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The Canadian pension giant will acquire an 8.2% stake in CtrlS, a tech giant that operates more than 15 data centers across India.

With this acquisition, DeepL is opening an office in San Francisco to expand its U.S. business.

This will be the second market to have an Uber robotaxi service outfitted with Lucid EVs equipped with a self-driving system from Nuro.

Pinterest has launched ‘Ask Pinterest,’ an experimental AI-powered shopping app that lets users seek recommendations and inspiration through a conversational interface.

Anthropic’s popularity with business users is growing so well that the latest beef with the government might actually boost it, data from Ramp suggests.

In the coming weeks, Apple will move anonymously generated emails addresses to a different domain.

Qualcomm’s CEO said today that the company is working on over 40 new AI hardware designs

A security researcher said a flaw in FIFA’s online platforms allowed her to access several internal systems, including one that could have allowed her to take control of the TV stream of every World Cup match.

Google has released Android 17 and Wear OS 7, introducing new multitasking features, parental controls, security tools, and smartwatch upgrades. The launch is also accompanied by a Pixel Drop that brings Google’s latest AI models to its devices.

Mobileye apparently wants to own some of the robotaxi market, even if that puts it in direct competition with companies it supplies its self-driving system to.

The company said the cuts were part of a restructuring meant to help scale to profitability. Rivian recently pushed back its profitability goal to invest in autonomy.

WordPress VIP’s latest survey suggests consumers are wary of AI-generated answers even as companies increasingly view AI search as an important referral channel.

African payments infrastructure company Flutterwave has hit a new valuation and landed blockchain company Ripple as investor and partner.

Unlike many of his tech industry peers who have cut thousands of jobs citing the need to restructure to make the most of AI, Robinhood’s CEO Vlad Tenev conspicuously made no mention of AI in his note about layoffs.

SpaceX’s valuation has increased by $1 trillion since its shares started trading on Friday.

Probably wants to prevent hallucinations and factual errors from reaching users, and achieve accuracy on par with deterministic systems.

The restrictions include a nationwide ban on Telegram until June 22 and a requirement to disable the app’s message editing feature.

Instead of heating metals, Foundation Alloy beats them into submission. The startup has raised $22 million to scale up production of its alloys.

The deal is supposed to help SpaceX’s struggling AI division. The company told IPO investors it sees a $26 trillion addressable market in AI.

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

The chatbot still remains the most popular AI assistant worldwide with over 1.1 billion monthly users, followed by Gemini with 662 million and Claude with 245 million.

Respond.io, one of Malaysia startups to watch, uses AI agents to handle high volumes of customer inquiries and charges per convo, not per seat.

AI is once again at the heart of a college graduation protest — this time for the technology’s use in Google’s defense contracts.

The Trump administration’s decision that forced Anthropic to pull its latest cybersecurity models could be reactionary, retaliatory, or both, but the message is clear: The AI industry isn’t immune from U.S. government interference.

Meta announced Monday that it’s rolling out a wave of new AI features on Facebook, the latest sign of the company’s effort to catch up in the AI race and keep users more engaged on the platform.

A group made up of dozens of cybersecurity experts urged the White House to remove export control restrictions on Anthropic’s models Fable and Mythos, arguing that the order is going to limit the ability of cybersecurity defenders to secure their software and products.

SpaceX’s IPO underwriters maxed out their share purchases, adding to an already historic amount of money raised.

The ban would apply to a range of social media platforms including Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook and X.

Salesforce says it wants to use Fin’s team and technology to improve Agentforce, its existing enterprise platform that businesses can use to build custom AI agents that automate tasks.

Indian IT services company HCLTech is investing $150 million in the Bengaluru startup.