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Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has told prospective ​investors in its second fundraising round that ‌it is suspending the deal for now, Bloomberg News reported on Saturday, citing people familiar ​with ...

Selon Rexecode, le déploiement de data centers en France représenterait 210 milliards d’euros d’investissements d’ici à 2035. Un défi indispensable à relever, juge le cabinet, à l’heure où les contestations locales se multiplient contre ces infrastructures énergivores et peu pourvoyeuses d’emplois.

China’s market regulator has imposed a 5.2 billion yuan (US$765 million) penalty on Trip.com Group, the country’s largest online travel services provider, for “monopolistic conduct”. Trip.com – operator of its namesake international platform, China-focused siblings Ctrip and Qunar, and global site Skyscanner – had “abused its dominant market position”, the State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) said on Saturday. The market regulator confiscated 1.658 billion yuan in illegal gains and.

Elon Musk's rocket maker is conducting the first test fight for its massive Starship rocket since the company's IPO last month.

On the surface, China’s cutting-edge tech sector – from the algorithmic breakthroughs of DeepSeek and Zhipu AI to the hardware of Unitree Robotics and ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) – mirrors Silicon Valley’s venture capital-backed ecosystem. But a closer look at their financing histories reveals a common investor: the Chinese state. Beijing’s strong presence underscores a more profound structural shift in how China’s frontier technology is being funded. As Western venture capital and...

This paper investigates complex argumentation settings, called weighted higher-order argumentation frameworks (wHO-AFs), where both arguments and attacks carry initial weights and may be subject to attacks from arguments. It focuses on developing gradual semantics capable of rationally evaluating these elements by assigning each argument and attack a numerical value, representing their respective degrees of acceptance and seriousness . The contributions of the paper are five-fold: i) It identifi

A few years ago, evaluating a fintech acquisition target meant checking whether the code was written...

The US president says fines against Google, as well as Apple, Meta and Amazon, should be "entirely reversed."

The probe follows a report that agents privately griped about last-minute travel requests from Vance and his family.

Google, Amazon and Meta are seeing credit spreads widen as fixed-income investors demand more reward on companies they lend to.

Investment spree is reshaping Silicon Valley while wider US jobs market holds steady

President Trump on Friday slammed the European Union for fining Google over allegedly violating its digital competition law, stating the "illegal and highly discriminatory practice" will be probed in a trade investigation. "The European Union is at it again and, as usual, taking direct aim at GREAT American Companies!" Trump wrote on Truth Social. "This...

SAP gave investors the number they wanted. Europe’s biggest software company said cloud revenue grew 22% to €6.28 billion in the second quarter, beating forecasts, SAP announced. Its cloud backlog, a measure of future sales, jumped 26%. The stock rose more than 6% in Frankfurt. That relief is the story. SAP’s shares are down about […] This story continues at The Next Web

Japan’s Seven & i Holdings Co. has ended talks over a potential investment in Poland’s largest convenience store operator Zabka Group SA, even as it continues to look for expansion opportunities ...

US tech groups and investors respond to calls for restrictions on advanced Chinese technology

BlackRock-led deal meets investor anxiety over rising AI exposure

The European Commission on Friday said it found TikTok had not adequately protected children’s privacy rights on its platform by allowing adults to view the accounts of minors. The action exposed children to cyberbullying, unwanted contact and predatory behavior, commission spokesperson Thomas Regnier said. “Children’s content must never be visible to strangers,” he said. If TikTok does not take steps called for by the European Union’s landmark Digital Services Act , “minors are exposed to preda

Robert Garcia, the oversight committee's Ranking Member, issued a letter to StubHub CEO Eric Baker on Friday (July 24). Source

Anthropic y OpenAI corren hacia lo que ya se conoce en Silicon Valley como la IPO ( Initial Public Offering u oferta pública inicial) de la inteligencia artificial (IA), con valoraciones que rondan los 965.000 millones y el billón de dólares respectivamente. En este escenario el director general de Anthropic, Dario Amodei, ha concedido una entrevista a Bloomberg en la que reflexiona sobre su trayectoria en esta industria y acerca del precio que es necesario pagar para mantener los valores propio

If OpenAI loudly proclaims how dangerous AI is, investors will hear how powerful it is. And who benefits from that? On 14 February 2019, OpenAI announced a language model called GPT-2, the precursor to the models that power modern AI chatbots and agents such as ChatGPT and Claude. But OpenAI declared GPT-2 was too risky to release, citing concerns about safety and abuse. I recall being annoyed at the time that OpenAI would make such a useless announcement: the risks seemed overblown, and without

Autoregressive foundation models trained on tokenized electronic health records (EHRs) can support zero-shot clinical prediction, yet most operate on structured event codes alone, and do not incorporate multiple modalities in a principled way. We present a framework for conditioning such models on auxiliary clinical modalities, including ECG waveforms, chest X-ray images, and clinical notes, using modality-specific latent compression and gated cross-attention with temporal alignment. We investig

Fitch Ratings upgraded Jane Street Group to investment-grade status on Friday, citing the market maker’s strong income growth throughout the economic cycle.

Here are five key things investors need to know to start the trading day.

President Donald Trump says the United States will open a formal investigation into the European Union’s trade practices, claiming the bloc has unfairly levied billions of dollars of fines against ...

Venture capital investments exceeded R16 billion over the last decade, with AI emerging as the next major growth driver for South African start-ups.

Wema Bank is the first commercial bank to distribute Duplo's software. The move reflects an emerging pattern across Africa's financial services industry in the past three years: banks and payment networks partnering with fintech startups to offer their business customers software they want, without building it themselves.

MetaX, a Chinese maker of graphics processing units (GPUs), has confidentially filed for a listing in Hong Kong, according to people familiar with the matter. The Shanghai-based company was targeting an initial public offering (IPO) by the end of this year, according to the sources, who asked not to be identified because the information was confidential. MetaX was working with Huatai International Financial Holdings on the potential share sale, the people said. The company did not immediately...

Today's links AI solipsists and AI cynics: You don't have to believe that AI "works" to believe that it's a good investment. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Malware v stolen computer; Industrial material made from old coffee and melted cups; Austro-Germany's weird tunnels; Health data v Silicon Valley; Amusement parks v load-balancing. Upcoming appearances: Edinburgh, Sydney, Melbourne, Brighton, London, South Bend. Recent appearances: Where I've been. Latest books: Y

A host of U.S. hotel operators ​and online travel platforms are set to release second-quarter earnings starting next week, and investors ‌will weigh optimism from a FIFA World Cup boost against ...

The mayors of Charleston, South Carolina, and Boise, Idaho, make the case for investing in the improvement and innovation of local government.

The Vaal University of Technology modernises specialist teaching laboratories and a postgraduate space at its Vanderbijlpark campus.

ED Scraps Tool to Investigate Discrimination Sara Weissman Fri, 07/24/2026 - 03:00 AM For decades, the Office for Civil Rights investigated whether educational institutions’ policies disparately impacted minority groups in discriminatory ways. Not anymore. Byline(s) Sara Weissman

Every WhatsApp conversation, location ping, cloud backup and piece of metadata can help investigators reconstruct relationships that might once have remained hidden.

AI methods promise to support autism spectrum condition (ASC) diagnostics in adults, a complex and time-consuming process, that is characterized by a shortage of specialized clinicians. To date, clinicians' needs and their interaction with such AI-based support remain underexplored. Our work aims to develop and evaluate an AI-based clinical decision support system (CDSS) for ASC assessment, and to investigate how it impacts clinicians' decision-making. By interviewing clinicians of varying exper

I asked an early-stage investor a simple question: Tell me about a startup that discovered, too late, that it wasn’t allowed to operate the way it had built itself to operate. He gave me three companies. For each one, his answer was some version of the same thing: They haven’t gotten far enough yet for that to be an issue. Still testing. Hasn’t hit the government hurdles. Hasn’t reached the point where it would matter. That wasn’t a bad answer. It was an honest one, from someone whose returns re

This paper investigates the adversarial manipulation of the ranked recommendations produced by web-augmented large language models (LLMs). When an LLM answers a recommendation query by retrieving and reading live webpages, it acts as a recommender, and each retrieved page becomes a potential attack surface. Prior work has examined fabricated products, retrieval poisoning, and rank promotion. However, these studies do not compare how different edits to an already retrieved page change the model's

Simon Johnson is a professor of entrepreneurship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). A former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), he won a joint Nobel Prize for economics in 2024 for his research into how institutions shape national prosperity. On June 8, the British government announced Johnson as chair of its new AI Economics Institute. In this interview, conducted on the sidelines of the UBS Asian Investment Conference in Hong Kong, Johnson discussed the.

The EU will face a flat 10% tariff from Friday following the outcome of a US investigation into trade in products made with forced labour, a European Commission spokesperson said. Washington announced ...

Companies make biggest US investment push in years to build up tech capabilities and avoid Donald Trump’s tariffs