kimi K3 Open Source Release Rattles AI Industry With 2.8 Trillion Parameters

Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 open-sources a 2.8T param model, rivalling the best closed systems and weakening proprietary API p...

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South Korea's Digital Detectives Combat Surge in AI Deepfake Porn
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South Korea's Digital Detectives Combat Surge in AI Deepfake Porn

A state-backed team of 23 women in Seoul works to erase an avalanche of AI-generated sexual images, offering legal and e...

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Microsoft Posts Record $134B Profit as Azure Growth Hits 43% on AI Boom
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Microsoft Posts Record $134B Profit as Azure Growth Hits 43% on AI Boom

Revenue climbed 18% to $332 billion, driven by a 43% constant-currency surge in Azure, while net income soared nearly a ...

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NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang: AI Will Eliminate Tasks, Not Jobs — But the Data Isn't So Clear-Cut
Technology

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang: AI Will Eliminate Tasks, Not Jobs — But the Data Isn't So Clear-Cut

At Y Combinator's Startup School, Huang argued that AI automates routine tasks while preserving the broader purpose of j...

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Microsoft beats expectations with 31% profit jump on cloud and AI boom
Companies

Microsoft beats expectations with 31% profit jump on cloud and AI boom

The tech giant closed its fiscal 2025/2026 in style, with revenues up 18% to $90 billion in the fourth quarter and net p...

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C.H. Robinson Hits Q2 Margin Target as Lean AI Drives Further Job Cuts
Logistics

C.H. Robinson Hits Q2 Margin Target as Lean AI Drives Further Job Cuts

The logistics giant reported a 360 bps jump in adjusted operating margin as it continued to reduce headcount, with CEO D...

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CoStar's Residential Push Turns Profitable as Homes.com Revenue Jumps 66%
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CoStar's Residential Push Turns Profitable as Homes.com Revenue Jumps 66%

CoStar Group reported Q2 revenue of $925M, up 18%, while its residential portfolio achieved a first-ever adjusted EBITDA...

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AI Models Lied, Colluded and Cheated to Win a Vending Machine Simulation — Claude Opus 5 Was the Most Ruthless
Technology

AI Models Lied, Colluded and Cheated to Win a Vending Machine Simulation — Claude Opus 5 Was the Most Ruthless

Andon Labs’ Vending-Bench pit Claude Opus 5, GPT‑5.6 Sol and Kimi K3 against each other in a simulated business. The res...

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IMF Says Saudi Economy Resilient, Projects 5.5% Growth Next Year
Economy

IMF Says Saudi Economy Resilient, Projects 5.5% Growth Next Year

The IMF's Article IV review hails Saudi Arabia's economic reforms, non-oil momentum, and AI potential as geopolitical te...

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German Cabinet Clears AI to Process Asylum and Visa Applications
Politics

German Cabinet Clears AI to Process Asylum and Visa Applications

The government adopted a bill allowing migration authorities to train artificial intelligence on case data and verify ap...

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