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UAE-based CNTXT AI has acquired Actualize, an enterprise AI company specializing in dialect-aware Arabic voice agents. This move significantly enhances CNTXT AI's Arabic voice AI capabilities, enabling sovereign AI agents that can perform actions across enterprise and government sectors. The combine
McKinsey projects AI could boost Hungary's productivity by €15 billion by 2030, helping close the gap with European neighbours. However, lagging adoption risks further divergence. Executives highlight potential cost transformations, faster service delivery, and the imperative of global competitivene
SpaceX is set to acquire AI coding firm Anysphere, creators of Cursor, for a staggering $60 billion. This strategic move aims to bolster SpaceX's enterprise AI market presence, following its recent blockbuster IPO. The deal, expected by Q3 2026, could significantly boost xAI's capabilities.
Chinese social media platform Xiaohongshu is preparing for a potential Hong Kong initial public offering. Banks including Goldman Sachs and CICC are reportedly working on the deal. The company, also known as RedNote, could list as early as the second half of this year. This move follows a previous a
Artificial intelligence (AI) has dramatically lowered the barriers to creating, translating and distributing content. But as synthetic content floods the…
Wealth management startup CREST has raised $3.1 Mn (₹29.3 Cr) in a pre-seed funding round led by Atrium Ventures, BEENEXT,…
Tata-owned BigBasket founder Hari Menon has stepped down from the CEO role at the e-grocery firm, the company announced on Tuesday. Amazon veteran Amit Nanda, the director of selling partner services at the ecommerce major, will be taking over as the chief executive.
Most mechanical keyboards are great these days, with colorful looks and satisfying typing sounds - even in budget-friendly ranges. But every so often, one stops me dead in my tracks. In this case, two of them. I've been testing a pair of jaw-droppingly lovely keyboards that launched late last year.
Donguri Republic opens in Torrance, CA, on June 23.
Almost three years in, Meta's X competitor is still growing.
Is the cat dead or alive? Either way, the cat is certainly weird, as a new study demonstrates.
Open-source security has a new AI problem. But Chainguard has a plan, and plenty of friends, to help
India has temporarily blocked Telegram, claiming it's to prevent cheating on a crucial entrance exam.
Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol.1 #6a] - Why a user question deserves the same parsing as the document, and how it splits into a retrieval brief and a generation brief before either runs The post RAG Questions Need Parsing Too: Turn the User’s String Into Briefs for Retrieval and Generation ap
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. This man with ALS is the first “power user” of a brain implant that lets him speak Casey Harrell has had a set of electrodes embedded in his brain for almost…
SoftBank and OpenAI are moving into cyber defence. The two said on Tuesday they are launching “Patching as a Service,” a security product built on OpenAI’s technology, to shield the companies behind Japan’s critical infrastructure from a rising wave of cyberattacks. SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son fr
The Meta-owned social platform announced a series of new features launching today, including a "Your Algo" tool that lets users control what they see in their feeds
1Password is buying its way into the agentic enterprise. The Toronto identity-security company said on Monday it has acquired Apono, an Israeli startup that decides, in real time, what every human, machine and AI agent is allowed to touch inside a company’s systems. Neither side disclosed a price; t
The race to secure non-human identities just produced its second deal of the day. SailPoint, the Austin-based identity-security giant, said it plans to buy Entro, a Tel Aviv startup that finds and protects the credentials, keys and machine accounts that now swarm through every cloud. The companies d
Instead of heating metals, Foundation Alloy beats them into submission. The startup has raised $22 million to scale up production of its alloys.
