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The year 2026 has begun on a strong note for India’s startup ecosystem, with Juspay becoming the first unicorn of…

Not everyone who invested in the Trump-branded coins did as well as Trump did... The post Scam Or Speculation: The Legal Questions Behind Trump’s Crypto Empire appeared first on Above the Law .

The NYC Game Design Future Lab offers mentorship, workshop, and investor opportunities for Big Apple-based developers.

Authorities said Wednesday that the group operated like a legitimate international business since at least 2021, running about two dozen call centers across several countries and employing more than 700 people who posed as professional financial advisers.

Die starke Abh�ngigkeit vom Mainframe-Gesch�ft und eine fehlgeleitete Investitionspolitik haben f�r IBM gro�e Verluste zur Folge. ( IBM , B�rse )

Enterprises are moving fast to adopt voice AI. Across ecommerce, banking, education, recruitment and customer support, companies want voice agents…

Nur Wochen nach einer milliardenschweren Finanzierungsrunde soll DeepSeek die nächste Runde und parallel einen Börsengang planen.

The move is likely to provide a boost for those pushing for companies to issue some of their stock on blockchain.

Suno is hiring for a Director of Accounting tasked with building 'toward the controls and rigor required for IPO readiness.' Source

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It’s raining unicorns this year. Less than a month after proptech startup Square Yards became the country’s 131st unicorn, AI…

As part of implementation arrangements, the iDICE Programme Coordination Unit (PCU) within the...

Maternal and baby care startup Promom has raised ₹30 Cr ($3.1 Mn) in a funding round led by Fireside Ventures.…

The Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN) has received financing from the African...

What GAO Found In July 2024, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) released an internal Integrated Science, Technology, and Engineering (ST&E) Plan documenting investments needed for ST&E capabilities over the next 20 years. NNSA’s plan identified and prioritized 46 ST&E facility investments across the nuclear security enterprise that support stewardship of the nuclear weapons stockpile and other NNSA missions. The investments were prioritized by mission importance and mission need

D2C healthy snacking brand Open Secret has raised over ₹50 Cr ($5.2 Mn) in a funding round led by Desai…

Systematic comparisons between current situations and structurally similar past events in the historical, i.e., historical analogies, is among the most powerful tools for foresight analysis. In this work, we present a new task called Analogical Deep Research (ADR) to Large Language Model (LLM) agents and construct the first ADR benchmark ADR-bench to study whether LLM agents are able to find and leverage historical analogies when doing foresight analysis. Our investigation reveals a key obstacle

Hong Kong has approved its first “digitally native” tokenised fund, allowing professional investors to hold direct ownership of the underlying assets on a public blockchain, issuer Baillie Gifford says, as the city steps up its challenge to the US as a global crypto hub. The British fund manager said on Wednesday it had received approval from the Securities and Futures Commission to launch the Baillie Gifford Enhanced Yield Fund (BAGEY) – an actively managed portfolio of short-duration...

Switzerland's competition watchdog has launched a preliminary investigation into Google after the company removed Android's Choice Screen for selecting a default search engine. The post Swiss Regulator opens antitrust probe into Google over Android search defaults appeared first on MEDIANAMA .

Investigation Finds Michigan Overlooked Issues With Coach Josh Moody Wed, 07/15/2026 - 03:00 AM Byline(s) Josh Moody

Digitising the kasi economy is about giving informal traders the economic visibility they have never had, and the access to capital that comes with it, says Johan Gellatly, MD of Altron FinTech.

Investment tech platform Groww’s consolidated net profit zoomed 94.3% to ₹735 Cr in the first quarter of FY27 from ₹378.4…

Chinese frontier artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek is in talks with investors to raise a new financing round at around US$70 billion pre-investment valuation, shortly after closing a landmark first round, reflecting unquenched investor enthusiasm for the company. The plan comes on the heels of the Chinese AI darling’s recently closed Series A funding round in June – its first external funding round – which brought in about US$7 billion and valued the Hangzhou-based firm at nearly US$60..

Update | July 14, 16:14 IST Shares of Ather Energy ended today trading session 7% higher at ₹1298 apiece on…

Chinese group capitalises on boom in demand for AI memory chips

China’s leading memory chipmaker, ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT), has priced its Shanghai initial public offering at 8.66 yuan (US$1.28) apiece, positioning the company for the largest listing by a Chinese semiconductor company on a mainland bourse. The firm, based in Hefei, Anhui province, is expected to raise gross proceeds of 57.9 billion yuan (US$8.5 billion) from the sale of nearly 6.7 billion shares, according to an offering announcement released on Tuesday. The shares represent 10...

CXMT, a Chinese DRAM chipmaker, has set the price of its Shanghai STAR Market IPO at RMB8.66 per share. The company will offer 6.69 billion shares, with online and offline subscriptions scheduled for July 16. The offering is expected to raise about RMB57.9 billion ($8.55 billion) before any over-allotment option, giving CXMT an implied post-IPO […]

D2C grocery startup Anmasa has raised ₹30 Cr ($3.1 Mn) in its seed funding round. The round was led by…

Paid-for political access and threadbare regulations have helped to embed the US tech firm in the NHS – and beyond. But there is a way to free ourselves Andy Burnham faces a lot of big decisions . But one of the incoming prime minister’s biggest early tests is what he does about the world’s “ scariest company ” – Palantir. The US defence and surveillance tech behemoth has a swathe of British public contracts, including, most controversially, a £330m deal with the NHS . It’s pretty clear what man

Funding round sees Neko Health’s valuation jump fourfold to almost $7bn for Spotify founder

German start-up’s fundraise gave it higher revenue multiple than many US and European peers

US hedge fund that controls Vertical Aerospace wants a strategic partner to boost its credibility

arXiv:2607.11890v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Open-ended surveys offer valuable insights, but they are notoriously difficult to analyze at scale. Building on previous work that employed traditional machine learning to classify text ("So Many Responses, So Little Time: A Machine-Learning Approach to Analyzing Open-Ended Survey Data") [1], this study investigates how different large language models (LLMs) understand and analyze NSSE open-ended survey responses. We focus on several cutting-edge L

DeepSeek, the Hangzhou-based AI model developer, has begun preparing for a mainland IPO and may file its listing application as soon as this year, according to Bloomberg, citing people familiar with the matter. The company is targeting a 2027 debut. DeepSeek is in talks with accounting and banking advisers and is seeking additional private funding […]

Coherent decision-making and internal accountability are critical to meeting this manic moment Anthony Albanese promises fast-track approvals for datacentres to shore up AI investment The University of Sydney was the natural setting for Anthony Albanese to lay out his vision for how Australia should confront the profound economic and social challenges posed by so-called artificial intelligence technology. His time around the jacaranda and sandstone in the early 80s was a seminal marker in the fu

Anthropic Banks On INR Anthropic is pulling all stops to boost adoption in India. The AI giant has now launched…

Budget optimism is rising as 2027 approaches — but more spend alone won’t improve outcomes. Use this moment to reset your AI investments. Prioritize the readiness, governance, and context required to make it truly work.

The funding discussions point to investor interest in applying AI to make breakthroughs in life sciences.

AIID editor's note: This is the executive summary for the following investigation: https://c4ads.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/DeceptiveByDesign-C4ADS.pdf. Criminal networks running scam compounds across Southeast Asia are using AI-powere ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1589#7517)

The European Commission is currently revising two major directives on tobacco products and related advertising. As part of this process, it launched a public consultation which received nearly 90,000 responses. A Dutch journalistic investig ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1590#7518)