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China blacklists major chip research firm TechInsights following report on Huawei

Beijing has banned semiconductor researcher TechInsights from working with or receiving data from entities in China.

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Shutdown silver lining? Your IPO review comes after investors buy in

With 90% of SEC staff furloughed, the agency announced on Thursday that it won’t penalize companies for omitting pricing details during the shutdown.

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Flipkart’s Super.money quietly partners with troubled Juspay as it expands its reach

Super.money, the fintech arm of Flipkart, is looking to raise a round of funding at a $1 billion valuation, after securing $50 million from Flipkart to date.

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Huge buzz but a big gamble: Battlefield 6 takes aim at Call of Duty

The latest in the military shooter series is a pivotal release for publisher Electronic Arts.

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Microsoft engineer resigns over cloud business from Israeli military

Scott Sutfin-Glowski, who joined Microsoft in 2012, is resigning over the company’s work with Israel’s military.

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Tech billionaires seem to be doom prepping. Should we all be worried?

The debate is ramping up about what happens if – or when – computer intelligence overtakes humans

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Andreessen Horowitz denies report of India office, calls it ‘fake news’

a16z’s Anish Acharya calls India office reports “entirely fake news!”

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While OpenAI races to build AI data centers, Nadella reminds us that Microsoft already has them

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella offered a glimpse of the “first of many” massive Nvidia AI systems it is rolling out, starting now.

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Reflection raises $2B to be America’s open frontier AI lab, challenging DeepSeek

Reflection, once focused on autonomous coding agents, has raised $2B at an $8B valuation to expand into both an open-source alternative to closed frontier labs like OpenAI and Anthropic, and a Western equivalent to Chinese AI firms like DeepSeek.

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Discord data breach affects at least 70,000 users

The platform said in a press release that hackers breached a third-party vendor that Discord uses for age-related appeals.

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