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The fund-raising values the company at $3.8 billion and underscores investor interest in using artificial intelligence to tackle problems like drug discovery.

Investors are increasingly comparing exchanges on more than just the number of listed coins or mobile app features.

Meta is pushing advertisers to hand their campaigns to its AI. A Business Insider investigation found the tools spitting out gibberish copy, mangled limbs and products that no longer look like the products. Meta’s reply, in effect: that’s your problem. Meta wants brands to let its AI build their ads. A Business Insider investigation shows […] This story continues at The Next Web

Si estabas esperando el momento idóneo para jubilar tu vieja televisión del salón, renovar la televisión del salón, Carrefour acaba de ponértelo fácil. Su popular campaña " Ahórrate el IVA " ya está activa (para televisores de 65 pulgadas o más), lo que se traduce en una oportunidad de oro para conseguir tecnología de imagen de primer nivel a precios  reducidos. El catálogo disponible es extenso y es fácil perderse entre decenas de siglas y modelos. Para ahorrarte el trabajo de investigació

France’s Pasqal is heading to Nasdaq at a $2bn valuation, roughly 100 times its revenue. Its own filings spell out two things. Quantum computing might never pay off. And Paris can veto who owns the company. Pasqal, the French quantum-computing firm, is going public in the United States. It is merging with a blank-cheque company, […] This story continues at The Next Web

RealPage, Inc., a leading provider of AI-enabled software and data analytics to the real estate industry, today announced it has completed its acquisition of Cherre, a real estate data intelligence company trusted by institutional owners, investment managers, and operators worldwide.

Six months ago, Flex raised $60m and called it a Series B. On Tuesday it said it had raised another $70m, and rather than move down the alphabet, it settled on a Series B1. The round was led by Halo, the investment firm set up last year by Qualtrics founder Ryan Smith, who owns the […] This story continues at The Next Web

The defense-focused artificial intelligence systems infrastructure startup Valarian Technologies Ltd. said today it has closed on a hefty $50 million early-stage funding round as it looks to position itself as a critical player in the emerging “sovereign AI” market. The Series A round was led by new investor New Enterprise Associates, which is making its […] The post Sovereign AI infrastructure startup Valarian raises $50M to help nations secure their defense systems appeared first on SiliconANG

Moneybox is Europe’s newest unicorn, worth £800m, or $1.1bn. But no fundraise set that price. Staff did, by selling shares on London’s untested new private market. Moneybox, the British savings and investing app, is now a unicorn. It has put a value of about £800m, or $1.1bn, on itself, the Financial Times first reported. The […] This story continues at The Next Web

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PM to declare Australia the first country worldwide to bring economic, social, security and environmental issues from AI under single office in major speech Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Anthony Albanese says the federal government will introduce faster approval processes for AI projects, including datacentres, across Australia, seeking to shore up investor certainty and maintain community confidence in the rapidly advancing technology . Announcing the creation of

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Singapore-based AI video startup PixVerse is now valued at over $2 billion after an extended Series C round. The article PixVerse's $2B valuation shows investors still believe AI video generation has room for another winner appeared first on The Decoder .

As Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed as autonomous agents in high-stakes domains, understanding contextual factors that may modulate their decision-making becomes critical. While LLMs are trained to perceive and resonate with users' emotions, it remains unclear whether induced emotion can influence their sequential decision-making. We investigate this question using the Iowa Gambling Task (IGT), a classic psychological paradigm for studying decision-making under uncertainty,

WAEMU, an eight-country region, wants to build a connected fintech ecosystem that bypasses the interoperability problem much of Africa faces. At Catapult Africa 2026, investors, founders, and regulators gathered to discuss what that future would look like.

As Gulf states compete through scale and headline-grabbing mega-projects, Bahrain EDB’s CEO H.E. Noor is pursuing a different path—leveraging regulatory innovation, specialist sectors, and strategic partnerships to position the kingdom as the region's agile investment hub.

Learn how enterprises can manage AI investments in the agentic era by measuring useful work per dollar, improving efficiency, and scaling high-value workflows.

Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-N.Y.) has implemented a one-year ban on new large data center projects. The state’s data center moratorium will have profoundly deleterious consequences, including lost investment ...

Lenskart’s early investor Temasek has offloaded 3.56 Cr shares, or a 2.05% stake, in the omnichannel eyewear company through holding…

We investigate whether temporal hierarchy can improve LeWorldModel on long-horizon goal-conditioned control. We introduce Hi-LeWM, an extension that freezes the pretrained low-level LeWM and adds high-level planning over latent subgoals. We evaluate Hi-LeWM on PushT and Cube across increasing goal offsets. Hierarchy does not automatically improve performance: at short horizons, the best configuration uses a one-step high-level horizon, while longer horizons reveal a mismatch between the learned

We investigate whether temporal hierarchy can improve LeWorldModel on long-horizon goal-conditioned control. We introduce Hi-LeWM, an extension that freezes the pretrained low-level LeWM and adds high-level planning over latent subgoals. We evaluate Hi-LeWM on PushT and Cube across increasing goal offsets. Hierarchy does not automatically improve performance: at short horizons, the best configuration uses a one-step high-level horizon, while longer horizons reveal a mismatch between the learned

In a bid to expand its offerings ahead of its public market debut, Zepto is reportedly exploring the launch of…

A deep dive into the funding saga behind the Please Call Me settlement – starting with Nkosana Makate’s claim that Black Rock Mining was a facade for businessman Errol Elsdon.

VC firm Elevation Capital has launched Fund IX with a target corpus of $500 Mn to back Indian startups across…

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Shanghai-based Marvel-Tech, a developer of gas turbines and industrial waste-heat and waste-pressure recovery turbine systems, has completed two consecutive financing rounds totaling more than RMB500 million. The C round was led by HongShan, while the B round was jointly led by C&D Emerging Investment and Qiming Venture Partners. The company said the funds will support […]

Business leaders unwilling to embrace technology ‘should play the role of spouse’, says controversial investor

DIW-Forscher Gornig kritisiert Technologieoffenheit als Blockade neuer Investitionen. Deutschland müsse stattdessen auf Nischen und Spezialisierung setzen.

Japanese tech giant SoftBank Group’s CEO Masayoshi Son has ridiculed people who worry about a bubble in artificial intelligence investments.

Plus how the IAB is seeking to modernize how digital video inventory is defined, bought and measured.

As reporter-led video becomes a priority, publishers are investing in newsroom training to help journalists deepen audience relationships.

arXiv:2607.10317v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Algorithmic decision systems in financial services often rely on data proxies that inadvertently encode structural inequalities. This paper introduces a hierarchical human-AI triage model for Point of Sale fraud detection in the Nigerian FinTech sector. Adopting a We Are All Equal worldview, we address the challenge of discrimination laundering, wherein the system misinterprets infrastructure related aleatoric noise such as rural network timeouts

arXiv:2605.21629v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: How much have students' ordinary learning processes shifted in response to generative AI, and how does that affect their durable learning outcomes? Self-report surveys show little change, while small-scale behavioral studies report widespread AI use without the scale or duration to measure learning consequences. We address both questions using a ten-year panel of $3.2$ million ALEKS learning interactions for investigating time-on-task, compleme

arXiv:2607.09790v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The article investigates the fundamental problem of ensuring the stability of operator control and preserving goal-targeting in hybrid human-machine decision support systems (DSS) of a new generation. Based on a two-month continuous longitudinal experiment on the joint design of a monograph-format textual array, the latent phenomenon of semantic context drift in large language models of deep logical reasoning (Reasoning LLMs) is verified and desc

arXiv:2502.00632v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This study investigates the use of AI tools in academic writing through an analysis of AI usage declarations in journals. Using a mixed-methods approach combining content analysis, statistical analysis, and text mining, this study analyzed 135 AI declarations from 8633 articles across 27 categories. Results show that ChatGPT dominates academic writing assistance (73.3 percent usage). The primary purposes of AI integration are concentrated on lo

arXiv:2606.26102v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Standard post-training pipelines apply supervised fine-tuning (SFT) and reinforcement learning (RL) to make language models helpful, but these processes may inadvertently degrade values instilled during pre-training. We investigate whether the domain of post-training data differentially affects the retention of animal compassion values in a Llama 3.1 8B model mid-trained on compassion-oriented synthetic data, using both SFT (helpfulness v

Meta Platforms Inc. today announced plans to significantly expand the scope of its Hyperion data center project. The Facebook parent is seeking to build a sprawling artificial intelligence hub in Richland Parish, Louisiana. When Meta first disclosed the initiative in late 2024, it stated that the project budget would exceed $10 billion. It boosted the […] The post Meta boosts investment in Hyperion data center campus to $50B+ appeared first on SiliconANGLE .

IntroductionFinancial robo-advisors (FRAs), based on artificial intelligence (AI), are changing the ways people make investment decisions by providing advisory services that are based on algorithms and have different degrees of automation. But little evidence exists on the appropriateness of existing technology adoption theories to explain investor adoption of such systems. The present study investigates the explanatory and predictive power of three established and distinct adoption models for A

With the cash, the company aims to expand its world model offering and reach customers across geographies.

Spatial artificial intelligence startup Augmodo Inc. said today it has raised $21 million in an impromptu funding round that lifts its valuation to $350 million. TQ Ventures served as the lead investors, with participation from Lerer Hippeau, Jefferson River Capital, Arena Holdings, Chemist Warehouse, New Fare, Interlace and Webb Investment Network The Seattle-based startup is […] The post Spatial AI startup Augmodo raises $21M to expand beyond retail stores appeared first on SiliconANGLE .