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AI chip startup Groq confirmed Wednesday that it raised a fresh $750 million in funding at a post-money valuation of $6.9 billion.   This topped the rumored numbers when word leaked in July that Groq was raising. At that time, reports suggested that the raise would be about $600 million, at near a $6 billion valuation.  Groq, which also sells …

Amazon recently introduced “Prime Vision,” an augmented reality broadcast for UEFA Champions League matches in the UK that overlays live metrics such as player speed, jump height, goal probability and tactical maps directly onto the live feed. For you as a viewer, this changes expectations about what a sports broadcast should deliver. At the same time, bookmakers are deploying algorithms …

Sugo Succo was born and raised in Miami, Florida, in the heart of Little Havana. Growing up in a Cuban-American household, he was surrounded by food, music, and traditions that shaped his outlook on life. His parents, both small business owners, taught him the value of hard work, resilience, and treating every customer as family. From a young age, Sugo …

Ticket reseller StubHub went public on Wednesday. Although StubHub’s shares closed 6% below their IPO price of $23.50, valuing the company at over $7 billion, the public debut itself is a testament to the co-founder’s decades-long perseverance. StubHub CEO Eric Baker co-founded the company with Jeff Fluhr in 2000 while they were attending the Stanford Graduate School of Business. This …

On Wednesday, AI security firm Irregular announced $80 million in new funding in a round led by Sequoia Capital and Redpoint Ventures, with participation from Wiz CEO Assaf Rappaport. A source close to the deal said the round valued Irregular at $450 million. “Our view is that soon, a lot of economic activity is going to come from human-on-AI interaction …

It is sometimes argued that democracy suffers when autocrats manipulate legal frameworks or when institutions are weakened. Yet in liberal democracies such as Australia, a quieter but similarly corrosive danger is emerging: the normalisation of street-level hostility. This hostility, particularly towards migrants from the Indo-Pacific region, is an early warning signal of democratic erosion. In late August, thousands joined coordinated …

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Tesla is “working on” redesigning its door handles so they are less likely to trap people inside the company’s cars, chief designer Franz von Holzhausen told Bloomberg News on Wednesday. The news comes just one day after the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) opened an probe into Tesla’s door handles, and one week after a Bloomberg News investigation highlighted …

بین القوامی خبر ایجنسی رائٹرز نے پاکستان اور سعودی عرب معاہدہ پر تجزیہ کرتے ہوئے لکھا ہے کہ اس معاہدے سے دہائیوں پرانی سیکیورٹی پارٹنرشپ بہت مضبوط ہوگی۔ رائٹرز نے مزید لکھا کہ یہ معاہدہ ایسے وقت پر سامنے آیا ہے جب خلیجی عرب ریاستیں امریکا کی سیکورٹی گارنٹی کی قابلِ اعتباریت پر شک کر رہی ہیں، خاص طور پر …

For decades, Fortune 500 companies had to hire market research firms to get meaningful insights into customer satisfaction. These services come with a hefty price tag and often take weeks to complete. Keplar, a market research startup, uses voice AI to conduct customer interviews, providing clients with analysis much faster and at a fraction of the cost of traditional research …

The founders who previously sold their livestreaming video startup Periscope to Twitter are back with a new startup — and no surprise, it’s an AI-focused company this time around. On Wednesday, former Twitter head of product Kayvon Beykpour announced the launch of Macroscope, an AI system aimed at developers and product leaders that summarizes updates to a codebase and catches …

Nvidia just got shut out of the Chinese market — this time by the Chinese government instead of the US.   China’s internet regulator, the Cyberspace Administration of China, banned domestic tech companies from buying Nvidia AI chips on Wednesday, as first reported by the Financial Times.   The agency also told tech companies including ByteDance and Alibaba to stop testing and ordering Nvidia’s RTX Pro 6000D …