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China has spent two years telling the world it intends to win the AI race. Its new five-year employment plan is the quieter admission that winning it could cost a lot of people their jobs. The State Council, effectively China’s cabinet, has issued its blueprint for employment policy from 2026 to 203
AWS used its New York Summit to roll out AI agents that act on their own — from fixing security vulnerabilities to triaging email — while trying to keep humans in control of how far they go. Read More
Marketing leaders have never had access to more data, yet proving the business impact of advertising has become increasingly difficult. As budgets face greater scrutiny and finance teams demand clearer evidence of return on investment, many chief marketing officers are discovering that traditional p
The AI-era CFO can no longer assume that waiting is the safest decision in business — protect the capital, study the market and let someone else absorb the early risk. That traditional playbook is becoming dangerous. AI is changing too quickly, spreading too broadly and cutting too deeply across the
Vedana Therapeutics emerged from stealth with a $46M Series A. Led by local biotech veterans, the Seattle startup is developing next-gen, at-home migraine injections. Read More
The race to power artificial intelligence has a problem that solar panels and wind turbines cannot fix on their own: the electricity has to be there at 3am, in still air, under cloud. Critical Energy, a Los Angeles startup founded by a former SpaceX engineer, has raised $22mn to chase that always-on
Gene therapy company UniQure had another FDA meeting after Vinay Prasad's exit.
"Space Launch Complex-6 represents six decades of American innovation."
Google is betting generative AI can breathe new life into the smart speaker. The company's new $99.99 Google Home Speaker replaces the rigid commands of the Google Assistant era with more conversational Gemini interactions.
The problem with letting an AI agent loose inside a company is not that it might forget who it is. It is that it has no reason to hold back. A human employee is restrained by the fear of being fired. An agent, as one investor in Arcade.dev put it, “will exhaustively exploit every permission […] This
The Echo Dot Max comes in a variety of fun colors, including purple. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge We’re seeing good early Prime Day deals ahead of the event next week, and unsurprisingly, some of the best deals are on Amazon’s own devices. Several Echo speakers have dropped to new
Google's new smart speaker is more about Gemini than audio quality.
Over the past decade, the Cochin Special Economic Zone has significantly boosted exports and created thousands of technology jobs by establishing 39 SEZs in Karnataka and 19 in Kerala.
IPO-bound PhonePe saw its market share slip marginally to 46.3% in May, from 46.5% in the same month last year, while Google Pay’s share fell to 32.7% from 36.1% in May 2025.
G7 leaders are coordinating on advanced AI risks and opportunities. They are discussing a "trusted partners" scheme to grant non-US nations access to advanced US AI models. This aims to bolster cybersecurity defenses against rivals. European nations are also seeking technological independence while
Artificial intelligence frontier models must not be allowed to fall into the hands of authoritarian regimes, but democracies must co-operate on this topic, said French President Emmanuel Macron as the G7 summit in France drew to a close.
US President Donald Trump stated that talks with artificial intelligence firm Anthropic are progressing well. This follows a meeting with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei at the G7 summit. The administration has raised national security concerns regarding foreign access to Anthropic's advanced AI models.
Telegram has taken a stand against India's temporary shutdown of its app in the courtroom, a decision enacted to prevent exam leaks. The messaging service contends that this ban undermines users' freedom of expression and violates their constitutional rights. Telegram argues that disabling the entir
Chinese startup Z.ai has launched GLM-5.2, a powerful AI model for complex coding projects. This new large language model boasts a massive 1 million token context window, allowing it to handle extensive software development tasks. GLM-5.2 is available under an open-source license, offering an altern
Pramaana Labs, an AI startup, has secured $27 million in seed funding. The company develops technology to ensure AI answers are mathematically verifiable. The startup will use the new funding to train Pramaana's formalisation and proof-checking models, expand its AI research staff, and venture into
