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UK slaps Google Search with special market status, making way for stricter regulations

The CMA has designated Google as having “strategic market status” in the search and search advertising markets, which means the company has such “a substantial and entrenched” position that it requires special regulations to ensure fair competition.

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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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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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Sora copycats flooded Apple’s App Store, and some still remain

Imposter Sora apps saw hundreds of thousands of downloads before Apple pulled them from the App Store.

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Stoke Space’s $510M round shows the future of launch belongs to defense

Stoke’s new raise highlights how the launch industry is being shaped by major U.S. defense initiatives.

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Italian businessman’s phone reportedly targeted with Paragon spyware

The alleged targeting of prominent Italian businessman Francesco Gaetano Caltagirone now widens the Paragon spyware scandal in Italy to victims beyond journalists and activists.

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