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It follows a review by the regulator in May that criticised the platform for not being "safe enough" for children.

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) has pledged an additional US$100 billion to expand its manufacturing facilities in Arizona, boosting the company’s US investment to US$265 billion, as the chip foundry rushes to meet booming demand driven by artificial intelligence. TSMC chairman CC Wei said the firm planned to proceed “as fast as possible” with the new Arizona investment but declined to provide a timeline, noting that progress would “depend on the market situation and our customers’.

Cape Town-headquartered Cue secures an R82 million funding round, co-led by the venture capital firm and FAM Investments.

Candidat à l’élection présidentielle de 2027, le patron du parti Les Républicains a publié un dense document sur ses positions sur l’IA, une technologie qui « n’attend pas notre consentement », selon lui. Il projette un investissement étatique de 23 milliards d’euros sur le quinquennat financé en partie par le non-remplacement et le redéploiement de […]

Subscriptions began on Thursday for shares in memory-chip maker ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) ahead of its listing on Shanghai’s Star Market in what could be mainland China’s second biggest initial public offering. With pricing set at 8.66 yuan (US$1.28) per share, the IPO of nearly 6.7 billion shares will raise gross proceeds of 57.9 billion yuan (US$8.5 billion). If a 15 per cent overallotment option is fully exercised, the offering could expand to 7.7 billion shares and raise 66.6...

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CERT-In has proposed mandatory human oversight for high-value agentic AI payments, as NPCI and fintech firms develop protocols that could allow AI agents to make UPI transactions. The post MeitY proposes mandatory human-in-the-loop interventions in agentic AI payments appeared first on MEDIANAMA .

Physical AI startup SwitchOn has raised $8 Mn (about ₹ 77 Cr) in a pre-Series B funding round led by…

The distributors that will lead are investing in their partners' ability to grow, not just their ability to fulfil, says Andrew Harris, chief sales and marketing officer at DCC Technologies.

Institutional laundry startup Quick Clean has raised ₹133 Cr (about $14 Mn) in a Series B funding round led by…

This study examines the cross-prompt generalization and first-language (L1) scoring effects of a LoRA-adapted open-weight large language model (Gemma-3-27B-it) applied to automated essay scoring. Using the identical model and inference configuration reported in "AiAWE: An Open-Source LLM Automated Writing Evaluation System Using LoRA-Adapted Instruction-Tuned Models" (Gayed, 2026), which was fine-tuned on 480 argumentative essays from two prompts, we evaluate scoring accuracy on the full TOEFL11

Project is part of ambitious goal to cut development times drastically and ultimately attract venture capital backing

Companies coming to market raise money at fastest pace this century, although many stocks perform poorly later

AI-powered sales intelligence startup Reo.Dev has raised $11.3 Mn (about ₹109 Cr) in a Series A funding round led by…

Neocloud provider QumulusAI said today that it will starting trading Thursday as a publicly traded company on Nasdaq under the ticker symbol QMLS via a direct listing. For those unfamiliar with the process, the typical initial public offering takes time and requires an investment banker, whereas a direct listing does not create new shares. Instead, existing […] The post QumulusAI’s direct listing: Accelerating the neocloud for enterprise AI appeared first on SiliconANGLE .

Two Utah nonprofits allege they were defamed after the “Shark Tank” investor portrayed them as Chinese Communist Party proxies on the network.

CNBC's Jim Cramer said he’s looking for companies to start showing measurable financial returns from their AI investments.

AI is changing how B2B brand and communications teams invest, operate, and prioritize work. As companies look for practical ways to apply AI across marketing, leaders are reevaluating program investments, talent needs, and the capabilities required to drive growth. Forrester’s 2026 Brand And Communications Survey reveals a more deliberate approach to these decisions, particularly in areas tied to digital engagement, brand visibility, and influence.

Walden Robotics has launched from stealth with $300m and a $1.1bn valuation. The Toyota spin-out builds humanoids for factories, and it left off the legs on purpose. “If you listen to the people on the factory floor, they aren’t ready, and they don’t want them yet.” That is Russ Tedrake, telling Bloomberg why his new […] This story continues at The Next Web

Monumental BV, a Dutch startup that operates a fleet of bricklaying robots, has raised $35 million in funding. Khosla Ventures led the Series B investment. Monumental stated in its funding announcement today that existing backers Plural and Hummingbird chipped in as well. Monumental uses robots to construct the walls of homes, schools and other buildings. […] The post Construction robot startup Monumental reels in $32M appeared first on SiliconANGLE .

Paramount Skydance chief David Ellison and his tech billionaire dad Larry Ellison have been sued by a Paramount shareholder who alleged they cut an “illegal” deal with President Donald Trump to secure U.S. governmental approval for the takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery. The shareholder lawsuit, filed Tuesday in Delaware Chancery Court, seeks to block Paramount’s […]

No name. No product. No confirmed funding. And, possibly, a $2bn price tag. That is the shape of the newest bet in AI drug discovery. Miles Wang, a researcher at OpenAI, is leaving to start his own company, TechCrunch reported. He is in talks to raise about $200m at a $2bn valuation, with Lightspeed in […] This story continues at The Next Web

SpaceX shares fell for a fourth-straight session on Wednesday days after entering the Nasdaq-100

People use language models for practical questions whose answers are difficult to verify. We show that models exhibit covert value leakage: the information they provide is influenced by their own values, without this influence being disclosed to the user. In one of our evaluations, the user is considering investing in an AI company and wants to know how likely the AI bubble is to pop. Claude Opus 4.8 gives a lower probability when the company under consideration is Anthropic rather than OpenAI.

People use language models for practical questions whose answers are difficult to verify. We show that models exhibit covert value leakage: the information they provide is influenced by their own values, without this influence being disclosed to the user. In one of our evaluations, the user is considering investing in an AI company and wants to know how likely the AI bubble is to pop. Claude Opus 4.8 gives a lower probability when the company under consideration is Anthropic rather than OpenAI.

Samsung appears to be internally investigating the discoloration defect.

After soaring in its stock market debut, the shares of Elon Musk’s rocket and A.I. company have been rocky.

Former OpenAI CTO’s start-up raised $2bn last year at $12bn valuation

Safety alignment in LLMs aims to align models with human values, but which values take precedence when they conflict? We investigate this question in the context of tool-calling LLM agents deployed in regulated industries, where agents processing confidential documents may encounter content that triggers safety-trained values (e.g., public welfare) that conflict with deployment-context instructions (e.g., internal logging). To empirically verify this phenomenon, we build a benchmark of 128 scena

Jusque-là peu investi dans la politique française alors qu’il s’est déjà illustré par son interventionnisme dans d’autres pays, l’homme le plus riche du monde a apporté mercredi publiquement son soutien à la candidate du Rassemblement national.

Share trading in Elon Musk’s rocket company has been volatile since it went public a month ago.

The stock has steadily fallen from the euphoric post-IPO high, showing that markets may be sobering up to the promises CEO Elon Musk made before and after SpaceX went public.

In this paper, we ask whether vision foundation models construct representations that reflect the intrinsic properties of 3D Euclidean space. Unlike previous works that probe 3D awareness of vision features by regressing image-centric quantities such as depth or normals, we investigate the relation between the structure of the space of visual features and the group of Euclidean transformations $SE(3)$. We propose a set of probes to evaluate this relation from both topological and geometric persp

Anthropic is lining up investor meetings ahead of a potential IPO as soon as October as the AI startup behind looks to beat rival OpenAI to the public markets.

EPIC filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request on Wednesday seeking records about the U.S. Department of Agriculture contracting with Palantir Technologies to identify and investigate alleged waste, fraud, and abuse in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).

Agentic coding tools are increasingly capable of generating and submitting pull requests (PRs) to software projects, introducing new forms of human-agent collaboration in software development. While prior studies have examined PR-level outcomes of agent-generated contributions, less is known about how agentic coding tools are adopted and managed at the project level. In this paper, we analyze 25,264 agentic PRs from 2,361 popular GitHub repositories to investigate (1) the adoption of agentic cod

Agentic coding tools are increasingly capable of generating and submitting pull requests (PRs) to software projects, introducing new forms of human-agent collaboration in software development. While prior studies have examined PR-level outcomes of agent-generated contributions, less is known about how agentic coding tools are adopted and managed at the project level. In this paper, we analyze 25,264 agentic PRs from 2,361 popular GitHub repositories to investigate (1) the adoption of agentic cod

Drone swarming is often referenced as an important future capability, with little understanding of what is possible today, and how the tactic is enabled.

We investigate how each component of the Transformer feedforward block architecture design determines how much rank survives across depth at initialization. We reinterpret skip connections and normalization, long understood as controlling magnitude, as mechanisms for preserving gradient rank across depth, since the very matrix multiplications and nonlinear activations that make the network expressive also reduce the rank. We show that skip connections trade off rank collapse against ensemble-lik

Lightspeed was the lead investor in AI music generator Suno's $125 million Series B round in 2024. Source