Musk Allies Discuss Deploying A.I. to Find Budget Savings

A top official at the General Services Administration said artificial intelligence could be used to identify waste and redundancies in federal contracts.

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Inside the Bust That Took Down Pavel Durov—and Upended Telegram

The Russian-born CEO styles himself as a free-speech crusader and a scourge of the surveillance state. Here’s the real story behind Pavel Durov’s arrest and what happened next.

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Egypt’s Khazna banks $16M for its financial super app and expansion into Saudi

A large portion of Egypt’s population lacks access to traditional banking, forcing many to rely on cash transactions and informal lending. Khazna, a fintech startup founded in 2019, is tackling this issue by offering financial services tailored for low- and middle-income workers. The company provides solutions like salary advances, digital payments, and microloans to help […]
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The Sims at 25: How a virtual dollhouse took over the world

Some people didn’t expect it to last a year. Here’s how the popular life simulator has stayed alive.

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Grubhub confirms data breach affecting customers and drivers

U.S. food delivery giant Grubhub says hackers accessed the personal details of customers and drivers after breaching its internal systems.  Grubhub is a popular food-ordering and delivery platform with over 375,000 merchants and 200,000 delivery providers using its platform in more than 4,000 U.S. cities. New York-based Wonder Group acquired the company last fall in […]
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OpenAI doubles down on Asia, partners with Kakao after its big deal with SoftBank

On the heels of Chinese AI firm DeepSeek making a huge splash in OpenAI’s American backyard, OpenAI is diving into expanding in Asia, with major commercial deals that will also help it train its AI on more Asian-language content and user behavior — a gateway to doing more business in these markets in the future […]
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SoftBank-backed billionaire to invest $230M in Indian AI startup Krutrim

Ola founder Bhavish Aggarwal is investing $230 million into an AI startup he founded as the country pushes to establish itself in a field dominated by U.S. and Chinese firms. Aggarwal is financing the investment in Krutrim largely through his family office, a source familiar with the matter told TechCrunch. In a post on X […]
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Opera launches a mindfulness-focused browser with break reminders and soundscapes

Norway-based browser maker Opera on Tuesday launched a new browser called “Opera Air,” which focuses on mental well-being and mindfulness with features like break reminders, breathing exercises, soundscapes, and binaural beats for better focus. The company said that people use browsers for a lot of their work online, and it wanted to ship a browser […]
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AI agents for e-commerce startup, founded by Google and DeepMind alums, raises $10M seed

AI is changing how we shop online, making our experiences more personalized. Smart assistants recommend products, negotiate deals, and even handle customer service. Big retailers and smaller businesses are using AI to improve search, supply chains, and checkout.  If AI companies (and their investors) have their way, shopping will soon be focused on chatting with […]
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Neuralk-AI is developing AI models specifically designed for structured data

Tabular data is a broad term that encompasses structured data that generally fits into a specific row and column. It can be a SQL database, a spreadsheet, a .CSV file, etc. While there has been tremendous progress on artificial intelligence applied to unstructured and sequential data, these large language models are fuzzy by design. They […]
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